Biden Campaign In Tailspin

Published Feb 13, 2020, 11:00 PM

Joe Concha, commentator and opinion columnist for The Hill, and Mark Simone, host of the morning show on WOR, discuss the media’s lame attempt to defend their poor selection of candidates on the left. Of course there is no shortage of Biden gaffes and as the democratic party tries to tell us how awful everything is, President Trump continues to move America successfully forward.

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All right, gladua with us. All right, we have tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of news we're gonna get to today. Glad you with us right down our toll free telephone number. It is eight hundred and nine four one. Sean. You want to be a part of the program. All right. Now, the Democrats, now we've got Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and AOC. Yeah, they're all stepping up big time their attacks on mayor Bloomberg. Actually, Bloomberg actually is now out there trying to say his own words, because we're giving you his own words are not indicative of the way that he thinks you now, dumb that sounds. Remember this guy for twelve years supported these policies. But it's it's not even the stop and frisk policy, because that's supposed to be about, okay, where is the crime. It's not about what races in this particular part of town. It never was where the where's the highest where's the where are the most murders taking place? Where's the most violence, where's the most drug dealing? That that's the idea. It's the what he thought behind the thought that when in behind this that's so shocking in all of this. Now he's trying to, you know, say, well I did, it's not indicative of how I felt. Oh, now he's trying to get as many African Americans to come out supporting him. Okay, what as he's supporting their causes? You know, who knows what's going on behind the scenes. I don't trust the thing that he's saying. For twelve years his mayor, he advocated pushed this hard and redlining as well, which is fascinating. We'll talk about that in later on in the program today. But you can't not listen to his own words or listen to them and say, oh, of course, you're right, mister mayor. It's not indicative of what you thought. Even though we had five years of the Blasio you still never said anything about it. He never had that change your heart that was sincere and real. All this is his cheap political theater, an election year conversion once he decided to run for president. I made a mistake of crocodile tears. I don't believe it for a second. And this is what everyone hates about politicians. So you know, what did he say? It was clear police stop white people too much? And minorities too little, he says, Now he wants us to believe that's not indicative of the way he thought for seventeen years. The last seventeen years. I don't believe him. He's asking us to believe something ridiculous. When he said that stopping fresh quote targeted minority kids who cops must throw up against the wall. Well, I mean, excuse me, you're almost saying, not only you're stopping them, but we're gonna kind of we're gonna be brutal to you. And I know most cops aren't like that in New York City. They go out of their way. But you know, look what's been happening lately of all the attacks on cops. Then you got you Bloomberg and his old own words. Murders, murderers, murder victims. They fit one M O one not two one M. And you could just take a description, xerox it, pass it out to all the cops. They are male minorities sixteen to twenty five. He said it his own words. Words mean something. And then he says, well, people say, oh my gosh, you're arresting kids from marijuana that are all not some all minorities his answer, Yes, that's true, they're all minorities. Why because we put all, not some, all the cops in minority neighborhoods. And then he takes it a step further and he's say, why do we do it? Why because that's where all, not some, the crime is. So he's now going to set up a slicker marketing campaign, I'm sure, in the days and weeks ahead, and and try and convince people that what he said is not in any way indicative of what he really means. Okay, I think that is what people have rejected in all politics. That's called political expediency, an election year conversion. It's also phony, it's not real, it's not sincere it is done because Okay, I'm trying to get the Democratic nomination for be president runn against Donald Trump. So let's look at identity politics. Who represents the Republican coalition? You have certain you know coalitions in each party. A big part of the base of a Republican party of conservatives. Okay, you got to appeal to conservative voters in primaries if you want to win, and if you're a demo African Americans. It's a big, big, big part of the Democratic party base. Okay, well they're gonna find out about my positions on stopping FRIST, so I better cry or at least act like I'm crying. And I'm after seventeen years, I've had this conversion and it's real and it's meaningful and it's sincere. And he did it, but now we know what was really behind it. Now he's saying, well, no, don't believe my actual words. It's everything we hate now I'll tell you before I get into the shift show and this phoniness that is all going on now. They now want to impeach Bill Barr and President Trump again because of his comments on Roger Stone. Wait till you here we went. We researched. We have more information that you need to pay attention to because we have described in detail what I believe is a dual justice system. I'm saying, we have no equal justice under the law, we have no equal application of our laws. And I am saying that what is happening in this country, if we don't fix it, you might as well take our constitution, which is foundationally where all of our laws come from, and shred it because it's meaningless. And I'm not kidding either, This is not hyperbole, but in the prism of that, I want you to keep this in your head. Washington Examiner has an article out pay attention to these numbers. This is interesting that the president is expanding his base with black, Hispanic and suburban voters. Approval rate fifty one percent Zogby Analytics overall, proving the president's policies. Then if you look at African Americans, it's up fairly significantly from where it was twenty two percent. Now with African Americans approving of the presidency of Donald Trump. He got eight percent of the African American vote in twenty sixteen. Among Hispanics it's even higher six percent. Asian Americans thirty eight percent. Well, I would think that those statistics and all the records, the president has been breaking record low unemployment, the best employment situation since nineteen What sixty nine matters? Another poll comes out, what do we see majority of swing votes vote states or staying sorry? Swing state voters approve of the president's killing of Solomony Only people seem to upset with Democrats because they don't want to give the president a win on anything. But if you look at the very specific states, Washington free beacon. And what do we have. We have, let's see Florida. Majority of voters in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania back the president's actions. Well, that's a big deal on people that seem to not like it. Those that wouldn't stand during the State of the Union were Democrats. Meanwhile, the number one state sponsor a terror killing Americans and a back and elsewhere in proxy wars and funding terror groups like his Balah. Yeah, that would be Iran and led by their number one killer who's now dead, thankfully Solomani. We have a Gallipole finding. Oh, the Trump boom. Voters are better off. He accomplishments are getting traction people and now be get six and ten adults say they're better off than they were three years ago, more than reported this in prior presidential re election years. According to Gallop on the better off question, comparing how voters feel at this reelection point, well, Trump's at sixty one percent. Obama was only at forty five percent in twenty twelve. Bush was only at fifty percent in two thousand and four. Clinton was only a fifty percent in ninety six, Bush forty one fifty percent in ninety two. Those are big numbers, you know. I think that's a huge indicator of how the American people feel. I think more than doubling the record of any other candidate in a New Hampshire uncontested primary, which we saw Tuesday night as another indication. Now, we'll get to the ins and outs of the madness that is unfolding under the Democrats in their lead up to twenty twenty in just a second here. But we got something else to deal with. So the Attorney General Bill Barr and John Dorham are doing an investigation. They are, I hope, for the sake of our country, going to get to the bottom of all of the FISA abuse, the dirty Russian dossier that was not well leaked to the press, hacks like Corn and Isakoff. But more importantly, you know, we have identified crimes that have taken place, but I only see people like Roger Stone and Papadopoulos and General Flynn and Paul Maniport. Oh, no that you know, how many of them get pre dawn rates? Did we really have to send? Oh? And CNN cameras happen to be there a pre dawn rate? POELM manafort. All that had to do is ask his lawyer, Hey, you gotta you gotta come in at nine tomorrow. We're gonna put a warrant out. We're gonna go get you. Well, okay, that would have happened. They stuck a gun in his wife's face. Roger Stone. Oh what do they do to Roger Stone? Well, they had frogmen in the backyard. Frogmen in the backyard. Now I want you to before we even yet to the specifics and all of the people, we know that we're are guilty and war guilty of the exact same thing that they are claiming Roger Stone did. And by the way, now we discover that a former Memphis City school board president, it was the fourth person of the jury that convicted Roger Stone on obstruction charges last year. And by the way, huge democratic activists given a picture I saw of her with a prominent democratic figure and even posting specifically about the Stone case before she voted to convict Stone. Well that means that case has to be thrown out if we have any fundamental fairness, all right, wondered what was Roger Stone's big crimes here to deserve nine years in jail. Let's look at him, all right. One count of obstruction of an official proceeding. I guess that's Congress. Five counts of false statements, one count of witness tampering. By the way, the so called witnesses begging the judge in this case, Amy Berman, you know, don't don't get if I wouldn't know my testmone is gonna put this guy in jail. He's just a blow he's kind of being a blowheart. That wasn't he didn't mean any of this, Okay, So they want seven and nine years, and then the Attorney General barsteps and it says, this is ridiculous. Now we have gone and we've looked at the time actually served and stayed prisons before people are released. Let's see, now, if you do commit murder, you're gonna spend a median time of thirteen point four years murder, negligent manslaughter, how much time think in your mind? Four years? Rape, sexual assault four years two months, robbery three years, two months, assault to somebody one year four months. That's the average. But you a guy that gave five false statements. Try to get a witness to say something that maybe they shouldn't have said. Witness tampering and obstruction. Okay, he was found guilty, but now we know the jury fourth person hated Roger Stone and was a democratic activist. Did we really need the pre dawn raid and the frogmen. No. Now, when we get back, we'll give you the list of people that we know have lied and nothing ever happens to them, because that is where my greatest fear is at this hour. Are we going to have equal justice? An application of our laws? Are not well? I think those statistics matter the most. So they want to put in a right one count obstruction of official proceeding, five counts of false statements, one count witness tampering. That's all right, found guilty. Now we're discovering. Oh, turns out that the jury four person had a bias. Remember the gag order that they put on Roger Stone was unbelievable. Now I'm looking at the number of years rape sexual assault median time served in prison four point two years, the meantime six max six point two. Okay, that we're talking about rape and sexual assault, manslaughter, you spend four years in jail, that's the median time served, and I can go on from there. And robbery three point two years. That's it. And I'm just I'm looking at the numbers. And if you want the percentages of people and negligent, you know, there there are people negligent manslaughter. They only get six point six years. You know. That's or six point six percent of people only get six months. You know again, if you look at the median average, it's it's that low. And that's what the Attorney General Barr saw. And now they're mad at Attorney General Bar and Attorney General Bar they're really mad about him stepping in. No, what Bar saw is prosecutorial abuse, and Bar now sees that and that disparate sentencing, and Bar sees a double standard. For example. I'll go through quickly and we'll get into more of this. At the other side. We'll have a USA to eight story. Well, James Clapper lied to Congress The Guardian as a piece. John Brennan lined to Congress. We have a New York Post. Oh, Loretta Lynch liede to Congress. Washington Examiner Jane Collmey lied to Congress. We have more stories about James Comey and Loretto Lynch line to Congress. Eric holder Lyne to Congress. Lowest Learner line to Congress, Jack lu Line to Congress. So it's all articles, Uba Aberdeen, Cheryl Mills, Andrew McCabe, all Lyne. Where are their prosecutions? Where are their nine years? At twenty five now until the top of the hour, eight hundred and ninety four one, Sean, if you want to be a part of this extravaganza, hang on, I'm sending this out. Du blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, of course there's only two hundred and let's see, sixty four days until you the American people get to shock the world again. Now I know. Look, everybody's screaming bloody murder at the President's angry. President's angry. And I understand now the president is not like any establishment president. May should the president. The president has the right to pardon Roger Stone if he wants, and he can, and he probably should. I think Bard did the right thing, but it's got to be Barr's decision. And the President said he and Bard did not talk in any way when he made the decision. That well, considering we only give let's see, median time served in prison for negligent homicide is four years, and median time served in prison for rape and sexual assault is four point two years. Time served in prison and robberies only three point two years. An assault is only one point four years. And oh, burglary, by the way, I thought, that's only seventeen months. That's it. Larceny theft only eleven months median time served in prison. Even if you steal a car, you only spend about median time served in prison as a year, twelve months, drug possession ten months, trafficking seventeen months. That's not a lot. And if you just go through all of this, what do you find here? You have more than seven and ten offenders released in twenty sixteen served less than five years in prison state prison. That is not a lot of time. Okay, let's go back now and look at Roger Stone again. Rogerstone one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements, one count witness tampering. Stone was found guilty on all seven counts. Well, now we've learned that some of the prosecutors involved in this mess wanted seven to nine years for Stone for that, but this is the average sentencing for others. And then we see that the jury foreman four person in this particular case, name is to make a heart former Memphis City school Board president, apparently a big activist on Twitter. We now know that she's the fourth person of the jury convicting Roger Stone. Why was this person ever on the jury? I would say strong case should be made that this person never should have been there. I can't tell you how many people that work for me they get called in for jury duty and then they get asked, what do you do? I work in radio. I work in television. Okay, what do you do in TV? What do you do on radio? I work for the Sean Hannity radio show. I worked for Hannity the TV show. Thank you very much for your time. Dismissed. How does that happen anyone? I think one of you guys that happened to rite? Yeah, raising their hand in there. It did happen to you? Don't do you want to? You can tell the story if you want. It's up to you. But that has happened to many people. Now that's kind of interesting. Why don't they want Sean Hannity workers. We don't have a litmus test for political opinions. If you work on this show, I would think maybe it would be good for you if in fact you did have the same point of view, because than you could get there's more of a passion behind what you're working on. But the double standard is real. The double standard is important, and I don't think that you should have political activists. You know this heart, this person heart the jury for a person in this case of Roger Stone, posting specifically about the Stone case before she voted to convict, as she retweeted an argument mocking those that considered Stone's dramatic arrest and a pre dawn raid by a federal tactical team to be excessive force. That's not what we do with most people that you know, as we call it white collar crimes, non violent offenders. The way it works usually unless you're trying to make a show of things and show people how tough you are and intimidate people. As the way that usually goes down as you call that person's lawyer and say you got a report, you're going to be indicted and we're going to rain you or whatever it happens to be at seven am, meet us here. Warren't out for your arrest. If you don't, if you're really worried about it. You could surveil the house to make sure they don't leave at three am and try and race to the airport and sneak out into some foreign country. That's what usually happens. But if the person is making fun of that, there was no need for frogmen to arrest Roger Stone. There are gun records, for example, Rogerstone apparently never on the firearm. That's good information to have. And then they did the same thing Paul Manafort. What is he close to? Seventy years old? Paul Manafort pre dawn raid and it just so happened that the CNN cameras were there to capture it all. Wow, isn't that interesting? Can't believe it. They surround the house, they come in, guns drawn, you know, putting a gun in the face of Paul Manafort's wife. Was that necessary? Look at the way they've treated Papadao spot Popolis. What did he do? Oh? Lie Congress, Well, that's interesting because if we don't get this all straight nowt and I think this is where the president, and I'm sure it's given the Attorney General heartache at the Department of Justice, because that's got to be separate and apart from what the president does, and the president announcing, you know, you gotta let the attorney general do his thing, and a president said he did not talk to Attorney General Barr and the immediate is like, ah, now has to go. He's taking orders when the president. Now, Barne needs to just do his job and not worry when anybody says because if we follow the law and if we apply the law equally in this country, we know, based on information that is out in the public domain, that there are a lot of people that have done a lot of things that have never been treated the exact same way as either Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Papadopoulos, General Flynn so mistreated. Here's a guy that they made him sign a paper, and the paper it said that that he would admit to lying to the FBI. He did not lie to the FBI. He didn't lie at all to the FBI. And the FBI that interviewed him didn't think he lied to the FBI. Then why was why did he sign that paper? He signed the paper? Now, this is after a long legal proceeding, and after the long legal proceeding, he had no more money to pay his lawyers, so he had to sell his house, and in the process of dealing with aggressive prosecutors, they said, either signed this agreement we're giving you, or we know your son was in business with you, and we're going to go after your son. And I think most fathers, if at least I know why, I think i'd do it. And he's served his country thirty three years. So if I don't sign this paper and admit that I'm lying, you want me to lie and sign these papers and say I did something I did news. You're telling me to lie so that you won't attack my family, which has already suffered and we lost our family home. And now you want to go after my son and maybe put him in jail. That would be prosecutorial overreach or abuse. So he signed the paper, and now they had a plea agreement. It wasn't gonna be jail time. Now they wanted six months. Now I have in front of me a list of things. Let's see USA Today headline, James Clapper lied to Congress. Where are the frogmen at his house? Where's the tactical teams, where's the pre dawn raid? Where are the CNN cameras? We have the Guardian CIA director John Brennan lied to the Senate. Wow again, where are the frogmen? The tactical you know gear guys. And by the way, I'm not blaming them. They're told to go arrest somebody. It's not their job to question that. Loretta Lynch lied to Congress. New York Post Loretta Lynch's story on the Hillary probe. Loretta Lynch lied to Congress. It sounds a lot like what Rogerstone Papadopolis. Some of the charges even a manaphort. I didn't see any pre dawn raide there either. James come oh, we know he was. There was say criminal referral for lack of candor that would be called lying, and of course other crimes, which I'll get to in a second. But Washington Examiner headline, James Comey lied to Congress. Loretta we have another one at town hall. Loretta Lynch again, James come again, lie to Congress. We have investors dot com. Eric Holder lied to congress. Washington Times, Lois Lerner lied to Congress. US Treasury Secretary Jack LEEU Obama administration official lied to Congress about a key part of the Iranian deal. Washington Post. Deputy f Eye director Andrew McCabe lied to Congress and investigators like that was in the Washington Times and the Inspector General report. Washington Examiner. Clinton aide Cheryl Mills lied to DOJ officials. Let's see the Daily Caller. Clinton aide Uma Aberdeen lied to DOJ officials. Oh, it sounds like they lie a lot. The media lies all the time. You know, you want to talk do we have equal justice under the law, because I think that's where the President's frustration is coming from. And I assume you know the Attorney General is doing his job. I don't talk to the Attorney general. I don't know the Attorney General. I would like to. I think he's really good. But now that you know, when there's a grave injustice like this, you want to know that somebody's going to get to the bottom of it. If we won't have constitutional order unless we apply our laws equally equal application, we call it equal justice. We call it we know eighteen USC. Seven ninety three gross negligence mishandling classified documents. That's the Espionage Act, intentionally mishandling classified documents. Even James Comey admitted top secret classified information was on Hillary's secret server that knowingly removing classified documents with the intent to retain them. You know, all of these there's so many laws we've identified. What about Hillary Clinton using her office Secretary of State, and about the whole foundation Clinton Foundation pay to play. You know, we got bribery, the Federal bribery Statute, cratuity Statute, mail fraud statute, wire fraud Statute on its Services fraud Statute, Monday laundry, all of that, remember, you know, the whole idea, Yeah, we'll sign off on it. And the very same people that we knew because we had an FBI spy that I interviewed within that Putin's rank. They were trying to get a foothold in the uranium industry in America. And that was the uranium one scandal. Why would America we have to import uranium? We don't have enough uranium ever give up any of our uranium resources? We did? If Clinton knowingly paid let's see a foreign national. They funneled money through Perkins Cooey into what a op research group Fusion GPS? What about them and then hiring Christopher Steele pay for the dirty Russian dosier? Well, does that violate campaign payments to foreign nationals? Or filing false or misleading campaign reports by saying it's a legal expense. You know, if James Comey, remember that day he goes through sixteen minutes, exonerates Hillary, no prosecutor or whatever secure this. But it's also a crime to steal government documents. Remember we now know the FBI actually rated Comey's home after he was fired, and we also know there was potentially lying to Congress when he testified that he made the decision to clear Clinton after she was interviewed. Documents show was before whoopsie, Daisy? Did he forget? What about James come You know, what about his lives or lack of candor? As Inspector General, Horowitz has said, what about Loretta Lynch or Andrew McCabe or Peter Struck or Lisa Page, James Rabicki, James Baker? Did any those officials used their positions to interfere with the Clinton investigation to absolve her for political reasons? I would be a crime if that happened. We know that the Inspector General and others and the FBI believe and Andrew McCabe was fired for lying to the IG. Remember that IG report, the first one Waltsmith's leading statements perjury under oath obstruction, and I think they'd be applicable statutes for pre dawn raids with tactical gear and frogmen, you know, the dirty dossier. Oh yeah, Are we ever going to get to the bottom of premeditated fraud on the court to deny a fellow citizen their civil liberties, constitutional rights, spy on a president, a presidential campaign, transition team, and then presidency. They knew Steel was fired for lying, They knew exculpatory evidence existed, they had, they were all worn, but they still used it. In the application. Top of the FIES application, it says, what verified deprivation of rights? All these things perjury? None of it happens to the other side. So I understand the you know, I understand the Attorney General's position on this. He's in a tough spot. I understand the President's frustration in this. I'm frustrated because it only seems that one side gets prosecuted. Keep peering, it's coming, it's coming. Never happens. Why the double standard? That is a huge question and the impact now all the pressures on bar Stay right here for our final news round up and information Overload in the final hour of the Sean Hannity Show, all Right, News rounds Up, Information Overload, Hour eight hundred and nine four one Seawn, if you want to be a part of this extra ravaganza. Well, I was pretty fascinating to listen to Mayor Bloomberg, even though it's his own words. Oh, this is not indicative of the way I think or the way I led New York when I was mayor. Yeah, that sounds kind of dumb, to be very honest, because he said it, and he did it for twelve years and then for four year five years after didn't ever say it was a bad idea. It only became a bad idea to you know, get all crocodile tier ey'd on the issue of stopping frisk which is separated and apart from this whole issue of what he said when he decided he's going to run for president and a big part of the Democratic Party coalition is African Americans, and it was five years ago, and you know, it's it's just not the way that I think, and it doesn't reflect what I do every day. And I led the most popularist largest city in the United States. I got reelected three times. Yeah, Democrats run the city nine to nothing, nine million to two. And he said, you know, uh, well, it has nothing to do with how I think. And I'm like, what do you mean it doesn't it's not indicative of how you think because we have I know, it's the audio is not as clear as we'd want it to be, but it's it's clear enough to hear it that, you know, police stopped white people too much at minorities too little. He said that, you know, he said that they are with stopping frisk, they are specifically targeting minority kids, whom he adds, cops must throw up against the wall. How is that not indicative of how he thinks? Then he said, murders, murderers, and murder victims fit one, not two, only one. M O, just take a description, xerox it, pass it out to all the cops. They are male minorities sixteen to twenty five. Wow, that's racial profiling at a level I've never heard before. And then he said, well, people say, oh my god, you're you're arresting kids from marijuana and they're all minorities. And he goes, yeah, that's true. Why because we put all, not some, all the cops in minority neighborhoods. And then he's, you know, heard in the recording saying, why do we do it because that's where all the crime is. Okay, I'm just imagining if Donald Trump said it all the way he said it, it'd be a much bigger deal with the media mob that hates Donald Trump all things Donald Trump, every second, every minute, every hour of every day. But let's listen to Bloomberg in his own words. They just keep saying, oh, it's a disportunate percentage of a particular ethnic group. That may be, but it's not a disportunate percentage of those who witnesses and victims describe as committee leader in that case. Incidentally, I think we disportunately stop whites too much and minorities too little. Nine percent murder murderers, murder in one of them. You can just thank the disprision you pass it alcohol the top. They are may already that's through the earth, dispritiversary everything, and that's where the real time you've got to get the guns and out of the handles if you want to send them on a lot of costs, but those costs we are the crimes which minority neighborhoods. So it's act and suppleases is will say, oh my god, you are arresting kids from our Yes that's true. Why because yes, that's true. Why we do itignment? And the way is president because they started. I don't want to get caught, so they don't blame the gun. They still at home, all right? Joining us now, two people that know would have followed Mayor Bloomberg for many, many years, good friends of the program. Joe Concha. He is the media writer for the columnist for The Hill. Mark Simone, host top rated morning show on w o R, or affiliate in New York City. I actually, I think it's fair to say that you and Bloomberg actually have a good relationship. Is that a fair statement? Mark Simone? It was if you've had that experience two once in a while of my career. If he's looking at my Twitter in the last week, I would guess it's over, especially been looks at it today. I don't think he's my friend anyway. I like, all right, listen. I would argue from my standpoint, he was kind of like a caretaker mayor and then a nanny state mayor. I don't see that he did anything new profound, And what Rudy Giuliani put in place he mostly kept in place, which was a smart idea. But I didn't see that he did any one thing spectacularly at all. Well, there were a couple of things. One he nobody remembers this. He ran saying he would fix the broken education system in New York. He said he would do for education what Rudy did for crime. And he took control of the schools, and twelve years later when he left it was just as bad. Nothing changed. He said he would fix the traffic, the congestion. He made it worse with his bike lanes and pedestrian a plazas. He said he would clean up. We had a big problem with garbage and waste management. He said he would fix that. Wasn't one inch better when he so this, Mike can get I think we have more rats when he left office. But I know Mike can get it done. Mike didn't get it done as mayor not to mention the high taxes he put in or people are in the country. I'm gonna believe this. He passed a law and how much soda you're allowed to order in a restaurant you have to in a New York restaurant. I don't know if it's still in place, But didn't he put in place the plan that you have to if you want salt on your food, you have to specifically say, may I have a salt shaker? People think we're making jokes here. He passed these laws how much soda you are allowed to have when you can use salt. Even Putin would attempt these kind of laws. And of course the big gulp. How much I don't drink big gulp? I don't. I'm not gonna buy a thirty two ounce big gulp at seven eleven. I might go in. I don't drink a lot of soda at all, but every once in a while I'll drink a little coke because you know, I'm tired. It gives him a little lift. I like it. I like energy drinks. But to tell me how much I can drink just annoys me. I don't need that type of governance. Joe, you followed him a long time as well. You know him. He's telling us, now, Oh, all those things that I said, my own words do not reflect they're not indicative of the way. I think. That's a pretty dumb statement to me, Well, it's phony, right, because he only said this the day after he announced that he was running for president. He went to Brooklyn, went to a predominantly black church and said these things like, boy, you know, I really apologize for this, and you know, I realize it's wrong. Now. Well, if that's the phony part, right, But I think in the end I agree. Michael Goodwin has a good column out today for New York Post and he says that this isn't going to hurt him because you could change your mind as a candidate as Trump has, as many other candidates that have Barack Obama on gay marriage and so on, that by the time you get to a general election, this will only be a footnote. And I agree. And I don't know what you guys think, but of all the candidates I'm seeing right now, if Michael Bloomberg somehow gets the nomination, probably through a broker convention, I think he's the most probably the most formidable opponent for the present. And there's something else in that audio everybody's ignoring. It's one thing. If you think it's justified to do a search, he says, throw them up against the walls. Endorsing police brutality. No policeman would say I throw people against the wall that went unnoticed, and that's pretty ugly. Yeah, liberals will have a big problem with that, right, and that's that's the part of that. But the problem is you have a lot of church trouble getting. But I asked a question before, guys, I want to hear it. Who do you think that is the better candidate to take on Trump? If not Bloomberg. I don't think they have anybody in particular that pops to my mind. That is a real, clear present danger. His anti gun stance is not going to fly in red state America or a Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan. In my view, Americans support their Second Amendment and the draconian you know gun laws in New York are not. That's not gonna go over well. And those are the ads that he's taking out. As we know, even with the Super Bowl lad it was a very sad story the one he told. But the reality is to even own a gun in New York, you better prove you had at least a thousand death threats, like Mark Simone gets on any given them exactly all. But yeah, no, usually their ex girlfriends. Yea. In his case, that's absolutely true. But here's the other problem we have, and that's credibility. All right. So he was mayored for twelve years in New York, and then the Blasio four more, that's sixteen, and now all of a sudden he never won. Seventeen plus years go by, he doesn't say a word about stopping frisk and then he's like, oh, I'm going to run for president. That policy's not going to go over well with the African American base, part of the Democratic coalition. I better just act like I'm really sad about what I did in the position I've held for seventeen years, and I'm going to have an election year conversion at a level that is is so phony and fake and fraudulent, and I'll throw up crocodile tears in the process, because that's what he did. Mark Simone, well, actually he you know, he never apologized for it. He said, I talked to my friends. He doesn't have any friends. What happened was in November. Hey, well, how do you know he doesn't have any friends. He's rich. Rich people usually have tons of friends, are friends. But what happened was in November The New York Times came out with a strong piece on their editorial page that you cannot vote for bloom were because of the stopping frisk program. He had a panic over that, an emergency meeting that decided he had to apologize, and that's why he did it. You know, there's another audio it's emerged today where he's defending redlining. This is this practice where banks discriminating against minority communities. He was defending that in this audio, saying that may have caused the two thousand and eight crash. He's got a lot of There's a lot of audio out there that's going to surface in the next few months. Blume play this. Remember we got to go back. It was the Clinton years, the Community Reinvestment Act, that mandated that financial institutions and banks lend money to people that wouldn't qualify. Well, that led to what happened in oh seven and oh eight, and very few people paid attention to that. Anyway, Let's let's play the cut. You've made some reference to the elements that led to where we are today. Could you go a little bit deeper and tell us from your perspective, how did we get here? What are the root causes the crisis. You can go back. I would say it probably all started back when there was a lot of pressure on banks to make loans to everyone. Redlining, if you remember, was the term where banks took whole neighborhoods and said, people in these neighborhoods are poor. They're not going to be able to pay off them mortgages. Tell them your salesman, don't go into those areas. And then Congress got involved as local elected officials as well, and said, oh, that's not fair. These people should be able to get credit. And once you started pushing in that direction, banks started making more and more loans where the credit of the person buying the house wasn't as good as you would like. Now, it's not so bad when the market for houses keeps going up, because the nice thing about making a mortgage loan is it's very secure. After all, if the borrower defaults, you simply sell the house and you have something that's worth more than the value of the mortgage. And that assumes that real estate prices never go down, and we just discovered that they could. But go ahead, Mark, I hear you laughing, thirst And third, I don't know, does everyone even know what Gilligan's Island is. We might you might be aging yourself here. Oh I think people. Now you just see makes John Kerry look down to earth. It's just ridiculous. I don't know. I see you as a ginger guy, you know. Me and Concho? Maryanne? Right, Joe absolutely? Maryanne? You're both friends of mine? So are they really? Yeah? Well, by the way, why am I shocked? Mark Simone's friends with everybody? All Right, stay right there, Mark Simone and Joe Conscho. We'll get to your calls in the next half hour as we roll along. Mark Simone and Joe Concho with us, all right, a minute each in our final minute here predictions? How does this all play out of a South Carolina Super Tuesday Broker convention? Does Bernie get it? Do they try and steal it again? Joe Concha Broker Convention. I don't see a clear frontrunner here. I don't see any of these candidates having any ability to break away from the pack. I said before that Bloomberg probably presented the biggest challenge to Trump. I still think that the president is in a very strong position for reelection because in the end, he's running on a record he's running on optimism while it seems the Democratic messages, you know, the country is horrible, that's horrible, and that's not how you win election. Shining City on the Hill with Reagan thousand points a light, but bush naked America great again with Trump. I don't know what the bumper sticker is for any Democrat right now. And unless you have that clear message and optimistic message, you can't win in November. Sean your thoughts, Mark Simone, Joe Biden out after South Carolina. I know the old timers say, there's this firewall, it's not gonna work. He's going to be gone. The party, the elders, the DNC, the donors. I don't think that that crazy bubb Bloomberg because you can't control them. They like somebody they can control. Boodha. Judge has the advantage that Bill Clinton had. He doesn't really believe in anything. He'll be whatever you need him to be. He could well he could. You know, he's like a focus group guy. If he has to go moderate, just slightly center of left, he'll do that. And the DNC knows they can control him. Boota. Judge is like the world's worst Ted talk. He's like a programmed h Tucker Carlson called him a corporate hologram created by the AI department of Google. That's what he looks like. Oh my god, you're so I ran into him. I don't. I think you guys heard me earlier to say in an airport and I was like, you want to come on the show? He goes, well, did you have your spoken to so and so. I'm like, no, I haven't spoken to so and so. I don't know who so and so is. That's him. It's got to go for five committees. Yeah, five? And I said, why don't you come on and be good for you? I said, look, I'm not gonna lie. I'll give you a tough interview, but i'll give you a fair interview. Um, would you consider it? I'll consider it. And I said okay. Then I said, well, um, when can we do it? Well, let me think about it. Why do I take why do I take that as complete rejection? Well? You only the only person that doesn't know rejection is Mark Simone. I've seen him out in action, and you know what I'm talking about, Mark Simone. I have no idea. Hey, you only you only have seventeen million listener. Let's see he can go on a nice show where they got two hundred thousand crazy lefties. Yeah, why not? All right, thank you both, Mark Simone, Joe Content. When we come back, we hit the phones, all right, let's get to our busy telephones here. Eight hundred and nine four one Sean, two hundred and sixty four days till election day. As promised, we're hitting our phones. We got let's see David in Florida. We will be paying very close attention to Florida in two hundred and sixty four days from now. How are you, David? Welcome aboard? Awesome, Sean. Thank you for taking my call. I'm a big fan. Thank you very much. Um well, I'm calling in because I have a theory. I think that the impeachment against the president was not just about Trump. I kind of believed it was also designed by Pelosi and the Democrats to actually knock out Joe Biden, to ultimately set up a content usted primary so the super delegates would be able to pick their nominee. They want control, they want to get Biden out of the way. They know he's weak, they know the cornpop can't win in the presidency. They know he's dangerous, so they wanted to find a way to get him out and also bruce Trump a little bit. And I just kind of wanted to see what you thought about that, just get your perspective on it. Well, you know, look, from my perspective is they're using impeachment, that what they're trying to do is just damage the president any which way they can. The problem is is even look at this now, with this whole thing with Bar, now that you look at what the real sentencing thing, sentencing guidelines are, and you look at who the people are, and you look at the feigned outrage by the media, and now they want to go after Bar because they know Barr and Dorham are actually doing their job and they fear that their deep state buddies that did all the dirty work for them are going to get what's coming to them if we have equal justice under the law. But this is all politics, all the time, This is all smear, Trump rage psycho says all the time. They there's not even a minute where a stop and reflect about what is in the best interest of you, we, the American people, the people of Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. What have they done for you? Um so, I think, you know, to specifically answer that, the Democrats using impeachment to make their way, you know, for the Stromer candidates. So they wanted a bloody up Trump as much as they can, right, That's that's what That's their only mission, that's their only weapon, it seems. Yeah, I definitely see them that they need a fundraise. They need to do things that can they can talk about in the in the fake news. They need to have things to talk about. And if there's nothing there, they got to create something. And it's obvious. I mean I was, I was an actual state prosecutor for a while, and the things that I've seen have just driven me absolutely insane. I mean, it's just boiling my blood. I can't even tell you. Well, I appreciate it, but it should make your blood boil, you know. I hope it makes I hope it's boiling still and percolating until you hit the voting booth in two hundred and sixty four days because I feel the same thing. I honestly feel. You know, it's so funny. I can tell you a story about Neil Boorts. I remember Neil Boorts used to say, Hannity, Yeah, this is as what we do doesn't mean a thing and no impact at all. That's you think it should and it does. And ah, I just act like it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I'm just here to put on a show every day, blah blah blah and make get people worked up. I said, well, I think it's real. There's a lot at stake here. I mean, of course, you have fun. We have a lot of fun on the show and on TV, and it's kind of fun sometimes to make fun of all these idiots. They make it too easy at times. After nine to eleven, Neil Bart said to me, no, this is real. This matters. Making the right decisions now matter. I had a conversation with him after Russia's diagnosis. I had quoted him and he happened to hear me at the time because he's the one that once said that, and I agreed with him. Russia's babe Ruth, He's the Babe Ruth of talk radio. And I quote at him and he heard it. We just spent a lot of time talking and I said, you know, why don't you get back on the air. You've been driving around on that dopey sports bus of yours forever, and he kind of started laughing, and he goes, you know, I never thought about it since I retired, but I'm thinking about it, and I think you should. David, thank you. We appreciate it. All right, New Jersey, let us say hi to Joe. Joe, you're on the Sean Hannity Show. What's going on? Hey, Sean? How you doing? I'm good? What's going on? Speaking of Rush, first of all, I'd like to give him my best. He is a true treasure. If he didn't receive such cool opposition, he'd be a national treasure. So if he's listening, Rush all our love in my family. Did you hear the call that somebody offered to give Rush one of their lungs? Yes, that's incredible that I got choked up. I was driving the car and I got choked up here and at Sean. You know, when somebody you think of everything that Rush has covered over all his it's an incredible career. I mean, what he's accomplished is unprecedented. And you think about all those moments, all those stories. You think about the Clinton years and the Bush years, and then the Obama years, and you know now the Trump years and everything in between, Andy, and you think about all the attacks that he has taken and what he's been able to accomplish, I would argue, is a real education of America and freedom and liberty and our constitution and the importance of proper governance if you will in a way and advance the cause of conservatism more than you know any other one figure that I can mention because Russia is on three hours a day, You've got twenty four, Yeah, twenty one more hours because it's twenty four hours in a day. And it opened up the door so that other people that have other skill sets that do things in their way, like the great one, Mark Levin, or myself or all these great local hosts like Joe PAGs and Lars Larson and I Mark Simone. I have so many friends in radio and it's, uh, you know, we're all different, we're all unique. But the contribution that he made is bigger because it just there was a forest and none of the trees were cut down. There are only two hundred talk radio stations. Can you believe this? Joe when he started in nineteen eighty eight, Now there's over three thousand number one format in all a radio Sean. I, um, I got a question in an observation, if you'll allow me the time, and I don't want to take up too much of it. But I got a pretty potent batting line up in my family. I got my kids. One's a lefty, one's a righty. My wife's a she's an independent, so I call her Bernie Williams. She's the switch hitter. And I noticed my kids. I never enforced my opinion or trying to sway my kids either way. I kind of sit back and I watch what they know, how they know, how they derived that, coming to what their beliefs are. But I caught myself when they started becoming a voting age, telling them inadvertently telling them, guys, pick and shoose. You know your candidates according to what you believe in, but beware of the people that make you vote for them out of pure fear. And this is like six seven years ago, and it just seems to be holding more and more truth in this day. You have these candidates, they have no agenda. They just say you better vote for me because you're gonna I'll prevent World War three. Unlike this guy, or they use fear. They've never changed their playbook. It's always the same things. Publicans a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic because lomophobias, they only care about rich people want dirty air and water, all that stuff. Socialism now is appealing. Everything's free, We'll you have student loan debt. Oh no, will forgive that. You don't have to pay that back. Um, so all of that plays into it. You know, I've taken a very different approach with my own kids because I'm so out there. Um, I actually kid my daughter. I said, do you even know what I do for a living? And she mostly doesn't. It's not where her area of interest really is. And I'm actually glad for her with that said, she knows where her dad stands. She you know, my son is more interested in in this than his sister m and he follows it more closely, not as you know. But he's still twenty one. And if it comes down to playing Fortnite or Call of Duty or watching Dad, I'm I'm sure I lose. But but the more kids understand this, and it goes back to the old adage, Joe, doesn't it if you're twenty and not a conservative you don't not a liberally, you don't have a heart. If you're forty in a conservative and you're not a conservative, you don't have a brain. And it's a motivation in place. Sean, Oh, the fear is real though. I mean, look at all of a sudden you think, oh, I'm gonna get paid forty thousand dollars my first year, and then you take get that first paycheck and you realize I'm willingly gonna keep twenty five thousand. Right, I could bring an observation to your attention, all right, when you have these debates on with the left reverend the right reverend, I've noticed something very a pattern the left reverend. I love that Reverend Scott, But whoever you put them up against, the debate always goes to the civil, unjust. They never ever default to their forte which you never hear talking about God, Sean. Never. God is not part of their lives. They always want to put blame on somebody. If you go from Jesse Jackson to the Reverend now Sharpton to the other guy that it's always debate and Reverend Scott, they never bring God into their into the matter. I don't know if that's true, I don't. Religion is such a deeply per sinal thing. Um. Now you see, now I was going to make this a short call. I I look who did Who did Jesus pick as his disciples? He picked fisherman, Okay, I would imagine fisherman or that back in the day, or like fisherman today. And you know, I'm no fisherman. And they're you know, kind of cool blue collar guys. They probably say whatever the equivalent of BS is and and maybe they like to have beer at the end of their shift or whatever. Because those are my friends. That's who I grew up with. That's who I am. And you know, he who did he take care of the most and love the most the poor, that's sick, disabled, Um, who did he? You know, Jesus chose sinners, even David Bathsheba uh and and killing her husband, and and Saulo Tarsus, and and one disciple betrayed him, and another denied him three times. And he came back on the after the third day and said, I will send a comforter and and go spread the gospel to all nations, and I'll make you fishers of men. He told them when he first met them. So I think that Jesus understands the forgotten men and women, and the most doesn't mean redistribution. You teach people how to fish, Yeah, I'll show you how to fish. You can fish all day. You can go get your own food for the rest of your life. And I think that is the philosophical difference when you apply it to government. Now, the foundations of government. Look at our founders and framers and wisdom. It goes back to something very profound and simple. We're flawed as human beings. Our founders understood it. Our framers, the great pamphleteer Thomas Payne once wrote in Common Sense seventeen seventy six, were the guides of one's conscience, meaning God in our hearts. Is how I interpret that, irresistibly obeyed. In other words, we don't sin, we don't do all the wrong things that we all do. There would be no need for any other lawgiver, none whatsoever, govern ourselves, he says. But that not being the case, limited government in its best government in its best state, is but a necessary evil, and its worst state an intolerable one. And in the past hundred years, the last century, over one hundred million souls dead in large part because of a desire, sick, ugly, evil desire for power, and Stalin and Mao and Hitler and Mussolini and the killing fields, and I mean, I can go on and on, but a lot of it is that we can't govern ourselves because human beings are flawed and imperfect, and government and its best state is limited government. Government will never fulfill these promises. All right, I gotta take a break. Eight hundred nine four one shown. If you want to be a part of this extravaganza. You know, it's so amazing how corrupt the mob and the Democratic Party are. I mean, what does the key takeaway from the Attorney General bar when he speaks to ABC News, Well, what did he say that was the most important thing? He's never the President has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case. Okay, we went through every statute today about how much time median time served in prison? Oh, rape, sexual assault four point two years, four years two months, negligent manslaughter four years, robbery three point two years. Oh rogers Stone's big crime, Rogerstone lied to Congress or the investigators. Oh let's put him in jail for nine years. Let's make sure he dies in jail, So anyway, full coverage tonight, the latest, two hundred and sixty four days out of election, all coming up. We've got the news and we're going to give you information an investigation tonight you won't get anywhere else. Hannity ninetiestern. We'll see you tonight at nine. Back here tomorrow as always, Thanks for being will us more

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