December 9, 2025 • 30 mins
Join Sean this hour as he tackles the challenges facing American farmers and the impact of recent economic policies. He welcomes Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, who highlights the devastating increases in agricultural input costs under the Biden administration, and discusses the urgent need for fair trade practices to support farmers. Hear about the optimism among rural communities as they recover from economic hardships and the vital steps being taken to ensure a prosperous future. Don't miss this insightful discussion on agriculture's role in America's economy and the importance of supporting those who feed our nation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I tell you scotch on an hour two Sean Hennity's show,
told free our numbers eight hundred and ninety four one
Seawan if you want to be a part of the program. Look,
one of the difficulties when you take over and you
inherit an economic disaster, and you inherit a border disaster
and a foreign policy disasters, you got to repair the
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damage that has been done. One of the worst things
that America has allowed itself to be put in a
position of and that is you know that we have
been used and abused and taken advantage of by countries
all around the world in terms of unfair trade practices.
And yeah, the President's been right the whole time. They've
been ripping us off everyone from Canada to Mexico to
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our Western European allies, never mind our adversaries. And the
President rightfully had to get involved and say we're not
going to get ripped off anymore. That does, that does
cause a short term amount of pain. Now, the President's
brought in hundreds of billions a day in TOWERFF money,
and I'm grateful for that. And the President is now
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looking at those areas of our economy that have been
unfairly impacted as he has tried to regain balance and
frankly a stronger position against other countries that have been
taking advantage of us. And one of the groups that's
been impacted the most are American farmers. The Secretary of Agriculture,
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Brooke Rollins, is with us to discuss it and update
us on all of it. Brook, great to have you back.
How are you, oh Sean?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
What a joy to be on And I tell you
just hearing you talk about our farmers. They are the
best among us, aren't they. They're like the an Americans
American and so it was really special to have him
in the oval with the President the Cabinet room yesterday
and how special now to be on with you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
To talk about it.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, I appreciate it. Explain the position that the President
was in. Explain why there is sometimes when you try
to restore balance and when we're taking advantage of and
the President has to get strong with other countries. You know,
the transition over to a better economy or the transition
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over to freer and fairer trade can be a little
painful and it might disproportionately impact some areas. And I
would argue one of the areas would be, you know,
the farmers in particular.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, that's right, and listen, we talked about this a
little bit yesterday, and the president's announcement yesterday was a
bridge program to get our farmers and our ranchers from
you know, what was an inherited economic crisis. Listen, this
is pretty amazing, Sean. I don't know how closely you've
tracked this, but just talking about the agriculture economy under
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Joe Biden, the cost of inputs went up on average
between thirty and forty percent. Fertilizer thirty six percent, labor
forty seven percent. This is just an four years of Biden.
Interest rate seventy three percent, equipment thirty three percent. Now,
when you have our farmers, who sort of live on
the edge of profitability anyway for a lot of reasons,
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when you've got that massive amount of increase in what
it costs to do business, you can't you can't sustain
your farm. It just isn't possible. Then you marry that
to the fact that under Joe Biden, not one new
trade deal in four years. So I was with the
President the first term, as you know, I was in
the West Wing running his domestic policy team. When we
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left in twenty twenty, there was a seventeen or eighteen
billion dollar agriculture trade surplus, meaning that we send out
more of our ag goods into the world than we
brought in. And that's great for our farmers. But do
you know when we came back four years later, we
now are looking at a fifty billion dollar agricultural trade deficit.
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So that is a massive swing. And you combine that
again with the cost of inputs, and our farmers have
been they're probably as much, if not more, of a
precarious position than they've been in our lifetimes. And that
is what we have to fix. This president, if we
can't feed ourselves, we will lose our freedom. He understands
that better than anyone else. Yesterday was just one of
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many steps that we're taking to get back to an
era of prosperity for our farmers. But a really really
important staff.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, from your perspective, and I know you don't have
a lot of time because obviously being a cabinet secretary
you're rather busy. We do appreciate the time you're taking
with us. For example, in the textile area in particular,
our friends in New York and they have been telling
me their industry has been impacted greatly in terms of
the raw materials to manufacture clothing, et cetera. And my
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understanding is the President is working on that too. I
talked to Scott Besson about it as well.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's exactly right. It is, Sean, I will tell you,
and I know again, I'm so grateful to you for
being such an incredible mouthpiece or narrative. You know, you're
so good at being able to explain to all of
our Americans out there what we're doing. And it's so
hard when you have the fake news kind of around
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every corner trying to tear you down and basically undermine
what we're doing. But you get it better than anyone,
and you see what's happening. For me to see firsthand
as Secretary of Agriculture the dozens and dozens of new
trade deals that have been struck. Right, you talk about
opening up the markets and it's not just important to
get you know, our rice, for example, into Japan, or
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our beef into Australia. These are really important things, but
perhaps just as important is it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
By the way, Australia not important on beef how many decades.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well, and now we got it right. I mean, he
is the chief filmmaker. But what I'll say is this,
perhaps just as important is the national security aspect of
this that no more are we so reliant on one country,
for example, China, that may not have our best interests
in mind, but is the biggest majority buyer of our soybeans.
So it is there so many layers of nuance, but
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all so important to putting America first. And then yesterday,
let me just give you a great example of President
Trump and how he works. So we finished the meeting
in the cabinet room with the farmers talking about all
of these issues. It was wonderful. These are the President's people.
They've been with him from the moment he went down
that escalator. Took the rest of the country perhaps a
minute to catch up, but our farmers and ranchers and
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rural communities were with us, and so you know, and
he doesn't forget that ever. But we finished the meeting.
It's wonderful. He, of course, even though he doesn't have time,
he's the president of the United States, invites all the
farmers into the Oval Office, signs all of their name cards,
gives them all pens, takes pictures with everybody. He's just
so wonderful. But at the end he asked the farmer
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named Brian from South Texas who farms soybeans, corn wheat, cotton,
actually corn wheat cotton swibans, and he said, now tell
me what your biggest issue is. And Brian said, listen, sir,
I've got a lot of them, but probably the biggest
one right now is this battle with Mexico over the
water under the nineteen forty four water treaty, and just
knowing what kind of water I'm going to have, I
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can't even figure out what I'm going to plant next
year in South Texas. Sean, within one hour, the President
had drafted a truth social had me kind of run
down all the details, gets it posted today. I have
been on the call with lots of counterparts in Mexico,
lots of my counterparts across the cabinet, and we're about
to solve this for our South Texas farmers. And again,
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without the President leaning in in such an aggressive way,
none of this would be happening. That's why he's such
a difference maker.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, what about the other industries that might be impacted.
What industries off the top of your head, I mentioned
the textile industry. What industries do you think maybe need
a little more attention early on until everything that the
President has done in terms of the trillions of dollars
committed in manufacturing investment. And you're right, we were relying
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on other countries for semiconductors, rare earths. We stopped producing
automobiles or a lot of them in this country. Uh,
manufacturing is now coming back, Pharmaceutical manufacturings coming back. Couple
that with the largest tax cut in history, with the
most aggressive energy dominant policies in history. You know, I
think we have laid the foundation for great economic growth
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down the line. But there might be you know, some
industries lagging behind. Any that you see that you're focused
on in particular.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Well, so it's such a great question. And again the
way you talk about it is correct. I mean, this
is the reason for the bridge payment yesterday. We can't
get all of this sticks we inherited. I mean, the
more ten months into this Sewan, every day I uncover
a new just devastating consequence of the policies of the
last administration. To think that we are having to basic
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unwind and completely pivot from what frankly, from my perspective,
the country was hanging over a cliff. If the President
had not won November, I don't know that we would
have ever come back, because just unwinding what the farm
economy and for agriculture has been like these last ten
months has just been incredible. You know, the focus on DEI,
the focus on climate change, the focus on the Green
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New Deal, all of that had to be undone. To
your point, when we take tax cuts, when we take
bringing down the cost of the inputs, when we take
all the new trade deals that are coming online, when
we take the one big beautiful bill that was the
largest investment in rural America in history, all of these
things combined are going to move I believe our farmers
and ranchers to an era of prosperity they haven't seen
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in their lifetime, perhaps their dad's lifetime and their granddad
and grandma's lifetime. But it's all going to come together,
and it's really important until then. To your point, things
like textiles, things like cotton. Cotton's really struggling right now.
Rice our California rice guys are doing fine, but the
rice and the rest of the country is really struggling
because of some dumping from India and other places, shrimp,
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et cetera. It's just it isn't just realigning the tariffs
themselves that's really important, but these non tariff trade barriers,
the way that so many of these countries have taken
advantage of our country in America in dumping their products.
It really is about on shoring, reshoring, being able to
feed ourselves, just the way he talks about manufacturing in
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most of our agriculture community as well. So you know,
there's I could I could list for you for days,
Apples are at fifty percent in America that what they
need to be at. Shrimp way down, Rice is struggling.
We've had more farm bankruptcies in the last few years
than we've seen perhaps in our lifetime. I mean, all
of this has come to a head. But again, I
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think yesterday was such a great pivot. And the interesting
thing is, and I know I'm probably talking a little
too much, but I do want to say this that
when you look at a lot of the poles and
when rural America and agriculture on, how are they how
they're feeling even though they're facing the toughest economic times.
They're seeing some of their you know, neighbors close shops, selling,
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selling for houses or whatever. Even though you're seeing that,
the actual morale and the sort of optimism when you
when these rural America farmers are looking at the future,
they actually it's very high. They feel very optimistic. They
believe in President Trump's vision. They know we're working around
the clock for them, and and that's really encouraging too.
And that was a big part of the messages from
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our farmers that the President got to hear yesterday, just
a big thank you for putting it all on the
line for them.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well, we appreciate all that you're doing, and I want
I want everybody in the country to be successful. I mean,
you know, when your business is hurting and people are suffering,
they put everything on the line. We are you know,
we should be that shining city on the hill and
the land of hope and opportunity and prosperity. And I
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see that all coming back, and I'd love that, you know,
new golden age in America once again, and I believe
it's coming anyway. Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, we appreciate
your time as always, Thank you, oh Sie.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
On your show with you, so it's an honor to
be on. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
All right, let's hit our busy phones. Matt is in Utah, Matt, Hi,
how are you glad you called? Sar?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Good?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Good, Thank you Sean, and thank you for your perspective
on America.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
So I just want to say about the narco terrorists
and the illegal immigration that I think Americans that don't
know about those things they need to go on ride along.
As I'm a thirty five year veteran, I was a
chief of police for the last fourteen years, and I
noticed that citizens that went riding with the police and
responded to runs and saw the murders and the homicides,
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the rapes, the robberies, the shootings occurring because of drugs
in America, they start thinking very differently about what's going on.
Most people are not impacted by violent crime in America.
There's twenty one thousand murders a year at its height,
at it when it went up over thirty percent twenty
nineteen to twenty twenty. And you know, now I hear
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from these the liberal left that, oh my gosh, homicides
are down fifteen percent. That's like buying something that's got
a thirty percent hike in price, and then they give
you a fifteen percent discap, you're still losing fifteen percent.
I'm just I'm really sick and tired of hearing about
You know, you just had somebody on there not supporting
ICE in their job to get rid of illegals in America.
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Nobody's against immigration, legal immigration. We're all most of us
are legal immigrations, except for those that have ties to
families that fought in the Revolutionary War, were settlers. But
my point is, nobody's against legal immigration. And when I
hear them say that, well, illegal immigrants only commit a
small percentage of the crimes occurring in America, but they
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didn't have a right to be here to begin with. Yes,
citizens here commit murders. We know there's twenty one thousand
murders a year in America, and it's most of them
committed by citizens. But all the murders rates, robberies, and
and no offense. For two hundred and fifty million dollars
that was embezzled by the federal or from the federal
government in Minneapolis by the by the illegals, living there
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and for them to come out and say they don't
support getting rid of them. You know, we've got what
a thirty trillion dollar national debt. I don't even know
what it's up to anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But let me let me tell you something. Only because
of the constraints of time, faving American lives and ending
this epidemic of drug use and abuse and death has
to happen. It's that simple. And you know, if again
the Democrats find themselves on the wrong side. Americans don't
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want these drugs in the country. Those that are bringing
them in are enemies of our country. Not that complicated.
Appreciate the call, quick break, right back, more of your call, straight.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Ahead, draining the swamp, one corrupt politician at a time.
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Speaker 1 (15:16):
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creative way. I just I like the new version of it.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
I like the music you're talking about. But I have
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Do you like the music I'm talking about? Okay, I do.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
But here's the problem.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
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Speaker 7 (16:18):
You know, God gave you two ears in one problem.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Hello, you said there's a problem. I take issue with.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
That problem is that our lives most of the year
are incredibly intense. There's no time for anything. There's no
time for time. Christmas is the one time we actually
take off and you play this music, which is beautiful music.
You know, I'm a musician.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I love it.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
I love the the orchestra, I love the way that
it has been but the butt, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
But it's a little.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Intense, and we're intense all year long. I like a
little pirl lives. I like a little you know, jingle
bell rock. I like a little you know, White Christmas.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You like a little pros.
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It's one of the best movies Christmas.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Like religious music for Christmas because I want to be
reminded of God. And you know, I understand the Santa
Claus part. I understand the Frosty How could you forget? Okay,
are we done?
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Now? Yeah?
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By the way, do you hear this is Jacob fry
the I guess he's the mayor of Minneapolis. He says
he will not allow police to cooperate with ICE. Well,
(18:44):
that sounds to me and I'll play it for you
like he's encouraging people to break the law. Listen.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
The message that we are sending to our Somali community,
to our Latino community, to any community that is being targeted,
is that we stand with you. Minneapolis is not back
and down. Our police officers will not coordinate with any
federal agency that is doing immigration law enforcement work. We
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stand with the communities, community members that make Minneapolis the
extraordinary place that it is, and we aren't backing down it.
We're rock solid in support of them.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Okay, well, you know this is now the Democratic Party.
People are saying, anity, you're worried about the midterms. I
worry about every election to be very blunt, and every
vote is going to matter, and there's a certain urgency
going into the midterms. I don't want the progress that
Donald Trump has had this last year to stop. And
I'm very confident that the economy is going to turn dramatically,
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that everybody's going to be impacted in a positive way
once we the policies of the president get infused into
the economic bloodstream. But you know, time will prove me
right or wrong. And I believe that will be proven right.
History has proven it over and over again, and I
believe in that. And then people can decide, do you
want to return to the failed policies of the past.
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Do you want to embrace the party of open borders
and defund and dismantle the party of cradle to grave,
womb to the tomb, the party that voted against the
largest tax cuts in history, the party that lives on
a toxic brew of NonStop, never ending Trump hatred. What
do you want to keep progressing as a country so
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that we're an opportunity society based on liberty and freedom,
and these people have gone nuts. By the way. You
know the comedian Jeff I had him on the program
last night. He's really funny. I like him a lot.
He's leaving California blaming the leadership of Gavin Newsom, the
United Socialist Utopia of California.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
Listen, I'm kind of in this kind of la thing
and this I could be guilty of being a victim
of like what I'm absorbing in my algorithm, Like Gavin
Newsom scares the academy and I'm I don't want to
be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, he wants to run the whole country too. It's
pretty pretty wild and the fires.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Were quite a wake up call for even if you
know whatever you believe about the fires, the way it
was dealt with was pretty scary.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
It was not competent, that's for sure. Even after man
uh huh, let's go to California, United Socialists Utopia of
Gavin Newsom. Arlene, you're on the Sean Hennity Show. We're
in California, are.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Sen Hi Sun, It's great to talk with you. Finally,
I wanted to let you know as you're bagging on
all of us out here in California, forty percent of
us did vote for Trump. And we have an incredible
assembly member, Karl Demaiah for He's from District seventy five.
He is fighting left and right to help the conservative
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movement out here. You really need to have him on
your show. He's incredible, But I can't move. My grandkids
are here, my children here, And I think people have
short term memory of what Newsom has wanted to do.
We all know what he did during COVID, but what
he also wanted to do that he was pushing by
twenty thirty. He wanted us everybody to have all gas appliances,
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including restaurants, you know, so no more hot water heaters,
gas stoves, gas dryers. And he wanted everybody to own
electric vehicles. And what the other thing people forget is
he wanted to give illegal immigrants up to one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars in interest free loans for them
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to purchase homes. And he ended up not signing it
because I think he knew he would it would kill
his bid to become president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Look, I actually welcome if he's now the front runner
for the Democrats. I welcome this debate. I want to
remind everybody of the failure under his leadership. And uh,
Gavin's got one big problem. He's not really factored. And
he can go as hard radical left as he wants.
But I'm telling you right now, Uh, it is not
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going to fly in a lot of the country because
he's been so extreme radical left. Mam Donnie would not
get elected nationwide. And Gavin Newsom, I think we'll have
a very hard time. Republicans just need to stay smart,
stay the course, appreciate the call. Eight hundred and nine one,
shawns our number. I packed her busy phones Dino, he's
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in Queens. He's in New York where Linda talks like
she's from New York even though she lives in She
grew up in Philly, in the suburbs of Philly, in
the in the projects, as she calls him. Is that true, Linda,
by the.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Way, not anymore?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Boro, Well you did.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
I'm from Philly, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
And where did you grow up in public housing? I did?
Speaker 7 (23:53):
No, I didn't grow up in public housing. I lived
or across the street from public housing.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Okay, I got thank god, I apologie guys. Dina, Dina,
what's going on? How you doing?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Sean?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
You are a great American.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
I really love you.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
No, I'm heterosexual, but I love you, man.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
I love you in the world.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I didn't take it the wrong way. Don't worry. I
appreciate it. I can't do the show without you, to
be honest.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
You're a pillar to the flag.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yes, sir, well you know, let me tell you something.
We're all we are all spokes in a wheel to
save our country, save you know, for our future generations,
to do our part. And we're all in this together.
And and that's why I want to fight so hard.
It's worth fighting for.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I don't get nervous, but I'm a little nervous talking
to you. And I've been listening to you. If I
tell you over thirty years, do you believe me? Over
thirty years I've been listening to you.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I do believe you, and I'm very grateful for that.
But why would you be nervous because you're talking to
a friend.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Because I'm speaking to the guru of radios man, And
you know, I.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Just I don't see myself now. If you were talking
to Levin, you might I could understand. Maybe being a
little nervous because it can be a little impatient. And
I found you big dope. I mean he does do
that occasionally.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yes, he had me laughing. Yes, I want to just
tell you everything. I never voted for presidency in my life.
When I heard Trump was running, I vote it all
three times. My father is a United States Army veteran. Okay,
I lost him in eighty one. Anyway, I've been living
in this home. I've been living in his home since
birth in Elmhurst, Queens, New York. I've been living in
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the home, yeah, since birth. And yes, I do agree
with all what Trump is doing with a narco terrorist.
To me, it's a no brainer to blow them out
of the water. Everything he has done hands down. But
I hope Trump is listening to me today. I just
lost my mom at ninety six.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
We were paying I'm sorry about losing both your parents.
I am, I've been there.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
So to me, the war on the home front is
important too. I'm so hurt with the tax that lost
my mom. She was paying four thousand. My tax is
now twelve. I don't know if I can make it sure,
And I sure hope that this penetrates somewhere, because I
understand he's doing a lot of the country, But what
about what about the the US American homeowner citizens that
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then living one lifetime in their homes. I don't know
if I can pay this. So I lost her from
four thousand, they uped it to twelve. I don't have it.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
What I mean, they up the property property taxes by
eight grand. Yeah, because you took ownership of the property.
It went from her name to your name. Yes, oh boy,
I mean this is what's pathetic about how government works.
You live there your whole life, which is amazing in
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and of itself. To be honest, I don't know many
people that never move in their lives. That's pretty pretty amazing.
But I don't know what to tell you. I want
to give you good advice, and the only thing I
can tell you is the following is Right now, because
of Momdani, home prices you know in the suburbs have
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gone up a whopping twenty five percent. And maybe this
is not an option for you, but maybe you should
consider it. Maybe, you know, you you could sell your
place at a nice profit and get another place. And
may I suggest something else? I don't know. I know
your family's probably up in New York. But you can
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get a ticket on Jet Blue fairly inexpensively, and they
have flights all out of Florida back and forth all day.
It's like a shuttle. And so what I might suggest
to you is maybe get to a little warmer weather.
It's about seventy Look at the exact temperature. I'm sure
you're very interested in this because it's freezing. I could
not wait to get the hell out of there yesterday
and get back to my free state of Florida. And
(27:57):
it's great to be home right now. It's it's six
steps seventy two degrees where I am. I'm sorry, what's
the temperature where you are?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Oh, it's cold, but I do like the cold showing.
And honestly, I'm going to be strayed with you. My
dad died in this alley, his car, random obile, and
I feel like this is where I'm gonna lie next.
So I don't want to leave. But I'm sure as
hell hurt that I have to pay these numbers because
I don't have it and I don't want to lose
my home. And this is something I wanted to bring.
(28:26):
And I agree with everything Trump is doing for the world.
Oh yes, I do. But this is a major major
factor for me. And I got two young kids. I
got a four and a five. That's another story. One
day I'll might you over for dinner. But and I
wish you the best of luck. You are a charm
and you I wish you both the best of luck.
I was so happy to hear that for you.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Well, I appreciate everything. Thank you for sticking with me
all this time. I'm humbled, I'm grateful. And if we
can help you with ideas, I know a lot of
people in the real estate business in New York that
might be able to help you and would probably do
it at a very reduced rate as a favor to me.
All Right, you can just get in touch with Linda
(29:08):
or anybody on my staff.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Okay, I thank you for everything showing you're a great American.
Like I said in the beginning, I thank you, and
I'm just every day I wake up and I worry.
I just worry as a homeowner that's been here forever,
and I just know, I.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Listen, I get it. And you know they have no
consideration at all at the impact on people like yourself
on a fixed income and then somebody that is, you know,
like your mom passes away and the only thing that
changed is a piece of paper, and now the pricing
you out of your own home. I don't want to
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like rub it in, but in the Free State of Florida,
the one thing that has gotten a little out of
control are property taxes because so many people moved here
and with the constant turnover the you know, if you
domicile on homestead in Florida, you lock in your property taxes.
And I think the most it can go up in years,
it's either two or three percent. And Governor DeSantis is
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going to put a ballot initiative in twenty twenty six
where people can vote to you know, maybe even eliminate
property taxes altogether and put a tourist tax in this place.
I mean, I've visited other countries I pay a tourist tax.
Why don't they charge it here in Florida. You want
to come down in the wintertime, Okay, you can pay
a little bit of the tax and take that burden
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off the people of Florida. But I wish, I wish
I could give you a better solution. I'll think about it.
Stay in touch with my team. Eight hundred ninety four one,
Shawn our number if you want to be a part
of the program. All right, quick break when we come back.
Does the President have the legal authority to take on
narco terrorists. We'll check in with our legal team as
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we continue your more of your calls coming up as well.
Eight hundred ninety four one. Shawn is on number.
I tell you scotch on an hour two Sean Hennity's show,
told free our numbers eight hundred and ninety four one
Seawan if you want to be a part of the program. Look,
one of the difficulties when you take over and you
inherit an economic disaster, and you inherit a border disaster
and a foreign policy disasters, you got to repair the
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damage that has been done. One of the worst things
that America has allowed itself to be put in a
position of and that is you know that we have
been used and abused and taken advantage of by countries
all around the world in terms of unfair trade practices.
And yeah, the President's been right the whole time. They've
been ripping us off everyone from Canada to Mexico to
(00:42):
our Western European allies, never mind our adversaries. And the
President rightfully had to get involved and say we're not
going to get ripped off anymore. That does, that does
cause a short term amount of pain. Now, the President's
brought in hundreds of billions a day in TOWERFF money,
and I'm grateful for that. And the President is now
(01:06):
looking at those areas of our economy that have been
unfairly impacted as he has tried to regain balance and
frankly a stronger position against other countries that have been
taking advantage of us. And one of the groups that's
been impacted the most are American farmers. The Secretary of Agriculture,
(01:30):
Brooke Rollins, is with us to discuss it and update
us on all of it. Brook, great to have you back.
How are you, oh Sean?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
What a joy to be on And I tell you
just hearing you talk about our farmers. They are the
best among us, aren't they. They're like the an Americans
American and so it was really special to have him
in the oval with the President the Cabinet room yesterday
and how special now to be on with you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
To talk about it.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, I appreciate it. Explain the position that the President
was in. Explain why there is sometimes when you try
to restore balance and when we're taking advantage of and
the President has to get strong with other countries. You know,
the transition over to a better economy or the transition
(02:16):
over to freer and fairer trade can be a little
painful and it might disproportionately impact some areas. And I
would argue one of the areas would be, you know,
the farmers in particular.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, that's right, and listen, we talked about this a
little bit yesterday, and the president's announcement yesterday was a
bridge program to get our farmers and our ranchers from
you know, what was an inherited economic crisis. Listen, this
is pretty amazing, Sean. I don't know how closely you've
tracked this, but just talking about the agriculture economy under
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Joe Biden, the cost of inputs went up on average
between thirty and forty percent. Fertilizer thirty six percent, labor
forty seven percent. This is just an four years of Biden.
Interest rate seventy three percent, equipment thirty three percent. Now,
when you have our farmers, who sort of live on
the edge of profitability anyway for a lot of reasons,
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when you've got that massive amount of increase in what
it costs to do business, you can't you can't sustain
your farm. It just isn't possible. Then you marry that
to the fact that under Joe Biden, not one new
trade deal in four years. So I was with the
President the first term, as you know, I was in
the West Wing running his domestic policy team. When we
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left in twenty twenty, there was a seventeen or eighteen
billion dollar agriculture trade surplus, meaning that we send out
more of our ag goods into the world than we
brought in. And that's great for our farmers. But do
you know when we came back four years later, we
now are looking at a fifty billion dollar agricultural trade deficit.
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So that is a massive swing. And you combine that
again with the cost of inputs, and our farmers have
been they're probably as much, if not more, of a
precarious position than they've been in our lifetimes. And that
is what we have to fix. This president, if we
can't feed ourselves, we will lose our freedom. He understands
that better than anyone else. Yesterday was just one of
(04:17):
many steps that we're taking to get back to an
era of prosperity for our farmers. But a really really
important staff.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, from your perspective, and I know you don't have
a lot of time because obviously being a cabinet secretary
you're rather busy. We do appreciate the time you're taking
with us. For example, in the textile area in particular,
our friends in New York and they have been telling
me their industry has been impacted greatly in terms of
the raw materials to manufacture clothing, et cetera. And my
(04:49):
understanding is the President is working on that too. I
talked to Scott Besson about it as well.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's exactly right. It is, Sean, I will tell you,
and I know again, I'm so grateful to you for
being such an incredible mouthpiece or narrative. You know, you're
so good at being able to explain to all of
our Americans out there what we're doing. And it's so
hard when you have the fake news kind of around
(05:14):
every corner trying to tear you down and basically undermine
what we're doing. But you get it better than anyone,
and you see what's happening. For me to see firsthand
as Secretary of Agriculture the dozens and dozens of new
trade deals that have been struck. Right, you talk about
opening up the markets and it's not just important to
get you know, our rice, for example, into Japan, or
(05:37):
our beef into Australia. These are really important things, but
perhaps just as important is it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
By the way, Australia not important on beef how many decades.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well, and now we got it right. I mean, he
is the chief filmmaker. But what I'll say is this,
perhaps just as important is the national security aspect of
this that no more are we so reliant on one country,
for example, China, that may not have our best interests
in mind, but is the biggest majority buyer of our soybeans.
So it is there so many layers of nuance, but
(06:09):
all so important to putting America first. And then yesterday,
let me just give you a great example of President
Trump and how he works. So we finished the meeting
in the cabinet room with the farmers talking about all
of these issues. It was wonderful. These are the President's people.
They've been with him from the moment he went down
that escalator. Took the rest of the country perhaps a
minute to catch up, but our farmers and ranchers and
(06:30):
rural communities were with us, and so you know, and
he doesn't forget that ever. But we finished the meeting.
It's wonderful. He, of course, even though he doesn't have time,
he's the president of the United States, invites all the
farmers into the Oval Office, signs all of their name cards,
gives them all pens, takes pictures with everybody. He's just
so wonderful. But at the end he asked the farmer
(06:51):
named Brian from South Texas who farms soybeans, corn wheat, cotton,
actually corn wheat cotton swibans, and he said, now tell
me what your biggest issue is. And Brian said, listen, sir,
I've got a lot of them, but probably the biggest
one right now is this battle with Mexico over the
water under the nineteen forty four water treaty, and just
knowing what kind of water I'm going to have, I
(07:13):
can't even figure out what I'm going to plant next
year in South Texas. Sean, within one hour, the President
had drafted a truth social had me kind of run
down all the details, gets it posted today. I have
been on the call with lots of counterparts in Mexico,
lots of my counterparts across the cabinet, and we're about
to solve this for our South Texas farmers. And again,
(07:35):
without the President leaning in in such an aggressive way,
none of this would be happening. That's why he's such
a difference maker.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, what about the other industries that might be impacted.
What industries off the top of your head, I mentioned
the textile industry. What industries do you think maybe need
a little more attention early on until everything that the
President has done in terms of the trillions of dollars
committed in manufacturing investment. And you're right, we were relying
(08:06):
on other countries for semiconductors, rare earths. We stopped producing
automobiles or a lot of them in this country. Uh,
manufacturing is now coming back, Pharmaceutical manufacturings coming back. Couple
that with the largest tax cut in history, with the
most aggressive energy dominant policies in history. You know, I
think we have laid the foundation for great economic growth
(08:28):
down the line. But there might be you know, some
industries lagging behind. Any that you see that you're focused
on in particular.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Well, so it's such a great question. And again the
way you talk about it is correct. I mean, this
is the reason for the bridge payment yesterday. We can't
get all of this sticks we inherited. I mean, the
more ten months into this Sewan, every day I uncover
a new just devastating consequence of the policies of the
last administration. To think that we are having to basic
(09:00):
unwind and completely pivot from what frankly, from my perspective,
the country was hanging over a cliff. If the President
had not won November, I don't know that we would
have ever come back, because just unwinding what the farm
economy and for agriculture has been like these last ten
months has just been incredible. You know, the focus on DEI,
the focus on climate change, the focus on the Green
(09:21):
New Deal, all of that had to be undone. To
your point, when we take tax cuts, when we take
bringing down the cost of the inputs, when we take
all the new trade deals that are coming online, when
we take the one big beautiful bill that was the
largest investment in rural America in history, all of these
things combined are going to move I believe our farmers
and ranchers to an era of prosperity they haven't seen
(09:43):
in their lifetime, perhaps their dad's lifetime and their granddad
and grandma's lifetime. But it's all going to come together,
and it's really important until then. To your point, things
like textiles, things like cotton. Cotton's really struggling right now.
Rice our California rice guys are doing fine, but the
rice and the rest of the country is really struggling
because of some dumping from India and other places, shrimp,
(10:06):
et cetera. It's just it isn't just realigning the tariffs
themselves that's really important, but these non tariff trade barriers,
the way that so many of these countries have taken
advantage of our country in America in dumping their products.
It really is about on shoring, reshoring, being able to
feed ourselves, just the way he talks about manufacturing in
(10:28):
most of our agriculture community as well. So you know,
there's I could I could list for you for days,
Apples are at fifty percent in America that what they
need to be at. Shrimp way down, Rice is struggling.
We've had more farm bankruptcies in the last few years
than we've seen perhaps in our lifetime. I mean, all
of this has come to a head. But again, I
(10:48):
think yesterday was such a great pivot. And the interesting
thing is, and I know I'm probably talking a little
too much, but I do want to say this that
when you look at a lot of the poles and
when rural America and agriculture on, how are they how
they're feeling even though they're facing the toughest economic times.
They're seeing some of their you know, neighbors close shops, selling,
(11:11):
selling for houses or whatever. Even though you're seeing that,
the actual morale and the sort of optimism when you
when these rural America farmers are looking at the future,
they actually it's very high. They feel very optimistic. They
believe in President Trump's vision. They know we're working around
the clock for them, and and that's really encouraging too.
And that was a big part of the messages from
(11:34):
our farmers that the President got to hear yesterday, just
a big thank you for putting it all on the
line for them.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well, we appreciate all that you're doing, and I want
I want everybody in the country to be successful. I mean,
you know, when your business is hurting and people are suffering,
they put everything on the line. We are you know,
we should be that shining city on the hill and
the land of hope and opportunity and prosperity. And I
(12:00):
see that all coming back, and I'd love that, you know,
new golden age in America once again, and I believe
it's coming anyway. Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, we appreciate
your time as always, Thank you, oh Sie.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
On your show with you, so it's an honor to
be on. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
All right, let's hit our busy phones. Matt is in Utah, Matt, Hi,
how are you glad you called? Sar?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Good?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Good, Thank you Sean, and thank you for your perspective
on America.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
So I just want to say about the narco terrorists
and the illegal immigration that I think Americans that don't
know about those things they need to go on ride along.
As I'm a thirty five year veteran, I was a
chief of police for the last fourteen years, and I
noticed that citizens that went riding with the police and
responded to runs and saw the murders and the homicides,
(12:54):
the rapes, the robberies, the shootings occurring because of drugs
in America, they start thinking very differently about what's going on.
Most people are not impacted by violent crime in America.
There's twenty one thousand murders a year at its height,
at it when it went up over thirty percent twenty
nineteen to twenty twenty. And you know, now I hear
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from these the liberal left that, oh my gosh, homicides
are down fifteen percent. That's like buying something that's got
a thirty percent hike in price, and then they give
you a fifteen percent discap, you're still losing fifteen percent.
I'm just I'm really sick and tired of hearing about
You know, you just had somebody on there not supporting
ICE in their job to get rid of illegals in America.
(13:37):
Nobody's against immigration, legal immigration. We're all most of us
are legal immigrations, except for those that have ties to
families that fought in the Revolutionary War, were settlers. But
my point is, nobody's against legal immigration. And when I
hear them say that, well, illegal immigrants only commit a
small percentage of the crimes occurring in America, but they
(13:59):
didn't have a right to be here to begin with. Yes,
citizens here commit murders. We know there's twenty one thousand
murders a year in America, and it's most of them
committed by citizens. But all the murders rates, robberies, and
and no offense. For two hundred and fifty million dollars
that was embezzled by the federal or from the federal
government in Minneapolis by the by the illegals, living there
(14:21):
and for them to come out and say they don't
support getting rid of them. You know, we've got what
a thirty trillion dollar national debt. I don't even know
what it's up to anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But let me let me tell you something. Only because
of the constraints of time, faving American lives and ending
this epidemic of drug use and abuse and death has
to happen. It's that simple. And you know, if again
the Democrats find themselves on the wrong side. Americans don't
(14:51):
want these drugs in the country. Those that are bringing
them in are enemies of our country. Not that complicated.
Appreciate the call, quick break, right back, more of your call, straight.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
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Speaker 1 (15:16):
I'm twenty five now till the top of the hour,
eight hundred and ninety four one Seawn our number. If
you want to be a part of the program, your
call is coming up momentarily. Here. Linda and I have
a dispute over Christmas music. I love the Trans Siberian Orchestra,
Mannheim Steamroller. I don't mind some of the older hits
(15:38):
that we all grew up with, but she wants to
go back to the bing Crosby. The new closes to me, dude,
I love Danny King. Well, no, I'll take But I
love that the music is so deep and impactful because
it's all those songs done in a in a new, innovative,
(16:01):
creative way. I just I like the new version of it.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
I like the music you're talking about. But I have
to tell you from the bottom of my heart.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Do you like the music I'm talking about? Okay, I do.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
But here's the problem.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Our lives not a problem. It's my show. It's vanity show.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
You know, God gave you two ears in one problem.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Hello, you said there's a problem. I take issue with.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
That problem is that our lives most of the year
are incredibly intense. There's no time for anything. There's no
time for time. Christmas is the one time we actually
take off and you play this music, which is beautiful music.
You know, I'm a musician.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I love it.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
I love the the orchestra, I love the way that
it has been but the butt, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
But it's a little.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Intense, and we're intense all year long. I like a
little pirl lives. I like a little you know, jingle
bell rock. I like a little you know, White Christmas.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You like a little pros.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
It's one of the best movies Christmas.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Like religious music for Christmas because I want to be
reminded of God. And you know, I understand the Santa
Claus part. I understand the Frosty How could you forget? Okay,
are we done?
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Now? Yeah?
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By the way, do you hear this is Jacob fry
the I guess he's the mayor of Minneapolis. He says
he will not allow police to cooperate with ICE. Well,
(18:44):
that sounds to me and I'll play it for you
like he's encouraging people to break the law. Listen.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
The message that we are sending to our Somali community,
to our Latino community, to any community that is being targeted,
is that we stand with you. Minneapolis is not back
and down. Our police officers will not coordinate with any
federal agency that is doing immigration law enforcement work. We
(19:10):
stand with the communities, community members that make Minneapolis the
extraordinary place that it is, and we aren't backing down it.
We're rock solid in support of them.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Okay, well, you know this is now the Democratic Party.
People are saying, anity, you're worried about the midterms. I
worry about every election to be very blunt, and every
vote is going to matter, and there's a certain urgency
going into the midterms. I don't want the progress that
Donald Trump has had this last year to stop. And
I'm very confident that the economy is going to turn dramatically,
(19:43):
that everybody's going to be impacted in a positive way
once we the policies of the president get infused into
the economic bloodstream. But you know, time will prove me
right or wrong. And I believe that will be proven right.
History has proven it over and over again, and I
believe in that. And then people can decide, do you
want to return to the failed policies of the past.
(20:05):
Do you want to embrace the party of open borders
and defund and dismantle the party of cradle to grave,
womb to the tomb, the party that voted against the
largest tax cuts in history, the party that lives on
a toxic brew of NonStop, never ending Trump hatred. What
do you want to keep progressing as a country so
(20:27):
that we're an opportunity society based on liberty and freedom,
and these people have gone nuts. By the way. You
know the comedian Jeff I had him on the program
last night. He's really funny. I like him a lot.
He's leaving California blaming the leadership of Gavin Newsom, the
United Socialist Utopia of California.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
Listen, I'm kind of in this kind of la thing
and this I could be guilty of being a victim
of like what I'm absorbing in my algorithm, Like Gavin
Newsom scares the academy and I'm I don't want to
be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, he wants to run the whole country too. It's
pretty pretty wild and the fires.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Were quite a wake up call for even if you
know whatever you believe about the fires, the way it
was dealt with was pretty scary.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
It was not competent, that's for sure. Even after man
uh huh, let's go to California, United Socialists Utopia of
Gavin Newsom. Arlene, you're on the Sean Hennity Show. We're
in California, are.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Sen Hi Sun, It's great to talk with you. Finally,
I wanted to let you know as you're bagging on
all of us out here in California, forty percent of
us did vote for Trump. And we have an incredible
assembly member, Karl Demaiah for He's from District seventy five.
He is fighting left and right to help the conservative
(21:52):
movement out here. You really need to have him on
your show. He's incredible, But I can't move. My grandkids
are here, my children here, And I think people have
short term memory of what Newsom has wanted to do.
We all know what he did during COVID, but what
he also wanted to do that he was pushing by
twenty thirty. He wanted us everybody to have all gas appliances,
(22:15):
including restaurants, you know, so no more hot water heaters,
gas stoves, gas dryers. And he wanted everybody to own
electric vehicles. And what the other thing people forget is
he wanted to give illegal immigrants up to one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars in interest free loans for them
(22:37):
to purchase homes. And he ended up not signing it
because I think he knew he would it would kill
his bid to become president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Look, I actually welcome if he's now the front runner
for the Democrats. I welcome this debate. I want to
remind everybody of the failure under his leadership. And uh,
Gavin's got one big problem. He's not really factored. And
he can go as hard radical left as he wants.
But I'm telling you right now, Uh, it is not
(23:10):
going to fly in a lot of the country because
he's been so extreme radical left. Mam Donnie would not
get elected nationwide. And Gavin Newsom, I think we'll have
a very hard time. Republicans just need to stay smart,
stay the course, appreciate the call. Eight hundred and nine one,
shawns our number. I packed her busy phones Dino, he's
(23:32):
in Queens. He's in New York where Linda talks like
she's from New York even though she lives in She
grew up in Philly, in the suburbs of Philly, in
the in the projects, as she calls him. Is that true, Linda,
by the.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Way, not anymore?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Boro, Well you did.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
I'm from Philly, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
And where did you grow up in public housing? I did?
Speaker 7 (23:53):
No, I didn't grow up in public housing. I lived
or across the street from public housing.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Okay, I got thank god, I apologie guys. Dina, Dina,
what's going on? How you doing?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Sean?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
You are a great American.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
I really love you.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
No, I'm heterosexual, but I love you, man.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
I love you in the world.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I didn't take it the wrong way. Don't worry. I
appreciate it. I can't do the show without you, to
be honest.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
You're a pillar to the flag.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yes, sir, well you know, let me tell you something.
We're all we are all spokes in a wheel to
save our country, save you know, for our future generations,
to do our part. And we're all in this together.
And and that's why I want to fight so hard.
It's worth fighting for.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I don't get nervous, but I'm a little nervous talking
to you. And I've been listening to you. If I
tell you over thirty years, do you believe me? Over
thirty years I've been listening to you.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I do believe you, and I'm very grateful for that.
But why would you be nervous because you're talking to
a friend.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Because I'm speaking to the guru of radios man, And
you know, I.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Just I don't see myself now. If you were talking
to Levin, you might I could understand. Maybe being a
little nervous because it can be a little impatient. And
I found you big dope. I mean he does do
that occasionally.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yes, he had me laughing. Yes, I want to just
tell you everything. I never voted for presidency in my life.
When I heard Trump was running, I vote it all
three times. My father is a United States Army veteran. Okay,
I lost him in eighty one. Anyway, I've been living
in this home. I've been living in his home since
birth in Elmhurst, Queens, New York. I've been living in
(25:36):
the home, yeah, since birth. And yes, I do agree
with all what Trump is doing with a narco terrorist.
To me, it's a no brainer to blow them out
of the water. Everything he has done hands down. But
I hope Trump is listening to me today. I just
lost my mom at ninety six.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
We were paying I'm sorry about losing both your parents.
I am, I've been there.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
So to me, the war on the home front is
important too. I'm so hurt with the tax that lost
my mom. She was paying four thousand. My tax is
now twelve. I don't know if I can make it sure,
And I sure hope that this penetrates somewhere, because I
understand he's doing a lot of the country, But what
about what about the the US American homeowner citizens that
(26:24):
then living one lifetime in their homes. I don't know
if I can pay this. So I lost her from
four thousand, they uped it to twelve. I don't have it.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
What I mean, they up the property property taxes by
eight grand. Yeah, because you took ownership of the property.
It went from her name to your name. Yes, oh boy,
I mean this is what's pathetic about how government works.
You live there your whole life, which is amazing in
(26:54):
and of itself. To be honest, I don't know many
people that never move in their lives. That's pretty pretty amazing.
But I don't know what to tell you. I want
to give you good advice, and the only thing I
can tell you is the following is Right now, because
of Momdani, home prices you know in the suburbs have
(27:16):
gone up a whopping twenty five percent. And maybe this
is not an option for you, but maybe you should
consider it. Maybe, you know, you you could sell your
place at a nice profit and get another place. And
may I suggest something else? I don't know. I know
your family's probably up in New York. But you can
(27:36):
get a ticket on Jet Blue fairly inexpensively, and they
have flights all out of Florida back and forth all day.
It's like a shuttle. And so what I might suggest
to you is maybe get to a little warmer weather.
It's about seventy Look at the exact temperature. I'm sure
you're very interested in this because it's freezing. I could
not wait to get the hell out of there yesterday
and get back to my free state of Florida. And
(27:57):
it's great to be home right now. It's it's six
steps seventy two degrees where I am. I'm sorry, what's
the temperature where you are?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Oh, it's cold, but I do like the cold showing.
And honestly, I'm going to be strayed with you. My
dad died in this alley, his car, random obile, and
I feel like this is where I'm gonna lie next.
So I don't want to leave. But I'm sure as
hell hurt that I have to pay these numbers because
I don't have it and I don't want to lose
my home. And this is something I wanted to bring.
(28:26):
And I agree with everything Trump is doing for the world.
Oh yes, I do. But this is a major major
factor for me. And I got two young kids. I
got a four and a five. That's another story. One
day I'll might you over for dinner. But and I
wish you the best of luck. You are a charm
and you I wish you both the best of luck.
I was so happy to hear that for you.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Well, I appreciate everything. Thank you for sticking with me
all this time. I'm humbled, I'm grateful. And if we
can help you with ideas, I know a lot of
people in the real estate business in New York that
might be able to help you and would probably do
it at a very reduced rate as a favor to me.
All Right, you can just get in touch with Linda
(29:08):
or anybody on my staff.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Okay, I thank you for everything showing you're a great American.
Like I said in the beginning, I thank you, and
I'm just every day I wake up and I worry.
I just worry as a homeowner that's been here forever,
and I just know, I.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Listen, I get it. And you know they have no
consideration at all at the impact on people like yourself
on a fixed income and then somebody that is, you know,
like your mom passes away and the only thing that
changed is a piece of paper, and now the pricing
you out of your own home. I don't want to
(29:46):
like rub it in, but in the Free State of Florida,
the one thing that has gotten a little out of
control are property taxes because so many people moved here
and with the constant turnover the you know, if you
domicile on homestead in Florida, you lock in your property taxes.
And I think the most it can go up in years,
it's either two or three percent. And Governor DeSantis is
(30:07):
going to put a ballot initiative in twenty twenty six
where people can vote to you know, maybe even eliminate
property taxes altogether and put a tourist tax in this place.
I mean, I've visited other countries I pay a tourist tax.
Why don't they charge it here in Florida. You want
to come down in the wintertime, Okay, you can pay
a little bit of the tax and take that burden
(30:27):
off the people of Florida. But I wish, I wish
I could give you a better solution. I'll think about it.
Stay in touch with my team. Eight hundred ninety four one,
Shawn our number if you want to be a part
of the program. All right, quick break when we come back.
Does the President have the legal authority to take on
narco terrorists. We'll check in with our legal team as
(30:49):
we continue your more of your calls coming up as well.
Eight hundred ninety four one. Shawn is on number.
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