Our two Sean Hannity Show eight hundred nine for one, Shawn our number. You want to be a part of the program. As we announced, actually had the first interview with doctor Oz making his announcement that he is running for the Senate in Pennsylvania. I keep saying, there's a lot at stake now less than a year away, and that is that not only is the House of Representatives up for grabs, which would stop the Biden agenda dead in its tracks. But you've got you know, you want to talk about bell Weather Bellweather Senate race. You've got Florida, You've got North Carolina, you got South Carolina, you got Georgia, you got New Hampshire, you got Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, Arizona, Nevada. I mean, that is a Bellweather Senate election. And good candidates are in Republicans. If they want to win these states, they better be putting forth good candidates. I've known doctor Oz, all of you have known him. He's been on the show many many times before, especially in the early days of covid ID quote him still to this day. Your fight with the army, you have not the army you wish that you had. In other words, looking for any anecdotal information therapeutics that might mitigate what would we prefer peer reviewed study shore But we didn't have time. We wanted to save lives anyway. He put this ad out in the lead up to his announcement. My parents came to America to find a better life, and they did. I attended great universities, raised the family, and became a successful surgeon. I invented a heart valve that saves thousands of lives. Then I started a TV show, Dadvocate for You, taking control of your health, and took on the medical establishment to argue against costly drugs and skyrocketing medical bills. But COVID has shown us that our system is broken. We lost too many lives, too many jobs, and too many opportunities because Washington got it wrong. It took away our freedom without making us safer, and tried to kill our spirit and our dignity. As a heart surgeon, I know how precious light is. Pennsylvania needs a conservative who'll put America first, one who can reignite our divine spark, brievely, fight for freedom, and tell it like it is. That's why I'm running for set it. I'm doctor oz and I approved this message, all right, Doctor Hone joins us. Now, when we first had a conversation about this, I did tell you that you know you're you're stepping into a lion's den and that this is a real blood support. And I think I've been proven right already. You're definitely right. You actually to be honest with everybody offered me condolences. I did. I said, you're out of your mind. Let's first talk about your area of expertise, and that is medicine. And there's a great New York Post editorial today, no more lockdowns, and specifically about amicron. We're hearing from medical doctors in South Africa that are suggesting only mild symptoms are appearing with this variant, but it may be more contagious. That's the early read on it. Your take, We literally don't know anything. If you don't know if it's more contagious, We don't really know if it's more of a problem if you get it. We don't know if it makes you resistant to in faction, if you've been vaccinated or not. You know, one of the things that's really despicable that I'm witnessing, and we've talked about this, and God bless you for carrying this baton, because one of the biggest problems in America, and one of the reasons I'm running, is you cannot say what you see with your own plane eyes anymore. And in medicine, people die when you don't say what you see. So early on was pretty apparent we followed through. Now we see things changing that we never imagined before, like the head of a major pharmaceutical company who makes the vaccine, and therefore is a clear conflict of interest getting ahead of the news saying, you know, I don't know if we're gonna work so well, we're going to try to make a new vaccine so you can now get a different kind of booster once you've already had your current booster. Those are not conversations that ought to be had by people who have financial interests in the outcome, and unfortunately we've begun to ignore all that. And there are other reasons that people shouldn't talk openly about some of these ideas without really doing their homework. If they believe they have an agenda that they want you shut down, or they want to be able to control what you're saying, then they'll say things that scare people. Because when you scare people, they start to pull back a little bit. They'll start to take instruction. And oftentimes what you find and I don't know if you've experienced this in your life, but it happens in many walks of life. You're in a scary situation. Someone grabs control and starts barking out orders, not knowing if those are the right orders. And so what happened with COVID was two weeks right to bend the curve, we had no idea what we're dealing with. Everyone said, Okay, I'm in you know, I'll take one for the team. I'll do what's necessary. That metastasized in did this authoritarian overreach that now has conditioned many Americans, especially Americans on the left side of the aisle, They just want to believe this stuff. Some of the numbers are shocking to me. The average Democrat thinks that if you're getting hospitalized to COVID is thirty percent, that's a massive number. The true number, by the ways, one less than one tenth of that. And so you get people scared. They begin to believe the narrative that's not true. This week, this week and I'll get off my pedestal. The US government's FDA panel, not even the FDA, the panel that advised them, finally finally looked at the data on one of the pills that been shown to dramatically reduce mortality and hospitalization from COVID, The first pill almost two years in that will be allowed to be prescribed to patients if they get COVID. My goodness, we talked about this in the very early days. Americans will take pills. Doctors send patients home with pills to treat the problem. We have pills that were available before COVID started, like the one that's discussed this week by the FDA. It's been in existence for years. Only now are we finally going to be able to give it to patients. What happened? How is it possible? Did that not to reach our fingertips so we could prescribe it to our patients? It was already out there the whole time. It's unbelievable. You know. I'm I'm I guess I'm a little bit of a rarity because I believe in freedom. I think the debate over vacs are not vacs is over. But I also believe in medical privacy and patient docupatient confidentiality, and I think most people have made up their mind on it. I don't want to spend all the time on COVID, because we could talk for five hours on it. I want to first get into the issue of you know, here, you are one of the most successful syndicated programs on television, and that is usually for the host, the most profitable area to be in terms of the marketplace, in terms of financial success and everything else. And you've had this show that has been highly successful, and you're giving all of this up now, and you're giving it up to run for the Senate and throw yourself into this blood sport called politics. My first question is why, and then we can talk about, you know, very specific position in job. I want to serve my country. Everything you said is true, and many of my friends really did write me offering condolences. They were thoughtful and honorable in their notes, but they were basically saying, what's wrong with you? Why would you give all that up? The comfort of the existence where people aren't criticizing you or making stories up about you, the ability to go to work and earn a living, a very very good living, that you've worked your whole life to set up. My parents were immigrants. They came to this country. They ran from the darkness that was out there and came to this country to the bright light that we offered. And I owe a debt, and I want to pay my debt, and serving my country, which I hope to do if people vote for me, is a way that I can show up in the lives of people who deserve help. But I got to say I was successful on television because I thought to empower you to people listening to this show right now, I thought to empower my patience. I took on big pharma. I had major companies boycott me for years because I said things that were truthful about the way that drugs were other drugs and interactions that you can't predict in the fact that we're too dependent on them. I will took on big technology. I literally went to the Senate to take on Facebook, Amazon, you know, the guys who I thought were perverting the system, in particular because they were lying about advertisements about me and many others. And I realize how difficult it is when you have big, powerful entities forwarding the rule of law. I took on big I were chemical companies. I got the scars to prove it, and I cannot be bought John, As you know, I just will go to the map for my patients and for my viewers, and I hope now for the photos of Pennsylvania. But if you don't do it now, what are you going to do it? What are you going to do hoarding all this when people are climbing over your walls because they're starved for honor, for dignity, for a job. And I would be angry too if I was much of America. America deserves better, and I want to be part of that movement. Let me ask you, because already the attacks have begun pretty much full force. Claims that you don't live in Pennsylvania, claims that you support red flag law, and you don't support the Second Amendment. Why don't we start with those two and then I'll go down a list and we could go through rather quickly. You can give me a quick summaries of where you stand. I grew up just over the border south to Philadelphia, where I am now. I went to medical school at penn and went to business school at Wharton. I met my wife, married her in Philadelphia, which was the best thing I ever did in my left thirty six years ago. I had two kids in Pennsylvania and Kateman. We moved back home, where my wife's family has been for a hundred years last year. I love coming back home and I love Pennsylvania. So I just don't see the arguments. So your job took you out of New York, by the way it took me out. I grew up in Long Island, but I lived five years from Rhode Island, five years in California, two years in Alabama, four years in Georgia, you know. And then I kind of got lucky and it got hired by Fox newsman the first one on the air. But the odds of me making it back to New York to follow my dream, which was radio at the time, my odds were not high. All right, let's go through a list of let me. Let me answer your gun question, because that you know that has come up. I'm strongly pro Second Amendment. I believe that people are earned their dignity in life in many ways. One of the ways is you get a gun, you're allowed to have it. It's in the Constitution for a reason. There's no way around that, and there are many smart things we can do with our guns. I protect ourselves. I own a lot of guns. I have a carry concealed gun license in Pennsylvania and so and I don't think there's going to be a huge debate among the people are going to vote for me about guns. We're all supportive of them. Quick break right back, more with doctor Ozz. He just announces candidacy. He's running for the Senate in the great state of Pennsylvania. More on the other side of the eight hundred ninety four one sea on our number. You want to be a part of the program. All right, as we continue with doctor Oz who just made his announcement he's running for the Republican nomination for Senate in the great state of Pennsylvania. Let's talk more. Let's start with one big issue we see the President is pushing is build back better, New Green Deal, socialism, Higher taxes, corporate taxes, taxes, pretty much capital gains taxes. We see the impact that the policies have had on the economy. They've not been good. Where do you stand on taxes or do you support raising any? Do you support cutting any? Do you support lessening the burden of regulation that seems to be a stranglehold on many businesses these days. I think I can spend my money better than the government can spend my money, and I suspect just about everyone listening would agree with that. I would not raise taxes, and I definitely don't think we should throw money at problems that are going to put us more in debt. The issue with debt is not just inflation, and inflation is a vital problem, and I bet it'll be one of the biggest issues for voters in the next cycle. And because it erodes your savings and you remember, jobs, they're not just about dignity, and they're critical for that and they give you purpose, but they're important for savings. So you actually have something in your family that you can pass on. But when that's you wrote by inflation, it strips the very guts out of the workingman's life and brings incredible stress into their lives as well. Because you don't control your destiny. It doesn't matter how much more you earn because the debt's gotten worse. But I want to take it one step further. The big problem with twenty nine trillion dollars of debt is you start to challenge the validity of the US dollar. Let me just explain this because it's really critical. This is the national security issue. Our country is able to do what it does because the entire planet says the US dollar is backed by the power of the US government. They're good people. Americans will always defend their currency, So we're going to use it as our currency. Right, people trade their stuff to get dollars. If the US dollar no longer has its value people who don't trust it, you no longer can just print dollars. You then be run into a crisis, which, believe me, other countries would love to see where the dollar no longer becomes the currency of the world, and then you start to threaten the basic economic structure of our nation. These are issues that are not just esoterical. Maybe will never happened, it will happen. Believe me. This is what bankrupt's countries, which is why we have to defend their economy by being responsible. Nobody running a household whatever went up this kind of debt, they would ever think about it. We keep throwing money at this because feckless leaders are unwilling to make difficult decisions. Where would you stand advising consent. It would be part of your role to choose justices, for example, to serve on the Supreme Court. We have this big case the Mississippi law prohibiting abortions after fifteen weeks. Arguments were heard yesterday and right now row House for twenty two to twenty four weeks for legal abortion with medical advancement. Many make the argument that these what is growing inside of a woman is viable at fifteen weeks, and that law would restrict abortion after fifteen weeks. Where do you stand on your what are you looking for in a justice and what do you feel about this argument. I'm one hundred percent pro life. I'm a doctor, I believe in the sanctity of life, and President Trump appointed constitutional justices, which is just what you make. Any exceptions for rape, incest, or mother's life. Yes to three exceptions, especially the mother's life. You'd never want to put one life in danger for another if you can avoid it. Rape and incest obviously are concerns that many Americans would share. But other than those three exceptions, I'm one hundred percent pro life, and I do want the justices to make their decisions based on what the constitution says it is a beautiful document. As people understand the history of our country in the ambortance of the Constitution, they'll realize why people like me and you feel so strongly about that. All Right, we got to take a break. We'll come back. Doctor rozz is with us. We'll go through a list of other positions where he stands on it. This race in Pennsylvania is very critical if the Republicans have any chance of taking back the Senate in less than a year. Now he's throwing his hat in the ring. He's in looking to get nominated it as a Republican candidate. Eight hundred and nine one sean our number. If you want to be a part of the program, quick break right back. Yeah, you'll hear what everyone really thinks in DC. This is the Sean Hannity Show. I twenty five now till the top of the hour. Eight hundred nine one sean our number. You want to be a part of the program. I keep telling everybody this is a tipping point midterm election coming up in less than a year. And not only can the Republicans retake the House, which would stop the Biden you know, build back better New Green Deal socialism disaster, but the Senate is up for grabs as well. You have every swing state in play, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Arizona, Nevada. I mean, it doesn't get any more bell weather than this, and we have on the line. He just announced his candidacy in Pennsylvania. Doctor Oz is willing to walk away from a lucrative television career and serve the people of Pennsylvania. That was one thing that caught my attention in the conversations we had leading up to your announcement, because we did have a number of conversations about it, and I told you you were crazy to run that it's a very dark world, the world of politics, And you kept saying over and over again, I want to serve the people of Pennsylvania. And you said it so often, and it kind of caught my attention, and I'm like, huh, most politicians really aren't serving their constituents. They seem to love to be called the senator or governor or congressman or woman. And you've had fame, you've had the money, you've had all of that. You don't need this crap to be very honest. Well, you're It's it's interesting to say that because my wife and I were talking about this last night. Lisa was your biggest fan, and I said, I just want to be called doctor. I've earned that. I studied hard for it, you know, and it's a calling I love that. I know. I don't ever need to be called senator. And one interesting thing about entering the race is despite all the you know, the the wacky articles written about me, I'm getting called by all these big magazines. I've been invited on every late night you know, comedy show, every morning news show, and you know, all these big magazines. I'm not going to do any of them. First of all, I've done them all. You know. It's like a profess in bubbles coming out of a soft drink. The first sip taste good, but there's no depth to that. The joy, the deep passionate of feeling of good that comes from helping others unimaginable. When I sit in the operating room and look at the patient's across from me and we connect, and which is what I do always, because I never want to go to the oar with that pit without that patient knowing I care about them and nobody else. That's the hypocratic gowth. That's the bond that gives me that those chills, that makes you feel like life is worth it, that no matter what's going on outside of that, there's something so special about each other. That's why I spoken that commercial. You kindly show in the beginning that we need to see the divine spark in each other. There's something unique about who we are, and we all have it, and sometimes we forget it and the morass of craziness happens. I don't care about anything else but that spark being lit up again in our lives and serving your fellow man, and which I will always do and I've always done, is a way of doing it. Doing it as a representative of the people in government if it offers a lot of opportunity. One of the reasons I thought I could serve in this context is that in the state of Pennsylvania is that I have ninety four percent name awareness, so I don't have to say crazy things to get noticed. I can say things like we've been talking about now that most people are probably I hope, nodding their heads yes and saying, you know, I get that. I'm for that or I don't agree with him, but I'm honored that he said it because he believes it. Those are all fine with me. And I don't want to be saying things and dancing around private interests. And I represent you, only you, and that's the only goal I have. Let me ask you. I think one of the worst decisions Joe Biden made was, you know, giving up energy independence. It's now resulted in him on multiple occasions begging OPEC to increase production of oil. We're paying them about a buck fifty more a gallon twenty twenty five thirty bucks more to fill up your tank. It's a lot of money. It's disproportionally negatively impacting the poor in the middle class in this country. It's adding to the inflation problem. We're now at a thirty one year high. With him, it's also an important it's very important to the economy of Pennsylvania. Where do you stand on energy, energy independence, fracking oil, gas, coal, energy independence? Is it not just a nice thing to say? And who wouldn't it be nice? It is a national security issue. You can't go through and fight the battles we have to fight in this world to keep America and what our values pre eminent unless you have energy independence. Fracking is something I've looked at very carefully. You can spread all kinds of rumors about fracking, but it works. It seems to be able to do things that otherwise we wouldn't be able to do in keeping ourselves energy independent. And it should be a major force of our country to make sure that we take advantage of every tool to stay energy independent, re examining every opportunity out there. But I'll tell you one thing for sure. As a scientist, I'll say this, the Green New Deal is a dishonest program. It's not about is it worth the money or not, or will it work for global warming? It can be done the way it's currently designed. The technology does not exist that batteries aren't there. The elements that we would need for the battery power are controlled by primarily free countries, which are despotic countries. So we will be seeding the control of the energy supply of the planet to countries that we can't trust, and they can't even do it for several decades. So forget about spending money on investing. Of course, you want to spend money on green approaches, and we want to spend money in making carbon more efficient and better for the environment. All those things need to happen, but we should not put blinders on because the op ed pages of liberal media say we got to do this way otherwise we're bad people, and ignore the massively destructive effect of giving up on carbon based fuels. Make them better, make them work for us. In the meantime, we can develop the green tools, but it will take us decades. Let me move on to the issue you mentioned. Your parents both came to this country legally, they came from Turkey. I have been reading people attacking the fact that that you have dual citizenship with Turkey. I want to give me a chance to address immigration, and you know, welcome to the world of politics. You get attacked for everything. I was born as a dual citizen. My parents were Turkish. I was born in this country and both countries with their allied countries. Turkey is the largest force in NATO. It is the southern protection against Russia, and so growing up as a dual citizen, I was obligated to serve for two months in the Turkish army, otherwise I would never be allowed to go back to see my family in Turkey. So my father at the time, this is I was, you know, a kid just fresh out of college. My father called it to the American embassy and they said, yes, it's an allied country, he's allowed to do it. He will not compromise his US citizenship. I served my two months and when I got out, I you know, I had the choice. I came back lived in America for the rest of my life doing what I want to do, which is to serve people living in this country, a country that we have huge debt too. I'm very proud of that. I've gone back and tried my best to help when they're humanitarian crises. I've lectured. I've done surgery in Turkey. I help with the Syrian border where there were refugees, millions of people. For you, I even noticed you got attack for that doing you know, humanitarian work. I mean, I'm going trying to help human beings with nothing, and we actually they have the best refugee camps, not that you want to have refugee camps, but the best refugee camps in the world, acknowledged by the United Nations in the southern Turkey to take care of these poor people fleeing from a terrible war that had been raging. They're still continuing some places, and I'm going to do that. I will serve people. It doesn't matter if the people that are out there attacking me say things that are have truths are greatly dishonest. Why would you not want to help people with nothing. Let me move on to the issue of immigration, just more specifically. I support legal immigration, but I would say that we need some caveats. We learned a lot from this pandemic. I think you need a health check right now illegal immigrants. There's no COVID tests. We're told, oh, because they're not going to be here very long, and that turns out to be a lie. And they don't have vaccine quote mandates for illegal immigrants either, and they're moving illegal immigrants out of these overcrowded cages in the middle of a pandemic that Joe Biden built into every state in the country. I support, for example, legal immigration. I don't really care where you come from, as long as we check that you don't have radical associations in the middle of a pandemic. That would include a health check. And the third thing I would want is to ensure that people show that they have the financial means of taking care of themselves while they are here, and then welcome to our American family. I think it's that simple. It's hard not to agree with everything you said. Let's just go through it a little bit first, the narrative of what's happening at the border. This is a cartel organized human tracking operation. These people are paying a a lot of money, the only money they have in the world, many times, to a cartels who are putting different colored wristbands on them and shipping them across our border. And the reason that cartel is able to do this is it works, right, we have the opportunity to shut it down. We don't. Cartel makes money. By the way, they're also trafficking drugs. Had one hundred thousand people die this year or so far of opiates, which is another horrible consequence of our mismanagement of the pandemic. But if you look at the reality what's happening on the border, it's not what you're reading on the front page of the of the media. It's actually what I'm describing well vetted, and we're putting our law enforcement at the border in an untenable position. You can't have people come into the country and then say go off and come back when we call you for your hearing. They don't come back. It's like an IQ test. And I think these are the kinds of misguided judgments that are hurting us. I think what President Trump did made sense. Force people to stay on another side of the border, in this case the southern side of the border until we decide that you meet a solemn criteria. Otherwise our law system, our legal system isn't able to cope with this. There's no way we can test all those people and make sure that they're within the window of security and then ensure that they're getting what needs to be done for that. In fact, they just joined into the social programs of the country. Get full care, you know. And I said, there are many countries where the best healthcare available is a plane ticket to the US. And they literally say that, get on a plane, fly to America. They'll take care of you. Quick break more with doctor Oz just announcing he's running for the Senate as a Republican in Pennsylvania. Eight hundred and nine for one. Shawn our number Lindsey Graham at the top of the hour, Our Republicans going to buckle again and help Schumer and the Democrats will get to the bottom of that. All right, As we continue with doctor Oz, he just announced his candidacy to be the Republican nominee to run for the Senate and now less than a year in the great state of Pennsylvania. Let me ask you this because I'm I'm a big believer that this world was filled with a lot of evil. I believe that Russia is a hostile regime putin a hostile actor, the Uranian Mullah's God forbid they ever get nuclear weapons where I believe their radical ideology and nuclear weapons are a prescription for disaster. I'm concerned about Kim Jong un. I'm very concerned about China, especially the aggressive flying of fighter jets over taiwan airspace. Their talk are reunification with Taiwan. I don't like Putin building up his troops along the Ukrainian border. It looks like an invasion is forthcoming. Joe Biden doesn't seem to have any interest in confronting these issues had on that concerns me. I'm a big believer to sum it up in peace through strength, but I want to know what your philosophy is we need a muscular foreign policy. And it's not just a nice to have kind of thing. I mean my shows you kind enough to mention it earlier. My show has aired it over one hundred countries. I visited many of these countries. When you go to these different big, big media outlets, you know what they tell me, please fix America. And I say, well, you know, we're trying to. Why do you care so much? They say they care because we are the guiding light for them, We're the load star. But they're having a problem in Singapore. They say, gosh, and we know democracy works because America has one. Let's fix ours. If America doesn't succeed, it no longer is the shining hill city on the hill. Then people start to think that democracy won't work because there's no example of it working as well as it works in America. So we need to be on our best game to lead the work the world to allow it to do what it needs to do to become more democratic like we are. Every example you mentioned in Bob's countries who have the opposite goal and member they're not trying to make peace with us, they're not trying to figure it out and work around and you know, trade with us. No, in their mindset, they must destroy us. And I'm not being paranoid. It literally states that that's how they reinvent and recreate their ideology. It must destroy capitalism and the United States for that reason, because with us in the way, their way can't be the best. So these are existential battles that we're going to have to cope with, and the more we can unify as a country, the stronger will be to deal with that. And a good example is on sourcing critical resources what paralyzed this in COVID And I was with you, Sean acknowledge, but let me just praise you for a second. Sean would call me at three in the morning, which I didn't mind because he was trying to save the country, and we talk about getting ventilators, or how are we going to get more protective gear, or what's the best tactic to cure people who are dying. We had friends both of us in ICUs. We're tag team calling people just trying to save lives. You're trying to get You're calling foreign countries and trying to find out anything that they see that might be working to help people to save lives. You made the calls. I was getting the information from you. I do have to run. We obviously kept longer than we ask for, but this race is pivotal and I wanted. I'm reading the attacks and I'm seeing what's going on. It's all predictable and it's all part of a game that people play, but you know what, the country is in bad shape, and I'm looking for people with the right philosophy that will stand on principle and really are wanting to go to serve and for the right reasons and help people. And I'm listening to you and I'm hearing that, and it's refreshing to be honest, because they interview a lot of politicians and I'm most of them around for themselves. But that's just my own criticism. But we're going to follow this race very closely. Doctor Oz running for the Senate in a great state of Pennsylvania for the Republican nomination, and then a year from now, less than a year from now, we'll have an election and there's a must win state for Republicans. We wish you the best. Thank you for sharing your time, your thoughts and being so forthright on where you're standing on the issues. We appreciate it. God bless you think for all your wisdom. Eight hundred and nine four one Seawan our number. 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Our two Sean Hannity Show eight hundred nine for one, Shawn our number. You want to be a part of the program. As we announced, actually had the first interview with doctor Oz making his announcement that he is running for the Senate in Pennsylvania. I keep saying, there's a lot at stake now less than a year away, and that is that not only is the House of Representatives up for grabs, which would stop the Biden agenda dead in its tracks. But you've got you know, you want to talk about bell Weather Bellweather Senate race. You've got Florida, You've got North Carolina, you got South Carolina, you got Georgia, you got New Hampshire, you got Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, Arizona, Nevada. I mean, that is a Bellweather Senate election. And good candidates are in Republicans. If they want to win these states, they better be putting forth good candidates. I've known doctor Oz, all of you have known him. He's been on the show many many times before, especially in the early days of covid ID quote him still to this day. Your fight with the army, you have not the army you wish that you had. In other words, looking for any anecdotal information therapeutics that might mitigate what would we prefer peer reviewed study shore But we didn't have time. We wanted to save lives anyway. He put this ad out in the lead up to his announcement. My parents came to America to find a better life, and they did. I attended great universities, raised the family, and became a successful surgeon. I invented a heart valve that saves thousands of lives. Then I started a TV show, Dadvocate for You, taking control of your health, and took on the medical establishment to argue against costly drugs and skyrocketing medical bills. But COVID has shown us that our system is broken. We lost too many lives, too many jobs, and too many opportunities because Washington got it wrong. It took away our freedom without making us safer, and tried to kill our spirit and our dignity. As a heart surgeon, I know how precious light is. Pennsylvania needs a conservative who'll put America first, one who can reignite our divine spark, brievely, fight for freedom, and tell it like it is. That's why I'm running for set it. I'm doctor oz and I approved this message, all right, Doctor Hone joins us. Now, when we first had a conversation about this, I did tell you that you know you're you're stepping into a lion's den and that this is a real blood support. And I think I've been proven right already. You're definitely right. You actually to be honest with everybody offered me condolences. I did. I said, you're out of your mind. Let's first talk about your area of expertise, and that is medicine. And there's a great New York Post editorial today, no more lockdowns, and specifically about amicron. We're hearing from medical doctors in South Africa that are suggesting only mild symptoms are appearing with this variant, but it may be more contagious. That's the early read on it. Your take, We literally don't know anything. If you don't know if it's more contagious, We don't really know if it's more of a problem if you get it. We don't know if it makes you resistant to in faction, if you've been vaccinated or not. You know, one of the things that's really despicable that I'm witnessing, and we've talked about this, and God bless you for carrying this baton, because one of the biggest problems in America, and one of the reasons I'm running, is you cannot say what you see with your own plane eyes anymore. And in medicine, people die when you don't say what you see. So early on was pretty apparent we followed through. Now we see things changing that we never imagined before, like the head of a major pharmaceutical company who makes the vaccine, and therefore is a clear conflict of interest getting ahead of the news saying, you know, I don't know if we're gonna work so well, we're going to try to make a new vaccine so you can now get a different kind of booster once you've already had your current booster. Those are not conversations that ought to be had by people who have financial interests in the outcome, and unfortunately we've begun to ignore all that. And there are other reasons that people shouldn't talk openly about some of these ideas without really doing their homework. If they believe they have an agenda that they want you shut down, or they want to be able to control what you're saying, then they'll say things that scare people. Because when you scare people, they start to pull back a little bit. They'll start to take instruction. And oftentimes what you find and I don't know if you've experienced this in your life, but it happens in many walks of life. You're in a scary situation. Someone grabs control and starts barking out orders, not knowing if those are the right orders. And so what happened with COVID was two weeks right to bend the curve, we had no idea what we're dealing with. Everyone said, Okay, I'm in you know, I'll take one for the team. I'll do what's necessary. That metastasized in did this authoritarian overreach that now has conditioned many Americans, especially Americans on the left side of the aisle, They just want to believe this stuff. Some of the numbers are shocking to me. The average Democrat thinks that if you're getting hospitalized to COVID is thirty percent, that's a massive number. The true number, by the ways, one less than one tenth of that. And so you get people scared. They begin to believe the narrative that's not true. This week, this week and I'll get off my pedestal. The US government's FDA panel, not even the FDA, the panel that advised them, finally finally looked at the data on one of the pills that been shown to dramatically reduce mortality and hospitalization from COVID, The first pill almost two years in that will be allowed to be prescribed to patients if they get COVID. My goodness, we talked about this in the very early days. Americans will take pills. Doctors send patients home with pills to treat the problem. We have pills that were available before COVID started, like the one that's discussed this week by the FDA. It's been in existence for years. Only now are we finally going to be able to give it to patients. What happened? How is it possible? Did that not to reach our fingertips so we could prescribe it to our patients? It was already out there the whole time. It's unbelievable. You know. I'm I'm I guess I'm a little bit of a rarity because I believe in freedom. I think the debate over vacs are not vacs is over. But I also believe in medical privacy and patient docupatient confidentiality, and I think most people have made up their mind on it. I don't want to spend all the time on COVID, because we could talk for five hours on it. I want to first get into the issue of you know, here, you are one of the most successful syndicated programs on television, and that is usually for the host, the most profitable area to be in terms of the marketplace, in terms of financial success and everything else. And you've had this show that has been highly successful, and you're giving all of this up now, and you're giving it up to run for the Senate and throw yourself into this blood sport called politics. My first question is why, and then we can talk about, you know, very specific position in job. I want to serve my country. Everything you said is true, and many of my friends really did write me offering condolences. They were thoughtful and honorable in their notes, but they were basically saying, what's wrong with you? Why would you give all that up? The comfort of the existence where people aren't criticizing you or making stories up about you, the ability to go to work and earn a living, a very very good living, that you've worked your whole life to set up. My parents were immigrants. They came to this country. They ran from the darkness that was out there and came to this country to the bright light that we offered. And I owe a debt, and I want to pay my debt, and serving my country, which I hope to do if people vote for me, is a way that I can show up in the lives of people who deserve help. But I got to say I was successful on television because I thought to empower you to people listening to this show right now, I thought to empower my patience. I took on big pharma. I had major companies boycott me for years because I said things that were truthful about the way that drugs were other drugs and interactions that you can't predict in the fact that we're too dependent on them. I will took on big technology. I literally went to the Senate to take on Facebook, Amazon, you know, the guys who I thought were perverting the system, in particular because they were lying about advertisements about me and many others. And I realize how difficult it is when you have big, powerful entities forwarding the rule of law. I took on big I were chemical companies. I got the scars to prove it, and I cannot be bought John, As you know, I just will go to the map for my patients and for my viewers, and I hope now for the photos of Pennsylvania. But if you don't do it now, what are you going to do it? What are you going to do hoarding all this when people are climbing over your walls because they're starved for honor, for dignity, for a job. And I would be angry too if I was much of America. America deserves better, and I want to be part of that movement. Let me ask you, because already the attacks have begun pretty much full force. Claims that you don't live in Pennsylvania, claims that you support red flag law, and you don't support the Second Amendment. Why don't we start with those two and then I'll go down a list and we could go through rather quickly. You can give me a quick summaries of where you stand. I grew up just over the border south to Philadelphia, where I am now. I went to medical school at penn and went to business school at Wharton. I met my wife, married her in Philadelphia, which was the best thing I ever did in my left thirty six years ago. I had two kids in Pennsylvania and Kateman. We moved back home, where my wife's family has been for a hundred years last year. I love coming back home and I love Pennsylvania. So I just don't see the arguments. So your job took you out of New York, by the way it took me out. I grew up in Long Island, but I lived five years from Rhode Island, five years in California, two years in Alabama, four years in Georgia, you know. And then I kind of got lucky and it got hired by Fox newsman the first one on the air. But the odds of me making it back to New York to follow my dream, which was radio at the time, my odds were not high. All right, let's go through a list of let me. Let me answer your gun question, because that you know that has come up. I'm strongly pro Second Amendment. I believe that people are earned their dignity in life in many ways. One of the ways is you get a gun, you're allowed to have it. It's in the Constitution for a reason. There's no way around that, and there are many smart things we can do with our guns. I protect ourselves. I own a lot of guns. I have a carry concealed gun license in Pennsylvania and so and I don't think there's going to be a huge debate among the people are going to vote for me about guns. We're all supportive of them. Quick break right back, more with doctor Ozz. He just announces candidacy. He's running for the Senate in the great state of Pennsylvania. More on the other side of the eight hundred ninety four one sea on our number. You want to be a part of the program. All right, as we continue with doctor Oz who just made his announcement he's running for the Republican nomination for Senate in the great state of Pennsylvania. Let's talk more. Let's start with one big issue we see the President is pushing is build back better, New Green Deal, socialism, Higher taxes, corporate taxes, taxes, pretty much capital gains taxes. We see the impact that the policies have had on the economy. They've not been good. Where do you stand on taxes or do you support raising any? Do you support cutting any? Do you support lessening the burden of regulation that seems to be a stranglehold on many businesses these days. I think I can spend my money better than the government can spend my money, and I suspect just about everyone listening would agree with that. I would not raise taxes, and I definitely don't think we should throw money at problems that are going to put us more in debt. The issue with debt is not just inflation, and inflation is a vital problem, and I bet it'll be one of the biggest issues for voters in the next cycle. And because it erodes your savings and you remember, jobs, they're not just about dignity, and they're critical for that and they give you purpose, but they're important for savings. So you actually have something in your family that you can pass on. But when that's you wrote by inflation, it strips the very guts out of the workingman's life and brings incredible stress into their lives as well. Because you don't control your destiny. It doesn't matter how much more you earn because the debt's gotten worse. But I want to take it one step further. The big problem with twenty nine trillion dollars of debt is you start to challenge the validity of the US dollar. Let me just explain this because it's really critical. This is the national security issue. Our country is able to do what it does because the entire planet says the US dollar is backed by the power of the US government. They're good people. Americans will always defend their currency, So we're going to use it as our currency. Right, people trade their stuff to get dollars. If the US dollar no longer has its value people who don't trust it, you no longer can just print dollars. You then be run into a crisis, which, believe me, other countries would love to see where the dollar no longer becomes the currency of the world, and then you start to threaten the basic economic structure of our nation. These are issues that are not just esoterical. Maybe will never happened, it will happen. Believe me. This is what bankrupt's countries, which is why we have to defend their economy by being responsible. Nobody running a household whatever went up this kind of debt, they would ever think about it. We keep throwing money at this because feckless leaders are unwilling to make difficult decisions. Where would you stand advising consent. It would be part of your role to choose justices, for example, to serve on the Supreme Court. We have this big case the Mississippi law prohibiting abortions after fifteen weeks. Arguments were heard yesterday and right now row House for twenty two to twenty four weeks for legal abortion with medical advancement. Many make the argument that these what is growing inside of a woman is viable at fifteen weeks, and that law would restrict abortion after fifteen weeks. Where do you stand on your what are you looking for in a justice and what do you feel about this argument. I'm one hundred percent pro life. I'm a doctor, I believe in the sanctity of life, and President Trump appointed constitutional justices, which is just what you make. Any exceptions for rape, incest, or mother's life. Yes to three exceptions, especially the mother's life. You'd never want to put one life in danger for another if you can avoid it. Rape and incest obviously are concerns that many Americans would share. But other than those three exceptions, I'm one hundred percent pro life, and I do want the justices to make their decisions based on what the constitution says it is a beautiful document. As people understand the history of our country in the ambortance of the Constitution, they'll realize why people like me and you feel so strongly about that. All Right, we got to take a break. We'll come back. Doctor rozz is with us. We'll go through a list of other positions where he stands on it. This race in Pennsylvania is very critical if the Republicans have any chance of taking back the Senate in less than a year. Now he's throwing his hat in the ring. He's in looking to get nominated it as a Republican candidate. Eight hundred and nine one sean our number. If you want to be a part of the program, quick break right back. Yeah, you'll hear what everyone really thinks in DC. This is the Sean Hannity Show. I twenty five now till the top of the hour. Eight hundred nine one sean our number. You want to be a part of the program. I keep telling everybody this is a tipping point midterm election coming up in less than a year. And not only can the Republicans retake the House, which would stop the Biden you know, build back better New Green Deal socialism disaster, but the Senate is up for grabs as well. You have every swing state in play, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Arizona, Nevada. I mean, it doesn't get any more bell weather than this, and we have on the line. He just announced his candidacy in Pennsylvania. Doctor Oz is willing to walk away from a lucrative television career and serve the people of Pennsylvania. That was one thing that caught my attention in the conversations we had leading up to your announcement, because we did have a number of conversations about it, and I told you you were crazy to run that it's a very dark world, the world of politics, And you kept saying over and over again, I want to serve the people of Pennsylvania. And you said it so often, and it kind of caught my attention, and I'm like, huh, most politicians really aren't serving their constituents. They seem to love to be called the senator or governor or congressman or woman. And you've had fame, you've had the money, you've had all of that. You don't need this crap to be very honest. Well, you're It's it's interesting to say that because my wife and I were talking about this last night. Lisa was your biggest fan, and I said, I just want to be called doctor. I've earned that. I studied hard for it, you know, and it's a calling I love that. I know. I don't ever need to be called senator. And one interesting thing about entering the race is despite all the you know, the the wacky articles written about me, I'm getting called by all these big magazines. I've been invited on every late night you know, comedy show, every morning news show, and you know, all these big magazines. I'm not going to do any of them. First of all, I've done them all. You know. It's like a profess in bubbles coming out of a soft drink. The first sip taste good, but there's no depth to that. The joy, the deep passionate of feeling of good that comes from helping others unimaginable. When I sit in the operating room and look at the patient's across from me and we connect, and which is what I do always, because I never want to go to the oar with that pit without that patient knowing I care about them and nobody else. That's the hypocratic gowth. That's the bond that gives me that those chills, that makes you feel like life is worth it, that no matter what's going on outside of that, there's something so special about each other. That's why I spoken that commercial. You kindly show in the beginning that we need to see the divine spark in each other. There's something unique about who we are, and we all have it, and sometimes we forget it and the morass of craziness happens. I don't care about anything else but that spark being lit up again in our lives and serving your fellow man, and which I will always do and I've always done, is a way of doing it. Doing it as a representative of the people in government if it offers a lot of opportunity. One of the reasons I thought I could serve in this context is that in the state of Pennsylvania is that I have ninety four percent name awareness, so I don't have to say crazy things to get noticed. I can say things like we've been talking about now that most people are probably I hope, nodding their heads yes and saying, you know, I get that. I'm for that or I don't agree with him, but I'm honored that he said it because he believes it. Those are all fine with me. And I don't want to be saying things and dancing around private interests. And I represent you, only you, and that's the only goal I have. Let me ask you. I think one of the worst decisions Joe Biden made was, you know, giving up energy independence. It's now resulted in him on multiple occasions begging OPEC to increase production of oil. We're paying them about a buck fifty more a gallon twenty twenty five thirty bucks more to fill up your tank. It's a lot of money. It's disproportionally negatively impacting the poor in the middle class in this country. It's adding to the inflation problem. We're now at a thirty one year high. With him, it's also an important it's very important to the economy of Pennsylvania. Where do you stand on energy, energy independence, fracking oil, gas, coal, energy independence? Is it not just a nice thing to say? And who wouldn't it be nice? It is a national security issue. You can't go through and fight the battles we have to fight in this world to keep America and what our values pre eminent unless you have energy independence. Fracking is something I've looked at very carefully. You can spread all kinds of rumors about fracking, but it works. It seems to be able to do things that otherwise we wouldn't be able to do in keeping ourselves energy independent. And it should be a major force of our country to make sure that we take advantage of every tool to stay energy independent, re examining every opportunity out there. But I'll tell you one thing for sure. As a scientist, I'll say this, the Green New Deal is a dishonest program. It's not about is it worth the money or not, or will it work for global warming? It can be done the way it's currently designed. The technology does not exist that batteries aren't there. The elements that we would need for the battery power are controlled by primarily free countries, which are despotic countries. So we will be seeding the control of the energy supply of the planet to countries that we can't trust, and they can't even do it for several decades. So forget about spending money on investing. Of course, you want to spend money on green approaches, and we want to spend money in making carbon more efficient and better for the environment. All those things need to happen, but we should not put blinders on because the op ed pages of liberal media say we got to do this way otherwise we're bad people, and ignore the massively destructive effect of giving up on carbon based fuels. Make them better, make them work for us. In the meantime, we can develop the green tools, but it will take us decades. Let me move on to the issue you mentioned. Your parents both came to this country legally, they came from Turkey. I have been reading people attacking the fact that that you have dual citizenship with Turkey. I want to give me a chance to address immigration, and you know, welcome to the world of politics. You get attacked for everything. I was born as a dual citizen. My parents were Turkish. I was born in this country and both countries with their allied countries. Turkey is the largest force in NATO. It is the southern protection against Russia, and so growing up as a dual citizen, I was obligated to serve for two months in the Turkish army, otherwise I would never be allowed to go back to see my family in Turkey. So my father at the time, this is I was, you know, a kid just fresh out of college. My father called it to the American embassy and they said, yes, it's an allied country, he's allowed to do it. He will not compromise his US citizenship. I served my two months and when I got out, I you know, I had the choice. I came back lived in America for the rest of my life doing what I want to do, which is to serve people living in this country, a country that we have huge debt too. I'm very proud of that. I've gone back and tried my best to help when they're humanitarian crises. I've lectured. I've done surgery in Turkey. I help with the Syrian border where there were refugees, millions of people. For you, I even noticed you got attack for that doing you know, humanitarian work. I mean, I'm going trying to help human beings with nothing, and we actually they have the best refugee camps, not that you want to have refugee camps, but the best refugee camps in the world, acknowledged by the United Nations in the southern Turkey to take care of these poor people fleeing from a terrible war that had been raging. They're still continuing some places, and I'm going to do that. I will serve people. It doesn't matter if the people that are out there attacking me say things that are have truths are greatly dishonest. Why would you not want to help people with nothing. Let me move on to the issue of immigration, just more specifically. I support legal immigration, but I would say that we need some caveats. We learned a lot from this pandemic. I think you need a health check right now illegal immigrants. There's no COVID tests. We're told, oh, because they're not going to be here very long, and that turns out to be a lie. And they don't have vaccine quote mandates for illegal immigrants either, and they're moving illegal immigrants out of these overcrowded cages in the middle of a pandemic that Joe Biden built into every state in the country. I support, for example, legal immigration. I don't really care where you come from, as long as we check that you don't have radical associations in the middle of a pandemic. That would include a health check. And the third thing I would want is to ensure that people show that they have the financial means of taking care of themselves while they are here, and then welcome to our American family. I think it's that simple. It's hard not to agree with everything you said. Let's just go through it a little bit first, the narrative of what's happening at the border. This is a cartel organized human tracking operation. These people are paying a a lot of money, the only money they have in the world, many times, to a cartels who are putting different colored wristbands on them and shipping them across our border. And the reason that cartel is able to do this is it works, right, we have the opportunity to shut it down. We don't. Cartel makes money. By the way, they're also trafficking drugs. Had one hundred thousand people die this year or so far of opiates, which is another horrible consequence of our mismanagement of the pandemic. But if you look at the reality what's happening on the border, it's not what you're reading on the front page of the of the media. It's actually what I'm describing well vetted, and we're putting our law enforcement at the border in an untenable position. You can't have people come into the country and then say go off and come back when we call you for your hearing. They don't come back. It's like an IQ test. And I think these are the kinds of misguided judgments that are hurting us. I think what President Trump did made sense. Force people to stay on another side of the border, in this case the southern side of the border until we decide that you meet a solemn criteria. Otherwise our law system, our legal system isn't able to cope with this. There's no way we can test all those people and make sure that they're within the window of security and then ensure that they're getting what needs to be done for that. In fact, they just joined into the social programs of the country. Get full care, you know. And I said, there are many countries where the best healthcare available is a plane ticket to the US. And they literally say that, get on a plane, fly to America. They'll take care of you. Quick break more with doctor Oz just announcing he's running for the Senate as a Republican in Pennsylvania. Eight hundred and nine for one. Shawn our number Lindsey Graham at the top of the hour, Our Republicans going to buckle again and help Schumer and the Democrats will get to the bottom of that. All right, As we continue with doctor Oz, he just announced his candidacy to be the Republican nominee to run for the Senate and now less than a year in the great state of Pennsylvania. Let me ask you this because I'm I'm a big believer that this world was filled with a lot of evil. I believe that Russia is a hostile regime putin a hostile actor, the Uranian Mullah's God forbid they ever get nuclear weapons where I believe their radical ideology and nuclear weapons are a prescription for disaster. I'm concerned about Kim Jong un. I'm very concerned about China, especially the aggressive flying of fighter jets over taiwan airspace. Their talk are reunification with Taiwan. I don't like Putin building up his troops along the Ukrainian border. It looks like an invasion is forthcoming. Joe Biden doesn't seem to have any interest in confronting these issues had on that concerns me. I'm a big believer to sum it up in peace through strength, but I want to know what your philosophy is we need a muscular foreign policy. And it's not just a nice to have kind of thing. I mean my shows you kind enough to mention it earlier. My show has aired it over one hundred countries. I visited many of these countries. When you go to these different big, big media outlets, you know what they tell me, please fix America. And I say, well, you know, we're trying to. Why do you care so much? They say they care because we are the guiding light for them, We're the load star. But they're having a problem in Singapore. They say, gosh, and we know democracy works because America has one. Let's fix ours. If America doesn't succeed, it no longer is the shining hill city on the hill. Then people start to think that democracy won't work because there's no example of it working as well as it works in America. So we need to be on our best game to lead the work the world to allow it to do what it needs to do to become more democratic like we are. Every example you mentioned in Bob's countries who have the opposite goal and member they're not trying to make peace with us, they're not trying to figure it out and work around and you know, trade with us. No, in their mindset, they must destroy us. And I'm not being paranoid. It literally states that that's how they reinvent and recreate their ideology. It must destroy capitalism and the United States for that reason, because with us in the way, their way can't be the best. So these are existential battles that we're going to have to cope with, and the more we can unify as a country, the stronger will be to deal with that. And a good example is on sourcing critical resources what paralyzed this in COVID And I was with you, Sean acknowledge, but let me just praise you for a second. Sean would call me at three in the morning, which I didn't mind because he was trying to save the country, and we talk about getting ventilators, or how are we going to get more protective gear, or what's the best tactic to cure people who are dying. We had friends both of us in ICUs. We're tag team calling people just trying to save lives. You're trying to get You're calling foreign countries and trying to find out anything that they see that might be working to help people to save lives. You made the calls. I was getting the information from you. I do have to run. We obviously kept longer than we ask for, but this race is pivotal and I wanted. I'm reading the attacks and I'm seeing what's going on. It's all predictable and it's all part of a game that people play, but you know what, the country is in bad shape, and I'm looking for people with the right philosophy that will stand on principle and really are wanting to go to serve and for the right reasons and help people. And I'm listening to you and I'm hearing that, and it's refreshing to be honest, because they interview a lot of politicians and I'm most of them around for themselves. But that's just my own criticism. But we're going to follow this race very closely. Doctor Oz running for the Senate in a great state of Pennsylvania for the Republican nomination, and then a year from now, less than a year from now, we'll have an election and there's a must win state for Republicans. We wish you the best. Thank you for sharing your time, your thoughts and being so forthright on where you're standing on the issues. We appreciate it. God bless you think for all your wisdom. Eight hundred and nine four one Seawan our number. 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