February 12, 2025 • 33 mins
Sean covers the latest cuts including a $4.3 Billion expenditure for California's plan to build a bullet train to link Los Angeles and rural parts of California. Bottom line... they don't need a train!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, thank you Scott Channon, Thanks to all of
you for being with us. Right down our toll free
telephone number if you want to be a part of
the program at eight hundred nine to four one Sean
if you would like to join us. It was very
cool last night. I ended up doing two hours of
Hannity because of the release that took place of this teacher.
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I mean, it's really amazing what is happening around the world.
And Mark Fogel is his name. He was a history teacher,
even quoted Winston Churchill. When he made it to the
Oval Office with the President, met outside by the President,
and anyway, he was to serve a fourteen year sentence.
He served about three and a half years in jail,
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all during the Biden years. And you know, he profusely
was thanking President Trump and his team that would include
Secretary of State Rubio and guys like Steve Whitkoff who
actually flew to Russia to meet with Putin and pick
him up. And it just is great to see happen,
and it's great to see Americans come home. I had
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only known of seven American hostages worldwide that had been released.
The other six Rick Ronell was responsible in large part
for that negotiation with Venezuela. I didn't even know Venezuela
had American hostages. And now this morning, the White House
said that the President secured the release of at least
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three people jailed in Belarus, including an American that it
has not named, and a journalist in Belarus. Adam Boehler,
the White House Special Envoy. He's also deserves a lot
of the credit. The President deserves the most credit for
the hostage affair, telling reporters that the prisoners released in
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Belarus were not part of any exchange his knowledge. Vladimir
Putin was not a involved, although you have to believe
anything Belarus does is probably Putin related. They do have
an authoritarian leader and a close ally to Putin. But
one of the individuals is an American citizen who wants
to remain private. And Belarus also released Radio Free Europe
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Radio Liberty journalist guy with the name of Andre Kuzachik
and who's more than what three years in prison on
charges you know, criticized as politically motivated. I mean, when
you travel aboard abroad, you better be you better be careful. Anyway,
Mark Fogel last night, calling Trump a hero. These men
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came from the diplomatic services, are heroes. He thanked his
home Senator Dave McCormick for his active involvement in it
is senators representatives past legislation. The President was pretty funny
last night. You know, would you like to go see
the Lincoln bedroom. You know, not many people get to
see the Lincoln beat. I've actually seen the Lincoln bedrooment
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is and it is pretty cool. And Abraham Lincoln was
pretty tall, and it's a pretty long bed, and it's
pretty low to the ground. That's the best way to
describe it. They have the Gettysburg address actually in the room,
the the Gettysburg address. Anyway, it's fantastic news. I think
it has broader implications, and the broader implications simply are
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that that we now have Vladimir, We have Zelensky on
record as saying that he is open to a piece deal,
and we have now I think this is obviously the
only way to interpret this is to say that that
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Vladimir Putin is interested in Donald Trump and getting a
deal done, which I think is critical. You know, it
was funny because it didn't get any play here in
the US, but Vladimir Putin did put out a statement
not that long ago, in the last couple of weeks
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as it as it relates to President Trump, and you know,
and how supportive they were was which I found pretty fascinating.
And anyway, Putin said, I assure you that Donald Trump,
with his character, with his persistence, he will restore order
there quite quickly, speaking about Europe and all of uh
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and all of them will see meaning Europe, and it
will happen quickly, and soon they will all stand at
the feet of the Master, and they'll wag their tails
in a little everything will fall into place. And you
can see that is now beginning to happen.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It's been reported that President Trump got on the phone
with Vladimir Putin earlier today. They had a wide ranging
discussion and they covered everything from Ukraine, the Middle East, energy,
artificial intelligence, the power of the dollar, and other important topics.
And the President said, we both agreed we want to
stop the millions of deaths from taking place in the
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war with Russia and Ukraine. So now you've got both
sides expressing that they want a negotiated settlement. I can
tell you what the settlement is going to be and
when I interviewed Zelenski for TV, and we didn't get
to the second part of the interview. The second part
of the interview, I did ask him if he would
be paying back, being such a mineral rich country to
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the z plan on paying back the American people for
the two hundred billion dollars that they paid to fund
that war is. You know, Joe Biden kept escalating it
by being basically it evolved into a proxy war between
the US and Ukraine. You know, the problem is is
that the Russians have so bombed out such large areas
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and cities and of Ukraine. I mean, the process of
rebuilding is a decades long, probably longer lift for them,
and it's going to be really hard. Trump posted on
truth Social I just had a lengthy, highly productive phone
call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. We discussed Ukraine,
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the Middle East, energy, artificial intelligence, the power of the dollar,
various other subjects. We reflected on our great history, the
great history of our nations, and the fact that we
fought so successfully together in World War Two, remembering that
Russia lost tens of millions of people and we likewise
lost so many. We each talked about the strengths of
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our respective nations and the great benefit that we will
someday have in working together. But first, as we both agreed,
we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place
in this war with Russia and Ukraine, and President Putin
even used my very strong campaign motto of quote common sense.
We both believe very strongly in it. We agreed to
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work together very closely, including visiting each other's nations. We
have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately,
and we will begin by calling President Zelensky of Ukraine
to inform him of the conversation, something of which I
will be doing right now. I have asked the Secretary
of State Mark or Rubio, Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe,
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National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Ambassador and Special Envoy Steve
Whitkoff to lead the negotiations, which I feel strongly will
be successful. Millions of people have died in a war
that would not have happened if I were president, but
it did happen, and so it must end. No more
lives should be lost. I want to thank President Putin
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for his time and effort with respect to the call
and the release yesterday of Mark Vogel, a wonderful man
that I personally greeted last night at the White House.
I believe this effort will lead to a successful conclusion,
hopefully soon. Wow, what a difference. You know, he's only
been his fourth week in office, President Trump. That's it.
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He's only been there four weeks. And you know, when
you watch the media freak out over all things Donald Trump,
you would think that nothing great is happening. But you
know what, every day there's something new, even little things
I saw today that you know, the President could claw
back four point three billion dollars and unspent federal funds
for this ridiculous California High speed rail project, just as
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he froze a billion for the perpetually delayed and derailed
project during his first term as president, he stopped nearly
a billion dollars from going to California for the project
after the Governor, Gavin Newsom scaled back the original plan
for the bullet train to link San Francisco and Los Angeles.
I mean, this makes no sense. By the way, It's
now supposed to travel between small towns in rural Central
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in the Central Valley of California VERSU and Bakersfield, And
I bet they don't need a train. It's called an automobile.
Drive a car, and it's not like going to be
in La traffic or San Francisco traffic. Presno B reporting
that Elon's Department of Government Efficiency could have the ailing
project in its site. The first two point five billion
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in federal grants awarded by the Obama administration in two
thousand and nine, what the hell has taken so long
under the American Recovery Reinvestment Act has been fully spent,
matched by an equal amount of state money. Almost four
point three billion remains unspent, most of that awarded by
the Department of Transportation under Joe Biden. The unspent federal
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funds conceivably could be subject to cancelation by a hostile
Trump administration. This is in the Fresno b It's not hostile.
It's a boondoggle. It's a waste of taxpayer money, and
it's time to cut your losses considering you're not getting
the job done. This thing was supposed to be done,
you know, a decade ago. For crying out loud, how
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long does it take to build a rare way, and
how do you do it so incompetently anyway, So it's
interesting to watch Putin agreeing to work with Trump to
end the war in Ukraine, Zelensky agreeing to the same.
And now you see what the difference is when you
have a president that is actually engaged. And we do
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have some updates on Trump appointments. By the way, Tulsi
Gabbard has been confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence,
and it looks like cash Betel is not going to
be far behind. First. It'll be RFK Junior, either sometime
late tonight or tomorrow, and he definitely has the votes
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to do it. On the Tulsi Gabbard vote, it was
fifty two forty eight. The only Republican voting against Tulsi
was Mitch McConnell, who's just become you know, Mitt Romney
on steroids. And it really is pathetic. You know, you
would think what you would think. If there's one person
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that would understand how hard the job as a Senate
majority leader would be, it would be Mitch McConnell. Having
had that position, he just needs to honestly, it's time.
It's time to go home, Mitch. He keeps falling down.
He's having these these mental you know, disturbances, if you
want to call them, in public constantly. Anyway, So Tulsea
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Gabbert is in. RFK Junior will be in. Susan Collins
announced that she will vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
She said, and that's a big boost for Kennedy's confirmation.
And anyway, earlier this year, Collins called some of his
past comments and statements alarming, but you know, a lot
of it was taken out of context, and you know,
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I thought he did a pretty good job in his
hearings and as belligerent as they were to him, and
they were belligerent, you know. And then the press reports
she's taking your pole vaccine. He's taking away your measles vaccine.
He's not doing any such thing at all. And it's
always been one big lie on their part. So that's
the latest.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
There.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
On the other front, where war is taking place, it
was interesting. We'll get into more specificity later. But the
Jordan King Abdullah, you know, said to the President that
his nation will take in thousands of six children from
the Gaza strip, as Trump predicted that Jordan and Egypt
would set aside a parcel of land for Palestinians to
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live ahead of the takeover of the enclave. And that's
been another media lie about what Donald Trump has planned
for Gaza. What did he say that he would do.
He said that he would go in there. He would
we would take the risk, and we'd get the bombs
and the weaponry and demilitarize the area. Then clean out
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all the rubble, because Gaza has been pretty much leveled,
and then begin the process of working with Arab nations
to rebuild Gaza into a place that somebody's going to
want to live. And hopefully, you know, we have a
strong enough presence militarily, or Israel does, or somebody does,
that this can no longer be a launching pad for
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the Palestinians or for their proxy Iran. All good for
the American people. We have Matt Towery and Robert Kahaley
saying Donald Trump up by nine points. Another new poll out.
In last year's election, twenty one percent of African American
men supported Donald Trump, a seventy year record high for
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a Republican presidential candidate. Washington Examiner has a poll out
today Democrats on the ropes with his surging support from
African Americans, prompting a poll to declare that quote, black
men love Trump, and it shows a shocking forty two
percent approval rating from africam can man a massive edge
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over any past Republican president. And I'll tell you there's
a good reason that you know, Americans, you know, regardless
of background, race, whatever, they're all supporting Donald Trump because
he's rooting out the waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption. And
that's going to free up money to make our cities
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and towns more safe and secure, in our schools better.
And it doesn't matter that you have these federal judges
blocking Trump's executive orders. You know, one turns out to
be a Democratic mega donor. I'll tell you about this.
On the other side. Eight hundred nine one, Shawn is
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Speaker 3 (16:00):
You did.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
The radio show. The mainstream media loves day. This is
the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Hey everybody, it's on the McLaughlin with the Sean Hannity Show,
and we are thrilled to be with Jael Exteine today.
She is the CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians
and Jews, and she knows exactly what is happening on
the ground in Israel, and that's why she's here with
us today for our Israel today. Minute.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Hi, I so great to see you again. It is
always wonderful to do you in that.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
You know, you were recently traveling through southern Israel and
we were just in stett Ohts, which over the years
has been one of the most embattled cities in Israel,
less than a mile from the Gods of border. Can
you tell us a bit about what you saw and
how are the people there surviving?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
But what I saw is a community that's trying to rebuild.
As you drive across southern ISRAELI see full communities that
were destroyed by that were destroyed on October seventh and
have yet to be able to be rebuilt because we
are still at war. When I was in Sterot and
at the Gaza border, there were still rockets being launched.
As I sat in a meeting with a survivor October seventh,
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there was a rocket that flew overhead and she looked
at me and she said, the traumatist comes back every
single time. And so the people of the South are
both strong and resilient, and they're also in need of
a lot of love and support, which the Fellowship is
giving them. It's not just about the soup kitchens that
the Fellowship has there, the food boxes that we're distributing.
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It's the message that we represent millions of Christians who
haven't forgotten Sterot, who haven't forgotten the Jewish people who
are living less than four hundred meters away from the
Gaza Strip, which is full of terrorists who want to
kill and wipe out Israel. It's that message of Christians
understand the Jewish people in Israeli going through and will
never turn their backs.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
And it's also knowing that the IFCJ will never leave
them alone. They're always there.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Thank you, yes, thank you, Thanks so much, Linda.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Thanks again everybody. This is Linda McLaughlin with the Sean
Hannity Show and Yael Xtein of the International Fellowships of
Christians and Jews. We'll see you next time for the
Israel Today Minute.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I know to see this poll on African American men
and support, you know, and this is where the insanity
of the left, and I'm all for it. If they
want to implode and blow themselves up, I'm all for
that too. But the idea that they want to double
down on tens and what will ultimately be hundreds and
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hundreds of billions of dollars in waste, fraud, abuse, corruption,
spending internationally on their radical agenda, and double down on
men and women's sports, and double down on protecting people
that are in this country illegally. Let them be that part.
The Republican Party can be the party of working men
and women and the party that looks out for hard
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working taxpayers. I think that's a pretty good agenda to run.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
On mode inspired solutions for America.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You know, it's so funny when judges try to stifle
the president's initiatives. He does have the option, and this
is where the left and the media is so hypocritical.
He does have the option of ignoring court orders. I mean,
Joe Biden did it with student loans. Joe Biden didn't
respect the law when it came to the border. If
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you want to go back in time, we can do
that in February of twenty twenty three, Democratic Senator Ron
Wyden advising the Biden administration to ignore a Texas judge
and a ruling on abortion. You know, there are moment
in history where Americans and their leaders must look at
circumstances like this one and say enough, a judge's ruling
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stands because elected leaders and citizens have agreed that abiding
by them is the right and necessary thing to do
to uphold the rule of law. That's a special social
contract in America. But the judiciary must uphold its end
of the social contract too. That means, let me interpret that.
That means to rule the way they want. They've got
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to follow the rule of law, earn the confidence of
the American people continually, every day, every month, every year.
The awful reality is that the moment this case it
landed in front of this particular judge, it's been a
rig game all along. It's illegitimate. The case is an
affront to the Constitution, the rule of law. So here's
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what must happen if and when a judge issues his
nationwide injunction halting access this happened to be access to
the abortion pill. President Biden and the FDA must ignore it. Oh,
I thought, that's a constitutional crisis. If you listen to
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you know, Democrats today AOC echoing Widen, you know, saying,
I think we've been preparing and anticipating for there being
some egregious overreaches by members of the judiciary appointed by
right wing Republican Party members whose goal a very long
time was to just pack these courts with partisan judges,
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often underqualified, completely unqualified for their role. And so there
has been thought, I believe, given to this. Senator Widen
has already issued statements, for example, advising that we should
do in situations like this, which I concur which is,
I believe that the Biden administration should ignore the court ruling. Now,
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if Donald Trump does this direct to the democracy, our
constitutional order, none of which is true, a federal judge responsible. Again,
what are Democrats doing? What they can't win at the
ballot box in the arena of ideas, what they cannot
do legislatively because they don't have the votes, They are
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trying to use the courts to block a duly elected
president from fulfilling the promises that he made to the
American people. So know what they're up to here, And
this is a long strategy, longtime strategy of Democrats. Anyway,
they have this judge, John McConnell, according to Trending Politics,
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has a history of contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars
to Democratic campaigns and political action committees. He served as
a US district judge in Rhode Island in twenty eleven,
previously a personal injury attorney What a Shock, and records
from the FEC indicate that before taking the bench he
made significant donations to Democratocratic politicians, including Barack Obama, Joe Biden,
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Hillary Clinton, and that also extended to Democratic packs various
Senate and House campaigns. Public filing show these donations amount
to several hundred thousand dollars, making one of the more
politically active federal judges in terms of campaign contributions. And
he's been a consistent donor to the Democratic candidates and
committees over multiple election cycles. And his contributions primarily support
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Democrats and Democratic congressional campaigns and national committees and political
action committees. Anyway, in the Senate, this guy has, you know,
backed Rhode Island Democrat Jack Reid, and I can go
on and on and on here, and you know, while
judicial ethics rules prohibit federal judges from making political donations
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once confirmed to the bench. His pass financial ties raise
obvious concerns about his impartiality. It's look, even Jonathan Tartie
said this the other day. He said, the left is
he finds it beyond bewildering because he is a Democrat.
It's not bewildering to me because it's it's stopped Trump
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at any cost. And he said, I think that Trump
is on very solid ground with the buyout, for example,
which they put an temporary restraining order on. I'm still
a bit baffled by what the court's doing here. If
the presidents are allowed to dictate conditions of employees coming
into office, what they're working on. All of that is
part of Article two powers in the president controlling the
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executive branch. If not even today, you know a certain
what the constitutional problem is. You have sixty five thousand
employees who are told we're going to let you will
let you stay at home and look for a job
as long as you agree to resign and give a
number of months notice that they're going to be paid for.
I mean another judge, you know, ordering the HHS, CDC,
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FDA to restore deleted web pages, and in this case,
the judge agreed to grant a temporary restraining order sought
by a group called Doctors for America, arguing that their
members used the websites when treating patients and conducting research.
That's not what this is for. The nonprofit said, the
removal of the web pages, you know, violates federal law,
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and the judge found that the challengers were likely to
succeed in their claims that these agencies acted unlawfully when
they stripped medical information from public facing websites. Well, what
if they don't agree, and what if it's not science.
We had a lot of websites that said take the jab.
I'm not sure most Americans are that happy that they
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ended up believing the lie that if they got the
COVID vaccine that they'd never get COVID or that they
would never infect other people. Anyway. Elon Musk is vowing
to root out the highest paid ds. We see bureaucrats.
He's finding people that are paid you know, X number
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of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but they
end up you know, multi multi, multi, multi millionaires. Now,
Donald Trump's FEMA has handled eighty percent was in worse
the Western Journal of the Cases of Western North Carolina
in five days, less than twenty days. Anyway, President Trump
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visited the community, as did you know, Christy Nome and
the Vice President Vans and so many others, and they
secured for the people in North Carolina fifty four million
for families in need. They registered, I mean Biden was
doing the opposite. He was taking kicking people out of
hotels and motels anyway, And they were registering families that
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needed assistance, that hadn't got the type of help that
they needed, and helped them sign up for the programs
that are available to them now rather than spending money
on woke renew deal, DEI programs, transgenderism, LGBTQ plus. This
is what this is what the government's supposed to do
help people Americans out in need. The president now speaking
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out he wants details provided about his two assassinations attempts.
I want to find out about the two assassins. Why
did one guy have a have six cell phones? And
why did the other guy have foreign apps?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I think?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
And why is the FBI taking so long to get
into it. A House Republican did announce by the way,
that he's drafting articles of impeachment against that federal judge
that's trying to block Elon Musk and DOGE from accessing
Treasury Department payment systems. You know, some of these people
have no business being on the bench. They just politically motivated.
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Speaking of DOGE, you know they were able to chop
one billion with a b off the Department of Education budget.
Nearly a billion dollars in contracts with the Federal Department
of Education have been terminated, including one for one point
five million dollars to observe mailing and clerical operations at
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a mail facility, and scores of contracts involving DEI eighty
nine contracts were more than eight hundred and eighty one
million have been ended by doche and it said it
also took the fiscal chainsaw to twenty nine diversity equity
inclusion programs costing around one hundred and one million dollars.
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I mean, this is insane. A DHS audit compelled in
January found that FEMA wasted ten billion dollars during the
Biden years. A FEMA audit identified approximately thirty two point
eight billion dollars in proper payments, but they didn't have
enough money to help the people in North Carolina. Unreal,
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you know. And if you look at these idiots over
at s d n C, h Elon Musk could literally
cause a global financial panic. We'll play it later. And
now the latest line by the elected Democrats is uh.
And it's kind of funny, actually, you know, f Donald Trump.
F Donald Trump? Like, does that make you feel better?
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Because you can say it as often as you want.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
And I'll tell you believe I'm from Jersey, so I
look a little differently.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
I say, I don't swear in public very well, but
we have to Trump. Please don't tell my children.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
That I just did that.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
She said Trump. I said, fuck. F oh okay, let
me hear you say it. How oh okay.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
We are going to beat I was gonna say, but no,
we're not.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
No, I'm not gonna say that Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
And it's this, it's stunning. This is what this party
is reduced to. Donald Trump signing an order instructing those
to massively cut the federal workforce. Well, I call that
a return to constitutional order, you know, but cutting Department
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of Education contracts saving a billion, you know, femous sickening,
disgusting history of misspending billions of taxpayer dollars. You know,
the most recent audit, you know, showed that they mismanaged
nearly ten billion dollars during the COVID pandemic, you know,
in the Biden years. Dad ly Wire points out that
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government is to fund a study on the fear of
deportation leading to systemic implemation. I mean, you've got to
be kidding me. You know, the study hypothesizes that engage
aging in political activism would reduce systemic inflammation in illegal immigrants.
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Oh that's good money after bad Why don't we just
get the sex change operations?
Speaker 5 (31:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
The President, by the way, has fired the FEMA employees
that ignored his executive order and decided to pay off
fifty nine million to New York City for more luxury
hotel stays for illegal immigrants. You know, Trump said FEMA
should be terminated. They really should be terminated. They left
the people of North Carolina high and dry. We have,
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you know, minor things that we're finding a budget of
eight hundred and fifty billion dollars. They're now digging into
the Pentagon long plague. Remember the the five hundred dollars
hammers or whatever it costs for a hammer. Anyway, with
an annual budget of eight hundred and fifty billion dollars,
the Pentagon has been plagued by waste, broad and abuse
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accusations and efficiency in defense programs. Of just starting with
eliminating DEI is going to save you know, tens of
not hundreds of millions of dollars. But they you know,
this has gone on for a long time, but they're
going to find billions, hundreds of millions in waste, fraud, abusing,
and corruption, and you know they're going to go through
it with a fine tooth comb. And the inclination of
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Musk and his team seems to be to cut, to
call federal employees but find the cost cutting advocates and
outsource work to contractors that you know will have the
opposite effect. They only get paid, you know, if they
do a good job. Now we have reports of you know,
thirteen hundred dollars coffee cups and this is this is insane,
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eight hundred eight thousand percent overpay for soap dispensers. I mean,
that's what you get when you have, you know, a
Department of Treasury that doesn't decline any any any spending
in the Biden and the Biden years. Trump fired the
USA Watchdog the day after the report criticized the gutting
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of the agency. Well, obviously that person has no business
working for Donald Trump, none at all, whatsoever. Homeland Securities
put their staff involved in disinformation and the Disinformation Board
on administrative leave, which I think is out of sync
with what President Trump wants. We have Marjorie Taylor Green
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as a DOGE panel to launch their first budget slashing
here hearing this week. She'll be on Hannday tonight, and
so much more happening anyway, eight hundred and nine one Sean,
if you want to be a part of the program,
it's like impossible just to keep up with the headlines,
never mind the depth and specificity that I'd love to
go into. But I mean, you really need to keep up.
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You need to move at the speed of light or
the speed of Trump.
All right, thank you Scott Channon, Thanks to all of
you for being with us. Right down our toll free
telephone number if you want to be a part of
the program at eight hundred nine to four one Sean
if you would like to join us. It was very
cool last night. I ended up doing two hours of
Hannity because of the release that took place of this teacher.
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I mean, it's really amazing what is happening around the world.
And Mark Fogel is his name. He was a history teacher,
even quoted Winston Churchill. When he made it to the
Oval Office with the President, met outside by the President,
and anyway, he was to serve a fourteen year sentence.
He served about three and a half years in jail,
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all during the Biden years. And you know, he profusely
was thanking President Trump and his team that would include
Secretary of State Rubio and guys like Steve Whitkoff who
actually flew to Russia to meet with Putin and pick
him up. And it just is great to see happen,
and it's great to see Americans come home. I had
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only known of seven American hostages worldwide that had been released.
The other six Rick Ronell was responsible in large part
for that negotiation with Venezuela. I didn't even know Venezuela
had American hostages. And now this morning, the White House
said that the President secured the release of at least
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three people jailed in Belarus, including an American that it
has not named, and a journalist in Belarus. Adam Boehler,
the White House Special Envoy. He's also deserves a lot
of the credit. The President deserves the most credit for
the hostage affair, telling reporters that the prisoners released in
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Belarus were not part of any exchange his knowledge. Vladimir
Putin was not a involved, although you have to believe
anything Belarus does is probably Putin related. They do have
an authoritarian leader and a close ally to Putin. But
one of the individuals is an American citizen who wants
to remain private. And Belarus also released Radio Free Europe
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Radio Liberty journalist guy with the name of Andre Kuzachik
and who's more than what three years in prison on
charges you know, criticized as politically motivated. I mean, when
you travel aboard abroad, you better be you better be careful. Anyway,
Mark Fogel last night, calling Trump a hero. These men
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came from the diplomatic services, are heroes. He thanked his
home Senator Dave McCormick for his active involvement in it
is senators representatives past legislation. The President was pretty funny
last night. You know, would you like to go see
the Lincoln bedroom. You know, not many people get to
see the Lincoln beat. I've actually seen the Lincoln bedrooment
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is and it is pretty cool. And Abraham Lincoln was
pretty tall, and it's a pretty long bed, and it's
pretty low to the ground. That's the best way to
describe it. They have the Gettysburg address actually in the room,
the the Gettysburg address. Anyway, it's fantastic news. I think
it has broader implications, and the broader implications simply are
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that that we now have Vladimir, We have Zelensky on
record as saying that he is open to a piece deal,
and we have now I think this is obviously the
only way to interpret this is to say that that
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Vladimir Putin is interested in Donald Trump and getting a
deal done, which I think is critical. You know, it
was funny because it didn't get any play here in
the US, but Vladimir Putin did put out a statement
not that long ago, in the last couple of weeks
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as it as it relates to President Trump, and you know,
and how supportive they were was which I found pretty fascinating.
And anyway, Putin said, I assure you that Donald Trump,
with his character, with his persistence, he will restore order
there quite quickly, speaking about Europe and all of uh
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and all of them will see meaning Europe, and it
will happen quickly, and soon they will all stand at
the feet of the Master, and they'll wag their tails
in a little everything will fall into place. And you
can see that is now beginning to happen.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It's been reported that President Trump got on the phone
with Vladimir Putin earlier today. They had a wide ranging
discussion and they covered everything from Ukraine, the Middle East, energy,
artificial intelligence, the power of the dollar, and other important topics.
And the President said, we both agreed we want to
stop the millions of deaths from taking place in the
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war with Russia and Ukraine. So now you've got both
sides expressing that they want a negotiated settlement. I can
tell you what the settlement is going to be and
when I interviewed Zelenski for TV, and we didn't get
to the second part of the interview. The second part
of the interview, I did ask him if he would
be paying back, being such a mineral rich country to
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the z plan on paying back the American people for
the two hundred billion dollars that they paid to fund
that war is. You know, Joe Biden kept escalating it
by being basically it evolved into a proxy war between
the US and Ukraine. You know, the problem is is
that the Russians have so bombed out such large areas
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and cities and of Ukraine. I mean, the process of
rebuilding is a decades long, probably longer lift for them,
and it's going to be really hard. Trump posted on
truth Social I just had a lengthy, highly productive phone
call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. We discussed Ukraine,
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the Middle East, energy, artificial intelligence, the power of the dollar,
various other subjects. We reflected on our great history, the
great history of our nations, and the fact that we
fought so successfully together in World War Two, remembering that
Russia lost tens of millions of people and we likewise
lost so many. We each talked about the strengths of
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our respective nations and the great benefit that we will
someday have in working together. But first, as we both agreed,
we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place
in this war with Russia and Ukraine, and President Putin
even used my very strong campaign motto of quote common sense.
We both believe very strongly in it. We agreed to
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work together very closely, including visiting each other's nations. We
have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately,
and we will begin by calling President Zelensky of Ukraine
to inform him of the conversation, something of which I
will be doing right now. I have asked the Secretary
of State Mark or Rubio, Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe,
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National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Ambassador and Special Envoy Steve
Whitkoff to lead the negotiations, which I feel strongly will
be successful. Millions of people have died in a war
that would not have happened if I were president, but
it did happen, and so it must end. No more
lives should be lost. I want to thank President Putin
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for his time and effort with respect to the call
and the release yesterday of Mark Vogel, a wonderful man
that I personally greeted last night at the White House.
I believe this effort will lead to a successful conclusion,
hopefully soon. Wow, what a difference. You know, he's only
been his fourth week in office, President Trump. That's it.
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He's only been there four weeks. And you know, when
you watch the media freak out over all things Donald Trump,
you would think that nothing great is happening. But you
know what, every day there's something new, even little things
I saw today that you know, the President could claw
back four point three billion dollars and unspent federal funds
for this ridiculous California High speed rail project, just as
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he froze a billion for the perpetually delayed and derailed
project during his first term as president, he stopped nearly
a billion dollars from going to California for the project
after the Governor, Gavin Newsom scaled back the original plan
for the bullet train to link San Francisco and Los Angeles.
I mean, this makes no sense. By the way, It's
now supposed to travel between small towns in rural Central
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in the Central Valley of California VERSU and Bakersfield, And
I bet they don't need a train. It's called an automobile.
Drive a car, and it's not like going to be
in La traffic or San Francisco traffic. Presno B reporting
that Elon's Department of Government Efficiency could have the ailing
project in its site. The first two point five billion
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in federal grants awarded by the Obama administration in two
thousand and nine, what the hell has taken so long
under the American Recovery Reinvestment Act has been fully spent,
matched by an equal amount of state money. Almost four
point three billion remains unspent, most of that awarded by
the Department of Transportation under Joe Biden. The unspent federal
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funds conceivably could be subject to cancelation by a hostile
Trump administration. This is in the Fresno b It's not hostile.
It's a boondoggle. It's a waste of taxpayer money, and
it's time to cut your losses considering you're not getting
the job done. This thing was supposed to be done,
you know, a decade ago. For crying out loud, how
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long does it take to build a rare way, and
how do you do it so incompetently anyway, So it's
interesting to watch Putin agreeing to work with Trump to
end the war in Ukraine, Zelensky agreeing to the same.
And now you see what the difference is when you
have a president that is actually engaged. And we do
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have some updates on Trump appointments. By the way, Tulsi
Gabbard has been confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence,
and it looks like cash Betel is not going to
be far behind. First. It'll be RFK Junior, either sometime
late tonight or tomorrow, and he definitely has the votes
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to do it. On the Tulsi Gabbard vote, it was
fifty two forty eight. The only Republican voting against Tulsi
was Mitch McConnell, who's just become you know, Mitt Romney
on steroids. And it really is pathetic. You know, you
would think what you would think. If there's one person
(11:05):
that would understand how hard the job as a Senate
majority leader would be, it would be Mitch McConnell. Having
had that position, he just needs to honestly, it's time.
It's time to go home, Mitch. He keeps falling down.
He's having these these mental you know, disturbances, if you
want to call them, in public constantly. Anyway, So Tulsea
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Gabbert is in. RFK Junior will be in. Susan Collins
announced that she will vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
She said, and that's a big boost for Kennedy's confirmation.
And anyway, earlier this year, Collins called some of his
past comments and statements alarming, but you know, a lot
of it was taken out of context, and you know,
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I thought he did a pretty good job in his
hearings and as belligerent as they were to him, and
they were belligerent, you know. And then the press reports
she's taking your pole vaccine. He's taking away your measles vaccine.
He's not doing any such thing at all. And it's
always been one big lie on their part. So that's
the latest.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
There.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
On the other front, where war is taking place, it
was interesting. We'll get into more specificity later. But the
Jordan King Abdullah, you know, said to the President that
his nation will take in thousands of six children from
the Gaza strip, as Trump predicted that Jordan and Egypt
would set aside a parcel of land for Palestinians to
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live ahead of the takeover of the enclave. And that's
been another media lie about what Donald Trump has planned
for Gaza. What did he say that he would do.
He said that he would go in there. He would
we would take the risk, and we'd get the bombs
and the weaponry and demilitarize the area. Then clean out
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all the rubble, because Gaza has been pretty much leveled,
and then begin the process of working with Arab nations
to rebuild Gaza into a place that somebody's going to
want to live. And hopefully, you know, we have a
strong enough presence militarily, or Israel does, or somebody does,
that this can no longer be a launching pad for
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the Palestinians or for their proxy Iran. All good for
the American people. We have Matt Towery and Robert Kahaley
saying Donald Trump up by nine points. Another new poll out.
In last year's election, twenty one percent of African American
men supported Donald Trump, a seventy year record high for
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a Republican presidential candidate. Washington Examiner has a poll out
today Democrats on the ropes with his surging support from
African Americans, prompting a poll to declare that quote, black
men love Trump, and it shows a shocking forty two
percent approval rating from africam can man a massive edge
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over any past Republican president. And I'll tell you there's
a good reason that you know, Americans, you know, regardless
of background, race, whatever, they're all supporting Donald Trump because
he's rooting out the waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption. And
that's going to free up money to make our cities
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and towns more safe and secure, in our schools better.
And it doesn't matter that you have these federal judges
blocking Trump's executive orders. You know, one turns out to
be a Democratic mega donor. I'll tell you about this.
On the other side. Eight hundred nine one, Shawn is
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Speaker 3 (16:00):
You did.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
The radio show. The mainstream media loves day. This is
the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Hey everybody, it's on the McLaughlin with the Sean Hannity Show,
and we are thrilled to be with Jael Exteine today.
She is the CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians
and Jews, and she knows exactly what is happening on
the ground in Israel, and that's why she's here with
us today for our Israel today. Minute.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Hi, I so great to see you again. It is
always wonderful to do you in that.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
You know, you were recently traveling through southern Israel and
we were just in stett Ohts, which over the years
has been one of the most embattled cities in Israel,
less than a mile from the Gods of border. Can
you tell us a bit about what you saw and
how are the people there surviving?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
But what I saw is a community that's trying to rebuild.
As you drive across southern ISRAELI see full communities that
were destroyed by that were destroyed on October seventh and
have yet to be able to be rebuilt because we
are still at war. When I was in Sterot and
at the Gaza border, there were still rockets being launched.
As I sat in a meeting with a survivor October seventh,
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there was a rocket that flew overhead and she looked
at me and she said, the traumatist comes back every
single time. And so the people of the South are
both strong and resilient, and they're also in need of
a lot of love and support, which the Fellowship is
giving them. It's not just about the soup kitchens that
the Fellowship has there, the food boxes that we're distributing.
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It's the message that we represent millions of Christians who
haven't forgotten Sterot, who haven't forgotten the Jewish people who
are living less than four hundred meters away from the
Gaza Strip, which is full of terrorists who want to
kill and wipe out Israel. It's that message of Christians
understand the Jewish people in Israeli going through and will
never turn their backs.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
And it's also knowing that the IFCJ will never leave
them alone. They're always there.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Thank you, yes, thank you, Thanks so much, Linda.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Thanks again everybody. This is Linda McLaughlin with the Sean
Hannity Show and Yael Xtein of the International Fellowships of
Christians and Jews. We'll see you next time for the
Israel Today Minute.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I know to see this poll on African American men
and support, you know, and this is where the insanity
of the left, and I'm all for it. If they
want to implode and blow themselves up, I'm all for
that too. But the idea that they want to double
down on tens and what will ultimately be hundreds and
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hundreds of billions of dollars in waste, fraud, abuse, corruption,
spending internationally on their radical agenda, and double down on
men and women's sports, and double down on protecting people
that are in this country illegally. Let them be that part.
The Republican Party can be the party of working men
and women and the party that looks out for hard
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working taxpayers. I think that's a pretty good agenda to run.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
On mode inspired solutions for America.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You know, it's so funny when judges try to stifle
the president's initiatives. He does have the option, and this
is where the left and the media is so hypocritical.
He does have the option of ignoring court orders. I mean,
Joe Biden did it with student loans. Joe Biden didn't
respect the law when it came to the border. If
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you want to go back in time, we can do
that in February of twenty twenty three, Democratic Senator Ron
Wyden advising the Biden administration to ignore a Texas judge
and a ruling on abortion. You know, there are moment
in history where Americans and their leaders must look at
circumstances like this one and say enough, a judge's ruling
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stands because elected leaders and citizens have agreed that abiding
by them is the right and necessary thing to do
to uphold the rule of law. That's a special social
contract in America. But the judiciary must uphold its end
of the social contract too. That means, let me interpret that.
That means to rule the way they want. They've got
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to follow the rule of law, earn the confidence of
the American people continually, every day, every month, every year.
The awful reality is that the moment this case it
landed in front of this particular judge, it's been a
rig game all along. It's illegitimate. The case is an
affront to the Constitution, the rule of law. So here's
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what must happen if and when a judge issues his
nationwide injunction halting access this happened to be access to
the abortion pill. President Biden and the FDA must ignore it. Oh,
I thought, that's a constitutional crisis. If you listen to
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you know, Democrats today AOC echoing Widen, you know, saying,
I think we've been preparing and anticipating for there being
some egregious overreaches by members of the judiciary appointed by
right wing Republican Party members whose goal a very long
time was to just pack these courts with partisan judges,
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often underqualified, completely unqualified for their role. And so there
has been thought, I believe, given to this. Senator Widen
has already issued statements, for example, advising that we should
do in situations like this, which I concur which is,
I believe that the Biden administration should ignore the court ruling. Now,
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if Donald Trump does this direct to the democracy, our
constitutional order, none of which is true, a federal judge responsible. Again,
what are Democrats doing? What they can't win at the
ballot box in the arena of ideas, what they cannot
do legislatively because they don't have the votes, They are
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trying to use the courts to block a duly elected
president from fulfilling the promises that he made to the
American people. So know what they're up to here, And
this is a long strategy, longtime strategy of Democrats. Anyway,
they have this judge, John McConnell, according to Trending Politics,
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has a history of contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars
to Democratic campaigns and political action committees. He served as
a US district judge in Rhode Island in twenty eleven,
previously a personal injury attorney What a Shock, and records
from the FEC indicate that before taking the bench he
made significant donations to Democratocratic politicians, including Barack Obama, Joe Biden,
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Hillary Clinton, and that also extended to Democratic packs various
Senate and House campaigns. Public filing show these donations amount
to several hundred thousand dollars, making one of the more
politically active federal judges in terms of campaign contributions. And
he's been a consistent donor to the Democratic candidates and
committees over multiple election cycles. And his contributions primarily support
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Democrats and Democratic congressional campaigns and national committees and political
action committees. Anyway, in the Senate, this guy has, you know,
backed Rhode Island Democrat Jack Reid, and I can go
on and on and on here, and you know, while
judicial ethics rules prohibit federal judges from making political donations
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once confirmed to the bench. His pass financial ties raise
obvious concerns about his impartiality. It's look, even Jonathan Tartie
said this the other day. He said, the left is
he finds it beyond bewildering because he is a Democrat.
It's not bewildering to me because it's it's stopped Trump
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at any cost. And he said, I think that Trump
is on very solid ground with the buyout, for example,
which they put an temporary restraining order on. I'm still
a bit baffled by what the court's doing here. If
the presidents are allowed to dictate conditions of employees coming
into office, what they're working on. All of that is
part of Article two powers in the president controlling the
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executive branch. If not even today, you know a certain
what the constitutional problem is. You have sixty five thousand
employees who are told we're going to let you will
let you stay at home and look for a job
as long as you agree to resign and give a
number of months notice that they're going to be paid for.
I mean another judge, you know, ordering the HHS, CDC,
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FDA to restore deleted web pages, and in this case,
the judge agreed to grant a temporary restraining order sought
by a group called Doctors for America, arguing that their
members used the websites when treating patients and conducting research.
That's not what this is for. The nonprofit said, the
removal of the web pages, you know, violates federal law,
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and the judge found that the challengers were likely to
succeed in their claims that these agencies acted unlawfully when
they stripped medical information from public facing websites. Well, what
if they don't agree, and what if it's not science.
We had a lot of websites that said take the jab.
I'm not sure most Americans are that happy that they
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ended up believing the lie that if they got the
COVID vaccine that they'd never get COVID or that they
would never infect other people. Anyway. Elon Musk is vowing
to root out the highest paid ds. We see bureaucrats.
He's finding people that are paid you know, X number
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of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but they
end up you know, multi multi, multi, multi millionaires. Now,
Donald Trump's FEMA has handled eighty percent was in worse
the Western Journal of the Cases of Western North Carolina
in five days, less than twenty days. Anyway, President Trump
(26:26):
visited the community, as did you know, Christy Nome and
the Vice President Vans and so many others, and they
secured for the people in North Carolina fifty four million
for families in need. They registered, I mean Biden was
doing the opposite. He was taking kicking people out of
hotels and motels anyway, And they were registering families that
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needed assistance, that hadn't got the type of help that
they needed, and helped them sign up for the programs
that are available to them now rather than spending money
on woke renew deal, DEI programs, transgenderism, LGBTQ plus. This
is what this is what the government's supposed to do
help people Americans out in need. The president now speaking
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out he wants details provided about his two assassinations attempts.
I want to find out about the two assassins. Why
did one guy have a have six cell phones? And
why did the other guy have foreign apps?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I think?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
And why is the FBI taking so long to get
into it. A House Republican did announce by the way,
that he's drafting articles of impeachment against that federal judge
that's trying to block Elon Musk and DOGE from accessing
Treasury Department payment systems. You know, some of these people
have no business being on the bench. They just politically motivated.
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Speaking of DOGE, you know they were able to chop
one billion with a b off the Department of Education budget.
Nearly a billion dollars in contracts with the Federal Department
of Education have been terminated, including one for one point
five million dollars to observe mailing and clerical operations at
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a mail facility, and scores of contracts involving DEI eighty
nine contracts were more than eight hundred and eighty one
million have been ended by doche and it said it
also took the fiscal chainsaw to twenty nine diversity equity
inclusion programs costing around one hundred and one million dollars.
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I mean, this is insane. A DHS audit compelled in
January found that FEMA wasted ten billion dollars during the
Biden years. A FEMA audit identified approximately thirty two point
eight billion dollars in proper payments, but they didn't have
enough money to help the people in North Carolina. Unreal,
(28:57):
you know. And if you look at these idiots over
at s d n C, h Elon Musk could literally
cause a global financial panic. We'll play it later. And
now the latest line by the elected Democrats is uh.
And it's kind of funny, actually, you know, f Donald Trump.
F Donald Trump? Like, does that make you feel better?
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Because you can say it as often as you want.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
And I'll tell you believe I'm from Jersey, so I
look a little differently.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
I say, I don't swear in public very well, but
we have to Trump. Please don't tell my children.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
That I just did that.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
She said Trump. I said, fuck. F oh okay, let
me hear you say it. How oh okay.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
We are going to beat I was gonna say, but no,
we're not.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
No, I'm not gonna say that Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
And it's this, it's stunning. This is what this party
is reduced to. Donald Trump signing an order instructing those
to massively cut the federal workforce. Well, I call that
a return to constitutional order, you know, but cutting Department
(30:25):
of Education contracts saving a billion, you know, femous sickening,
disgusting history of misspending billions of taxpayer dollars. You know,
the most recent audit, you know, showed that they mismanaged
nearly ten billion dollars during the COVID pandemic, you know,
in the Biden years. Dad ly Wire points out that
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government is to fund a study on the fear of
deportation leading to systemic implemation. I mean, you've got to
be kidding me. You know, the study hypothesizes that engage
aging in political activism would reduce systemic inflammation in illegal immigrants.
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Oh that's good money after bad Why don't we just
get the sex change operations?
Speaker 5 (31:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
The President, by the way, has fired the FEMA employees
that ignored his executive order and decided to pay off
fifty nine million to New York City for more luxury
hotel stays for illegal immigrants. You know, Trump said FEMA
should be terminated. They really should be terminated. They left
the people of North Carolina high and dry. We have,
(31:37):
you know, minor things that we're finding a budget of
eight hundred and fifty billion dollars. They're now digging into
the Pentagon long plague. Remember the the five hundred dollars
hammers or whatever it costs for a hammer. Anyway, with
an annual budget of eight hundred and fifty billion dollars,
the Pentagon has been plagued by waste, broad and abuse
(31:58):
accusations and efficiency in defense programs. Of just starting with
eliminating DEI is going to save you know, tens of
not hundreds of millions of dollars. But they you know,
this has gone on for a long time, but they're
going to find billions, hundreds of millions in waste, fraud, abusing,
and corruption, and you know they're going to go through
it with a fine tooth comb. And the inclination of
(32:20):
Musk and his team seems to be to cut, to
call federal employees but find the cost cutting advocates and
outsource work to contractors that you know will have the
opposite effect. They only get paid, you know, if they
do a good job. Now we have reports of you know,
thirteen hundred dollars coffee cups and this is this is insane,
(32:43):
eight hundred eight thousand percent overpay for soap dispensers. I mean,
that's what you get when you have, you know, a
Department of Treasury that doesn't decline any any any spending
in the Biden and the Biden years. Trump fired the
USA Watchdog the day after the report criticized the gutting
(33:07):
of the agency. Well, obviously that person has no business
working for Donald Trump, none at all, whatsoever. Homeland Securities
put their staff involved in disinformation and the Disinformation Board
on administrative leave, which I think is out of sync
with what President Trump wants. We have Marjorie Taylor Green
(33:29):
as a DOGE panel to launch their first budget slashing
here hearing this week. She'll be on Hannday tonight, and
so much more happening anyway, eight hundred and nine one Sean,
if you want to be a part of the program,
it's like impossible just to keep up with the headlines,
never mind the depth and specificity that I'd love to
go into. But I mean, you really need to keep up.
(33:51):
You need to move at the speed of light or
the speed of Trump.
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