December 11, 2024 • 30 mins
Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri, is here today to discuss and cover the cabinet nominations coming through the halls of the senate for discussions. Senator Schmitt, the former Attorney General from the state of Missouri, has recently met with Pam Bondi, who is looking to bring accountability and equity to the Justice Department.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, news, round up, information, overload, our toll free.
Our number is eight hundred ninety four one, Sean, if
you want to be a part of the program. Not
only are we following this story the mysterious drones that
are the size of dining room sets flying all over
the state of New Jersey, nobody has any sense of urgency,
nobody knows where they came from. And of course, but
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what we are being told repeatedly no evidence of a
threat to public safety. Yet they know nothing about it.
But they do know. They're sophisticated. They do know. The
minute that you put your eyes on them, they go dark.
Forty nine sightings and a day on Sunday. And here
it is Wednesday, and we have no answers at all.
And where's Biden and Harris and may Orcus and where's
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our military? And this sounds like a potential threat. It
may end up being nothing. I don't know, but the
fact that we don't know is a problem. Anyway. Joining
us now to talk about this and much much more
is our friend Eric Schmidt, Senator, Great State of Missouri.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Sir, how are you I'm doing great, Sean, how are
you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm good. Let's talk. We'll get to confirmation. Hearing is
we've got a lot, we got a lot to talk about.
What is your take. I'm obsessed. I cannot believe the
lack of urgency regarding this drone issue. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I agree with Sean, And it's sort of a reminder also,
you know the Chinese spy balloon, it was sort of
like this paralysis. They weren't getting any information out there.
It traversed across the continental United States, including over Whiteman
Air Force Base in Missouri, which is home to the
B two selth bomber. So that flight pattern was no accident,
and they need to get to the bottom of it.
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And if it's a threat or they're trying to gain intelligence,
they need to come down. They need to be shot down.
So you know, we're searching for answers here on Capitol
Hill too, which is should tell you something. There's a
lot of a lot of incompetence. And also, Sean, it's
the reason why world leaders are going to marl Lago
right now. Joe Biden's been out to lunch for a
long time. Kamala Harris is on vacation. This is not
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a good time for the United States of America's government,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well, I mean it's forty days, and it's like forty
days without any real leadership. And you know, we had
Congressman Jeff Vanrew we played it in the in the
last half hour of the program, actually suggesting that he
heard from good sources that it could be an Iranian drone.
I don't have any any means of absourcing that or
backing it up, but that's what he's saying. And he's
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a pretty credible congressman when you say.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And look, I serve on the Armed
Services Committee, so it's the highest you know clearance you
can have for you know, security clearance. And we've not
there's not been any communication, which is troubling, very.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Troubling, and there's been a lack of urgency, which is
even more troubling. And you're right, we learned later that
the Biden administration knew it was a Chinese spy balloon,
but they were hoping we wouldn't notice. And that spy balloon,
you know, all the way down through Alaska into the
continental US, all across the country, Ziggin and Zagon, all
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over military bases, and it was a spy balloon, and
they were just hoping that nobody would notice instead of
just shooting that sucker down. And then their answer was, oh,
we didn't want to hurt anybody on the ground. Well,
there were plenty of times and opportunities to shoot it
down when there was zero population beneath where the spy
balloon was, and they didn't take advantage of it. And
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then they said, oh, never mind, you know, then out
to the sea. But it was giving real time feedback
to the Communist Chinese. I will tell you this, whoever
is responsible for it, there will be consequences in forty
days that I know. On the way out, we see
a lot of maneuverings by the Biden administration seemingly designed
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to muddy up the waters for Donald Trump. Why Joe Biden,
who wouldn't allow Poland to give MiGs to Ukraine and
Zolensky and the beginning of the conflict there, you know,
is now providing ballistic missiles so that and permission for
Zolensky in Ukraine to fire them into Russia, which has
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resulted in high personic technology being used and a change
in nuclear policy nuclear strike policy by Putin and Russia,
which is if you fire a ballistic missile into Russia,
they have every right to nuke you. So tensions are
escalating there. Assad gets overthrown, and the first thing Joe
Biden does there is start firing missiles into Syria knowing
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that Donald Trump wants a negotiated settlement in Europe. And
Donald Trump said, stay out of what's going on in Syria.
That's their problem. You know, why would he be doing that?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, I think this is the last gas Sean of
a failed foreign policy of Joe Biden. And it didn't
start with Joe Biden, but it exists with Joe Biden
that doesn't fully recognize I think where the American people
wants to be and certainly what Donald Trump ran on,
it's going to be a much more restrained foreign policy.
We're going to have peace through strength, but it's going
to be less interventionist. But I think what's really scary
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is that you take the Ukraine example, on their way out,
the American people delivered a verdict, but on their way
out sort of begging or or dating Vladimir Putin to
overreact to extend the conflict that President Trump wants to
solve and bring peace to that area. I mean, this
is but again I think they're trying to tie the
hands of President Trump. They're sending out, you know, twenty
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billion dollars more on the way out. They're doing this
through a lot of agencies. But this is a dangerous
game to play. President Trump's been very clear Europe needs
to step up as relates to Europe. We need an
iron dome for America. We need to rebuild our industrial base,
and we need to focus on our chief adversary, which
is China. That's pretty simple. People understand it. He ran
on it in a one in an overwhelming way. So
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it's just, you know, it's it's shameful that President are Yeah,
that Joe Biden on his way out here is again
creating a more difficult situation. But here's the good news, John,
and you know this, President Trump is ready. He is ready.
I've been meeting with these cabinet nominees coming in. He
has a reform agenda, he is motivated, he won the
popular vote. He is ready to institute real reform in
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this kind of you know, disruptive versus permanent Washington mantra.
The American people bought into it, and he's going to deliver.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, I definitely agree with that. You know how pathetic
was wink and Tony Blinken when finally, after all of
this time, and this became an issue during the campaign
because Kamala Harris would do nothing differently she'd said regarding
the exit, which was a disaster out of Afghanistan, and
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now acknowledging that they screwed it up and thirteen people
didn't need to die. Here's what he said.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Our thoughts are with all of the gold Star families.
They're with the State Department, any of the employees who
lost their lives over the course of twenty years, of
most who are involved in Afghanistan. And I think today,
especially of the thirteen heroes that we lost at Abbygate,
and I deeply regret that we did not do more
and could not do more to protect them. And to
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those families who were here with us today, you're in
my thoughts, my prayers.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah. Really a little too little, too late for my
liking your tech.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, I agree, it's a shame. I don't understand it.
I mean, we can have policy disagreements about the direction
of the country, but acknowledging that mistake and trying to
make it right with the families. Should have happened a long,
long time ago. It's probably the same reason, honestly, Sean,
that they've not acknowledged and acknowledged Lake and Riley and
a lot of the people who have been victims of
violent crime because of the fifteen million illegal immigrants that
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have flooded across the border, because they were trying to
pad their election stats. I mean, this is really shameful behavior.
And you know, they wouldn't even meet with these folks.
They would not even meet with these parents and these
family members.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And these are Harris Biden, unvetted the illegals murdering, raping,
committing other violent crimes against Americans. We have known terrorsts
in the country, gang members, cartel members, and they allowed
it all to happen. And they can't pick up a
phone when one of these unvetted illegals that they allowed
in kills an American number. Once did they pick up.
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Donald Trump picked up the phone. He called Joscelyn Nungary's family,
he called Rachel Morin's family, he called Lake and Riley's families.
But there's thousands of other family victims because of this,
and they kept saying no, the border is secure. The
border secure, they just lied to us.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, don't believe your line eyes. And I do think
on day one you're going to see it. You're going
to see a flurry of executive orders, because we know
with those executive orders, President Trump had a forty five
year low and illegal immigration. Biden undid all of them
with ninety plus executive orders. On day one, President Trump's
going to come in and we're going to have a
secure border. No nation in the history of the world
has done this willingly opened it up to this kind
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of thing. And the Democrats, I think, you know, those
four years, this sort of woke ideology, this open border's crowd.
They weren't just writing white papers anymore, Sean. They were
in charge, and they had these disastrous policies that have
harmed American And I think President Trump's message of restoring
American greatness, having a secure border, being energy downin it
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resonated because people love the country, they want us to
do well. This whole idea of apologizing for America America
is inherently racist, and all of these things that they've
been spouting and teaching school kids, the American people rejected
all of that, so a new day is coming, but
there's a lot of a lot of destruction and despair
that's been left in the wake of this current administration.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, I'm guessing that you're against taxpayer funded sex change
operations for illegals and for convicts. I'm just guessing people.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It is about ninety five percent of Americans. Yes, yes, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
That was another genius idea of Kamala Harrison and one
of the reasons this is so important. You know, I
look at where we are as a country, and there's
so much to do and so much to prioritize. I
may be wrong, but I think what's going to happen.
And I've been saying it, and I always say it
the same way. I start with or I end with.
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I pray to God that I'm wrong. Well, with known
terrorists that they have allowed into the country, I say,
it's a matter of when. It's not a matter of
if we are we will be attacked. It will be terrorists,
a terrorist attack on our homeland. I think it's one
hundred percent. Again, I pray to God, I'm wrong. Am
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I wrong?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I feel the same way, but I will I will
point this out. The nine to eleven about ninety percent
of the difficulty, and those terrorists pulling that off was
getting here, getting here.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
They're already here, though, Senator No.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
No, no, that's what I'm saying. So the Biden administration
removed that degree of difficulty altogether. Right, So they just
let these folks in and we know they're here, and
then there's people we don't know are here that are
here who are terrorists. Right, So we just have the
known folks. There's a lot of folks that are unknown,
and so I pray it doesn't happen either. But the
but you know, even Chris Ray, even Chris Rae, who
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repinized that department and lost all credibility, has said he's
never seen these sort of red flags post nine to eleven,
and Biden willingly led him in.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You know, he resigned today, and I'll tell you what
a wasted opportunity because after James Comy, he could have
restored the world's premier law enforcement agency to its former greatness,
and he allowed all of this law breaking to happen.
You know, he was too busy, you know, investigating and
having his special agents investigate moms and dads at school
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board meetings and peaceful pro life protesters for crying out
loud and of course going after anything and everything Donald Trump.
And while he did that, he allowed all of these
unvetted illegal immigrants to come in. I mean, this is
beyond negligent. Then he'd go before Congress the last six
times that I can count that he was there talk
about the threat has never been this bad ever, And
(11:52):
I'm like, yeah, because you're not enforcing the law regarding
our borders.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, they got to get back to law enforcement. They
have to restore credibility. They were going after parents under
the auspices of the Patriot Act literally as home grown
terrorists they were referring, And meanwhile they're terrorists streaming across
our border. You know, they're going after Catholics. Really weaponize
that department. I had a great visit with Pam Bondi
yesterday in my office. Pambondi is an excellent pick. She'll
be a great attorney general. You know, I know her
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from State AG world. She's going to be great return
that you know, doj writ large back to going after
violent crime and protecting people's constitutional rights, which is what
it should be doing. Cash Betel is going to do
the same thing these folks are going to go in there,
and I think they're going to be disruptors in a
good way. Root out the corruption, root out the politization
that's happened, and get it back to where it should be.
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But also, Sean, I think it's worth noting because the
American people saw it and they rejected this again too.
Not only did you have the FBI, but you also
had the number three person at DOJ leave the office
and go to the New York office. You had the
number two prosecutor for the Alvin brad prosecution. You had
the number two prosecutor in Fulton County coordinating at the
White House. All these cases were dead, None of them
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had any merit. They were all zombie cases. Biden gives
a speech in November twenty two when clear Trump's going
to run, and he says, there's no way President Trump
should ever be in the Oval office. Guess what, all
these things happen, These zombie cases are resurrected. You have
the worst, you know, political prosecution in American history. And
President Trump stood them all down. He stood them all
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down and went into arenas big and small, all across
this country, thirty thousand people at a time, he made
the case. He almost took a bullet. I mean he did,
but he almost died. He'd faced it all down. And
the American people rewarded that courage and bravery and a vision.
And I think the next four years are going to
be glorious.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I think they could be the most transformation all in history.
If he just keeps his promises, if he restores law
and order and gets rid of defund dismantled NOBIL, if
he secures the voters, if he deports if we can
find them, the terrorist cartel's gang members, drug dealers, violent criminals,
if he if he can fix the economy, bring it
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back to its greatness, get interest rates down, make us
the most energy dominant country on Earth. He's already restoring
America's stature on the on the world stage. Things have
changed just because he won. I can only imagine how
much better they'll get when he gets in office.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yep. And he also wants to reform these agencies. The
administrative state's gotten way too big. It needs structural reform.
He's going to come in, He's going to change him.
No presidents ever really wanted to do that, Sean, because
the executive branch generally speaking, wants to ingrandize their power. Right.
They and the founders knew that these you know, you
would try to be jealously guard your authority. They've continued
to grow it over time. It's too big, it's too
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too unruly. But President Trump has a different incentive structure.
He's not running again. He wants his legacy to beat
this kind of reform, and he's getting reformers in these
key positions who are going to shake things up. And
then we need that now more than ever.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
We appreciate you, Senator Eric Schmidt, eight hundred ninety four one.
Shawn is on number. If you want to be a
part of the program, Hi twenty five now till the
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Speaker 4 (16:44):
Know?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
The joy of life is surprising you. I think you
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Speaker 1 (16:48):
I don't get a lot. I don't like surprises. I
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Speaker 6 (17:00):
It shouldn't be that way. It wasn't supposed to be
that way. We were supposed to be on a steady,
if difficult, sometimes marched towards progress. And yet, just a
few weeks ago, the United States voted for a second
time to not elect its first woman president. Everywhere women's
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rights and women's progress is under attack, overtly and subtlely.
But I want you to know that I am and
always will be a proud feminist. You will always have
an ally in me and in my government.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Whytn't you resign in an appoint a woman.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I mean, he's got there. Maybe he is a woman
who knows you know what I mean, although if he
was a true feminist he would shave his hair.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Is no bigger fan of the iron Lady, the former
Prime Minister of Great Britain, the late Prime Minister of
Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher than me, and it it's I
am no problem electing a woman to be the president
of our country.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Well as an anti feminist. I want to let you
know I'm an anti feminist. I am an anti anything
based on gender or race. I think it's utter nonsense.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You're against all identity politics.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
I just feel very strongly that if you cannot, it's
kind of like those shows and I don't watch them,
but my kids do, like The Voice or whatever where
they have like they don't turn the chair around until
they pick the person. Like if you just go in
blindly listening to someone, and if you can decide based
on merit reading about someone or listening to someone, then great,
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that's awesome. But if I have to pick you because
you check a box and that box has anything to
do with you know, anything other than the meritocracy of
getting the job fairly, I want nothing to do with you.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Absolutely not. Let me tell you Kamala Harris didn't lose
because she was a woman. He lost because she is incompetent,
unqualified for the job, and her radicalism and extremism. That
enough said, little justin all right, let's get to our
busy telephones. Let us say hi to Gordon in the
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United Socialist utopia known as California. My our prayers do
go out to the people in California wildfires again Malibu.
I know Pepperdine University is being threatened. It's a mess
out there, and I don't wish that on anybody. I
lived out there. I went back to Tana Barbara after
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they had had a and I'd lived there five years,
and I went back and I saw the devastation I
mean of an entire neighborhood because of one of these wildfires.
And if you get Santa Ana wins included and it
got to help you anyway, Gordon, how are you sorry
about what's going on out there.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I'm doing well, Sean, thank you for taking McCall. Hello, Linda.
And I like to say I live in the state
of Jefferson and knock out California. That's that's kind of
how we roll out here. So if you don't know
what state of Jefferson is, uh, I encourage you to
look that up. You know, one of your callers yesterday
just really, man, I tell you, just when you think
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we're reaching the lowest of the low in this country
and then somebody calls in and tries to condone what
happened to Brian Thompson and my coincious condolences go out
to Brian Thompson and his family. I mean, it's you know,
I can't believe I have to say this, but you know,
you can't have a society where you walk up to
people on the street and murder them because you don't
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agree with them, or work in industries that you that
you don't like. You know, I work in adult beverage
sales out here in in in state of Jefferson or
or California. I guarantee you I've sold hundreds of thousands
of cases over my career. I can Unfortunately, I can
guarantee you that you know, alcohol that I sold into
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an account was consumed and and and probably somebody made
a bad decision that negatively affected somebody, And I have
no control over that. What's next, Somebody's gonna roll up
to me and shoot me on the street. I mean,
what are we talking about?
Speaker 6 (21:07):
You?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
It just really blew me away.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
The other thing I wanted to to talk to you about.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Is I think that you know, what happened to Brian
Thompson is awful, but I think it can shed light
on how broken our healthcare system is. And there's no
condoning this at all, But I really hope the incoming administration,
President Trump, can really look at reforming healthcare. I mean,
I've been fainted for years. I just don't understand why
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it can't be in the private sector and run more
like autoly serance. I don't know why it's attached to
your employment. There's there's no reason for that, right. Competition
and profit gives you the very best goods and services
and products you have.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. I mean, and
they are. Look, there's very, very legitimate criticism of the
healthcare and health insurance industry. I think it got dramatically
worse because of Obamacare, but that's me. There is a
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book that turned into a movie called Raymaker and Anyway.
It was about John Grisham novel and it was, I mean,
really captured, how you know, corrupt some insurance companies can be.
And I know people that have lived through insurance nightmares,
people that have had that have lived through hurricanes. You know,
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for example, if you have a hurricane and you think
your house is insured, then the hurricane comes and your
house gets flooded, then you're told, oh no, no, your hurricane
insurance only covers wind and or if in the case
of health insurance, Oh no, no, no, your insurance only
covers this doctor who's never a available, or you're only
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allowed one test, not the five tests that you need,
and it frustrates the hell out of people. Now, on
one side of it, Americans have got to get more
in tune with what their insurance is offering. They've got
to look for created alternatives that will provide them the
care that they need if that God forbid moment comes,
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you have a heart attack, a stroke, you get cancer,
bad accident. You know, I happen to be a big
believer in catastrophic care. With those high deductibles, you can
afford that would take care that you only pay up
the X number of dollars. But if that bad moment comes,
you're covered. You know, there's there's also now affordable, relatively affordable.
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It's not cheap, but it's not off the charts expensive.
You know, for example, if you just want to get
concierge's care for basic things like a coal the sniffles,
a broken bone, broken finger, you know, whatever you need, stitches,
whatever it is, you know, you can get that type
of plan to supplement your care so you don't have
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to wait in a waiting room for four thousand hours.
There are options now, but most Americans this is their
big problem. And we've talked about this for years. We
have our friend doctor Josh down in Wichita, Kansas has
been on this program all the time and he has
for fifty dollars a month unlimited visits to his practice
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with his partners per adult and I think it's at
the time it was ten dollars for children. They've duplicated
this concierge service all around the country, which makes it
affordable for any American in a town or a city
like Wichita. And I don't know if they could duplicate
that in a big city. I would imagine they probably
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could if they wanted to. And so there are alternatives.
And then if you let's say you have high blood
pressure or you have a high cholester levels, you'll leave
his office that day with the medicines because he negotiates
directly with pharmaceutical companies and you get it for penny
on the dollars. Penny's on the dollar. So there are alternatives.
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We have discussed them for years, medical savings accounts, things
like that. But you know, we got locked into Obamacare
and it screwed everything up.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Yeah, the dumpster fire that is Obamacare is clearly the
problem here. I just feel that when you put things
in the free market, let the free market figure it out.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
You get a fender.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Bender, you get you file a claim, You pick your
body shop. Why can't I file a claim, pick my
retail hospital, and go and go handle my my situation.
I just I just think that the system is broken.
Like you said, I love the model that you described,
and that sounds great. I just I just feel like
we could have such an amazing, you know, number one
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healthcare system in the world because the government has to
get out of the way. Yeah, reasonable regulation, I get that.
Like everything the ABC regulates my industry, right, reasonable regulation.
But let's of free markets. The best goods and services
come from the free markets.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Listen, this is a great we can jumpstart this conversation
into the failures of the insurance industry. It's an issue
that people in Florida are dealing with because of hurricanes,
et cetera. It's a big, big issue, and that's home insurance.
Then you have the high cost of car insurance. I mean,
life is expensive and everything's gotten way more expensive under
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Harris and Biden. But we do need to bifurcate this
conversation off of the assassination of the United Healthcare CEO.
You don't justify assassination by saying, well, you know, I
understand why people are frustrated, because then you're making excuses
for assassination anyway, Gordon, appreciate it. Man, Thanks for the call.
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Eight hundred and nine four one. Sean, if you want
to be a part of the program. Sewn in Texas
works in the healthcare industry. Sean, how are you.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
I'm fairly good. Thank you, we're taking my call. One
of the things I'm calling about is the misconception that
everybody has with the insurance industry. They think that, you know,
somebody sitting behind the desk saying, oh, I'm going to
decline John. You know he can't have that procedure today.
When it's the plan. You said it exactly right, just
a minute ago. It is the plan that the employer.
(27:22):
Let's say you work for somebody, it's the plan that
they pick. Okay, it's it's the states. The states pick
a plan, and then then.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
The states pick a plan, the employers pick a plan,
and then what people don't do is they don't find
out the details in the plan until it's too.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Late exactly, and they don't want But yet they blame
the insurance company. You know, they're blaming the person because.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Well they do make it frustrating as hell. There's no
you cannot dispute that.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Agree. I absolutely agree. I mean, especially for elder people.
My mom's going through it. It's it's ridiculous with what
they have to go through. But at the same time,
it's it's, you know, to celebrate a murderer, I mean,
people want to marry him. I mean, this is this
guy murdered somebody allectively murdered, somebody, a CEO that has children,
(28:14):
and they want to celebrate him. I mean, that's what
our country has come to.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It is very The problem for many Americans is there's
only one Obamacare exchange option for a big part of
the country. That's a big problem. The cost of health
insurance and home insurance and car insurance a skyrocketed, especially
the last four years, so that's a problem, and inflation
has taken away a lot of disposable income. Though at
(28:40):
some point, you know, you got to prioritize food or
more health insurance. You're probably not going to have the
health insurance. I went for years of my early adult
life with no health insurance. I didn't find out till
years later that my father took out a plan for me.
Didn't tell me about it. After I'd fallen off a
(29:02):
roof and busted up my face and and you know,
broke my arm and dislocated my arm. I didn't any
He told me years later. He goes, I got your
health care plan after the accident. I said, really, I
didn't even know you had done it. And I thought
it was really nice of him to do that, and
and he couldn't afford it. Look, there there are other options,
(29:23):
but you need to know what your plan covers. Does
it Does it give you the level of care you want?
And then you have to factor and if you can
afford it. I couldn't afford health insurance at that point
in my life. I just couldn't. I was barely making
ends meet. I could barely pay my rent. I was
driving a you know, a two hundred dollars van for
a number of those years, my work van, which is
(29:45):
the best two hundred bucks I ever spent my life.
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Our number is eight hundred ninety four one, Sean, if
you want to be a part of the program. Not
only are we following this story the mysterious drones that
are the size of dining room sets flying all over
the state of New Jersey, nobody has any sense of urgency,
nobody knows where they came from. And of course, but
(00:22):
what we are being told repeatedly no evidence of a
threat to public safety. Yet they know nothing about it.
But they do know. They're sophisticated. They do know. The
minute that you put your eyes on them, they go dark.
Forty nine sightings and a day on Sunday. And here
it is Wednesday, and we have no answers at all.
And where's Biden and Harris and may Orcus and where's
(00:42):
our military? And this sounds like a potential threat. It
may end up being nothing. I don't know, but the
fact that we don't know is a problem. Anyway. Joining
us now to talk about this and much much more
is our friend Eric Schmidt, Senator, Great State of Missouri.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Sir, how are you I'm doing great, Sean, how are
you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm good. Let's talk. We'll get to confirmation. Hearing is
we've got a lot, we got a lot to talk about.
What is your take. I'm obsessed. I cannot believe the
lack of urgency regarding this drone issue. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I agree with Sean, And it's sort of a reminder also,
you know the Chinese spy balloon, it was sort of
like this paralysis. They weren't getting any information out there.
It traversed across the continental United States, including over Whiteman
Air Force Base in Missouri, which is home to the
B two selth bomber. So that flight pattern was no accident,
and they need to get to the bottom of it.
(01:34):
And if it's a threat or they're trying to gain intelligence,
they need to come down. They need to be shot down.
So you know, we're searching for answers here on Capitol
Hill too, which is should tell you something. There's a
lot of a lot of incompetence. And also, Sean, it's
the reason why world leaders are going to marl Lago
right now. Joe Biden's been out to lunch for a
long time. Kamala Harris is on vacation. This is not
(01:56):
a good time for the United States of America's government,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well, I mean it's forty days, and it's like forty
days without any real leadership. And you know, we had
Congressman Jeff Vanrew we played it in the in the
last half hour of the program, actually suggesting that he
heard from good sources that it could be an Iranian drone.
I don't have any any means of absourcing that or
backing it up, but that's what he's saying. And he's
(02:21):
a pretty credible congressman when you say.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And look, I serve on the Armed
Services Committee, so it's the highest you know clearance you
can have for you know, security clearance. And we've not
there's not been any communication, which is troubling, very.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Troubling, and there's been a lack of urgency, which is
even more troubling. And you're right, we learned later that
the Biden administration knew it was a Chinese spy balloon,
but they were hoping we wouldn't notice. And that spy balloon,
you know, all the way down through Alaska into the
continental US, all across the country, Ziggin and Zagon, all
(02:57):
over military bases, and it was a spy balloon, and
they were just hoping that nobody would notice instead of
just shooting that sucker down. And then their answer was, oh,
we didn't want to hurt anybody on the ground. Well,
there were plenty of times and opportunities to shoot it
down when there was zero population beneath where the spy
balloon was, and they didn't take advantage of it. And
(03:18):
then they said, oh, never mind, you know, then out
to the sea. But it was giving real time feedback
to the Communist Chinese. I will tell you this, whoever
is responsible for it, there will be consequences in forty
days that I know. On the way out, we see
a lot of maneuverings by the Biden administration seemingly designed
(03:38):
to muddy up the waters for Donald Trump. Why Joe Biden,
who wouldn't allow Poland to give MiGs to Ukraine and
Zolensky and the beginning of the conflict there, you know,
is now providing ballistic missiles so that and permission for
Zolensky in Ukraine to fire them into Russia, which has
(03:59):
resulted in high personic technology being used and a change
in nuclear policy nuclear strike policy by Putin and Russia,
which is if you fire a ballistic missile into Russia,
they have every right to nuke you. So tensions are
escalating there. Assad gets overthrown, and the first thing Joe
Biden does there is start firing missiles into Syria knowing
(04:21):
that Donald Trump wants a negotiated settlement in Europe. And
Donald Trump said, stay out of what's going on in Syria.
That's their problem. You know, why would he be doing that?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, I think this is the last gas Sean of
a failed foreign policy of Joe Biden. And it didn't
start with Joe Biden, but it exists with Joe Biden
that doesn't fully recognize I think where the American people
wants to be and certainly what Donald Trump ran on,
it's going to be a much more restrained foreign policy.
We're going to have peace through strength, but it's going
to be less interventionist. But I think what's really scary
(04:52):
is that you take the Ukraine example, on their way out,
the American people delivered a verdict, but on their way
out sort of begging or or dating Vladimir Putin to
overreact to extend the conflict that President Trump wants to
solve and bring peace to that area. I mean, this
is but again I think they're trying to tie the
hands of President Trump. They're sending out, you know, twenty
(05:13):
billion dollars more on the way out. They're doing this
through a lot of agencies. But this is a dangerous
game to play. President Trump's been very clear Europe needs
to step up as relates to Europe. We need an
iron dome for America. We need to rebuild our industrial base,
and we need to focus on our chief adversary, which
is China. That's pretty simple. People understand it. He ran
on it in a one in an overwhelming way. So
(05:36):
it's just, you know, it's it's shameful that President are Yeah,
that Joe Biden on his way out here is again
creating a more difficult situation. But here's the good news, John,
and you know this, President Trump is ready. He is ready.
I've been meeting with these cabinet nominees coming in. He
has a reform agenda, he is motivated, he won the
popular vote. He is ready to institute real reform in
(05:58):
this kind of you know, disruptive versus permanent Washington mantra.
The American people bought into it, and he's going to deliver.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, I definitely agree with that. You know how pathetic
was wink and Tony Blinken when finally, after all of
this time, and this became an issue during the campaign
because Kamala Harris would do nothing differently she'd said regarding
the exit, which was a disaster out of Afghanistan, and
(06:28):
now acknowledging that they screwed it up and thirteen people
didn't need to die. Here's what he said.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Our thoughts are with all of the gold Star families.
They're with the State Department, any of the employees who
lost their lives over the course of twenty years, of
most who are involved in Afghanistan. And I think today,
especially of the thirteen heroes that we lost at Abbygate,
and I deeply regret that we did not do more
and could not do more to protect them. And to
(06:58):
those families who were here with us today, you're in
my thoughts, my prayers.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah. Really a little too little, too late for my
liking your tech.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, I agree, it's a shame. I don't understand it.
I mean, we can have policy disagreements about the direction
of the country, but acknowledging that mistake and trying to
make it right with the families. Should have happened a long,
long time ago. It's probably the same reason, honestly, Sean,
that they've not acknowledged and acknowledged Lake and Riley and
a lot of the people who have been victims of
violent crime because of the fifteen million illegal immigrants that
(07:33):
have flooded across the border, because they were trying to
pad their election stats. I mean, this is really shameful behavior.
And you know, they wouldn't even meet with these folks.
They would not even meet with these parents and these
family members.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And these are Harris Biden, unvetted the illegals murdering, raping,
committing other violent crimes against Americans. We have known terrorsts
in the country, gang members, cartel members, and they allowed
it all to happen. And they can't pick up a
phone when one of these unvetted illegals that they allowed
in kills an American number. Once did they pick up.
(08:07):
Donald Trump picked up the phone. He called Joscelyn Nungary's family,
he called Rachel Morin's family, he called Lake and Riley's families.
But there's thousands of other family victims because of this,
and they kept saying no, the border is secure. The
border secure, they just lied to us.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, don't believe your line eyes. And I do think
on day one you're going to see it. You're going
to see a flurry of executive orders, because we know
with those executive orders, President Trump had a forty five
year low and illegal immigration. Biden undid all of them
with ninety plus executive orders. On day one, President Trump's
going to come in and we're going to have a
secure border. No nation in the history of the world
has done this willingly opened it up to this kind
(08:44):
of thing. And the Democrats, I think, you know, those
four years, this sort of woke ideology, this open border's crowd.
They weren't just writing white papers anymore, Sean. They were
in charge, and they had these disastrous policies that have
harmed American And I think President Trump's message of restoring
American greatness, having a secure border, being energy downin it
(09:05):
resonated because people love the country, they want us to
do well. This whole idea of apologizing for America America
is inherently racist, and all of these things that they've
been spouting and teaching school kids, the American people rejected
all of that, so a new day is coming, but
there's a lot of a lot of destruction and despair
that's been left in the wake of this current administration.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, I'm guessing that you're against taxpayer funded sex change
operations for illegals and for convicts. I'm just guessing people.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It is about ninety five percent of Americans. Yes, yes, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
That was another genius idea of Kamala Harrison and one
of the reasons this is so important. You know, I
look at where we are as a country, and there's
so much to do and so much to prioritize. I
may be wrong, but I think what's going to happen.
And I've been saying it, and I always say it
the same way. I start with or I end with.
(10:02):
I pray to God that I'm wrong. Well, with known
terrorists that they have allowed into the country, I say,
it's a matter of when. It's not a matter of
if we are we will be attacked. It will be terrorists,
a terrorist attack on our homeland. I think it's one
hundred percent. Again, I pray to God, I'm wrong. Am
(10:23):
I wrong?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I feel the same way, but I will I will
point this out. The nine to eleven about ninety percent
of the difficulty, and those terrorists pulling that off was
getting here, getting here.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
They're already here, though, Senator No.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
No, no, that's what I'm saying. So the Biden administration
removed that degree of difficulty altogether. Right, So they just
let these folks in and we know they're here, and
then there's people we don't know are here that are
here who are terrorists. Right, So we just have the
known folks. There's a lot of folks that are unknown,
and so I pray it doesn't happen either. But the
but you know, even Chris Ray, even Chris Rae, who
(11:00):
repinized that department and lost all credibility, has said he's
never seen these sort of red flags post nine to eleven,
and Biden willingly led him in.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You know, he resigned today, and I'll tell you what
a wasted opportunity because after James Comy, he could have
restored the world's premier law enforcement agency to its former greatness,
and he allowed all of this law breaking to happen.
You know, he was too busy, you know, investigating and
having his special agents investigate moms and dads at school
(11:31):
board meetings and peaceful pro life protesters for crying out
loud and of course going after anything and everything Donald Trump.
And while he did that, he allowed all of these
unvetted illegal immigrants to come in. I mean, this is
beyond negligent. Then he'd go before Congress the last six
times that I can count that he was there talk
about the threat has never been this bad ever, And
(11:52):
I'm like, yeah, because you're not enforcing the law regarding
our borders.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, they got to get back to law enforcement. They
have to restore credibility. They were going after parents under
the auspices of the Patriot Act literally as home grown
terrorists they were referring, And meanwhile they're terrorists streaming across
our border. You know, they're going after Catholics. Really weaponize
that department. I had a great visit with Pam Bondi
yesterday in my office. Pambondi is an excellent pick. She'll
be a great attorney general. You know, I know her
(12:19):
from State AG world. She's going to be great return
that you know, doj writ large back to going after
violent crime and protecting people's constitutional rights, which is what
it should be doing. Cash Betel is going to do
the same thing these folks are going to go in there,
and I think they're going to be disruptors in a
good way. Root out the corruption, root out the politization
that's happened, and get it back to where it should be.
(12:42):
But also, Sean, I think it's worth noting because the
American people saw it and they rejected this again too.
Not only did you have the FBI, but you also
had the number three person at DOJ leave the office
and go to the New York office. You had the
number two prosecutor for the Alvin brad prosecution. You had
the number two prosecutor in Fulton County coordinating at the
White House. All these cases were dead, None of them
(13:04):
had any merit. They were all zombie cases. Biden gives
a speech in November twenty two when clear Trump's going
to run, and he says, there's no way President Trump
should ever be in the Oval office. Guess what, all
these things happen, These zombie cases are resurrected. You have
the worst, you know, political prosecution in American history. And
President Trump stood them all down. He stood them all
(13:25):
down and went into arenas big and small, all across
this country, thirty thousand people at a time, he made
the case. He almost took a bullet. I mean he did,
but he almost died. He'd faced it all down. And
the American people rewarded that courage and bravery and a vision.
And I think the next four years are going to
be glorious.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I think they could be the most transformation all in history.
If he just keeps his promises, if he restores law
and order and gets rid of defund dismantled NOBIL, if
he secures the voters, if he deports if we can
find them, the terrorist cartel's gang members, drug dealers, violent criminals,
if he if he can fix the economy, bring it
(14:04):
back to its greatness, get interest rates down, make us
the most energy dominant country on Earth. He's already restoring
America's stature on the on the world stage. Things have
changed just because he won. I can only imagine how
much better they'll get when he gets in office.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yep. And he also wants to reform these agencies. The
administrative state's gotten way too big. It needs structural reform.
He's going to come in, He's going to change him.
No presidents ever really wanted to do that, Sean, because
the executive branch generally speaking, wants to ingrandize their power. Right.
They and the founders knew that these you know, you
would try to be jealously guard your authority. They've continued
to grow it over time. It's too big, it's too
(14:42):
too unruly. But President Trump has a different incentive structure.
He's not running again. He wants his legacy to beat
this kind of reform, and he's getting reformers in these
key positions who are going to shake things up. And
then we need that now more than ever.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
We appreciate you, Senator Eric Schmidt, eight hundred ninety four one.
Shawn is on number. If you want to be a
part of the program, Hi twenty five now till the
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Why can't I just do my show?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Know?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
The joy of life is surprising you. I think you
are going too love.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I don't get a lot. I don't like surprises. I
don't like this surprise. This is true birth. Oh it's
true ouh it being true to himself.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
It shouldn't be that way. It wasn't supposed to be
that way. We were supposed to be on a steady,
if difficult, sometimes marched towards progress. And yet, just a
few weeks ago, the United States voted for a second
time to not elect its first woman president. Everywhere women's
(17:21):
rights and women's progress is under attack, overtly and subtlely.
But I want you to know that I am and
always will be a proud feminist. You will always have
an ally in me and in my government.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Whytn't you resign in an appoint a woman.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I mean, he's got there. Maybe he is a woman
who knows you know what I mean, although if he
was a true feminist he would shave his hair.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Is no bigger fan of the iron Lady, the former
Prime Minister of Great Britain, the late Prime Minister of
Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher than me, and it it's I
am no problem electing a woman to be the president
of our country.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Well as an anti feminist. I want to let you
know I'm an anti feminist. I am an anti anything
based on gender or race. I think it's utter nonsense.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You're against all identity politics.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
I just feel very strongly that if you cannot, it's
kind of like those shows and I don't watch them,
but my kids do, like The Voice or whatever where
they have like they don't turn the chair around until
they pick the person. Like if you just go in
blindly listening to someone, and if you can decide based
on merit reading about someone or listening to someone, then great,
(18:41):
that's awesome. But if I have to pick you because
you check a box and that box has anything to
do with you know, anything other than the meritocracy of
getting the job fairly, I want nothing to do with you.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Absolutely not. Let me tell you Kamala Harris didn't lose
because she was a woman. He lost because she is incompetent,
unqualified for the job, and her radicalism and extremism. That
enough said, little justin all right, let's get to our
busy telephones. Let us say hi to Gordon in the
(19:15):
United Socialist utopia known as California. My our prayers do
go out to the people in California wildfires again Malibu.
I know Pepperdine University is being threatened. It's a mess
out there, and I don't wish that on anybody. I
lived out there. I went back to Tana Barbara after
(19:35):
they had had a and I'd lived there five years,
and I went back and I saw the devastation I
mean of an entire neighborhood because of one of these wildfires.
And if you get Santa Ana wins included and it
got to help you anyway, Gordon, how are you sorry
about what's going on out there.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I'm doing well, Sean, thank you for taking McCall. Hello, Linda.
And I like to say I live in the state
of Jefferson and knock out California. That's that's kind of
how we roll out here. So if you don't know
what state of Jefferson is, uh, I encourage you to
look that up. You know, one of your callers yesterday
just really, man, I tell you, just when you think
(20:12):
we're reaching the lowest of the low in this country
and then somebody calls in and tries to condone what
happened to Brian Thompson and my coincious condolences go out
to Brian Thompson and his family. I mean, it's you know,
I can't believe I have to say this, but you know,
you can't have a society where you walk up to
people on the street and murder them because you don't
(20:33):
agree with them, or work in industries that you that
you don't like. You know, I work in adult beverage
sales out here in in in state of Jefferson or
or California. I guarantee you I've sold hundreds of thousands
of cases over my career. I can Unfortunately, I can
guarantee you that you know, alcohol that I sold into
(20:53):
an account was consumed and and and probably somebody made
a bad decision that negatively affected somebody, And I have
no control over that. What's next, Somebody's gonna roll up
to me and shoot me on the street. I mean,
what are we talking about?
Speaker 6 (21:07):
You?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
It just really blew me away.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
The other thing I wanted to to talk to you about.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Is I think that you know, what happened to Brian
Thompson is awful, but I think it can shed light
on how broken our healthcare system is. And there's no
condoning this at all, But I really hope the incoming administration,
President Trump, can really look at reforming healthcare. I mean,
I've been fainted for years. I just don't understand why
(21:36):
it can't be in the private sector and run more
like autoly serance. I don't know why it's attached to
your employment. There's there's no reason for that, right. Competition
and profit gives you the very best goods and services
and products you have.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. I mean, and
they are. Look, there's very, very legitimate criticism of the
healthcare and health insurance industry. I think it got dramatically
worse because of Obamacare, but that's me. There is a
(22:16):
book that turned into a movie called Raymaker and Anyway.
It was about John Grisham novel and it was, I mean,
really captured, how you know, corrupt some insurance companies can be.
And I know people that have lived through insurance nightmares,
people that have had that have lived through hurricanes. You know,
(22:39):
for example, if you have a hurricane and you think
your house is insured, then the hurricane comes and your
house gets flooded, then you're told, oh no, no, your hurricane
insurance only covers wind and or if in the case
of health insurance, Oh no, no, no, your insurance only
covers this doctor who's never a available, or you're only
(23:01):
allowed one test, not the five tests that you need,
and it frustrates the hell out of people. Now, on
one side of it, Americans have got to get more
in tune with what their insurance is offering. They've got
to look for created alternatives that will provide them the
care that they need if that God forbid moment comes,
(23:24):
you have a heart attack, a stroke, you get cancer,
bad accident. You know, I happen to be a big
believer in catastrophic care. With those high deductibles, you can
afford that would take care that you only pay up
the X number of dollars. But if that bad moment comes,
you're covered. You know, there's there's also now affordable, relatively affordable.
(23:46):
It's not cheap, but it's not off the charts expensive.
You know, for example, if you just want to get
concierge's care for basic things like a coal the sniffles,
a broken bone, broken finger, you know, whatever you need, stitches,
whatever it is, you know, you can get that type
of plan to supplement your care so you don't have
(24:09):
to wait in a waiting room for four thousand hours.
There are options now, but most Americans this is their
big problem. And we've talked about this for years. We
have our friend doctor Josh down in Wichita, Kansas has
been on this program all the time and he has
for fifty dollars a month unlimited visits to his practice
(24:30):
with his partners per adult and I think it's at
the time it was ten dollars for children. They've duplicated
this concierge service all around the country, which makes it
affordable for any American in a town or a city
like Wichita. And I don't know if they could duplicate
that in a big city. I would imagine they probably
(24:50):
could if they wanted to. And so there are alternatives.
And then if you let's say you have high blood
pressure or you have a high cholester levels, you'll leave
his office that day with the medicines because he negotiates
directly with pharmaceutical companies and you get it for penny
on the dollars. Penny's on the dollar. So there are alternatives.
(25:12):
We have discussed them for years, medical savings accounts, things
like that. But you know, we got locked into Obamacare
and it screwed everything up.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Yeah, the dumpster fire that is Obamacare is clearly the
problem here. I just feel that when you put things
in the free market, let the free market figure it out.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
You get a fender.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Bender, you get you file a claim, You pick your
body shop. Why can't I file a claim, pick my
retail hospital, and go and go handle my my situation.
I just I just think that the system is broken.
Like you said, I love the model that you described,
and that sounds great. I just I just feel like
we could have such an amazing, you know, number one
(25:53):
healthcare system in the world because the government has to
get out of the way. Yeah, reasonable regulation, I get that.
Like everything the ABC regulates my industry, right, reasonable regulation.
But let's of free markets. The best goods and services
come from the free markets.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Listen, this is a great we can jumpstart this conversation
into the failures of the insurance industry. It's an issue
that people in Florida are dealing with because of hurricanes,
et cetera. It's a big, big issue, and that's home insurance.
Then you have the high cost of car insurance. I mean,
life is expensive and everything's gotten way more expensive under
(26:29):
Harris and Biden. But we do need to bifurcate this
conversation off of the assassination of the United Healthcare CEO.
You don't justify assassination by saying, well, you know, I
understand why people are frustrated, because then you're making excuses
for assassination anyway, Gordon, appreciate it. Man, Thanks for the call.
(26:51):
Eight hundred and nine four one. Sean, if you want
to be a part of the program. Sewn in Texas
works in the healthcare industry. Sean, how are you.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
I'm fairly good. Thank you, we're taking my call. One
of the things I'm calling about is the misconception that
everybody has with the insurance industry. They think that, you know,
somebody sitting behind the desk saying, oh, I'm going to
decline John. You know he can't have that procedure today.
When it's the plan. You said it exactly right, just
a minute ago. It is the plan that the employer.
(27:22):
Let's say you work for somebody, it's the plan that
they pick. Okay, it's it's the states. The states pick
a plan, and then then.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
The states pick a plan, the employers pick a plan,
and then what people don't do is they don't find
out the details in the plan until it's too.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Late exactly, and they don't want But yet they blame
the insurance company. You know, they're blaming the person because.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Well they do make it frustrating as hell. There's no
you cannot dispute that.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Agree. I absolutely agree. I mean, especially for elder people.
My mom's going through it. It's it's ridiculous with what
they have to go through. But at the same time,
it's it's, you know, to celebrate a murderer, I mean,
people want to marry him. I mean, this is this
guy murdered somebody allectively murdered, somebody, a CEO that has children,
(28:14):
and they want to celebrate him. I mean, that's what
our country has come to.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It is very The problem for many Americans is there's
only one Obamacare exchange option for a big part of
the country. That's a big problem. The cost of health
insurance and home insurance and car insurance a skyrocketed, especially
the last four years, so that's a problem, and inflation
has taken away a lot of disposable income. Though at
(28:40):
some point, you know, you got to prioritize food or
more health insurance. You're probably not going to have the
health insurance. I went for years of my early adult
life with no health insurance. I didn't find out till
years later that my father took out a plan for me.
Didn't tell me about it. After I'd fallen off a
(29:02):
roof and busted up my face and and you know,
broke my arm and dislocated my arm. I didn't any
He told me years later. He goes, I got your
health care plan after the accident. I said, really, I
didn't even know you had done it. And I thought
it was really nice of him to do that, and
and he couldn't afford it. Look, there there are other options,
(29:23):
but you need to know what your plan covers. Does
it Does it give you the level of care you want?
And then you have to factor and if you can
afford it. I couldn't afford health insurance at that point
in my life. I just couldn't. I was barely making
ends meet. I could barely pay my rent. I was
driving a you know, a two hundred dollars van for
a number of those years, my work van, which is
(29:45):
the best two hundred bucks I ever spent my life.
All Right, that's going to wrap things up for Today
Hannity Tonight, nine eastern on the Fox News Channel. We
are loaded up. Where is the urgency over these massive
dining room size drones lying all over New Jersey? Where's Joe?
Where's Kamala's may orchis We'll check in with Jim Jordan.
(30:06):
We also have experts on drones and what they're capable of. Also,
the left celebrating the murder of this United Healthcare ceo.
Why is that happening? Doctor Drew Pinsk weighs in on that.
We'll talk about all the other news of the day,
and bye bye, Chris Ray, Jim Jordan on that, Charles Payne,
(30:26):
Joe Kanca, nine Eastern, Hannity on Fox, See you to night,
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