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Just go to my pillow dot com or call eight hundred zero nine zero. Promo code Hannity take advantage of Mike's special two for one offer my pillow dot Com promo code Hannity. What an impossible news day in terms of my ability to get everything in that we need to get in today. Eight nine one Seawan is our toll free telephone number if you want to be a part of this program. So much happening today. Matt Lower is out at NBC News. Whatever this is has got to be beyond significant and serious, is my initial reaction to it. I don't want to rush the rush the judgment, but certainly this happened so quickly. And the word that they're using is is not sexual harassment but sexual assault. There is a huge distinction between the two. Doesn't make you know one less than the other in terms of if you're a victim of any of this. But anyway, the report now alleges Matt Lower sexually assaulted a female NBC stafford in the network's coverage of the Socio Olympics in two thousand and fourteen. According to sources now telling The New York Post, the allegations come as lowers firing was announced. Apparently they didn't know this just up until airtime. This Morning. Over at NBC News, there have been rumors running rampant about something with Matt Lower, especially after what happened to the liberal lion of the media, Uh, Charlie Rose and I it was getting extraordinarily loud yesterday from people telling me something big is is coming here. Uh. Andy Lack is the hack chairman of fake News NBC Conspiracy News. NBC sent a memo to stafford saying, our highest priority is to create a workplace environment where everyone feels safe and protected, and to ensure any actions that run counter to our core values are met with consequences, no matter who the offender. We're deeply had in by this turn of events, but we'll face it together as a news organization and do it in as transparent manner as we can. Our was by far NBC News as biggest star highest paid host in broadcast news, reportedly earning about eight million dollars a year, and Savannah Guthrie and Holda This Morning went on there and they had to break this at the top of the Today Show today. Just moments ago, NBC News chairman Andy Lack sent the following note to our organization, Dear colleagues. On Monday, night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lower. It represented, after serious review, a clear violation of our company's standards. As a result, we have decided to terminate his employment. While it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over twenty years he has been at NBC News, we were also presented with reasons to believe this may not have been in isolated and didn't. Our highest priority is to create a workplace environment where everyone feels safe and protected, and to ensure that any actions that run counter to our core values are met with consequences, no matter who the offender. We are deeply saddened by this turn of events, but we will face it together as a news organization and do it and as transparent a manner as we can. That is the statement from our chairman, Andy Lack. And we just learned this moments ago, just this morning. As I'm sure you can imagine, we are devastated and we are still processing all of this. And I will tell you right now we do not know more than what I just shared with you, but we will be covering this story as reporters, as journalists I'm sure we will be learning more details in the hours and days to come, and we promise we will share that with you and hold to I mean, you know, for the moment, all we can say is that we are heartbroken. I'm heartbroken for Matt. He is my dear, dear friend and my partner, and he is beloved by any many people here. And I'm heartbroken for the brave colleague who came forward to tell her story and any other women who have their own stories to tell. And we are grappling with a dilemma that so many people have faced these past few weeks. How do you reconcile your love for someone with the revelation that they have behaved badly? And I don't know the answer to that, but I do know that this reckoning that so many organizations have been going through is important. It's long overdue, and it must result in workplaces where all women, all people feel safe and respected. As painful as it is, this moment in our culture, and this change had to happen, Yeah it did. This is a very tough morning for both of us. Um I've known Matt for fifteen years and I've loved him as a friend and as a colleague, and again, just like you were saying, Savannah, it's hard to reconcile what we are hearing with the man who we know, who walks in this building every single day. We were both woken up with the news kind of pre dawn, and we're trying to process it and trying to make sense of it, and it'll take some time for that. We're processing it with all of you at home, and we promised to be transparent and be straightfor well and continue this important conversation alright that on the Today Show. Obviously a very difficult situation if you just learned moments before the show that you're your co host has has been fired. Here again, it's it's whatever this is. I can only tell you what The New York Post has given us a little bit more detail on it, and that is lours alleged victim complained to HR yesterday, and it happened so quickly. She didn't go to the media. She made a complaint to NBC's human resources, and apparently her evidence was so compelling that Matt was fired last night. And she apparently has evidence that this also happened to other women, but that has not been revealed yet, but they're talking about assault here. Um, there is a flashback. It's amazing the speed of social media today. Uh. Back in twelve is then co host Katie Kirk and a televised interview actually said the following about Matt Lower. You co hosted the Today's Show with Matt Lower for fifteen years. What is Matt's most annoying habits? All right, maybe she was joking. She was on with Andy Cohen and watch what Happens live, but maybe in light of today's developments, who knows here? And what's interesting is Katie's answer came and when nobody really picked it up at the time, And I guess most people assume that that she was joking at the time. Now there's there's even more. I told you this is now going to be a huge cascading impact. And only hours after Lower made his the firing announcement was made, it had another marquee star of major TV and major TV and radio network terminated over quote improper behavior. And that's veteran radio host Garrison Keeler. He's a big left winger, uh. And he was the host of Prairie Home Companion on Minnesota Public Radio and they announced that he was being fired from his long time broadcast home over accusations of improper behavior, and after confirming the news and an email to the AP, Keiller issued a follow up statement saying that he was terminated quote over a story I think is more interesting and more complicated than the version MPR heard, but he didn't elaborate on that. MPR issued a statement on Wednesday announcing that it would end its business relationship with Keiller's media companies, effective immediately, and that included ending distribution and broadcast of The Writer's Almanac, which is a daily syndicated program that Keiller continued to write and produce, in addition to rebroadcasting The Best of a Prairie Home Compaign Union, which actually was a great old time radio show and he had created that in nine seventy four until he retired from the radio variety program and a big blowout at the Hollywood Bowling in July. Now we do have the Hill giving a little bit more details on all of this, and Keeler said, you know, he's fired because of an incident where he put his hand on a woman's bare back, and he actually said that quote, I put my hand on a woman's bare back. I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness, and her shirt was opened and my hand went up at about six inches. I mean, this is getting so hard to cover this crap. But anyway, he said in an email to the Minnesota A Minneapolis Rather Star Tribune. I sent her an email of apology. Later she replied that she had forgiven me not to think about it. We were friends. We continue to be friendly, right up until a lawyer called. And killer called his firing poetic irony of a high order. I had a dollar for every woman who asked to take a selfie with me and slipped an arm around me and let it drift down below my belt line. Now I have at least a hundred dollars. So this is poetic irony of a high order. He said. Um anyway, getting fired as a real distinction and broadcasting. I've waited fifty years for the honor. All my heroes got fired. I only wish it could have been for something more heroic. Anyway, all of his work now there is going to be done. But that's not even it today. I mean, you can't make this up. MPR Chief news editor David Sweeney. He's now left MPR following allegations of sexual harassment filed against him by at least three female journalists, and they said The senior vice president in the News, Chris Turpin, said in an email to staff, David Sweeney is no longer on staff. It's a difficult time for our newsroom. Mom committed to supporting all of you as we move forward. Now. The complaints against Sweeney, well, that was filed after Michael Arrescus, who is their senior vice president of news and editorial director, when he was forced to resign on November the first over sexual misconduct allegations. That's all we know in that particular case. So and a lot of this, I guess it's gonna be coming out in the days and weeks to come. And I don't think there's any end to this. I just gotta I gotta believe whatever it was in the case of Matt lower is is much more severe than than what is being told now. The fact that they used sexual assault at almost reeks of a crime that was committed against somebody. Now, the question is how long did NBC know and and what did they know? And did they act? And I guess that's they're gonna have to deal with that and those questions in the day's ahead. Here, I do have some good news for you today, and that is the Commerce Department upwardly revised our economic growth to an annual rate of three point three percent in July through September. That's up from the first reported three percent. That's great news for the economy. And if the fourth quarter comes in as strong as we're expecting, this will be the first year Obama never had a single year, not one, the only president of history of three percent GDP growth, So that would be amazing. Business investment rose at seven point three percent at an annual pace. That's the best showing in nearly a year. Consumer spending, which accounts for seventy of the economy, that's up a healthy two point three percent annual pace. And consumer spending continues to increase at a solid, sustainable pace, and that would push the economy forward in And what do we see happening as a result. We see the stock market now is basically breaking a record a day, which is getting interesting. Um, nobody really wants to pay a lot of attention to North Korea, but I'm telling you this is we now have a North Korea because of Bill Clinton's horrific deal with the North Koreans and his attempted bribery of Kim Jong Ill, which is Kim Jong Gun's father, you know, of energy and billions of taxpayer dollars and the problem. There's a good deal of the American people, good dal for America. No, it wasn't, because now they have the ability to reach the continental United States, and that means that America is gonna have to now react. Even Lindsey Graham said Trump's ready to destroy North Korea. There are not good options here. Just remember I'm the one that keeps saying there are not a lot of good options. 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I think I can speak for him, right, And your current senator does not want to see a tax cut. That's not good. That's not good to want your taxes to go out. Secretary Manuchin, who's doing such a fantastic job, thank you, and Lynda mc man everybody knows administrator small business became a big business under Linda. She's helping a lot of people. Thank you very much, Linda. I especially want to thank Brasier's incredible congressional delegation. Sam Grabs where Samuel here. Yeah, they all flu in with me. They wouldn't miss that. Like Vicky Hartsler, VICKI, thank you, Thank you, Vicking. Billy Long, who I think was my first endorser in the entire country, practically Billy right, thank you, Billy Blaine Lucameyer Blaine, Thank you Blaine. And he was great on television today. I watched him. I got up early and I watched you and I was a good interview. Thank you. It's very much in favor of tax cuts. Jason Smith and Ann Wagner, Thank you Jason. Thank you Anne. And you know I have two others that I have a lot of I have a lot of faith in faith, Sally Faith. Where's Sally your mayor? Hi? Sally? Thanks Sally. And Eric Schmidt, Missouri State treasure Thank you. Thank you Eric. He's doing a great job. Just three months ago, we came to this state to launch our plan to bring back Main Street by cutting taxes for American families and small businesses. Today, I've come all right, We're gonna pick it up right from that point. You won't miss a second of it. That's the President speaking out about his tax plan, which Full Court Press now heading into this final crucial three week week period in the Senate, will have more on Matt Lauer and Garrison Killer and much more straight ahead. We're trying to be a spoke in the wheel, make this wheel go round, and help the country recover. That's what the President is now addressing in Missouri as he now pushes, in this crucial time frame the Senate to finally do something and pass his tax cut bill. Here's the President will pick it up right where we left off to launch our plan to bring back Main Street by cutting taxes for American families and small businesses. Today, I've come back to this incredible state to spend an afternoon with its amazing citizens. You are amazing to help push our plan for historic tax cuts right across that finish line. We're gonna do that. With your help, we can USh. You're in a thrilling new era of opportunity and growth for this nation that we love so much. Tax cuts have already passed the House of Representatives, big ones, big ones. The eyes of the world now turn to the United States Senate. A successful vote in the Senate this week will bring us one giant step closer to delivering an incredible victory for the American people, massive tax cuts and reform. I don't even mention the word reform because people don't know exactly what we're talking about. You know, for years they have not been able to get tax cuts, many many years since ray Can and the problem was they talked about tax reform, not tax cuts. I said, don't quote reform, quote tax cuts and reform. So every once in a while we'll add the name reform, but it's tax cuts. We cannot sit right, that's the governor agrees. We cannot sit idly by and watch ourselves losing in competition to other countries as they continue to take away our jobs because their tax coats are more competitive and less burdensome than ours. That's why we must cut our taxes, reduce economic burdens and restore America's competitive edge. We're going to do that too, and it's already happening. Look what's happening with our markets. People get it. If we do this, then America will win again like never ever before. A vote to cut taxes is a vote to put America first again. We want to do that. We want to put America first again. It's time to take care of our workers, to protect our communities, and to rebuild our great country. You know, we've spent we've spent almost seven trillion dollars in the Middle East over the less sixty seven trillion. Now taking care of it. We're doing numbers like Isis has never seen before. We're wiping them out, terrorists, they're bad and all of that. But we've spent almost seven trillion dollars. We could have rebuilt our country four times over. And we're gonna start spending here. We're gonna start spending year. And with that being said, we're going to protect our country, whether it's North Korea or any but we're gonna protect our country like never before. We're gonna build up our military and make our product here and make our planes and our boats and our everything here. But we're gonna build up our military. But we've got to start focusing on our country. That's why I'm saying America first, make America great again. You've never heard that expression. All those hats, all those they've never heard that expression before. That was a good expression, and it's a true expression. It's already happening in a long ahead of schedule. In fact, today some numbers came out that people haven't seen in many, many years. This beautiful city of St. Charles is the perfect place to deliver the message that I want to deliver. It's the place where America is passed in future, come to life on its historic brick lined main street, nice street. Do you agree it was along these very streets that in eighteen o four the great American explorers Lewis and Clark, gathered their final supplies before setting out on their very historic expedition of discovery. I have to say I didn't really know that until two days ago. Okay, you see now the world is watching. Look at all the fake news back there. They're all They're all watching. Today, more than two centuries later, a new generation of American pioneers begin is its own adventure, gathering inside the startups and the storefronts of main streets across the country, blazing new trails into totally uncharted territory of business and technology, and once again leading our nation into a future of limitless potential. That's what we have in this country. We have the greatest people. It's the greatest country. I love this country so much. Our country was not treated properly for a long time. We're treating it properly, with treating it with love and with this. We've got to treat it with this. And today, just as it's always been, Main Street is the heart of our economy, the soul of our community, and the birthplace of American dreams, but over the years, crippling taxes, massive regulation, and totally des asters. Trade deals, Oh, the trade deals. Oh. I get a headache thinking about who made these deals one after another w t O, NAFTA, the wonderful deal with South Korea. Remember they say it's going to have produced two hundred thousand jobs, and it did for South Korea didn't produce. We lost two hundred thousand jobs. Get turned some of our businesses, main streets into empty ghost towns. You see what's happened. Now we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to restore American prosperity and reclaim America's great destiny. We've already made tremendous progress, far greater than I would have thought. I will tell you this in a non braggadocious way. There has never been a ten month president that has accomplished what we have accomplished that I could teb that I can tell today again. The stock market has reached another record all time high. The unemployment rate nationwide is the lowest it's been in seventeen years, and thirteen states this year have seen unemployment drop to the lowest levels in the history of their state. And I hate to tell you, but Missouri happens to be one of them. We've created nearly two million jobs, two million jobs. Think of that. We used to lose millions. Now we've created two million jobs since I won the election. And I want to say, since you won the election. I didn't win the election. You won the election, and we will create countless more if we can sustain the three growth rate we have achieved for the past two quarters. But we're gonna do much better than that. Remember I used to say we can hit four, and we could hit three, and they were all saying, forget it, forget it. It was one point two. It was doing terribly, we were flat, we were even. The all fairness to stock market was gone this way. And now we're hitting numbers that nobody thought possible, certainly not in this time. And the numbers going up are going to be much better than anybody anticipates. In fact, they're going to say that Trump is the opposite of an exaggerator, the exact opposite. They're going to start saying Governor that he ought to be a little bit more optimistic because his predictions were low. Can you believe it? You know, a year and a half ago there was saying, oh, he can't do that. Now they're saying that was quick. But by the way, the Commerce Department announced this morning that our g d P that's the big one, and the third quarter grew even faster than they reported previously. They made a mistake they would do low. They had it at three percent. By the way, three percent. Did you ever think you'd hear that in less than a year, And now it comes in at three point three, which is the largest increase in many years. And if we didn't have the hurricanes, we would have been at four percent. The hurricanes were devastating, and I said they're worth the point. They said they were worth like point zero zero six, but I said they were worth the point. We would have been at four percent, maybe even over four percent, but we had hurricanes. We took care of him in Texas and Florida. They did a right great job, amazing job, tremendous leadership, and we're very proud. Puerto Rico has been a very tough situation because of the fact that it was in very very bad shape before the storm has ever hit. But they're doing well there and it's healing and it's getting better and we're getting empower and all of the things that they have to have. But I want to tell you that a lot of brave people in every state. We have great, great people, and it's our number one resource, believe me, really great. But in order to achieve this bright and glowing future, the Senate must pass those tax cuts. Bring Main Street roaring back. And that's what's going to happen. This is all done without the tax cuts, and I'm not sure that people even believe the tax cuts. I want to see what happens, and the big day will be either tomorrow or the next day. I would say, do it now. We're ready, I said to the Republicans, I don't wanna tell these are good people. They really want to and I know they get hit hard, the Senators and congressmen, but they're all working hard. It's not so easy. It's complicated stuff. It's not so easy. But we had an incredible session yesterday and I think with that that's why I said, let's do Can we do the vote today? What do I know? I'm a business guy. Can we do the vote now? Well? They said, how about Friday? I said, I don't want to wait till Friday, right, Billy, I said, Billy, can we do the vote, get me to vote. Well, Billy has already passed it. So and then what happens if it passes. It goes into this beautiful committee, this beautiful I quota pot, and we mix it up and we stare it up, and we bring all the best things out and you're gonna have something I predict that will be really really special. So right now, it really is really so right now, America's tax code is a total dysfunctional mess. The current system has cost our nation millions of American jobs, trillions and trillions of dollars, and billions of hours wasted on paperwork and compliance. It is riddled with loopholes that lets some special interests, including myself, in all fairness, is going to cost me a fortune. This thing. But leave me believe this is not good for me. Me, it's not so. I has some very wealthy friends not so happy with me. But that's okay. You know, I keep hearing Schumer do sits for the wealthy. Well, if it is, my friends don't know about it. I have to explain why. Now it is great for companies because companies are going to bring back jobs and we're lowering the rates very substantially. But right now we're bringing the rates down from thirty which is totally non competitive, the highest industrialized nation in the world by far, and we're bringing it all the way down to But that's good. That's good for everybody in the room, whether you have a company or whether you want a job, because we're gonna bring back jobs. And what we've had is a massive giveaway to foreign countries which encourage businesses to relocate officers. And you've seen what's happened before this. This is most prep because as bad as our tax code is, we have Toyota, we have big car companies coming back in, building plants in Michigan and other places. We have a lot of businesses coming back in and they see what's happening. They see what's going on. That's why they're doing. Our current code is a giant and really it is. It's a self inflicted economic wound. It's been that way for so many years and nobody wanted to do anything about it. But all that will change, and it will change immediately if Congress sends a tax cut and reform bill, the biggest tax cut in the history of our country. Bigger than Reagan. If they send it to my desk, I promise all of the people in this room, my friends, so many friends in this room. It's a great state. I promise you I will sign it. I promise I will not veto that bill. There will be no veto under the plan moving forward in the Senate, a typical family for earning seventy dollars as an example, we'll see their taxes go down by as much as two thousand dollars. That's a lot. Now, we're doing that not just help people. We're doing that because it helps our country. You're gonna take that two thousand and right. That's the President speaking in Missouri about his tax plan. We're gonna have experts on the program taking your specific calls on this issue tomorrow. UH. For those of you along the Sean Hannity Show network, we are going to stay with the president. If you need to go to your local break, now would be the time to do it. Well, business, way, do you see the final product? Way? Do you see what finally comes out in what I call the mixer. The beating heart of our plan is a tax cut for working families. That's what it is. We're going to make sure that you keep more of your hard earned money. We're gonna make sure also that you have a job that you want. You're gonna have choice. You know, in education, we now have choice. Good word here. You're gonna have a choice. You're not just gonna have one. You're gonna have a choice of many jobs. People are moving back into our country. Under our plan, the first twelve thousand dollars of income earned by a single individual will be totally income tax free, zero in. A married couple won't pay one dime of income tax on their first two dollars of income zero. Our plan will significantly increase the child tax Credit and make it available to more middle class families, because the single most important investment our nation can make is in our children. Do we agree? You agree? You better agree. Families will also benefit from a new credit for other dependents, like a child in college or an elderly loved one. We have our mothers, our fathers, You have your grandparents. You have people that are elderly that have done a fantastic job, they've grown old. You want to help them. Now we are going to help you help them. We're also going to eliminate tax breaks and complex loopholes taken advantage of by the wealthy. Who are they? I don't know. I think my accountants are gone crazy right now. It's all right, Hey, look I'm president. I don't care. I don't care anymore. I don't care. Some of my wealthy friends care me. I don't care. This is a higher calling. Do we agree? As Hillary said, what difference does it make? It made a different made it made a big difference, made a big, big difference. We want a tax coat that is simple and fair, and that's for all Americans. The plan that Senators will be voting on this week, hopefully as soon as possible, closes the loopholes the corporations used to shift their profits to tax havevings, and it eliminates deductions for CEO salaries over one million dollars. You see what some of these people are making little ridiculous. I'm driving up their stock. They're making a fortune. Then they go to their board and they tell everybody what a great job they're doing. But what am I gonna do? And many of them, honestly, I don't like, Uh, some of these bankers, I don't like them. And they're making a fortune and it's one of those things. Steve knows a couple of them that I'm talking about dust they're saying, what a great job they do. Right now, anybody could do their job because we're making it easy for them, because we're giving them a great and strong economy, and because we've cut regulations more than any president in the history of this country by far. And that's for full terms, that's not for ten months. And it allows builders to build, and it allows farmers to farm. You know what I've done for farmers. Where have you had a little puddle in the middle of your field. You go to jail if you touch it right, you know what I'm talking about. Not anymore, not anymore, not anymore. And it allows bankers to lend. It allows bankers to lend again. So many people came up to me and they said, we had a twenty year relationship with a bank. We never had a default, we never had a bad loan. Now we go back to the bank and they say we can't do business with you anymore because they don't qualify, even though they're better than the people that do qualify. It's incredible, but we're back to the strong days of our banks and not the days of trouble pre that. We're back to the strong where bankers can make loans and community bankers can make great loan. Two good people. You see what happened recently where the certain agency or bureau that was causing so much trouble two lenders where they could not lend, They just couldn't lend. It was devastating, they were going out of business. Well, we're taking care of that. We've already taken care of a big part of it, and yesterday, So all right, we're gonna that's the man. He is on fire today at that point, What difference does it make? I'm president? All right, when we come back, we've got new Gingrich. Also, Al Franken's office confronted by Juanita Broderick and others will have that, Joe Concha on the media, Matt Lower's sexual harassment, and much more. Mr President, It's time to stop tweeting and start leading. There are serious questions that must be answered and and many things that must be done. Democrats and Republicans on the Hill have come together on government funding before. In April, Speaker Ryan, Leader McConnell, Leader Pelosi and I worked together to fund the government and avoid to shut down. The four of us have worked together before, and we Democrats are ready to do it again. So if President Trump doesn't want to get and get involved in this, if President Trump says he's not going interested in cutting a deal, then we suggest that Speaker Ryan, Leader McConnell, Leader Pelosi and I sit down. We can come up with a good deal on our own. And that's what was done before, that's what can be done again. As I said, there are serious issues in front of us. We don't have time to waste, we don't have games to play. The military is always secondary to them. The military to me number one, we won't be here without our powerful military, and we're building it up stronger, bigger, better than ever before. In general matters can testify to that. And the other thing. They want tax increases and we want major tax decreases. So they decided not to show up. They've been all talk and they've been no action, and now it's even worse. Now it's not even talk. So they're not showing up for the meeting. I will say this in light of the missile launch. Probably they'll be here fairly quickly, or at least discussions will start taking place fairly quickly. I think that we're in a very good position in terms of the meeting we just had over at the Capitol with the Republican senators. Who was outstanding that happens. I would ask a little bit blame the Democrats that that happens. It's going to be over illegals pouring into the country, crime pouring into the country. No border wall, which everybody wants. I got elected partially because of the border wall. Uh. You look at the military. We want strong funding for the military. They don't so many things. As an example, they want high taxes, We want cut taxes. Where go to cut taxes. We're going to reform, We're gonna simplify. They want high taxes, we want low taxes. So with a lot of big differences. So we'll see what happens. As down was the president to back and forth between Schumer, Pelosi and the President yesterday, and of course, uh, Schumer and Pelosi grandstanding, and they wouldn't even show up for a meeting with the President, which is beyond frustrating for everybody. Uh, the reality is they don't have a plan. You know, everybody forgets they actually had an economic plan that included, you know, ten trillion dollars in new taxes, eleven trillion dollars in new spending, and then, of course, what's their plan for North Korea? That many of these are the same people that supported Bill Clinton's stupid, naive appeasement policies. Oh, we can bribe our way towards a peace with Kim Jong un, uh, Kim John Ung's father, Kim Jong ill, and we'll make the world a better place. We'll just give him billion billions of dollars in energy and concessions, and we'll just say, pretty pretty pleased with sugar on top. Whatever you do, don't build nuclear weapons. And now the North Koreans have the capacity, the i c B M capacity. Remember this, This missile went higher than any other missile out of the atmosphere than ever before. It's now i CBM capability they have. We know they have nuclear weapons, and they're now precipitating a crisis that was wholly and completely done under Bill Clinton's watch and Barack Obama's watch because they did nothing to stop it. And now the saber rattling is at a level that we've never seen before, worse than it's ever been before, and so this is now the state of of where the world is having to basically hope and monitor that this guy is not going to fire another missile at at Japan or Hawaii or Guam or anywhere in between. Joining us now, Former Speaker of the House, New King Ridge, how are you, sir? I'm doing well. I think you are correctly growing people's attention to probably the biggest threatning face in the near future, which is a truly very serious and I think it very hard to solve a problem well. I don't think there are many good options, although you did actually raise my hopes in an interview when this happened the last time by saying that we might have new defense capabilities that most Americans don't know about, which would include something on the lines of an electromagnetic pulse that could shut down the entire country of North Korea. I think that there are a number of tools in ourselves, and I think that we were being pushed towards using them. I also think we're pushing the Chinese very hard to make it possible for us to keep them off balance, if you will. I don't think that we should give up on finding a peaceful solution but we should recognize that that what's happening. Part is it Kim Jong n the dictated North Korea has been educated for a generation by watching question American presidents say big things and do nothing. And I think that what you're seeing shift is that we are now we now have a president who means what he's saying, and we've got to somehow, um get through this. I mean, it's really, uh, very important. I happened to have a chance yesterday chatting with General of now Secretary Madison a few other people to get a feel for the fact that they're totally engaged. I mean they literally were responding within seconds of having heard this information, and they are really putting pressures throughout the region. So I'm not convinced yet that that that it's hopeless, but I'm convinced it's a serious, serious problem. Well it seems to me, I mean at this point, now, at some point, we've got to make a decision. Now that they have, you know, this missile flu you know, fifty minutes in the air, now General Madison saying it can reach the continental United States. That put that puts every American in jeopardy. So now, remember what they did which is pretty clever. Is they fired the missile very high, so they so it looks on the surface like a relatively short range but that's because they were using the energy to push it to upwards. So we think that probably if you straighten it out, you could reach um Washington, d C with this missile. Now I did. I happened this morning to be with Leon Panetta, it used to be both Secretary Defense and the head of the CIA, and he was saying that he's reasonably confident that we can defeat one or two I C B M s if we had to with our ballistic missile defense system. But he also, I think, is moving in the direction I don't want to put words in Leon's mouth, but but he also is moving in the direction you've heard me talk about, which is that we have to take seriously the idea of a shoot on launch response which kills the missile. If our listeners can follow this, you when a missile first starts to rise, it's pretty pretty direct and pretty straight, and so that's actually the best time to try to to kill it because you have the easiest shot at it. And North Korea is a relatively narrow peninsula, so you could actually have aircraft on on twenty four hour alert sitting off shore of actually flying off shore with hypersonic weapons and go after Listen. I I agree, but the launched. But this is not perfect technology. You know, one time I remember discussing this very topic with you. I want to have forty shots at it, not one or two. And if he launches two simultaneously, you know, then what do we do or three simultaneously. Look this this, in my judgment, this makes it imparity of the Congress pass a dramatically bigger defense budget and include investing in a mid course up in space capability, include dramatically enhanced UH continental US capability, and include an ability on launch. So you think of it as a three layered system. You try to kill it first on the way up, you try to kill it while it's in space, and then you try to kill it when it comes down. It gives you, if you do it right, it probably gives you twenty or thirty shots at this thing. And you should have You should be able to build a system that has a pretty high likelihood of doing that. Now I know the world and then everybody is sort of rocked up with all the allegations in Washington and the media world and Matt Lower and Garrison Killer and Al Franken and John Conyers, etcetera. But this is a clear and present danger to the US. Similarly, I think the Republican Party now in the next three weeks it's do or die for them in the Senate, and that is Look, they've only confirmed half of the President's appointments in a year. That is an unforgivably low number. Mitch McConnell has wind and complained about excessive expectations. They never got their seven and a half year promise of repeal and replaced done. How competent are you that this tax cut bill is actually gonna pass us and they'll go in the conference and the President will have a bill to sign before Christmas. Oh, I'm I would say eight confident. Now, well, I am not that confident. Convinced me? Why because, uh, I don't know. You didn't actually convince you. You asked me how I felt. No, I know, but I want you to convince me because I feel a lot better. I mean, that's what friends do. Okay, Then, by the way, I should just say, for the audience sake, I need to thank you I had no idea how bad my voice had gotten the other night. Uh, and other than the fact that you lectured me publicly for the entire country on how to take care of my voice. No, it sounds a lot better. But by listen, I hope you noticed in the interview that I talked a lot more than I usually would. I know. Well, anyway, I just want to apologize for the entire audience, so I didn't feel it like I No, no, my end of the bargain. Na, listen, it happens. I gotta take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll have more with new king Ridge on the other side of this break. All right. As we continue, New king Rich remains with us, author of the book Vengeance. The thing I most like about where we are right now in the tax bill is that I think the President learned the key lesson of the failure with Obamacare, which is the the legislative process comes down to fifty senators plus the vice president and two House members and the president's signature. And if you can't find a way, it's a numbers game. If you can't find a way to get to fifty plus the vice president, and you can't find a way to get to eighteen. You're not going to get a law period. I don't, you know, the most most fabulous, idealistic bill in history. And if you can't get those numbers right, you lose. The President said yesterday when he was asked about Senator Corker's proposal that they have a target, they have a trigger five or six years out if they don't get enough economic growth, something will be triggered, etcetera. When he said, look, I don't particuarly like it, but if that's what it takes to get the bill, then I would sign it. That was the right answer, because you don't want to say, you know, I'm going to kill the bill over some argument six years from now. Uh, You've got lots of stuff you can do between now and six years from now. Plus I think if you look at the growth numbers that came in this morning, we're already at three point three without the tax cut. So we have a real chance here. And the way the President's going around the planet, by the way, creating American jobs, getting contracts signed country after country. Uh, there's a lot of underlying momentum building here. So I think what they've done that they sat down brilliantly with Senator Collins. She had a very specific concern. They said to her, how about we were making order two bills, you'll offer on healthcare that we brought up in the Senate and will pass it um. She said that that's all that satisfies my primary concern. Now she's in that there's been a much more personal, much more what a legislative process should be. Uh. And so I think that they're they're on a roll. Uh. We could have fall apart share, but you only have a two old majority or a three vote margin. You know, anything can happen. But I just sense that they're close to it. But we also point out in the appointments. By the way, McConnell the other day said, Okay, I am now getting seriously fed up. And I think they have a rule that says, if you say you're gonna filibuster of nominee, it takes thirty hours before you can get to the vote. Uh. And he said, maybe we ought to reduce that to eight and if that doesn't work, maybe we'll reduce it to four. When he said that, all of a sudden, the Democrats agree eighty five different nominations being approved by Anandison said, just like that. So here's my high proposal. If the Democrats don't want to meet in the White House on the budget, let's do to budget votes and spending votes what they've already done to Supreme Court votes. Let's just make it a simple majority. Then you don't have to worry about meeting with Schumer. I've been saying this. Somebody did us a big favorite and nobody ever took note of it, and that is Senator Grassley of Iowa. Because with a lot of the court appointments by and the judge ships that are appointed by the president. You know, they used to have a courtesy rule where the home state senators would sign off on it. And he said, forget about it. It's never gonna happen, so I'm not wasting my time. And that was a precedent sent by set by Harry Reid. And the same with this, you know, an equated uh rule that Mitch McConnell's clinging to that is killing the president's agenda. Yeah, and I'll tell you one of the things you can tell is different. In the old days, a traditional Republican would have tried to find a way to appease the Democrats. What what's now happening is a new spirit is infecting on the spirit of Trump, if you will, uh and uh it was. It was to me very clear, Um that what's what's happening is the Republicans are getting tougher. Instead of trying to appease the Democrats, they're standing up to him. That in my career, I have never seen this level of toughness among Republicans in the Senate. All Right, we're gonna have to leave it. Go there. I'm glad you're feeling better. Mr Aker. It was good to see you the other night. Anyway. You see the picture of me on the New York Times Sunday magazine. Wasn't it a nice picture? The things I said about you you were great, I mean, but the problem is you have to get past that hideous picture to see it. Well, it's New York Times. Yeah, I know it's gonna make you look They're not going to make you a pin up boy if your goal in life was to be a pin up boy for the New York Times. Seriously left by the way. I was there with the king Ridge that stole Christmas. So I listen, I should have learned a long time ago to follow your lead and stay out of these stupid newspapers. No, I think it was a good article for you. In fact, I had some friends of ours to tell me yesterday how surprised they were and how totally positive the article was. I didn't see it exactly the same way. But it's about me. What do I know? Mr Speaker, You're very kind. I'm glad you're feeling better. E one sewn toll free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program. You're gonna meet those that confronted Al Frankin's office, and we're gonna check in with Matt Gates on the latest on uranium one, the Clinton scandals, and yeah, Al Franken confronted Matt Lower Gone Arison, kaylor gone, that's next. If there is this moment where voters are looking now in a general election context or thinking of you versus Donald Trump, some voters may be paying attention now in a different kind of way. What's your answer to those people who think g FBI inquiry that's a big deal. Uh? What do you say to them? I say what I've said now for many many months. It's a security inquiry. I always took classified material seriously. Uh. There was never any material marked classified that was sent or received by me, and I look forward to as being wrapped up. What about people think, well, she might be president, what does she learned from this whole president? Well, that was a mistake, and I have said that and I will say it again as often as I need to. H It seemed like a convenient idea at the time that certainly wasn't. And so I always take classified material seriously. There's no argument about that I'm aware of, and I will continue to do so. I have to give them credit. You know, Trump and his allies, including Fox News, are really experts at distraction and diversion. So the closer the investigation about real Russian ties between Trump associates and real Russians, as we've heard Jeff Sessions finally admit to h in his testimony the other day, the more they want to just throw mud on the wall. And I'm their favorite target, me and you know President Obama, we're the ones that they always like to put into the crosshairs. Um. So yes, I'm not surprised, but I think the real story is how nervous they are about these continuing investigations. Let me go back, if I can, very briefly to the decision to publicly go out with your results on the email. Was your decision influenced by the Attorney general's tarmac meeting with the former President Bill Clinton. Yes, in in a ultimately conclusive way. That was the thing that kept it for me that I had to do something separately to protect the credibility of the investigation, which meant both the FBI and the Justice Department. Where there are other things that contributed to that that you can describe in an open session, there were other things that contributed to that one significant item I can't I know that committee has been briefed on. There's been some public accounts of it which are nonsense, but I understand that the committee has been briefed on the classified facts. Probably the only other consideration that I guess I can talk about an open setting is that at one point the Attorney General had directed me not to call it an investigation, but instead to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me. But that was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude I have to step away from the Department. If We're to close this case credibly. Alright, twenty four now until the top of the hour, toll free on numbers one, Shawn, if you want to be a part of the program. I never sent and I never received any of this information classified information. And by the way, it's only a matter. It's not it's not an investigation. It's a matter, and I'll meet you on the tarmac and Hillary blows it all off his course. Anyway, there is going to be a major bombshell regarding all of this we expect in the next week. So TikTok to everybody in the liberal news media that hates me but yet obsessively listens to the program every day. Joining us now is Florida Congressman Matt Gates, who is talking about this new evidence that uncovered the FBI colluding with Clinton and the investigation that they are planning to launch to expose what is widespread deception and much more. How are you, sir, I'm great, se And for those who did not catch your segment last night on the uranium one scandal and the investigations that are still needed there, the special council that is still needed there, I would recommend them to go to your website. Look that up because it was very informative. Well, I appreciate, I got listen. I gotta give all credit where it's due, and that goes to John Solomon and Sarah Carter. At the end of all of this, I predict they should be getting the pulletzer prise for investigative work. Will it happen? I don't know. Um So, the FBI recently released emails in which Hillary was called another word, special access program, and also the investigation was called special by the FBI Deputy Director Andrew McKay. Now, special access program information is the highest level of classification. So I want you to go deep into these two things in particular. Absolutely, Sean, and you know, equal treatment under the law is a fundamental value that we cherish as Americans. And what a roads equal treatment under the law is if you give special treatment to some people and you depart from the normal investigative processes. When you and I have pointed out that Hillary Clinton has gotten her own standard throughout her entire career, her own level of review there is less than would be applied to any other public official, she says, it's a vast right wing conspiracy. It's an abuse of power. But now coming out of the FBI, we are seeing concrete evidence that Hillary Clinton was not treated like every other American. She wasn't even treated like every other person that would be in the Washington, DC area accused of a crime. So you've got you've got Andrew McCabe, who's the current Deputy director of the FBI, who at the time was working in the Washington Field office, sending emails designating the Hillary Clinton investigations as special telling people to not engage in the normal investigative procedures and practices, but that instead there would be a quote small group at h Q at headquarters that would manage this investigation. Now that alone is troubling, but when we provide the additional context, it becomes potentially criminal. Here's what worries us. You've got Loretto Inch on the tarmac telling Bill Clinton you know, Lord knows what, and their one on one meeting. I don't think there are any Americans who think that they were talking about their grandkids at the time. Then you've got James Comey giving testimony that Loretta Lynch told him to call this a matter and not an investigation. Then you've got call me ripping this case out of the hands of the Washington Field Office so that he can have total control over it. And then you have the revelation that James Comey said that he was writing the exoneration statement for Hillary Clinton before even conducting critical parts of the investigation like interviewing Hillary Clinton herself. Here's what we've got to do. We've got to make sure that under the new leadership at the FBI, under Christopher Ray, we do not have this system where you've got one track for the politicians and another track of justice for everyone else. We need to clean house at the FBI. We need to attack the deep state there that is unfortunately undermining the rule of law. And I think that will give the American people more confident. So in in the coming weeks, we expect a lot of developments. We expect to see some real action at the FB eye from Christopher Ray, and we will have activity of coming in the Judiciary Committee. They will highlight our concerns over the rule of law. All right, So here is where I think I've got to be honest, Congressman. At times I have felt like a lone voice in the wilderness. And and you know, media personalities and and other competitive networks have said, well, why is Hannity talking about this, Because if we don't have equal justice under the law in this country, we don't have justice. We have a Banana Republic. The evidence is so overwhelming, so incontrovertible on major issues, and that would include the uranium one deal. And we learned last night from John Solomon that the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation understated support from the firm that was hired by the Russian nuclear company. And by the way, it never made sense to give away, you know, of America's uranium when we have to import uranium because we don't have enough uranium. Then we've got the Russian dossier. For a year they lied about said they had nothing to do with. Now we know they funded Christopher Steel Fusion GPS to come up with Russian lines to influence the American people in an election. And it goes back to a simple abuse of power. When thirty three thousand emails are deleted when they're subpoenaed by Congress, and then they use acid wash and bleach bit and then they destroy these devices with a hammer. All of that would Shawn Harry says, it's us, it's it's the Republicans who are abusing power by having the audacity to question the special treatment that she gets. You know what, why if Waitcrecy, if you subpoena in Hannity documents and I deleted them, I suspect that I would be arrested and probably charged and maybe put in jail for a long time. You're absolutely right, but see their use to their own standard. You know, I'm an attorney in the court of law. If you go and destroy evidence, there is a presumption that that evidence would be detrimental to the claims you are making. But see the Clintons. They enjoy a presumption that they should be treated differently or special and your right. Chart You have taken enormous criticism from the mainstream media over the fact that you've been pointing these things out. But as a consequence of the McCabe emails that have been released, we now have proof that you've been right all along. There can no longer be a dispute on the facts as to whether or not Hillary Clinton was treated differently. The FBI s own emails that they themselves released prove it, and so now we need to know why. And I think important for us moving forward, for forgetting about Hillary Clinton for a moment. Do we really want a system of laws in this country that treats the powerful, the politicians that connected differently than we would treat everyone else. And I think that that is the enduring virtue that we can bring to this process with transparency and by pointing out this double standard. Why has there been this mysterious reluctance and resistance among some of the leadership in the House and Senate to even ask these questions, delve into these issues when, as you rightly described, there's so much at stake as it relates to equal justice under the law. We need more Republicans in particular to join our cause, to join Jim Jordan and Rhonda Santis and myself and and twenty members of the Judiciary Committee who have demanded a special counsel for four months now to look into these matters relating to Hillary Clinton. And I think that there are establishment Democrats and establishment Republicans who just think that it's untawdry to be critical of the Clintons anymore, that you know, while they lost, and they're really the past, and we shouldn't really focus on these things. And that's kind of the Country Club Republicans that feel that way. And my assessment is that the rule of law matters every day to every American and we all need to be joined to ensure that that doesn't happen again. Have you have any discussions with leadership like Ryan or McCarthy or any of these guys. I have. I stood up at conference and I said, we have legislation that said that that puts the House of Upper It's on record calling for a special counsel. It could be put on the floor any day. It has been passed out of the Judiciary Committee already as as an amendment, and we could have it on the floor. And I asked the speaker, and I asked the leader to put it on the floor, and they very politely nodded when I made my request, but they didn't do it, did not. I gotta take a break. We will come back. We will continue with Matt Gates. He is a Florida Congressman, digging deep now into the things that we have been discussing. That as I've been telling you, it's now beginning to cascade down and it's gonna happen very very fast, probably as soon as next week. As we continue with Matt Gates. He is a Congressman from the state of Florida. All these now Hillary controversies that we have been staying on and keeping alive now coming to fruition, We've not been on the wrong course. We've been on the right course. So let's talk about what you think is coming out next week. I know you remain troubled regarding the FBI's treatment of the president both before and after his election. Do you feel that there has been an eagle unwarranted, let's say, surveillance of President Trump? And is it possible the Fusion GPS Doacier, which has been proven false with their salacious material, was used as a method of getting a FISA warrant or any other warrant. Well, Jim Jordan and Rhonda Santis and I asked that question directly to Jeff Sessions. We said, did you did the FDI work in concert or commingle funds or provide a reimbursement with the Democratic Party for opposition research that was then used as a basis to spy on Americans? And the answer was, we can't tell you. That is unacceptable, Sean. The American people have a right to know whether their tax dollars were used both before and after this election to undermine President Trump, and I do not accept that that's information that the deep state can keep from the American people. Next week, my expectation, as we may have Christopher Way before the Judiciary Committee will have the opportunity to ask the FBI these questions directly. And here's the hint I can give you as to what I think maybe coming next week. The FBI released these emails about Deputy Director McCabe on purpose. These weren't weeks. They released it on purpose. And so what motivation would Christopher Ray have to out these improper admissions by the FBI. I think Christopher Ray wants to clean house. I think he wants to be a good FBI director and execute the Trump agenda. And we may may see some real action next week towards that end. That's going to be fascinating to watch in every aspect of this. So you think this was done on purpose as a preemptive measure in the hopes of cleaning up the FBI. I want to ask you about Jeff Sessions. Uh, real quick, before I have to let you go. Look, I've known Jeff Sessions for years I've always I've always been a fan of his, and I am beyond puzzled at what the heck he's doing over there as the attorney general. He was a phenomenal U S. Senator as Attorney general on free speech issues, on immigration issues, he's done a great job. But there's something about the Clinton's, about the Russia investigation, where we've needed Jeff Sessions to show leadership, and he's been very reticent to show that leadership. I mean, with all of the facts that you've detailed on your show, with all the facts that we've seen in documents from the FBI, why in the world do we not have a special counsel investigating Hillary Clinton. There's way more evidence for her collusion with foreign entities than there is with Donald Trump. But yet we we subject Donald Trump to this just egregious standard of scrutiny that we would that the Clintons have never faced. And so I'm frustrated with Jeff Sessions and Jim Jordan, and I have said very clearly, Jeff Sessions needs to appoint a special counsel to look into these matters with Hillary Clinton, or he needs to step aside as the attorney general. So that we can find somebody who will really enforce the rule of law. I totally agree with all of that, really appreciate you being with us. Eight D Shawn is a number, and Melanie Morgan. I'm here today to demand that Senator crank can resign. Brought to Washington some of the victims of Bill Clinton's harassment. As you can see, Kathleen Willie wanted to Broaderick and Leslie Milwe who is joining us as well, and we are here to demand at both Senator conyor Senator Franken and Congressman Conyers resigned their position. Does he remember me? First of all, I'm the one who was harassed by him seventeen years ago on politically Incorrect with Bill Maherk. He has never even referred to me, let alone apologize to me, let alone any of these other women like Leanne Tweeton and others. So this is what we're here to do today. Let's see what happens. Senator Franklin, come on, come on out, talk to us. Don't be a coward. Speak to us. We have something to say to you. I think you should have something to say to us. So he's not available right now, but I'm gonna be happy to take the message and pass it able. He harassed me and stalked me seventeen years ago, and I'd like for a year to know that I demand an apology, but more importantly, i'll passively apology if he resigns. He needs to leave office right now. He and Congressman knyer Al Franklin was confronted earlier today at his office by Melanie Morgan. Wanted to broader at Kathleen Willie uh Leslie Milwee was also there and uh, as you can hear that he wouldn't come out of his office and talk to the women who now all join us on our newsmaker lines. Welcome all of you back to the program. Melanie, let me start with you. Uh, let's talk about from your perspective why it was important. I mean, you talked about the stalking incident with you. We saw the pictures with lee An Tweeden. He's apologized, is actually acknowledged a lot of it, but not all of it. What are your thoughts? It's not good enough, It's not nearly good enough, Sean. That's why we had a news conference in Washington, d C. And national news conference to call on him for his resignation, in addition to Congressman Conyers. And then we went over to the the capital and we demanded, we demanded to be heard by Senator Franken who cowered in his own office. He refused to come out to meet us, to speak to us or talk to us. And it was it was unbelievable to me. I mean, after seventeen years, um, apparently he has nothing to say to us. These half apologies and non apologies unacceptable. Let me go to one eight one eight. I've known you and Kathleen in particular a long time, and you know, it's been very interesting to watch all of these stories unfold. And after Lisa Myers, I was the second person that went to interview you, and I remember one of the one of the first things that people would ask me when I came back, as do I believe you? And like Lisa Myers, I think had communicated to you you're too believable and I just knew all my heart at the time, I remember this. It was a very hard interview for me to do. When I went down to our you know, I made I made you know all my life, I've said to myself for good or for better or worse. That I was never gonna cry on air. And I remember doing the interview with you and literally biting hard the inside of my cheek because it was so painful to hear what you had gone through. Oh yeah, and it's still painful to me, you know, and talk about it, you know, thirty years the Clintons were protected, though, And I noticed that some people are now saying, oh, we should there now coming out. The day of reckoning for the Clintons have come. And to me, that's like, well, after Paula, after you, after Kathlee, and after a bunch of other people, I'm thinking it's a little too little, too late. What are your thoughts, because now the Clintons don't have power. Oh, that's exactly it. If Hillary Clinton had been elected, Seawn, you and I both know that these sudden revelations would never have occurred. They would not have given us a time of day. But as the Clinton's powers, you know, goes away and diminishes, they feel safe to come out. Yeah. I did notice an exchange that went on, and I even talked about it on air between you and what's her name, Chelsea Handler? And and she she then apologized to you, and you accepted her apology. Well, you know, and and I and I did accept her apology, Sean, But I still do not understand how she had never known about me. No, I mean that that is a good point, right, I just I didn't I did not understand that. And the same with Anna Navarro. Oh I didn't know Anna Navarro had done that, but you were Yeah, she apologized. You told the story of being brutally raped by Bill Clinton, right, and then all these years every you got smeared and slandered by the Clinton machine, didn't you. Oh? Yes, yes, people would laugh about me. Do you know how they laughed about Trump will never be president? When my name was brought up. They would laugh, and they and and deny everything that I was trying to say. Uh, they ridiculed me Shawndenoian and even up to an including last year when you showed up at the second debate and I interviewed you and Paula and Kathleen. It even happened through then, right, Oh yes, well it had sort of died down a little bit. But when we went to that debate, My god, did it come on again. Well, we know, we know why they're coming back out again that that that wasn't it, That wasn't it. This man, President Trump gave us the opportunity to speak when we had been not been denied that for two decades. Let me go to Leslie. Leslie, it's great to talk to you again. You were sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton twice in you that your local TV reporter. Yes, he actually what I would call sexually assaulted me on three occasions. One time it was more groping and uh that, and then the second and third time it was very very aggressive, need to the point that I would consider it truly sexual assault. And you know, I I I feel bad so much that I didn't support Juanita and Kathleen and everyone in the nineties. I had really small children, and I was truly afraid of the Clinton machine. And now I'm I am really happy that I've come forward and told the story because millennials need to hear this too. You know, it's funny you say that because there are so many people I'm finding out. I mean, I lived through these years. I was on radio and TV all these years, and to me, it's like, you know, fresh and etched into my memory. Worry and for some young people. They don't even know that, they don't know this story. When you put the atmosphere that's out there now and you look at the left and their reaction to some of the different allegations and and frankly admissions that have come out, and you compare it to how democrats but thirty years circled the wagons for the Clintons. It seems to me that that that is the just the definition of being disingenuous. And this is selective moral outrage, and it has really nothing to do with women's rights. That has everything to do with politics. And you get a pass of your a liberal that's exactly right. Yeah, well I needed you, I mean, and that's the whole thing. What do we do? Look and by the way, Leslie, what happened to your career as a result of when you finally talked and when you spoke out and finally spoke about this, Well, I it changed the course of my life. I gave up my job as a reporter there in Arkansas, um at at the behest really of my family, and my grandmother would retain and knocked on my door one night to try to get into my home. Um I was terrified I quit my job the next day and I'm now in a completely different sales and it's great. I'm not complaining. I'm you know, I'm a survivor, not a victim. But yes, I want people to understand how amazingly this man has gotten by with this for all these many years. And let me go back. This is this is why I wanted to square the circle today. Um. In order to understand sexual harassment and sexual assault in two thousand seventeen, we have to look back to to what happened to broad wanted to broad Rate, to Leslie Milwy, to Kathleen Willie and the dozens of other women whose names have been associated with Bill Clinton. If we don't understand what happened and what sexual assault looks like and what sexual harassment looks like, how are we going to clean the house to day? And by a house, I mean Congressman Kanyer's captain underpants, who thinks it's perfectly appropriate to run around his office in his tidy whitey's in front of his all female staff. I mean, this is what all the reports are. How are we going to get somebody like al Franken, who has been you know, involved in groping, and who has photographic evidence of what happened with and all these women whose stories have been discredited by liberal feminist icons like Nancy Pelosi and some of these other women who supposedly represent all of women, Well, what they represent is a war on women and in particular the victims of democratic aggressors. And that's why we wanted to go public today. What do we do, Like in the case of al Franken, we have a picture and we all know Leanne tweeting and lean tweetens asleep, and then we got other pictures of him grabbing Arianna huffing, and although she says it's okay, I guess she just supports his politics, and and the same with joy Behart. But you got evidence and Leah and tweet. I knew about that picture for years, and Leanne asked me never to talk about it, and I never did. But I've known about it for a long time. What do you do when there's no evidence and it's it's one person's word against the other. Because in the case of Knyer's when he denies it, I feel on being consistent when I say, okay, everybody deserves a presumption of innocence, But these charges are so serious we need to find the truth. Melanie, You've been very very consistent Sean from the beginning on on whether it was Judge Roy Moore, or whether it is Al Franken or John Conyer's or anybody else. You have to look at the totality of the allegations. You have to look at the veracity and the history of the people who are making them. I can't speak for any other woman other than myself, and I know my story is a true story. I have spoken to Juanita. I have lived this story of what the Clintons had done since I've spoken about it every single day. But when I sat down last night at the dinner table to hear all these women who are so incredibly brave and smart and wonderful and what they went through and as they told I felt like it was a Rosa Park moment. I mean, really, this is a shattering now with with firing of Matt Lower and Garrison Keeler and all these others, All these people in private industry are getting fired as these allegations become public. But it's the people's representatives who are well paid that we paid millions out well, we paid for their non disclosure agreements, we paid for their settlement agreements. And my attitude is it's your problem, not the taxpayers problem. You pay and that's up to you. If you want to pay. You can't use our money and then get anonymity. You want to pay for whatever deal you want to make, then you pay for it, all right. As we continue earlier today, Al Franken's office was confronted by Melanie Morgan. She, of course, along with LeAnn Tweeden, has chronicled what in fact Frankin did to her by stalking her for a long period of time and she had to threaten the police to get it to end. On Ata, Broderick, we all know her story. Well, uh told me her story years ago about being raped by Bill Clinton, and Leslie Milwee is back with us and she was a local TV reporter in Arkansas sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton twice in on ATA. Let me ask you the same question I was asking Melanie Morgan, is you know what do you do in the cases where somebody says it didn't happen and then somebody says it did happen. Oh goodness, Sean, that's that's a hard one. You just have to follow the trail and you have to see if there's any credible witnesses. You have to see if there's any physical evidence, and you have to trust who these ladies are, who they have been, and who the accused is. Other than that, it's just an investigative process. And by the way, when when you're when you came public and I had the second interview, you were getting trashed publicly, and a lot of people in the media never took the time to call you a reach out to you. Did they No, no, no, but but they had plenty to say without talking to me. And it was horrible, Sean, it was just horrible. You know. It is interesting because as I've interviewed all of you, and and Kathleen is not with us today, and Paula Jones was not with us today. It's an amazing, you know, gut feeling. I've been in radio now thirty years, Leslie, and I know you probably as a reporter, you felt the same thing. There there came a point, there came a time where you really could tell sincerity and a lack of sincerity. Do you feel that in your career? Oh? Absolutely? And taking it a step further from what Wanita was saying about, you know, he said, she said, um, the track records there. I told my husband, you know about this. I met my husband shortly after this happened, and I, you know, my immediate family and my husband and a few other people you know, new early on, and I always you know, I asked my husband should I talk about this? Should I come out and tell everyone? And he said, you know what, you'll know when it's the right time. And it's the right time now. I think things are breaking open. It's time that women came forward. I was fortunate that I kept some things that, um, like Bill Clinton wrote on top of my name Clinton and said to me, um, you know, I just wanted to show you how good Clinton looks on top of Leslie on my notebook, you know, and things like that. People don't understand. You know. This was a constant harassment that I had to endure for months and months and months. And I'm so glad that I've come forward. And I know he'll never admit it, just like I think Franken won't and Conyers and many of these men. But it's so good. Just like Oneeda said, you know, look at the facts. Look at how we've lived our lives. What's happened? Um, you tell me what do you think is correct? Listen. I appreciate all of you coming on. I know it's hard to to relive these moments in your life and to talk about them. Um, if one good thing comes out of all of this, maybe you know this systemic, this systematic this, Uh you know this, this trend is unbelievable. And I think your voices will probably help many women in the future, which would which would be a great thing for everybody. And I thank you all for being with us. And uh, I think we'll see some of you on TV tonight on Hannity. Thank you for being with us. Thank you. The Handman is back on the radio right now. You co hosted the Today's Show with Matt Lauer for fifteen years. What is Matt's most annoying happit? Keith pinches me on the Asshlon just moments ago and be seen. His chairman, Andy Lax sent the following note to our organization. Dear colleagues, On Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about in opre its sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt lower it represented, after serious review, a clear violation of our company's standards. As a result, we have decided to terminate his employment. While it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over twenty years he has been at NBC News, we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident. Our highest priority is to create a workplace environment where everyone feels safe and protected, and to ensure that any actions that run counter to our core values are met with consequences, no matter who the offender. We are deeply saddened by this turn of events, but we will face it together as a news organization and do it and as transparent a manner as we can. That is the statement from our chairman, Andy Lack. And we just learned this moments ago, just this morning. As I'm sure you can imagine, we are devastated, and we are still processing all of this. And I will tell you right now we do not know more than what I just shared with you, but we will be covering this story as reporters, as journalists. I'm sure we will be learning more details in the hours and days to come, and we promise we will share that with you and hold to I mean, you know, for the moment, all we can say is that we are heartbroken. I'm heartbroken for Matt. He is my dear, dear friend and my partner, and he is beloved by many many people here. And I'm heartbroken for the brave colleague who came forward to tell her story and any other women who have their own stories to tell. And we are grappling with a dilemma that so many people have faced these past few weeks. How do you reconcile your love for someone with the revelation that they have behaved badly? And I don't know the answer to that, but I do know that this reckoning that so many organizations have been going through is important. It's long overdue, and it must result in workplaces where all women, all people feel safe and respected. As painful as it is, this moment in our culture and this change had to happen, Yeah, it did. This is a very tough morning for both of us. Um I've known Matt for fifteen years and I've loved him as a friend and as a colleague. And again, just like you were saying, Savannah, it's hard to reconcile what we are hearing with the man who we know who walks in this building every single day. We were both woken up with the news kind of pre dawn, and we're trying to process it and trying to make sense of it, and it'll take some time for that. We're processing it with all of you at home, and we promised to be transparent and be straightfor well and continue this important conversation, all right, that from the Today Show earlier today now till the top of the hour one Shawn told free telephone number as this news continues to come in. In terms of media figures, you know the liberal lion Charlie Rose Garrison Killer who was the MPR host of Prairie Home Companion, which I gotta be honest, was a great show on radio for years, an incredible radio talent, although a huge massive LIB But anyway, hours after Matt Lower was fired and again the allegations here of actual sexual assault. UM no details yet coming in, but anyway, we have another marquee star major LIB TV radio network has now terminated Gallus and Keeler for quote in an improper behavior and it was confirmed on Wednesday that he was fired by his longtime broadcast Home in a sorta public radio, and after confirming the news and an email to the AP, Keiller issued a statement saying that he was terminated over a story that I think is more interesting and more complicated than the version MPR heard. He didn't elaborate on that. MPR issued a statement on their website announcing it would end its business relationship with Keiller's media company, effective immediately, and that includes ending distribution and broadcast of the writer's Almanaca daily syndicated program, in addition to the Best of a Prairie Home companion. By the way he started that inception. Inception of that was seventy four. Then on top of that, we have other news. We have the MPR chief news editor, David Sweeney, now has left the company following allegations of sexual harassment filed against him by at least three female journalists, and David Sweeney is no longer on staff. Acting senior vice president Chris Turpin said in an email to staff, this is a difficult time for our newsroom. I'm committed to supporting all of you as we move forward. And the complaints against Sweeney were filed after MPR Senior vice president of News and editorial director was forced to resign on November one over sexual misconduct allegations. Here to help sort through this media mess is Joe Concha. He writes for The Hill, and uh is often a frequent of makes frequent appearances on the Fox News channel. How are you you want me to unpack all that my hair hurts my friends? Well, you want to start with the picture of me on Time magazine? You can do whatever you want. But I mean, I think the world was stunned this morning. I mean Matt Lower, I'm told got paid as much as twenty five million dollars a year. He was the franchise at the Today Show. So whatever happened there, you're Variety actually reports twenty eight million, twenty eight million a year, a lot of money heid in broadcast media. Garrison Killer saying, hey, wait a minute, that this may not have happened the way MPR was told, but he's already been found guilty. Always, I don't know how you litigate this stuff, Like with Harry Harvey Wainstein. It's easy because there's there's actual audio of him, you know, in an m y p D undercover operation. That's fine, And Kevin stays Stacey basically said I was drunk. I really don't remember. Okay, yeah that that that means that probably happened. So they're easy ones to litigate. And then there are ones where are like, well wait a minute, I don't know if this happened or not. Now now with Lauer, uh, you know a lot of media outlets were we're working on this, and and I've been you know, I was late to the party. But I heard about this in earnest on Monday. Uh that that this, and I heard about relationships. I'd never heard about assault. No assault, I didn't harassment. I had heard about the assault that that may have happened allegedly in Rio during those Olympics, and Sochy I think was brought up as well in other Olympics. That that's different altogether. So NBC was pretty definitive and firing them. It wasn't like we're gonna investigate this, because they knew that a lot of publications were sniffing around well beyond me that we're going to break this, So they decided to break it themselves. But what worries me sean, to be honest with you, two thousand eighteen and two thousand twenty, if somebody wants to take a political opponent out, and somebody in some back room, a guy behind the guy in some strategy war room, decides to put together an elaborate scheme to have somebody accused of sextual harassment. It seems now that you're guilty until proven innocent in the media because so many people are actually guilty, that everybody's gonna be painting with this broad brush and it's gonna be used as a political weapon to take out opponents. And and that's my fear right now, that we're going down a very slippery slope where we're jumping to conclusions immediately. In other words, you're you're afraid because of what the atmosphere is. But there are two different responses every time. One is I didn't do it, and people fight back and there and by the way, that would be the case of John Conyers or Roy Moore. And you know, I have been steadfast in my belief that there should be a presumption of innocence, like, for example, in the case of Roy Moore, I don't understand we have in one case, he says he didn't know a woman. The woman claims, well, look at my yearbook I've had a forty two year professional handwriting expert on this show that says they could. They could absolutely if they can get his handwriting from the time with a dent accuracy, they will be able to determine if he wrote that on the yearbook, and they'd be able to determine forensically if the ink exists. Why isn't that moving forward? Because that at that point would say Roy Moore lied, Did he sign something at some point that they could cut their hands on. I mean, that's up to more to present that, right, I mean, well, no, I think, but remember they're not making that available to him and his team to have forensically looked at, right, and that that would certainly help that go along way because remember Glory already broke out the yearbook and said, see here's the proof for a basic Well, that's the point. If if forensics can prove a case that he's either telling the truth in that instance are lying, I think that benefits the people of Alabama and the fact that they're not producing it. To me, I don't know, it makes no sense to me. Let me get props by the way to shifting gears for a second. To Melissa Francis at Fox News because months and months ago, she said, everybody's saying that Fox News has a culture problem in this regard, and this is prevalent throughout the industry, and their day of reckoning is gonna come. And sure enough, now we see this wasn't a Fox problem. This is a CBS problem. It's an NBC problem. And we do have a pretty good track record here because we don't rush to judgment. I'll never get credit for it. You know, nobody thought Trump could win every but he thought that that George Zimmerman was guilty. Richard Jewel case. Uh, then we have the Ferguson case, then we have the Freddie Gray case, you know, then the vetting of Obama issue. I think I have a pretty good track record, and you know, it's amazing I could come under fire for saying I believe in the presumption of innocence. I said that for John Conyers, because Conyers denied it. Confident. You've got to work in your confidence. You're not you don't you know you're not toubting that enough. That's the problem. You're such a wisass. Sorry, Why why do I why do I have you on to abuse me? I there's no point. I mean, Linda works full time. She gets paid to do that. Abuse was that New York Times cover, which which is a shame because you have to admit they did a good job with that piece. I thought it was very fair. You know, Look, it's not I wish things that I had actually said. One of the things I said in that piece that I wish was in there. I act what I just said to you. I'm often more right than wrong, and that I wait, and that I'm patient, and that I actually do my own digging. You know. I had a little Twitter or fight. What's that guy's name that's on MSNBC. I don't even know the show, the guy that you know, No, no, no, I no Lawrence the guy had yeah that one. So he tweets out so well, Hannity talks to Julian and Kim dot com and I'm like, yeah, I actually Julian Osang would be the one man in the world that knows who uploaded who gave him the information on the emails, so unlike him. Yeah, I called him. I've interviewed him on radio and TV, and I went to London. That's all in pursuit of truth for my audience eleven eleven years. They've never been proven wrong eleven What do you think of the picture? Really handsome photo. You know, I got a lot of feedback on Twitter. People said they liked it, that it showed your passion. No no, no, no, no, no no. They wanted to portray me as an angry nut a conservative nutcase. That and this is you know, I showed this last day. You watch the last Night show, I hope. So, of course, Okay, did you see when I went back all the way to that's twenty six years ago and I let a guy in my radio studio in Huntsville, Alabama take photographs for three hours and did you see the photo he put in? Yeah, that's okay. No, it wasn't nice. It had my face contorted, made me look angry. And that's how the liberal media wants to portray conservatives. It is a it's photo bias, if you will. Did you see I hear back in the New York Times. I asked him, I said, well, what what went into the decision making process? And their official spokesperson got back to me and he said that you had said in the story that you were mad, and therefore they wanted to portray that. They quoted you was saying you were mad, and they thought that the picture was accurate. That's that whole thing is inaccurate too, because I'm mad because I see my country disintegrating. You know one of the things I went over again and again that never got put in that piece. You know what what what drives me every day? You know what drives me. I care about people in the position I was when I was in my late teens and early twenties and mid twenties, where I had no money, the forgotten men and women. There are millions of people on poverty, on food stamps, and out of the labor force, and I want to fix problems. Now. That's what gets me up in the morning. Not I don't give a flying rip about Matt lower leaving the Today Show. That's his problem. Yeah, he didn't leave, he got fired. He probably won't ever work again. But I'll tell you this, though, You're gonna see accusations Sewan, because the Hill ran a poll a couple of days ago. They said the sixty percent of women say they were sexually harassed in the workplace at some point. You know what that means. That means every day get used to this news coming out from either the political arena, the media arena, or the entertainment arena of somebody big getting accused to the point where there's not gonna be too many folks left. It appears, it's not How do we ascertain? And I think the public needs to really wrap their head around this because there are women that are victimized by horrible people. It happens, and you know what, they don't deserve to be treated that way. Okay, what but an allegation is made that's not definitive? How do how does the average person sort through all of this and get to truth? I wish I could say the media would would dig and do the right things and not just run with allegations and convict that person as guilty in the court of public opinion. But that doesn't appear to be the way that things are working. So I the answer is, I'll be totally transparent. I don't know. I don't know what you do in this situation. If you're accused, and if you don't have the means and the in the money to the fight back, you're screwed. You're screwed. Unfortunately, and most women are telling the truth. Well, may be clear about that, but there are going to be exceptions. And again I think that in the political I want to ask you about it be weaponized. You're out of time, get lost. I'm kidding, all right, Thank you, Joe Contract from the hell. We appreciate it, all right, Hannity tonight UH nine, he stood on the Fox News Channel. Matt lower is alt, Garrison Keeler is out, multiple firings at MPR. What's going on? Also, the President tweets out some radical Islamic terrorists and people say, well, look at who we te tweeted. We'll discuss that, and we'll point out a media hypocrisy on so many levels. And of course we have the latest on the President's push to get the Senate to finally do something, and so much more. We got a big show tonight. Set your dvr ninetiestern on the Fox News Channel. Thanks for being with us. We'll see it a night at nine. Back here tomorrow.