May 1, 2025 • 28 mins
Senator Rand Paul, of Kentucky, has a very different take on President Trump’s tariffs. Sean and Senator Paul debate the merits of tariffs.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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if you want to be a part of the program.
Always a pleasure to have back on the program, Senator
Ram Paul. He has a different view than the President
on the issue of tariffs. Senator, great to have you back.
How are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Very good, Sean, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Now, I know your constitutional argument, and you don't like
the emergency powers that the president is using, and you
fields and abuse generally. Though you know you've been pretty
supportive of the president. I mean, I think it's been
a pretty productive one hundred days by any objective measure.
Would you agree with that part?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, I give him an a plus for the one
hundred days. I don't like the tariffs and think it'll
be bad for the country, but if he's able to
negotiate lower tariffs, I'll be for a complimentary of that.
But on the cabinet, I was supported, and I've helped
get his cabinet members through my committee chair a committee
been ecstatic about Bobby Kennedy, j benachariot NIH, Marty MCCAREYOT
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FDA cash Battel, Tulsa Gabbard. Many of these are people
I would have picked, frankly, so I've been ecstatic about that.
I think he's doing a lot of good things for
the border, my goodness, without a dollar and without any legislation,
low and behold, just with his sheer presence, his sheer force,
the presidence, he's you know, ended the onslaught at the border.
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I mean, it still has to be watched carefully, but
he's probably reduced the flow of illegal Alians by like
ninety of the border just by saying he cares about
it and sending some extra troops down there.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Let me ask this question before we get to your
constitutional argument, which I'm always interested in hearing. Do you
agree with the premise of the President that friend and
fall alike, that they have ripped off America with unfair
high towers against us. That would include friendly nations like
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Canada and the European Union. For example, the European Union
charges is a ten percent tariff on an American car
being sold in their countries. Then a country like Germany
they have a twenty percent VAT tax, which is a
value added tax, a national sales tax, and you know,
by the time an American car you know, makes it
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on a lot in Germany, it's sticker price is thirty
percent higher, which has rendered a pretty much cost you know,
prohibitive for many people in Germany. And while they sell
about fifty million cars a year annually here, we only
sell about eight million to nine million over there. And
I think that is that those are unfair trade practices.
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Do you agree with the President's premise, which is we're
getting ripped off, We're being abused by even countries that
depend on us for their national security and defense. And
is there something in principle that is really wrong about that?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Definitely on NATO, Yeah, I think we've been ripped off
for years and years and they should be made to
pay their fair share. With trade. I think there is
a fundamental fallacy. So for example, if you say, what
does the US buy from China? What is China about
from the US. They actually don't trade with each other.
Only individuals trade with other individuals. So if people say, well,
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I hate the trade with China and we should buy
from China, that's millions of Americans who go to Walmart
are making a decision. So let's say a million Americans
go and buy a TV at Walmart and it costs
three hundred dollars less, and it comes from China, so
you get a three hundred dollars cheaper TV. Every one
of those million consumers made a trade, but they all
feel like they got a good deal. They wouldn't have
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given up their money to get the thing. So all
trade is advantageous to the people making the trade, or
you won't give up your money. If it's voluntary, you
buy something and you're always happy with the trade. But
if you take all million people who bought a TV
and say three hundred dollars and add it together, and
you say, well, gosh, all those TVs came from China
and none came of America, they're ripping. So it's an
artificial accounting or a way of looking at it. Because
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every individual in the million person trade there was happy.
How can we bundle them together and say we got
ripped off? So you could say it's an unfair country
to country, say well, god, they have hire tariffs, but
if they have hire tariffs on American goods, they are
punishing their consumers. So we can then say, well, we'll
punish our consumers the same as they do. By raising
our arabs to mean no.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
But they're also punishing American American manufacturers, American farmers, American
ranchers because they're closing their markets, like for example, Canada. Canada,
you know, only allows a certain small percentage of dairy
to be brought into their country, and then they go
up to a two hundred and fifty percent tariff, and
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they're basically, well, we have open markets for them and
their manufacturers and their producers and their lumber of people.
Why would they shut the door in the face of
our dairy farmers or are other farmers or other American products,
which they've been doing now for a long period of time.
So in other words, they're hurting farmers and ranchers and
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manufacturers here. And sure, maybe the person that likes getting
a cheaper TV, but the person that actually produces things
that they would otherwise consume, they're they're not given free
access the way where we have given them free access.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So when I first heard this about Canada, I was
somewhat persuaded and somewhat pissed off that they would have
a two hundred and seventy percent tair up on our dairy.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But then looks after a per certain percentage has been sold. Yes,
me and I.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Looked into it, but you know, it doesn't come into
play at all. There is no goods, No dairy goes
to the Canada as the two hundred and seventy percent
chaire because we never reached the quota. And the interesting
thing is is when Trump renegotiated the US Mexico Canada agreement,
he raised the quota, so he was successful in raising
the quota, and we never get anywhere close to the quota.
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So in some ways it's a red herring. There is
a two hundred and seventy percent tariff above a certain amount.
We never get there. We're always well below the number,
so there really is a terriff of zero.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Jerry goes no that the tariff is not zero, because
before you hit that number, the tariff is anywhere between
five and ten percent.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Very small and actually quite a bit of it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I don't think it's small. I mean because we're not
putting tariffs on the products that bring it into this country,
so there is an unfair tariff balance there.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I guess the thing I would say is is that
tariffs punish your own consumers. So Canada or any other
country that wants to punish their consumers can but we shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Right, let's accept that as true. Then don't tariffs high
tariffs also punish I mean maybe we maybe consumers benefit.
I'll concede the point to you. What's the unfair if
the president says you can have we can have free
and fair trade across the board so we have a
level playing field. Or if you're going to tiff us,
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we'll put reciprocal tariffs on you. Tell me why that's unfair.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We're able to negotiate tariff lower. I'd be off with that.
And to the extent that Donald Trump will be able
to in the first ninety days negotiate lower tariffs, I
think that would be great. If we just simply reciprocate
and add to it, There'll be a cost and somebody
has to pay that cost, and that'll be American consumers.
So I don't I'm just an old fashioned conservatives. I
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don't like taxes, tariffs or taxes. Why would I like
taxes any better? On goods that I would like an
income taxer?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But do you believe in I'm with you, I want
low taxes too, But do you believe in free and
fair trade. Also because I'm a free and fair trader.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah. For I think trade itself is an extension of capitalism,
and so capitalism creates great wealth, and so the more
we trade, the more wealth we have. And that's what
we found over seventy years, really is that people have
moved from the lower class in middle class in our
country to the upper class. If you look at prosperity,
if you look at GDP per capita, it's going up astronomically.
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If you look at how many hours it takes to
buy something like a TV, it takes ten percent of
the hours that used to take rice food, It takes
ten percent of the time clothing. We've had extraordinary wealth
because we now have a free time from all that
money we saved through international trade to buy other stuff
or to have more leisure time. So really the story
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of trade over the last seventy years has been one
of extraordinary prosperity for our country.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I do think, and you seem to, you know, not
concede this point, that would be that we've been ripped
off and treated unfairly, and especially by countries. It's not
just NATO, it's all of Europe. Pretty much depends on
the United States for the national security, and a lot
of these countries have not paid their fair share to NATO.
That's one aspect of it. But the idea that they're
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going to charge tariffs to American manufacturers and American companies
and farmers and ranchers, I just think fundamentally is unfair.
And I don't think they're being honest brokers and and
good trading partners and good allies when they do that
to us, which, as you rightly do point out, is
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beneficial to everybody, but it's more beneficial to them right now.
And the president's challenging that status quo. And I think
it's going to result in better deals. I can't say
for certain, and I hope it's going to result in
better deals.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
They're not wrong that there's the appearance and the reality
of it being unfair at one country is high tariffs
and one country is low tariffs. But someone has to
pay if you want to have If you're going to
force like somebody has a twenty percent tariff on you
and you as a zero you said I want to
do twenty percent, the American consumer will have to absorb
that twenty percent in order to get a better sense
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of fairness, but there's an economic cost to it. And
so what I'm going to say.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Is that is it wrong then to challenge the system
and at least put the pressure on to to at
least at least try to get the system more fair
and more free.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I'm all for the negotiations I worry about out when
you put one hundred and forty six percent tariff on
things from Vietnam and the marketplace looks at that and
people get scared out of the wits and sell six
point six trillion dollars worth of stock in two days.
This isn't just me complaining. This is the marketplace, which
is millions of self interested, self centered but also people
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who have a great deal of knowledge are all trading,
and that simultaneous knowledge that the market that place tells
is they were worried about all of that. So there
is a way to try to negotiate trade deals and
lower trade and to enhance trade, but yet to be careful.
But I'd take two items. I'd take steel and choose,
and i would say, we've tried to protect steel on
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and off for seventy years, but are steal was inefficient?
Organized labor unions demanded extraordinary wages, and we just got
out competed with cars. When you look at cars, the
Japanese are just so much better. They're still better. They
come to our country and manufacture here, and they still
make it better and cheap for the American cars do
and they do it here. I don't think there's any
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amount of tariff that's bringing the steel industry back, and
I don't think there's any amount of tariff that brings
shoes back. But we replaced some of the shoe jobs,
like we make BMW and Green.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well actually didn't. The President kind of got these companies Nissan, Honda,
for example, Toyota. My understanding is BMW, Mercedes are going
to build their cars with more American parts here as
the means of bypassing the tariffs. And I like it
because that results in high paying career jobs for Americans.
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So I think the market is adjusting to the President's
challenge in that sense.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
No, so we make three in Kentucky. We make the Corvette,
which is American aid, we make the Toyota Camery which.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Is American Corvette Z six is awesome, and we all make.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
The four truck. All of these manufacturers come to me
and they say that the tariffs that have been placed
on the twenty five percent terraff between Mexico and Canada,
he adjusted to a low tariff atmosphere and they had
a lot of parts going back and forth. They say,
simply the compliance costs. Now banks can complain about compliance
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costs of regulations. The compliance costs are figuring out a
tariff on every volt where it comes from. We have
seamless supply chain going back and forth between Canada, the
US and Mexico is extraordinary. But they're talking about five
to ten thousand dollars a car, so just not good
for America to pay more. At five to ten thousand
dollars more. In the end, you could say, well it's fair,
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but Americans are going to have to pay five to
ten thousand dollars more per car, and I think a
lot of Americans will say, well, I'm going to put
off buying a car, and then we may end up
having a recession if everybody quits buying stuff because the
tariff tax is so high.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
My best bet, and I can't put a guarantee on it,
is that all these countries that have expressed interest in
making deals with President Trump. I believe that that is real.
I think China will be the most difficult to make
a deal with, but in the end, they need access
to our markets, and we probably need their rare earth
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minerals way more than we'd want to acknowledge.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
That's more trade if we get that on for it.
But like let's say, for example, antibiotics, I don't want
four precious antibotics to only be made in China.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
So what I would no, way, that's a security issue.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, well, you know what I would do rather than
the teriff issue where we might have no antibiotics or
the antibotic prices my triple, I would offer zero percent
corporate tax on somebody who'll make those antibiotics in our
country for ten years. I'd say no tax I wouldn't
say lower taxes. I would say no taxes will remove obstacles,
will expedite the approve of it. But if you want
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to make a maxacillin, which is dedrivative of penicillin in
our country and it's only anything only made in China,
you know, in fact, if that's legislation that we're considering introducing,
would be legislation to zero out taxes on anything that's
solely done in China, then we're not ruining the marketplace
before fixing it. It takes a while, might take a
year or two for a company to develop a steel company,
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might cost one hundred billion for a blast furnace. I
just don't think that's happening. But I'm not against giving
tax inventives to US steel companies.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Look, this is going to play out. I agree with you, though.
I think the quicker these issues are resolved and hopefully
better and freer and fairer trade deals would benefit not
only consumers, butt manufacturers and farmers and ranchers that have
been shut out of some of these markets. I think
is the benefit for all Americans in the end. But
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it's complicated. The sooner it's resolved, I would agree with you,
the better it's going to be for everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
If we could have within the ninety days a reciprocal
lowering affaires between countries, and now that you'll see a
boom and an increase in the market like you haven't
seen big time. Yeah, but we needed Right now, we're
increasing government aid for farmers because the farmers are going
to be excluded from China's market.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
China will also have to give in over time. We're
just out of time, though, a Senator Rampaul, we always
appreciate you, thanks so much for being with us Democrats,
I mean the party of angry, petulant bingo cards, slogans, singing,
and now the party led by the squad aoc Chasmine
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Crockett and Grandpa Bernie. You know they're just out of
it and just had a complete meltdown during about Donald
Trump's first hundred days. Let's play it. Let me tell
you we have a thug and charge of the United States,
and if we don't wake up, we may not have
a United States.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I don't swear in colicary love, but we have to
Trump trouble Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
And and what Grant said is there are but two
parties in America right now, patriots and traders.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
When is it going to be enough?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
My voice is inadequate, my.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Efforts today, are you inadequate to.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Stop what they're trying to do? You get Trump mustered hands.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Must now. The President, I think very smartly went to
Michigan last night and he decided to lay out his
case for his first hundred days and all the success
and frankly the foundation that he is building for a
lot of future American growth, prosperity, the America's golden age,
as he calls it.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
We've set all time records for the lowest number of
illegal border crossings ever recorded.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Think of that ever recorded.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I'm proud to be the president for the workers and
not the outsources, the president who stands up for Main
Street on Wall Street. Our golden age has only just begun.
We are one people, one family, and one glorious nation
under God.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
We will never give in.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
We will never give up, we will never back down.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
We will never ever surrender.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
We will fight, fight, fight, and we will win, win, win.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
And he capped off the day an interview with Terry
Moran uh over facilitating of Bregoe Garcia's return to the US.
Apparently one of this was this on ABC Nightly News
last night. Is that where they aired this, Linda, it is.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Indeed, I know you were watching with bated breath.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
No, I haven't watched one of those.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Oh no, you love liberal news media.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Okay, I don't even know who the anchor is anymore. Donald,
I heard I heard that. Well, apparently wouldn't give the
interview to little Georgie and uh and David muror so
Terry Moran. I'm like, any I don't think he knew
who he was, that he was.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Out of here clips, you know. And David Muir doesn't
do an interview unless he can have his jacket nice
and tight. So Donald Trump wasn't, you know, couldn't make
it work. He's like, sorry, brother, whatever.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I cannot tell you. Who anchors NBC Nightly News since
Lester Holt left. I have no idea. I have. I
have no idea. After Nora O'Donnell was sacked from CBS.
Who's anchor in that show? You know? It could be
Katie Kirk for all I know. I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Could be Katy Perry for all you know, you know
and make it really weird.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Could be Katy Perry. He's busy flying rocket ships and
kissing Mother Earth or whatever she is. Eleven minutes later,
upon return the star struck.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
In quote unquote space with a sunflower.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Give me a break whatever, I mean, who cares? I
don't know what. But it was a whole story about
people hating on Katy Perry. I don't just like her,
I do I did see her on American Idol, and
she seemed like a nice person.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
She took that land from the nuns kind of over her.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Oh that's right, I remember that contrary.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Yeah, you can't forget that stuff. You can't mess with nuns. Man.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Come on, I ever tell you before I get to
Terry Moran and Trump, I ever tell you the story.
I bought a property and I get a letter. Well,
actually the letter came to a friend of mine. They
didn't have contact with me, and in the letter, it
turns out and we were in full contract. You know,
they had no legal right to get the house back,
and they had sellers remorse, really and just you know,
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invoking probably the name of Jesus more than I could
count on one page, you know, hopefully just desperately wanted
their house back. And I'm like, I'm like, sure, no problem.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
They wanted the houseback that you bought from.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Them, correct copy. I was in contract to clothes on
very soon and they went. They and the person had
sellows remorse. They regretted selling it, but.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
It was it like their family home. Were they in
it for like thirty years or I.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Don't know, I didn't didn't. How do you know?
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Would you ask questions when you're at closing I.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Just wanted this strong letter begging me not to buy
their house. And you know, I know you're a Christian.
I know you believe in Jesus, and I do this.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
When you were already Sean Hannity, Or is this like
pre Sean Handity, like did they know who you were?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
No, no, this is what what do you mean pre show?
There was no pre show?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
There's like Sean Hannity, I'm full and off a roof,
I'm working on boats, and then they're shine already.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Kennedy didn't have money to buy a house. Unfortunately, at
that time in my life, I was barely paying my rent,
and so I of course said, of course you're gonna
have your house back. If you don't feel good about it,
I'm not gonna. I can't well, I mean, what kind
of person would you be. You got to have a heart,
You gotta have a soul. I would have liked the house,
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but I'm not going to make anything more important than
being a good person.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
That's really really nice. Maybe you should call Katie Perry and.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Tell her to give the nuns their property back.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Here you go, like, hey, miss Firework, how do you
feel about that?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I just never had had an experience like that, and
I'm reading this letter every fifth order is Jesus. It
was just in that sense it was funny because I'm like, Okay,
you don't have to overseell me here. You regret selling
the house, you wish you didn't do it? Why would I?
Why would I want to bring pain into this person's life?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Now when you gave it back, did you like communicate
through your agent or did you actually like talk to
the person?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
And I always use lawyers. I might have talked to
the woman briefly and just said, Okay, you'll cover the
costs of what I spent and you're gonna have your
house back.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
But I mean, like, were they relieve? Were they happy?
Like what happened? I want the details?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Of course the woman was happy. I said, it gave
her what she wanted.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Did she tell you why?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Conversation I remember having was Okay, I understand, not a
big deal. Sure I'll you know, I'll rip up the contract.
You just agree to pay for the cost that I
incurred in the process of buying the house, which is
not you know, I was next to nothing. I paid
for an inspection, and I paid for you know, maybe
a lawyer.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Well, I think that's very nice of you, and I
hope that it was her family.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
You would do the same thing.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Or I would absolutely When I buy my vacation home
and somebody wants my other home and I put this
home shore, I hope that someday that is a problem
I have.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Now, if at the home had already been transferred to
my name, I probably say you should have thought of
that before you sold it. At that point, you know,
you just go through too much of a rigmarole, just
too then it becomes too hard. I mean, you know,
come back a year.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Later at the property from you and they could pay
the mortgage.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
You could do that too.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
There's all listen, there's always a at the end of
the day. There is always a way. It's just how
bad you want it.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
That's all all right. I forget about Terry Moran. Let's
get to our phones. I don't care about him. Uh
let's say Hida Blanca Maryland, Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Hi, afternoon. Well, I just wanted to share with you
that I'm a proud American naturalized citizen from Alfavador. And
uh I am from Maryland. I am ma'am.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
So you're a true Marylander.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Well, yes, originally from Melfavador, but yes I am a Marylander.
And uh in where the dents have turned Baltimore, Maryland
into bullet war murder land. Uh, that is what they
have done here. The policies have cost lives, which that
cannot be replaced. The economic just the there is no
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safety net. The economic turmoil that we're under is unbearable.
And I wanted to share as a Salvadorian and now
American that oftentimes I've seen been here twenty excuse me,
forty two years next month, and I have seen immigrants
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fight harder than those who are born here. That's very disappointing.
It's very disappointing.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Oh, I totally agree with you. I have seen immigrants
that appreciate freedom, especially if they come from countries where
they didn't have freedom and opportunity, you know, really appreciate
this country more than Americans. We kind of take things
as natural human nature to take things for granted. And
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I remember one night I was working in an office
that this is when I was a painting contractor, and
it was overnight. I had to paint, and you know,
incomes this guy and he was a Russian immigrant and
the guy you know and ended up being so successful,
and he was there to clean the offices in the
middle of the night with his young son. I couldn't
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sat talk to the guy for like an hour and
a half. Learned a lot from him.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Yes, yes, because one thing. And I can't say for all,
because I can't generalize all individuals. But one thing I
can say is that the circumstances that brought me here.
I was abused as a child in every way that
abuse could occur to someone, and I was adopted, and
I was adopted at age ten. So assimilating to a
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new country, a new culture, a new family, a new home,
a new way of life, a new language, it really
helps me to understand the cost of what it means
to retain and preserve. I think that oftentime, many many
people that are that were born here, they they kind
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of release. We try to retain. As conservatives, we retain
and we preserve that they try to release, and then
they pander, they tander to hold power, and that power
is not really power because they are holding so many
people hostage. The political party, especially here in Baltimore City,
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is it's as corrupt as the late, the day is long.
It's very corrupt between the money that go to one
nonprofit to this nonprofit. And this one has a boyfriend
and that's why he got the grant. And then now
you know they're not together. And now this and that,
I mean this safe streets scam that we have here
you know where where where you can't know who they are,
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but we know that they have a record and they're
just basically just walking around the streets being tour guides.
This is what safe streets is. Nobody can call it
out because then you're called every name. The school system
gets one point seven billion dollars. Yet we have eighty
one thousand people just in Baltimore without a high school degree,
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and so as.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
An immigrant, are there at thirteen or fifteen or some
astronomical number of Maryland high schools where kids not one
kid could pass a proficiency test in either reading, English
or math. Not one kid in high schools thirteen high
schools thirteen, yes.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
In the thirteen out of the thirty seven schools. That
is correct. That is because the Democrats continue to lie
that you can get ahead by doing nothing, being socially promoted,
and then there's no accountability the rec centers are ready
to be opened onto eleven PM. And you know what
that means. Just the kids are going to just be
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at a rec center while the parents are aware they
should be at home, they should be trained. But the perpetual,
the preschool to the preschool to prison pipeline is real here.
So I just wanted to let you know that as
an immigrant, I listened to you. I'm been a Republican
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for over twenty years. I was one of those like.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
The let me just say something only because I'm looking
at the clock and I'm going to run out of
time here. I support legal immigration. You know what. We
are a better country because of people like you, And
I don't care where you come from. I just asked
people to do it legally, respect our laws, border sovereignty,
and we need to do background checks to make sure
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you don't have radical associations, health checks post COVID, and
make sure that you're not a financial burden on the
American people. And here you are in this country, facing challenges,
having a learning language, new family, all of that, and
look at the great American you are, the great Marylander
you are today And I don't care where people come from.
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We just have to have rules that allow them. Joe
Biden allowed in terrorists, cartel members, gang members, murderers, rapists,
violent criminals. We can't do that. But Blanca, you show
how an immigration system should work, and it was designed
to work, and you did it legally, and I'm glad
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your life turned out the way it didn't. We're glad
you're here. You're part of our family. All right, that's
going to wrap things up at today. We'll check in
with Newkingridge tonight. Elena Hama joins us tonight, Victor Davis Hansen,
Horace Cooper. We'll have a Hannity shootout. Haven't had that
in a while. Jessica Tarlaw versus Mary Catherine Ham, Joe Kansha,
and our other news of the day segment and much more.
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Nine Easter news you will never ever get from the
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All right, news round up in information Overload hour. Here's
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our toll free number. It's eight hundred and nine four one, Sean,
if you want to be a part of the program.
Always a pleasure to have back on the program, Senator
Ram Paul. He has a different view than the President
on the issue of tariffs. Senator, great to have you back.
How are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Very good, Sean, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Now, I know your constitutional argument, and you don't like
the emergency powers that the president is using, and you
fields and abuse generally. Though you know you've been pretty
supportive of the president. I mean, I think it's been
a pretty productive one hundred days by any objective measure.
Would you agree with that part?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, I give him an a plus for the one
hundred days. I don't like the tariffs and think it'll
be bad for the country, but if he's able to
negotiate lower tariffs, I'll be for a complimentary of that.
But on the cabinet, I was supported, and I've helped
get his cabinet members through my committee chair a committee
been ecstatic about Bobby Kennedy, j benachariot NIH, Marty MCCAREYOT
(01:02):
FDA cash Battel, Tulsa Gabbard. Many of these are people
I would have picked, frankly, so I've been ecstatic about that.
I think he's doing a lot of good things for
the border, my goodness, without a dollar and without any legislation,
low and behold, just with his sheer presence, his sheer force,
the presidence, he's you know, ended the onslaught at the border.
(01:26):
I mean, it still has to be watched carefully, but
he's probably reduced the flow of illegal Alians by like
ninety of the border just by saying he cares about
it and sending some extra troops down there.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Let me ask this question before we get to your
constitutional argument, which I'm always interested in hearing. Do you
agree with the premise of the President that friend and
fall alike, that they have ripped off America with unfair
high towers against us. That would include friendly nations like
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Canada and the European Union. For example, the European Union
charges is a ten percent tariff on an American car
being sold in their countries. Then a country like Germany
they have a twenty percent VAT tax, which is a
value added tax, a national sales tax, and you know,
by the time an American car you know, makes it
(02:20):
on a lot in Germany, it's sticker price is thirty
percent higher, which has rendered a pretty much cost you know,
prohibitive for many people in Germany. And while they sell
about fifty million cars a year annually here, we only
sell about eight million to nine million over there. And
I think that is that those are unfair trade practices.
(02:44):
Do you agree with the President's premise, which is we're
getting ripped off, We're being abused by even countries that
depend on us for their national security and defense. And
is there something in principle that is really wrong about that?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Definitely on NATO, Yeah, I think we've been ripped off
for years and years and they should be made to
pay their fair share. With trade. I think there is
a fundamental fallacy. So for example, if you say, what
does the US buy from China? What is China about
from the US. They actually don't trade with each other.
Only individuals trade with other individuals. So if people say, well,
(03:20):
I hate the trade with China and we should buy
from China, that's millions of Americans who go to Walmart
are making a decision. So let's say a million Americans
go and buy a TV at Walmart and it costs
three hundred dollars less, and it comes from China, so
you get a three hundred dollars cheaper TV. Every one
of those million consumers made a trade, but they all
feel like they got a good deal. They wouldn't have
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given up their money to get the thing. So all
trade is advantageous to the people making the trade, or
you won't give up your money. If it's voluntary, you
buy something and you're always happy with the trade. But
if you take all million people who bought a TV
and say three hundred dollars and add it together, and
you say, well, gosh, all those TVs came from China
and none came of America, they're ripping. So it's an
artificial accounting or a way of looking at it. Because
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every individual in the million person trade there was happy.
How can we bundle them together and say we got
ripped off? So you could say it's an unfair country
to country, say well, god, they have hire tariffs, but
if they have hire tariffs on American goods, they are
punishing their consumers. So we can then say, well, we'll
punish our consumers the same as they do. By raising
our arabs to mean no.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
But they're also punishing American American manufacturers, American farmers, American
ranchers because they're closing their markets, like for example, Canada. Canada,
you know, only allows a certain small percentage of dairy
to be brought into their country, and then they go
up to a two hundred and fifty percent tariff, and
(04:47):
they're basically, well, we have open markets for them and
their manufacturers and their producers and their lumber of people.
Why would they shut the door in the face of
our dairy farmers or are other farmers or other American products,
which they've been doing now for a long period of time.
So in other words, they're hurting farmers and ranchers and
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manufacturers here. And sure, maybe the person that likes getting
a cheaper TV, but the person that actually produces things
that they would otherwise consume, they're they're not given free
access the way where we have given them free access.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So when I first heard this about Canada, I was
somewhat persuaded and somewhat pissed off that they would have
a two hundred and seventy percent tair up on our dairy.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But then looks after a per certain percentage has been sold. Yes,
me and I.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Looked into it, but you know, it doesn't come into
play at all. There is no goods, No dairy goes
to the Canada as the two hundred and seventy percent
chaire because we never reached the quota. And the interesting
thing is is when Trump renegotiated the US Mexico Canada agreement,
he raised the quota, so he was successful in raising
the quota, and we never get anywhere close to the quota.
(05:57):
So in some ways it's a red herring. There is
a two hundred and seventy percent tariff above a certain amount.
We never get there. We're always well below the number,
so there really is a terriff of zero.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Jerry goes no that the tariff is not zero, because
before you hit that number, the tariff is anywhere between
five and ten percent.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Very small and actually quite a bit of it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I don't think it's small. I mean because we're not
putting tariffs on the products that bring it into this country,
so there is an unfair tariff balance there.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I guess the thing I would say is is that
tariffs punish your own consumers. So Canada or any other
country that wants to punish their consumers can but we shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Right, let's accept that as true. Then don't tariffs high
tariffs also punish I mean maybe we maybe consumers benefit.
I'll concede the point to you. What's the unfair if
the president says you can have we can have free
and fair trade across the board so we have a
level playing field. Or if you're going to tiff us,
(06:56):
we'll put reciprocal tariffs on you. Tell me why that's unfair.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We're able to negotiate tariff lower. I'd be off with that.
And to the extent that Donald Trump will be able
to in the first ninety days negotiate lower tariffs, I
think that would be great. If we just simply reciprocate
and add to it, There'll be a cost and somebody
has to pay that cost, and that'll be American consumers.
So I don't I'm just an old fashioned conservatives. I
(07:20):
don't like taxes, tariffs or taxes. Why would I like
taxes any better? On goods that I would like an
income taxer?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But do you believe in I'm with you, I want
low taxes too, But do you believe in free and
fair trade. Also because I'm a free and fair trader.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah. For I think trade itself is an extension of capitalism,
and so capitalism creates great wealth, and so the more
we trade, the more wealth we have. And that's what
we found over seventy years, really is that people have
moved from the lower class in middle class in our
country to the upper class. If you look at prosperity,
if you look at GDP per capita, it's going up astronomically.
(07:55):
If you look at how many hours it takes to
buy something like a TV, it takes ten percent of
the hours that used to take rice food, It takes
ten percent of the time clothing. We've had extraordinary wealth
because we now have a free time from all that
money we saved through international trade to buy other stuff
or to have more leisure time. So really the story
(08:17):
of trade over the last seventy years has been one
of extraordinary prosperity for our country.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I do think, and you seem to, you know, not
concede this point, that would be that we've been ripped
off and treated unfairly, and especially by countries. It's not
just NATO, it's all of Europe. Pretty much depends on
the United States for the national security, and a lot
of these countries have not paid their fair share to NATO.
That's one aspect of it. But the idea that they're
(08:46):
going to charge tariffs to American manufacturers and American companies
and farmers and ranchers, I just think fundamentally is unfair.
And I don't think they're being honest brokers and and
good trading partners and good allies when they do that
to us, which, as you rightly do point out, is
(09:07):
beneficial to everybody, but it's more beneficial to them right now.
And the president's challenging that status quo. And I think
it's going to result in better deals. I can't say
for certain, and I hope it's going to result in
better deals.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
They're not wrong that there's the appearance and the reality
of it being unfair at one country is high tariffs
and one country is low tariffs. But someone has to
pay if you want to have If you're going to
force like somebody has a twenty percent tariff on you
and you as a zero you said I want to
do twenty percent, the American consumer will have to absorb
that twenty percent in order to get a better sense
(09:39):
of fairness, but there's an economic cost to it. And
so what I'm going to say.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Is that is it wrong then to challenge the system
and at least put the pressure on to to at
least at least try to get the system more fair
and more free.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I'm all for the negotiations I worry about out when
you put one hundred and forty six percent tariff on
things from Vietnam and the marketplace looks at that and
people get scared out of the wits and sell six
point six trillion dollars worth of stock in two days.
This isn't just me complaining. This is the marketplace, which
is millions of self interested, self centered but also people
(10:21):
who have a great deal of knowledge are all trading,
and that simultaneous knowledge that the market that place tells
is they were worried about all of that. So there
is a way to try to negotiate trade deals and
lower trade and to enhance trade, but yet to be careful.
But I'd take two items. I'd take steel and choose,
and i would say, we've tried to protect steel on
(10:42):
and off for seventy years, but are steal was inefficient?
Organized labor unions demanded extraordinary wages, and we just got
out competed with cars. When you look at cars, the
Japanese are just so much better. They're still better. They
come to our country and manufacture here, and they still
make it better and cheap for the American cars do
and they do it here. I don't think there's any
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amount of tariff that's bringing the steel industry back, and
I don't think there's any amount of tariff that brings
shoes back. But we replaced some of the shoe jobs,
like we make BMW and Green.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well actually didn't. The President kind of got these companies Nissan, Honda,
for example, Toyota. My understanding is BMW, Mercedes are going
to build their cars with more American parts here as
the means of bypassing the tariffs. And I like it
because that results in high paying career jobs for Americans.
(11:34):
So I think the market is adjusting to the President's
challenge in that sense.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
No, so we make three in Kentucky. We make the Corvette,
which is American aid, we make the Toyota Camery which.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Is American Corvette Z six is awesome, and we all make.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
The four truck. All of these manufacturers come to me
and they say that the tariffs that have been placed
on the twenty five percent terraff between Mexico and Canada,
he adjusted to a low tariff atmosphere and they had
a lot of parts going back and forth. They say,
simply the compliance costs. Now banks can complain about compliance
(12:10):
costs of regulations. The compliance costs are figuring out a
tariff on every volt where it comes from. We have
seamless supply chain going back and forth between Canada, the
US and Mexico is extraordinary. But they're talking about five
to ten thousand dollars a car, so just not good
for America to pay more. At five to ten thousand
dollars more. In the end, you could say, well it's fair,
(12:31):
but Americans are going to have to pay five to
ten thousand dollars more per car, and I think a
lot of Americans will say, well, I'm going to put
off buying a car, and then we may end up
having a recession if everybody quits buying stuff because the
tariff tax is so high.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
My best bet, and I can't put a guarantee on it,
is that all these countries that have expressed interest in
making deals with President Trump. I believe that that is real.
I think China will be the most difficult to make
a deal with, but in the end, they need access
to our markets, and we probably need their rare earth
(13:04):
minerals way more than we'd want to acknowledge.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
That's more trade if we get that on for it.
But like let's say, for example, antibiotics, I don't want
four precious antibotics to only be made in China.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
So what I would no, way, that's a security issue.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, well, you know what I would do rather than
the teriff issue where we might have no antibiotics or
the antibotic prices my triple, I would offer zero percent
corporate tax on somebody who'll make those antibiotics in our
country for ten years. I'd say no tax I wouldn't
say lower taxes. I would say no taxes will remove obstacles,
will expedite the approve of it. But if you want
(13:39):
to make a maxacillin, which is dedrivative of penicillin in
our country and it's only anything only made in China,
you know, in fact, if that's legislation that we're considering introducing,
would be legislation to zero out taxes on anything that's
solely done in China, then we're not ruining the marketplace
before fixing it. It takes a while, might take a
year or two for a company to develop a steel company,
(14:02):
might cost one hundred billion for a blast furnace. I
just don't think that's happening. But I'm not against giving
tax inventives to US steel companies.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Look, this is going to play out. I agree with you, though.
I think the quicker these issues are resolved and hopefully
better and freer and fairer trade deals would benefit not
only consumers, butt manufacturers and farmers and ranchers that have
been shut out of some of these markets. I think
is the benefit for all Americans in the end. But
(14:30):
it's complicated. The sooner it's resolved, I would agree with you,
the better it's going to be for everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
If we could have within the ninety days a reciprocal
lowering affaires between countries, and now that you'll see a
boom and an increase in the market like you haven't
seen big time. Yeah, but we needed Right now, we're
increasing government aid for farmers because the farmers are going
to be excluded from China's market.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
China will also have to give in over time. We're
just out of time, though, a Senator Rampaul, we always
appreciate you, thanks so much for being with us Democrats,
I mean the party of angry, petulant bingo cards, slogans, singing,
and now the party led by the squad aoc Chasmine
(15:12):
Crockett and Grandpa Bernie. You know they're just out of
it and just had a complete meltdown during about Donald
Trump's first hundred days. Let's play it. Let me tell
you we have a thug and charge of the United States,
and if we don't wake up, we may not have
a United States.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I don't swear in colicary love, but we have to
Trump trouble Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
And and what Grant said is there are but two
parties in America right now, patriots and traders.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
When is it going to be enough?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
My voice is inadequate, my.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Efforts today, are you inadequate to.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Stop what they're trying to do? You get Trump mustered hands.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Must now. The President, I think very smartly went to
Michigan last night and he decided to lay out his
case for his first hundred days and all the success
and frankly the foundation that he is building for a
lot of future American growth, prosperity, the America's golden age,
as he calls it.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
We've set all time records for the lowest number of
illegal border crossings ever recorded.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Think of that ever recorded.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I'm proud to be the president for the workers and
not the outsources, the president who stands up for Main
Street on Wall Street. Our golden age has only just begun.
We are one people, one family, and one glorious nation
under God.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
We will never give in.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
We will never give up, we will never back down.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
We will never ever surrender.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
We will fight, fight, fight, and we will win, win, win.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
And he capped off the day an interview with Terry
Moran uh over facilitating of Bregoe Garcia's return to the US.
Apparently one of this was this on ABC Nightly News
last night. Is that where they aired this, Linda, it is.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Indeed, I know you were watching with bated breath.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
No, I haven't watched one of those.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Oh no, you love liberal news media.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Okay, I don't even know who the anchor is anymore. Donald,
I heard I heard that. Well, apparently wouldn't give the
interview to little Georgie and uh and David muror so
Terry Moran. I'm like, any I don't think he knew
who he was, that he was.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Out of here clips, you know. And David Muir doesn't
do an interview unless he can have his jacket nice
and tight. So Donald Trump wasn't, you know, couldn't make
it work. He's like, sorry, brother, whatever.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I cannot tell you. Who anchors NBC Nightly News since
Lester Holt left. I have no idea. I have. I
have no idea. After Nora O'Donnell was sacked from CBS.
Who's anchor in that show? You know? It could be
Katie Kirk for all I know. I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Could be Katy Perry for all you know, you know
and make it really weird.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Could be Katy Perry. He's busy flying rocket ships and
kissing Mother Earth or whatever she is. Eleven minutes later,
upon return the star struck.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
In quote unquote space with a sunflower.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Give me a break whatever, I mean, who cares? I
don't know what. But it was a whole story about
people hating on Katy Perry. I don't just like her,
I do I did see her on American Idol, and
she seemed like a nice person.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
She took that land from the nuns kind of over her.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Oh that's right, I remember that contrary.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Yeah, you can't forget that stuff. You can't mess with nuns. Man.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Come on, I ever tell you before I get to
Terry Moran and Trump, I ever tell you the story.
I bought a property and I get a letter. Well,
actually the letter came to a friend of mine. They
didn't have contact with me, and in the letter, it
turns out and we were in full contract. You know,
they had no legal right to get the house back,
and they had sellers remorse, really and just you know,
(19:08):
invoking probably the name of Jesus more than I could
count on one page, you know, hopefully just desperately wanted
their house back. And I'm like, I'm like, sure, no problem.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
They wanted the houseback that you bought from.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Them, correct copy. I was in contract to clothes on
very soon and they went. They and the person had
sellows remorse. They regretted selling it, but.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
It was it like their family home. Were they in
it for like thirty years or I.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Don't know, I didn't didn't. How do you know?
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Would you ask questions when you're at closing I.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Just wanted this strong letter begging me not to buy
their house. And you know, I know you're a Christian.
I know you believe in Jesus, and I do this.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
When you were already Sean Hannity, Or is this like
pre Sean Handity, like did they know who you were?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
No, no, this is what what do you mean pre show?
There was no pre show?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
There's like Sean Hannity, I'm full and off a roof,
I'm working on boats, and then they're shine already.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Kennedy didn't have money to buy a house. Unfortunately, at
that time in my life, I was barely paying my rent,
and so I of course said, of course you're gonna
have your house back. If you don't feel good about it,
I'm not gonna. I can't well, I mean, what kind
of person would you be. You got to have a heart,
You gotta have a soul. I would have liked the house,
(20:24):
but I'm not going to make anything more important than
being a good person.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
That's really really nice. Maybe you should call Katie Perry and.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Tell her to give the nuns their property back.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Here you go, like, hey, miss Firework, how do you
feel about that?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I just never had had an experience like that, and
I'm reading this letter every fifth order is Jesus. It
was just in that sense it was funny because I'm like, Okay,
you don't have to overseell me here. You regret selling
the house, you wish you didn't do it? Why would I?
Why would I want to bring pain into this person's life?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Now when you gave it back, did you like communicate
through your agent or did you actually like talk to
the person?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
And I always use lawyers. I might have talked to
the woman briefly and just said, Okay, you'll cover the
costs of what I spent and you're gonna have your
house back.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
But I mean, like, were they relieve? Were they happy?
Like what happened? I want the details?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Of course the woman was happy. I said, it gave
her what she wanted.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Did she tell you why?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Conversation I remember having was Okay, I understand, not a
big deal. Sure I'll you know, I'll rip up the contract.
You just agree to pay for the cost that I
incurred in the process of buying the house, which is
not you know, I was next to nothing. I paid
for an inspection, and I paid for you know, maybe
a lawyer.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Well, I think that's very nice of you, and I
hope that it was her family.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
You would do the same thing.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Or I would absolutely When I buy my vacation home
and somebody wants my other home and I put this
home shore, I hope that someday that is a problem
I have.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Now, if at the home had already been transferred to
my name, I probably say you should have thought of
that before you sold it. At that point, you know,
you just go through too much of a rigmarole, just
too then it becomes too hard. I mean, you know,
come back a year.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Later at the property from you and they could pay
the mortgage.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
You could do that too.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
There's all listen, there's always a at the end of
the day. There is always a way. It's just how
bad you want it.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
That's all all right. I forget about Terry Moran. Let's
get to our phones. I don't care about him. Uh
let's say Hida Blanca Maryland, Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Hi, afternoon. Well, I just wanted to share with you
that I'm a proud American naturalized citizen from Alfavador. And
uh I am from Maryland. I am ma'am.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
So you're a true Marylander.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Well, yes, originally from Melfavador, but yes I am a Marylander.
And uh in where the dents have turned Baltimore, Maryland
into bullet war murder land. Uh, that is what they
have done here. The policies have cost lives, which that
cannot be replaced. The economic just the there is no
(23:07):
safety net. The economic turmoil that we're under is unbearable.
And I wanted to share as a Salvadorian and now
American that oftentimes I've seen been here twenty excuse me,
forty two years next month, and I have seen immigrants
(23:27):
fight harder than those who are born here. That's very disappointing.
It's very disappointing.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Oh, I totally agree with you. I have seen immigrants
that appreciate freedom, especially if they come from countries where
they didn't have freedom and opportunity, you know, really appreciate
this country more than Americans. We kind of take things
as natural human nature to take things for granted. And
(23:59):
I remember one night I was working in an office
that this is when I was a painting contractor, and
it was overnight. I had to paint, and you know,
incomes this guy and he was a Russian immigrant and
the guy you know and ended up being so successful,
and he was there to clean the offices in the
middle of the night with his young son. I couldn't
(24:20):
sat talk to the guy for like an hour and
a half. Learned a lot from him.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Yes, yes, because one thing. And I can't say for all,
because I can't generalize all individuals. But one thing I
can say is that the circumstances that brought me here.
I was abused as a child in every way that
abuse could occur to someone, and I was adopted, and
I was adopted at age ten. So assimilating to a
(24:44):
new country, a new culture, a new family, a new home,
a new way of life, a new language, it really
helps me to understand the cost of what it means
to retain and preserve. I think that oftentime, many many
people that are that were born here, they they kind
(25:06):
of release. We try to retain. As conservatives, we retain
and we preserve that they try to release, and then
they pander, they tander to hold power, and that power
is not really power because they are holding so many
people hostage. The political party, especially here in Baltimore City,
(25:28):
is it's as corrupt as the late, the day is long.
It's very corrupt between the money that go to one
nonprofit to this nonprofit. And this one has a boyfriend
and that's why he got the grant. And then now
you know they're not together. And now this and that,
I mean this safe streets scam that we have here
you know where where where you can't know who they are,
(25:49):
but we know that they have a record and they're
just basically just walking around the streets being tour guides.
This is what safe streets is. Nobody can call it
out because then you're called every name. The school system
gets one point seven billion dollars. Yet we have eighty
one thousand people just in Baltimore without a high school degree,
(26:11):
and so as.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
An immigrant, are there at thirteen or fifteen or some
astronomical number of Maryland high schools where kids not one
kid could pass a proficiency test in either reading, English
or math. Not one kid in high schools thirteen high
schools thirteen, yes.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
In the thirteen out of the thirty seven schools. That
is correct. That is because the Democrats continue to lie
that you can get ahead by doing nothing, being socially promoted,
and then there's no accountability the rec centers are ready
to be opened onto eleven PM. And you know what
that means. Just the kids are going to just be
(26:53):
at a rec center while the parents are aware they
should be at home, they should be trained. But the perpetual,
the preschool to the preschool to prison pipeline is real here.
So I just wanted to let you know that as
an immigrant, I listened to you. I'm been a Republican
(27:13):
for over twenty years. I was one of those like.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
The let me just say something only because I'm looking
at the clock and I'm going to run out of
time here. I support legal immigration. You know what. We
are a better country because of people like you, And
I don't care where you come from. I just asked
people to do it legally, respect our laws, border sovereignty,
and we need to do background checks to make sure
(27:38):
you don't have radical associations, health checks post COVID, and
make sure that you're not a financial burden on the
American people. And here you are in this country, facing challenges,
having a learning language, new family, all of that, and
look at the great American you are, the great Marylander
you are today And I don't care where people come from.
(28:02):
We just have to have rules that allow them. Joe
Biden allowed in terrorists, cartel members, gang members, murderers, rapists,
violent criminals. We can't do that. But Blanca, you show
how an immigration system should work, and it was designed
to work, and you did it legally, and I'm glad
(28:22):
your life turned out the way it didn't. We're glad
you're here. You're part of our family. All right, that's
going to wrap things up at today. We'll check in
with Newkingridge tonight. Elena Hama joins us tonight, Victor Davis Hansen,
Horace Cooper. We'll have a Hannity shootout. Haven't had that
in a while. Jessica Tarlaw versus Mary Catherine Ham, Joe Kansha,
and our other news of the day segment and much more.
(28:44):
Nine Easter news you will never ever get from the
state run legacy media mob. Tonight on Hannity. We'll see
you then back here tomorrow. Thank you for making this
show possible.
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