The Gallagher Story

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I wrote at the time that we're in the battle
for the soul of this nation. Oh that's even more
true today. We are in the battle for the soul
of this nation. I believe history will look back on
four years of this president and all he embraces as
an aberrant moment in time. But if we give Donald

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Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever
and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. Who we
are and I cannot stand by and ways that happen.
The core values of this nation are standing in the world,
are very democracy. Everything that has made America America is

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at stake. That's why today I'm announcing my candidacy for
President of the United States. Folks, America is an idea,
an idea that's stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean,
more powerful than any dictator or tyrant. It gives hope
to the most desperate people on earth. It guarant tease
that everyone is treated with dignity, and gives hate no

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safe harbor. It instills in every person in this country
the belief that no matter where you start in life,
there's nothing you can achieve if you work at it.
That's what we believe and above all else, that's what's
a stake in the selection. As they say in my business,
I'm gonna I'm gonna give you the whole load. Today

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got the first sort of mainstream African American who is
articulate and bright and clean and bic locking. Guy, I mean,
that's a storybook you're telling me. We got to go
spend money to keep them going back from until. You
don't know my state, My state was a slave state.

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My state is a border state. My state is the
eighth largest black population in the country. My state is
anything from a northeast liberal state. You cannot go to
a seven eleven or a Dunman Donalds, I should have
a slight Indian accent. I'm not. His mom lived in
in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest

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her soul and hum although she's wait, your mom's still
Your mom's still alive as your dad passed, God bless
her soul. A man who will be the next President
of the United States Barack America. Hillary Clinton is a
qualified or more qualified than I am, to be vice
President United States America. Let's get that straight. And quite frankly, um,

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it might have been a better pick than me. So
let me say it again. Thank you Terry, and thank
you doctor Pepper, and thank you Chancellor. Doctor Paper. Romney
wants to let the he said in the first hundred days,
He's gonna let the big banks once again write their
own rules on chain Wall Street. You're gonna put you
all back in chains. Think about what happened out and

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we're dabby different. My good friend was shot, I mortally wounded. Well,
I say, they're going to start to see unemployment grow
this spring, to take employment grow, I'm sorry. Number one
job facing the middle class, and it happens to be,
as Barrock says, a three letter word, jobs, jobsjob. See.

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I went to the big guys for the money. I
was ready to prostitute myself and the men and the
men in which I talk about it, Chuck Graham State
Senators here, Stock stand up. Chock doesn't see you? Oh
God love you. What am I talking about? I tell
you what you're making everybody else stand up. Opal. Now
is the time to heed the timeless advice from Teddy
Roosevelt speaks softly and carry a big stick. End of quote.

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I promise you the president has a big stick. I
promise you now I'm like the token black or the
token woman. I was a token young person. You are
the best choice for the Democrats in twenty twenty. Why
didn't President above it for not to endorse he doesn't

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want to. Whoever wins is nomination to winning on their
own marriage. Well you may, I mean this, I'd love it,
debate officeman, but you're going to have to get the
product primary first. Why are you the best choice for shads?
That would be for the Democrat stuff time. Okay, Well,

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I have to say I'm so touched by moved by
that video that he did. I mean, yeah, I'm so old.
I remember all of that. I don't remember Emojima, but
I remember since Ben. Yeah, you know, I mean, our
uncles were in Normandy, our fathers were on the beach,
We were the good guys in this country. And now
and we're not. And now we're not. People look at

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this country in horror and say what happened to America?
It breaks my heart and I love that he's doing it.
He's taking this that it's not just about policy right now.
He'll get to that, but America look at this and say,
do we want this America back? Or don't wait, I mean, basically,
that's what it's come down to. Yeah, I thought he

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totally nailed it. When you think about an announcement, it's
even though we know Joe Biden first impressions matter, and
in politics, how you feel about the candidate matters. As
you said, we'll get to policy. But watching this it
gave me chills throughout my entire body because it reminded
me joy differently than you felt. That there is still

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so much good in this country and Joe Biden, I think,
represents that and this family represents that in his service,
and what he's saying is I'm here to sew this
country back together. He wasn't running for the primary, by
the way, he was running for the general election, and
that announced that. He said, I'm here to win over
the presidency. He's going to I can't wait for him
to come tomorrow because we have so many policy questions
for him. But just in the basis of feeling, he

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completely kneeled today. Even if you're a Republican, you can't
watch that and not feel good and often say that
abby the politician. Politics is about how someone makes you feel,
and I felt more for the view at all. I
mean it's only right, so much of the view. All right,
crazy creepy uncle Joe has officially entered the race. This

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is great news because I'm telling you what they don't
know is what is about to happen is going to
be remarkable. Now nobody everyone is making comments, it's kind
of funny. Well, you've got the ultra left wing of
the Democratic Socialist Extremist Party and all of all of
their crazy ideas, and Joe's gonna stand apart and he's

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gonna he's gonna relate to the average quote Joe, Um, No,
Joe Biden. It's Obama Biden. All the Russia incidents that
happened was on their watch. They didn't lift a finger
to stop Russia from involving themselves in the twenty sixteen
presidential election. And they were warned, why didn't you listen

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to Devin Newness and others in twenty fourteen? Now the
president was funny today goes Welcome to the race, Sleepy Joe.
I only hope you have the intelligence, long in doubt,
to wage a successful primary campaign. It's gonna be nasty,
and you will be dealing with people who truly have
some very sick and demented ideas. But if you make it,

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well I'll see you at the starting gates if he
makes it, which is pretty funny. Oh, but he did
get a big endorsement, and one day it wasn't it
wasn't Obama. Obama's asked about it, as you just heard
Obama's what about Obama not supporting you? Obama, Well, he
said nice things about Joe and the best decision he's made,

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but he won't endorse them. I think that kind of
speaks volumes its owned vice president. But he did get
Michael Avnati. That was a well sought after endorsement by him.
Now what's happening is even eight is writing this not
a conservative publication that even Democrats are just rank and
file increasingly skeptical, that create easy, creepy Uncle Joe's ever

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going to be able to defeat Trump next year anyway.
They point out if Democrats had any real confidence in
Biden's political acumen, that he wouldn't be facing so much
competition in the nomination. And that's true. I mean, I
think all of these people think he's gonna be beaten. Well,
he's showed up in a poll today for the first
time and he's doing well. Okay, that often happens. He

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has more name recognition than any of the other candidates.
That's not gonna last very long. Let's let me let
me just put in perspective where we are here. You know,
we just had the mid term. It's like we just
had the two thousand Well, let's use the example of Obama.
Obama's elected in two thousand and eight, and it's the

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twenty ten mid term. Okay, you know, Donald Trump is
walking down the escalator in a few months, and then
you got the whole year of primaries coming up after this.
I mean, so it's going leading up to the general election.
It's going to be a long process, and Joe doesn't
seem like it's got the energy in the end. But
when Slave points out that the story of this twenty

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twenty presidential primary has been the historic size of the field,
which will end up in the mid twenties well before
it's said and done, it, I mean it is. I
didn't even realize until today how big it's really been getting.
But don't pay that much attention. You got Corey Booker,
you got Mayor Pete Buddha Judge, you got Julian Castro,
John Delaney, Maryland representative. Nobody knows him, Tulsi what is it?

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Gabbard Kirsten Gabbard okay, sorry, Hawaii Representative Jilla Brandon, New York.
Mike Gravel, former Alaskan senator, not affiliated, Kamala Harris, the
former governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper, John It Jay Insley
of washing to In former governor or, Governor Amy Klobuchar,

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Wayne Massam, who's a mirror mar Florida mayor. I've never
heard of. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Liberal. Robert Francis, beat Obozo,
you got Tim Ryan of Ohio, Bernie Sanders, you got
Eric Swalwell, Elizabeth Warren, Mary Ann Williamson. Wouldn't he have
self help? Guru? Well, she's running. And then Andrew Yang

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was neither one that wanted to legalize, I think, all drugs.
So with this slate of candidates, it's going to be
interesting to watch because of some one of these names
is going to emerge, likely out of nowhere. Now it
was small in twenty sixteen, not because politicians with national
aspirations didn't exist. Everybody that is a congressman or senator

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they want deep in their heart, they think that their president.
They think they're presidential material. They never are, but they
think so. But Clinton, with her name recognition and financial
resources and party relationships, little do we know until Donna
Brazil took over after the fiasco at the Democratic National Convention,
that in fact Hillary controlled the purse strings at the

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DNC and they had rigged the primary against Bernie Sanders.
And it was rigged from the get go, no matter
how well Bernie did. And by the way, Bernie people
yesterday are saying, if you try this crap again this time,
we're gonna be on it. So she had it also
early on in twenty sixteen, she cleared the field because
other candidates or those that desire to be president, you know,

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they kind of believe she was gonna win, by the way,
and no mainstream Bernie figured. You know, nobody thought Bernie
was due as well as he did. And Biden is
now something more like, you know, they could end up,
they're saying in Slate, more like a twenty sixteen Jeb
Bush week establishment favored whose time has passed. Should voters

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prioritize his top perceived strength electability, who could soon face
the wolves while he leads in national in sum early
he stayed polling, but not by much. The only potential
candidates that bowed out for Biden to give him the
space where Bloomberg and Terry mccauliffe. And though he may
have more charisma than Bush did, the financial resources are
now harder. And by the way, a broke Joe Biden

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is now sounding the alarm. This was in Politico because
as of last night, he had zero dollars in his campaign.
Confers Sanders has eighteen million, Kamala Harris twelve million. Even
Robert Francis beato he has the dirt eater, he has
nine million. So Biden's now sounding the alarm with fellow
Democrats warning that if they don't pony up in the

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next twenty four hours, it's gonna make him look like
a week candidate. Yeah, although he is saying, world leaders,
I'm getting calls from over the world. World leaders are
begging me, begging me to do this to save the
country and save the world. What world leaders want? Another
one hundred and fifty billion dropped on the tarmax of
Mullah's in Iran, the chant death to America and death

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to Israel. That's great all right, we got a lot
to get to today eight hundred nine one shown. We're
gonna get into the case of Eddie Gallagher. I mean,
when you read the New York Times in the Navy Times,
you read two different stories about this case. Jonathan Gillham
and Harald also Sex, Secretary of Energy. Former Governor Rick

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Perry is with us today. All Right, as we roll
along on a Thursday, eight hundred nine four one, Sean
Tolfrey telephone number announcement. President Trump will be on Hannity
tonight nine eastern on the Fox News channel and his
first real interview since the Mulla report came out. Let
me go back to Slate for just a second here.
I mean them saying that Joe Biden is like a

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twenty sixteen Jeb Bush their words, not mine, and us,
a weak establishment favorite whose time might be passed, and
should voters deprioritize his perceived strength and electability, he would
soon face the wolves. And then they go on to
say that the biggest challenge of Biden in the primary

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will be a compromised pass spanning nearly fifty years. Yeah,
the vetting he's going to get and face within his
own party. He's going to be brutal. You know, his
position on Anita Hill. He went, That's why he went
on the Anita Hill apology tour. His position on Bussing,
his anti Bussing rhetoric most liberals find astonishing, their words,

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not mine. Some of that rhetoric is all going to
come back and haunt him. And as a senator for
thirty six years representing Delaware, you know that is a state,
as they say, run by banks. His economic record is
more than a few blemishes. And I don't even think
they've touched on his real weakness in terms of electability

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in a general election. When we learn everything that we're
going to learn about Russian interference in the twenty sixteen election,
we're also going to learn that it's in the top
levels within the Obama administration. This story now is creeping

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ever so close to Obama himself. And if it's getting
towards Obama, that means it's getting towards creepy, crazy Uncle Joe,
and that will mean that, Wow, all of that abuse
of power, corruption, what did they know? When did they
know it? And if justice is served and all of
these upper echelon people are in as much trouble as

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me and Sarah and Greg and John Solomon, if we
all think then it's going to have an impact on
all of them and the size of the field. I
think they're right, and Slate represents, you know, the belief
by the other candidates that all of this is going
to sink Biden. On top of the horrific economic record,
foreign policy record, and much more, he's got more troubles

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than you can even begin to talk about. All right,
twenty five to the top of the hour. One other thing,
there was a foxnews dot com piece about Biden's tree
into this race. His advocacy of the ninety four crime
bill will be used against him, according to ex Sanders staffers,
and then he faced scrutiny over his record in the Congress,

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particularly a strong advocacy for the ninety four crime bill.
And according to an independent voter, former Bernie Sanders staffer
Teslon Fagaro, who I've interviewed, very nice person. I grew
up in the nineties, my entire adult generation, those around me,
we really suffered a major consequence with that bill. And

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she made these comments earlier today on Fox first time
non violent offenders who went to prison for fifteen sixteen
seventeen years. People are still in prison now as a
result of that crime bill, noting that while former Vice
President Biden somewhat apologized for a support of the bill,
he hasn't spoken about how it will be fixed. By
the way, every single person that wanted to fix the

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crime bill, guess what they never got done. The person
that got it done, well, his name would be President Trump.
And as much as you know, look at Alice Marie Johnson,
I can watch people like Alice Marie Johnson get released
from prison every single day of every single year. I mean,

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when she came out after twenty years first time offender
drug offense, it was serious, went into the arms of
her family and said publicly thank you to the President,
thank you to the United States of America. I just
want to promise you all you'll not regret giving me
a second chance. I mean that that is a great remark.

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She says. The issue isn't we haven't seen anything to
talk about how we're going to fix it. I want
to talk about the policies. What are you going to
do as president to fix what happened in the nineties.
Bell all right, so that's just a small part of
what they're saying. Then his comments about busting will come
up big time. And then the issue of well he
has a track record now and it goes back spans

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nearly fifty years. I think he'd be seventy eight when
he became president, and it goes back all that ways.
And he doesn't seem to be the type that has
the energy of Saya Donald Trump. And let me tell
you something, but the president's comments right out of the
box low energy. I mean, it's pretty funny. And this
president likes to fight and fight to win anyway. So

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he's starting it in a deep fundraising hall. He told
you earlier if Sanders eighteen million, Kamala Harris twelve million,
that will see what the numbers look like in a
week from now. That'll be a thing very telling. And
it's the largest presidential field now in history, as you know,
at a record twenty hundreds file each cycle, but only
a sliver received sustained media attention. Some of these names

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I don't even know half of these people. Do you
know who Mary Ann Williams? The spiritual guru is, Linda?
You know her? I mean we all know with Andrew Yang,
nobody really knows who he is. You know, even former
Alaska Senator Mike Gravel, I barely remember him. He was
never you know, I guess he was a serious player
at one point, gained notoriety from reading portions of the

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Pentagon Papers about the origins of the Vietnam War. Nobody's
ever heard of this Miramar Florida mayor Wayne mess Him
is his name. He's struggling for media attention. These guys.
Some of these guys are gonna fall off fast. So
you know, that's just obvious. As to the creepy side
of Uncle Joe, we now know the Alabama Democrat that

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defeated Roy Moore last year, Doug Jones, he's now speaking out.
During an interview, he defended by Biden and said it's
not for others to judge. Okay, if it was a Republican,
I think he'd feel differently. Biden says foreign leaders, this
is the most arrogant statement that I don't even believe it.

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He's now saying his campaign isn't twenty four hours old,
and he's putting his foot in his mouth already. I mean,
if he thinks this much of himself, then he's a
bit delusional. Because I don't think there are a lot
of world leaders that looked on favorably. And I know
there's a lot of appeasement socialist, leftist governments in the world.

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So I concede that point. But in retrospect, the American
people and the idea of dropping one hundred and fifty
billion dollars in cash and other currency from cargo planes
sent by Obama and Biden to radical Mullah's in Iran,

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hoping it will draw goodwill that maybe they'll maybe they
won't talk about, you know, annihilating Israel anymore, maybe they
won't talk about annihilating America anymore. I don't know what
the mentality is here. It is a radical, rigid regime,
you know, the I think of how they treat their
own people under the most rigid laws of Shariah. Women

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are treated atrociously in Iran. Gays and lesbians, we've seen
the videos being thrown off roofs and murdered for no
reason except being who they are. And of course you
can't practice another religion. Christians and Jews are persecuted. You know,

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good luck building a temple or a church in Tehran.
It's not going to work out very well. But he says,
as I get calls from people all over the world,
world leaders. They're calling me, almost begging me to do this,
to save the country, to save the world. Like okay,
all right, He's getting a little more crazy by the day.

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One of the participants on the call stress Biden wasn't
making it sound as though Adam Messiah complex, of course not.
Why would anybody think that Joe Biden is really thinking
very highly of himself. Now we add two other factors
that in the media is talking about that all of
the Russia stuff, all of the abuse in our intelligence
community and the DOJ and rigging Hillary's investigation. And we

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learned from Struck and Page that that was all being
directed by Obama, Biden's attorney general, and that would be
Lauretta Lynch. Haven't heard Biden talk about that much either.
And then when more information comes out and we begin
to discover that, oh well, everybody was warning about Russia
doing this in the past. You know, think back in

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twenty twelve, Mitt Romney was excoriated for saying, and by
Obama saying that Russia is a threat. We've known that
Russia has done this type of interference in many other
elections around the world. This is not new information. You know,
Devin Newness is direct warning they do it in twenty sixteen.
He warned everybody in twenty fourteen. All of this deep

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state stuff happened on their watch. The fact that Stefan
Howper recruited to spy on the Trump campaign Visa V.
Carter Page and Papadopoulos and Sam Clovis and Visa V.
You know, Hillary's bought and paid for Russian dirty dossier,
funneled money through a law firm, through a op research firm,

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over to a foreign national, Christopher Steele. And you know
now hearing this week, gee Bob Woodward, welcome aboard Washington
Post even saying, oh, you're gonna have to admit Fox
was right, especially Hannity or The New York Times this
week saying that dossier, Yeah, I think it might be
part of a disinformation Russia campaign to influence the election.

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And Hillary paid for it all. And it's kind of
despicable when you think about it. How can that happen
in America? Think he's going to have to deal with that.
He's going to have to be questioned and it will
be reminded every day what the Obama Biden record for
the economy was and I know in twenty sixteen I

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was a broken record, but you know what it matters,
especially in light of record low unemployment in this country,
a growing, burgeoning economy, where energy independent for the first
time ever. The tax cuts, the vast majority of increase
in moneys in people pocket real dollars went to the

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quote poor and middle class in America, not to the rich,
not to corporations. You look at all of the companies
now as a result of the biggest tax cut in history,
the single biggest amount of deregulation in history, and the
president now we're energy independent for the first time in
seventy five years, the lifeblood of our economy. Well, that's

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going to in and of itself, create career jobs for
so many Americans. It's going to be life changing. It
will be the biggest wealth producer ever in our history.
It's almost like we have a potential as a country
to have a massive gold rush if we're just smart
enough to do it. Because all the other countries are

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doing it. And we're now a net exporter of oil.
And you think, oh, okay, all these corporations now because
of deregulation. They want to invest in Wisconsin and Michigan
and Ohio and Pennsylvania, and they're doing it. And that's
the only way we got towards record low unemployment for
African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace.

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You unemployment. It happened for a reason, coupled with the
biggest tax cuts ever in history, you know, coupled with
the promise of conservative justices, coupled with president that ended
that idiotic randal, stopped Little rocket Man from firing rockets
over Japan every other weekend. Understand, the President's meeting the

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Japanese Prime Minister on trade issues. We're about to in
the middle of negotiation. He new trade deals with China
that will benefit American manufacturers, American cars companies. You know,
just like everybody laughed at the idea, Well, why are
you pressuring our allies like Canada and Mexico because these
deals were unfair. These deals were not just. These deals

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took advantage of us. And by the way, if the
President gets that wall built and we get control of
our southern border and it's happening, you know, it's so funny.
The President issues his emergency declaration. Everybody complains about it.
They try to veto the legislation, they can't override his veto.
He vetos, the legislation overrides. And now he's reallocated nine trillion.

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And guess what's happening. We're now building the wall and
he's got the resources. And when Mexico said this week,
you know, try to take away guns from a law
enforcement this better never happened again. And the President immediately
sent down armed troops down there to help out a
law enforce because they need that kind of help. And
the President both Legislative League Congress had given him the

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authority on the border, and Congress also, I mean, the
mandate was clear President as the authority to build barriers,
put up lighting, etc. Etc. If in fact Carter's drug
dealing from across the borders happening, okay, legislatively, he wins.
Congress passed that law giving him that authority, and it

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drives people crazy. Then you start comparing, well, what are
the Democrats going to stand for? What they're going back
to now it's Medicare for all instead of Obamacare. Obamacare
didn't work out. You have a significant percentage of this
party wants a seventy percent marginal tax rate for individuals
ninety percent for corporations. Let me tell you what that means.

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It means zero economic growth, negative growth, and money pouring
out of the country. People will leave the country. You know,
it's fairly inexplicable, isn't it that they could you be
thinking at this level at this time. You know, let

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me give you a statistic that we have today. There
are forty one states that are seeing tax revenues surge
to all time highs forty one of them. And by
the way, as Trump now enters, you know, the Trump
economic boom and enters its third year. This is from Pew.
Now tax revenue rose in all but five states in

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the third quarter of twenty eighteen, lifting the number of
states in which collections had fully recovered from the Great
Recession to a record high forty one after accounting for inflation.
State tax revenue turned the corner in late twenty seventeen
after the weakest two years of economic growth outside of
a recession in at least thirty years. Oh, who became

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President Donald Trump? You know who was the president that
we had our weakest years. That would be the Biden
Obama administration. As most states entered twenty nineteen, their budget
in July, a fourth consecutive quarter of solid gains, pushing
total state tax collections to thirteen point four percent above

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their peak record in two thousand and eight. Oh, what's
the similarity? You know, Obama was elected and then I
got better as soon as Obama and Biden left. And
the states that aren't doing well, you got it. Oh,
let's see New York. Oh they're down three point five
billion the last I checked. So you know He's gonna

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have to run on that record, and Trump's gonna run
on his because eight years of Obama gave us eight
million more Americans in poverty. Whatever the statistic is, I've
given you many times. We're now looking at the greatest
potential opportunity for growth. And let me tell you, it's

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gonna say, are you better off than you want four
years ago? And why didn't you do anything about Russia?
How did you let this happen on your watch? Unbelievable.
I know the media is going to try and ignore
a lot of this, but we'll do their job. But
I think the American people, you know what George Will
used to always say, peace and prosperity drive elections. The

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Trump economy versus the Obama economy. I mean, thirteen million
more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty,
lowest labor participation since the seventies. We now have an
America a million more jobs available than people on unemployment.
We now have a record low again of unemployment applications.

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By the way, controlling the boarder, I didn't finish my thought. Yeah,
that helps Americans get jobs in the higher wages. Thank you.
That's good for every American. We're not against immigration, just
do it legally so we can vet you, make sure
you can take care of yourself when you're invited to
be a part of our family. All of this helps recovery.
The eight years of Biden Obama worse recovery in forty years,

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lowest hole ownership rate in fifty one years only administration
never to reach three percent GDP growth, took on more
debt than every other president before them, combined them, vice
president and Obama won't even endorse them. Pretty funny, all right.
We got a lot to get to. Secretary of Energy,
former Governor of Texas, Rick Perry's going to talk borders.

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The election and energy. Obviously, I'm going to ask if
he believes as I do. You know those that want
to get rid of oil and gas, the combustion engine,
planes and cows and everything's free. What if we just
tapped into all the energy resources we have and become
the biggest net exporter. How would that impact the forgotten

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men and women in this country? Job wise, finance wise,
wealth wise? All right, our two Sean Hannity Show. Glad
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It's eight hundred and nine one, Shawn, if you want
to be a part of the program. Right, I told
you Biden got and I did forget one thing. Before
we get to our friend, former governor Secretary of Energy
Rick Perry, we have newly surfaced video. Remember Bernie, Remember

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Bernie's comments before the fake news CNN town hall, and
he said to the woman whose family fled the former
Soviet Union in nineteen seventy nine, is a your assumption
that I believed in authoritarian communism that was the Soviet Union?
I haven't I opposed it? Well, okay, we now have

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unearthed video footage on Fox News that chose Bernie Sanders
recalling his excitement surrounding the Cuban Revolution in the fifties.
I remember, for some reason or another being excited when
Castro made the revolution in Cuba. By the way, you
know what he did, right, He stole all the land,

(32:54):
took over all industry, and they went on a murdering rampage.
And I knew one of those survivors sadly passed away,
this man named Armando de Quisada. Is that a Decatur,
Alabama Mando's pizza. He used to talk to this guy
all the time. He's such a good guy. And his
family were wealthy landowners there. Everything they had was stolen

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part of the resistance. They were killed, whole family. Everybody knew.
I was a kid, and it just seemed right. Bernie's appropriate,
the poor people rising up against rather ugly rich people.
Just like when he said that senate millionaires are immoral.
Well he's a senate millionaire now. And Bernie, by the way,
Bernie backers are vowing revenge if the Democratic establishment steals

(33:39):
the nomination Again, Bernie or Busts didn't rallying cry and
oh Bernie was heckled and jeered at the woman of color.
Event yikes didn't get much coverage, but it happened, all right.
I just got done laying out two things, well maybe
many things, challenges that that Biden's gonna have as part

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of the Biden Obama team. And obviously fifty years his
positions on bussing, his stupid statements, his creepy behavior, That's
all part of it. But I think the biggest thing
that will stand out is number one, all the warnings
and admonitions we had about Russia election interference, hacking, all

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of it. They didn't lift a finger, specific warnings in
twenty fourteen. They didn't lift a finger. All of this deep,
deep state abuse of power and corruption, it all happened
under them, and they did nothing. And then on top
of that, I went through the last hour of the
economic record, which is atrocious. I also said that we

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could make every American richer than ever if we would. Finally,
we're now energy independent for the first time because of
Donald Trump deregulation and now opening up the pipelines, approving
them to Dakota Pipeline, Keystone Pipeline, opening up an war.

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In other words, we have more oil and natural gas
resources than the entire Middle East and Russia combined. For
the first time in seventy five years. We're a net
exporter of energy. We're talking about high paying career jobs
for the forgotten men and women in this country, Like

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when we partnered with energy companies in Texas and Oklahoma
North Dakota during the recent boom. Remember they were trading
truck drivers and paying an eighty grand a year. And
people are saying, I listened to you, Hannity, and I moved,
and you're right. I was only making thirty five grand,
forty grand. Now I'm making a hundred and I just
bought a brand new truck. If we did this on

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the scale we're capable of, and we could also provide
security for our allies. On the one hand, in Western
Europe once we figure out how to get it, they're cheaper.
And then also not relying on countries that hate our
hutch for the lifeblood of our economy. That means Americans,
every American can get rich. It's like a gold mine
for every American secretary, energy, former governor. A friend of

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the show, Rick Perry, Am I wrong in that? Oh? Sean,
you are on fire today. Brother? How you doing? My friend?
Good to hear your voice. I miss you. I've been
talked to you a while. Oh well, we've been kind
of had our head down and doing our job there
in DC and around the country. And you know, it's
a big swamp out there. Man. It's doing to take
a lot to drain it all and drain it in
a in a timely way. But I can promise you

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the President every day is getting up and making a difference,
you know, whether it's watching this extraordinary energy revolution that
you're talking about here occur across this country. I mean,
think about this, Sean. Twelve years ago. Twelve years ago,
we were told that we had found all the energy
that there was in America. As a matter of fact,
I think it was President Obama said, you can't drow

(36:53):
your way out of this problem that you got today. Well,
mister President, you can drow your way out of this problem,
and you're seeing Americans do it. The problem was you
were in the way, mister president. If you and your
administration were putting regulations into place, you were picking and
choosing winners out there. From the standpoint of if you
were in fossil fuel, if you're in the cold business,

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you were in the nuclear business, you had to fight
every day just to try to stay alive. And President,
by the way, if there's anybody that would know this,
it's you, because we know the energy production in Texas
over the years, and it's been a boom and bust
over the years. Has been hard, good times and bad times,
but the good times are really good times. Well what

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we've seen in Texas, and you know, I tell people,
I said, listen, we're not perfect, but I think from
the standpoint of developing in all of the above energy strategy,
Texas is a pretty good example. You'll recall while I
was a governor, we developed more wind energy than any
other state in the nations. A matter of fact, we
produced more wind in Texas and all but five countries.

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And we were complementing our diversity of energy resources. We
were developing the wall and gases, we were building pipelines.
And that is a good segue into the president's executive
order that he's signed about ten days ago to go
really make infrastructure at the heart. And these are real projects.

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I mean, you think about if the previous administration had
actually gone out and spent dollars where you were creating
real infrastructure. As a matter of fact, what this president
knows is you don't have to spend taxpayer dollars to
do this. You just need to get the federal government
out of the way, get the permitting process expedited, so

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that when somebody knows that there's going to be a permit,
here are the rules, and if you meet these rules,
here's the permit. That's called permitting by rule. That's where
President Trump is taking this country. It's the reason you've
seen this explosion. Well, let me ask you a question.
I don't have the numbers off the top of my head.
I'm usually pretty good with remembering. But now they include

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anoir and our natural gas potential reserves. I mean they're massive.
You know, I've read hundreds of years worth of natural gas,
which is the lifeblood of our economy down. The New
Green Deal wants to get rid of natural gas and
oil in ten years, the lifeblood of the world's economy.
The dumbest idea I've ever heard. But if we if

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we really began to tap these resources, how vast are
they compared to say, Russia and the Middle East. Well,
and our reserves are growing every day. I mean, that's
the good point. Interesting thing. We're the oil We're the
number one oil and gas producing country in the world.
You know where the third largest oil and gas field

(39:56):
in the world is. It's the Permian Basin in Texas
is the I mean right behind uh Saudi Arabia, Russia,
and then there is the Permian Basin. When you add
all these other basins to Marcellis and the Utica up
in Pennsylvania, in that Appalachian region, by the way, that
does you I mean like up state New York. Yeah,

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they won't touch, but you can't. But you can't use
it because you've got such small minded people and all
oh so dumb. By the way, Pennsylvania, there's stick in
the you know, you know they do the horizontal drilling, etc.
I mean, they're just they're just literally stealing it right
out of New York because we speak but I'm kidding,
I'm kidding. Um. Oh, by the way, this just broke

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um if I could do a little break in New
York Times came out with the piece jos Now Joe
Biden reached out to Anita Hill, but she wants real accountability,
and she said in an interview. She left the conversation
feeling deeply unsatisfied. Decline to characterize his words to her
as an apology. She said she is not convinced that
Biden truly accepts the harm that he caused her and

(41:00):
other women who suffered sexual harassment and gender violence. Here
we go more. You know, it's fascinating because Democrats, you know,
they care about believing, you know, a high school fairy
tale about Justice Kavanaugh. I believe, But we have a
lieutenant governor in Virginia. If you're a Democrat, they don't
care about accusations of rape and violent sexual assault. They

(41:23):
don't know believers there. But anyway, so that's an interesting
article that just came out. I'm sorry to break in,
but so what what would this mean? I say that
the energy industry is going to produce high paying career
jobs for every American because where we've had energy, and
we have a lot of it, we haven't even tapped.
We now, you know, truck drivers getting trained and being

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a base salary of eighty grand and all the overtime
they can handle. Sean, this is a generational opportunity. That's
I look at this and I share with people, and
I've seen it happen in my home state. Young people
who had maybe two, three, four generations of not even

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being able to get out of high school. They thought
they just had to get out and get a job
and get to work. And not only is this allowing
people the opportunity to get out, start a family, to
be able to buy a home, which is, by the way,
that's the biggest source of net worth that most people

(42:29):
are ever going to have, is to buy that first home.
And these energy related jobs, and I might add the
concentric circle of influence that comes out from this isn't
just about jobs in the energy industry. It's it's the
manufacturing jobs that come because of the energy prices that

(42:49):
were being able to have and and there's still low
a manufacturing So this is truly about generational changes. I mean,
I think most Americans understand. It's it's like, you know,
thank you, President Trump for giving us the opportunity to
take care of our families, to have a better future,

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to to create this wealth. I mean, the I'll give
you a great example. This one just blew me away
when I saw it. And this is a barber out
uh in far West Texas, out in that Permian Basin region.
He put an air stream trader on the back of
this pickup truck and went out to some of these
man camps that were the labor uh and is making

(43:33):
over one hundred thousand dollars cutting hair. I mean that's
a you know, I know that's anecdotal, but it's it's
what's happening all over part of the of the industry,
whether you're up in the Bocking in North Dakota, or
whether you're in the Marcellus get down in the Haynesville
in Louisiana, all across this country. Sean, when we start

(43:55):
building more pipelines to be able to move this product
from where it's developed to the markets where they were,
those markets Western Europe. Speaking of Biden earlier, apparently the
Nita Hill, I'm not happy with his call. But more importantly,
if you've removed your economy in Texas as governor, now

(44:19):
we now have you know, forty one states, uh, mister Secretary,
forty one that have huge revenue increases. We see population
decreases all over the place in New York, New Jersey, California, Illinois.
People are leaving these high tax states. You know, Texas
nearly got four hundred thousand new people last year. If

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they if you removed Texas's economic prosperity under your leadership
from the Obama economy, they would have had a depression
on paper. Yeah, they've not been underwater. Yeah, I mean
it's true. I mean we talked about it at the time. Yeah,

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it's really fascinating that the few states, you know, Florida
was out there under the leadership of a really good,
capable governor, Governor Rick Scott, who's the United States Senator now,
and without those few states, America would have been in

(45:23):
a real bind. The key here, and I tell people
this is that people always move around in the country.
I mean, they're free to move around fairly well. But
here was my bumper sticker, sean capital goes where it's welcome.
And today when you have the energy industry doing what

(45:44):
it's doing, the manufacturing that's coming back under the Trump administration,
there are states out there that are doing really, really well.
There's some states that aren't doing that well. Frankly, where
you live as one of them. And one of the
reasons is I'm stuck here by the way, those those
state leaders would rather have their make their little political

(46:06):
statements than look at reality. For instance, the idea that
you can't send a pipeline of American natural gas to
the northeast. And guess who's paying the price for that.
It's those citizens up there that you're right electricity it's
sixty percent for residential and forty percent higher. I mean,

(46:30):
that's crazy. And it's three and a half billion dollars
shortfall in New York forty one states of massive surpluses.
You see people leaving in droves. They're going to you know,
your home state in Florida and Tennessee and the Carolinas. Well,
this administration is making places in America really welcome for

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people's capital and because they know that if you risk
your capital, you'll have a chance to have a return
on the investment. That's what the Trump administration is all about.
You've seen it. It's at the EBA, wherever it is.
Don't be a stranger. Governor Secretary Energy, Rick Perry. The
story of Eddie Gallagher. Next Sean Gallagher. He is the

(47:12):
brother of Eddie Gallagher. Remember um the story of Eddie Gallagher.
He's a family as a father, he's a family of three.
His wife Andrea decorated US seal. He's now confined behind
razor wire in a military jail. He served the country
for nearly two decades, and many ways he has been

(47:33):
a hero on the battlefield. There is a new development
in this case. I read the New York Times piece
and if you read that, it reads one way stabbing
a defensive teenage captive to death, picking off school age
girl and an old man from a sniper's roost, indiscriminally
spraying neighborhoods with rockets and machine gun fire. Navy Seal

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commandos from Team seven's Alpha Platoon said they had their
highly decorated platoon chief commit shocking acts in Iraq. They
have spoken up repeatedly, and by the way, they eventually
had a meeting with their platoon leader in San Diego.
A criminal investigation ensues eventually in anyway, long story short,

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when you start getting down into the actual specific allegations
of this now the platoon members eventually forced the referral
of their concerns outside the Seals. Is going to be
a trial that begins May twenty eighth. The account of
March eight, twenty eighteen meeting in other details as a
founder in thirty nine page report, and it paints a

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subculture of people. But when you get to the actual investigations,
a lot of it sounds like seal talk. Maybe the
best equivalent would be locker room talk. And if you
ask if they've seen these things, the answer is no.
Now a huge development yesterday by the Navy Times dot com.
The head line is prosecutors ncis investigator accused of misconduct

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in war crimes case and emotion was filed this week
in California, threatening to derail the entire war crimes case
against Eddie Gallagher. Remember the President stepped in and put
him in better living conditions. And it was drafted by
Gallagher's civilian defense attorney guy the name of Timothy Pollitory,
and it paints a portrait of stonewalling prosecutors refusing to

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turn over evidence that could clear, in other words, exculpatory
evidence that could clear the embattled chief, and a federal
cop who allegedly went rogue and cherry picking witness statements
to salvage a rickety case quote rather than conduct a
proper investigation in search of the truth, the agent began
with a predetermined conclusion and went about finding the evidence
to support that conclusion, while ignoring or suppressing anything that

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conflicted with the narrative. Now I understand this new evidence
that has emerged in this case. Congressman Duncan Hunter of
California is taking a special interest in this, so has
former am MY PD commissioner Bernie Carrig, Duncan Hunter, and
Sean Gallagher, brother of Bettie Gallagher. Join us. Now, thank
you all for being with us. Appreciate it. And hey,

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this is Duncan. Here's what's happening too. Well, Duncan, you're
reading what I'm reading. You're reading two very different narratives here.
Here's what they're doing. They're sucking us into their lawyer narrative.
I mean, this is about do the American people want
guys to go kill people for the country? When the
President and Congress says we're going to send you oversee
you to go do something. Do you want guys that

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will do that or do you want lawyers back here
at home to put these guys in jail? The American
people ask for guys to serve on the front lines.
I served overseas. Let us do what you want us
to do. And even you're talking about it, people, it's
kind of you get lost in the weeds on all
the lawyer stuff. Do you want men to go kill
bad people? For the country. If you do, then guys

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like Eddie our heroes. Meaning and by the way, if
all of your listeners give money to Eddie's defense, n
please we have to send all the lawyers to Iraq
and Afghanistan and let those guys go and fight it
out that we wouldn't have to pay him. Number one
helped Eddie out. Number two. Either you believe that they're
that this country's worth fighting for and you want men
to go kill bad men overseas or you don't. If

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you do, then Eddie's a hero. If you don't, then
we shouldn't have a military. And I'll tell you what
Trump is kind of right, then let's get out of Iraq,
in Syria and Afghanistan. Let's let's not have these guys
go and do what we asked them to do and
go fight and kill people, because that's what that's what
we're paying guys to do, is go fight and kill
and then bring them back here and put him in
jail for what we as a nation asked them to

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go do. This is ridiculous, Sean Gallagher. Obviously this is
your brother. How many tours are duty did he? Was?
He even mold then as a Navy seal. So, yeah,
Eddie went to Iraq in two thousand and three, so
this is actually his last deployment. The one that's in
question was second time he had been to Missoul. So
if you think about a guy like him has been
going to war for US for fifteen years, eight times

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he's gone back to fight for US in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bring us into whoever these people other seals, apparently six
or seven of them that didn't get along with your brother,
What is the story behind that? So the story behind
this and this is where the frustrating part comes in.
As a family, my sister in law, my brother, and
me and a bunch of others have been what I

(52:29):
say is cursed with the truth. I've known about this
whole thing before the investigation he started. It has never
been seven to nine guys of his platoon. It's always
been one to two who made up stories because they
didn't want Eddie to be their boss again. And I
know that sounds simplistic, but in the seal team's reputation
is everything. Your honor and your code and all that
stuff is everything. And Eddie had seriously reprimanded guys who

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were brand new who had never been on combat before,
for dereliction of duty for a mutiny abroad, and so
he told them, hey, look, either get out of the
teams or ship up or shape out. And they didn't
like that, and so when they got home they spun
up these stories. The thing that you had just started
in the lead in the difference between the New York
Times article and the Navy Times article is the frustration

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that we've been dealing with since day one. The Navy
Times article was finally another step where the truth is
starting to come out, where investigators literally sat a bunch
of guys from Eddy Splatoon down, tried to coax stories
to sit their own narrative out of them, and any
of them willing to say that they were coaxed into
saying something that's not true. Absolutely, So the Navy Times

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article that you started with last night, or that came
out last night, that you started the top of the
show with in it, one of the key witnesses, according
to the prosecution, just flipped. And he actually didn't even flip.
What he said in his follow up interview was I
never said what you think I did. I never saw
Eddie shoot anybody like a little girl or an old man.
That's insane. And also, by the way, I never witnessed

(53:55):
the stabbing of an ISOs detainee. I just saw Eddie
treating him. And so this is one of those things
where eight months, nine months, this whole message started, seven
months of Eddie in prison, all of this stuff. We
find out that prosecutors are withholding excultatory evidence from our
team from Timothic parlatory in the family. We finally, via
an illegal week of information since the media, we discovered

(54:17):
that there was actually exonerating evidence that that. So you know,
I know that the family and I have always been
saying this. You know, this never happened. This is all concoction.
But now there's some gratification in that we actually have
proof rather than the proper investigation. They start, as the
Navy Times piece said, with a predetermined conclusion. You're you're
pointing out your brothers accused of stabbing to death an

(54:38):
unarmed and seriously wounded Islamic State prisoner of war during
the twenty seventeen deployment, and shooting an old man and
a young girl in a violent spree that claimed hundreds
of lives. And then the Navy Times goes on to say,
although the motion accuses prosecutors of withholding evidence benefiting Gallagher
records independently uncovered by the Navy Times, the motion expends

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much it's inc on the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which,
by the way, I guess prosecutor in this case is
accusing of botching the entire probe, and the lead investigator
on the case, the NCIS Special Agent, apparently is in
the crosshairs of the council here does any such evidence
exist in any way? Duncan I hear? There is video? Okay,

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so I've actually seen the video that the prosecutors wouldn't
show anybody. And by the way, if they showed people
the video, it shows Eddie trying to save the terrorist life.
And by the way, he's not a pow. He's not
wearing a uniform. We're not fighting uniform people. We're fighting
people that hate our country, that hate Christianity, that hate
Western civilization, that dress like civilians, hide their guns. And

(55:46):
you're going to treat Eddie like a police officer on
the streets of San Diego as opposed to somebody that
we're paying to go kill bad guys. I that that
was his job. And so the answer is, I've seen
the video. It shows Eddie trying to save the life.
That's what it shows. And I can't wait till the
video becomes public. They've used the video to try and

(56:08):
scare people to to go against Eddie Gallagher. When the
video once you see it, you're you're like, hey, I
feel people would have no military experience saw the video
and they left going that exonerates him, that that proves
that he didn't do anything bad. The hard thing, I
am a hard time understanding why would his own guys

(56:29):
turn against him? And, by the way, not all of them,
just a few. Why. Yeah, it's kind of like a
family Sean. I mean, you ask, why does an uncle
Jim talk to you on Thanksgiving about politics? It's the
same kind of deal. It's a it's a small, tight environment.
He wasn't liked by a few guys. And by the way,
not just like Sean said, not not six or seven
or eight or nine guys, one or two guys and

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that are in the video and the pictures that I've seen.
So he's so these these guys that dimed him out
are posing with him in some of these pictures, smiling, happy,
and some of them recanted. Is that true? So here's
the problem, Sean, they lied, So now they need immunity
from the prosecutor to be able to tell the prosecutors
that they lie. And the prosecution doesn't want to give

(57:13):
the Seals immunity to recant their stories. You see what
I'm saying, because if you tell a false story in
the first place, and you want to go back and say, hey,
that was that was not true, that's what I said.
I was coerciding the saying what I said, then they'll
get you on perjury. The Seals now want immunity to
say that what they said in the first place was
coerced and not true, and the prosecution, of course, is

(57:36):
not going to give given immunity. This is about leaks.
It's about lies from the prosecutors and have trus and
they're leaking all this information to the New York Times.
I mean, this is the US Navy prosecutors. It sounds
eerily just like what our president is going through right now.
It's the exact same kind of thing by an overzealous

(57:57):
and corrupt judicial system, but this one's in the military,
so it's even tighter and harder to expose than the
Department of Justice corruption. All right, stay right there, Duncan Hunter,
Congressman California. Shaan Gallagher is the brother of Eddie Gallagher.
When is this supposed to go to trial at this
point or is it in a delay because of the
evidence issue. We'll take a break, we'll find out. We'll

(58:18):
answer that question when we get back. All right, as
we continue, Congressman Duncan Hunter and Sean Gallagher, who is
the brother of Eddie Gallagher, and this whole kind of
a looted story about you know, being charged with war
crimes and then apparently there's new evidence proving that he
was helping the person that other people said that he

(58:40):
was responsible for killing when he didn't have to Sean,
how do you why are we there at that point?
If we have video evidence that Congressman Hunter just described
to us, wouldn't that be exculpatory completely and end it?
That makes no sense at that point. Absolutely, And the
best way that I can describe this is simply is

(59:01):
just to say the process is broken, that the system
is broken. And the reason that I can say that
is that this whole thing has been going on for
nine months. Right Eddie was originally charged with something like
ten counts. We have dropped in including the article that
you mentioned in the Navy Times, which has the sculptory
evidence that's probably going to drop four more charges. So

(59:23):
you're seeing now, Eddie, they treated him like a mafia boss.
All they were two charges already dropped. Four charges you're
saying will likely drop then what's left Then the only
charge that will be left is the one where they
claim that he has stabbed the ISIS fighter that just
moments ago was firing at him when he's actually trying
to save his life. So they described it that saw it.

(59:47):
I have not seen it, so I don't know that
maybe he was seen trying to put a track in
or something. So yeah, the confirmed reports, the quick scenario,
the situation is that he pulled him off a humby
IRAQIS forces gathering. Right, so there's a compound that was
hellfire missiles. It kills fifty ices fighters, one survives. The
seventeen year old boy he gets taken offul hummer. Eddie says,

(01:00:09):
I'm going to take him. I'm going to try and
save him. There's video of my brother cutting away his pants,
bandaging a wound and starting to provide medical care. That's
where the video cut, and that's the last charge you're
saying involved this. Now their eyewitnesses that will testify they
saw him try to save that life, not take it. Yes,
So this is another insane thing that I've been saying,
is that we actually have three to four times as

(01:00:31):
many people who will say that Eddie never did this
than those that did. So let me put you to
this wish on. Every single lawyer I've ever talked to
about this case has looked at this and said this
would have never made it past a grand jury in
a civilian case, that you would have never heard about
Eddie's name, that none of this up would ever come
to light because the evidence is so bad and the

(01:00:51):
story is so bad. However, because it's a military court
of law and the Article thirty two equivalent, which is
a grand jury the evidence threshold of solo, and it's
political sean, so they want to send a message. This
is all about politics. It's about career brass saying, oh,
Navy seals are going rogue and we need to send
a message to get their stuff together. Well, now they're

(01:01:12):
throwing Eddie under the bus to send that message. But
they didn't expect for me and his wife and her
family to fight back tooth and nail, and for him
as well. He fought for the country for twenty years.
He's not going to just sit there and take it.
And so they messed up. And this is a major
black guy in the military. And that's what I've completing
with the President to take a look at this, because

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I promise you, if I sit down with anybody for
twenty minutes and explain to them start to finish this
entire case, they walk away shaking their head in shame
that this is happening to Eddie, and then it's ever
started in the first place. All Right, I gotta let
you both go. We're going to continue to follow the
story in this case. Thank you both of being with us.
Carressman Hunter. I don't know when you can give us

(01:01:52):
that tape, but when you can, we will air it.
Thank you. Sean Gallagher, thank you, and I understand Bernie
Kara is with you. Send my best to Bernie. Eight
hundred nine pot one. Sean Toldfrey telephone number. You want
to be a part of the program. Your calls coming
up next. I wrote at the time that we're in
the battle for the soul of this nation. Oh that's

(01:02:13):
even more true today. If we are in the battle
for the soul of this nation. I believe history will
look back on four years of this president and all
he embraces as an aberrant moment in time. But if
we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House,
he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation.

(01:02:35):
Who we are, and I cannot stand by and watch
that happen. The core values of this nation are standing
in the world, are very democracy. Everything that has made
America America is at stake. That's why today I'm announcing
my candidacy for President of the United States. Folks, America

(01:02:56):
is an idea, an idea that's stronger than any army,
bigger than the ocean, more powerful than any dictator or tyrant.
It gives hope to the most desperate people on Earth.
It guarantees that everyone is treated with dignity, and gives
hate no safe harbor. As they say in my business,
I'm gonna I'm gonna give you the whole load. Today

(01:03:19):
got the first sort of main stream African American. Yeah,
who is articulate and bright and clean and myceuping guy
I mean, that's a story book. You're telling me we
gotta go spend money to keep you going bankrupt. Until
you don't know my state. My state was a slave state.

(01:03:40):
My state is a border state. My state is the
eighth largest black population in the country. My state is
anything from a northeast liberal state. You cannot go to
a seven eleven or a Duncan Donuts unless you have
a slight Indian accent. I'm not telling this. MoMA lived
in in Long Island for ten years or so. God

(01:04:02):
rest her soul and hum although she's wait, your mom's
still Your mom's still alive as your dad passed. God
bless her soul. A man who will be the next
President of the United States, Barack America. Hillary Clinton is
as qualified or more qualified than I am to be
vice President United States America. Let's get that straight. And

(01:04:22):
quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me.
So let me say it again. Thank you, Terry, and
thank you doctor Pepper, and thank you Chancellor. Doctor Paper.
Romney wants to let the he said in the first
hundred days, He's gonna let the big banks once again
write their own rules on Chain Wall Street. They're gonna

(01:04:44):
put you all back in chains. Think about what happened
out in We're Dad be different. My good friend was shot,
I mortally wounded. Well, I say, they're going to start
to see an employment and grow this spring to take employment.
Gro I'm sorry. Number one job facing the middle class,

(01:05:04):
and it happens to be, as Barrock says, a three
letter word jobs, jobs, job see. I went to the
big guys for the money. I was ready to prostitute
myself and the man and the man in which I
talk about it, Chuck Graham State senators here, Stock, stand up.
Chock doesn't see you? Oh God love you. What am
I talking about? I tell you what you're making everybody else?

(01:05:27):
Stand up? Opal. Now is the time to heed the
timeless advice from Teddy Roosevelt speaks softly and carry a
big stick. End of quote. I promise you the president
has a big stick. I promise you. Now. I'm like
the token black or the token woman. I was a
token young person. All right, there he is crazy. Creepy

(01:05:48):
Uncle Joe enters the Democratic campaign to run as a president.
Casio Cortez, the Speaker of the House of Representatives Pelosi
in name only a hacking Biden, he's out of touch
with the Democratic Party. The President weighs in about Sleepy Joe.
Welcome to the race, Sleepy Joe. I only hope you

(01:06:08):
have the intelligence, long in doubt to wage a successful
primary campaign, he said, warning Biden that the race would
be nasty and he would be forced to confront people
who truly have some very sick and demented ideas an
apparent reference to other candidates. But if you make it,
I'll see you at the starting gate. And Obama breaks

(01:06:29):
his silence. Oh, the best decision he ever made, but
he won't endorse crazy, creepy uncle Joe. Apparently Biden's having
some fundraising problems. And I'll tell you the biggest problem
Joe Biden has is the Obama record. The you know,
thirteen million more Americans on food stamps, eight million more
in poverty, lowest labor participation rate since the seventies, worst

(01:06:52):
recovery since the forties, lowest home ownership rate in fifty
one years, only president to never reach three percent GDP
growth in any year of his presidency and vice presidency,
and took on more debt than all forty three other
presidents before him, combined, and when you compare it to Trump,
there's no comparison. And that's where we find this race.

(01:07:14):
And by the way, Joe Biden thinks a lot of himself.
I'm getting calls from all over the world. World leaders
are calling me. They're almost begging me to do this
to save the country, save the world. You mean, like
dropping another one hundred and fifty billion on a tarmac
for radical Malla's the chant Death to America, Death to Israel. Okay,
joining us now Jonathan Gillim, former FBI agent, Federal Air

(01:07:35):
Marshal Horaldo rivera Fox News legal analyst, author of the
bestseller The Horaldo Show. Horaldo Crazy, creepy Uncle Joe. He's
got a lot to defend. And by the way, all
the deep state stuff that's coming out that all happened
on his and Obama's watch, He's gonna have to deal
with that. In the track record, nobody seems to think
about at all. Let me get this big stick going first.

(01:07:57):
I think you know you really can't help you, page producer,
you're a montage what was very wicked. Well, you know
it's like you're gonna send out another selfie seventy to
New thirty or one one of the greatest moments on
Twitter history. You know, Joe Biden is a charming man,
he's a he is beloved in many ways, but he

(01:08:20):
has never been a big vote getter. He's never any time,
as I recall, the last two times he ran for
president on his own, he never even got into double digits.
So I think that the fundraising aspect of his the
challenges that he faces, are the least of it. I
think his problem is that that though he is, there

(01:08:41):
are just some people that you liked them a lot,
but you can't see them in the role that they
are seeking. And I think Joe Biden is a classic
example of that. He's old school, old fashioned, old He's
you know, he's he's a retread and and I say this,
and I honor him put everything he's done, you know,

(01:09:02):
service for the country and his family, how they have served,
and what a great dad he has been, you know.
So there's many things that have about him extremely honorable
and admirable. But I don't think he has a chance
in this field. I really know. I think that all
this leader ship in the polls is very transgient. People

(01:09:23):
look at him and he's comfortable as a lot of
name recognition. I'd love to see how much money he
raises by this time tomorrow. Mornshaw, Well, there's a story
about that already, that he's not raising a whole lot
of money. And you know, you're right, we'll see by
the end of the week. And you know, so far,
not really a good start. Many Obama donors have already
committed to you know, crazy Mayor Pete and Kamala Harris

(01:09:46):
and Robert Francis. What are your thoughts? How how does
he come out in this, Jonathan, especially with a party
that is moving towards radical socialism and it's sort of
like and he has to defend Obamacare that was radical enough,
that failed on a spectacular level. Yeah, radical failure, but
it was I mean, if these old schools were Aldo

(01:10:08):
was describing him, he has no chance against these people,
just like Nancy Pelosi has no chance against this new
breed of socialistic I would even venture to say communistic, uh,
people that are coming along and getting and somehow getting elected.
But here's here's the question I have to pose the
Haraldo is, what has Joe Biden done that's a success?

(01:10:29):
I mean, in all the years that he's been in government,
what has Joe Biden's name been attached to. It's certainly
not a winning government. I mean why our government has
been in extreme decline in effectiveness since Reagan. So what
his Joe that any of these people done. You can
get him credit for Clarence Thomas being on the High

(01:10:50):
Court if it wasn't for Joe Biden cutting up Anita Hill. Uh.
He went on a whole apology tour saying he was wrong,
just like he's saying he was wrong when a supported segregation.
I think that his strongest suit is is and Jonathan,
you asked me very directly, I think the loyalty that

(01:11:13):
he showed to Barack Obama has forever endeared him to
the people who love Barack Obama. You know, that kind
of loyalty, selfless loyalty, reliability, A good old Joe, your
best pal, your wingman, has got your back. You know,
there's a lot to be said about that as the

(01:11:34):
second banana. You know, in some ways I feel like
Sean Hannity's Joe Biden. But you know, stop, I'm not.
I'm not allowing us this is that is ridiculous. And
I'll tell you why It's ridiculous because here you have
what how many years in broadcasting now is that you're
close to fifty, right. I went back twice in the

(01:11:57):
last year and watched your historic reporting on Willowbrook, which
was a mental health facility in New York and Queens
and you single handedly expose the most awful conditions and
horrific treatment of those suffering from mental illness of some

(01:12:18):
kind or another. Not only did you expose it, the
whole world's conscience was shocked. If you changed it all
by yourself. I've never done that my career, Haraldo. And
you think of everything that you've done and everything you've accomplished,
every war coverage, war you've covered, war zones you've been
in being shot at. You know, I can't accept it.

(01:12:40):
I can't accept that. Who's the second most powerful person today,
Jonathan Gillmar. It's not me. I can tell you that
the other thing we will agree on is the number
one most powerful guy in the world, uh, Donald Trump,
the president and is on TV tonight, which is great

(01:13:02):
and now how it is fabulous. So what are you
going to ask him? Um? Which I'm just gonna go
everything because the first interview really in depth after the
Muller report comes out, so obviously we got to talk
about that, Uh, clearly. You know, we'll ask him about
the twenty twenty candidates and the new deal, and you know,
just get his thoughts. I mean, you know, one of
the things that I've learned in terms of being a

(01:13:23):
better interviewer is you ask everything and you actually allow
the person to talk if you're not playing gotcha. It
took me a long time to learn that because I'm
such an egotistical idiot. Tragedy. It's a tragedy that that
that any he can't go on CNN because every other
word will be challenged, you know, in a disrespectful way

(01:13:44):
that curtails the free flow of information. You don't get
the essence of what the person has to say, the
newsmaker has to say. If you're so bent on hostility
as they are so at the president, that's why he
is going to you, because he wants to the amsten.
I'm dying to hear what he thinks about the deep
state and all these things that are being exposed and

(01:14:05):
whether the FISA warrants will be released. And you know,
this is not Operation Crossfire Hurricane, this is now Operation Boomerang.
All those people that tried to take him out, rigged
Hillary's investigation, then tried to rig a presidential election, and
then further tried to undermine a duly elected president. It's
all come back on them, It's all it's all coming

(01:14:26):
we note, we've seen most of it. The story is
being put together piece by piece. The evidence is overwhelming.
There's going to be a counter shock to this system
that is going to be like an avalanche causing an earthquake,
and it will draw everybody's attention. And all right, stay
right there. We got to take a quick quick break.
Horaldo Rivera and Jonathan Gillham with us as we continue

(01:14:50):
with Haraldo Rivera and Jonathan Gillham and both great friends
of mine and wonderful people. You know, horaldough you've picked
up something though about the Democrats day. He don't. They
don't want this president to succeed, even when the president.
Look a look at what the president offered as it
relates to the border. Now, they supported in the second

(01:15:11):
term of Obama funding a wall. They talked about the
need for the wall, and now they talk about walls
being amorrow. But he also put on the table DACA
put on the table, Dreamers put on the table other
things to try and entice the Democrat. They wouldn't talk
to him. You know, the country has grown into the
Trump position on the border. If you Sallah Thomas Friedman

(01:15:33):
yesterday in the New York Times of all places, the
most prominent ed writer in the time, saying how a
wall was necessary. He was down there. He took the
same tour that you and I did with the border patrol.
He saw for himself the chaos on the border, the
fact it's so very unsafe for the migrants themselves. It's disorderly,

(01:15:56):
it's harmful not only to their home countries, but this
two hours. Obviously, I think that the president has to
stay on message. I think it's very important now that
he also has to continue this resistance. He should steal
that word from the no. I agree. I'm running of time.
Last word, Jonathans Now, I think I think the president

(01:16:17):
should continue to resist. And I'll tell them give the Democrat,
all the Democrats that vote Democrat out there, a little
bit of advice. If Joe Biden, based on what we've
seen in the Democratic Party or the past year, if
Joe Biden gets a nomination. You're going to know he
was selected, not elected. You are the best choice for
the Democrats in twenty twenty. Why didn't President Obama for us?

(01:16:41):
I ask, says an Obama, Not to endorse who depend
who doesn't want to? He should whoever wins this nomination
to winning on their own marriage. Why are you I
mean this, I thought it a beat about presidents, but
you're going to have to endocrattrimary first? Why are you
the best choice for that? Would be for the good
request all the stuff and time. Okay, that's something that

(01:17:09):
they should look at because the Democrat Party does not
have the people's interest at heart. All right, thank you
so much for being with those eight hundred nine for one.
Sean Tolfree telephone number. Quick break right back, and we
will continue on the other side. All right, twenty five
to the top of the hour. All right, it's my Friday.
I just happened to be off tomorrow. I have not
I don't take do I take any days off? Wasn't
I here last Friday? You know? Take it was good Friday.

(01:17:32):
And we came Holy Thursday. We came in the day
after Easter Sunday. We came in and I had been
scheduled to be off Thursday and Friday for the Easter holiday,
and I didn't take off. So here I am. So
that means in honor of Friday, it's our Friday concert series.
And for those of you that still have Friday to work,

(01:17:53):
just imagine it's Friday tomorrow this time and this is playing.
Are Charlie Daniels, Big and Zach Brown Band Concert Series,
Let's Hit It and a little bit of Chicken. Try
don't be here on Friday nighting a parent teams to
fit just right, and the radio a lot to see song,

(01:18:18):
see the love and my woman's eye, fear, touch of
a precious child, and do my best. It's funny how
it's a little things in life that means, come on,
eat it. It goes me away. She's everything I'm gonna

(01:18:40):
say to a woman. Got a good find the worst,
she go get it. I don't know what to do.
Every time I'm trying to tell around field comes out.
I love you. You got on ever, keep me in mind,

(01:19:06):
summer down the road and might getting lonely, keep me
in mind and praise some day that you will love me.
Only thing about your Sundays in the way I will

(01:19:27):
day waste to day after day. Sweet can't stay with
you while because this road has been putting miles on
my heart. Sweetheart, I've been living in a fantacene. But

(01:19:50):
one day that never will strike and my bart will
lose his bye. But don't give up on me stream.
I got some good friend down, moved down the street,
got a girl in mama, the mtown. He giving a

(01:20:12):
small town here. It was like I got it everything
I need and nothing that I don't. I got my

(01:20:32):
toes in the water, ass in the sand, not a
word in the world of gold bear in my hand.
Life was good today, Live was good today. How do
you send l come down? Yeah, I'm leaving Ga. And

(01:20:54):
if there weren't both key pretty senior retails, I'd have
no reason this day. And we're coming to your sna
I can't come saying you will come to siply him

(01:21:14):
line and if you want a little banging, he ain't
come along. When the Devil finished, Johnny said, well you're
pretty good, old son. But sitting down in that chair
right there, and let me show you how it's done.
Found about the rock boy from the Devils in the
House of the Rising sun Chicken in the Red Man

(01:21:37):
pick out reads it all like no town, no all

(01:22:03):
right in justice. I just love music. Doesn't music make
me feel good? Makes me feel so good? And by
the way, when second, we're going to talk to our
buddy Charlie Daniels. He's got a veterans nonprofit. It's called
the Journey Home Project. They partnered with Rich Poverty Organization
to assemble a new art exhibit at the Pentagon and
the exhibit is entitled The Alliance Collection, a gallery literally

(01:22:27):
of combat civilian photographs taken by vets and their families.
It's now on display for public viewing. And the Journey
Home Project, this nonprofit, you know, assists other not for
profits and securing the funds they need to help the
causes that benefit vents and let's play it. So we've

(01:22:47):
been at this for a long time and we got
involved in recognizing veterans' needs that when our veterans are
coming home, and especially it seems like from more recent wars,
the Afghanistan War, the Iraq War, that our veterans administration

(01:23:09):
and the government agencies that are tasked with trying to
help our veterans transition from one life to another from
military life to back to a civilian life, are just
dropping the ball. And my manager, David Corlan, and myself
got together with the couple of people with Joe and

(01:23:29):
Mercy long Driver and Ed Hardy and said, let's incorporate
this thing. David, the film called the Journey Home, and
that's where the name came from. It just seemed like
a good name, as a journey Home, I think describes
what happens with our veterans when they come home. I
look at the concept of the Journey Home Project. It

(01:23:51):
is a journey. It is a path, a walk, a
journey every bloody day, and it's it's a hard journey
to suddenly not have the focus, the organization, the discipline,
the respect, the task, the commonality, the trust that you

(01:24:17):
did when you were in uniform, and then try to
adapt to that the transition period into a society that,
for most cases bluntly does not hold itself to the
same ethical or moral standards that the armed forces do.

(01:24:40):
And so I'm so appreciative of not only the approach
of the Journey Home Project, but the recognition that our
emphasis from my foxhold needs to be on that transition
period because that transition is different for everyone that walk
along the path back home. I think there's two parts

(01:25:05):
of this. I think we as veterans need to recognize
that we're among a select few that have done and
gone and done what we have done and been a
part of something that's been bigger than ourselves. Just because
we don't put our uniforms on anymore doesn't mean that
we're not still a part of that. We still have

(01:25:25):
an obligation to our brothers and sisters to be there
for him, to support them and push them, just as
we did in the military. So we as veterans have
to step up and take take it to the fight.
We've got to be there to support our brothers and
sisters and point them in the right direction. We have
to learn from our own mistakes or have to learn

(01:25:45):
from our own hardships, but we can't do that alone.
I never would have gotten to where I've gotten if
it wasn't for the network that I've created and the
help from the Journey home. And that's where other Americans
come into play. There's a lot of nonprofits out there

(01:26:08):
that are honorable and that are focused on serving veterans
rather than benefiting from being associated with veterans. The Journey
Home project is at the top of that list. So
that's what Journey Home is. We are here for the veterans.
We are here to try to help them have a

(01:26:30):
softer land in a smoother transition coming from the military
life to the savian life. Wow, that's very powerful. The
man Charlie Daniel's country music legend, dear friend and probably

(01:26:51):
one of the most generous people when it comes to
our vets, loving this country, patriotism, appreciating the sacrifice of others,
and giving back, which he's done his entire career. How
are you good. I can't believe I don't get to
see you more often and I only get to talk
to you occasionally on radio and TV. What's going on,

(01:27:12):
my friend? Wow? Man, it's just good to talk to you.
I was sitting here trying to figure out how I
don't say anything after that introduction you gave me. Man. Well,
I mean it's a great cause, that's it. And like
so many other great veteran causes, like how many freedom
concerts did you do for us over the years, we
raised a bunch of money and that money's even still
being distributed to this day. Well, we had more fun

(01:27:33):
than we should have had. That's true, Ain't it ain't
fair to be doing something good and having that much
money at the same time. You know, well, it's legendary
me butchering the Devil went down to Georgia on stage
and you know you did no, no, no, I ruined
the whole concert. It's it's your encore. And then you

(01:27:54):
know they're expecting Charlie Daniel's version and they get the
Hannity version and I'm just I'm a mess. I did not.
I tried my harness. Though. You know something, if you
were to go around the country and talk to one
hundred people that it comes to that concert and you
asked him, what is the moment you remember the most? Oh,

(01:28:15):
what would say with Sean had any devil went down
to Georgia and jumped all over the stage? Man? A
combination of Big Jagger and Garth Brooks. Oh, Man, that's
a there's a combination. By the way, I stay in
touch with with Charlie junior Um And I know you

(01:28:36):
had little health disses a while back, a pretty long while.
Now you're doing great right back on the road. Everythingks
Man just had checkups this past week with my doctors
and everything's good. Like Yarl had put up with me
for a while off, I think it will be God
willing will put up with you for a much longer.
And um, how many shows you doing this year? We've
got to tack one hundred and fourteen on the books

(01:28:57):
right now. We're programming like we're gonna, We're gonna rock
on out this year. We're doing We're turning, in fact,
we're turning with Travis part of the year, children with
that Alabama part of the year, and good a lot
of stuff on our own. So I love Alabama and Travis.
They're they're both you know what. I love that that
that style of country I really do. It's great Alabama,
you know, sweep potato pie and I shut my mouth boom. Yeah,

(01:29:20):
how cool is that? You know? Great guy for sure.
But yeah, we're we're we're out, You're hitting it, getting
on it. We're gonna be at Bacon Tatter a little
later on the year and maybe come to see us there,
and you're gonna be up. What are you coming up to?
New York? I didn't know. I can't remember. What's where?
Am I? What's day? Am I? All Right? So when
you're traveling. You're traveling this beautiful big Charlie Daniel Bust.

(01:29:43):
You tell me you love it. It's home for you
in many ways, although I know you love your home
back in Tennessee. But and you travel in this thing.
Come on, over the years, there's gotta be days when
you're when you're pounding it out night after night after
night and entertaining so many people that you're like, Uh,
what's city are in today? Well? I do that, you know,
for I think sometimes I'm getting ready to say good Ethan,

(01:30:06):
you know whoever. But somebody you ever have to say,
where are we again? Once in this time? Well, I
have made a mistake on that before. People do not
like it. No, they don't like it, man. They want
to be loved in their state. You know. And you're
still doing music. When did you first know you loved music?
I love music all my wife. I can't remember time

(01:30:28):
when I didn't. But I never had a chance to
learn how to play until I was about fourteen years
old and a friend of mine sho'll be a few
chords on a guitar. And once I learned three chords
on a guitar, and I could play a whole song.
I was ruining us all I ever wanted to do.
I just thank god I make a living doing something
I love as much as I do playing music. I'm
is in love with it now as I wasn't really
started out. Okay, Now, for people that want to be

(01:30:49):
a part of your charity, it is the Journey Home Project.
How do they do that? We can go to our
website and we got a link on Hannity dot com.
I'll make it easy for people. How's that We the
website and we you know, check us out and see
what we are. We're very open and above board about
what we do. We're involved in a thing right now
where they aren't. A picture display at the Pentagon and

(01:31:13):
Ex Green X Special Forces guy Ken Wallace put together.
That's the interesting thing. It's like they have done pictures,
all pictures, and they've taken pictures of war, but they've
also taken pictures of their surroundings and the places they
were fighting from all over the world, the people and
the places that they were in and around, and it's

(01:31:34):
a it's a really interesting thing. It gives a whole
other look at things. And the thing about it is
these guys get together and it's unbelievable. Yeah, I love
I love you. I love what you're doing. I love
your love of our veterans. They need all the hell
they can get. It's the Journey Home Project. We just
threw it up on Hannity dot Com and anything people
can do. We always want to support you, Charlie. Thank

(01:31:55):
you for all you do. We love you. They're a
good man. John Hannity, and we love you too. God
bless you, Bless you, Hannity. Tonight, nine Eastern. Yes, President
Trump is going to join us a big story with
John Solomon and much more. Ninety Eastern Hannity Fox. Thanks
for being with us. I'm off tomorrow, have a great weekend.
We'll see you to night. Back here Monday,

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