July 15, 2025 • 31 mins
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House and author of Trump’s Triumph, America’s Greatest Comeback, tells us what needs and should happen next in Trump’s wildly successful administration.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I thank Scott Canon, Hour two Sean Hannity Show, tot Free.
It is eight hundred and nine to four one Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program,
if you look at you know, thirty forty thousand feet down,
and I would tell you that we are where we
are as a country six months into Donald Trump's presidency,
and you think back a year ago or just now,
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a little over a year ago, and Butler had just
happened one millimeter away from assassinating candidate at the time,
former President Trump at the time, now President Trump, and
look at what has happened, and it is it is
pretty spectacular in terms of what's changed. I watched the
President today, you know, given a press conference on every
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topic imaginable, and he's not looking at notes, and he
didn't have prepared questions, and he wasn't briefed ahead of time,
and on by every measure, we are so much better
off than we were just a year ago. And this
victory was so consequential and transformational, and I think it's
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only going to get better. I hope it only gets better.
I don't care whether you like Donald Trump or not.
There's no disputing the border secure there's no disputing that
we're deporting all these criminal illegal immigrants. There's no disputing
that we've gotten inflation now under control. There's no disputing
that we have the largest tax cut now signed into
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law in the history of the country. There's no disputing
that working men and women benefit the most from this
no tax on tips and over time, and the older
Americans also in terms of social security and preserving Medicare
and Medicaid, and we're putting in work requirements. There is
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no disputing that the world is a safer place. With
the Iranians not months away from having nuclear weapons which
they've been threatening to use against Israel in the United States,
I think that makes the world a safer place. And
in that period of time, I mean, it is incredible success. Anyway,
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here with some historic perspective, five days will be the
six month mark of Donald Trump being back in office.
He's a historian at heart, he's a professor at heart.
But he was a former Speaker of the House, the
last person to balance the budget as Speaker, and mister Speaker,
you might be pleasantly surprised to hear. And it was
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reported by The Washington Examiner yesterday that the month of
June was the first month the federal government has had
a surplus in over twenty years.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Well, I think that the establishment is in a state
of shock because for the last three months, the economy
has been responding to President Trump's strategy, and of course
with the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill and the
work he's doing on tariffs, and the amount of money
he's getting invested, as you're seeing again today in Pennsylvania
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at the Artificial Intelligence Summit where they're announcing huge investments
they're going to transform large parts of the Pennsylvania economy.
All these things are moving and it's one of the
things that Reagan taught us. So when you have an exciting, enthusiastic,
entrepreneurial environment, people come out of the woodwork. People decided
to take risks, they decided to invest, They decide they
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want to go out and be part of the future.
And Trump, in that sense, it's much more than a
straight mathematical equation. There's a psychology to growth, there's a
psychology to investment, and President Trump is now tapping into
that sense in a way that frankly, as much as
I've admired him, he has done I would say twenty
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to thirty percent better in the first six months than
I thought he would. It's really been a remarkable.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Run, you know. And look, you're the historian. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
An amateur historian. Love to read history, but this has
been your life's work. And I can't think in the
modern era, at least maybe maybe one comparison could be
I don't know, Roosevelt World War two and coming into
office and dealing with you know, economic problems that were
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you know, unprecedented at the time.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But I can't think of and and you know.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
The whole New Deal aspect of his agenda, even though
I don't think it was necessarily all good. But I
can't think of a more transformational or consequential six months
than these six months. And I don't think people are
getting the big picture of view of of how deep
and profound these changes are.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Look, I just start with the border, and you look
at the number coming across one year ago, and how
dramatically the border has been tightened up. That by itself
would be historic. You look at this the skyrocket revenue
out of tariffs, which nobody fully projected, that would be historic.
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You look at the scale of an announced public investment
in the trillions of dollars for new factories, for new
artificial intelligence projects, etc. That would be historic. You look
at the amount of change going on at the Department
of Education, you look at the changes in the big
beautiful Bill. All of these things, I mean, any one
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of them would be big when you add all of
them together. Along with the work he's been doing in
the Middle East, the steps he took in Iran, the
actions he's now taking with Russia, He's clearly making an
impact beyond anybody. The only one close to it with
the Franklin Roosevelt in the nineteen thirties. Nobody else in
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the modern era comes close to Trump for for sheer
impact and have been being a president of enormous consequence.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You know, what I think identifies him as unique and
special is that most presidents are very calculated in terms
of moves that he make, but they make and you know,
every single one of the things that we discussed when
it relates to Donald Trump, be it taking out Iran's
nukes or taking now new action against Vladimir Putin after
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desperately trying to get him to get to the table
and get to a ceasefire, and hopefully end the war
in Europe. Okay, now he's got to go to the
next step. He gave Iran sixty days. On the sixty
first day, Israel just started wiping them out, and then
of course we finished the job taking out their nuclear sites.
I don't care if it's building the wall, ending illegal immigration,
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the massive deportations of very dangerous criminals that Biden, Harris
may Orcus allowed into the country. His policies on energy,
I believe will refuge dividends down the road. It is
the lifeblood of the world's economy. I think what he's
been able to accomplish with tariffs and trade deals that
he's been putting together is a precedented as well. It's
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resulted in ten trillion dollars in committed moneies and manufacturing
over the next four years, and manufacturing in very key industries.
That would be automobile manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, semiconductor chip manufacturing,
but also rare earth metals and magnets and things that
we've been far too dependent on other countries for all
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of that. And the biggest tax cut in history I
think lays the foundation, but perhaps the greatest era of
economic growth we have ever seen. I don't know why
even some conservatives don't seem to understand that when you
cut taxes, you do stimulate the economy, you do end
up with more money in government coffers. It's the exact
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inverse thought pattern that the left has. But some conservatives,
you know, they seem skeptical of it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh you know, look, I think that there is a
dynamic that This was a fight I was involved in
starting in the nineteen seventies with Barry Kudlow and Art
Laffer Jack kemp All arguing that there's a dynamic kind
of economics that changes everything. It became called supply side,
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but it basically meant you encourage people to invent, You
encourage people to produce, You encourage people to create, and
they mop up the inflation by the sheer flow of
goods and services so that you no longer have a
problem of inflation. The loss always believed in a very
static model where nothing changes and the only way you
can stop inflation is caused massive pain on the American people.
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I mean, if you watch Mondami, for example, who's going
to be one of the great educational experiences in American politics.
He says, I don't believe in billionaires. Well that's fine,
except he says, here are all the free things I'm
going to do by raising taxes on billionaires. And nobody
seems to have told him they can leave.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You know, they're not listen.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm one of the people that left, So I'm very
aware that you have the choice to leave.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's right, and so what you have on the left.
And unfortunately, some conservatives buy into this sort of polaroid
snapshot model. They don't understand that life occurs as a video.
It's a dynamic. It evolves, and sometimes you can start
small and grow very, very big. You go back and
look at the original Jeff Bezos Amazon store in Washington State,
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and then look at the scale of Amazon today, Or
go back and look at Henry Ford's very first car,
which was in eighteen ninety nine, and then look at
the scale of the modern automobile industry. And people don't
realize that there's a dynamic here. And with Trump, as
a businessman who had been very successful, had learned you
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ride the wave of enthusiasm, you ride the wave of vision.
You create an idea of a better future, You recruit
people of that better future, and suddenly everything gets begins
to rock and roll and people just do better. And
I think you'll find by my prediction is we can
come back and visit this in a year that by
the summer of twenty twenty six we will be in
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a Trump boom and people will be seeing levels of investment,
levels of creativity, levels of new potions. And by the way,
it'll be a major step towards balancing the federal budget,
both because the economic growth will increase revenue, but also
because all of these new technologies are going to make
government much much less expensive.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
All right, quick break more with former Speaker of the
House Newkingridge, and we'll get to your calls coming up
eight hundred and nine to four one Sean, if you
want to be a part of the program as we continue.
Continue now, Former Speaker of the House New King Rich
is with us five days away from the six month
mark of Donald Trump's presidency. You kind of made history
because you were able at a point when Bill Clinton
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was at his weakest, caused him to at least have
some course correction. There was some introspection there, and there
was an understanding that but if he continued down the
path he was headed that he would be a one
term president after Hillary Care died, and he was smart
enough to partner with you and then together when he
said the era of big government is over, the end
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of welfare as we know it. I mean, he sounds
like a Trump Conservative today. The party does not represent
anything that Bill Clinton represented. Now what do you make
of this? How the radicals have taken over? I mean,
Hakeem Jeffries is going to meet with Mamdani, and I'm
not sure what the purpose of the meeting is, but
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the leadership of the Democratic Party is scared to death
of the squad AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Mamdanni, Bernie Sanders, and Pocahontas.
They seem to dominate that party, and the leadership is
powerless and unwilling to take them on.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'll be very surprised if both Kim Jeffries and Schumer
don't both endorse Mandami. He won the Democratic primary. He
is the nominee of the party. And look, I just
did a piece for the New York Sun just talking
about this, And I'll tell you what had made All
the years you and have chatted it, it never quite
occurred to me. We keep talking about these highly educated
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young people. They're not highly educated, they're brainwashed. When you
deal with kids who went to Harvard or Yale or
Princeton in the last ten or fifteen years, they didn't
get an education, they get brainwashed. They believe things that
aren't true. That's why Mondomini can basically you can summarize
Mondombie's campaign pledge, I will turn New York into Caracas.
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I mean, that's the essence of what he's talking about.
He's going to destroy capitalists, don't drive out everybody who
has any kind of money, replace the private sex or
grocery stores of the government bureaucracy, offer everybody free goodies
that nobody's going to pay for, and somehow magically solve
the problem of rent control, which is just what created
by rent control. I mean, it's rent control itself which
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is the problem. And yet that was the key to
his campaign, was appealing to all of the young new
people who felt cheated because when they left college they
couldn't afford to buy anything because New York has become
absurdly expensive and Mondonmi will just make it worse.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Well, it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I actually like the fact that the radicals have taken
over their party, because I think that increases the odds
that history can be made in these midterm elections. If
the Democrats win in the midterms, we know what the
next two years would be like, and that would be
two years of never ending impeachment, NonStop obstruction, hearings and
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hearings upon hearings, and probably stop the Trump agenda dead
in its tracks.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
No? I think that's right. And I think that everybody
who wants us to transform the country back into the
kind of dynamic, exciting, market oriented system that has made
us so great has to recognize that two twenty twenty
six is one of the key elections in American history
because it's very clear that the left has learned and
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I might not learn anything, but they're getting worse and
they're moving towards a Marxist socialist, hard left cultural value system.
And the work we do at the America's New Majority
Polling Project, our guest is they represent about fifteen percent
of the country, but they have so much money from
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people like Soros, They have the muscle of the teachers
Union and other big unions, and they're gradually taking over
their party to the enormous disadvantage of the country. And
I think ultimately the great disadvantage of the Democratic Party
is in the end, their programs just don't work. I mean,
their greatest problem is that they just don't work.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, by the way, New Gingrich, we appreciate your time.
His new book is out. It's Trump's Triumph, America's greatest comeback.
It's on Amazon dot Comhannity dot com, and bookstores all
across the country. Mister speaker, you offer us insight that
nobody else really can. I appreciate and thank you as
always for being with us. Take you all right, twenty
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five now till the top of the hour. Eight hundred
nine four one shown is a number if you want
to be a part of the program. Look, we see
how dire the situation has now been, I mean since frankly,
it's been going on for decades. The number of rockets
hundreds of thousands over the years. But all that Israel
has been through from October seventh on, it is tens
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of thousands of Israelis have been displaced, and it is
a very fragile time, and Israeli neighborhoods have been destroyed.
Dozens of Israelis are dead, untold others are injured. The
need for humanitarian assistance is great. That means food, water, medicine, clothing, housing,
you name it.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
They need it all.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And you know, the people of Israel have known nothing
but you know, never ending NonStop attacks against radical by
radical Islamic terrorists. And not only do they need need
humanitarian assistants, they also need you know, they need bomb shelters.
I mean, this is their reality. Look at Tel Aviv
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Speaker 3 (17:16):
Today.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
When I saw our old friend Gavin Newsom Linda in
South Carolina, because he's been swearing up and down to
me when I interviewed him and debated, oh, no, I
have no interest in running for president. When I was away,
did you notice that he was in South Carolina? So,
being the wise ass that I am, I texted him.
I said, I believe you're not running for president. I'm
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sure you're just visiting South Carolina for the weather. And
he gave me some snarky remark, which I'll keep private
because it was not on the record. Here's Gavin's problem.
And I think, Gavin, you know that day that he
slung his jacket over his shoulder and he walked in
the Oval office and Joe Biden wasn't there. In my mind,
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I saw a guy that was picking out the drapes
and thinks and believes and wants to believe that he's
going to be president and bragging how blue cities are
creating seventy one percent of the country's GDP. Not sure
where he gets this information. I don't really even care.
I could just say if if the country goes the
route of New York and California, it will be an
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unmitigated disaster of the highest taxes, sanctuary cities and states.
You know, But this is what Gavin is not factoring
in every person in his sanctuary state of California, every victim,
every person murdered, every person raped, every person that was
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a victim of violent crime by these unvetted illegal immigrants
that he offers sanctuary status to and free healthcare courtesy
of California taxpayers and frankly American taxpayers, And how it's
inundated their school system. My free state of Florida number
one school system in the entire country, and California ranks
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near the bottom. If you look at crime and you
look at quality of life issues, I mean, all of
these things are going to come up. The names of
all of these victims are fair game to ask, what
do you say to the family of fill in the blank.
So there's an example of this. He was asked of
an if eight year old should be able to have
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gender reassignment surgery. I mean I listened, I kind of
heard a little bit of Kamala Harrison a little bit
of a word salad in his answer. But this is
the problem for every Democrat that's going to be running.
They're going to have to defend the American public are
now fully aware of the damage that was done the
most preventable national security disaster and the damage done by
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Biden Harris, mayorcus unveted illegals.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Anyway, this is what he said.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
And then of course, Kamala Harris wants sex change operations
taxpayer funded for criminals, any illegal immigrants. Tampon, Tim wants,
you know, to put in grammar schools and boys' bathrooms
feminine hygiene products. On top of that, he wants, you know,
taxpayer funded college education for illegals. And then you know,
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of course gender affirming care for kids without parental consent.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
This is madness anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And Newsom has asked, you know whether or not eight
year old should be able to have gender reassignment surgery.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Let's listen to his answer. What about for your values?
I mean, is eight years old too young?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I mean, look now that I have a nine year
old just became nine. Come on, man, I get it.
So those are legit. You know, it's interesting just the
issue of age. I haven't I'm as I am. There's
someone that's been so focused on equality broadly LGBT rights,
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particular gay marriage. The transisue for me is also novels.
It's over the last few years. I'm trying to understand
as much as anyone else, whole pronoun thing, try and
understand all of that. Well, you know that was like
the hell, I mean, all that stuff, I get it.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
What is that answer? I'm not quite understanding.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Do you support you know, eight year old should they
be able to have gender reassignment surgery?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I get it? Is not the answer. Listen.
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Speaker 4 (23:40):
Thank you, Sean, Thanks for taking my call. Listen, I
wanted to I know people don't farewell with you when
they do this, but I want to pick on one
thing about the big beautiful Bill. I did support his passage,
even with any flaws that I might consider it has.
That is in particular with respect to no tax on
tips and no tax on overtime. And the reason I
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say that is is that I mean, I've heard you
say Democrats pick winners and losers and Republicans don't do that. Well,
that's exactly what we did here. We picked the waiter
over the chef. They may make the same amount of money,
but the waiter gets ducked up to twenty five thousand
dollars of his tips.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
The have you ever have you ever worked in a restaurant? Yes, sir, okay,
so then you would be aware that if you mostly
get paid on tips, you know that you get paid
a lower amount of money and even below the minimum
wage at least when I was working there, than hourly workers,
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and that they factor in the tips are a big
part of your pay.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Correct. That's exactly right, And it's the diamer you're looking
for is two dollars and thirteen cents an hour for
tipped employees.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Okay, So if you don't, if you don't get a
lot of tips on a given day, you're making a
lot less than everybody else because they're still getting their
hourly rate, right, and the only reason you're going to
get a big tip, you know. And I'm kind of
known for giving good tips because I always think of
my father, the waiter when I go to a restaurant,
and I always want to take care of people that
are give good service. But you know that you know
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they're not getting rich being a server in a restaurant,
and if you're working overtime. To me, that's the ultimate meritocracy.
If you're willing to work, go the extra mile, work
harder than other people, you know, and I think people
are over taxed to begin with. Why are we going
to tax people for working harder? I thought we wanted
to reward that behavior. And then this is for working
men and women. You know, it's not going to be executive.
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It's a big you know, fortune five hundred companies that
are going to benefit from that.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Sean though, it is the floor supervisor, the shop supervisor
who's now salaried exempt, who works just as hard is
that hourly employee. It probably works maybe more hours. And
by the time you get factor in the overtime for
the factor worker, his pay may not be much less
than the supervisors at that point, but he has it.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I think I think there's got to be adjustments with companies,
within companies. I mean, certainly you don't want people. I
just like the idea of rewarding hard work. I don't
think Americans are taxed too little. I think they're taxed
too much. The beauty of this is it incentivizes all
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the right behavior in people, and that is for them
to get ahead.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
And I like that part of it. I like that
aspect of it.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
In terms of the nuanced issues that you're bringing up,
I can understand it, but I don't think it's government
doing anything except you know, you want to work extra hard.
You should be rewarded for your extra work.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
But you're okay, let's get go extra hard when you
sign up to be a layer. And if your employer says, okay,
we're going to pay you the federal minimum wage, which
is two dollars and thirteen cents, if he doesn't get
enough tips to get to the seven dollars and fifty
cent federal minimum wage or whatever the state minimum wage is,
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sixteen fifty, seventeen fifty, whatever it happens to be, the
employer has to make that up so that he gets
he doesn't he act.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
That's news to me because that was never the case
when I'm when I was being paid that little.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Because I was being paid that little, it's it is.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
However, it's Fair Labor Standards Act, and it's as absolutely
that way. So they so see they're there, Let's say
they just get seventeen fifty an hour, and let's say
they're in California and the other guy's getting sent day
fifty an hour.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
But you're kind of you're kind of accusing me of
taking the left's position, and I would argue with you
that you're kind of taking the left's position that you want,
you know, total equality here. I think salary people that
maybe work eighty hours a week, if they agree to
that salary, then they've and.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
That's the agreement that they've made.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I mean, and if they don't, if they want to
make more money or advance themselves, than they can either
negotiate a new deal with their company or look for
other positions and and and move on. I mean, that's
the beauty of freedom, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Well, well, yeah, I mean I think they may be
very happy with their salary, and the gay that's thinking
in the overtime is very happy with his and they
end up making the same amount of money, but one
pays less in taxes. That's not a matter of I
want everything equal like some socialists. It's not want everything fair.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And that's I'm I'm but but kind of fairness is
the argument of the left.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
To me, I think, what we want, what we want,
what we what we want, what we don't want.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
What we want is people too to be incentivized to
work harder. We start with the premise that people are
over taxed, not under taxed. We start with the We
start with the premise that it's better for people to
work than to not work and to to be dependent
on government. We want to create independence, we want to
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create savings for family. We want the American dream to
exist for everybody. And for most people, that means they're
gonna have to put in overtime. They're gonna have to
work more than forty hours a week, especially if you're
the breadwinner for your family. And I think this bill,
these provisions do just that. They incentivize people to work more.
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And I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I think it's thinking out of the box. I think
it's looking out for working men and women. They're the
people that really do make this country great. They never get,
you know, they never get the credit that they deserve.
You know, I've explained this to my kids.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
And that's all true, Sean, But they're not. They're all
the chef is just as hard working as the waiter.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Again, I'm hearing what you're saying. But if the chef
isn't being paid what he thinks he's worth. There's a
million of the restaurants he can go work at and
get paid more money if he's really great at what
he does. So you know, he has choices and freedom
to But I will say this, and I teach my
kids this is that if you think about and I
said to my you know, my mission to my kids
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is they've got to participate in life and they got
to serve other people. And I don't care what you
do in terms of the service. I don't care if
you drive an uber. I don't care if you work
at McDonald's. I don't care what you do. I like
the idea of taking care of working men and women
because they are the backbone of the country. You know,
I hear your argument. I'm just not as you're not
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persuading me, but I hear it. I hear where you're
coming from, and I understand it. Anyway, I do appreciate
the call. I'm just out of time. I wish that's
something I think that it's important to talk about. All right,
when we come back, we'll check in with our friend
James Comer of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
We'll discuss with him the progress he is making investigating
(30:53):
the issue of Joe Biden and the autopen issue, especially
in light of the New York Times piece that says, well,
we'll just set up parameters and his staff ordered the
use of the autopen that would probably invalidate a lot
of the clemencies and pardons that he put forth last minute.
We'll ask James Comer about that, and also how the
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door is now open for a special prosecutor looking into
the weaponization of the federal government going all the way
back to Russia. Russia all the way up to including
Hunter's laptop, the fifty one former Intel agents, the pony
valuation of mar A Lago, the double standard of justice
when it comes to top secret classified materials and the
(31:38):
rate at mar A Lago, and the double standard of
justice there. We'll check in with James Comer on the
other side.
I thank Scott Canon, Hour two Sean Hannity Show, tot Free.
It is eight hundred and nine to four one Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program,
if you look at you know, thirty forty thousand feet down,
and I would tell you that we are where we
are as a country six months into Donald Trump's presidency,
and you think back a year ago or just now,
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a little over a year ago, and Butler had just
happened one millimeter away from assassinating candidate at the time,
former President Trump at the time, now President Trump, and
look at what has happened, and it is it is
pretty spectacular in terms of what's changed. I watched the
President today, you know, given a press conference on every
(00:45):
topic imaginable, and he's not looking at notes, and he
didn't have prepared questions, and he wasn't briefed ahead of time,
and on by every measure, we are so much better
off than we were just a year ago. And this
victory was so consequential and transformational, and I think it's
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only going to get better. I hope it only gets better.
I don't care whether you like Donald Trump or not.
There's no disputing the border secure there's no disputing that
we're deporting all these criminal illegal immigrants. There's no disputing
that we've gotten inflation now under control. There's no disputing
that we have the largest tax cut now signed into
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law in the history of the country. There's no disputing
that working men and women benefit the most from this
no tax on tips and over time, and the older
Americans also in terms of social security and preserving Medicare
and Medicaid, and we're putting in work requirements. There is
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no disputing that the world is a safer place. With
the Iranians not months away from having nuclear weapons which
they've been threatening to use against Israel in the United States,
I think that makes the world a safer place. And
in that period of time, I mean, it is incredible success. Anyway,
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here with some historic perspective, five days will be the
six month mark of Donald Trump being back in office.
He's a historian at heart, he's a professor at heart.
But he was a former Speaker of the House, the
last person to balance the budget as Speaker, and mister Speaker,
you might be pleasantly surprised to hear. And it was
(02:33):
reported by The Washington Examiner yesterday that the month of
June was the first month the federal government has had
a surplus in over twenty years.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Well, I think that the establishment is in a state
of shock because for the last three months, the economy
has been responding to President Trump's strategy, and of course
with the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill and the
work he's doing on tariffs, and the amount of money
he's getting invested, as you're seeing again today in Pennsylvania
(03:04):
at the Artificial Intelligence Summit where they're announcing huge investments
they're going to transform large parts of the Pennsylvania economy.
All these things are moving and it's one of the
things that Reagan taught us. So when you have an exciting, enthusiastic,
entrepreneurial environment, people come out of the woodwork. People decided
to take risks, they decided to invest, They decide they
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want to go out and be part of the future.
And Trump, in that sense, it's much more than a
straight mathematical equation. There's a psychology to growth, there's a
psychology to investment, and President Trump is now tapping into
that sense in a way that frankly, as much as
I've admired him, he has done I would say twenty
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to thirty percent better in the first six months than
I thought he would. It's really been a remarkable.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Run, you know. And look, you're the historian. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
An amateur historian. Love to read history, but this has
been your life's work. And I can't think in the
modern era, at least maybe maybe one comparison could be
I don't know, Roosevelt World War two and coming into
office and dealing with you know, economic problems that were
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you know, unprecedented at the time.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But I can't think of and and you know.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
The whole New Deal aspect of his agenda, even though
I don't think it was necessarily all good. But I
can't think of a more transformational or consequential six months
than these six months. And I don't think people are
getting the big picture of view of of how deep
and profound these changes are.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Look, I just start with the border, and you look
at the number coming across one year ago, and how
dramatically the border has been tightened up. That by itself
would be historic. You look at this the skyrocket revenue
out of tariffs, which nobody fully projected, that would be historic.
(05:06):
You look at the scale of an announced public investment
in the trillions of dollars for new factories, for new
artificial intelligence projects, etc. That would be historic. You look
at the amount of change going on at the Department
of Education, you look at the changes in the big
beautiful Bill. All of these things, I mean, any one
(05:27):
of them would be big when you add all of
them together. Along with the work he's been doing in
the Middle East, the steps he took in Iran, the
actions he's now taking with Russia, He's clearly making an
impact beyond anybody. The only one close to it with
the Franklin Roosevelt in the nineteen thirties. Nobody else in
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the modern era comes close to Trump for for sheer
impact and have been being a president of enormous consequence.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You know, what I think identifies him as unique and
special is that most presidents are very calculated in terms
of moves that he make, but they make and you know,
every single one of the things that we discussed when
it relates to Donald Trump, be it taking out Iran's
nukes or taking now new action against Vladimir Putin after
(06:17):
desperately trying to get him to get to the table
and get to a ceasefire, and hopefully end the war
in Europe. Okay, now he's got to go to the
next step. He gave Iran sixty days. On the sixty
first day, Israel just started wiping them out, and then
of course we finished the job taking out their nuclear sites.
I don't care if it's building the wall, ending illegal immigration,
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the massive deportations of very dangerous criminals that Biden, Harris
may Orcus allowed into the country. His policies on energy,
I believe will refuge dividends down the road. It is
the lifeblood of the world's economy. I think what he's
been able to accomplish with tariffs and trade deals that
he's been putting together is a precedented as well. It's
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resulted in ten trillion dollars in committed moneies and manufacturing
over the next four years, and manufacturing in very key industries.
That would be automobile manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, semiconductor chip manufacturing,
but also rare earth metals and magnets and things that
we've been far too dependent on other countries for all
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of that. And the biggest tax cut in history I
think lays the foundation, but perhaps the greatest era of
economic growth we have ever seen. I don't know why
even some conservatives don't seem to understand that when you
cut taxes, you do stimulate the economy, you do end
up with more money in government coffers. It's the exact
(07:43):
inverse thought pattern that the left has. But some conservatives,
you know, they seem skeptical of it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh you know, look, I think that there is a
dynamic that This was a fight I was involved in
starting in the nineteen seventies with Barry Kudlow and Art
Laffer Jack kemp All arguing that there's a dynamic kind
of economics that changes everything. It became called supply side,
(08:10):
but it basically meant you encourage people to invent, You
encourage people to produce, You encourage people to create, and
they mop up the inflation by the sheer flow of
goods and services so that you no longer have a
problem of inflation. The loss always believed in a very
static model where nothing changes and the only way you
can stop inflation is caused massive pain on the American people.
(08:34):
I mean, if you watch Mondami, for example, who's going
to be one of the great educational experiences in American politics.
He says, I don't believe in billionaires. Well that's fine,
except he says, here are all the free things I'm
going to do by raising taxes on billionaires. And nobody
seems to have told him they can leave.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You know, they're not listen.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm one of the people that left, So I'm very
aware that you have the choice to leave.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's right, and so what you have on the left.
And unfortunately, some conservatives buy into this sort of polaroid
snapshot model. They don't understand that life occurs as a video.
It's a dynamic. It evolves, and sometimes you can start
small and grow very, very big. You go back and
look at the original Jeff Bezos Amazon store in Washington State,
(09:25):
and then look at the scale of Amazon today, Or
go back and look at Henry Ford's very first car,
which was in eighteen ninety nine, and then look at
the scale of the modern automobile industry. And people don't
realize that there's a dynamic here. And with Trump, as
a businessman who had been very successful, had learned you
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ride the wave of enthusiasm, you ride the wave of vision.
You create an idea of a better future, You recruit
people of that better future, and suddenly everything gets begins
to rock and roll and people just do better. And
I think you'll find by my prediction is we can
come back and visit this in a year that by
the summer of twenty twenty six we will be in
(10:08):
a Trump boom and people will be seeing levels of investment,
levels of creativity, levels of new potions. And by the way,
it'll be a major step towards balancing the federal budget,
both because the economic growth will increase revenue, but also
because all of these new technologies are going to make
government much much less expensive.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
All right, quick break more with former Speaker of the
House Newkingridge, and we'll get to your calls coming up
eight hundred and nine to four one Sean, if you
want to be a part of the program as we continue.
Continue now, Former Speaker of the House New King Rich
is with us five days away from the six month
mark of Donald Trump's presidency. You kind of made history
because you were able at a point when Bill Clinton
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was at his weakest, caused him to at least have
some course correction. There was some introspection there, and there
was an understanding that but if he continued down the
path he was headed that he would be a one
term president after Hillary Care died, and he was smart
enough to partner with you and then together when he
said the era of big government is over, the end
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of welfare as we know it. I mean, he sounds
like a Trump Conservative today. The party does not represent
anything that Bill Clinton represented. Now what do you make
of this? How the radicals have taken over? I mean,
Hakeem Jeffries is going to meet with Mamdani, and I'm
not sure what the purpose of the meeting is, but
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the leadership of the Democratic Party is scared to death
of the squad AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Mamdanni, Bernie Sanders, and Pocahontas.
They seem to dominate that party, and the leadership is
powerless and unwilling to take them on.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'll be very surprised if both Kim Jeffries and Schumer
don't both endorse Mandami. He won the Democratic primary. He
is the nominee of the party. And look, I just
did a piece for the New York Sun just talking
about this, And I'll tell you what had made All
the years you and have chatted it, it never quite
occurred to me. We keep talking about these highly educated
(12:10):
young people. They're not highly educated, they're brainwashed. When you
deal with kids who went to Harvard or Yale or
Princeton in the last ten or fifteen years, they didn't
get an education, they get brainwashed. They believe things that
aren't true. That's why Mondomini can basically you can summarize
Mondombie's campaign pledge, I will turn New York into Caracas.
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I mean, that's the essence of what he's talking about.
He's going to destroy capitalists, don't drive out everybody who
has any kind of money, replace the private sex or
grocery stores of the government bureaucracy, offer everybody free goodies
that nobody's going to pay for, and somehow magically solve
the problem of rent control, which is just what created
by rent control. I mean, it's rent control itself which
(12:53):
is the problem. And yet that was the key to
his campaign, was appealing to all of the young new
people who felt cheated because when they left college they
couldn't afford to buy anything because New York has become
absurdly expensive and Mondonmi will just make it worse.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Well, it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I actually like the fact that the radicals have taken
over their party, because I think that increases the odds
that history can be made in these midterm elections. If
the Democrats win in the midterms, we know what the
next two years would be like, and that would be
two years of never ending impeachment, NonStop obstruction, hearings and
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hearings upon hearings, and probably stop the Trump agenda dead
in its tracks.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
No? I think that's right. And I think that everybody
who wants us to transform the country back into the
kind of dynamic, exciting, market oriented system that has made
us so great has to recognize that two twenty twenty
six is one of the key elections in American history
because it's very clear that the left has learned and
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I might not learn anything, but they're getting worse and
they're moving towards a Marxist socialist, hard left cultural value system.
And the work we do at the America's New Majority
Polling Project, our guest is they represent about fifteen percent
of the country, but they have so much money from
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people like Soros, They have the muscle of the teachers
Union and other big unions, and they're gradually taking over
their party to the enormous disadvantage of the country. And
I think ultimately the great disadvantage of the Democratic Party
is in the end, their programs just don't work. I mean,
their greatest problem is that they just don't work.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, by the way, New Gingrich, we appreciate your time.
His new book is out. It's Trump's Triumph, America's greatest comeback.
It's on Amazon dot Comhannity dot com, and bookstores all
across the country. Mister speaker, you offer us insight that
nobody else really can. I appreciate and thank you as
always for being with us. Take you all right, twenty
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five now till the top of the hour. Eight hundred
nine four one shown is a number if you want
to be a part of the program. Look, we see
how dire the situation has now been, I mean since frankly,
it's been going on for decades. The number of rockets
hundreds of thousands over the years. But all that Israel
has been through from October seventh on, it is tens
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of thousands of Israelis have been displaced, and it is
a very fragile time, and Israeli neighborhoods have been destroyed.
Dozens of Israelis are dead, untold others are injured. The
need for humanitarian assistance is great. That means food, water, medicine, clothing, housing,
you name it.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
They need it all.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And you know, the people of Israel have known nothing
but you know, never ending NonStop attacks against radical by
radical Islamic terrorists. And not only do they need need
humanitarian assistants, they also need you know, they need bomb shelters.
I mean, this is their reality. Look at Tel Aviv
was pounded, and the few missiles that made it through
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are more powerful than they've ever been. Two thousand pound
Iranian missiles that they're now trying to build four thousand
pound missiles, which can do an awful lot of damage
to an awful lot of people. And they are targeting
densely populated civilian areas anyway. Now, that's why the IFCJ
we have proudly partnered with them, the International Fellowship of
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Christians and Jews. They're working around the clock and they
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Speaker 3 (17:16):
Today.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
When I saw our old friend Gavin Newsom Linda in
South Carolina, because he's been swearing up and down to
me when I interviewed him and debated, oh, no, I
have no interest in running for president. When I was away,
did you notice that he was in South Carolina? So,
being the wise ass that I am, I texted him.
I said, I believe you're not running for president. I'm
(17:38):
sure you're just visiting South Carolina for the weather. And
he gave me some snarky remark, which I'll keep private
because it was not on the record. Here's Gavin's problem.
And I think, Gavin, you know that day that he
slung his jacket over his shoulder and he walked in
the Oval office and Joe Biden wasn't there. In my mind,
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I saw a guy that was picking out the drapes
and thinks and believes and wants to believe that he's
going to be president and bragging how blue cities are
creating seventy one percent of the country's GDP. Not sure
where he gets this information. I don't really even care.
I could just say if if the country goes the
route of New York and California, it will be an
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unmitigated disaster of the highest taxes, sanctuary cities and states.
You know, But this is what Gavin is not factoring
in every person in his sanctuary state of California, every victim,
every person murdered, every person raped, every person that was
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a victim of violent crime by these unvetted illegal immigrants
that he offers sanctuary status to and free healthcare courtesy
of California taxpayers and frankly American taxpayers, And how it's
inundated their school system. My free state of Florida number
one school system in the entire country, and California ranks
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near the bottom. If you look at crime and you
look at quality of life issues, I mean, all of
these things are going to come up. The names of
all of these victims are fair game to ask, what
do you say to the family of fill in the blank.
So there's an example of this. He was asked of
an if eight year old should be able to have
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gender reassignment surgery. I mean I listened, I kind of
heard a little bit of Kamala Harrison a little bit
of a word salad in his answer. But this is
the problem for every Democrat that's going to be running.
They're going to have to defend the American public are
now fully aware of the damage that was done the
most preventable national security disaster and the damage done by
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Biden Harris, mayorcus unveted illegals.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Anyway, this is what he said.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
And then of course, Kamala Harris wants sex change operations
taxpayer funded for criminals, any illegal immigrants. Tampon, Tim wants,
you know, to put in grammar schools and boys' bathrooms
feminine hygiene products. On top of that, he wants, you know,
taxpayer funded college education for illegals. And then you know,
(20:15):
of course gender affirming care for kids without parental consent.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
This is madness anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And Newsom has asked, you know whether or not eight
year old should be able to have gender reassignment surgery.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Let's listen to his answer. What about for your values?
I mean, is eight years old too young?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I mean, look now that I have a nine year
old just became nine. Come on, man, I get it.
So those are legit. You know, it's interesting just the
issue of age. I haven't I'm as I am. There's
someone that's been so focused on equality broadly LGBT rights,
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particular gay marriage. The transisue for me is also novels.
It's over the last few years. I'm trying to understand
as much as anyone else, whole pronoun thing, try and
understand all of that. Well, you know that was like
the hell, I mean, all that stuff, I get it.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
What is that answer? I'm not quite understanding.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Do you support you know, eight year old should they
be able to have gender reassignment surgery?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I get it? Is not the answer. Listen.
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Back to our busy phones, Alan in Texas. God bless Texas. Alan,
So sorry about what all your state has gone through.
Our prayers are with our friends in Texas.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Thank you, Sean, Thanks for taking my call. Listen, I
wanted to I know people don't farewell with you when
they do this, but I want to pick on one
thing about the big beautiful Bill. I did support his passage,
even with any flaws that I might consider it has.
That is in particular with respect to no tax on
tips and no tax on overtime. And the reason I
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say that is is that I mean, I've heard you
say Democrats pick winners and losers and Republicans don't do that. Well,
that's exactly what we did here. We picked the waiter
over the chef. They may make the same amount of money,
but the waiter gets ducked up to twenty five thousand
dollars of his tips.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
The have you ever have you ever worked in a restaurant? Yes, sir, okay,
so then you would be aware that if you mostly
get paid on tips, you know that you get paid
a lower amount of money and even below the minimum
wage at least when I was working there, than hourly workers,
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and that they factor in the tips are a big
part of your pay.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Correct. That's exactly right, And it's the diamer you're looking
for is two dollars and thirteen cents an hour for
tipped employees.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Okay, So if you don't, if you don't get a
lot of tips on a given day, you're making a
lot less than everybody else because they're still getting their
hourly rate, right, and the only reason you're going to
get a big tip, you know. And I'm kind of
known for giving good tips because I always think of
my father, the waiter when I go to a restaurant,
and I always want to take care of people that
are give good service. But you know that you know
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they're not getting rich being a server in a restaurant,
and if you're working overtime. To me, that's the ultimate meritocracy.
If you're willing to work, go the extra mile, work
harder than other people, you know, and I think people
are over taxed to begin with. Why are we going
to tax people for working harder? I thought we wanted
to reward that behavior. And then this is for working
men and women. You know, it's not going to be executive.
(25:43):
It's a big you know, fortune five hundred companies that
are going to benefit from that.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Sean though, it is the floor supervisor, the shop supervisor
who's now salaried exempt, who works just as hard is
that hourly employee. It probably works maybe more hours. And
by the time you get factor in the overtime for
the factor worker, his pay may not be much less
than the supervisors at that point, but he has it.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I think I think there's got to be adjustments with companies,
within companies. I mean, certainly you don't want people. I
just like the idea of rewarding hard work. I don't
think Americans are taxed too little. I think they're taxed
too much. The beauty of this is it incentivizes all
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the right behavior in people, and that is for them
to get ahead.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
And I like that part of it. I like that
aspect of it.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
In terms of the nuanced issues that you're bringing up,
I can understand it, but I don't think it's government
doing anything except you know, you want to work extra hard.
You should be rewarded for your extra work.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
But you're okay, let's get go extra hard when you
sign up to be a layer. And if your employer says, okay,
we're going to pay you the federal minimum wage, which
is two dollars and thirteen cents, if he doesn't get
enough tips to get to the seven dollars and fifty
cent federal minimum wage or whatever the state minimum wage is,
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sixteen fifty, seventeen fifty, whatever it happens to be, the
employer has to make that up so that he gets
he doesn't he act.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
That's news to me because that was never the case
when I'm when I was being paid that little.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Because I was being paid that little, it's it is.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
However, it's Fair Labor Standards Act, and it's as absolutely
that way. So they so see they're there, Let's say
they just get seventeen fifty an hour, and let's say
they're in California and the other guy's getting sent day
fifty an hour.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
But you're kind of you're kind of accusing me of
taking the left's position, and I would argue with you
that you're kind of taking the left's position that you want,
you know, total equality here. I think salary people that
maybe work eighty hours a week, if they agree to
that salary, then they've and.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
That's the agreement that they've made.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I mean, and if they don't, if they want to
make more money or advance themselves, than they can either
negotiate a new deal with their company or look for
other positions and and and move on. I mean, that's
the beauty of freedom, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Well, well, yeah, I mean I think they may be
very happy with their salary, and the gay that's thinking
in the overtime is very happy with his and they
end up making the same amount of money, but one
pays less in taxes. That's not a matter of I
want everything equal like some socialists. It's not want everything fair.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And that's I'm I'm but but kind of fairness is
the argument of the left.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
To me, I think, what we want, what we want,
what we what we want, what we don't want.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
What we want is people too to be incentivized to
work harder. We start with the premise that people are
over taxed, not under taxed. We start with the We
start with the premise that it's better for people to
work than to not work and to to be dependent
on government. We want to create independence, we want to
(28:58):
create savings for family. We want the American dream to
exist for everybody. And for most people, that means they're
gonna have to put in overtime. They're gonna have to
work more than forty hours a week, especially if you're
the breadwinner for your family. And I think this bill,
these provisions do just that. They incentivize people to work more.
(29:24):
And I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I think it's thinking out of the box. I think
it's looking out for working men and women. They're the
people that really do make this country great. They never get,
you know, they never get the credit that they deserve.
You know, I've explained this to my kids.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
And that's all true, Sean, But they're not. They're all
the chef is just as hard working as the waiter.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Again, I'm hearing what you're saying. But if the chef
isn't being paid what he thinks he's worth. There's a
million of the restaurants he can go work at and
get paid more money if he's really great at what
he does. So you know, he has choices and freedom
to But I will say this, and I teach my
kids this is that if you think about and I
said to my you know, my mission to my kids
(30:09):
is they've got to participate in life and they got
to serve other people. And I don't care what you
do in terms of the service. I don't care if
you drive an uber. I don't care if you work
at McDonald's. I don't care what you do. I like
the idea of taking care of working men and women
because they are the backbone of the country. You know,
I hear your argument. I'm just not as you're not
(30:33):
persuading me, but I hear it. I hear where you're
coming from, and I understand it. Anyway, I do appreciate
the call. I'm just out of time. I wish that's
something I think that it's important to talk about. All right,
when we come back, we'll check in with our friend
James Comer of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
We'll discuss with him the progress he is making investigating
(30:53):
the issue of Joe Biden and the autopen issue, especially
in light of the New York Times piece that says, well,
we'll just set up parameters and his staff ordered the
use of the autopen that would probably invalidate a lot
of the clemencies and pardons that he put forth last minute.
We'll ask James Comer about that, and also how the
(31:15):
door is now open for a special prosecutor looking into
the weaponization of the federal government going all the way
back to Russia. Russia all the way up to including
Hunter's laptop, the fifty one former Intel agents, the pony
valuation of mar A Lago, the double standard of justice
when it comes to top secret classified materials and the
(31:38):
rate at mar A Lago, and the double standard of
justice there. We'll check in with James Comer on the
other side.
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