June 1, 2023 • 31 mins
Congresswoman Claudia Tenney of NY and Congressman & Emergency Room Dr. Richard McCormick of Georgia (he is also a Marine Corps Helicopter pilot and a Commander in the Navy) are here to give their take on the vote last night on the debt ceiling. McCormick’s statement on the legislation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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and saying you a conscious cell will be and if
you want a little bang a come alonge. Would you
want to try to make them look like I made
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some compromise in the dead stealing and I didn't.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I made a compromise on the budget.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We finally were able to cut spending.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
We're the first Congress to vote for cutting spending year
over year.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Let's go back to pre COVID levels of spending. That's
what we asked for. We're not This deal doesn't do that.
Do they still have to worry about the Progressive Caucus
and whether or not your caucus will support Yes, they do, Okay,
congress Woman Jibel, thank you so much. Have to worry, Yes,
they have to worry. Freedom is that in style?
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Speaker 1 (01:12):
Going up next our final News Roundup and Information Overload Hour.
All Right, News round Up, Information Overload Hour eight hundred
and nine point one. Sean, If you want to be
a part of the program. So from my conservative friends
and from myself, you know, I don't like the fact
that this deal that was cut with Schumer and Biden.
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Originally it was a one year deal. Let's save over
ten years four point eight trillion dollars. It went back
to spending levels for twenty twenty three. It opened up
some energy opportunities in the country, and I thought it
was responsible on a lot of different fronts. It limited
the baseline budgeting increases to only one percent a year
for every program. I like that aspect of it too.
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And anyway, so it passes. But Kevin McCarthy did lose
seventy one members of his own caucus. And here's him
talking about all the positives that he believes are in
this debt deal, which was very different from the deal
that the Republicans had signed on to. Here's what he said.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Because of the vote, we took tonight the largest recisions
in American history, all the COVID money, the billions of
dollars sitting out there that they said they would never
bring back, you know what, to the taxpayer, to your
hard working Americans, we stood for you. We brought that
money back for those who are afraid that they're going
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to get audited. Because the President wants to have eighty
seven thousand new RS agents right now he has zero.
We took every single dollar they were going to hire
somebody this year away, and I promise you I'll be
back next year and next year and next year, because
I believe government should be here to help you.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Not go after you.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
We didn't just take the money from this year. We
took another twenty billion. I think we should get some
more border agents with that twenty billion. I think that's
where America would want to see us go.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
All right, anyway, I mean a little fact check to
all this. Yes, it is true. It's the two point
one trillion in savings would be the largest savings ever,
but we're dealing with the largest debt we've ever had,
which is thirty one trillion, and it's not the four
point eight trillion that the original House Bill had in
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savings over that same period of time. He talks about
work requirements, they're minimal when you look at it, when
you get to the nitty gritty and the language and
the bill, it is not what it appears to be.
You know, if he talks about all the COVID money
being reallocated. NOE is only a small percentage of the
COVID money that would be clawed back when he talks
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about the eighty billion dollars for the irs. Okay, so
every dollar this year but not next year? Why not?
Why did they go from a one deal to a
two year deal? So I know that's why seventy one
Republicans voted against it. Here to give us their take
on all of this, we welcome back to the program
(04:13):
Congresswoman Claudia Tenny of New York and Congressman and emergency
room doctor by the way, Richard McCormick of Georgia, who's
also a Marine Corps helicopter pilot and commander in the Navy. Sir,
thank you for your service. We appreciate you both being here.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Thanks Shaw, it's great to be on with you.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Congresswoman. Let me start with you. Were you happy with
this bill?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I was, and I'll tell you why. First of all,
it's a great honor to be I'm a doctor McCormick
who also served in the Marines, just like my son,
so a special person. When they tell you there aren't
good people in Congress, there are wonderful people that serve
in our country. So look, the reason this bill is
getting misunderstood is because this is a framework. This is
not a spending bill. It is a negotiation on a
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debt ceiling for bills that have already been appropriated that
we voted against. This is the scrimmage. The super Bowl
is getting the appropriations and getting the Republicans to stick
together to cut the spending. So I hear some of
the conservatives say, oh, well, this allows four trillion in spending. Well,
President Trump negotiated a six point five trillion dollar debt ceiling,
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cleaned that ceiling bill that spent that, that actually allocated
that this.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But in fairness to President Trump, wasn't that during COVID.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Yeah, still it's still a huge.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Oh well, well that was a pretty unusual time, right.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
But here's the difference, Sean. We aren't saying you don't
have to spend the four trillion. It's up to the Republicans,
with a very slim majority, by the time we get
to the super Bowl, which is the appropriations process in September,
when that is finalized, if we don't do this within
twelve regular order appropriations bills hasn't been done since my
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freshman year in twenty seventeen. Yes, when President of President
Trump was in office, we controlled the Senate and we
also controlled the House with a significant majority. Here's the problem.
If we don't stick together with a four seat majority
by then hopefully we still have a four seat majority.
That's where it counts. This is where we actually appropriate,
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this is where we actually cut. This bill is a framework.
It is not a spending bill. It's going to the
Democrats with a pair of TuS and saying, hey, with
your royal flush, give us some concessions. We got them.
You know why, because the people like you, because of
a lot of Republicans messaging, and because the American people
are hurting. Spending has caused inflation. The energy costs of
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added to inflation. People are hurting. That's why the Democrats
had to come to the table.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well, I think, let me give you this. What I'm
hearing from your fellow congressmen that are angry about this
bill number one, they were kept out of the loop.
This surprise them. This is a very different agreement than
the bill that the House Republicans had passed. The limit
what's save growbill and the amount of money is a
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lot less in terms of savings. There are a lot
of loopholes for work requirements. The COVID clawback was not
anywhere near what you know people were claiming it would be.
And the money for the irs goes forward except for
you know what, one point eight billion dollars.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yeah, so we could have gotten nothing, and the Democrats
and some of the moderates would have gone to the Democrats.
They already what.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Do you mean, got nothing? You guys passed the debt
ceiling bill. You guys did your job. The Democrats didn't
pass anything.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Sean, we did it in an echo chamber. It was
only Republicans when you have to go to the Senate,
which is controlled by liberal leftist Chuck Schumer from New
York and Biden who wants to raise taxes, who's controlled
by the far left.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
No, they were boxed in Claudia. With all due respect,
they were boxed in forty three Republicans signed a piece
of paper saying they were backing the Republican bill. It
was forty four because Senator Kennedy on my television show
said he would join the forty three. So they were
committed to standing strong and letting the House Bill lead
the way anyway, let me bring in mister McCormick. Sir, well,
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you know what's your take on all this.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You know, Sean, The biggest thing that I immediately said,
I'm not voting for this is when they didn't rein
in the executive orders. We've known this is a problem
for at least three presidencies.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
The fact is, whatever megear savings we get off of
that eleven percent of the budget, which is small, I
mean eleven percent of the budget, that's what we're addressing,
and we only get a small portion of that back.
And the fact is that when a president can buy
executive order grant way more money than we can save,
then we're going backwards. The starting point for me was
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that we're going to take away the executive orders that have
been mis used so horribly. When you talk about student
moan forgiveness and what's next, it could be anything, and
any savings we make with this bill could be taken
away by one executive order without any vote. And that's
why I said, that's my first stop. The second one,
of course, of the fact that it's such a small portion,
we're not really addressing the major problem, which is we
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quite frankly, we need to address you just talked about
on your previous segment healthcare. And when we talk about healthcare,
the biggest thing we spend money on one out of
very five tax dollars, one under five private dollars, and
it's the largest inflationary cost of Americans. And we haven't
even addressed that in any small way where we're Administrative
costs have gone from twenty five percent to forty percent
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the last ten years since I've been an emergency menagement position.
We have big, big, big problems and just dropping the
bucket this is nothing. And I think unless we can
get the executive orders out of the way, we haven't
really done anything to address the real problem in America.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Claudia, I mean, do you not understand some of this
conservative criticism and mean you sound like giddy over this bill.
I don't know anybody that's giddy over it.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Nobody is giddy over it. Seohn, I can't stand the bill.
It's terrible. But guess what we do not have Ronald
Reagan in the White House. We don't have a sixty
vote majority. We were facing a clean debt feeling that
possibly could have been done by some of the moderates
would have and they easily could have done that. And
you know when Warren Davidson, who I consider a good friend,
one of the most conservative members, Pepper says, this is
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the most conservative bill I've ever voted for in his
time in Congress, that tells you something. What we got
was Look, it's not great if, as I said, if
we were in the majority and we controlled everything. But
this is we are in a situation where we have
to start winning elections. If we don't start winning elections,
we are not going to get to control. And with
all the respect everyone loved limits save Grow, including me,
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but that was done in an echo chamber. That was
passed by Republicans only. It was not considered by the Senate.
It was not considered by the White House. It was
dead on arrival. And if we want to sit around
and say we got a bunch of feel good bills passed,
they make us feel great, They're great for messaging. They're
not making the American people feel better. They're not cutting
in play. They're not doing anything to move the ball.
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And we have got to move the ball, and it's
all down to appropriations.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Look, all right, so you're saying, when the appropriation debate begins,
I guess what, sometime late August or September, you know,
leading into the next fiscal year. You're saying that that's
when all the big wins are going to come.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
This is the super Bowl. You know what Tom Massey said,
who I consider the most conservative member. He got up
in conference and said, I quote, I'm an engineer and
a problem solver when it comes to voting on this bill.
I mean yes, as a politician, I would vote no.
And I rest my case because I think Tom Massey
is one of the most fiscally conservative members in the House.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Absolutely is well, it sounds like your mom is making
your shoves spinach down your throat and you hate spinach.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
To me, we're we got to get something past Sean.
We've got to get them in check, and this is
one way to do it. I don't love the reforms
and the bill, but when you're looking at what we're
staring down, and when you see the American people and
a lot of conservative media people like you, who are
saying to the Americans, stand up, this is why the
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Democrats came to the table. It wasn't because oh, you
have a four seat five seat majority in the House.
They came to the table because they're spending seven dollars
for a ten ounce tube of mayonnaise. They're spending huge
amounts for gas. I'm from New York. It's almost four
dollars a gallon. Again, we did something that helps that
we could get done. Would I like to be better
Absolutely if we had a bigger majority and we had
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more people on board. Yes, But the real test is
can we stick together and can we cut spending when
it comes to appropriations. This is the real test that's
coming and the appropriations pot this is where we actually
cut where we exercised our powers as congress members. Under
the Constitution, we have the power of appropriations. Let's see
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if we can do it as Republicans. Because we can't
have seventy one Republicans, you know, going off away from us.
We have to have all of us on one team,
voting together. We can only afford a few defections.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Quick break well with congress Woman Claudia Tenny and Congressman
Rich McCormick. As we continue, don't forget our town hall.
Donald J. Trump tonight we're in Iowa. All right, we
continue now, I'm more with Claudia Tenny of New York
Congresswoman and Congressman Rich McCormick the Great State of Georgia
talking about this budget agreement. What should take mister McCormick,
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do you agree that when we get to September and
the appropriations process begins, that that is the opportunity we've
been looking for?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Well, I think it will help. And to be fair,
first of all, Claudia raise a marine, so I got
to give her props for that. That's an accomplishment in itself.
But just think about some of the legends that voted
for this, Massy Jordan, people who have non negotiable conservative credentials.
I get it where I diverge from a lot of people.
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And by the way, I think we can bring this
back together. I think we're gonna We've done a great
job so far with a very narrow majority, being able
to bring home some very conservative of the legislation in
front of the American people and making people realize the
huge difference between the two parties. The super Bowl, I
think is actually in twenty twenty four, when we elect
a new president and when we take back the SID
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that'll be the biggest thing to me. But I think
in the meantime, I still the thing that I said
was a hard note for me is when we didn't
rein in the executive orders. And I know that would
have been a tough one to get passed by, and
I get it, but I would have held out right
there because I think the American people would have supported that.
They said, look, that's not how the constitution was designed.
Where a president can give away your money without your
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representatives who are supposed to hold the purse strings of
America and the constitutional responsibility and the limitations of the
executive authority, that's where it stops. Because once again, if
the president can give away more than you can save,
what's the whole point of this bill?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Oh? I think you've raised in some good points, Claudia.
How confident are you that will eliminate all that IRS money?
How confident in you that will claw back all the
COVID money? How confident are you the work requirements for
people that got government handouts is going to be real
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and have teeth when all is said and done. Can
you assure me today that when I have you back,
after the appropriations battle goes on, that those things will
be accomplished.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
You know that I'm going to be voting against all
those or for those things, and for the conservative side
of this. The question is can we get the two
hundred and eighteen votes we need? And I want to
mention something, Sean. I got inundated all day yesterday with
Democrats complaining about the permitting process and saying that, you know,
we're against the environment. So that was not a part
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that the Democrats liked, although I think we could go
even farther, and we need to remember something. I also
got a lot of calls yesterday. If we lose the
United States credit and the United States ability, if we
were to go in default, as some of the conservative
members said, let's just go into default. That would cost
us even more money. If we lose our reserve currency status,
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we have less access to capital, we have higher borrowing
costs for all Americans, and our lower stock market values.
So that hurt.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Well, that would have been Biden's default, as far as
I'm concerned, I think there was more time, you know,
let him sweat it out, let him capitulate more than
he did. But that's my take. Everyone negotiates differently. You know,
an old saying never be afraid to walk away from
any deal up until the minute you sign that paper.
And that's how I live my life. So anyway, I
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appreciate it. Thank you both, Claudia, Thank you, mister McCormick.
We appreciate you being with us from Georgia. Eight hundred
nine point one. Shawn is on number if you want
to be a part of the program. All right, let's
get to our busy phones from Iowa. We have our
you know what, we couldn't come to Iowa and not
say hello to Senator Jony Ernst is with us. Senator,
how are you hey.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I'm doing great, Sean, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
You know, I only really like to come to Iowa
for one big reason. I mean, I like coming all
the time. Don't misunderstand me. I like to come during
the Iowa State Fair, you know. I because I love
fried twinkies. I like fried oreos, I like fried pickles,
I like fried fork chops on a stick. I like
it all that's hannityfood. I love hannitifood. They don't have
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hannityfood where I live, unfortunately, not enough of it. You know.
They offer you salads that I you know, make me
want to vomit or these disgusting green or orange shakes
that they say are healthy that I wouldn't want to
eat if my life depended on it. But anyway, it's
great to have you back. You're going to have your
Roast and Ride this Saturday, and it's apparently going to
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be at the Fairgrounds. That sounds like a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
It is, Sean, and it's you know, anything that's fried
and on a stick. You know, that's good in my
book too. So we are going to have the Roast
and Ride this Saturday on June third, and if folks
want more information, they can go to right Roast and
Ride dot com. And we have invited all of our
presidential hopeful so we have Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott,
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Mike Pence, Vivek Ramaswami, Asa Hutchinson, Perry Johnson, Larry Elder,
and you know who knows. Maybe more announcements yet to come.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
So well, I'm just trying to figure out why I
didn't get my invitation. What's up with that?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Oh well we have Hey, come out, here's your invitation
right now, Sean, come on out. We would love to
have you there. And as always, we kick off the
day with a motorcycle ride.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And by the way, people don't know this. You ride
a Harley, right.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yes, I do, yees, So I ride a soft tailed
Deluxe Harley Davidson. I'll be leading a pack of motorcyclists
and the ticket proceeds from the motorcycle portion of the
day will go to a veterans charity, and this year
it's the Freedom Foundation of Ceda Rapids, Iowa. Great folks.
They are of Veterans Helping Veterans organization. I have visited
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them many times. Are doing tremendous work with just all
of our great vetrends that might be in need, maybe
need a little support, maybe just want to drop in
and talk to other veterans. So great organization. We'll do
the motorcycle ride. It kicks off at Big Barn Harley
Davidson in Des Moines. We'll go for about a forty
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five minute ride and we'll end up at the Iowa
State Fairgrounds and that's where we'll have all of our speakers.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
We'll have some pulled pork.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
It won't be on a stick Sean, but.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It is no I like the pork chop out of stick.
Can you make arrangements that might be the thing that
tips me over the top. Although I love the Harley ride,
here's my problem, Center, I got a problem in my life.
Maybe you can help me, because nobody's stopping you from
riding your Harley. I want to ride a Harley. That's
what I want to do. I want a Harley Davidson.
And everybody in my life forbids me from getting a
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Harley Davidson, including my daughter, who will start tearing up
and crying and telling me that I'm going to die
if I get a Harley US Well. So one year
for Christmas, I thought they were doing me a really
you know, nice favor, and they bought me a Vespa
instead of a Harley. I'm like, I don't want a Vespa.
It's like a moped. And I'm like, if I ever
got caught on that Vespa writing that thing and a
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helmet that wasn't fully completely covered, I said, you know that,
my man card is gone. It's over, it's done. I'm
just forget it. My friends would dump me as a friend.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I would pay good money. You all dolled up on
a Vespa, all.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Dolled up on a Vespa. Wow, that's you. You just
diving in for an salt in the wound, Senator, I
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I will be in my leathers on a Harley Davidson exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I mean you, you're a senator. Your family doesn't harass
you about it. My family has a fit every time
I mention it. They swear that I don't have the
ability to ride one and not text. And that's not
true because I now ride my car and I don't
text while I'm driving.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Well that is smart and good on you for that.
But I do wear a helmet, I will be in
my riding boots, I will wear my leather gloves, you
name it. But I think it's important we encourage all
kinds of riders. So, Sean, even if you do want
to come and be on your vespa, you.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Are well, no, no, no, I don't own a vespa anymore.
I sold the vespa. I got rid of the vespa.
I couldn't be seen riding a Vespa.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Well, I tell you, we are all inclusive ride. So
if you ride a Honda, a Harley, a Yamaha, whatever
it is, all motorcycles are welcome.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Now are you going to jump in? I mean, you
got all these presidential hopefuls. Are you going to jump
in and endorse?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I am not endorsing. And that's the one thing that
Kim Reynolds and Senator Grassley and I don't do because
we as the GOP in Iowa, we do maintain the
first in the Nation caucus and we just want to
be welcoming to all of those great candidates that are
coming into Iowa and meeting with all of our voters.
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And the roast and ride on Saturday will be probably
the largest single event in Iowa where voters can come
out see all of those candidates all together at one time.
So we're really encouraging folks to come out. It'll be
again at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines. We've
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got all kinds of folks joining us. It's going to
be great entertainment, great food. Of course, the motorcycle ride
in the morning. But come out shake hands with all
of these presidential hopefuls. We would love to see everybody there.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Now, now, when is the full On State Fair?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
So the full On State Fair will be in August.
It always starts a second week of August and it
runs for about ten days. It is magnificent. It truly
is the no.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I got to tell you it's it's the best fair
I've ever been to. It is it really is, it is.
It is awesome. It is fun. We actually did the
show once from the fair one year and we had
a great time. And all I'm doing is sending my
staff out. Give me another porktop. Please give me a
one more fright, Twinky, that's all I want another Friday
and get one more fried Oreo. Just need one. It's
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the greatest food and the most fun you could ever have. Well,
it's great to be back in Iowa. We're here for
a town hall with President Trump tonight and he's the
only one that's missing from your list. It'll be interesting
if he shows up. You're saying, there might be other surprises,
so we'll wait, watch and see. But we appreciate the hospitality.
We love Iowa. We love the people in your state.
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And by the way, I stand with the people of Iowa.
With the Democratic Party did by jumping over Iowa and
New Hampshire, to me, it was despicable, horrible.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Yeah, and Sean, I've said this many times over, but
it's like the the National Democrats. They gave Middle America
a middle finger, because we really need diversity of tho
and geography when we're we're deciding presidential hopefuls, and instead
what we've done, we've gone to these coastal liberal elites
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making all the decisions about the Democratic candidates, and they
have forgotten about Middle America. And thank heavens, you know,
the GOP in Iowa, we continue to fight hard to
keep our voices heard. I am so thankful that we've
got such a great Republican party in Iowa.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Well, we appreciate all you do, Senator, look forward to
seeing you hopefully over the summer. We'll be here often
and we begin our you know, four year journey tonight.
We're here, you know, every election year and the year before,
and we always have a great time and the people
are wonderful in Iowa to us, and we appreciate that too.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
God bless us.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Sean, Thank you all right, Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa.
Eight hundred and nine foot one, Shawn A number you
want to be a part of the program. Down is
in Florida, the Free State of Florida. Don How are
you glad you called hi?
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Sean? Thank you so much for taking my call today.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
What's going on.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
I'm talking a little off topic. You know, it's not
budget related. But you are in Iowa and you're going
to see President Trump today. So I'm calling because I
supported him in twenty sixteen. I supported him in twenty twenty.
I had every shirt you could have that said Trump
on it. Unfortunately, I just don't feel like he is
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electable this time. And I know, I know he has
a big ego and he did such a great job
for those four years, but he was an incumbent and
he did not get reelected. I listen, I know there
was I'd like to I think there was cheating that
went on, but that doesn't matter. Dems hate him and
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they will find a way to not get him elected.
And in fact, I'm even wondering if there's somebody deep
down in there that in the Democrat Party who is
exactly hoping that he ends up being the nominee.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Well, I hope that he's a nominee that if they
believe that. By the way, I mentioned earlier, Biden stumbled
on stage at the Air Force Academy. You know, remember,
in the pouring rain, Donald Trump was going down a
ramp without a rail with dress shoes on. Oh, he's
walking like an old man. No, he's walking like a
smart New Yorker that knows that those slick dress shoes
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are going to send you on your ass if you're
not careful. Apparently Biden, you know, maybe he didn't realize
that there was a step, or maybe he thought there
was one that's even worse. But anyway, look, I understand
your argument. Let me just let me just tell you
one thing, and I think this is important for everybody
to know. Is I don't care who the candidate ends
up being right now, just let's let's put politics aside here.
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Whoever the Republican candidate is, I promise you, I promise
you that they are going to be demonized by the
media and by the left wing in this country. And
the demonization is going to be brutal. That I can
promise you. And it's you know, Donald Trump has been
around longer, so they've gone after him longer. You know,
(27:06):
look at what it took all these years. What happened
in twenty sixteen, We find out the answer to in
twenty twenty three, that three years it started in twenty sixteen,
you know, you know, six years later it took us
to find out that the FBI acted inappropriately without any
evidence at all, that they favored Hillary Clinton, that they
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showed a double standard in their application of quote justice.
And Donald Trump never colluded with Russia, and nobody apologizes,
and even the media that promoted these false conspiracy theories
then never held accountable. So I mean there is a
little perspective to that. Is he a little bit combative? Yeah,
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he's combative, but he also secured the border. He also
kept China, Russia, Iran in Czech and North Korea in Czech.
He also, prior to COVID, was kicking ass with the economy,
setting one record low unemployment rate for every demographic group
in the country. He did get us energy and dependence,
and I think the world was a safer place, and
(28:08):
I think America was a more prosperous place. Not one
time during his presidency did a gallon of gasoling go
over three bucks a gallon. Not once. So does any
of that matter to you.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
I don't disagree with anything you just said. Okay, yeah,
he is the only one that had us in energy
and dependence. It was a beautiful thing. But it took
one day for all those for Biden to completely flip
us upside down. It took one day. I mean, forget
about the Oh my, well, look, what.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Do you think about the Biden laptop? From this perspective,
we now know the FBI had the laptop, they verified
the authenticity of the laptop, and then they had weekly
meetings with big Tech telling them that they may be
a victim of misinformation campaign and it may even be
about Hunter Biden. Does that sound like election interference too?
(28:59):
Do you think if a America saw Hunter Biden's laptop,
as it was reported by the New York Post at
the time, that that would have had an impact on
that election?
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Yes, I definitely do think that, But I still feel
like there was kind of stolen even forgetting the people
who crossed over and who did vote for Biden. Like
even it's still I have to say, it still scares me.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Do you think it was a troublesome that Pardoner? What
if that states had laws where partisan observers, by law
get to watch the vote counting, and those laws there
was no accommodation made for those laws. Does that bother you?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (29:37):
That does bother me. And let me tell you though,
I was one of those those partisan observers in twenty
sixteen and in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
But you're in Florida. It's probably better for you.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
I'd like to think so. But I mean I am
in Wasserman Schultz's district sadly so okay, But.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Were you able to watch the vote count up close
that you could see what the votes.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Were at the at the twenty twenty two it was
a little.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Better, No, twenty twenty. Were you able to watch the
were you able to look at as you were well
by the way, they should have made accommodations and upheld
the law. That's my argument. You know, so I think
you know I want more election integrity measures. Look, I
hear what you're saying. You're not the only person that
has said this to me. But we appreciate you and
glad you're out there. Thanks for calling and calling again.
(30:24):
We'll hope you'll check in one more time. Don't forget Trump. Tonight,
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going to wrap things up. We are in beautiful Iowa.
We have this town hall tonight. We're really looking forward
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us as we're coming to you. So we're just outside
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Look forward to a big crowd tonight and thank you
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Tune in tonight nine Easter on Hannity, Fox News, Townhall,
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back here tomorrow. Thank you for making the show possible.
Well we'll come in. You want to pay again, Talas
and saying you a conscious cell will be and if
you want a little bang a come alonge. Would you
want to try to make them look like I made
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some compromise in the dead stealing and I didn't.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I made a compromise on the budget.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We finally were able to cut spending.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
We're the first Congress to vote for cutting spending year
over year.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Let's go back to pre COVID levels of spending. That's
what we asked for. We're not This deal doesn't do that.
Do they still have to worry about the Progressive Caucus
and whether or not your caucus will support Yes, they do, Okay,
congress Woman Jibel, thank you so much. Have to worry, Yes,
they have to worry. Freedom is that in style?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Welcome to the revolution, coming.
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To your senti't want to Wagainsas and saying you a
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Going up next our final News Roundup and Information Overload Hour.
All Right, News round Up, Information Overload Hour eight hundred
and nine point one. Sean, If you want to be
a part of the program. So from my conservative friends
and from myself, you know, I don't like the fact
that this deal that was cut with Schumer and Biden.
(01:34):
Originally it was a one year deal. Let's save over
ten years four point eight trillion dollars. It went back
to spending levels for twenty twenty three. It opened up
some energy opportunities in the country, and I thought it
was responsible on a lot of different fronts. It limited
the baseline budgeting increases to only one percent a year
for every program. I like that aspect of it too.
(01:57):
And anyway, so it passes. But Kevin McCarthy did lose
seventy one members of his own caucus. And here's him
talking about all the positives that he believes are in
this debt deal, which was very different from the deal
that the Republicans had signed on to. Here's what he said.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Because of the vote, we took tonight the largest recisions
in American history, all the COVID money, the billions of
dollars sitting out there that they said they would never
bring back, you know what, to the taxpayer, to your
hard working Americans, we stood for you. We brought that
money back for those who are afraid that they're going
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to get audited. Because the President wants to have eighty
seven thousand new RS agents right now he has zero.
We took every single dollar they were going to hire
somebody this year away, and I promise you I'll be
back next year and next year and next year, because
I believe government should be here to help you.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Not go after you.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
We didn't just take the money from this year. We
took another twenty billion. I think we should get some
more border agents with that twenty billion. I think that's
where America would want to see us go.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
All right, anyway, I mean a little fact check to
all this. Yes, it is true. It's the two point
one trillion in savings would be the largest savings ever,
but we're dealing with the largest debt we've ever had,
which is thirty one trillion, and it's not the four
point eight trillion that the original House Bill had in
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savings over that same period of time. He talks about
work requirements, they're minimal when you look at it, when
you get to the nitty gritty and the language and
the bill, it is not what it appears to be.
You know, if he talks about all the COVID money
being reallocated. NOE is only a small percentage of the
COVID money that would be clawed back when he talks
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about the eighty billion dollars for the irs. Okay, so
every dollar this year but not next year? Why not?
Why did they go from a one deal to a
two year deal? So I know that's why seventy one
Republicans voted against it. Here to give us their take
on all of this, we welcome back to the program
(04:13):
Congresswoman Claudia Tenny of New York and Congressman and emergency
room doctor by the way, Richard McCormick of Georgia, who's
also a Marine Corps helicopter pilot and commander in the Navy. Sir,
thank you for your service. We appreciate you both being here.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Thanks Shaw, it's great to be on with you.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Congresswoman. Let me start with you. Were you happy with
this bill?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I was, and I'll tell you why. First of all,
it's a great honor to be I'm a doctor McCormick
who also served in the Marines, just like my son,
so a special person. When they tell you there aren't
good people in Congress, there are wonderful people that serve
in our country. So look, the reason this bill is
getting misunderstood is because this is a framework. This is
not a spending bill. It is a negotiation on a
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debt ceiling for bills that have already been appropriated that
we voted against. This is the scrimmage. The super Bowl
is getting the appropriations and getting the Republicans to stick
together to cut the spending. So I hear some of
the conservatives say, oh, well, this allows four trillion in spending. Well,
President Trump negotiated a six point five trillion dollar debt ceiling,
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cleaned that ceiling bill that spent that, that actually allocated
that this.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But in fairness to President Trump, wasn't that during COVID.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Yeah, still it's still a huge.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Oh well, well that was a pretty unusual time, right.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
But here's the difference, Sean. We aren't saying you don't
have to spend the four trillion. It's up to the Republicans,
with a very slim majority, by the time we get
to the super Bowl, which is the appropriations process in September,
when that is finalized, if we don't do this within
twelve regular order appropriations bills hasn't been done since my
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freshman year in twenty seventeen. Yes, when President of President
Trump was in office, we controlled the Senate and we
also controlled the House with a significant majority. Here's the problem.
If we don't stick together with a four seat majority
by then hopefully we still have a four seat majority.
That's where it counts. This is where we actually appropriate,
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this is where we actually cut. This bill is a framework.
It is not a spending bill. It's going to the
Democrats with a pair of TuS and saying, hey, with
your royal flush, give us some concessions. We got them.
You know why, because the people like you, because of
a lot of Republicans messaging, and because the American people
are hurting. Spending has caused inflation. The energy costs of
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added to inflation. People are hurting. That's why the Democrats
had to come to the table.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well, I think, let me give you this. What I'm
hearing from your fellow congressmen that are angry about this
bill number one, they were kept out of the loop.
This surprise them. This is a very different agreement than
the bill that the House Republicans had passed. The limit
what's save growbill and the amount of money is a
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lot less in terms of savings. There are a lot
of loopholes for work requirements. The COVID clawback was not
anywhere near what you know people were claiming it would be.
And the money for the irs goes forward except for
you know what, one point eight billion dollars.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yeah, so we could have gotten nothing, and the Democrats
and some of the moderates would have gone to the Democrats.
They already what.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Do you mean, got nothing? You guys passed the debt
ceiling bill. You guys did your job. The Democrats didn't
pass anything.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Sean, we did it in an echo chamber. It was
only Republicans when you have to go to the Senate,
which is controlled by liberal leftist Chuck Schumer from New
York and Biden who wants to raise taxes, who's controlled
by the far left.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
No, they were boxed in Claudia. With all due respect,
they were boxed in forty three Republicans signed a piece
of paper saying they were backing the Republican bill. It
was forty four because Senator Kennedy on my television show
said he would join the forty three. So they were
committed to standing strong and letting the House Bill lead
the way anyway, let me bring in mister McCormick. Sir, well,
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you know what's your take on all this.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You know, Sean, The biggest thing that I immediately said,
I'm not voting for this is when they didn't rein
in the executive orders. We've known this is a problem
for at least three presidencies.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
The fact is, whatever megear savings we get off of
that eleven percent of the budget, which is small, I
mean eleven percent of the budget, that's what we're addressing,
and we only get a small portion of that back.
And the fact is that when a president can buy
executive order grant way more money than we can save,
then we're going backwards. The starting point for me was
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that we're going to take away the executive orders that have
been mis used so horribly. When you talk about student
moan forgiveness and what's next, it could be anything, and
any savings we make with this bill could be taken
away by one executive order without any vote. And that's
why I said, that's my first stop. The second one,
of course, of the fact that it's such a small portion,
we're not really addressing the major problem, which is we
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quite frankly, we need to address you just talked about
on your previous segment healthcare. And when we talk about healthcare,
the biggest thing we spend money on one out of
very five tax dollars, one under five private dollars, and
it's the largest inflationary cost of Americans. And we haven't
even addressed that in any small way where we're Administrative
costs have gone from twenty five percent to forty percent
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the last ten years since I've been an emergency menagement position.
We have big, big, big problems and just dropping the
bucket this is nothing. And I think unless we can
get the executive orders out of the way, we haven't
really done anything to address the real problem in America.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Claudia, I mean, do you not understand some of this
conservative criticism and mean you sound like giddy over this bill.
I don't know anybody that's giddy over it.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Nobody is giddy over it. Seohn, I can't stand the bill.
It's terrible. But guess what we do not have Ronald
Reagan in the White House. We don't have a sixty
vote majority. We were facing a clean debt feeling that
possibly could have been done by some of the moderates
would have and they easily could have done that. And
you know when Warren Davidson, who I consider a good friend,
one of the most conservative members, Pepper says, this is
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the most conservative bill I've ever voted for in his
time in Congress, that tells you something. What we got
was Look, it's not great if, as I said, if
we were in the majority and we controlled everything. But
this is we are in a situation where we have
to start winning elections. If we don't start winning elections,
we are not going to get to control. And with
all the respect everyone loved limits save Grow, including me,
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but that was done in an echo chamber. That was
passed by Republicans only. It was not considered by the Senate.
It was not considered by the White House. It was
dead on arrival. And if we want to sit around
and say we got a bunch of feel good bills passed,
they make us feel great, They're great for messaging. They're
not making the American people feel better. They're not cutting
in play. They're not doing anything to move the ball.
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And we have got to move the ball, and it's
all down to appropriations.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Look, all right, so you're saying, when the appropriation debate begins,
I guess what, sometime late August or September, you know,
leading into the next fiscal year. You're saying that that's
when all the big wins are going to come.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
This is the super Bowl. You know what Tom Massey said,
who I consider the most conservative member. He got up
in conference and said, I quote, I'm an engineer and
a problem solver when it comes to voting on this bill.
I mean yes, as a politician, I would vote no.
And I rest my case because I think Tom Massey
is one of the most fiscally conservative members in the House.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Absolutely is well, it sounds like your mom is making
your shoves spinach down your throat and you hate spinach.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
To me, we're we got to get something past Sean.
We've got to get them in check, and this is
one way to do it. I don't love the reforms
and the bill, but when you're looking at what we're
staring down, and when you see the American people and
a lot of conservative media people like you, who are
saying to the Americans, stand up, this is why the
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Democrats came to the table. It wasn't because oh, you
have a four seat five seat majority in the House.
They came to the table because they're spending seven dollars
for a ten ounce tube of mayonnaise. They're spending huge
amounts for gas. I'm from New York. It's almost four
dollars a gallon. Again, we did something that helps that
we could get done. Would I like to be better
Absolutely if we had a bigger majority and we had
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more people on board. Yes, But the real test is
can we stick together and can we cut spending when
it comes to appropriations. This is the real test that's
coming and the appropriations pot this is where we actually
cut where we exercised our powers as congress members. Under
the Constitution, we have the power of appropriations. Let's see
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if we can do it as Republicans. Because we can't
have seventy one Republicans, you know, going off away from us.
We have to have all of us on one team,
voting together. We can only afford a few defections.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Quick break well with congress Woman Claudia Tenny and Congressman
Rich McCormick. As we continue, don't forget our town hall.
Donald J. Trump tonight we're in Iowa. All right, we
continue now, I'm more with Claudia Tenny of New York
Congresswoman and Congressman Rich McCormick the Great State of Georgia
talking about this budget agreement. What should take mister McCormick,
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do you agree that when we get to September and
the appropriations process begins, that that is the opportunity we've
been looking for?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Well, I think it will help. And to be fair,
first of all, Claudia raise a marine, so I got
to give her props for that. That's an accomplishment in itself.
But just think about some of the legends that voted
for this, Massy Jordan, people who have non negotiable conservative credentials.
I get it where I diverge from a lot of people.
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And by the way, I think we can bring this
back together. I think we're gonna We've done a great
job so far with a very narrow majority, being able
to bring home some very conservative of the legislation in
front of the American people and making people realize the
huge difference between the two parties. The super Bowl, I
think is actually in twenty twenty four, when we elect
a new president and when we take back the SID
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that'll be the biggest thing to me. But I think
in the meantime, I still the thing that I said
was a hard note for me is when we didn't
rein in the executive orders. And I know that would
have been a tough one to get passed by, and
I get it, but I would have held out right
there because I think the American people would have supported that.
They said, look, that's not how the constitution was designed.
Where a president can give away your money without your
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representatives who are supposed to hold the purse strings of
America and the constitutional responsibility and the limitations of the
executive authority, that's where it stops. Because once again, if
the president can give away more than you can save,
what's the whole point of this bill?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Oh? I think you've raised in some good points, Claudia.
How confident are you that will eliminate all that IRS money?
How confident in you that will claw back all the
COVID money? How confident are you the work requirements for
people that got government handouts is going to be real
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and have teeth when all is said and done. Can
you assure me today that when I have you back,
after the appropriations battle goes on, that those things will
be accomplished.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
You know that I'm going to be voting against all
those or for those things, and for the conservative side
of this. The question is can we get the two
hundred and eighteen votes we need? And I want to
mention something, Sean. I got inundated all day yesterday with
Democrats complaining about the permitting process and saying that, you know,
we're against the environment. So that was not a part
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that the Democrats liked, although I think we could go
even farther, and we need to remember something. I also
got a lot of calls yesterday. If we lose the
United States credit and the United States ability, if we
were to go in default, as some of the conservative
members said, let's just go into default. That would cost
us even more money. If we lose our reserve currency status,
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we have less access to capital, we have higher borrowing
costs for all Americans, and our lower stock market values.
So that hurt.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Well, that would have been Biden's default, as far as
I'm concerned, I think there was more time, you know,
let him sweat it out, let him capitulate more than
he did. But that's my take. Everyone negotiates differently. You know,
an old saying never be afraid to walk away from
any deal up until the minute you sign that paper.
And that's how I live my life. So anyway, I
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appreciate it. Thank you both, Claudia, Thank you, mister McCormick.
We appreciate you being with us from Georgia. Eight hundred
nine point one. Shawn is on number if you want
to be a part of the program. All right, let's
get to our busy phones from Iowa. We have our
you know what, we couldn't come to Iowa and not
say hello to Senator Jony Ernst is with us. Senator,
how are you hey.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I'm doing great, Sean, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
You know, I only really like to come to Iowa
for one big reason. I mean, I like coming all
the time. Don't misunderstand me. I like to come during
the Iowa State Fair, you know. I because I love
fried twinkies. I like fried oreos, I like fried pickles,
I like fried fork chops on a stick. I like
it all that's hannityfood. I love hannitifood. They don't have
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hannityfood where I live, unfortunately, not enough of it. You know.
They offer you salads that I you know, make me
want to vomit or these disgusting green or orange shakes
that they say are healthy that I wouldn't want to
eat if my life depended on it. But anyway, it's
great to have you back. You're going to have your
Roast and Ride this Saturday, and it's apparently going to
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be at the Fairgrounds. That sounds like a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
It is, Sean, and it's you know, anything that's fried
and on a stick. You know, that's good in my
book too. So we are going to have the Roast
and Ride this Saturday on June third, and if folks
want more information, they can go to right Roast and
Ride dot com. And we have invited all of our
presidential hopeful so we have Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott,
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Mike Pence, Vivek Ramaswami, Asa Hutchinson, Perry Johnson, Larry Elder,
and you know who knows. Maybe more announcements yet to come.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
So well, I'm just trying to figure out why I
didn't get my invitation. What's up with that?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Oh well we have Hey, come out, here's your invitation
right now, Sean, come on out. We would love to
have you there. And as always, we kick off the
day with a motorcycle ride.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And by the way, people don't know this. You ride
a Harley, right.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yes, I do, yees, So I ride a soft tailed
Deluxe Harley Davidson. I'll be leading a pack of motorcyclists
and the ticket proceeds from the motorcycle portion of the
day will go to a veterans charity, and this year
it's the Freedom Foundation of Ceda Rapids, Iowa. Great folks.
They are of Veterans Helping Veterans organization. I have visited
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them many times. Are doing tremendous work with just all
of our great vetrends that might be in need, maybe
need a little support, maybe just want to drop in
and talk to other veterans. So great organization. We'll do
the motorcycle ride. It kicks off at Big Barn Harley
Davidson in Des Moines. We'll go for about a forty
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five minute ride and we'll end up at the Iowa
State Fairgrounds and that's where we'll have all of our speakers.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
We'll have some pulled pork.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
It won't be on a stick Sean, but.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It is no I like the pork chop out of stick.
Can you make arrangements that might be the thing that
tips me over the top. Although I love the Harley ride,
here's my problem, Center, I got a problem in my life.
Maybe you can help me, because nobody's stopping you from
riding your Harley. I want to ride a Harley. That's
what I want to do. I want a Harley Davidson.
And everybody in my life forbids me from getting a
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Harley Davidson, including my daughter, who will start tearing up
and crying and telling me that I'm going to die
if I get a Harley US Well. So one year
for Christmas, I thought they were doing me a really
you know, nice favor, and they bought me a Vespa
instead of a Harley. I'm like, I don't want a Vespa.
It's like a moped. And I'm like, if I ever
got caught on that Vespa writing that thing and a
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helmet that wasn't fully completely covered, I said, you know that,
my man card is gone. It's over, it's done. I'm
just forget it. My friends would dump me as a friend.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I would pay good money. You all dolled up on
a Vespa, all.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Dolled up on a Vespa. Wow, that's you. You just
diving in for an salt in the wound, Senator, I
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I will be in my leathers on a Harley Davidson exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I mean you, you're a senator. Your family doesn't harass
you about it. My family has a fit every time
I mention it. They swear that I don't have the
ability to ride one and not text. And that's not
true because I now ride my car and I don't
text while I'm driving.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Well that is smart and good on you for that.
But I do wear a helmet, I will be in
my riding boots, I will wear my leather gloves, you
name it. But I think it's important we encourage all
kinds of riders. So, Sean, even if you do want
to come and be on your vespa, you.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Are well, no, no, no, I don't own a vespa anymore.
I sold the vespa. I got rid of the vespa.
I couldn't be seen riding a Vespa.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Well, I tell you, we are all inclusive ride. So
if you ride a Honda, a Harley, a Yamaha, whatever
it is, all motorcycles are welcome.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Now are you going to jump in? I mean, you
got all these presidential hopefuls. Are you going to jump
in and endorse?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I am not endorsing. And that's the one thing that
Kim Reynolds and Senator Grassley and I don't do because
we as the GOP in Iowa, we do maintain the
first in the Nation caucus and we just want to
be welcoming to all of those great candidates that are
coming into Iowa and meeting with all of our voters.
(22:06):
And the roast and ride on Saturday will be probably
the largest single event in Iowa where voters can come
out see all of those candidates all together at one time.
So we're really encouraging folks to come out. It'll be
again at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines. We've
(22:28):
got all kinds of folks joining us. It's going to
be great entertainment, great food. Of course, the motorcycle ride
in the morning. But come out shake hands with all
of these presidential hopefuls. We would love to see everybody there.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Now, now, when is the full On State Fair?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
So the full On State Fair will be in August.
It always starts a second week of August and it
runs for about ten days. It is magnificent. It truly
is the no.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I got to tell you it's it's the best fair
I've ever been to. It is it really is, it is.
It is awesome. It is fun. We actually did the
show once from the fair one year and we had
a great time. And all I'm doing is sending my
staff out. Give me another porktop. Please give me a
one more fright, Twinky, that's all I want another Friday
and get one more fried Oreo. Just need one. It's
(23:15):
the greatest food and the most fun you could ever have. Well,
it's great to be back in Iowa. We're here for
a town hall with President Trump tonight and he's the
only one that's missing from your list. It'll be interesting
if he shows up. You're saying, there might be other surprises,
so we'll wait, watch and see. But we appreciate the hospitality.
We love Iowa. We love the people in your state.
(23:37):
And by the way, I stand with the people of Iowa.
With the Democratic Party did by jumping over Iowa and
New Hampshire, to me, it was despicable, horrible.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Yeah, and Sean, I've said this many times over, but
it's like the the National Democrats. They gave Middle America
a middle finger, because we really need diversity of tho
and geography when we're we're deciding presidential hopefuls, and instead
what we've done, we've gone to these coastal liberal elites
(24:10):
making all the decisions about the Democratic candidates, and they
have forgotten about Middle America. And thank heavens, you know,
the GOP in Iowa, we continue to fight hard to
keep our voices heard. I am so thankful that we've
got such a great Republican party in Iowa.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Well, we appreciate all you do, Senator, look forward to
seeing you hopefully over the summer. We'll be here often
and we begin our you know, four year journey tonight.
We're here, you know, every election year and the year before,
and we always have a great time and the people
are wonderful in Iowa to us, and we appreciate that too.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
God bless us.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Sean, Thank you all right, Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa.
Eight hundred and nine foot one, Shawn A number you
want to be a part of the program. Down is
in Florida, the Free State of Florida. Don How are
you glad you called hi?
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Sean? Thank you so much for taking my call today.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
What's going on.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
I'm talking a little off topic. You know, it's not
budget related. But you are in Iowa and you're going
to see President Trump today. So I'm calling because I
supported him in twenty sixteen. I supported him in twenty twenty.
I had every shirt you could have that said Trump
on it. Unfortunately, I just don't feel like he is
(25:25):
electable this time. And I know, I know he has
a big ego and he did such a great job
for those four years, but he was an incumbent and
he did not get reelected. I listen, I know there
was I'd like to I think there was cheating that
went on, but that doesn't matter. Dems hate him and
(25:46):
they will find a way to not get him elected.
And in fact, I'm even wondering if there's somebody deep
down in there that in the Democrat Party who is
exactly hoping that he ends up being the nominee.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Well, I hope that he's a nominee that if they
believe that. By the way, I mentioned earlier, Biden stumbled
on stage at the Air Force Academy. You know, remember,
in the pouring rain, Donald Trump was going down a
ramp without a rail with dress shoes on. Oh, he's
walking like an old man. No, he's walking like a
smart New Yorker that knows that those slick dress shoes
(26:21):
are going to send you on your ass if you're
not careful. Apparently Biden, you know, maybe he didn't realize
that there was a step, or maybe he thought there
was one that's even worse. But anyway, look, I understand
your argument. Let me just let me just tell you
one thing, and I think this is important for everybody
to know. Is I don't care who the candidate ends
up being right now, just let's let's put politics aside here.
(26:44):
Whoever the Republican candidate is, I promise you, I promise
you that they are going to be demonized by the
media and by the left wing in this country. And
the demonization is going to be brutal. That I can
promise you. And it's you know, Donald Trump has been
around longer, so they've gone after him longer. You know,
(27:06):
look at what it took all these years. What happened
in twenty sixteen, We find out the answer to in
twenty twenty three, that three years it started in twenty sixteen,
you know, you know, six years later it took us
to find out that the FBI acted inappropriately without any
evidence at all, that they favored Hillary Clinton, that they
(27:27):
showed a double standard in their application of quote justice.
And Donald Trump never colluded with Russia, and nobody apologizes,
and even the media that promoted these false conspiracy theories
then never held accountable. So I mean there is a
little perspective to that. Is he a little bit combative? Yeah,
(27:47):
he's combative, but he also secured the border. He also
kept China, Russia, Iran in Czech and North Korea in Czech.
He also, prior to COVID, was kicking ass with the economy,
setting one record low unemployment rate for every demographic group
in the country. He did get us energy and dependence,
and I think the world was a safer place, and
(28:08):
I think America was a more prosperous place. Not one
time during his presidency did a gallon of gasoling go
over three bucks a gallon. Not once. So does any
of that matter to you.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
I don't disagree with anything you just said. Okay, yeah,
he is the only one that had us in energy
and dependence. It was a beautiful thing. But it took
one day for all those for Biden to completely flip
us upside down. It took one day. I mean, forget
about the Oh my, well, look, what.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Do you think about the Biden laptop? From this perspective,
we now know the FBI had the laptop, they verified
the authenticity of the laptop, and then they had weekly
meetings with big Tech telling them that they may be
a victim of misinformation campaign and it may even be
about Hunter Biden. Does that sound like election interference too?
(28:59):
Do you think if a America saw Hunter Biden's laptop,
as it was reported by the New York Post at
the time, that that would have had an impact on
that election?
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Yes, I definitely do think that, But I still feel
like there was kind of stolen even forgetting the people
who crossed over and who did vote for Biden. Like
even it's still I have to say, it still scares me.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Do you think it was a troublesome that Pardoner? What
if that states had laws where partisan observers, by law
get to watch the vote counting, and those laws there
was no accommodation made for those laws. Does that bother you?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (29:37):
That does bother me. And let me tell you though,
I was one of those those partisan observers in twenty
sixteen and in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
But you're in Florida. It's probably better for you.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
I'd like to think so. But I mean I am
in Wasserman Schultz's district sadly so okay, But.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Were you able to watch the vote count up close
that you could see what the votes.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Were at the at the twenty twenty two it was
a little.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Better, No, twenty twenty. Were you able to watch the
were you able to look at as you were well
by the way, they should have made accommodations and upheld
the law. That's my argument. You know, so I think
you know I want more election integrity measures. Look, I
hear what you're saying. You're not the only person that
has said this to me. But we appreciate you and
glad you're out there. Thanks for calling and calling again.
(30:24):
We'll hope you'll check in one more time. Don't forget Trump. Tonight,
Hannity nine, Eastern town Hall, Fox News. All right, that's
going to wrap things up. We are in beautiful Iowa.
We have this town hall tonight. We're really looking forward
to it, and I hope many of you will join
us as we're coming to you. So we're just outside
(30:45):
of Des Moines, which is pretty awesome. It's a town
called Clive. It's literally just on the outskirts of des Moines, Iowa.
Look forward to a big crowd tonight and thank you
all for coming, and I think you'll have a good time.
Tune in tonight nine Easter on Hannity, Fox News, Townhall,
Donald J. Trump, nine Eastern on Fox. See you then
(31:05):
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