Verdict with Ted Cruz - BONUS： Sean Hannity - Debunking The Myths - July 1st, Hour 2

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00:01:20.040 All right, so with the one big, beautiful bill being passed in the Senate,

00:01:24.120 now it will go to the House.

00:01:25.460 Plans now, as of today, are that it will be debated and voted on,

00:01:30.200 hopefully tomorrow, and hopefully passed, and there's more good in it.

00:01:36.060 But as I said, both on radio yesterday, on TV last night, there are a lot of provisions,

00:01:41.400 policies I don't like, and there's a lot more cutting that I want to see.

00:01:46.660 And I think that, but with that said, this legislation, you know,

00:01:51.620 it'll be the largest tax cut in American history,

00:01:55.780 and Democrats will be voting for the largest tax increase in American history.

00:02:01.120 The bill also eliminates taxes on tips and overtime.

00:02:05.860 88% of seniors will not pay taxes on Social Security as a result of this bill.

00:02:13.420 There is a misnomer and a myth, oh, these tax cuts, we can't afford them.

00:02:18.380 We've got to pay for them, which is the argument that some of my friends make.

00:02:22.140 And I'm like, no, you're wrong, because Reagan cut taxes from 70% to 28%,

00:02:26.140 the top marginal rate, and revenues to the federal government actually doubled.

00:02:31.180 The bill, not perfectly, but it eliminates, you know,

00:02:34.400 it tackles waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid,

00:02:36.880 creates a new work requirement for able-bodied Americans.

00:02:40.260 You know, just to fact check it, there's been a lot of demagoguery going on,

00:02:43.580 and thank God most Americans, unlike me, were asleep last night.

00:02:47.240 You know, oh, only the wealthy benefit from the tax cuts.

00:02:50.640 Well, we're going to introduce you to Kurt Couchman,

00:02:54.060 a senior fellow in fiscal policy for Americans for Prosperity,

00:02:57.580 and he points out it doesn't make it true because they say it.

00:03:01.700 The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act helped all Americans,

00:03:05.880 not just the fortunate few.

00:03:07.940 It lowered taxes across every income level and simplified, you know,

00:03:13.040 filing by doubling the standard deduction and adjusting it annually for inflation.

00:03:17.580 The bill cuts Medicaid for people who rely on it.

00:03:20.980 That's another lie.

00:03:22.660 The reforms to Medicaid and the one big, beautiful bill aren't about cuts.

00:03:27.480 They're focused on fixing a broken system to better serve the people that need it most

00:03:32.640 and, you know, and putting in work requirements for able-bodied people.

00:03:37.700 You know, I thought, you know, it is the reform that has been necessary for a long time.

00:03:44.220 The idea that Medicaid and Medicare, you get the same service,

00:03:47.720 you literally pay nine times more in some cases for the exact same medical procedure

00:03:52.800 if you're getting Medicare versus Medicaid.

00:03:55.200 It's insane.

00:03:56.340 And the idea that tax cuts somehow, oh, no, it's going to explode the deficit.

00:04:01.200 Well, no, hopefully it's not going to explode the deficit because, again,

00:04:05.340 Reagan doubled revenues by cutting taxes, and that's what happens every time you cut taxes.

00:04:10.760 But Trump's first three years in office when he cut taxes,

00:04:14.080 it created record low after record low unemployment for every American,

00:04:18.540 for African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, women in the workplace,

00:04:23.400 African-American youth unemployment.

00:04:25.340 That would be inclusive.

00:04:27.040 That would be one that's helping working men and women.

00:04:30.140 Democrats voted against, what, they want to keep taxing tips to the maximum level

00:04:36.020 and tax overtime to the maximum level and not incentivize people to work harder?

00:04:42.840 That's insane.

00:04:44.840 And this is a great first step.

00:04:47.580 I want to see other things.

00:04:48.700 I didn't like the salt deduction in the bill, but on measure,

00:04:52.300 having been up all night, we did not have the votes by 8 a.m. this morning

00:04:58.340 because I was up talking to senators all night.

00:05:02.260 They did not have the votes as of 8 a.m. this morning.

00:05:05.760 And then people say, well, you know, this is unfortunately the way the swamp works,

00:05:10.500 but it is the most conservative bill I've seen in my lifetime.

00:05:14.560 Kurt Couchman with us, senior fellow, fiscal policy at Americans for Prosperity.

00:05:19.140 How are you, sir?

00:05:20.640 Hey, Sean, I'm doing well.

00:05:21.800 That was all very well said, and I'm glad to be with you today.

00:05:25.800 All right.

00:05:26.380 You have studied all of this, and, you know, a lot of the demagoguery that we heard

00:05:31.640 is like the typical, you know, language that we hear every two and four years 0.79

00:05:35.500 during elections that Republicans are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic. 0.99

00:05:41.220 They want dirty air and water, and they want grandma and grandpa to eat dog and cat food 1.00

00:05:45.940 before Donald Trump throws them over a cliff in a wheelchair. 0.83

00:05:49.020 And when they say, and they were out there saying this only benefits the wealthy, that's

00:05:54.060 a lie.

00:05:54.440 When they said this bill cuts Medicaid for the people who rely on it, that's a lie, that

00:05:58.820 it will explode the deficit.

00:06:00.580 You point out all three of those are major lies.

00:06:03.400 Yeah, that's absolutely true.

00:06:05.020 So the tax cuts in this bill build on the 2017 tax cuts, and those have benefited all Americans,

00:06:12.160 sometimes directly through your personal income taxes, but also through making investment more

00:06:18.700 profitable and more investment going into the economy increases our productivity and also

00:06:23.680 our wages.

00:06:25.020 There are provisions in this that will improve health care for all Americans.

00:06:28.820 It will shift resources from the inefficient, low-value green energy nonsense into the energy

00:06:35.560 resources that will make electricity cheaper for all Americans and drive manufacturing and

00:06:41.680 innovation all across the country.

00:06:43.460 Well, there's other things that the president's doing that will benefit the economy also.

00:06:48.560 It seems to have gone unnoticed by most in the legacy media, but nobody really pays attention

00:06:54.240 to them anymore anyway, but I think it's a big deal that the president has made this push

00:07:00.080 and is part of this bill to push America towards energy dominance.

00:07:04.420 Not only will that make us an energy-rich country and result in a lot of revenues that we're really

00:07:09.600 not planning on, but similarly create high-paying career jobs in the energy sector.

00:07:14.320 The president was able to secure, through his trade policy and tariff policy, over $10 trillion

00:07:21.320 in manufacturing commitments for the next four years and in critical national security areas

00:07:27.720 like pharmaceuticals and semiconductor chips, but also auto manufacturing.

00:07:33.600 That's a big win, again, for American workers, and that's high-paying career jobs, and they

00:07:38.640 won't be competing with Biden-Harris illegals that are being deported every day.

00:07:42.840 Yeah, there are a lot of things going on right now.

00:07:44.940 The administration is doing many, many different things that are good for the country, good for

00:07:49.520 growth. This bill also includes a lot, and it's not the only effort to restrain spending

00:07:56.100 and get the spending and the debt under control. We had a full-year continuing resolution that

00:08:01.040 reduced appropriations compared to the economy. President Trump has requested rescissions, which

00:08:06.120 is canceling appropriated spending that's wasteful that we don't need. The House has passed that.

00:08:11.060 It's sitting in the Senate. That should be the next thing they take up and pass, cut wasteful

00:08:14.840 spending. There's more rescission requests coming. There are savings the Trump administration could

00:08:20.840 do on its own just by changing some of the regulations for some of these programs, and then

00:08:25.980 there's fixing the whole system. You know, the federal budget system is totally dysfunctional and

00:08:31.320 broken. It's amazing that we can get the good things that we're getting this year, given that, but

00:08:36.920 imagine if we had a functional budget system, like all the incredible things that Congress could

00:08:43.180 actually deliver, along with President Trump, for the American people. Let me ask you about this. I

00:08:48.540 know that there are some congressmen, and maybe justifiably so, and I understand it, but on the

00:08:54.580 other hand, it is what it is that are frustrated. They weren't up all night talking to senators as I was,

00:09:01.420 and I'm just telling you, I'm giving you, you know, how the sausage is made. We did not have the votes

00:09:06.900 at 8 a.m. this morning, and then finally push came to shove, and it was like, okay, finally they got

00:09:13.420 the last vote that they needed. I'm not going to get into personality. So the changes that were made,

00:09:20.460 correct me if I'm wrong, this bill in the Senate, which never in my lifetime can I think of another

00:09:25.900 instance where this happened, saves more money than the House bill. And some Republican congressmen

00:09:32.740 are upset that any changes were made, but the problem is the Senate has this parliamentarian and

00:09:40.200 this process called reconciliation, which caused them to have to make some changes. Not really much

00:09:46.420 different, in my view, from what the House passed. Yeah, there are a lot of great savings in the House

00:09:51.800 passed version. There are a lot of great savings in the Senate passed version. There have been so many

00:09:56.700 changes that we're still digesting what they've all been, and of course, we need to wait for the

00:10:01.080 scorekeepers to come out and say how much each provision saves or costs or whatever. But there's

00:10:06.940 a lot of really good, important things. I know you touched on the border security and the other

00:10:11.720 defense pieces. One of the things that's really important about that is that it avoided having

00:10:16.280 to make a deal with the Democrats when we did the full-year continuing resolution earlier in the year.

00:10:21.720 That would have been crazy expensive, and so we were able to get those resources where they were

00:10:26.160 needed without having to make a deal. There are a lot of things that will have dynamic effects.

00:10:31.220 There are expansions in health savings accounts and direct primary care that will help to transform

00:10:36.360 our healthcare system over the coming years and decades. And of course, there's just so much more

00:10:42.380 that needs to be done. We do have too much spending, but there are narrow margins in the House and the

00:10:47.560 Senate. And so this was probably the best that could have been agreed to under these circumstances.

00:10:53.220 And it's also important to compare that to what would have happened if these tax cuts had to be

00:10:59.360 extended in a bipartisan deal at the end of the year. A lot of the great reforms that we're seeing

00:11:05.220 would be totally impossible. There'd be no way you could get rid of the Biden green energy stuff.

00:11:10.720 You couldn't make the substantive changes to healthcare. You couldn't overhaul the student loan

00:11:15.320 program. You couldn't expand the provisions that will lead to more investments that make Americans

00:11:22.360 better off. So not passing this bill would end up leading to a far worse deal because it would have

00:11:32.000 to be done with Democrats. And on every dimension, whether it's fiscal or the policies or anything

00:11:37.800 else, it would be inferior to what is currently on the table and going to the House.

00:11:42.020 No, I totally agree with you. And again, there are opportunities and I'm not going to count on it.

00:11:48.760 I'm not going to be naive because I've followed this process for far too long. But there's a window

00:11:54.620 of opportunity here to get all these good things in the bill from border security and deportation money

00:12:00.520 and and defense spending that is desperately needed for the next generation of weaponry,

00:12:06.620 to energy issues, to tax cuts that are permanent, to really looking out for working men and women

00:12:13.000 in the service industry. And and it just it has a lot of good things in there. The energy sector is

00:12:18.720 another one. Those are things that are desperately needed. I'll take those as a win now and hopefully

00:12:24.980 they'll come back and do even more. That's right. Take the win. Keep coming back. And there's just a lot

00:12:31.460 more work to do. But this is something that is right there, ready to go. So let's do it right now.

00:12:36.080 And then let's keep working at it. I mean, Congress is not, you know, we've done the one thing and now

00:12:40.920 we're done. No, no, there's a lot more on the agenda that will need to be done in the coming months and

00:12:45.600 years. I totally agree with all of that. We appreciate your time. Anyway, Kirk, Kirk Couchman,

00:12:53.160 senior fellow fiscal policy, Americans for Prosperity. Thank you, sir. Thanks for having me,

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00:13:28.160 All right, let's get to our busy, busy telephones. All right, let's say hi to Cody in Alabama.

00:13:36.620 Didn't like the big, beautiful bill. What's up, Cody? How are you? Glad you called.

00:13:40.360 Oh, thank you, Sean, for taking my calls. My first time I've ever gotten on. I'm just concerned

00:13:44.720 about the increased deficit. And I hear up to four trillion and the spending cuts are delayed to

00:13:51.700 after supposedly after Trump's second term. But no, that's not actually true because the spending cuts

00:13:58.800 are ongoing with Doge and they're trying to weed out in every department. And Doge has not stopped

00:14:05.500 since Elon Musk left all waste, fraud, abuse and corruption. And, you know, last week, for example,

00:14:11.520 they they came up with billions of dollars in discoveries. I mean, it's insane.

00:14:15.660 Well, concerns me for when my reading is that Social Security will be cut by 23 percent for

00:14:22.480 everybody. And who told you that? That's not true. 88 percent of seniors. No, they're not getting

00:14:29.180 cuts. They're getting increases and they won't pay taxes on Social Security. Well, no, they're

00:14:34.460 talking eight years down the future. It'll be. Oh, I mean, I'm asking a question. Where did you hear

00:14:38.640 this? Who's telling you this? Wall Street Journal and I checked it out. The New York Times. Both of them

00:14:43.640 said the same thing. 23 percent. Well, the New York Times isn't worth the paper it's printed on,

00:14:47.760 number one. Number two. I agree with that. I agree with that. But yeah. You know, look,

00:14:52.360 there is an assumption. And I think this is where a lot of people make mistakes,

00:14:55.820 is that when you cut taxes and I think you would agree cutting taxes on hardworking Americans is a

00:15:02.880 good thing. Right. I believe that eliminating tax on tips and social and overtime or at least reducing

00:15:10.480 them greatly. I think that's a good thing. Would you agree with that? Yes. Yes. And making the tax

00:15:14.940 cut permanent. That's a good thing rather than the largest tax increase in history, which would

00:15:19.560 happen if this bill expired. My biggest concern is increasing the debt to another four trillion

00:15:24.500 dollars. But here's here's you're right. And I see the numbers like you do. Let me tell you what's

00:15:31.360 not factored in. Tell me what happened when Reagan dropped the top marginal rate from 70 to 28 percent.

00:15:37.440 What happened to revenues to the federal government while he was president? Do you know me? Yeah,

00:15:42.920 they increased. No, they didn't increase. They doubled. OK. And and and we ended up with 21 million

00:15:49.280 new jobs and the longest period of peacetime economic growth in history. When Trump first implemented the

00:15:55.000 tax cuts in 2017, what happened to the economy? We had three incredible years with record low after

00:16:02.500 record low unemployment because of all the money that was being invested because it was saved.

00:16:08.980 And then that results in more revenues to the government. The problem is they take in more

00:16:12.980 money and then Congress spends more money. Now, there's more that they can do. But to not take

00:16:18.200 the tax cuts and to not take the money invested in securing our border, getting rid of criminal

00:16:24.120 illegals, not putting reforms in Medicaid, et cetera, not bringing out the next generation of weaponry 1.00

00:16:31.120 and investing in defense and energy dominance, I think would be a mistake. The opportunity would be

00:16:37.160 missed. And I would just tell you, having been up all night, that this is the best they were going to

00:16:42.780 get out of the Senate or your calls on the other side. All right. Let's get to our busy telephones.

00:16:47.520 Kelly in my free state of Florida, alligator Alcatraz, the big Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis were there

00:16:54.700 today. It was great. What's going on? How are you, Kelly? Hey, I'm doing great. I'm here in the red of the

00:16:59.560 red of Fort Myers. Anyways, I just wanted to call it. I love Fort Myers. I know you guys got whacked

00:17:05.900 really hard. Has the city come back after that hurricane wiped out a lot of the coastal areas?

00:17:11.820 A lot of it, surprisingly, yes. It's going on two years now, but the downtown area is back up and

00:17:19.680 running. A lot of business are going on. I'm glad to hear that. I really am. The people in Fort Myers are

00:17:25.360 great. Yes. So I just called, sit there, say, Hey, uh, your show was great on Saturday night. I

00:17:31.700 enjoyed it. Um, thank you. I, I sat two rows behind this, uh, wonderful bombshell blonde. I think her 1.00

00:17:39.720 name, I wonder who, but yeah, it was, it was an excellent show. Um, it's a shame that people on the

00:17:48.980 east coast couldn't see it. Um, but you know, Saturday, no, we're going to re we're rescheduling

00:17:55.120 that. We're going to, uh, we'll probably do it because a lot of people go away for the summer.

00:17:58.680 We'll probably do it in the early fall. Uh, but we're definitely doing it. Um, uh, just had

00:18:03.000 unforeseen circumstances. Life happens, unfortunately. And I feel bad that people

00:18:07.140 were, you know, I just feel, I never want to let anybody down ever. We're doing it. We're

00:18:13.280 definitely going to do it. Great. Yeah. And you know, Hey, maybe next time down here in

00:18:17.400 Fort Myers, I'll tell you this, we're out of the red and, and you'll handle, you probably

00:18:21.960 won't have the two protesters, which were sitting out there Saturday night. Hey, you

00:18:26.220 had it. Oh, there were two protesters outside. Yeah. You had two protesters. We had the one

00:18:32.080 liberal inside. I kept, uh, kept going at him until he finally said, all right, I give

00:18:36.280 up. I'm a conservative. I agree with you. That was funny. So, but yes, excellent, excellent

00:18:41.980 show. And I, I hope that poor guy got his jacket back from Jimmy after

00:18:47.240 Jimmy moked him for it. That's probably Jimmy's Jimmy is a pro and, and, uh, uh, look, I did

00:18:55.900 my level best on the comedy side and had fun doing it and love being around great Americans

00:19:02.120 like you that make the country great every day. Hey, you're very welcome. You, you know,

00:19:07.200 what a beautiful, what a beautiful, what a beautiful hall. Ruth Eckert hall was beautiful

00:19:11.320 packed to the brim. You know, I don't, it wasn't an empty seat in the house. It was great.

00:19:15.540 Nope. All right. Hey, my friend, God bless you. Appreciate it. All right. Oh, this is

00:19:20.640 going to be interesting. Mac in Texas. I'm a, uh, Marxist Mondani supporter. Uh, what's

00:19:27.400 up, Mac? Tell me why you support the, the Marxist and global antifada, and there shouldn't

00:19:33.240 be any billionaires and we should take over the means of production. I've got a new cut.

00:19:38.280 We're going to play on TV tonight. Apparently wants to buy up, uh, large parcels of land

00:19:44.220 and have community, you know, communes for people. Hello, sir. Uh, the, uh, the reason I

00:19:51.320 called in is I think you were being way too hard on him because, uh, he, at least he comes

00:19:56.740 out and he tells you what he is. He tells you that he's a, a socialist, communist, anti-Semite,

00:20:02.860 uh, anti-capitalist, uh, guy and too many rhinos in the Republican party that they don't, you

00:20:11.640 don't know who they are until they get elected. And then they, they screw up the works. I am

00:20:16.920 not a supporter of Zoran Mondani. I just, I just, I do admire him for coming straight

00:20:23.640 out and saying what he is. Yeah. But he really doesn't come straight out. I mean,

00:20:27.880 he had three opportunities over the weekend to condemn. Like for example, if I asked you

00:20:33.040 Mack into Texas, do you condemn racism? Yes, I do. Of course. Of course you do. If I asked

00:20:38.880 you, uh, do you condemn anti-Semitism? Yes, I do. But also here in America, why? Well, he 0.92

00:20:46.360 was given three opportunities to do so. And based on some of his other previous remarks,

00:20:52.320 uh, and events that he attended, I think it's pretty obvious where he stands. And that makes

00:20:58.600 him, as far as I'm concerned, you know, uh, a guy that is radicalized and extreme to the

00:21:05.920 maximum level. And you're just applauding his honesty. But then, you know, here's the danger

00:21:12.000 we have as a country is that this is what the democratic party as a whole now has evolved

00:21:17.260 into. That scares me. That is true. There are a lot of, uh, anti-Semites in the democratic

00:21:23.820 party. That's why he doesn't denounce it. Those people are voting for him. And, uh, well, that's,

00:21:30.600 that's the bigger picture. I'm trying to get people to understand, but his party is now run

00:21:34.640 by Momdani, Marxist Mondani. It's run by AOC, uh, Jasmine Crockett, the squad, uh, grandpa

00:21:44.640 Bernie Pocahontas. And, and there's a reason why you don't hear from Hakeem Jeffries or, uh,

00:21:53.120 Chuckie Schumer is because they're scared to death of their own face and where they would

00:21:58.500 previously in a past life, they would have condemned it outright. The party now is just

00:22:04.360 owned by the radicals, which maybe is a good thing. The American people see it. We learned

00:22:10.460 a lot about Kamala Harris. And, you know, in the last election, we saw Joe Biden leave wide

00:22:14.700 open borders, uh, and then lie to us, lie about his cognitive state, lie about the economy.

00:22:21.140 And we see with, you know, Kamala Harris, she wants taxpayer funded sex change operations for 1.00

00:22:27.260 illegals. You know, her running mate wanted taxpayer funded education, college education for 1.00

00:22:33.640 illegals. Uh, also wanted to put tampons in, in boys bathrooms and schools and grammar schools, 0.97

00:22:40.240 and also supports gender affirming care without parental consent. That is the party on top of the

00:22:46.340 Marxism and, and statism and, you know, radicalism, you know, the party that tolerated no problem,

00:22:53.340 you know, tolerating, uh, violence against Elon Musk, the party that remained silent in the summer of

00:22:59.320 2020. And the case of Kamala didn't just remain silent, silent. She stood in solidarity with the

00:23:04.580 rioters, uh, and the party that, you know, is it's tolerating virulent antisemitism. And I just think

00:23:12.800 as long as the American people are fully aware of, of who they are and how bad they've gotten,

00:23:18.940 you know, I, I don't think I've done a good enough job. I've got to, we've got to, we've got to spread

00:23:23.660 the word because we have a midterm coming up in 18 months. And you may think that's a long way away.

00:23:29.200 It's going to be here in a blink of an eye and we'll be doing our election countdown in six months.

00:23:34.140 And this is going to be probably the most important midterm in our life. Otherwise we're going to spend

00:23:38.280 the two, the two years after the 26th election, you know, dealing with impeachment, impeachment,

00:23:45.360 impeachment, not good. Anyway, my friend, appreciate the call. Uh, Todd, Louisiana next on

00:23:51.760 the Sean Hannity show. What's up, Todd? Good afternoon, Sean. Um, I was just like watching

00:23:58.720 the whole debate thing and Schumer and, and, and, and the fact that he just sits there and lies and

00:24:04.040 lies and lies. If a Republican had done that, I mean, you would have helped him run a model out of

00:24:09.400 Washington. But, um, Schumer sits there for telling the lies about Biden for, for four years,

00:24:17.200 basically. And then, and then they comes back and he gets caught in a bald face lie and they ask him

00:24:22.280 about it. He says, well, we're just ready to move on now. They don't tell you the truth. I mean,

00:24:26.880 that's, that's the bottom line. And if you want to know why the democratic party, this is an amazing

00:24:33.640 thing. They're, they're like scratching their heads and they have no idea why they lost the last

00:24:37.360 election. And I'm, I just ran through a series of reasons why they're the party of woke elites.

00:24:43.700 We saw this on display in the Senate. They claim to be the party of working men and women. Then why,

00:24:48.520 why did they vote for the largest tax hike in American history? Why wouldn't they vote to cut

00:24:53.860 taxes on working men and women? No tax on tips, no tax on overtime. Why wouldn't they vote for those 0.98

00:25:00.200 things? Why did they leave the border wide open and lie to us? Why, why, why do they support the,

00:25:06.500 or champion the rights of men to play women's sports rather than protect women? You know,

00:25:11.900 why are they the party that's against energy dominance and, and, but they're perfectly fine

00:25:17.280 with us importing energy. I mean, it's the lifeblood of the world's economy. Why are they the party that,

00:25:23.040 that depleted our, our defense department and put us in a hole that we have to now dig ourselves out

00:25:29.740 of a gap of vulnerability that like when Reagan was president? I mean, it's on every one of these

00:25:35.920 issues, they're radical and they're wrong. And they just care about wokeness and, and getting

00:25:42.480 pronouns and, and gender affirming care and all these other issues. And then I'm focused on the

00:25:50.120 people, the vast, overwhelming 99% of Americans that just want a better life for themselves and

00:25:56.340 their children. Yeah. And on the border, they, they're coming out and they're saying, Oh,

00:26:02.980 Trump is against border security because he didn't want to go. He didn't, he told everybody

00:26:07.400 to vote against her boondoggle of a bill. And then he's already proven it, that they were lying,

00:26:12.100 that they were not even trying to secure the border. They were just gaslighting the American

00:26:17.020 public. And, and, uh, I just, I'm just thankful that we got places to go to listen to somebody

00:26:21.920 that actually makes sense. I mean, every now and then you have to give an econ one-on-one lesson

00:26:25.820 to some of your listeners, which I don't understand, but. Oh, I mean, I, for example,

00:26:31.140 you know, we shouldn't have billionaires. Think about that. Yeah. No. And now if you really

00:26:37.260 look at this, um, anybody that I, I, I don't know people that inherited money in their life.

00:26:43.940 I really don't, but I have met millionaires and I have met billionaires in my life. And in

00:26:49.420 every case they earned it the old fashioned way, you know, they worked their ass off. Number one,

00:26:56.140 number two, they were, they were providing goods and services that people wanted, needed and desired

00:27:02.960 and that they freely paid for them. Um, and I would argue the world is better off because we now have

00:27:12.580 computers and, and phones at our disposal at all times. And, you know, I think we're better off that

00:27:20.080 Elon Musk is, is doing all of his work. I don't, I don't care about his politics, about the big, beautiful

00:27:26.260 bill. And, you know, the idea, you know, I never got a job from a poor person when I worked in

00:27:33.620 restaurants, poor people can't afford to go to a restaurant. It just can't. And so the people that

00:27:40.680 are, whether we're paying my salary at a point when I needed that job to pay my rent, I'm glad they came.

00:27:46.900 I'm glad they had the money to buy and leave me a tip. If I did a good job, when I did construction,

00:27:52.080 I was not hired by poor people. I got hired by people that could afford my services and, you know,

00:27:59.140 my entire radio and TV career, I got hired by people that own radio and TV stations. And I'm

00:28:05.520 very grateful to all of them. And I don't hate them that they're successful. And the American dreams

00:28:10.560 are supposed to believe in freedom. They don't believe in freedom or pro-choice, except we want

00:28:15.060 to tell you what car to drive, what stove you can or cannot use, what refrigerator and freezer you

00:28:20.100 cannot and cannot use, what washer and dryer you cannot and cannot use, and what straw you can and

00:28:25.920 cannot use. Give me a break. All right, quick break. Right back to our phones. Our toll-free

00:28:30.440 numbers, 800-941-SHAWN, if you want to be a part of the program. Right back to our busy phones, 800-941-SHAWN,

00:28:37.740 if you want to be a part of the program. David in Arizona, have about a minute and 20 seconds. It's all

00:28:43.000 yours. Hi. Hey, Sean. Thanks for taking my call. Appreciate it. Thank you. I just was thinking

00:28:50.120 about the left, how they are with how they were so against us sending bombs over to Iran and taking

00:28:59.620 care of what needed to be taken care of. And then after it was said and done, how they are complaining

00:29:07.460 that the bombs weren't big enough, that they didn't destroy enough of what we went over there to

00:29:12.800 destroy. They just can't figure out what they want to do, the left. They are so lost, that whole

00:29:19.160 Democratic Party. Look, I could tell you right now, it is this. This is what they are. And in spite of

00:29:31.340 them, you know, in spite of everything they threw at Trump, the media was ignored. Democrats were ignored

00:29:38.640 and the American people saw through it and the American people have embraced the cause of American

00:29:46.040 greatness again. And we saw that on display with foreign policy and taking out Iran's nukes, a very

00:29:53.380 dangerous, bold decision by the president. Incredible, you know, professionalism of the greatest military on

00:30:00.260 earth. You know, he's doing the same thing with the borders, the same thing with the economy, same

00:30:04.920 thing with law and order, same thing with our defense department, same thing with energy. These

00:30:09.800 are all big, big ideas and he's implementing them. And the most conservative agenda I've seen in my

00:30:15.480 lifetime. There was a poll out today that Republican voters now give Trump a higher approval rating than

00:30:21.920 they did Reagan. I mean, you know, 63 percent rating among Republican voters as of Tuesday.

00:30:28.320 Fake News CNN reported this. Anyway, I appreciate the call, my friend. 800-941-SHAWN, if you want to be a

00:30:35.100 part of the program. Our friend Chris Hahn is going to join us. This is going to be interesting.

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