Spending Bill Is Awful And Law - 3.23

Published Mar 23, 2018, 10:00 PM

Congressmen Louie Gohmert and Dave Brat join Sean to discuss the latest $1.3 trillion spending plan that passed Congress and was VERY reluctantly signed by President Trump. Sean has continue to push for restrained spending and yet it seems Congress has missed the boat. The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com.

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They don't have a vision, they don't have principles, they don't have they don't stand for anything, which is how we now find ourselves in a in a mess that we are in today and where they go ahead without anybody reading it and pass a one point three trillion dollar omnibus spending bill. It's two thousand two hundred thirty two pages full of pork and spending that nobody should ever spend. And I you know, I look at this thing and I'm like, this easily could have been passed by Pelosi and Schumer. A matter of fact, they're absolutely giddy over the whole deal. In a certain stance, we're able to accomplish more in the minority than we were when we had the presidency or even were in the majority. Well, I think one of the reasons they rushed it through that they didn't want their voting colleagues to see just exactly what was in the bill. Uh, sounds like Pelosi, you cannot just you know, I read this one article if I was on political about the process is the Senator McConnell didn't go into detail, but acknowledge the very difficult path he took to getting the spending bill across the finish line. McConnell secures budget deal with begging and pleading and controlling, and the Senate Majority leader obtained passage of a massive omnibus spending bill and convincing Senator Paul Ryan and others to drop their procedural objections. And then first there were Rand Paul's objections, and then Jim Rice's objections, and finally twelve thirty nine am, uh early this morning, the Senate passed the bill funding the government through September. Went home after a chaotic twelve hours of typical predictable trauma, and the vote was thirty two. I would never have voted for this bill one point three trillion dollars and sent it over to Donald Trump, who passed this bill, and they would again this this inordinate, bizarre paranoia, fear of being blamed for a government shutdown, and uh, rand Paul had to be called personally by Mitch McConnell and let him vent about Senate rules. Um, and this is ridiculous, this is juvenile fume. Bob Corker who asked McConnell for an explanation of why the chamber chamber was in at midnight, Oh, I'm sorry, did you have to work a little it, Senator Corker. Mcconnald didn't go into detail, but he said, my principal responsibility is begging and pleading and cajoling. And I've been in continuous discussions, shall I say, with several of our members who were legitimately this what is to be happy about here. Now. This is just this is how we have gotten to where we are. For whatever reason, the Republican Party has become a party of fear. The Republican Party is timid, they are weak, they are spineless, and even more sadly, they're lacking identity and their visionless. And what's so ironic about it is, in spite of what some you know, there there is a schism that we have to There's no disputing that there is a schism. It doesn't matter that the Heritage Foundation scored Donald Trump accomplished agenda in his first year as president, which was higher and the fort of Ronald Reagan. As Trump does anything he can do on his own, by himself by executive orders. Doesn't matter if it's pipelines opening up and war, doesn't matter, if it's UH saving the the coal industry or natural gas industries moving to America energy independence. You know, fighting as hard as he did to get the the tax cut built through. There's this mysterious reluctance among many Republicans is that they don't want to fight. I don't know what these people even believe in. I don't even know why. A good half or more there what is the Republican Party in Congress stand for today? Because it doesn't seem fundamentally they don't remind me. You know, it's funny people write about me all the time. They don't know me. They they they think they know me. They think this is about personalities. For me, it's not about anybody's personality. Motivates me. Which drives me is the country. What drives me is fixing the country. What drives me and drove all of us in the last election was the forgotten men and forgotten women. And I can give you a checklist of how we are infinitely better off than we were before Donald Trump was elected. But with that said, there's something fundamentally wrong when a Congress passes a bill like this and does it in a way that they complained about and wind about for years. And there's something fundamentally wrong that the House of Representatives, every member of it Republican side, will say repeal and replace Obamacare, and they'll vote sixty five times when Obama's president, to repeal and replace it. And then when that vote really matters and you've got a president that will actually sign the bill that a hundred of them in the House of nowhere to be found. Or you have senators in they vote straight up repeal of Obamacare, and then seven of them when it matters two years later the exact same bill, they vote against it. So, in other words, they never really meant it. In other words, let me say it a nice way, they were lying to you. In other words, they never they never meant what they were saying. They never thought they'd have to get to the point they actually had to do something. And fundamentally that's a problem. You know, I said to you during the whole healthcare debate, I have been discussing health savings accounts on this program. Probably you know, I have to find out what year Musgrave and Goodman wrote Patient Care or whatever it is. They wrote a book about health care savings accounts, Patient Powers the name of the book. And I read the book a long time ago when it first came out, and I'm like, this is this is gold, this is it. This answers all of our health care problems. You have health care savings accounts individual, and and that guarantees that every year you go to your doctor, and you see your doctor, and you get you get your your check up, and and that's taken care of and that's part of your health plan. And and then all the money, and you're young and healthy years, you're accumulating so that you'll have a lot more as you get towards the end of your life when you're likely to be in need of more care. And let's say you don't need that care and you're die in your sleep one night, while you get to give all that money to your family. I always loved that idea, or the you know, five years that we put on poor Josh Humber dr Umber down in which Ita, Kansas, and we put him on because he came up with an innovative idea about a health care cooperative where it only costs adults fifty bucks a month, ten bucks a month for kids unlimited coverage. And what's so great about unlimited coverage? That means seven three sixty five you're covered. And that includes pretty much everything any person is gonna need on an average day, broken bones, stitches, you name it. You know, you got the flu, you got a headache, whatever, He takes care of it. He personally went and negotiated with the pharmaceutical companies. Let's say you leave and you have your blood test shows you have high cholesterol or how you leave with high blood pressure? Peace, end you out with your medicine at a reduced rate of what you pay in a pharmacy. I mean. And then if you add to that a catastrophic plan. Wow, that's that's even better, because God forbid, you have you get cancer, or you have a bad accident, or you have that heart attack, Well you're covered for that completely at a low rate, depending on what your deductible is. So you meant you're covered completely for at a at a fraction of what most people pay monthly for healthcare. When Republicans were debating after they finally got control of the House, the Senate, in the White House and seven years of promises, we get to that point and I never heard but Rand paul ted Cruz in the Freedom Caucus. That's it. That that was all who was left to discuss things that that had been discussed regularly within Republican conservative ranks. They never even brought it up. It wasn't an option health savings accounts, it wasn't an option for Congress these new in a to cooperative Josh Unger. Dr Hunger of Wichita Atlas m D. He has now been going around the country, and he's been able to duplicate his successful model, you know, in states and cities big and small, all over the place. Because it works, we can institutionalize that nationally and everybody will have the best health care and pay half the price. It's amazing. Why would we not push that idea? And it's the same thing here is that you know, in the in the Obama years, everybody's everybody's complaining about, okay, well the economies and mass taxes are higher than they've ever been and thirteen million more Americans and poverty, eight million more on food or thirty more in food stamps, eight million more in poverty, lowest labor participation right now in large to a large extent, the President through his tax pill and the President through what he's done with regulations, and the President what he's done in executive actions, and the president's pushing energy, and the president enticing businesses to build manufacturing centers and factory as he has turned that all around. Now we have you know, two million fewer people on food stamps and three million more a million million jobs are created. But that still doesn't justify this. And it's the whole way that Congress does business that makes all of us frustrated. I would have preferred that the President vetoed this today. I would have preferred that these guys not race home on vacation. There was no artificial deadline here because they could have easily passed another continuing resolution and gotten it right. But they don't want to stay and they don't want to work. But they want the benefits and privileges of being called congressman and senator. And I ask you, what does this Republican Party stand for? Because there are no bold colored differences between the modern day Republican Party and what is the Democratic Party. I mean, they're they're about as pale as you can be. It's almost in this distinguishable in terms of, you know, they both want bigger government, they both want to explode budgets. They all believe in accumulating their power by spending tax dollars. The President had a goal. The first goal was our nation's military is badly depleted. So in a sense, I mean, he was so aggravated at the press conference. I wish you would have veto did and kept these people in town for a month and let them suffer a little bit because they're not serving the American people doing business like this, and I will tell you but for the President that nobody has a chance of a recovering economy. And I just think a veto would have been appropriate here. If he did, then everybody back to the drawing board. Yeah, you bet, and that means get You know how many times have we talked about the penny plan. All you have to do is eliminate baseline budgeting. You cut one cent out of every dollar every year for six years, you balance your budget. Is the Republican party that talks about balance budgets? Where's the Republican party that believes in in fiscal austerity and responsibility? It doesn't exist. And that's a sad part. So if the President wants the seven billion the most ever spent in a defense budget, all that cost him now because now everybody through in their special pork projects. And that's the way they call getting business done in Washington and then pat themselves on the back and allow Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to take a victory lap. It's unbelievable, it's intolerable, and I want these people to go. They don't belong there. They don't have a vision, they don't have courage. They don't have a backbone, and they don't have a spine, they don't have an identity, and that's what's been on display. There's no other way to put it, just you know, we just tell it as it is, sad right as we roll along. Sean Hannity Show, eight d nine point one, Shawn Tolfree telepone number you all. The funny thing is um occasionally it calls on the show. I used to listen to you when you're in Huntsville or Atlanta or um local in New York, or when I first built in for Russia, and I had that opportunity in my life, and and I will ask people that I changed. I have not. I've always been a Reagan Conservative. You know. It's funny the way people do not want to understand President Trump putting today aside. He's governed conservatively and by the way, wanting a bigger, tougher, stronger military so we can have peace through strength and and build up strategic defense. That that's all Reagan esk. But the amazing thing that has happened is that the Republican Party that I know, has lost its identity. They don't stand why didn't they fight for health save his accounts. Why don't they fight for the Penny plan. Why didn't they fight for health air cooperatives? Why wasn't it universally accepted that we're gonna give the president what he wants on the military, because that's what we believe in. But we're not going to take all this pork with it. And we do have both houses of Congress. Why won't Mitch McConnell get rid of this the sixty vote majority um which is has literally you know, killing any ability to get major things done that will make the country better. Uh. Well, then some of you say, well, Hannity, but Trump didn't have to sign it. No, he didn't, and I wish he would have. I wish he didn't in this case. But honestly, on at least he's doing some things that are good for the economy in the country. The guy's you know, juggling by himself with with every executive order and the tax bill that he's fighting for, and energy independence where he's gotten us, and and the whole host of of national security issues and fighting for the wall and and wanting to build the wall. But the only people that seem to get it help him and support him are predictable. The only people that are standing in Congress for anything seemed to be the Freedom Caucus. And you've got guys like Ted Cruz and Ran Paul and and even Mike Lee. Now besides that, all I see a bunch of people that have fallen into a trap that they do not want to fight hard for principles, and they care too much about keeping their jobs, not about the things that are good for the country, and not about their constituents that they made promises too. If you want to look at the root cause, and especially all the never trumpers, that there is no intellectual movement among the never Trumpers with a vision for how to help America's forgotten men and women. They're being helped through the four one person as a party disintegrates and has abandoned almost all of their poor principles will continue, all right, Glad you want to the top of the hour, nine four one sewn if you want to be a part of the program. I know a lot of you want to vent. I'm gonna get to the phones here in a second. Uh, And I don't blame you, and I won't stop you. And it's uh, it's what we do every day. I've been saying this about the Republican Party forever. It just ended for me when when they didn't mean repeal and replaced, I just I knew they were done, their identities missing. Uh sad? Actually, And you know, is it a third party we need? Ronald Reagan asked at CEPEC one year, or a revitalized second party with no pal Pastel's but bold colored differences. Well, they have a guy that wants to lead them with bold color differences. But they're they're they're just afraid. Well, he says bad things that he tweets and everything, and like, really, that's what scaring you so much, the tweeting. Really, is the country gonna be better off if we have the tax cuts? Is the country better off if we build the wall? Is the country better off if we repeal and replace Obamacare? Is the country better off if we live within our means? Is the country better off having a stronger military and piece through strength? What am I saying here? That is not reagan Esque and all of the sanctimonious, self righteous I don't pay a whole lot of attention to him anymore. Never Trumpers. They just sit on the sidelines hoping and praying he fails, and even many of them are in Congress, in the House and in the Senate. There are rumors all over the place today. I mean they are swirling that the FBI d O J Anti Trump cabal is now being investigated by a criminal grand jury. With that ends up being true. The American thinker even had it that would be a major bombshell, and in other words, that the Bellway hearing evidence of uh, you know, all this evidence dug up by the Inspector General. We expect that report soon, Michael Horowitz, and we expected in early April. But anyway, following the release of the report, a lot of heads are expected to roll over the media, the deep state, never Trumper's. And the first hint I think of the wheels of justice already grinding and turning came on March seven, when the Attorney General had said, I have appointed a person outside of Washington, many years in the Department of Justice to look at all the allegations that the House Judiciary Committee members sent to us, and we are conducting that investigation. We also had we played John Solomon's interview first one ever with this confidential informant. He was inside of Putin's operatives network within the United States and since two thousand and nine, as operators were bribing and blackmailing and extorting and money laundering, you know, because Putin won to get a foothold in the uranium network in America. He ended up getting that uranium one deal passed, as you all know, and the kickbacks and everything that involved in it. But the FBI informant was in there the whole time undercover. Robert Mueller was the FBI director. What was he doing anyway? His name is William Douglas Campbell, and he told Solomon he was interviewed for about five hours in December by FBI agents and Little Rock, Arkansas. Why they're investigating whether donations to the Clinton Foundation were used to influence US nuclear policy during the Obama years. He said he was asked specifically about whether donations to the Clinton's charitable efforts were used to influence US nuclear policy during the Obama years, and that agents questioned him extensively about claims the Russians made to him that they had routed millions of dollars to an American lobbying firm in two and eleven with the expectation it would be used to help President Clinton's charitable organization, the Global Initiative, while made Uranium decisions were pending before Hillary clinton State Department, and they were looking into meeting the FBI special agents and little Rock. We're looking into the Clintons and the information, he says he provided them about the Clintons and about what was said and confirmed by Russian leadership seemed to be very important to them, he said, appearing in shadow before this interview. That's something we've got to watch really closely. Um, there's so much happening, TikTok. I am telling you we've only begun to touch the surface. Anyone noticed by the way the stormy coverage, Stormy Stormy, you know, it's amazing about this. I'm gonna explain this tonight. Also on how many times now they're talking in stormies cases. It was apparently she alleges a consensual relationship twelve years ago or whatever, the same with this other woman who used to be a playboy model. I guess, and that was consensual Jeeve and said I voted for Trump. Um, anyway, isn't it a little different than Bill Clinton dropping his pants, exposing himself to a stranger, a woman, Paula Jones, and getting sued by Paula Jones, lying under oath and everything about it. It's very different, right, That's like a predatory thing versus a consensual thing. Yeah. I wonder how many times MSNBC actually spent going over and interviewing Paula Jones because I did and lighted the Me Too movement, Maybe they can revisit it. Well, what about the case of Kathleen Willie grow grabbed, fondal touch kissed against her will by Bill Clinton? Well I thought I thought that mattered in the day and age of Me Too. How many of these networks they didn't spend any time on these topics interviewing these women. Again, not consensual or the allegation rape. But for Lisa Myers and myself, I don't know of anybody else that interviewed one Ada Broderick until maybe the very end of the and that that would hold throughout the sixteen campaign. And then Hillary is attraction to money from countries that abuse women, gaze lesbians, and persecute Christians and Jews again, all money going to the Clinton Foundation. All right, let's get to our busy phones. We'll start with Tom and Minnesota. Tom, Hi, how are you. It's not exactly a happy Friday, but welcome to the show, sir, he hey, thank you for having me, Shawn. Keep up the good work. Thank you. I want to say, is our deal making quarterback. President Trump just got sacked by this omnibous spending deal. Now is not the time to give up and walk out of the stadium. I use the pork and the withholds to win big in election. This is called good time for pr and promotion. Educate the public. You know you're raising a good remember when And I know politics plays a part in people's decisions, but I think what the what voters respect the more the most is when you always stand your strongest. And if you remember, teen was the year that Ted Cruz did his filibuster and I was up almost half the night watching it. I was glad he was doing it. And every single Republican if they would have stood firm, they could have defunded to remember, he can't spend a time without the approval of commerce. They could have taken away funding for Obamacare. That was, they had the constitutional power to do what they have the power of the purse and crews stood there, and I know Brand stood with him, Marco stood with him. And I think that's about it. But the predictions among the establishment, that's it. We're screwed. In ten, just the opposite happened ended up being a great year. Now, there's gonna be a lot of primaries of a lot of these these swamp creatures and sewer creatures that are Washington, d C. The ones that said they wanted to repeal, replace, the ones that voted to repeal and replace when it didn't matter, and the ones that never had any intention of repealing and replacing. You know, same with building the border wall. You know, if every Republican insisted on the full funding of the border wall, we would have gotten it. You just have to stand strong and be willing to work a few extra days, which apparently is, you know, against their principles. Why work hard? Uh, Tom, thank you. Doris is in Pittsburgh, p A. How are you, Doris? Glad you called? And uh, happy Friday to you too. I hope you have a great weekend before you get to our weekend. We have to do. Yes. That is, if I had been the chief of staff, I would have sent Donald Trump into that press conference with a huge blowtorch, and I would have told him to burn that thing to ashes and send it to the ash heat of history. Donald Trump has made the biggest mistake of his presidency. That man said and admitted he did didn't know what was in that bill except for the military spending. All happy with that, he but he didn't know what else was in that When did Donald Trump ever sign a contract without knowing every detail that was in that contract? Shame on him. Who's your who's your congressman? What district are you? And you have you ever thought of running? You'd be great? Yeah, too many skeltons in my clause that I was a big protester at one time and spent some time in jail, which is why I'm so I'm so furious right now we did not elect Donal. What did you spend time in? What did you spend time in jail for? You're making me la. I don't want to I'm not in a great mood today. I don't want to laugh, but you made me laugh. I did pro life protesting and sat in front of abortion clinics and got my butt kicked for trying to end up for life. And I would have vetoed the bill too, and I think it would have been a big moment for the president as well. Let me let me tell you how I feel about this. I and I'm torn because I'm I wish he would have done exactly as you say, and I'm mad that he didn't do it, and I hadn't talked to him about it. But I will tell you that at least he's at least he fights for a lot of things and wins. But I can tell you you got every single day these people that he works within his party sucks so bad. They don't do any heavy lifting. At least the guy does some. At least the guy's kept a lot of the promises. These guys keep no promise and I'm not making excuses for it. And he wanted the military money and he paid the price. You could see how aggravated he was today. Um and he look. I would have rather to keep them there through Easter through January as far as I'm concerned, they never should go home until they do the people's work. But you know, have you thought about running, Doris? I will donate to your campaign, Thank you. Ever realized does he realize that he's had a lot of his agenda just got it today. Well, I this is my take on it. I think he made a calculation, and this is my take, my my belief that he's looking at a threat assessment that is presented to him every day. He's looking looking at a depleted military. He wanted the biggest military budget in history, and he knew the only way, or felt, or was brought to believe that the only way he could get it was to compromise on this crap bill because he wanted the military spending. That's and and you guys, everybody else is gonna have to decide on their own what they what they think happened. That's my take on it. But I think he was as disgusted as you are, and I can you can see it in his face when he said, I'm never doing this again. This is bull But I need the money from our military and we got to get this money. That's how I took it. Listen, It's it's like my kids when they do something wrong. I don't want to hear excuses either. You're right, I'm not gonna disagree, Doris, God bless you, Thank you, Travis Atlanta. What's up, Travis, WSB Shelan, I have a different take. I agree with everything that everybody said, and of course what she said because a long time listener and very privileged to speak with you, sir. But I wonder if Trump is a smart and strategy as we think he is. Is this a ploy to get the Republicans backing in in his camp by them going home and getting the earful from the constituent and then having to come back and address this in six months and then they'll be ready to get on board with what his plan is. Let me let me tell you politically, where the Republicans stand after today? Um, they better you know. They look. If they do well, they they would they would pat themselves on the back. If they do poorly, they're already gonna blame Donald Trump. They have nobody else but themselves to blame. And what I say, they have abandoned their identity, when they have abandoned their principles, and that they are just a carbon copy of the Democratic Party. It's true. I'm speaking truth here and the only way to get it back is to go back to first principles. There are all of us in our lives. We've got to adjust at times and we've got to say, all right, let me go back to the fundamentals in life, you know, and when you do that, you usually end up doing better. And for the Republicans, what do they stand for now? If they stood for balanced budgets, if they stood for fiscal responsibility, if they stood for conservative justices, if they stood for the rule of law, if they if they stood for controlling the borders and peace through strength and a strong military and energy independence, and you know, real solutions to health care, like health savings accounts and cooperatives, and they started some more innovative thinking that used to exist among Republican circles. They do a lot better off. And if what it's we're now about to hit April, between now and November, there's not a lot of time politically speaking, and they've got a lot of damage that they have done here that they now need to repair. But you know, if there is a good economy, it will be the president that gets the credit. Everything he's done by ending burdens and regulation, everything he's done on energy, everything he's done pushing for the tax cuts, everything he's done on repatriation. You know, I give credit where credit is due, and and but some of these Republicans don't mean what they say. We've learned the lesson now, so some of them have to go alright. Eight one, Sean told free telephone number. We continue our investigation into Robert Mueller next with Sarah Carter. Also be checking in with David Shoon later on. Dave Bratt of the Freedom Caucus joins us and much more. Alright, as we roll along on this Friday. Eight nine one, Shawn told free telephone, you know, write us on Twitter, write us on Hannity dot com. I know a lot of you are angry and outraged, and uh, you know, take a close look at who your congressman, your senators are. Take a close look. I get a look up where they voted, and um, you know you you've got to balance everything. Um. I just think that there's there's no vision, there's no fight in these Republicans in Congress. It's pathetic. And uh, at least the president has a fight. But again, I wouldn't have signed this. I would have made him stay. That's why I'm not a Republican. I've never haven't been a Republican in years. I'm a registered conservative. Alright, our Deep State investigation into Muller and Weisseman and all these guys. We've got new information. Next Howard Sean Hannity Show. Toll free our telephone number eight nine one, Shawn, if you want to be a part of the program. Congressman Dave brad is irritated beyond words as our most Freedom Caucus members over this omnibus bill. We'll get to him coming up in an hour from right now, but first we continue our week long investigation into well the beyond reproach Robert Mueller and his merry band of Democratic Obama Hillary donors, supporters, etcetera. Remember Andrew Wiseman was at Hillary headquarters on election night. He was so giddy that he thought Hillary was gonna win. Now he's part of Mueller's team. Now we've been really unpeeling this layer of an onion and we're beginning to learn a lot. It culminated in a column that Sarah Carter has put out today, and as Robert Mueller, Andrew Wiseman, the FBI, and the mob. We're gonna explain that in a second. But the other big news and information, of course, talking about Robert Mueller's years and the cooperation with Whitey Bulger, a gangster, a murderer. But another part of this is the deep state, and that goes to Clapper and Brennan and Comy. Here's Comy and here's James Clapper. Paid close attention to what they are saying. Director Coley, have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation? Never question to one relatively related. Have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation? Now, has any classified information relating to President Trump or his association associates been deep classified or and shared with the media, Not to my knowledge, he replied, And I quote here, the story that we have millions or hundreds of millions of dossier's on people is completely false. The reason I'm asking the question is, having served on the committee now for a dozen years, I don't really know what a dossier is in this context. So what I wanted to see is if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question, does the n s A collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans? No, sir, it does not not wittingly. There are cases where they could and it brutin ly perhaps collect but not not wittingly. Oh they collect data. Well, we've had people that contradict that on this program. We've we have people that set up the N s A program. Let's say that they are metadata centers and places like Salt Lake City and elsewhere. And then they all say the same thing. You know, Bill Benny, thirty four year vet N s A said every single email, every text, every phone call is all collected. So uh, then you have in that those two instances comey lying Clapper line. We went over yesterday how Brennan lied anyway. Joining us to continue our deep dive this week, Sarah Carter, investigative reporter, Fox News contributed Doug Shown, civil rights criminal defense attorney, as we continue our five day investigation of Robert Mueller and company. And Sarah, I think the headline speaks volumes Robert Mueller, Andrew Weisman, the FBI and the mob and and this. You know, if you look at the top players here, not the rank and file. I don't think I've ever seen more by cases, are more examples of withholding a sculpatory evidence of my life. Yeah, I mean, these are just some of the older cases. We're seeing the very beginnings of their careers and how they protected one another and how close they were allies. I mean, Robert Mueller is a very close friend of James Comey. They worked together on a number of cases. Just to bring up the anthrax case to name one, which which a lot of people said they botched. And of course we know that they had been accusing an innocent man and uh, it culminated in a suicide and they missed the guy that actually did it. And now you look at this past case in Boston and you say to yourself, were four in four innocent men were put in prison and they had evidence by the time Mueller was there, and he was supervising over the FBI as as the attorney general. He you know, there was actual evidence that these men did not commit the murders and that evidence was withheld. He wrote numerous letters denying them parole. So a lot of people want to know, did you know what was going on? Then those are questions that he never answered. Then you go when Mueller was head of the FBI, uh, you know, and that you go to Ted Stevens, you know Senator Ted Stevens in Alaska, who you know, was then accused by the FBI of you know, a quid pro quo. Later found out that there was no evidence there that people within the FBI was held evidence. Um, he later died in a plane crash in two thousand and ten. But you know, he was exonerated, but not until after. I mean he was pulled from from from his seat and uh and he you know, and he lost and he was convicted and then it was overturned. I mean, this is just incredible step Sean, where if you look at the past, just based on what the media had said about him when he first came in, Oh, there's nobody better. This is the guy. He's gonna he's gonna run this special, special counsel with objectivity the scales of justice. But then you go and look at past cases and you say to yourself, no, really, maybe not. This is not what he does. Um. He's a hard nosed guy prosecutor, and he has a lot of friends that have done a lot of things that are questionable, like Andrew Wiseman. And don't forget Andrew Wiseman's email that was discovered by Judicial Watch. You know, to Sally Yates for standing up to uh, you know, to uh President Trump uh and and how he louded her for By the way, it wasn't Andrew Wiseman leaking to the press on Paul Manafort before he was ever even appointed. Wouldn't that have rendered him, uh incapable of taking the job? Well? You would, you would think. And remember that was the meeting that he had with the Associated Press. And this wasn't something that came from one of his enemies. This was he was actually reported by the FBI, you know, to the d o J about talking to the Associated Press about Paul Manaford before he was ever brought in on the case. And this was Andrew Wiseman. So there's a lot of con earned here about the direction that the Special counsel is going to take and how they're going to do this. And I think one of the issues that is concerning everyone is whether or not the President is going to choose to speak to Robert Mueller. And there is a lot of consensus among a lot of attorneys out there, very well respected attorneys, that in no way should he speak to them unless they can show some proof of some type of crime. There's no way that the president should talk to him, even though he wants to, even though he doesn't anything. He can't he's ever done anything wrong. No good attorney wouldever allow the President of the United States, I think, to testify, or if it did, it's got to be very, very limited in the scope, and it's got to be almost treated like a proffer beforehand. Everybody knows what's going to be said David Show, and I wouldn't accept any other condition. I wouldn't right, and I wouldn't accept any conditions. There is absolutely no way that this president should meet with Robert Mueller or anyone on his staff, period, end of story. I don't care what the political groundmar Let's say he doesn't do it. Let's walk through that scenario, and Mueller holds his ground, Then where do we go. Well, first of all, it should be the lawyers. The lawyer clearly makes the call, and the client ought to follow that decision. And it's not on Mr Trump. No one, no one fairly should accuse Mr Trump Trump of anything wrong by not meeting with the special prosecutor. Look, today, there's a case reported. Let's just so how far this thing is gone. There's an associate from scadn Arps who played guilty not to any underlying crime, but to lying or misleading Mr Mueller about an email, etcetera. Those are the kinds of things that people like Mueller and Weisseman and this team would look to bring and that they have that authority under this broad special counsel jurisdiction. Once the investigation begins, they can charge people anyone who gets in their way, who they unilaterally decide is lying with a crime. But I'd like to say one more thing, if I can to back up to your discussion a second ago, Sarah Carter's piece is the definitive piece on this on this matter, Mueller and Weissman, etcetera, and your show this past week should be recorded and played by everyone in the country. Sarah Carter's article should be hanging on every ice box. And why because, as she has said, um, let's look to the past to predict the future. You know where they teach that The FBI Academy teaches all of its new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Can read Ronald Kessler on that. Well, Mr Mueller has tried to put all of these things in the past refused to answer questions from the media, and he has said, as we discussed before, what happened back then was a long time ago. Well, you know what, let's bring it a little bit closer. In Today's New York Times, they say in an editorial, Mr Mueller in any way represents Mr Trump's polar opposite. Mueller is a man who has devoted his life to respecting and enforcing the law. Really, well, that's not what the New York Times said just a couple of years ago, when The New York Times was decrying Mr Mueller's role in what they New York Times characterized as severe abuses at the detention facility in Brooklyn after nine eleven. It's not what the New York Times said when the Mr Muller and the government were required to pay the Jipintary had to pay Dr Hatfill four point six million dollars for a botched investigation led by Mr Muller. So that's what Look how politics makes strange bedfellas the pure unadulterated hatred of Mr Trump. Trump's everything. And so now Mr Muller is a hero for even those people who back then thought he was the worst. But the narrative went through. This is the point. We didn't do the deep dive until recently, and everything I learned about is his activities and his work in Boston. As I said to you earlier this week, Sarah, now I understand why he hired Andrew Weisman. Andrew Weisman has his atrocious record, you know of of overreaching and withholding evidence and being overturned nine zero in the Supreme Court, sending innocent people to jail, overturned Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Because it seems that Mueller had the exact same background, he understands how far Wiseman is going to go? Right, Sean, I mean, this is a man who has had long time relationship with Andrew Wiseman. He knows him well, He worked with him at the FBI, he made him as general counsel for several years. He's had a close relationship with Komy, which should have conflicted him out anyways from being special counsel, because how can he fairly address this issue when James Komy was fired by the president, which the President had every right and every authority to do so when he did, and which by the way, the Democrats wanted even months before the president fired him. The Democrats were dragging Komey's name through the mud because of what he did during the investigation and then coming back and reopening again on Hillary Clinton. So now you have everybody kind of louding just as as as David Shone said, you know, in the New York Times, it's like they think people aren't going to remember the past. They think we're not going to go back and look at historic records. Well you are. And there are questions that Muller still has to answer. And there's a lot of concern about Mueller and his past and the cases that he was involved in. And we're not taking away from things that he may have done in his life that should be allouded, like his service in the military. But when you look at the cases on their face, when you look at those cases, you have to question where he is going with this against President Trump. Where is he going answer your own question? He is going to try to entrap President Trump based on his past. All he needs is for President Trump to start talking, to not remember something correctly, to not turn over some kind of email to open the door. Look, even if he gives a written statement, even if he gives a written statement to Robert Mueller. He's opening the door. He does not and he should not, according to the people that I've spoken with, speak with Robert Mueller unless Mueller has some reason to speak with him and he has to prove something we gotta you can break more of our investigation week long investigation into Robert Muller and his merry band of Clinton Obama, d n C supporters and donors, and it's a history of corruption. It's a history literally of breaking the rules and pretty much doing everything that they want and in many instances even getting caught doing it, but they pay no penalty. We wrap up our investigation today. Of the investigators will have more tonight on Hannity on the Fox News Channel. Sarah Carter and David Schoner with us as we do our deep dive into who is the special counsel, Who is Robert Mueller, what is his background and experience and everything that we seem to be discovering is beyond troubling. On top of the relationship that exists between all of the McCabe and Muller and Come and Rosenstein and everybody else involved in this, it's pretty amazing how many times their paths have crossed, and of course we have a stacked deck as it relates to the Special Council, all Democrats, all donating to Clinton and and the d n C and Obama. So this now raises the question, with all that we're discovering and all that we know, will there be a second special counsel to investigate the FBI, the Department of Justice, what happened with the FISA court, what happened with the Clinton email investigation? Who paid for the dossiers that all coming Sarah Carter. I believe it is um and according to the sources that I've spoken with, it looks like it's going to happen. I think that what we'll see is first the Inspector General's report will come out, and I think this Inspector General's report is going to be explosive. And are we getting this? We've been waiting, We've been waiting, and look, he's interviewing more people. That's what I've been told. There's certain things that he's trying to button up before he releases this. It could be any time. I know they said that already, but according to some of the sources I've spoken with, the Inspector General Michael Horowitz is now reinvestigating some issues and interviewing possibly more witnesses and people for his report, which will be released I believe within the next two to three weeks. I think it's that point the Department of Justice. It will be up to them to decide whether or not a second special counsel is necessary. I've been hearing that is where they are moving. Remember, there's a lot of pressure from Senator grass Lee. He's got quite a bit of powers and ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee he's the chairman. Others, good lot others have called for this second special counsel. It's it's going to happen, Sean. There really is no way around it right now. Last word, David, I'm gonna say this, Mr Anny Um and I say this after a lot of thought. No one else has exposed what you're exposing on this Muller team, about Mueller and Wiseman, You and Sarah Carter about Muller and Wiseman, about the team, about the makeup of the team, which is not coincidental. It should outrage people if they'll just listen and take a look for themselves into this. And by the way, just how dangerous it is. Mr Trump were to meet with them. The people should understand this. If Mr Trump said something and twelve priests and rabbis said, it's absolutely true. If Mr Mueller said, you know what, I don't think it's true. Mr Mueller has a discretion to charge a crime. Now, that's pretty outrageous. But that's the fact. It's unilateral decision. And I can see them all on the team high fiving each other afterwards that they got him in there. And here's what they're gonna call a crime or a lie at which becomes a crime. It's absolutely outrageous. But that's just how dangerous it is. No criminal defense lawyer worth his or her assault, which laughed Mr Trump to go in and meet with Mr Mueller, period. All right, we'll have more on Hannity tonight one sewn on this Friday. We'll check in with Congressman Dave Bratt. He's gonna join us. Also, our financial Fridays are back. Maybe you can take measures to protect yourself and your family. That's straight ahead, all right, Glad your with us a hundred one SEWN toll free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program. News Round Up information overload our As we are joined by Congressman Dave Bratt of Virginia, let's go back earlier news today. Obviously, if you're conservative, you're not happy at the one point three trillion dollar omnibus bill. President was was clearly agitated today. Here's his explanation. The last time we negotiated something like this, and as you know, it's always been a problem for our country. They get together and they create a series of documents that nobody has been able to read because it was it was just done. Now you tell me who can read that quickly. Takes a long time to read it. For the last eight years, deep defense cuts have undermined our national security. How old are and they just if you look at what's taken out, they've hallowed our readiness as a military unit and put America at really grave risk. My highest duty is to keep America safe, nothing more important. The Omnibus bill reverses this dangerous defense As crazy as it's been, as difficult as it's been, as much opposition to the military as we've had from the Democrats, and it has been tremendous. I try to explain to them, you know, the military is for Republicans and Democrats and everybody else, for everybody, but we have tremendous opposition to creating really what will be the far by far the strongest military that we've ever had. We've had that from the Democrats. So if we take something for the military, they want something for in many cases things that are really a wasted sum of money, and it's not right and it's very bad for our country. We're looking to do funding for our final fight in certain areas. As you know, we've gotten just about of our land back from ISSIS. We have troop increases necessary to accomplish what we have to do, and we have very importantly a pay increase for our troops and will be actually the largest pay increase for our incredible people in over a decade. It increases total defense spending by more than sixty billion dollars from last year and funds the addition of critically needed chips, planes, helicopters, tanks, and submarines. We have submarines being built, the likes of which there's nothing anywhere in the world like the submarines we build. Our military equipment is the best equipment in the world. And one of the things you saw two days ago with Saudi Arabia and with other countries. Saudi Arabia, as an example, is buying hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our equipment, and we're getting very fast approvals on that. Therefore, is a matter of national security. I've signed this omnibus budget bill. There are a lot of things that I'm unhappy about in this bill. There are a lot of things that we shouldn't have had in this bill, but we were, in a sense forced if we want to build our military, we were forced to have. There are some things that we should have in the bill. But I say to Congress, I will never sign another bill like this again. I'm not gonna do it again. Nobody read it. It's only hours old. Some people don't even know what it is. At one point three trillion dollars, it's the second largest ever. President Obama signed one that was actually larger, which I'm sure he wasn't too happy with either. But in this case it became so big because we need to take care of our military, and because the Democrats, we don't believe in that added things that they wanted in order to get their votes. We have to get rid of the filibuster rule. We have to get rid of the filipbuster rule and go to fifty one votes in the Senate and we're going to have really sustain ain't continued success. DOCTA recipients have been treated extremely badly by the Democrats. We wanted to include data. We wanted to have them in this bill. Eight hundred thousand people and actually it could even be more. And we wanted to include data in this bill. The Democrats would not do it. They would not do it. To prevent the omnibus situation from ever happening again, I'm calling on Congress to give me a line item veto for all government spending bills, and the Senate must end. They must end the filibuster rule and get down to work. We have to get a lot of great legislation approved, and without the filibuster rule, it'll happen just like magic. I want to address the situation on border security, which I call national defense. I call it stopping drugs from pouring across our border, and I call it illegal immigration. It's all of those things, but national defenses are very important two words because by having a strong border system, including a wall, we are in a position militarily that is very advantageous. And before I get off of that subject, I'd like to ask Secretary Mattis to talk about what we've accomplished in terms of the military, because there has never been anything like we've been able to do. Our military is very depleted, but it's rapidly getting better and in a short period of time it will be stronger than it has ever been now. Congressman Dave Bratt was also on with my friend Stewart Barney on the Fox Business Network and here's what he had to say, and thought he made some really good points. This is the premier issue he ran on, and he's getting nothing at the end of the year, right, and this is our our big leverage moment in the Polks back home may not know the Senate put in the last budget that they're not even gonna do a budget next year, so no chance for wall funding, no chance to get the good lad bill. His team is for it, but he's got some advisors they're just saying, just go along to get along. Let that another trillion deficit this year, trillion of debt we're passing right now, and we've got a hundred trillion and unfunded liability this budget. All right, Congressman Pratt from the Commonwealth of Virginia joins us. Now he's part of the Freedom Caucus. I told you that the only people you can trust to keep their promises in Washington, especially in Congress. Uh he's upset about this is Uh. I am upset about this. And what's really despicable as you look at this, this massive omnibus bill, in all of this, you know, and God bless Rand Paul in the Senate for reading this thing, is that the only good thing we seem to get out of it is rebuilding our military. But the price is so high to get that one when it's the number one responsibility of these people. Where is the Republican vision for conservatism or does it just not exist anymore? Dave Brett Yeah, yeah, Sean, Yeah, I think you're right. We need to put together a contract for America. Again. The problem is we always run into these deadlines, and that's when the swamp wins. Right, we have no leverage and so as if day one, the president needs to do but Dave, you know and I know they they create artificial deadlines. So that's that's then they then then negotiated all in secret. Then they don't give you any time to read the bill. The Republican leadership is as bad, and frankly maybe worse because they should know better than the Democrats. Right, and that clip you just played the president the Senate technically voted that we won't do a budget next year, but they still can't. If the President says this is total only, my agenda isn't getting through, and we're not not waiting until November to see how the election goes. We're gonna do my agenda prior to November. He can tell the Senate they have to do a budget and they still can't write. There's there's ways to do that. We can do reconciliation where you need fifty one votes. That's how we got taxed through. Now we need to do immigration using that and welfare reform. And but we're funding planned parent hood, which one's ads against Republicans, so taxpayers are paying, and Republicans just passed the bill to run ads against ourselves. I mean, it's it's pretty phenomenal. Listen. I'm just I'm just gonna be honest, and I'm I'm being totally honest with our audience. I have lost all hope in this Republican leadership I have. I have no faith or hope in what they do anymore. They're such swamp quick creatures. They are so immersed in the culture of d C. I don't even know if they realize how bad they've gotten. And by that is, you know, when you spend seven years congressmen promising the American people something is deep and profound as repealing and replacing Obamacare, you have sixties sixty five show votes. So every time you go back to the district gets I just voted this week to repeal and replace Obamacare. And then when it really matters, when you have a president that would replace Obamacare and a hundred Republicans are like to Timid, oh no, no, I didn't really mean it. And seven Senate Democrats that have voted to repeal Obamacare just two years prior, and then it's gonna work this time and they change their mind on the exact same bill. I I don't have faith in those people. There's not enough Freedom Caucus guys. There's not enough conservatives in the Republican Caucus. And frankly, the moderates and the whiney rhinos, you know, run rough shot of everybody. Yeah, and so I mean, we've got to get the president out front. He's got the megaphone right now to call for what you just said. Can you imagine if we would have come in the first week and repealed Obamacare instead of socializing right now, we're doing subsidies to Obamacare to keep socialism alive. I mean, it's unbelievable. That would have changed the dynamics. Then you have free market, one scrip of the economy, healthcare people to be happy on that front. You do tax cuts, and then you do immigration. Immigration is still the number one issue. It's over Obamacare and in the latest polling, and people want to see some clarity, and then they want to see that there's not two justices. Um like you play every night, right, we are leadership. They can do that. Trump and our leadership come sorrow. I can say we're gonna run the second investigation and get some closure and say yes, these investigations are going forward. There's not two systems of justice in this country. We're still a nation under law for everybody. And we can do that tomorrow. And I believe that the American people are roaring right now. You can hear it out there and they are not happy. Well you do you do know that? I mean, I don't have a relationship with these guys anymore. None. And because I'm not taking their their lies, their bs and everything else, I'm just not doing it. And I look at this and I'm thinking, oh, everybody wants to get home. And now the president's decision, every decision is gonna make. Here is a bad decision because okay, he wants the military spending. We desperately need our military built back up because it's been decimated. So your hold hostage the president. If he wants military spending, then he's got to pay for everything. And then so it's ridiculous. The whole system is screwed up. Yeah. Well, on on the fiscal front, we just locked in until September for a disaster. That's the swamp, right, That's that shows it that. But I'm not giving up. Hope, there's the fight. The American people are there rallying, and we use it the four November and so we can do reconciliation. And we need to call on leadership to do it. And the President needs to call on leadership, House and Senate to do reconciliation to get our priorities through the Senate doesn't want to have to take a vote on anything, right, that's why they did that. They said, we're not going to do a vote because they want to hide under their desk, and that's not acceptable. And if if we don't, November is not gonna be pleasant. Well, I mean they've had every opportunity. You know, the way to win elections, I don't think is that complicated. You you have a vision, you go out there your campaign on your vision, and then you go and you stay true to your principles and you fulfill every promise you possibly can, and then you go for re election and you tell people we're better off because conservatism works better than what Obama, Pelosi and the Democrats are offering. And yet you know, we still can't get Republicans on one page united even to repeal and replace Obamacare. We can't get them united on on being fiscally responsible. So it's kind of hard when you have a general and you have no soldiers behind them. Yeah, well, and you're right. I mean I did that right, So I went, I got a score with everybody's small visitors attack is everything, health care, free market everything. So I went kept my promise. But there's a wave in Virginia, building a blue wave, and we need to stop it, and we need everybody on the same message and page right. That's our problem if we're not messaging at the unity the Democrats. Congressman I've i laid out a Republican contract with America, a Conservative Solutions Caucus, and here we are five years later, and they didn't want to adopt it then because it would hold them accountable, and they don't want to adopt it now. Let's be honest. That's what we need. That's what we need is accountability from you, the American people. And uh, they can do it, but the American people need to send the signal as to what they want very loud and clear right now, stay right there. More with Congressman Dave Pratt. He's with the Freedom Caucus. They did not support this omnibus spending bill. They held strong. Uh, we'll get back to that and more on the twenty eighteen elections and people like Dave Bretti and targeted unfairly because he is a real conservative. Quick break right back, and we will continue Sean Hannity Show right as we continue. Congressman Dave Bratt is well, those Freedom Caucus member, and let me go to your district. You um you want. You defeated the House. I guess he was the majority leader at the time. And if I'm not mistaken, when you took on Eric Cantor and that was it was like a political earthquake because Congress, you know, the turnover is so small every given year. But and and you've stuck true to what you believe in. But now you're being targeted in the election for what reason considering you're one of the few guys that actually kept your promises. Well, I think that's precisely why. Right, the Democrats in the left, when I go on TV and explain Obamacare or explain tax cuts and who's better off and why and why Republican policy is better, they don't like that, right, And so you get rid of the messenger. And so I got a target on my back from the Democrats because I'm effective at conveying they can't run on policy. You, they don't have an alternative for all. They run on I hate Trump, I hate Trump, I hate Trump right there, just running and then you'll see in the districts they're gonna run on all negative, right, it will be the politics of personal destruction negativity. You can go out to all the Democrats sites and seeing blue Virginia. Go out and look at my Facebook right now. It's all four letter words by the Democrats who are calling for unity and our values. They say, there's for our values and unity and getting along, and go look at their language. I went to seminary. None of it from me. I just run on policy, and that's why the American people need to make a real choice coming up here right right back. The people that are doing the right thing for the right reasons, they sell true. I got a hundred percent school with everybody. We need more conservatives in Congress, and I know a lot of people be primary this year, and when that happens, we're gonna go through a list and let people know how he can. The answer is as a group of conservatives that are elected, not Republicans Conservatives. Dave Pratt, thank you eight nine for one, Shawn toll Free telephone number of the hours, eight hundred nine for one, Shawn Toldfrey telephone. Alright, this horrific omnibus bill. There is no strong conservative Republican party anymore. It doesn't exist. I mean, it's just a frustrating day all the way around. Now we have April fifteenth is coming, and I know everybody, everybody I've been talking to recently. Oh, Dad, to do my taxes. Uh, I gotta do my taxes. And it's so annoying and complicated and frustrated. You've got the new tax bill passed at the end of last year. Um, we barely know if we're coming and going with UM with money Now full disclosure, let me give you the background of our next guests. So I was a local host in Atlanta and there was a show on Saturday afternoon. It was a major hit. It was the Gene Henselers Show, and they talked about money. And I remember at one point, at this point in my life and this is two, I didn't have any money. I didn't so to speak. I mean, I managed to buy my first house in Atlanta for like a hundred and thirteen thousand dollars. I was the happiest person on earth to get that first home. That's why when I talk about forgotten men and women, well, it's important because every American should strive to have that dream happen. It was a modest house, but I loved it. At the end of a cul de sac. It was kind of buried in a little valley. I painted it. I I redid the inside, I did the kitchen floor, redid that. I was doing my little you know, honey dew projects and all that sort, and I loved it, and I was very very happy. Anyway, I didn't never thought I would at any point. I never got into radio to get paid, to be honest, I did it because I loved it. But ever since then, Gene Henslow's firm is now basically the president CEO of it is Bill Laco, who's with us. I have used them for my financial dealings, all of them full disclosure, and we've done some business deals together and so on and so forth. But Um, in many ways, Bill, I'm I'm still that kid that that you guys took on as a charity case. To be blunt back in Atlanta. I mean, you know you would never at that time, you weren't taking people like me that had pretty much zero Netwell, that wor true statement. That's a true statement. And now I'm the best client you have. But that's an amazing American success story. Probably the most annoying to UM. One of the things Bill and I have robust conversations all the time, and we're watching the roller coaster ride that is the stock market and losing what seven twelve yesterday? I was down and up today both you know, going all over the place. But Bill likes the stock market, especially if you're not gonna need money over ten years, and he lays out a great case for that. But I disagree with him. I just don't have the stomach for the what is the roller coaster ride of the stock market? So, you know, slowly but surely, um, I convinced him that I was more interested in bricks and mortar and real estate investments and things like that. And I think I've convinced you that I had a pretty good plan. I don't know. I'll let you speak for yourself. No, you did, you did? You stressed us pretty good, though, But we we've got it. It's running. What do you mean I stressed you pretty What do I mean I stressed you pretty good? Well, we weren't in the real estate business back then, so well, you said get in the business, and we got in it. We know how to do it now, you know. But I think most people, and I want to get to everybody because It's so sad that so many people that I know and uh struggle financially trying to put their kids through college and a college fund, that trying to save for a rainy day, that trying to maybe take a vacation a year. You know, everybody's gulping water. It's sad, it's hard, and that's what I want to wanted to bring you on today. How do people accumulate more wealth and get to save more for their future? That's really the fundamental question. Well, I think it. You know, it starts with having a decent tax plan. And there's a couple of things I wanted to touch on and I will. But but the first thing is is that most people in America have a four O one K plan. Most people in America have their company that will match that for when K plan. I gave a talk at Kennesaw State University, now the I think the third largest university in Georgia. That wasn't that big when you were here, Sean. I asked the question of the audience. I said, how many of you have for owhen K plans? I'll raise your hand, how many of you contribute half of them? Raise your hand? How many of you have matching for when K plans, all of them raise their hands. So I don't know any place in the world where you can get a great to return on your investment then by putting at least the match in the four one K plan. And oh, by the way, it's tax deductible. The simple Let's start with the average person, because most people I know spend beyond their means. And I worked my whole life in a business where I always thought I was getting fired the next day. And I remember when I bought that first home. It was in Roswell, Georgia, d thousand dollars, and I remember I knew that if I got fired, I'd be able to afford the house payments for at least two years. And I said, Okay, now I felt safe for knowing I could do that. Sure. Well, look, I think the first thing people have to do is take a look at their budget. Nobody wants to do this. I mean, I'm telling you Sean. People do not wake up in the morning and say, oh, let's go get a financial plan today, or oh, let's look at our budget. Generally something happens to force you to go, I better take a look at this. This is tax time. April seventeenth this year is the cut off. This is a good time to look at it for for a couple of reasons. One is you gotta file seventeen. Eighteen is completely different. I mean, if you think the way you followed in seventeen is gonna be the same, it's not. And I'll explain that here in a second. But this is a good time just to kind of look at where you spend money. And the reality is, I don't know, maybe he shouldn't spend money in Starbucks. I mean, I'm not picking on Starbucks, but if you need to cut somewhere, well maybe they've cheaper coffee. I don't know. I mean, they can get better coffee from the Black Rifle Coffee Company, and yeah, they're gonna save money. But no, this is important. So you're saying for everybody, it would be a good idea, make a budget to sit down and I'm not gonna spend above this, and I'm gonna put X number of dollars away every week, every month, every two weeks for savings. Listen, when I started working for Giine when I was twenty three years old, he said, Bill, all you have to do is save ten percent of what you earn, spend the rest. It won't matter. By the time you're my age, you will be more wealthy than you ever thought you were gonna be. I didn't believe him, so I saved twenty and he's absolutely right. I mean, I'm pushing fifty now and I have more money than I thought I would ever have. I mean, I grew up poor, you know, in Stone Mountain, not unlike you Sean in terms of background, doing construction, drive for dominoes in the whole nine yards. You work hard, you climb the ladder, you get some play. Well, you gotta be saving along the way. You just have to so to be do. But most Americans don't save. So this has to be a conscious choice that you're gonna have to cut, and maybe maybe you can. You don't buy the bigger house, you get the smaller house. You don't get the new car, you get the used car. By the way, everyone buys a new car, new car and thinks everyone's looking at them, and nobody gives a rip what you're driving. Nobody cares. That's a true statement. That's such a true statement. And but I won't I really need those new Porsche I'm like, why you don't need it? Maybe that's the criteria. Do you really need the things you're buying? You know, you know Lidi bys most of her clothes on Amazon. She tells me, well, I don't what's wrong with that? Nothing? Clark Howard? You know what Clark Howard would do? Coward? He used to buy it from the good will shop. I mean God, and God bless him and and he looked great. Well, look this is you know, a lot of times people can't do this on their own. It's very emotional, and that's why they hire professionals. And you know, I think being able to sit down with somebody and look at your situation and say how much do I need to be saving to be able to retire? Is it stunning? Is stunning to most people who come in it. It can actually be very shocking. And I get it because we have a lot of young employees here and they have, you know, one to three children, and it's hard to make ends meet. It is, but what about other options? Should people think about maybe a second job that they just save money for maybe one day a week? Absolutely, I mean anyway you can either increase your revenue or cut your expenditures is the best thing to do, and then to save it. Now, what you do with it after you save it is another question. All right, So let's talk about a long term plan for the average person that's gonna maybe follow your advice, work a little more, save a little more, and what should they be doing with their money, what should they be investing in? Well, I think initially, you've gotta have, like you did Seohn, you have to have an emergency reserve set aside. You know, whether that's three months or six months, some people want one year. That is no real right number. It's really based upon your situation. And what I mean by that is, Okay, do you have adequate healthcare? Do you have disability insurance? So if something bad were to happen, you'll be able to to pay your bills? And how quickly can you be reemployed? If you know you could be reemployed in three months, well then ninety days is probably enough. If you're in a profession where it might take you six months to nine months to a year, well then you better have a little more emergency preserve set aside. And that's just generally going to be in a CD or money market and you're not gonna earn anything. It's really there for you to be able to call on when you need to, So that would be cash availability. Now why do you have? And you and I have fought about this at length, and I think I have. Literally the reason you've lost so much hair in recent years is because of me. But but you have more faith in the stock market than I do. To me, it's gambling. I don't trust it, but you do trust it well. I trust. I trust the big companies. I trust the the financially strong companies. I trust that people need more toothbrushes and toilet paper and tampons and all the things that people need um to live. I trust that I know people are gonna go to McDonald's. I don't really care where the stock market is today. I mean I had I had a meeting last night with a friend and he was all panic because the market was down seven points. I'm like, who cares? First of all, do you need the money? No? Well, why do you care? I mean, I don't really understand that. You know, quite frankly, I'm saving right, I got another twenty years to work. I just sume this thing fall in half, and I keep buying the only day I really care where the stock market is the day I'm selling, right. So if I'm buying all along, well I don't you know, just keep buying all along where I see people? Really everybody your rule. You have a ten year rule. We do. Look, it's very simple. If you need money out of your portfolio in the next ten years, can never be in growth, can't be in stocks, can't be in real estate. Why because they go down a value and and Murphy's law is going to be the year you need the money, it'll be down in half and you've lost half your money. So if you need the money in the next ten years, you gotta buy a fixed income security, a c D, A bond, immuni bond, something like that, something safe and secure. If you don't need the money in the next ten years, where else you're gonna put it? I mean, attend your treasury days paying two point EIGHTHO. Not a lot of money. You're not gonna get rich on that, you know. So about the end of the go ahead, at the end of no, I mean at the end, at the end of the day. You have to have some perspective, which means, in order for things to grow, you do have to be willing to put up with a little volatility. I don't believe I would not go by a stock on the Chinese Stock Exchange because I don't trust their accounting. But I trust our accounting. It's very transparent, and so I'm comfortable with the earnings that are predicted by most of these companies. I'm not buying Wildcat oil. You we were talking about Disney, Home Depot, Johnson and Johnson. I mean, good, strong companies. I mean, you know, even intercession people still go to Disney. That's true too. And by the way, you have history to prove it. What about the new tax law and and how is this going to impact the average person? Well, I think the average person is probably gonna be very shocked. And I don't mean that their taxes are going to go up necessarily. But look, everyone got a pay raise the end of February early March because the the withholding tables changed, so your take home pay actually went up. And so my suspicion is most people are sitting around saying, m well, that means I'm not gonna owe as much taxes, And I'm telling you that's not necessarily the case. You better get a tax projection done. Whether you go to H and R Block or use Turbo Tax or them forbidcoming our firm, you need to get um a tax projection done. This is the perfect time to do it because you've got to do your taxes anyway and make sure you're withholding enough because by law, if you make less than a hundred fifty grand a year, you have to hold in either a percent of last year's tax liability or of your current years tax liability. To be perfectly Honestean, I do this for a living. I don't know either one of those numbers. I couldn't tell you today how much I've paid into taxes. I mean have a c p A. I write to check, I hold my nose and I move on. That doesn't mean I don't try to take advantage of all the text you know, loopholes and deductions that are available. Not saying that, but off the top of my head, I could not tell you what those two numbers are. I gotta take a break. Bill Laco is with us. He happens to be my personal financial guy and has literally managed me since I've had zero dollars in my pocket. Um And is there anyone else as a client that you have that disagrees with you more than me and is obnoxious about it as me, I can honestly stay. The answer to that is no, oh okay, I'm proud of that. My money? What is my What is my refrain? All the time to you? What do I say? I never you don't want to be a broke athlete. I don't want to work my whole life and then end up broke, and and if I do, I'm blaming you. Uh one sewn on toll free telephone number one with Bill on the other side, straight ahead, all right, Bill Laco. I wanted to bring him on with all the questions everybody's having about the stock market, about taxes, about finances. You know, run through your recklist, the basics that you give everybody, and we'll bring you back, maybe have to get into more specific issues, because you know, I think this is the one thing everybody hates to do, and that is manage their money, and as a result, people don't do it. Well. No, I agree with that. I mean, look, I think the first thing you gotta do is really figure out, you know, what your budget is and how much you can save, and then as you save it and you get past the emergency reserve side, you got to decide how much risk you're really willing to take. And our general rules we talked about before. If you don't need the money in ten years, why would you not invest in stocks now by good stuff, by stuff that you think will be here after the next recession or haven't forbid great recession or great depression. I mean, home Depot is probably not going out of business, UM, Excell and Mobile. You know, these are companies that are paying a good diving in that. UM you know we're gonna need for a long time. Procter and Gamble. I mean, you can come up with a million of them. That doesn't mean you can't take a flyer on on some company if you want to. But you know, realistically, Sean, you and I worked too hard for our money, and I don't see to me that's gambling. It's not gambling to me to buy McDonald's. I mean, when you go through McDonald's, it's always busy. I don't care. Twenty four hours a day there's somebody buying something from there. So that's really where we start, and I think going forward is really just to be able to sit down and make sure you're withholding what you need to from taxes, uh, so that you don't end up with a penalty. I mean, you know, Shawn, at the last segment, I was talking about the withholding. You know, if you don't pay enough in by December thirty one, you're gonna get a penalty. That's what's gonna happen. And what's really weird about this year. And I don't want is that go ahead? Sorry, Well, I'm just gonna have to wrap it up. I'll say, well, we'll have you back because I think this is um. All of this is important. I want our audience to prosper and and know these laws inside and out so they can do well for themselves and their families. They've forgotten men and women in this country. All right, Bill Laco, thank you. I know we put your articles up on our website, Hannity dot com. We appreciate you being with us. Uh Eid and he's with Henseler Associates. He's my guy down in Georgia. I've been using them for all these years, even when I didn't have a penny one. Shawn is a number alright now till the top of the hour on a Friday Hannity tonight. How how awfully incorrect your media is on so many big issues, Stormy seven? What do they miss? What do they cover? How many scandals have they missed? All right? Uh, now it is Friday. It's been a tough day. Uh. We can't be spending money like we're a bunch of drunken sailor Democrats. And that's what happened today. And literally they're holding defense spending hostage unless they get every single thing they want. And Republicans don't know what it means to lead, to have a vision, to be empower um, any principle that they once had is just gone. And uh, it's just sad to watch a once great party fall by the wayside. And again the only champions in all this so the Freedom Caucus and and a few others. Um, all right, but it is Friday. We can't be troubled all our lives. There is another side of life. We don't see it because we're working so hard every day. I stopped miss negativity. Now it's the end of the show. Can you stop miss miss miss negative negative? Nelly? Is that what you want to call? Looking for? Exactly? Welcome? Everyone was asking this week, does Linda really have talk like she talks, so she making it up. I don't know. I'm like she talks the way she talk Unfortunately. I mean I can make it less. I can talk more American like this. But as soon as I get angry, it's over. It's old ful. No, you see you didn't you weren't even angry. It's no, I'm angry. I've been angry all day. Yeah. No, I like a lot of people. All right, let's get get a lot of party light moonshine to get me out of those Oh. Really, have you ever had a little Kentucky clear No, I've never even been to Kentucky uline. I went there once for the vice president debate. Okay, but you've never had moonshine. No, I've never had moonshine. Do you ever watched the show on one of those cable networks that does the moonshiner guys? No, but Ethan knows that He's telling me in the backgrounds like Moonschina's moon China. Oh, it is hilarious. The show is so funny. The people there come up with such unique ways to hide face, you know. Yeah, it's by the way, I mean, you can buy alcohol really cheaply in a liquor store package store. It's not like alcohol is not readily available. But for some reason people want this rock gut and you know, they take old milk cartons and they throw it in in the you know, milk gallon jugs and there they are. I mean, yeah, I like to go to this liquor store and get my Baillies and Bailey's and cream. I'm drinking girly drinks. I'm not drinking that kind of stuff. Yeah, okay, all right, let's go to our busy phones as we say hi to Jeff is in Tulsa in Oklahoma. KRMG, Jeff, how are you glad you called? Welcome to the program? Well, thanks, thanks a lot for letting me get in there. Appreciate it. Sir. Hey, I'm I'm disappointed. I don't mean to be negative. I know you just talked about not being negative. I I want to trust trump Man Smith. He just he said he's gonna sign this soundibus stuff. Oh my gosh, it's you know. Look, yeah, everybody has to look at everything anyway. You can look at anything anyway you want. I I try to look at big picture stuff. Big picture stuff. I like everything that we had gotten up to now. Um, I understand they backed him into a corner. I understand why he wants defense spending. I understand. I don't understand the Republican Party has no vision anymore. They stand for nothing, and they have no backbone, and they have no fight, and they buckle every time, and they have no vision and it's not the party that it wants used to be. I mean, um, I can say all of this to you again and again, and the only guy that does fight is the President. And I would have vetoed that bill and I would have made these guys work. But I think the President looked at it from the position as a commander in chief and he said, I need this money for the military, and this is horrible and I can't let this happen again. But I've got to build up the military and I gotta do it now. Um do I agree with this decision? No. I think in this particular case, it would have been worth the fight. But you know, it's kind of hard when he's fighting by himself all the time, because you know the people that undermine him, just as much as the Democrats don't fool yourself are Republicans. Yeah, I get it, and and and I vacuum for that. I mean, God bless our military. I mean, if he wasn't looking for him, nobody would. I'm sure, um, but I'm at the same time, it's it's like, well, I I promised I wouldn't get into the details are probably be a snore fest. But I mean the things that he's giving up, that the things that are hidden in there. One of the biggest things I heard that there may not even be a chance for them to come back, that it may be something that they've snuck in at the last minute saying that they're not going to come back and do any additional funding. They've locked themselves out for the year based on what he's signing. I don't know that that's from different sources. Listen, I'm it's very simple to me. Where are the conservative principles that they ran on? That's it, just keep your promises. And it's very hard, you know, when as as one senator described the situation to me, you know, we're given no time to actually read the bill. I mean, that's the stuff that we would absolutely be apoplectic about over Obama. And I'm apoplectic that Republicans are playing the same games, and and we know what they're up to, and and we know how this game is played because they do the same thing you have. You have a thousand minutes to read two thousand, two thirty two pages, one point three two trillion dollars. You only get one point six billion for the wall. We need twenty five billion for the wall. And the bigger deal is just like the same on healthcare as they they didn't keep their promises repeal and replaced. Why was that so difficult when they had seven years to build a bill. Now the problem is is we're not going to get into a team mid term fight. And I see no way that this helps anybody that is running for re election it. And you know they'll say, oh, it's Trump's fault. No, it's not try it's their fault. You know. Listen to Senator John Kennedy what he said about the nominas Omnibus bill, about the Nibus, it sucks. You're not gonna vote for it. I wouldn't. I'm gonna vote against it twice if they will. Let I don't even know what's in the thing. Okay, this is an embarrassment, you know, I said it yesterday on a minute. This This is a great Dane size whizz down the leg of every taxpayer in this country. No fault whatsoever to adding over a threeion dollars in debt. I'm not gonna vote. I'm not gonna vote for it. Yeah, I mean that that should have been the feeling. If Republicans were Republicans, Republicans were conservative, if Republicans had a backbone, if Republicans had a vision, this wouldn't be their bill. It's just a fact, all right. I appreciate the call, Thank you, eight hundred nine four one show, and we'll go to Kentucky. Joseph, he's also mad. Hey, Joseph, how are you glad you called Mr? Hanny. I'm I'm not really mad. I'm just really sad and heartbroken. I'm a military veteran, I'm a truck driver. I drove over a hundred thousand miles during Mr Trump's presidency. I spoke to over a hundred radio shows. I called in. People got to know me on radio shows, and I'm there's a paradigm shift here. Mr Handy. It's time that we realize Mr Trump is a one term president as of today, It's time that we boycott the mid terms and we don't vote Republicans. We all stay home and shut them out. Mr Trump will not win in twenty not a chance on this earth. And and it's time that we take these next twenty four months and and just not show up in the mid terms and not vote republic We give up. We give the Democrats that's the House, we give him a Senate, and we give them a presidency. If we don't do that, we are going to get burned again. Mr Trump is officially a one term president today. You know, look, all these declarations are made on days like today. I've been in this game for thirty years. Um, I feel everything that you feel in terms of the betrayal. You know, you've gotta understand here in one sense and just this is a big picture. This to me is all about the This is what the sewer and swamp does. This is how they act, this is how they they manipulate. You know, the President when he spoke today, I pay very close attention, and he said it many many times before. It's like if Mitch McConnell was going to insist on sixty votes on everything, nothing is ever gonna get done in the U. S. Senate. Nothing really does get done in the U. S. Senate. Of consequence, it's so hard to get one thing done. And as long as that system exists and we don't change it, and there's not enough Republicans want to change it. I have a little different view than you do because I think this president wants to continue to do the bold things that he's been doing. And a disagreement on on one bill. Um, I'm not gonna throw the baby out with the bathwater, but I'm gonna say this that I'd love to see conservatives that support the Trump agenda elected, and there's gonna be primaries going on, and there's gonna be an opportunity to hand the government back over to the Democrats. It's suicide for the country. It's that there really as bad as Republicans are, they're worse and there's no good that comes out of it. You know, at least we're creating jobs. At least, we have cut taxes, at least we are now energy independent. At least we've gotten rid of burden some regulation. At least, you know, the mandate has gone in Obamacare. I mean, I don't don't take this the wrong way, because every conservative principle that Republicans are supposed to stand for is throwing out the window here today. I'm not disagreeing, but you gotta put the blame I think rightly belongs those that don't fight have no vision to have done nothing. The President at least has done a lot. All Right. That's gonna wrap things up with today Tonight, Hannity. More investigation of the investigators and the uranium one informant, the FBI informant that literally was within Vladimir Putin's operative network in America that was committing crimes of bribery and blackmail and extortion and money laundering. He is now speaking out for the first time on camera. Part two of that interview and all the other news of the day, and my admonition and advice to any Republican that ever wants to win office again. That's all coming up. Set you DVR nine Eastern on Hannity on the Fox News Channel. Have a great weekend. We'll see you tonight at nine. Back here on Monday,

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