March 6, 2026 • 28 mins
Sean Hannity closes the week’s broadcast with a wide-ranging “News Roundup and Information Overload,” tackling everything from California’s political dysfunction to the broader ideological divide shaping America. Hannity examines the record of California Governor Gavin Newsom, questioning the state’s soaring taxes, budget deficits, and policy failures while speaking with gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton about plans to reform the state. The conversation highlights concerns about crime, homelessness, and the economic exodus from California as voters weigh the future of leadership in the nation’s largest state. Hannity also revisits the global stakes surrounding the conflict with Iran, arguing that decisive leadership today prevents dangerous consequences tomorrow. Throughout the hour he reflects on America’s national security priorities, immigration policy debates, and the cultural battles playing out across the country. Hannity closes by emphasizing the importance of protecting American sovereignty, supporting law enforcement, and maintaining strength abroad to safeguard future generations.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
News Front Up Information Overload Hour. There's Friday eight hundred
and ninety four one. Shawn is on number. You want
to be a part of the program. It is kind
of bewildering and odd and strange and spectacularly stupid that,
in spite of widespread criticism about what a failed governor is,
I think he's the worst governor in the country. Gavin
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Newsom in California, that he continues to just be a
world traveler, showing up in Munich, showing up in Davos,
a full time Trump stalker. I guess he assumes that
that is his ticket to, you know, winning the nomination
and thus having a chance to be president. A full
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time podcaster, full time ex poster, you know, full time author,
now full time speech giver. I mean, the guy's never
in California. People still can't get their their building permits
in the Pacific Palisades. Never mind they have the highest
income taxes, sales taxes, and gas taxes, and that's going
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to make a big difference. You're going to be paying
seven dollars a gallon for gasoline out in California in
this interim period with this conflict going on in the
Middle East, I hope that's not true. But and the
fact that he takes in all of this money, and
I was showing this the other day and talking about
this the other day. Takes in all of this money.
They have like a three hundred and fifty billion dollar
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budget every year and they can't balance their budget because
it's a sanctuary city, sanctuary state, and all of the
benefits that they provide to illegals in the state of California.
I mean it's basically state sponsored protection. You talk about,
you know, obstructing in the course of justice or aiding
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in a betting and law breaking. I mean, Gavin defines
it all. It's pretty insane. Now, interestingly, this is his
last term and our friend who will join us in
a moment, Steve Hilton, Gubernatorio candidate, is now leading in
the polls and working on doing just about anything he can.
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He wants to save California and he wants to transform California.
Has stop the mass migration out of California, fixed the
homeless problem, get the budget under control, stop California from
being a sanctuary state, Stop the sanctuary cities, I mean,
gas taxes, property taxes, freeing child rapists, you know they
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don't keep records in terms of crimes committed by illegals
in California because of their sanctuary policies. We have a
list of mile long of people murdered and raped and
child molesters and victims of other violent crime, but you
rarely hear about it. Newsom is now planning a nineteen
million dollar push to polish California's national image that he destroyed.
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You've got this referendum coming up in November that is
chasing one billionaire after another out of Silicon Valley. These
people are very, very wealthy, and they made their money.
They pay their high taxes out in California on top
of their federal taxes, and now the government wants to
come in and take five percent of their net worth.
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And it's not even an accurate calculation in many cases.
If you own twenty five percent of the stock, but
you only really own five percent of the stock, but
on paper they're going to charge you the twenty five
percent rate. It's insane. And anyway, California is about to
cross the threshold where taxes and fees levied on a
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gallon of gasoline will cost more than the actual price
of the gallon of gasoline. It's insane. But you know,
Gavin keeps going on every show he can get on.
He's invited on this show, but he won't come. He's
on with Katie Kirk. I didn't know Katie Kirk still?
Is she still existing out there somewhere? Where does she work?
You know, Linda have no idea.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I know she's asking the hard hitting questions. Is you're
about to hear she is at the top of her game,
no question?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, okay, and let's play it. Because she's asking Gavin
Newsom if he's just too good looking? Do you have
a Zoolander problem?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Jesus yes, are you just ridiculously good looking? Said no, seriously,
what do you do about that?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
You don't do anything about it, because if you can
do something about it, then your people. You know what
I am who I am, and it's fine.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You don't have to like me, or maybe you like
a slick person.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I don't know, whatever, It's okay.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The reason why I shot up because you talked about
being authentic and I think it sometimes works against you.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, it's just who I am.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
It's just who I am.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
He just agrees with the premise I'm just too good looking.
And that is his talking about Israel being an apartheid
state that went viral this week. Anyway, Steve Hilton is
with us. You know what, you know, the good thing
you don't have to run against somebody that's just too
good looking. I mean, that'd be horrible for you.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I know. It's amazing, Sean, isn't it. By the way,
on one of the things I say, I think it's
time in California for a governor with less hair. Definitely hair.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I think that's the new, the new thing. I don't know,
I'll have to shave mine arm.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
But this guy, it's unbelievable watching this rollout of his
I mean, this is obviously the first step in his
presidential campaign. It's it's almost unbearable listening to him, especially
for those of us have to experience the total failure
that he is in California. Another one of these interviews,
he's he's saying, someone asked him very specifically, Okay, what's
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your pitch? Just if you're talking to a regular person
it's not that interested in politics, just wants to know
what are you going to do for them? In a practical,
simple way. He literally said, you tell me. That's what
his answer. Wass you tell me I'm not a great communicator.
He is so full of it. Cavenuwsome and then and
and everything he says just makes it worse. And you
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laid it all out so perfectly. And there's there's there's more.
I mean, the list goes on and on, as well
as all the things that you said correctly, We've got
the highest poverty rate in the country, the highest unemployment
rate in the country. On education, actual, Katie Couric did
push him on that. She said, California is now being
overtaken by Mississippi on education. And you know what his
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answer was, Oh, that's because they hold back the kids. Yeah,
they hold back the kids. So they make sure that
kids learn to read by fourth grade, which is the
basis for education in California. That doesn't happen, which is
why you end up now with less than half the
kids in public schools in California meet basic standards in English.
You had a report from UC San Diego at the
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end of last year that nearly ten percent of the
students university students can't meet high school levels of math
and English. It's just a total disaster. You mentioned three
hundred and fifty billion dollars. You're right, that's the budget.
You know what it was just five years ago, one
hundred and eighty. They've nearly doubled the He has nearly
doubled the budget in the last five years.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Everything's worth well, then why are they running between an
eighteen and thirty five billion dollar budget deficit on top
of it?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Because it's going into fraud and corruption, and that's what
we're exposing. About a month ago, Sean I set up
cow Doje, California Department of Government Efficiency modeled on what
the president has put into operation with Elon. Obviously, we're
not elected yet. We're just doing this as volunteers. I've
got a team of volunteers, auditors, and a really strong
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businesswoman running it. We've now done two fraud reports that
we have found as volunteers just the last week, about
a week ago actually, the second one one billion dollars
write a billion with a bat that was supposed to
be spent on what they claimed was installing. It was
from the gas tax actually that you mentioned, and from
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the electric bill surcharges from what they called the cap
and trade system. It's their climate boondoggle. So billion dollars
from that that we paid were supposed to be spent
on installing solar panels on low income apartment units. The
actual number that was spent on that seventy two million,
nine hundred and twenty eight million. Nearly the whole billion
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went into Democrat activist groups, voter registration, all of that sort,
building their political machine. That's where the money's going. And
it's just absolutely unbelievable. But finally, you know, prompted by
Minnesota and the attention on that and what the President's
doing with JD and we're doing our part here with Caldoje,
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we're finally exposing it. But that's how you answer that question.
How is it possible we have the highest taxes in
the country for the worst results. That's where the money's going.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I mean, the math just doesn't add up. He's a
no show governor. Is anybody out there even care? I mean,
I'd like to know when the predictable wildfires occur that
they've adopted the science of forestry out in California, but
I know that's not the case. I'd like to know
that the reservoir is going to be filled, or reservoirs
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around areas that would be susceptible to wildfires, and I'd
like to think that they might have water in them.
I'd like to know that fire hydrants are working. I'd
like the people whose lives have been upended by those
wildfires are now able to finally get a building permit
and rebuild. How is it possible, year, three, four, ones,
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whatever it is later that nobody has a building permit.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
It's incredible. I was speaking to some Palisades you know, residents,
actually the mobile home park that was burnt out. I'd
like to be easier to fix that than anything else.
They're not getting anything out of this guy. They're sent
from one place to another. Same with Karen Bath. These
people are just so useless. They have no idea how
to get anything done. This is why you go to
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have a problem solving business versus you see it with
President Trump in the White House. Most of my background's
been in business. My first job was project manager for
a construction company. I mean, you've worked construction, so you
can't you can't get away with this kind of bs.
If this, you know, things don't happen, things aren't built.
It's just really practical, and it's a year on, more
than a year on, and nothing's happening, and you look
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at everything is I mean, just I don't know where
to start. The bullet train, the insane bullet train that
was supposed to be open like nearly ten years ago
now for thirty billion dollars much?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
How much? All right? How much have they spent on
this boondogle?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
It's now the budget is one hundred and thirty billion.
The money keeps coming in. This is that they let
they've just announced that they're gonna they've got a new
business plan. They laugh laughably call it a business plan
because they want to keep getting the money, so they
have to pretend this thing is actually going to happen.
He makes this announcement that which you've tried to pretend
this is the other week. Oh, we're moving forward. We're
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being tracks finally, you know, like a decade. They're not
laying tracks. When you actually look at what he said,
this is what he does. It's just the BF he said,
we are moving into the track laying phase. They're not
actually laying any tracks.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Okay, now, explain to me this wasn't this originally planned
to be from La to San Francisco. How did it
become Bakersfield to the Mercer or wherever else in California.
This thing is going to end up.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Yeah, so they diverted it so it goes through This
goes from San Francisco Inland through the Central Valley, down
the Central Valley, which is totally flat, should be incredibly
easy to build on, and then back to La through
the mountains. Right. This is what they actually are now
saying is going to happen. Right, and that was all
supposed to be up and running by twenty eighteen with
no public subsidy. Okay, what's actually the business plan now
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is from San Francisco to the top of the Central
Valley in Merced. They're using the existing rail that we
already have. Then you have to change to get onto
the high speed rail which starts in the said goes
down to Bakersfield. Then you get off the high speed trade.
This is the actual plan. Guess what the last leg
is from Bakersfield to LA A bus. I'm not making
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it up. A bus, that's their business plan. But you
could get a Greyhound bus now from Bakersfield to LA
the Christie Bucks or whatever it is takes two and
a half hours. The whole journey was supposed to take
two and a half hours from San Francisco to La
Now just the bus part is going to take that.
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And let me play two recent comments of Gavin and
get your reaction to it. One as he suggests support
for an arms embargo of Israel, calling Israel an apartheid
sate state, and he called Trump a piece of Adam Schiff.
These guys want to roll back the last half century
of racial justice, voting rights, civil rights because we want
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voter I d Here's what he said. He's arbitrarily just
different democratic states and cities. Yeah, that's what it all
has in common.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
And by the way, and he went into democratic cities
run by African American mayors as well. These guy's a
piece of call yours. Oh no, no, no, I mean
this is a guy that put at the Obama video
just a few weeks ago. I mean you know that,
and that didn't even get as much outrageous as deserved
of Michelle Obama and Barack Obama. It's the birther guy.
This is the guy called you know, countries, all countries,
I mean, it's connect all these damn dots. These guys
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want to roll back you know, the last half century
on racial justice, on issues of voting rights, civil rights,
LGBTQ rights.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Women's rights.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
You've seen it. I mean anyway, so this is like
for me, it's code read. People need to wake up.
We can lose this country. I really believe that I
talked about rigging the election before. I wasn't bullshed about that.
He doesn't believe in fair and free elections. He's a
competitive authoritarian, which means he wants elections the veneer one,
just like Putin, who got eighty seven point three percent
of the bones for him.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I mean really, I mean in California, correct me if
I'm wrong. If you want to buy a pack of cigarettes,
or you want to buy I six pack or alcohol
or a jewel pod, do you need an ID?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Of course, the whole thing is a joke. I'm on
the road the whole time in California. We're doing our
talent every time. I you know, we stay at the
Hampton in usually you're check in the Hampton in ID.
I mean, it's just totally normal. What are they talking about.
By the way, it's got massive support across the board
in California, and it's a really big reason why I'm
very confident I'm going to win because you got I
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don't know, something like seventy five percent agree with vote
ID even in California. But actually it's Republicans who really
really want vote I D and we've now got it on.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
You have a shot to win. This poll shows me
you have a shot and they're going to split the
Democratic vote. How do people get in touch with you
if they want to help you?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Thank you, Sean, Steve Hilton for Governor dot com fo
R Steve Hilton Forgovernor dot com. It's a really good shot.
It's not going to be easy, but we can do
it and all the help we can get much appreciated.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Well, I admire the fact that you're taking this on.
It's a huge undertaking. Steve Hilton, thanks so much for
being with us. Let's go back to the State of
the Union this year and what did we see President
Trump asking for those of you in this room that
agree with this, please stand with us that you think
it's the first role of government to protect American citizens
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over illegal immigrants. With the exception of John Fetterman, not
one Democrat stood, not one. They didn't stand. If you
go back a year before the Joint Session of Congress.
Speech to be official, the President honored Lake and Riley's
family and Joscelyn Hungary's family, two families that lost loved
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ones because of illegal immigrants led into this country unvetted
by Harris Biden, may orcus And this has happened so
many times. And they wouldn't stand for the families of
Lake and Riley and Joscelyn Hungary. And I said at
the time, and I repeated after this year, because the
the song remains the same, and that is this is
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a party that has lost its heart and its soul
and it's conscience. They have lost their way, They have
lost the plot. And I don't care if it's voter
ID which they're against, or proof of citizenship they're against that.
They want to defund dismantle the police. That is insanity.
They want no bail laws, that is insanity. They want
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sanctuary cities and states, that's insanity. You know. They want
amnesty for all the illegals in this country. They think
that'll be a voting base down the road for them.
That's insanity. Also, this is a party that is even
lashing out against Donald Trump. That is eviscerating Iran right now,
and any possibility that one day in the future, our
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children and grandchildren will have to live under the threat
of a nuclear armed Duran, which would be extraordinarily dangerous
because that, you know, is extreme religious Islamo fashion mentality
coupled with weapons of mass destruction could lead to a
modern day holocaust. Anybody with an ounce of common sense
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would understand that there are people that don't. There are
isolationists that never understood Donald Trump, don't want to understand
Donald Trump. They don't want to understand the Trump doctrine.
Now we have the latest examples. I can't even believe
I'm reporting on this. Mark Warner asked about the murder
of a Virginia woman. Now, this woman was murdered by
an illegal immigrant. But Senator Warner says he's more concerned
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with ICE detaining illegals with no criminal record than he
is about the murder of a woman in his state,
a woman murdered by an illegal allowed into our country.
I can't even believe he would say what he's saying,
but he said it. Then you have a state Senate
majority leader in Virginia. Some guys, Scott Survel is his name,
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Senate Majority Leader blaming Ice for the murder of this woman.
The woman was murdered by an illegal alien. He took
to the Virginia Senate floor. This guy's lost his mind too.
They've lost the plot. If you look at all of
the people that Ice has been arresting, well, we know,
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for example, in the year twenty twenty five, over twenty
one hundred convicted or charged illegals charged with killing, murdering
American citizens. We know in that particular case that Ice
was able to apprehend twenty one hundred of them. In
a single year. Over fifty four hundred illegals convicted of
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or charged with rape or serious sexual assault were also arrested.
And Ice gets called Gestapo, Nazi and fascist, and of
course then the Democrants want to defund ICE and the
Department of Homeland Security and with it the Secret Service
at that FEMA, and with that the Coastguard. I mean,
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this is madness. Democrats still won't complete funding in the
in the US Senate. It's unbelievable, incredible times we're looking
at I'm telling you, uh, Paul in Arizona, Paul, how
are you glad you called Sir Sean it.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Is a pleasure to speak with you, sir today, And
there is one thing that it just keeps standing out. Okay,
And I tell my kids, my grandkids, you can educate ignorance,
but you cannot fix stupidity. And those people who didn't stand,
those people who are against the whole situation going on
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in Iran, and a good portion of the so called
quote unquote leaders in California, they're beyond ignorance. They're out
of that category. They're still stuck in the stupid category.
And you can't fix it. It's just there's just nothing
else you can do about it. But I will share
this with your This is just my world how I
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perceive it. I truly believe that the best thing, and
I think the Democrats are probably kicking themselves. The best
thing for us, the Republicans, is when Donald Trump did
not win in twenty twenty, it gave him four years
to get people together to think about what needs to
really be done to turn this around. And by having
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those four years off, it created the incredible momentum that
we have right now in what a year, in what
fifteen months that he's been in office. And I really
believe that it because he took those years off, he
came back even stronger. And what he's doing now is
and someday somebody's going to be able to tap somebody
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on the shoulder and say, kids, the reason why it
ran did not bomb anybody is because it was shut
down back in twenty twenty six. And in a perfect world,
maybe by the year twenty seventy we'll still be having
the same conversation of Nope, they still do not have
the capability. Sehn, I appreciate you, and thank you for
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everything you do.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Thank you. I appreciate your call. The one thing I
did say to President Trump when we had just a
private conversation about this, you know, and we were looking
at this from all sides, and it was I had
no agenda except that I wanted him to make the
right decision. And in the end, I have found on
these important issues, he always ends up in the right place.
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And I believe everything he did with Operation Midnight Hammer
and Epic Fury was one hundred percent right with incredible results.
I supported what he did with Maduro as well. But
the question was if there ever, if they get a
nuclear weapon, do you think they will use it? Based
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on who they are what they say? That was one question.
I was going through a series of questions that you
need to ask before you make an important decision as
commander in chief. There's a lot of weight on his shoulders,
and we were just talking really more as friends than
anything else, and just just kind of, you know, gaming
out what could potentially happen. And then I said, and
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if he happens on your watch, and then down the
road one day they use those weapons, what do you
think they're going to blame? You know, if it had
happened in the interim, when Obama and Biden were dropping
you know, cargo planes full of cash and of the
currency on the tarmacs for the mulas, we would have
we would have rightly been able to blame them if
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they ever got them. I think, frankly that played a
big part in it, and they would have helped pay
for it, which was stupid. So these are very hard
questions that presidents have to answer. In this case, I
don't think it was that hard a question. I think
in the end it was very obvious what the president
needed to do. What he did is hard. I mean,
there's a reason he had such a large military presence.
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There's a reason he used such overwhelming force. There's a
reason that the Israelis joined with us, our closest allies
in the region. And I'm getting a little sick and
tired by the way of the anti Semitic wing in
both parties, because there is one. Now I'm a little
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I am just tired of the virulent anti semitism. Oh,
this is BB's war. Oh, President Trump is doing BB's bidding. No,
he's not. He's doing America's bidding. Oh. BB convinced him. No,
nobody convinces Donald Trump to do anything. And I can
tell you there have been times I've tried to persuade
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him to do something that I believe strongly in, and
he makes up his own mind. He's a man of
his own mind. He's the president. I'm not. I'm a
talk show host. It pisses me off that people are
so ignorant, and it's such a I mean, it's so obvious.
It's about clicks and algorithms and moneies and and God
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only knows with some of these people. I really do
wonder if one day we'll find out about shell corporations
that are paying prominent quote names for their commentary. Why
do I suspect that, Linda, I don't know, just a
little suspicion of mine. I'm not mentioning names. Well, I
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like to mention names. You're much nicer than me. I
am much nicer than you. That's true now. But in
all fairness, and I've told this story before. Since Donald
Trump has been elected, every country in the region in
that region of the world has reached out wanting private
meetings with me, pretty much every country in the region,
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including direct calls from kings and queen's offices. Would you
like to have tea? I'm like no, Would you like
to have a meeting?
Speaker 4 (24:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Would you like to have a briefing?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I have no desire. I'm an American citizen. I'm a
proud American. And I wonder LUNDA if I was in
those meetings and I said, you know, I have some
business interests in here. You might think you might be
interested in partnering with me. What do you think they
might say?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I think there's a high probability that they would be
interested high probability.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Do you think that maybe that that's what they wanted
to feel out in the beginning, Yeah, I mean their.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
First mistake was offering you t you're clearly a coffee guy.
You know, if they had said, hey, we have an
abundance of zen's an endless supply, it'll be a wonderful time,
you'd be like, you know what, I'll just listen.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It's fine, all right, he'd done making fun of me,
Are you done? Just you know. I don't talk about
it a lot, but the outreach has been intense. They've
even gone to people in my orbit. I don't know
if they've gone to you, if they ever come to you,
but they've gone to people in my orbit to try
to get my attention that way, because after I just
flat out say no, you don't want to talk about it.
(25:57):
I mean, we can't talk about it. You know, people
love about it. I don't know. I want to be
honest with the audience.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
To quote you, the audience knows that at the end
of the day, there are people that are getting paid
all the time to keep stuff real quiet. It's happening
in Congress, it's happening in business, it's happening on Wall Street.
So when things don't make sense, it's not that you're
losing your mind. It's that they don't make sense because
people are on the take. They're saying things that don't
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make sense. They're saying things that are either anti Semitic.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I'm just suspicious. I don't know that any of this
is true. I am just telling you. You know, the
Bible has a great verse that I think everybody really
needs to live by what profit a man to gain
the whole world and lose their soul? Remember when Jesus
fasted for forty days in the desert and the devil
came to him and offered Jesus the entire world if
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he would just bow before the devil and you know,
get behind me, Satan, and he reached out to his father.
It's a beautiful moment in the Bible about you know,
our Lord. And there's nothing that I want or need
in this world. I mean, I guess everybody would like
to have more money, or more of this, or more
that I Really I'm pretty satisfied. I love doing what
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I do. I don't really need anything. You know.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
It makes me satisfied when you listen to me, when
I tell you it's time for you to do your commercial.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That's what makes me super happy. I feel fulfilled. How
fulfilling scaled one to ten like a twenty.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Bro, It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
That's going to wrap things up for today. We are
loaded up Operation Epic Fury on the march. Are we
going to be able to wrap this up in four
plus weeks? As the President says, we will have Jack Carr,
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and ninety four one. Shawn is on number. You want
to be a part of the program. It is kind
of bewildering and odd and strange and spectacularly stupid that,
in spite of widespread criticism about what a failed governor is,
I think he's the worst governor in the country. Gavin
(00:22):
Newsom in California, that he continues to just be a
world traveler, showing up in Munich, showing up in Davos,
a full time Trump stalker. I guess he assumes that
that is his ticket to, you know, winning the nomination
and thus having a chance to be president. A full
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time podcaster, full time ex poster, you know, full time author,
now full time speech giver. I mean, the guy's never
in California. People still can't get their their building permits
in the Pacific Palisades. Never mind they have the highest
income taxes, sales taxes, and gas taxes, and that's going
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to make a big difference. You're going to be paying
seven dollars a gallon for gasoline out in California in
this interim period with this conflict going on in the
Middle East, I hope that's not true. But and the
fact that he takes in all of this money, and
I was showing this the other day and talking about
this the other day. Takes in all of this money.
They have like a three hundred and fifty billion dollar
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budget every year and they can't balance their budget because
it's a sanctuary city, sanctuary state, and all of the
benefits that they provide to illegals in the state of California.
I mean it's basically state sponsored protection. You talk about,
you know, obstructing in the course of justice or aiding
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in a betting and law breaking. I mean, Gavin defines
it all. It's pretty insane. Now, interestingly, this is his
last term and our friend who will join us in
a moment, Steve Hilton, Gubernatorio candidate, is now leading in
the polls and working on doing just about anything he can.
(02:10):
He wants to save California and he wants to transform California.
Has stop the mass migration out of California, fixed the
homeless problem, get the budget under control, stop California from
being a sanctuary state, Stop the sanctuary cities, I mean,
gas taxes, property taxes, freeing child rapists, you know they
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don't keep records in terms of crimes committed by illegals
in California because of their sanctuary policies. We have a
list of mile long of people murdered and raped and
child molesters and victims of other violent crime, but you
rarely hear about it. Newsom is now planning a nineteen
million dollar push to polish California's national image that he destroyed.
(02:56):
You've got this referendum coming up in November that is
chasing one billionaire after another out of Silicon Valley. These
people are very, very wealthy, and they made their money.
They pay their high taxes out in California on top
of their federal taxes, and now the government wants to
come in and take five percent of their net worth.
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And it's not even an accurate calculation in many cases.
If you own twenty five percent of the stock, but
you only really own five percent of the stock, but
on paper they're going to charge you the twenty five
percent rate. It's insane. And anyway, California is about to
cross the threshold where taxes and fees levied on a
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gallon of gasoline will cost more than the actual price
of the gallon of gasoline. It's insane. But you know,
Gavin keeps going on every show he can get on.
He's invited on this show, but he won't come. He's
on with Katie Kirk. I didn't know Katie Kirk still?
Is she still existing out there somewhere? Where does she work?
You know, Linda have no idea.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I know she's asking the hard hitting questions. Is you're
about to hear she is at the top of her game,
no question?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, okay, and let's play it. Because she's asking Gavin
Newsom if he's just too good looking? Do you have
a Zoolander problem?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Jesus yes, are you just ridiculously good looking? Said no, seriously,
what do you do about that?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
You don't do anything about it, because if you can
do something about it, then your people. You know what
I am who I am, and it's fine.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You don't have to like me, or maybe you like
a slick person.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I don't know, whatever, It's okay.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The reason why I shot up because you talked about
being authentic and I think it sometimes works against you.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, it's just who I am.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
It's just who I am.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
He just agrees with the premise I'm just too good looking.
And that is his talking about Israel being an apartheid
state that went viral this week. Anyway, Steve Hilton is
with us. You know what, you know, the good thing
you don't have to run against somebody that's just too
good looking. I mean, that'd be horrible for you.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I know. It's amazing, Sean, isn't it. By the way,
on one of the things I say, I think it's
time in California for a governor with less hair. Definitely hair.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I think that's the new, the new thing. I don't know,
I'll have to shave mine arm.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
But this guy, it's unbelievable watching this rollout of his
I mean, this is obviously the first step in his
presidential campaign. It's it's almost unbearable listening to him, especially
for those of us have to experience the total failure
that he is in California. Another one of these interviews,
he's he's saying, someone asked him very specifically, Okay, what's
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your pitch? Just if you're talking to a regular person
it's not that interested in politics, just wants to know
what are you going to do for them? In a practical,
simple way. He literally said, you tell me. That's what
his answer. Wass you tell me I'm not a great communicator.
He is so full of it. Cavenuwsome and then and
and everything he says just makes it worse. And you
(06:00):
laid it all out so perfectly. And there's there's there's more.
I mean, the list goes on and on, as well
as all the things that you said correctly, We've got
the highest poverty rate in the country, the highest unemployment
rate in the country. On education, actual, Katie Couric did
push him on that. She said, California is now being
overtaken by Mississippi on education. And you know what his
(06:22):
answer was, Oh, that's because they hold back the kids. Yeah,
they hold back the kids. So they make sure that
kids learn to read by fourth grade, which is the
basis for education in California. That doesn't happen, which is
why you end up now with less than half the
kids in public schools in California meet basic standards in English.
You had a report from UC San Diego at the
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end of last year that nearly ten percent of the
students university students can't meet high school levels of math
and English. It's just a total disaster. You mentioned three
hundred and fifty billion dollars. You're right, that's the budget.
You know what it was just five years ago, one
hundred and eighty. They've nearly doubled the He has nearly
doubled the budget in the last five years.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Everything's worth well, then why are they running between an
eighteen and thirty five billion dollar budget deficit on top
of it?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Because it's going into fraud and corruption, and that's what
we're exposing. About a month ago, Sean I set up
cow Doje, California Department of Government Efficiency modeled on what
the president has put into operation with Elon. Obviously, we're
not elected yet. We're just doing this as volunteers. I've
got a team of volunteers, auditors, and a really strong
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businesswoman running it. We've now done two fraud reports that
we have found as volunteers just the last week, about
a week ago actually, the second one one billion dollars
write a billion with a bat that was supposed to
be spent on what they claimed was installing. It was
from the gas tax actually that you mentioned, and from
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the electric bill surcharges from what they called the cap
and trade system. It's their climate boondoggle. So billion dollars
from that that we paid were supposed to be spent
on installing solar panels on low income apartment units. The
actual number that was spent on that seventy two million,
nine hundred and twenty eight million. Nearly the whole billion
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went into Democrat activist groups, voter registration, all of that sort,
building their political machine. That's where the money's going. And
it's just absolutely unbelievable. But finally, you know, prompted by
Minnesota and the attention on that and what the President's
doing with JD and we're doing our part here with Caldoje,
(08:43):
we're finally exposing it. But that's how you answer that question.
How is it possible we have the highest taxes in
the country for the worst results. That's where the money's going.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I mean, the math just doesn't add up. He's a
no show governor. Is anybody out there even care? I mean,
I'd like to know when the predictable wildfires occur that
they've adopted the science of forestry out in California, but
I know that's not the case. I'd like to know
that the reservoir is going to be filled, or reservoirs
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around areas that would be susceptible to wildfires, and I'd
like to think that they might have water in them.
I'd like to know that fire hydrants are working. I'd
like the people whose lives have been upended by those
wildfires are now able to finally get a building permit
and rebuild. How is it possible, year, three, four, ones,
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whatever it is later that nobody has a building permit.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
It's incredible. I was speaking to some Palisades you know, residents,
actually the mobile home park that was burnt out. I'd
like to be easier to fix that than anything else.
They're not getting anything out of this guy. They're sent
from one place to another. Same with Karen Bath. These
people are just so useless. They have no idea how
to get anything done. This is why you go to
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have a problem solving business versus you see it with
President Trump in the White House. Most of my background's
been in business. My first job was project manager for
a construction company. I mean, you've worked construction, so you
can't you can't get away with this kind of bs.
If this, you know, things don't happen, things aren't built.
It's just really practical, and it's a year on, more
than a year on, and nothing's happening, and you look
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at everything is I mean, just I don't know where
to start. The bullet train, the insane bullet train that
was supposed to be open like nearly ten years ago
now for thirty billion dollars much?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
How much? All right? How much have they spent on
this boondogle?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
It's now the budget is one hundred and thirty billion.
The money keeps coming in. This is that they let
they've just announced that they're gonna they've got a new
business plan. They laugh laughably call it a business plan
because they want to keep getting the money, so they
have to pretend this thing is actually going to happen.
He makes this announcement that which you've tried to pretend
this is the other week. Oh, we're moving forward. We're
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being tracks finally, you know, like a decade. They're not
laying tracks. When you actually look at what he said,
this is what he does. It's just the BF he said,
we are moving into the track laying phase. They're not
actually laying any tracks.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Okay, now, explain to me this wasn't this originally planned
to be from La to San Francisco. How did it
become Bakersfield to the Mercer or wherever else in California.
This thing is going to end up.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Yeah, so they diverted it so it goes through This
goes from San Francisco Inland through the Central Valley, down
the Central Valley, which is totally flat, should be incredibly
easy to build on, and then back to La through
the mountains. Right. This is what they actually are now
saying is going to happen. Right, and that was all
supposed to be up and running by twenty eighteen with
no public subsidy. Okay, what's actually the business plan now
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is from San Francisco to the top of the Central
Valley in Merced. They're using the existing rail that we
already have. Then you have to change to get onto
the high speed rail which starts in the said goes
down to Bakersfield. Then you get off the high speed trade.
This is the actual plan. Guess what the last leg
is from Bakersfield to LA A bus. I'm not making
(12:12):
it up. A bus, that's their business plan. But you
could get a Greyhound bus now from Bakersfield to LA
the Christie Bucks or whatever it is takes two and
a half hours. The whole journey was supposed to take
two and a half hours from San Francisco to La
Now just the bus part is going to take that.
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And let me play two recent comments of Gavin and
get your reaction to it. One as he suggests support
for an arms embargo of Israel, calling Israel an apartheid
sate state, and he called Trump a piece of Adam Schiff.
These guys want to roll back the last half century
of racial justice, voting rights, civil rights because we want
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voter I d Here's what he said. He's arbitrarily just
different democratic states and cities. Yeah, that's what it all
has in common.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
And by the way, and he went into democratic cities
run by African American mayors as well. These guy's a
piece of call yours. Oh no, no, no, I mean
this is a guy that put at the Obama video
just a few weeks ago. I mean you know that,
and that didn't even get as much outrageous as deserved
of Michelle Obama and Barack Obama. It's the birther guy.
This is the guy called you know, countries, all countries,
I mean, it's connect all these damn dots. These guys
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want to roll back you know, the last half century
on racial justice, on issues of voting rights, civil rights,
LGBTQ rights.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Women's rights.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
You've seen it. I mean anyway, so this is like
for me, it's code read. People need to wake up.
We can lose this country. I really believe that I
talked about rigging the election before. I wasn't bullshed about that.
He doesn't believe in fair and free elections. He's a
competitive authoritarian, which means he wants elections the veneer one,
just like Putin, who got eighty seven point three percent
of the bones for him.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I mean really, I mean in California, correct me if
I'm wrong. If you want to buy a pack of cigarettes,
or you want to buy I six pack or alcohol
or a jewel pod, do you need an ID?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Of course, the whole thing is a joke. I'm on
the road the whole time in California. We're doing our
talent every time. I you know, we stay at the
Hampton in usually you're check in the Hampton in ID.
I mean, it's just totally normal. What are they talking about.
By the way, it's got massive support across the board
in California, and it's a really big reason why I'm
very confident I'm going to win because you got I
(14:25):
don't know, something like seventy five percent agree with vote
ID even in California. But actually it's Republicans who really
really want vote I D and we've now got it on.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
You have a shot to win. This poll shows me
you have a shot and they're going to split the
Democratic vote. How do people get in touch with you
if they want to help you?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Thank you, Sean, Steve Hilton for Governor dot com fo
R Steve Hilton Forgovernor dot com. It's a really good shot.
It's not going to be easy, but we can do
it and all the help we can get much appreciated.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Well, I admire the fact that you're taking this on.
It's a huge undertaking. Steve Hilton, thanks so much for
being with us. Let's go back to the State of
the Union this year and what did we see President
Trump asking for those of you in this room that
agree with this, please stand with us that you think
it's the first role of government to protect American citizens
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over illegal immigrants. With the exception of John Fetterman, not
one Democrat stood, not one. They didn't stand. If you
go back a year before the Joint Session of Congress.
Speech to be official, the President honored Lake and Riley's
family and Joscelyn Hungary's family, two families that lost loved
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ones because of illegal immigrants led into this country unvetted
by Harris Biden, may orcus And this has happened so
many times. And they wouldn't stand for the families of
Lake and Riley and Joscelyn Hungary. And I said at
the time, and I repeated after this year, because the
the song remains the same, and that is this is
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a party that has lost its heart and its soul
and it's conscience. They have lost their way, They have
lost the plot. And I don't care if it's voter
ID which they're against, or proof of citizenship they're against that.
They want to defund dismantle the police. That is insanity.
They want no bail laws, that is insanity. They want
(16:24):
sanctuary cities and states, that's insanity. You know. They want
amnesty for all the illegals in this country. They think
that'll be a voting base down the road for them.
That's insanity. Also, this is a party that is even
lashing out against Donald Trump. That is eviscerating Iran right now,
and any possibility that one day in the future, our
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children and grandchildren will have to live under the threat
of a nuclear armed Duran, which would be extraordinarily dangerous
because that, you know, is extreme religious Islamo fashion mentality
coupled with weapons of mass destruction could lead to a
modern day holocaust. Anybody with an ounce of common sense
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would understand that there are people that don't. There are
isolationists that never understood Donald Trump, don't want to understand
Donald Trump. They don't want to understand the Trump doctrine.
Now we have the latest examples. I can't even believe
I'm reporting on this. Mark Warner asked about the murder
of a Virginia woman. Now, this woman was murdered by
an illegal immigrant. But Senator Warner says he's more concerned
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with ICE detaining illegals with no criminal record than he
is about the murder of a woman in his state,
a woman murdered by an illegal allowed into our country.
I can't even believe he would say what he's saying,
but he said it. Then you have a state Senate
majority leader in Virginia. Some guys, Scott Survel is his name,
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Senate Majority Leader blaming Ice for the murder of this woman.
The woman was murdered by an illegal alien. He took
to the Virginia Senate floor. This guy's lost his mind too.
They've lost the plot. If you look at all of
the people that Ice has been arresting, well, we know,
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for example, in the year twenty twenty five, over twenty
one hundred convicted or charged illegals charged with killing, murdering
American citizens. We know in that particular case that Ice
was able to apprehend twenty one hundred of them. In
a single year. Over fifty four hundred illegals convicted of
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or charged with rape or serious sexual assault were also arrested.
And Ice gets called Gestapo, Nazi and fascist, and of
course then the Democrants want to defund ICE and the
Department of Homeland Security and with it the Secret Service
at that FEMA, and with that the Coastguard. I mean,
(19:03):
this is madness. Democrats still won't complete funding in the
in the US Senate. It's unbelievable, incredible times we're looking
at I'm telling you, uh, Paul in Arizona, Paul, how
are you glad you called Sir Sean it.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Is a pleasure to speak with you, sir today, And
there is one thing that it just keeps standing out. Okay,
And I tell my kids, my grandkids, you can educate ignorance,
but you cannot fix stupidity. And those people who didn't stand,
those people who are against the whole situation going on
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in Iran, and a good portion of the so called
quote unquote leaders in California, they're beyond ignorance. They're out
of that category. They're still stuck in the stupid category.
And you can't fix it. It's just there's just nothing
else you can do about it. But I will share
this with your This is just my world how I
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perceive it. I truly believe that the best thing, and
I think the Democrats are probably kicking themselves. The best
thing for us, the Republicans, is when Donald Trump did
not win in twenty twenty, it gave him four years
to get people together to think about what needs to
really be done to turn this around. And by having
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those four years off, it created the incredible momentum that
we have right now in what a year, in what
fifteen months that he's been in office. And I really
believe that it because he took those years off, he
came back even stronger. And what he's doing now is
and someday somebody's going to be able to tap somebody
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on the shoulder and say, kids, the reason why it
ran did not bomb anybody is because it was shut
down back in twenty twenty six. And in a perfect world,
maybe by the year twenty seventy we'll still be having
the same conversation of Nope, they still do not have
the capability. Sehn, I appreciate you, and thank you for
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everything you do.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Thank you. I appreciate your call. The one thing I
did say to President Trump when we had just a
private conversation about this, you know, and we were looking
at this from all sides, and it was I had
no agenda except that I wanted him to make the
right decision. And in the end, I have found on
these important issues, he always ends up in the right place.
(21:30):
And I believe everything he did with Operation Midnight Hammer
and Epic Fury was one hundred percent right with incredible results.
I supported what he did with Maduro as well. But
the question was if there ever, if they get a
nuclear weapon, do you think they will use it? Based
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on who they are what they say? That was one question.
I was going through a series of questions that you
need to ask before you make an important decision as
commander in chief. There's a lot of weight on his shoulders,
and we were just talking really more as friends than
anything else, and just just kind of, you know, gaming
out what could potentially happen. And then I said, and
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if he happens on your watch, and then down the
road one day they use those weapons, what do you
think they're going to blame? You know, if it had
happened in the interim, when Obama and Biden were dropping
you know, cargo planes full of cash and of the
currency on the tarmacs for the mulas, we would have
we would have rightly been able to blame them if
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they ever got them. I think, frankly that played a
big part in it, and they would have helped pay
for it, which was stupid. So these are very hard
questions that presidents have to answer. In this case, I
don't think it was that hard a question. I think
in the end it was very obvious what the president
needed to do. What he did is hard. I mean,
there's a reason he had such a large military presence.
(22:56):
There's a reason he used such overwhelming force. There's a
reason that the Israelis joined with us, our closest allies
in the region. And I'm getting a little sick and
tired by the way of the anti Semitic wing in
both parties, because there is one. Now I'm a little
(23:17):
I am just tired of the virulent anti semitism. Oh,
this is BB's war. Oh, President Trump is doing BB's bidding. No,
he's not. He's doing America's bidding. Oh. BB convinced him. No,
nobody convinces Donald Trump to do anything. And I can
tell you there have been times I've tried to persuade
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him to do something that I believe strongly in, and
he makes up his own mind. He's a man of
his own mind. He's the president. I'm not. I'm a
talk show host. It pisses me off that people are
so ignorant, and it's such a I mean, it's so obvious.
It's about clicks and algorithms and moneies and and God
(23:59):
only knows with some of these people. I really do
wonder if one day we'll find out about shell corporations
that are paying prominent quote names for their commentary. Why
do I suspect that, Linda, I don't know, just a
little suspicion of mine. I'm not mentioning names. Well, I
(24:22):
like to mention names. You're much nicer than me. I
am much nicer than you. That's true now. But in
all fairness, and I've told this story before. Since Donald
Trump has been elected, every country in the region in
that region of the world has reached out wanting private
meetings with me, pretty much every country in the region,
(24:47):
including direct calls from kings and queen's offices. Would you
like to have tea? I'm like no, Would you like
to have a meeting?
Speaker 4 (24:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Would you like to have a briefing?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I have no desire. I'm an American citizen. I'm a
proud American. And I wonder LUNDA if I was in
those meetings and I said, you know, I have some
business interests in here. You might think you might be
interested in partnering with me. What do you think they
might say?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I think there's a high probability that they would be
interested high probability.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Do you think that maybe that that's what they wanted
to feel out in the beginning, Yeah, I mean their.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
First mistake was offering you t you're clearly a coffee guy.
You know, if they had said, hey, we have an
abundance of zen's an endless supply, it'll be a wonderful time,
you'd be like, you know what, I'll just listen.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It's fine, all right, he'd done making fun of me,
Are you done? Just you know. I don't talk about
it a lot, but the outreach has been intense. They've
even gone to people in my orbit. I don't know
if they've gone to you, if they ever come to you,
but they've gone to people in my orbit to try
to get my attention that way, because after I just
flat out say no, you don't want to talk about it.
(25:57):
I mean, we can't talk about it. You know, people
love about it. I don't know. I want to be
honest with the audience.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
To quote you, the audience knows that at the end
of the day, there are people that are getting paid
all the time to keep stuff real quiet. It's happening
in Congress, it's happening in business, it's happening on Wall Street.
So when things don't make sense, it's not that you're
losing your mind. It's that they don't make sense because
people are on the take. They're saying things that don't
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make sense. They're saying things that are either anti Semitic.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I'm just suspicious. I don't know that any of this
is true. I am just telling you. You know, the
Bible has a great verse that I think everybody really
needs to live by what profit a man to gain
the whole world and lose their soul? Remember when Jesus
fasted for forty days in the desert and the devil
came to him and offered Jesus the entire world if
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he would just bow before the devil and you know,
get behind me, Satan, and he reached out to his father.
It's a beautiful moment in the Bible about you know,
our Lord. And there's nothing that I want or need
in this world. I mean, I guess everybody would like
to have more money, or more of this, or more
that I Really I'm pretty satisfied. I love doing what
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I do. I don't really need anything. You know.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
It makes me satisfied when you listen to me, when
I tell you it's time for you to do your commercial.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That's what makes me super happy. I feel fulfilled. How
fulfilling scaled one to ten like a twenty.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Bro, It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
That's going to wrap things up for today. We are
loaded up Operation Epic Fury on the march. Are we
going to be able to wrap this up in four
plus weeks? As the President says, we will have Jack Carr,
former Navy seal, will join us. James Blair, Deputy White
House Chief of Staff, also the great One, Mark Levin,
Joey Jones, Nicole Parker, Ari Fleischer, Jason Chaifitz. That your
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