July 28, 2026 • 30 mins
Jason Chaffetz is joined by Tommy Lahren for a spirited discussion on immigration, Republican proposals for legal status for longtime undocumented workers, and the broader debate over border security, labor, housing, and the economy. NFL veteran Jay Feeley also joins the show to discuss his campaign for Congress, conservative priorities, America’s economic future, and why he believes public service is the next chapter in his career. The hour also includes continued tributes to Senator Lindsey Graham and a preview of upcoming national security discussions.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, this is Jason Chaffits. I'm filling in for Sean Hannity,
thrilled to do so. The celebration of life for Senator
Lindsey Graham is still going on a long one, folks
at the National Cathedral, the President of the United States,
the Cabinet, Benjamin Nett, and Yaho's a Lensky. You got
a whole house full of very important people there, including
(00:24):
our own Sean Hannity, who had given part of the
eulogy for Senator Graham. We're going to play that later
in the show, some very heartfelt comments. But in the meantime,
we got some other things we should talk about because
and we have one of our favorites joining me on
the line, because we got to talk a little bit
(00:45):
about amnesty and how a whole bunch of Republicans think
that amnesty is a good way to go. So please
help me in welcoming our friend Tommy Laren, who does
not mince words when it comes to well pretty much anything. Tommy,
thanks so much for joining us on the Sean Andnity Show.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
You know, Jason, we had a great time on the
big weekend show this past weekend, and you and I
were you know, we were equally fired up on that topic,
so it was great to have you there. We were
able to I think our point across. You know, I
think between the two of us, we really hammered it home.
So I really enjoyed having you on the Big Weekend Show,
(01:25):
and I'm happy to be here to discuss further.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Well, you're a great voice on this issue. You obviously
have your Fearless program without kick, but yeah, you're also
the co host there with Joey Jones on the Big
Weekend Show. It's a great show. Love doing it with you.
But you and I both got a little bit, well
more than a little bit fired up on this bill
that within the AG Committee, led by the Agg Committee,
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they're trying to push forward because you know, we wouldn't
want to do mass deportations. There's all these jobs that
you know, we have to have these people doing. And
I don't know, give us your perspective, because we got
what forty GOP House members supporting what I consider to
be an amnesty bill.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah it is an amnesty bill. I mean anytime that
you're going to excuse people who come into this country
illegally and say yeah, it's okay, because we need them
to work for less. I mean, that's really the admission here.
And they try to do a lot of mental gymnastics
and word vomit to try to make it seem like
it's something other than what it is. And oftentimes, just
like the Democrats do, some of these Republicans will try
(02:34):
to play, you know, the sad story sympathy game. Well,
all these people have been in our country for twenty
years and they pick our fruit, YadA, YadA, YadA. You know,
we talked about it on the Big weekend show. But
I don't think evading the law for decades is a
gold star moment. I don't think that it's you get
a prize because you outlasted the law for so long
and you've remained in this country. And again, these Republicans,
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right along with the Democrats, they view these people as
cheap labor, and they will exploit them and they will
use them in different ways, of course, Democrats and Republicans.
But to me, it's all the same thing. And that's
not what I voted for. That's not what seventy seven
million Americans voted for when they voted for Donald Trump.
And not only Donald Trump, but a lot of these
Republicans that we send a DC to, you know, quickly
(03:19):
sell us down the river.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Jason, Well, the idea here with the election of Donald
Trump and all these Republicans House and Senate that rode
the wave of Donald Trump coming into office wasn't, Hey,
we're just going to go after the worst of the worst,
and we're going to have deportation numbers that are less
than Barack Obama. No, if you're here in this country illegally,
you're here illegally, and the only way you rectify that
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is leaving. You don't just pay some little fine and
do with this. And they say, oh, well, they haven't
committed any crimes. Well, it's illegal to cross the border.
It's illegal. Every day that you're here. Every day that
you're here is against the law. I believe the fine
is nine hundred and ninety eight dollars per day, is
what the the penalty is. And they say, well, but
these people have jobs and they pay taxes. And I'm
(04:05):
always curious about that. How do you pay taxes? If
you had to pay taxes, you had to go get
a Social Security number. If you're here illegally, you can't
go get a Social Security number. That is against the law.
So if you have a fraudulent Social Security number, that's
another law that you've broken. And they say, oh, well,
well they're paying taxes against the law. And the other
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thing that really drives me nutty, and it came out
last week, is that the labor participation rate in our economy.
There are one hundred and five million Americans who are
not participating and working in the workforce right now. These
are adults. One hundred and five million. Well, we have
like three hundred and thirty million people, So you're telling
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me almost the third of our population. Again, we're just
counting adults here aren't participating. I don't want there to
be anything going out the door. Why should we be
giving able bodied Americans' welfare when we have all these
jobs available and oh but they're tough in their heart. Yeah,
they're tough in their heart. Get a skill set and
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make yourself more available and teach yourself something to make
yourself valuable. That's the way our economy works. You don't
just get a pass and say, oh, well, we're just
gonna let somebody come here illegally and pick our berries.
That is so offensive and so racist.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
No, it truly is you're right about that. And you know,
they often say that Americans won't do a lot of
these jobs. And you know what, there are some Americans
that quite frankly won't because they're lazy and they would
rather collect entitlements to your point. But there are Americans
that certainly will do hard work. They just won't do
it for illegal alien prices, and they shouldn't, you know.
(05:49):
You know, the left talks all the time about this
living wage, right, but on the same side, they also
say they want this living wage, and they want to
check up the minimum wage and they want everyone to
make more of a flipping But then they don't account
for the millions of illegal aliens that they also have
in this country that are actively suppressing that living wage.
So they want to take it from Elon Musk. But
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you know what, if you just hired Americans, you'd have
to pay them a little more, but that would also
equate to a living wage. They could spend more, they
could afford more, they could have a more comfortable living,
and then you wouldn't just have to take from Elon
Musk and the rest of the billionaires to try to
make up the difference. So all of this goes hand
in hand. And as much as we can beat up
(06:31):
on the Democrats all day long, I'm with you, Jason.
We got to look in our own tent and when
you see forty some Republicans saying, yeah, what we want
is back to our amnesty, that's not acceptable to me.
And they have to be called out at every turn.
They won't come on Fox News and defend their positions,
at least not to me and not to you. So
(06:51):
we really like to hear their true justification and then
have them be questioned on that live on air, and
they're welcome whenever they like on the big weekend show.
The invitation stands.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah. Tommy Laron, who we're speaking with, had invited a
couple of different Congressmen who had signed onto this bill
to join them and to do this and have the debate.
Oh and then mysteriously, somehow someway, they suddenly had an
event come up and they had to cancel. I mean
we're talking like hours before the show, like that was
(07:23):
some big mystery out there. I can't believe that they won't. Actually,
if you're going to sign onto the bill, if you
can be a co sponsor, the bill had the political
guts to actually be able to answer hard, tough, difficult questions,
because that's what you need to do if you're going
to try to do this. They're trying to signal out
there that this virtue signal that hey, yeah, we want
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to do this, do that. Here's the other part, Tommy,
and I want to get your perspective on this for
a long time, and I think it is a Tier
one issue. You have heard about the high cost of living,
the high cost of housing, inflation, high cost of health care.
But curiously, the numbers kind of line up because one
of the things I've heard some analysts say along the
(08:07):
way is, you know, we need about twenty million more
homes in this country. Well, curiously, we have about twenty
plus million people here illegally. So let's just pretend, just
hypothetical that they all left or were deported. Gosh, what
would that do to housing? What would that do to
(08:27):
the cost of healthcare? What would that do to I
don't know the size of the classroom that your kids
are dealing with. What would that do for educators who
are having to deal with ESL students. You know, English
is a second language. What would it do on all
of those categories. It would actually make life a lot
cheaper because the demand wouldn't be so high. It's basic economics.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
It is.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And I talked to former Board Patrol commander Greg Bavino
about this on my OutKick podcast, and he brought up
something that is important for people to unders stand. You know,
not only do we have illegal aliens that are stressing
the system in every way, shape or form, as you mentioned,
from healthcare to police services, to schools to infrastructure, I mean,
you name it. They're stressing the system. But in terms
(09:14):
of housing, you know, you might look at it and say, oh, well,
there's no way illegal aliens are taking up housing, right
these people are you know, they're working for low wages
and they're in the shadows. And that might be true
to an extent, but what they do, and Greg Lavina
pointed out to me, and I think it's quite obvious,
is you know, the young couple who just got married
and they want to you know, be in an apartment
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or be in a home, and they have to pay
at a certain price and it keeps going up. But
when you have the illegal aliens that are willing to
pack ten or twelve people into a home, or five
or six people into an apartment. Yeah, it's more affordable
for them, and they're taking the spot of a young
couple or a young family who's just struggling to make
ends meet, getting started out. So, I mean, there's no
(09:57):
doubt we've got a massive illegal immigration problem. It's not
enough just to close the border. We know that thing
can be opened real quickly and we can have stouts.
They come in three hundred and fifty thousand since October
of last year. Yeah, I'm sorry, but that's not going
to cut it for me.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, that that was an exceptionally low number. I think
the the numbers coming out of the Department of Homeland
Security have been scarce and inconsistent, and I don't know
how accurate. I think we're going to go look back
on this and say where are the numbers, folks, Like,
where are the actual real numbers, because they used to
give us And again, one place I can give the
(10:37):
Biden administration some credit is they actually released a lot
of numbers. That's why everybody was so infuriated, and that
in the video that you would see down on the
border of these masses of numbers of people coming up here.
One other number that I like to share with people
who think I'm just so cruel and so mean and so,
you know, racist. First of all, there are people coming
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to our country from all over the world. This isn't
about just Mexico or Central South America. We're talking Europe, Africa,
you're talking Asia. The Chinese have figured out how to
exploit this in a major, major way. I went out
with border patrol at one point in Arizona near No Gallus,
and they rounded up a group of Romanians. So don't
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tell me that it has to do with just certain
skin colors. I think that is so, that is racist,
That is wrong. But here's the thing, Tommy, We I
think have a higher moral obligation to be to deal
with the people that are coming here legally and lawfully.
And most people don't realize that. We take in over
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a million people, a million that come legally, lawfully into
our country and they do it the right way and
they come here. But you know what, if you stay
over stay, you're going to have to get deported. And
that's just the way it is. But legally and lawful,
there's a right way to do this. But the Democrats
(12:04):
and even these Republicans, they don't understand it, they won't
fight for it, and they don't necessarily even believe it.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah. Well, and in terms of those people that are
trying to come over the right way, you know, I
have my issue with some of the visas that they're
handing out. That's a separate topic, but I will say
the people that just wait in line do it the
right way. They have to pay immigration attorneys, they wait
their turn, and they spend a long time doing it,
and it costs a lot of money for them to
do so. So you have people that are having to
spend a lot of money to do it the right way.
And then on the flip side of that, you have
(12:33):
illegals who are spending you know, maybe even close to
a similar amount, but they're paying that to the cartels
and the criminal organizations something. And you've been out with
border patrol, so you know this this idea that people
just magically get here, that they don't pay a cartel
or a smuggler to get over here, that's nonsense. Everybody
that's coming across that border is paying some kind of
(12:56):
a criminal entity to get across, and they're paying it
in dollars and sometimes even more depending on who they
are and how much they want to evade the law.
So they're paying somebody, they're enriching these criminal organizations, and
we're supposed to look at these people like they're down
and out and they you know, they need our help
and they need our assistance. Well, they just paid thousands
(13:17):
of dollars to a criminal organization. But then they get
here and then they expect us to take care of them.
I'm sorry, I have a problem with that.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Jason.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah. I think when we look back, one of the
saddest things in our history will be the how the
Biden and Obama administration was complicit in human trafficking. That
the number of young girls in particular, but happens to
boys too. The human trafficking by the hundreds of thousands,
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The numbers of rapes and sex trafficking is just off
the charts, and those stories will be told into the future,
but unfortunately they're and I know you care about that.
I care about that as well. Tommy Laren, she's the
host of the Big Weekend Show. You can also find
our just look up Airless find her on the Internet.
(14:11):
Tommy Laren, thank you so much for joining us on
Sean Hannity's show.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Great to talk to you was always Jason.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Stay with us. We're gonna be right back. Well almost,
Sean Hannity, I'm Jason chaff It's villain in for sewn.
Sean was giving the eulogy, one of the people giving
a eulogy there for Senator Graham's funeral, which is finally
wrapped up. And I say, finally, it was a wee
bit long. Let's just be honest. It was a wee
bit long. So but there are a lot of people
(14:38):
that want to say some very nice things about the senator,
and Sean Hannity gave some heartfelt comments and we're going
to play those on the show later. So stay with us.
But we got a great guest coming up now, somebody
I've chatted with a few times from the great state
of Arizona. Now, David Schweikert, who had served for a
(14:59):
long time actually, but I think he lived in Scottsdale, Arizona,
decided that he was going to run for governor. He lost.
Andy Biggs, we talked to earlier in the show, defeated
him to get the Republican nomination there in Arizona. But
as the Dominoes would fall. It left an opening in
Arizona's first congressional district. Now, with the House of Representatives
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as tight as it is, this is obviously a really
important seat for Republicans to hold on to. And they
came up with somebody who's really well known in the community,
having been out in the public for a long time,
not only as a New York giant, but also as
an Arizona Cardinal. But somebody you know from the NFL,
Jay Feely, who's joining us on the line. Jay, thanks
(15:46):
so much for joining us.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Drason, it is an honor to be on with you.
And in fact, when I was playing for the Cardinals,
Andy Biggs was the president.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Of the Senate here in Arizona, and he asked me.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
To come in and speak. They had they were opening
the Senate for the year. They have a guest speaker
each year, and he asked me to come in and
to give a speech to the Senate.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
And I kind of went in and my message.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Was like, your job, your civic duty is to do
what's best for the people your constituents, not necessarily a
political party, and just kind of implored them to go
out there and to remember their higher calling and so
it's so funny that now he's running for governor and
I'm running for Congress.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah. No, Like you guys both have your hearts in
the right place, but you also got the smarts in
the right place. Now, I give you a lot of
credit for being a placekicker, because once upon a time,
I've talked about this far too much. I was a placekicker,
but not at your level. I was a placekicker in college.
What I loved about it is if they touched me,
they would throw a flag. Now, you didn't play that
(16:46):
position the way I did, because you didn't have any
problem roughing it up with people. But as a kicker,
I like, no, that's not for.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Me, Jason.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I like the contact.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
And maybe that's why I got into politic.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Because you did. You did. You know what's amazing, And
I talked to you earlier, but I wanted the audience
to hear this because I think it's really informative. You know.
I thought being in Congress was a lot like being
on a football team, and I really enjoyed that. I
enjoyed the camaraderie. I like the battle on the field,
but then afterwards, you know, having dinner, being in the
(17:21):
locker room, so to speak. I really felt like it
was the closest thing to being on a team, and
a football team, which I really liked and appreciated. But
one of the interesting things that you told me about
is that you were the representatives, the representative for the
players in their in their negotiations on from the player's perspective. Now,
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that says a lot about you, because the guys in
the locker room, they know who's got game right, they
understand who's and it's not just about being the best
in the position, but who is the person that they
trust and who is the person that can articulate their views.
And You're teammates selected you to be one of those people.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, you were.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
You know, you were chosen by your teammates, which always.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Is really special.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
You know, whether that was as a captain, which.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Was the greatest honor that I that I ever.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Received, being chosen as a captain to.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Be one of the leaders, but also as a player.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Rep to go there to represent all fifty three guys
in your team, and really not only the current players,
but the future players and then the former players as well,
because you are the one that's going to sit in
front of those owners across the table from them negotiate
during the CBA extensions.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Or the lockout like we had when I went to
the Federal.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Mediation Building in DC and continue to negotiate.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
With the owners. I think that's one of the.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Reasons why a number of owners decided to support my campaign,
even owners like Arthur Blank, who you know is a
Democrat and only supports Democrats. And he said, Jay, we
disagree pretty much on everything politically policy issues, but I
trust your heart, and so I'll donate to your campaign.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And you know, to have the people who I sat
across the table from.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Negotiat and against that, Hey, somebody who's thoughtful and logical
and rational and we want him in Congress meant a
lot to me. And to have that support and trust
from my players, you know, certainly meant a lot to
me and I and I was very serious about my
approach to doing that job and trying to create a
better atmosphere for the current players, the former players, as
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well as the future players.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Like one of the things that we did which no other.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Industry has ever done is each CBA that we signed,
each collective bargaining extension, we went and took money out
of current players pockets and went back to the pensions
of former players and increased their pensions to help those
former players. And I don't know other industry and you
know US history where the current employees have added money
(19:43):
to the former employees pensions to help them, you know.
And I think that's really special, you know. And one
of the things that's so great Jason about being in
locker rooms you were talking about a locker room, is
that you get to meet people from completely different walks
of life from you, socially, racially, you know, and and
sports breakdown racial walls, and you get to develop relationships
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with people you never would have the opportunity to develop
relations with if not for you know, football, and football
is your identifying factor, you know, and so it creates
an opportunity for for deep friendships that you know, sometimes
are inhibited just by social factors. And I love that
about football.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
No, And and like I said, I think it speaks
volume to the person and the core. You can you know,
you can say something nice about yourself, and I'm sure
you're gonna have some great ads, but when your teammates
actually step up and say, hey, yeah, this is what
we saw this is why we elected him to look
after our future. That speaks volume so and I could
(20:48):
talk to NFL all day long, but I really want
to talk about the rough and tumble of today's politics
and the race that you're in. You know, why did
you decide, Jay? You could have done a lot of things,
you didn't have to do this. I mean, you've made
a lot of money, You've been successful in business, You've
been successful on the field. So you know why wake
up one morning and say, honey, you know what I
(21:08):
think I'm going to I want to ruin our life.
Let's go run for Congress.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
There's certainly been a few days where we felt like
that Ja already, but it is because of that, like
I think we need more people in office who have
already been successful, who don't need the job, who aren't
going there to enrich themselves, and aren't going there to
be a career politician, who are truly going there to
be a civil servant. And you know that's how I
(21:33):
view my wife, and I've always tried to use the
blessings that God has given us to impact others, and
I see this as a natural progression to want to
go into politics and to go to DC and to
be one of the.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
People who truly does it for the right reasons, you know,
And I think politics.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Is supposed to be sacrificial.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Like when I think back to my sixth great grandfather,
who is Roger Sherman.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
He's the only man that signed all four four of
our founding documents, and we actually have the desk that
he signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution Offuly.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Wow, the lap desk.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yeah, it's pretty cool, you know, but to have that relic,
it reminds me though of the sacrifices that are founding
fathers made, like they were willing to give up their fortunes,
their their freedoms, their lives, you know, for this idea,
and we need to keep fighting for that because I
really do think right now it's in jeopardy when you
look at the Democrat.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Party and what they're embracing in this Democrat socialism.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
And the ideals that they readily espouse and talk about,
you know, these ideals that want to change the very
foundations of our country, you know, getting rid of the
electoral College, getting rid of the Senate, the Supreme Court,
not having private property rights, that is a fundamental principle
that we founded our country on, you know, and they
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readily talk about getting rid of private property rights and
public ownership of corporations, you know, a well, a universal
wealth tax, you know, trying to get rid of prisons
and get rid of borders. These are these are things
that would fundamentally change our country for the worst. And
the Democrat Party is embracing it, you know. And I
hope and I think that this election will be a
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referendum on those ideas, and I hope that the people
of America reject those ideas.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
And really how radical they are.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It is amazing because we're talking with Jay Feely, of course,
the Republican nominee for Arizona's first congressional district. Any one
of those issues, Jay, you could have taken any one
of those positions and probably blown somebody out of the
water politically by just reminding. But the list is so big. Oh,
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we don't need a president, we don't need a Senate.
We can redo the Constant, the Supreme Court, I mean,
any one of these things. No private property ownership, that's
just crazy down But that's the platform that today's Democrats
are supporting and running on.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Sit there and you think about, you know, Trump derangement
system syndrome, and it's a real thing.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
And their reaction to losing to Trump again has been,
you know, to go off the rails.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
And they are now.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Readily embracing this. And you're seeing normal Democrat politicians who
are embracing these policies because they see the winds of change.
And that's what I mean when you need the right
kind of people.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Get in into office, because if you are defined by
the fact that you're a politician, that you're in.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Office, then you're then you will capitulate. Then you're going
to change your views based on where the wind blows,
and you don't have core policies and beliefs that you're
going to hold on to and that you're saying, you
know what, it's more important that I hold on to
these beliefs and fight for these fundamental principles than it
is for me even to be in politics, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
And that's why we need the right kind of people
that have that fortitude and we'll stand up for those things.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
So Jay Feely's name is well known. You've been a
great corporate citizen and you've given back all lot to
the community. We know that they're the crazy town that
is the Democratic Left. But when you talk about what
you want to be able to do and accomplish, you know,
elections are about the future, right, They're always about not
(25:15):
just picking the right person because you never quite know
exactly what's going to come up on the docket. But
you also got to be able to have a vision
of things that you want to do. When you go
out and talk to people in Arizona and in the
first congressional district there, what is it that you tell
them is important to you that you want to be
able to accomplish as a member of Congress.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
When I gave my speech after we won on primary night,
the basis of the speech was, I want to make
this state in this country better for my children and
my grandchildren, and I want to give young people hope
for an economic future.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
And I think that's really.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Where our fight is right now. And the reason that
these Democrats socialists have been so successful in New York
and Colorado and DC in the mayor and Pennsylvania is
because young people don't look at their economic prospects and
have a hope for the future. And if they get
to the point where they don't believe that they can
(26:11):
make it, that they can get married, have a family,
be a success economically. Then they throw their hands up
and they say, Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I want government to do it for me, you know.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
And so we have to as conservatives, make the argument
clear that our policies are the best, that we're trying
to create equal opportunity for everyone, and that our economic
vision is better for young people than the economic vision
of these Democrats, socialists and the Democrat Party.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
And when you look at this next generation, our economy,
the world economy will be defined by who wins the
AI revolution. It's either going to be us or it's
going to be China. And then the world's security will
be defined by who wins that economic race. And that
economic race will be defined by who wins both the
energy race as well as the computability race. And that's
(26:58):
why it's so important, I think, to have a vision
of how we're going to create more energy, because right
now we produce like one carawatt and China produces eight.
They had eight times more energy production than us, and
we have to fight to catch up with him. And
this fight to produce data storage centers. That computability is
the first step. And everyone wants to use AI and
(27:20):
uses it all the time every day with their cell phones,
you know, but there's a there's a pushback against these
data storage centers, and that will be the defining characteristic
of the of this world's economy in the next generation.
And I think in this district, this district more than
any other really in the state and probably in the country,
they care about economic issues first and foremost, and affordability
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certainly is one of those issues. But how do you
create affordability, How do you work with people and help
them you create better wage growth, real wage growth, And
you know, I think when you look at the Biden administration,
the Trump administration, bideministration was flat. Trump administration, the first
one had real wage growth. And with having that as well,
until you know, we have inflation tick up, and then
(28:02):
no one talks about the fact that we have forty
trillion in debt growing out a trillion every hundred days,
and how do you deal with that?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
With that debt, the only way that you can deal
with it is to grow your way out.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Of it and have above five percent GDP and under
three percent inflation. So those are the things that you
have to keep at the forefront of your mind on
a continual basis.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Well, I think your enthusiasm and your vision is contagious.
And Arizona in the first district, I'm telling you, if
you want an outsized voice for your congressional district, remember
there's four hundred and thirty five members out there. You
need an outsized voice. You'd be nuts not to have
somebody like a J. Feely out there articulating and creating
(28:42):
that vision and excitement. So wishing nothing but the best.
We're watching with the greatest of issue of interest. Go
to find J Feely no e at the end there
fee l Y Jfeely in Arizona's first district. Thank you
so much for joining us on the Sean Andnity Show.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Wow, thanks so much, Jason. Yes, hey, Peey for Congress
dot Com. And we want everybody. We're going to bring.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Everybody into this effort make sure we keep this Republican
seat and hopefully Republican majority as well in the House.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
All right, put that one right down the middle, right
through the post. My friend, thank you so much for
joining us. Stay with us. We'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Follow a mainstream media is asleep at the wheel Hannity
watches on the job, bringing you the news no one
else can Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Hey, do chaf Fits, I'm filling in for Sean Hannity.
I hope you're able to check out my podcast, Jason
in the House. That's Jason in the House. Also on
social medium on all this stuff. You want to be
out there be able to see it, that would be great.
But stay with us because we're gonna talking United States
Secret Service with Susan Crabtree and I'm fired up about
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the Service. We need to talk about this. We'll be
right back
Hey, this is Jason Chaffits. I'm filling in for Sean Hannity,
thrilled to do so. The celebration of life for Senator
Lindsey Graham is still going on a long one, folks
at the National Cathedral, the President of the United States,
the Cabinet, Benjamin Nett, and Yaho's a Lensky. You got
a whole house full of very important people there, including
(00:24):
our own Sean Hannity, who had given part of the
eulogy for Senator Graham. We're going to play that later
in the show, some very heartfelt comments. But in the meantime,
we got some other things we should talk about because
and we have one of our favorites joining me on
the line, because we got to talk a little bit
(00:45):
about amnesty and how a whole bunch of Republicans think
that amnesty is a good way to go. So please
help me in welcoming our friend Tommy Laren, who does
not mince words when it comes to well pretty much anything. Tommy,
thanks so much for joining us on the Sean Andnity Show.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
You know, Jason, we had a great time on the
big weekend show this past weekend, and you and I
were you know, we were equally fired up on that topic,
so it was great to have you there. We were
able to I think our point across. You know, I
think between the two of us, we really hammered it home.
So I really enjoyed having you on the Big Weekend Show,
(01:25):
and I'm happy to be here to discuss further.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Well, you're a great voice on this issue. You obviously
have your Fearless program without kick, but yeah, you're also
the co host there with Joey Jones on the Big
Weekend Show. It's a great show. Love doing it with you.
But you and I both got a little bit, well
more than a little bit fired up on this bill
that within the AG Committee, led by the Agg Committee,
(01:52):
they're trying to push forward because you know, we wouldn't
want to do mass deportations. There's all these jobs that
you know, we have to have these people doing. And
I don't know, give us your perspective, because we got
what forty GOP House members supporting what I consider to
be an amnesty bill.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah it is an amnesty bill. I mean anytime that
you're going to excuse people who come into this country
illegally and say yeah, it's okay, because we need them
to work for less. I mean, that's really the admission here.
And they try to do a lot of mental gymnastics
and word vomit to try to make it seem like
it's something other than what it is. And oftentimes, just
like the Democrats do, some of these Republicans will try
(02:34):
to play, you know, the sad story sympathy game. Well,
all these people have been in our country for twenty
years and they pick our fruit, YadA, YadA, YadA. You know,
we talked about it on the Big weekend show. But
I don't think evading the law for decades is a
gold star moment. I don't think that it's you get
a prize because you outlasted the law for so long
and you've remained in this country. And again, these Republicans,
(02:57):
right along with the Democrats, they view these people as
cheap labor, and they will exploit them and they will
use them in different ways, of course, Democrats and Republicans.
But to me, it's all the same thing. And that's
not what I voted for. That's not what seventy seven
million Americans voted for when they voted for Donald Trump.
And not only Donald Trump, but a lot of these
Republicans that we send a DC to, you know, quickly
(03:19):
sell us down the river.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Jason, Well, the idea here with the election of Donald
Trump and all these Republicans House and Senate that rode
the wave of Donald Trump coming into office wasn't, Hey,
we're just going to go after the worst of the worst,
and we're going to have deportation numbers that are less
than Barack Obama. No, if you're here in this country illegally,
you're here illegally, and the only way you rectify that
(03:42):
is leaving. You don't just pay some little fine and
do with this. And they say, oh, well, they haven't
committed any crimes. Well, it's illegal to cross the border.
It's illegal. Every day that you're here. Every day that
you're here is against the law. I believe the fine
is nine hundred and ninety eight dollars per day, is
what the the penalty is. And they say, well, but
these people have jobs and they pay taxes. And I'm
(04:05):
always curious about that. How do you pay taxes? If
you had to pay taxes, you had to go get
a Social Security number. If you're here illegally, you can't
go get a Social Security number. That is against the law.
So if you have a fraudulent Social Security number, that's
another law that you've broken. And they say, oh, well,
well they're paying taxes against the law. And the other
(04:27):
thing that really drives me nutty, and it came out
last week, is that the labor participation rate in our economy.
There are one hundred and five million Americans who are
not participating and working in the workforce right now. These
are adults. One hundred and five million. Well, we have
like three hundred and thirty million people, So you're telling
(04:48):
me almost the third of our population. Again, we're just
counting adults here aren't participating. I don't want there to
be anything going out the door. Why should we be
giving able bodied Americans' welfare when we have all these
jobs available and oh but they're tough in their heart. Yeah,
they're tough in their heart. Get a skill set and
(05:10):
make yourself more available and teach yourself something to make
yourself valuable. That's the way our economy works. You don't
just get a pass and say, oh, well, we're just
gonna let somebody come here illegally and pick our berries.
That is so offensive and so racist.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
No, it truly is you're right about that. And you know,
they often say that Americans won't do a lot of
these jobs. And you know what, there are some Americans
that quite frankly won't because they're lazy and they would
rather collect entitlements to your point. But there are Americans
that certainly will do hard work. They just won't do
it for illegal alien prices, and they shouldn't, you know.
(05:49):
You know, the left talks all the time about this
living wage, right, but on the same side, they also
say they want this living wage, and they want to
check up the minimum wage and they want everyone to
make more of a flipping But then they don't account
for the millions of illegal aliens that they also have
in this country that are actively suppressing that living wage.
So they want to take it from Elon Musk. But
(06:10):
you know what, if you just hired Americans, you'd have
to pay them a little more, but that would also
equate to a living wage. They could spend more, they
could afford more, they could have a more comfortable living,
and then you wouldn't just have to take from Elon
Musk and the rest of the billionaires to try to
make up the difference. So all of this goes hand
in hand. And as much as we can beat up
(06:31):
on the Democrats all day long, I'm with you, Jason.
We got to look in our own tent and when
you see forty some Republicans saying, yeah, what we want
is back to our amnesty, that's not acceptable to me.
And they have to be called out at every turn.
They won't come on Fox News and defend their positions,
at least not to me and not to you. So
(06:51):
we really like to hear their true justification and then
have them be questioned on that live on air, and
they're welcome whenever they like on the big weekend show.
The invitation stands.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah. Tommy Laron, who we're speaking with, had invited a
couple of different Congressmen who had signed onto this bill
to join them and to do this and have the debate.
Oh and then mysteriously, somehow someway, they suddenly had an
event come up and they had to cancel. I mean
we're talking like hours before the show, like that was
(07:23):
some big mystery out there. I can't believe that they won't. Actually,
if you're going to sign onto the bill, if you
can be a co sponsor, the bill had the political
guts to actually be able to answer hard, tough, difficult questions,
because that's what you need to do if you're going
to try to do this. They're trying to signal out
there that this virtue signal that hey, yeah, we want
(07:44):
to do this, do that. Here's the other part, Tommy,
and I want to get your perspective on this for
a long time, and I think it is a Tier
one issue. You have heard about the high cost of living,
the high cost of housing, inflation, high cost of health care.
But curiously, the numbers kind of line up because one
of the things I've heard some analysts say along the
(08:07):
way is, you know, we need about twenty million more
homes in this country. Well, curiously, we have about twenty
plus million people here illegally. So let's just pretend, just
hypothetical that they all left or were deported. Gosh, what
would that do to housing? What would that do to
(08:27):
the cost of healthcare? What would that do to I
don't know the size of the classroom that your kids
are dealing with. What would that do for educators who
are having to deal with ESL students. You know, English
is a second language. What would it do on all
of those categories. It would actually make life a lot
cheaper because the demand wouldn't be so high. It's basic economics.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
It is.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And I talked to former Board Patrol commander Greg Bavino
about this on my OutKick podcast, and he brought up
something that is important for people to unders stand. You know,
not only do we have illegal aliens that are stressing
the system in every way, shape or form, as you mentioned,
from healthcare to police services, to schools to infrastructure, I mean,
you name it. They're stressing the system. But in terms
(09:14):
of housing, you know, you might look at it and say, oh, well,
there's no way illegal aliens are taking up housing, right
these people are you know, they're working for low wages
and they're in the shadows. And that might be true
to an extent, but what they do, and Greg Lavina
pointed out to me, and I think it's quite obvious,
is you know, the young couple who just got married
and they want to you know, be in an apartment
(09:35):
or be in a home, and they have to pay
at a certain price and it keeps going up. But
when you have the illegal aliens that are willing to
pack ten or twelve people into a home, or five
or six people into an apartment. Yeah, it's more affordable
for them, and they're taking the spot of a young
couple or a young family who's just struggling to make
ends meet, getting started out. So, I mean, there's no
(09:57):
doubt we've got a massive illegal immigration problem. It's not
enough just to close the border. We know that thing
can be opened real quickly and we can have stouts.
They come in three hundred and fifty thousand since October
of last year. Yeah, I'm sorry, but that's not going
to cut it for me.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, that that was an exceptionally low number. I think
the the numbers coming out of the Department of Homeland
Security have been scarce and inconsistent, and I don't know
how accurate. I think we're going to go look back
on this and say where are the numbers, folks, Like,
where are the actual real numbers, because they used to
give us And again, one place I can give the
(10:37):
Biden administration some credit is they actually released a lot
of numbers. That's why everybody was so infuriated, and that
in the video that you would see down on the
border of these masses of numbers of people coming up here.
One other number that I like to share with people
who think I'm just so cruel and so mean and so,
you know, racist. First of all, there are people coming
(10:59):
to our country from all over the world. This isn't
about just Mexico or Central South America. We're talking Europe, Africa,
you're talking Asia. The Chinese have figured out how to
exploit this in a major, major way. I went out
with border patrol at one point in Arizona near No Gallus,
and they rounded up a group of Romanians. So don't
(11:21):
tell me that it has to do with just certain
skin colors. I think that is so, that is racist,
That is wrong. But here's the thing, Tommy, We I
think have a higher moral obligation to be to deal
with the people that are coming here legally and lawfully.
And most people don't realize that. We take in over
(11:43):
a million people, a million that come legally, lawfully into
our country and they do it the right way and
they come here. But you know what, if you stay
over stay, you're going to have to get deported. And
that's just the way it is. But legally and lawful,
there's a right way to do this. But the Democrats
(12:04):
and even these Republicans, they don't understand it, they won't
fight for it, and they don't necessarily even believe it.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah. Well, and in terms of those people that are
trying to come over the right way, you know, I
have my issue with some of the visas that they're
handing out. That's a separate topic, but I will say
the people that just wait in line do it the
right way. They have to pay immigration attorneys, they wait
their turn, and they spend a long time doing it,
and it costs a lot of money for them to
do so. So you have people that are having to
spend a lot of money to do it the right way.
And then on the flip side of that, you have
(12:33):
illegals who are spending you know, maybe even close to
a similar amount, but they're paying that to the cartels
and the criminal organizations something. And you've been out with
border patrol, so you know this this idea that people
just magically get here, that they don't pay a cartel
or a smuggler to get over here, that's nonsense. Everybody
that's coming across that border is paying some kind of
(12:56):
a criminal entity to get across, and they're paying it
in dollars and sometimes even more depending on who they
are and how much they want to evade the law.
So they're paying somebody, they're enriching these criminal organizations, and
we're supposed to look at these people like they're down
and out and they you know, they need our help
and they need our assistance. Well, they just paid thousands
(13:17):
of dollars to a criminal organization. But then they get
here and then they expect us to take care of them.
I'm sorry, I have a problem with that.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Jason.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah. I think when we look back, one of the
saddest things in our history will be the how the
Biden and Obama administration was complicit in human trafficking. That
the number of young girls in particular, but happens to
boys too. The human trafficking by the hundreds of thousands,
(13:49):
The numbers of rapes and sex trafficking is just off
the charts, and those stories will be told into the future,
but unfortunately they're and I know you care about that.
I care about that as well. Tommy Laren, she's the
host of the Big Weekend Show. You can also find
our just look up Airless find her on the Internet.
(14:11):
Tommy Laren, thank you so much for joining us on
Sean Hannity's show.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Great to talk to you was always Jason.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Stay with us. We're gonna be right back. Well almost,
Sean Hannity, I'm Jason chaff It's villain in for sewn.
Sean was giving the eulogy, one of the people giving
a eulogy there for Senator Graham's funeral, which is finally
wrapped up. And I say, finally, it was a wee
bit long. Let's just be honest. It was a wee
bit long. So but there are a lot of people
(14:38):
that want to say some very nice things about the senator,
and Sean Hannity gave some heartfelt comments and we're going
to play those on the show later. So stay with us.
But we got a great guest coming up now, somebody
I've chatted with a few times from the great state
of Arizona. Now, David Schweikert, who had served for a
(14:59):
long time actually, but I think he lived in Scottsdale, Arizona,
decided that he was going to run for governor. He lost.
Andy Biggs, we talked to earlier in the show, defeated
him to get the Republican nomination there in Arizona. But
as the Dominoes would fall. It left an opening in
Arizona's first congressional district. Now, with the House of Representatives
(15:23):
as tight as it is, this is obviously a really
important seat for Republicans to hold on to. And they
came up with somebody who's really well known in the community,
having been out in the public for a long time,
not only as a New York giant, but also as
an Arizona Cardinal. But somebody you know from the NFL,
Jay Feely, who's joining us on the line. Jay, thanks
(15:46):
so much for joining us.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Drason, it is an honor to be on with you.
And in fact, when I was playing for the Cardinals,
Andy Biggs was the president.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Of the Senate here in Arizona, and he asked me.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
To come in and speak. They had they were opening
the Senate for the year. They have a guest speaker
each year, and he asked me to come in and
to give a speech to the Senate.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
And I kind of went in and my message.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Was like, your job, your civic duty is to do
what's best for the people your constituents, not necessarily a
political party, and just kind of implored them to go
out there and to remember their higher calling and so
it's so funny that now he's running for governor and
I'm running for Congress.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah. No, Like you guys both have your hearts in
the right place, but you also got the smarts in
the right place. Now, I give you a lot of
credit for being a placekicker, because once upon a time,
I've talked about this far too much. I was a placekicker,
but not at your level. I was a placekicker in college.
What I loved about it is if they touched me,
they would throw a flag. Now, you didn't play that
(16:46):
position the way I did, because you didn't have any
problem roughing it up with people. But as a kicker,
I like, no, that's not for.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Me, Jason.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I like the contact.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
And maybe that's why I got into politic.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Because you did. You did. You know what's amazing, And
I talked to you earlier, but I wanted the audience
to hear this because I think it's really informative. You know.
I thought being in Congress was a lot like being
on a football team, and I really enjoyed that. I
enjoyed the camaraderie. I like the battle on the field,
but then afterwards, you know, having dinner, being in the
(17:21):
locker room, so to speak. I really felt like it
was the closest thing to being on a team, and
a football team, which I really liked and appreciated. But
one of the interesting things that you told me about
is that you were the representatives, the representative for the
players in their in their negotiations on from the player's perspective. Now,
(17:43):
that says a lot about you, because the guys in
the locker room, they know who's got game right, they
understand who's and it's not just about being the best
in the position, but who is the person that they
trust and who is the person that can articulate their views.
And You're teammates selected you to be one of those people.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, you were.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
You know, you were chosen by your teammates, which always.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Is really special.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
You know, whether that was as a captain, which.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Was the greatest honor that I that I ever.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Received, being chosen as a captain to.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Be one of the leaders, but also as a player.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Rep to go there to represent all fifty three guys
in your team, and really not only the current players,
but the future players and then the former players as well,
because you are the one that's going to sit in
front of those owners across the table from them negotiate
during the CBA extensions.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Or the lockout like we had when I went to
the Federal.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Mediation Building in DC and continue to negotiate.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
With the owners. I think that's one of the.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Reasons why a number of owners decided to support my campaign,
even owners like Arthur Blank, who you know is a
Democrat and only supports Democrats. And he said, Jay, we
disagree pretty much on everything politically policy issues, but I
trust your heart, and so I'll donate to your campaign.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And you know, to have the people who I sat
across the table from.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Negotiat and against that, Hey, somebody who's thoughtful and logical
and rational and we want him in Congress meant a
lot to me. And to have that support and trust
from my players, you know, certainly meant a lot to
me and I and I was very serious about my
approach to doing that job and trying to create a
better atmosphere for the current players, the former players, as
(19:20):
well as the future players.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Like one of the things that we did which no other.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Industry has ever done is each CBA that we signed,
each collective bargaining extension, we went and took money out
of current players pockets and went back to the pensions
of former players and increased their pensions to help those
former players. And I don't know other industry and you
know US history where the current employees have added money
(19:43):
to the former employees pensions to help them, you know.
And I think that's really special, you know. And one
of the things that's so great Jason about being in
locker rooms you were talking about a locker room, is
that you get to meet people from completely different walks
of life from you, socially, racially, you know, and and
sports breakdown racial walls, and you get to develop relationships
(20:07):
with people you never would have the opportunity to develop
relations with if not for you know, football, and football
is your identifying factor, you know, and so it creates
an opportunity for for deep friendships that you know, sometimes
are inhibited just by social factors. And I love that
about football.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
No, And and like I said, I think it speaks
volume to the person and the core. You can you know,
you can say something nice about yourself, and I'm sure
you're gonna have some great ads, but when your teammates
actually step up and say, hey, yeah, this is what
we saw this is why we elected him to look
after our future. That speaks volume so and I could
(20:48):
talk to NFL all day long, but I really want
to talk about the rough and tumble of today's politics
and the race that you're in. You know, why did
you decide, Jay? You could have done a lot of things,
you didn't have to do this. I mean, you've made
a lot of money, You've been successful in business, You've
been successful on the field. So you know why wake
up one morning and say, honey, you know what I
(21:08):
think I'm going to I want to ruin our life.
Let's go run for Congress.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
There's certainly been a few days where we felt like
that Ja already, but it is because of that, like
I think we need more people in office who have
already been successful, who don't need the job, who aren't
going there to enrich themselves, and aren't going there to
be a career politician, who are truly going there to
be a civil servant. And you know that's how I
(21:33):
view my wife, and I've always tried to use the
blessings that God has given us to impact others, and
I see this as a natural progression to want to
go into politics and to go to DC and to
be one of the.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
People who truly does it for the right reasons, you know,
And I think politics.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Is supposed to be sacrificial.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Like when I think back to my sixth great grandfather,
who is Roger Sherman.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
He's the only man that signed all four four of
our founding documents, and we actually have the desk that
he signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution Offuly.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Wow, the lap desk.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yeah, it's pretty cool, you know, but to have that relic,
it reminds me though of the sacrifices that are founding
fathers made, like they were willing to give up their fortunes,
their their freedoms, their lives, you know, for this idea,
and we need to keep fighting for that because I
really do think right now it's in jeopardy when you
look at the Democrat.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Party and what they're embracing in this Democrat socialism.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
And the ideals that they readily espouse and talk about,
you know, these ideals that want to change the very
foundations of our country, you know, getting rid of the
electoral College, getting rid of the Senate, the Supreme Court,
not having private property rights, that is a fundamental principle
that we founded our country on, you know, and they
(22:49):
readily talk about getting rid of private property rights and
public ownership of corporations, you know, a well, a universal
wealth tax, you know, trying to get rid of prisons
and get rid of borders. These are these are things
that would fundamentally change our country for the worst. And
the Democrat Party is embracing it, you know. And I
hope and I think that this election will be a
(23:10):
referendum on those ideas, and I hope that the people
of America reject those ideas.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
And really how radical they are.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It is amazing because we're talking with Jay Feely, of course,
the Republican nominee for Arizona's first congressional district. Any one
of those issues, Jay, you could have taken any one
of those positions and probably blown somebody out of the
water politically by just reminding. But the list is so big. Oh,
(23:40):
we don't need a president, we don't need a Senate.
We can redo the Constant, the Supreme Court, I mean,
any one of these things. No private property ownership, that's
just crazy down But that's the platform that today's Democrats
are supporting and running on.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Sit there and you think about, you know, Trump derangement
system syndrome, and it's a real thing.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
And their reaction to losing to Trump again has been,
you know, to go off the rails.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
And they are now.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Readily embracing this. And you're seeing normal Democrat politicians who
are embracing these policies because they see the winds of change.
And that's what I mean when you need the right
kind of people.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Get in into office, because if you are defined by
the fact that you're a politician, that you're in.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Office, then you're then you will capitulate. Then you're going
to change your views based on where the wind blows,
and you don't have core policies and beliefs that you're
going to hold on to and that you're saying, you
know what, it's more important that I hold on to
these beliefs and fight for these fundamental principles than it
is for me even to be in politics, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
And that's why we need the right kind of people
that have that fortitude and we'll stand up for those things.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
So Jay Feely's name is well known. You've been a
great corporate citizen and you've given back all lot to
the community. We know that they're the crazy town that
is the Democratic Left. But when you talk about what
you want to be able to do and accomplish, you know,
elections are about the future, right, They're always about not
(25:15):
just picking the right person because you never quite know
exactly what's going to come up on the docket. But
you also got to be able to have a vision
of things that you want to do. When you go
out and talk to people in Arizona and in the
first congressional district there, what is it that you tell
them is important to you that you want to be
able to accomplish as a member of Congress.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
When I gave my speech after we won on primary night,
the basis of the speech was, I want to make
this state in this country better for my children and
my grandchildren, and I want to give young people hope
for an economic future.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
And I think that's really.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Where our fight is right now. And the reason that
these Democrats socialists have been so successful in New York
and Colorado and DC in the mayor and Pennsylvania is
because young people don't look at their economic prospects and
have a hope for the future. And if they get
to the point where they don't believe that they can
(26:11):
make it, that they can get married, have a family,
be a success economically. Then they throw their hands up
and they say, Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I want government to do it for me, you know.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
And so we have to as conservatives, make the argument
clear that our policies are the best, that we're trying
to create equal opportunity for everyone, and that our economic
vision is better for young people than the economic vision
of these Democrats, socialists and the Democrat Party.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
And when you look at this next generation, our economy,
the world economy will be defined by who wins the
AI revolution. It's either going to be us or it's
going to be China. And then the world's security will
be defined by who wins that economic race. And that
economic race will be defined by who wins both the
energy race as well as the computability race. And that's
(26:58):
why it's so important, I think, to have a vision
of how we're going to create more energy, because right
now we produce like one carawatt and China produces eight.
They had eight times more energy production than us, and
we have to fight to catch up with him. And
this fight to produce data storage centers. That computability is
the first step. And everyone wants to use AI and
(27:20):
uses it all the time every day with their cell phones,
you know, but there's a there's a pushback against these
data storage centers, and that will be the defining characteristic
of the of this world's economy in the next generation.
And I think in this district, this district more than
any other really in the state and probably in the country,
they care about economic issues first and foremost, and affordability
(27:41):
certainly is one of those issues. But how do you
create affordability, How do you work with people and help
them you create better wage growth, real wage growth, And
you know, I think when you look at the Biden administration,
the Trump administration, bideministration was flat. Trump administration, the first
one had real wage growth. And with having that as well,
until you know, we have inflation tick up, and then
(28:02):
no one talks about the fact that we have forty
trillion in debt growing out a trillion every hundred days,
and how do you deal with that?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
With that debt, the only way that you can deal
with it is to grow your way out.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Of it and have above five percent GDP and under
three percent inflation. So those are the things that you
have to keep at the forefront of your mind on
a continual basis.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Well, I think your enthusiasm and your vision is contagious.
And Arizona in the first district, I'm telling you, if
you want an outsized voice for your congressional district, remember
there's four hundred and thirty five members out there. You
need an outsized voice. You'd be nuts not to have
somebody like a J. Feely out there articulating and creating
(28:42):
that vision and excitement. So wishing nothing but the best.
We're watching with the greatest of issue of interest. Go
to find J Feely no e at the end there
fee l Y Jfeely in Arizona's first district. Thank you
so much for joining us on the Sean Andnity Show.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Wow, thanks so much, Jason. Yes, hey, Peey for Congress
dot Com. And we want everybody. We're going to bring.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Everybody into this effort make sure we keep this Republican
seat and hopefully Republican majority as well in the House.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
All right, put that one right down the middle, right
through the post. My friend, thank you so much for
joining us. Stay with us. We'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Follow a mainstream media is asleep at the wheel Hannity
watches on the job, bringing you the news no one
else can Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Hey, do chaf Fits, I'm filling in for Sean Hannity.
I hope you're able to check out my podcast, Jason
in the House. That's Jason in the House. Also on
social medium on all this stuff. You want to be
out there be able to see it, that would be great.
But stay with us because we're gonna talking United States
Secret Service with Susan Crabtree and I'm fired up about
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the Service. We need to talk about this. We'll be
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