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00:00Live from the White House, right about now.
00:08And welcome to Hannity. And tonight we are broadcasting live from our nation's capital,
00:12Washington, D.C., where at any moment, the president of our country, the USA,
00:18Donald J. Trump, will deliver a primetime address to the nation. We are told there will be multiple
00:23major developments in this speech, and we'll take you to the White House as it is happening.
00:28But make no mistake, big things are underway in America, both here at home and abroad.
00:34We begin tonight with a quick preview of tonight's address with our very own Aisha Hosni is with us.
00:39Aisha, what's the preview?
00:41Sean, good evening to you. We can expect the economy and affordability to be a big part of
00:46tonight's speech. The president himself previewing it earlier this evening, saying that he's going
00:50to be talking about how he inherited this mess from his predecessor, but that his economic policies
00:56are working. So you'll likely hear about how he's tackling inflation, how he's helping farmers,
01:01how he's unleashing American energy. He'll tout the incoming tax cuts from his big, beautiful bill.
01:07Basically, the White House is telling Americans they'll be able to afford more once they have
01:12more money in their pocketbooks in the new year. The president may also talk about how he's secured
01:17the southern border and his foreign policy wins as well. But his allies certainly want him to focus
01:23on how he's making a life better here at home. Sean?
01:26All right. Aisha, thank you. Now, we do expect the president will be using graphs and charts that
01:30will be showing you throughout the night. Well, a full reaction. Senator Brasso, Lindsey Graham,
01:35Senator Britt. But here's President Trump in the White House.
01:37Good evening, America. Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess, and I'm fixing it. When I took office,
01:46inflation was the worst in 48 years, and some would say in the history of our country,
01:52which caused prices to be higher than ever before, making life unaffordable for millions and millions of
01:59Americans. This happened during a Democrat administration, and it's when we first began hearing
02:05the word affordability. Our border was open, and because of this, our country was being invaded by
02:13an army of 25 million people, many who came from prisons and jails, mental institutions, and insane
02:21asylums. They were drug dealers, gang members, and even 11,888 murderers, more than 50 percent of whom
02:30killed more than one person. This is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to our country,
02:37and it can never be allowed to happen again. We had men playing in women's sports, transgender for
02:45everybody, crime at record levels with law enforcement, and words such as that just absolutely
02:52forbidden. We had the worst trade deals ever made, and our country was laughed at from all over the world,
02:59but they're not laughing anymore. Over the past 11 months, we have brought more positive change to
03:07Washington than any administration in American history. There's never been anything like it,
03:15and I think most would agree. I was elected in a landslide winning the popular vote and all seven
03:22swing states and everything else with a mandate to take on a sick and corrupt system that really just
03:32took the wealth from people and crushed the dreams of the American people. For the last four years,
03:38the United States was ruled by politicians who fought only for insiders, illegal aliens, career
03:45criminals, corporate lobbyists, prisoners, terrorists, and above all foreign nations, which took advantage
03:52of us at levels never seen before. They flooded your cities and towns with illegal aliens. They
03:59decimated your hard-earned savings. They indoctrinated your children with hate for America, released,
04:06but really, I mean, they just released a level of violent felons that we had never seen to prey on
04:12innocent. They caused war. They caused mayhem. They caused a horrible situation all over the globe,
04:21but now you have a president who fights for the law-abiding, hard-working people of our country,
04:26the ones who make this nation run, who make this nation work, and after just one year, we have
04:34achieved more than anyone could have imagined. Starting on day one, I took immediate action to stop the
04:40invasion of our southern border. For the past seven months, zero illegal aliens have been allowed
04:46into our country, a feat which everyone said was absolutely impossible. Do you remember when Joe
04:53Biden said that he needed Congress to pass legislation to help close the border? He was always blaming
04:59Congress and everyone else. As it turned out, we didn't need legislation. We just needed a new
05:05president. We inherited the worst border anywhere in the world, and we quickly turned it into the
05:11strongest border in the history of our country. In other words, in a few short months, we went from
05:18worst to best. We're deporting criminals, restoring safety to our most dangerous cities. Just take a look
05:25at Washington, D.C. It's at levels of safety that we've never seen before, and they decimated the
05:34bloodthirsty foreign drug cartels. We did that all by ourselves with our people, and we're so proud of
05:41it because they were poisoning and destroying our population. Drugs brought in by ocean and by sea
05:49are now down 94%. We have broken the grip of sinister woke radicals in our schools, and control over those
05:59schools is back now in the hands of our great and loving states where education belongs. After
06:07rebuilding the United States military in my first term, and with the addition we are adding right now,
06:13we have the most powerful military anywhere in the world, and it's not even close. I've restored
06:21American strength, settled eight wars in 10 months, destroyed the Iran nuclear threat, and ended the war in
06:28Gaza bringing for the first time in 3,000 years peace to the Middle East, and secured the release of the
06:35hostages both living and dead. Here at home, we're bringing our economy back from the brink of ruin.
06:43The last administration and their allies in Congress looted our treasury for trillions of dollars,
06:49driving up prices and everything at levels never seen before. I am bringing those high prices down,
06:56and bringing them down very fast. Let's look at the facts. Under the Biden administration,
07:02car prices rose 22%, and in many states 30% or more. Gasoline rose 30% to 50%. Hotel rates rose 37%.
07:14Airfares rose 31%. Now under our leadership, they are all coming down and coming down fast. Democrat
07:21politicians also sent the cost of grocery soaring, but we are solving that too. The price of a
07:28Thanksgiving turkey was down 33% compared to the Biden last year. The price of eggs is down 82% since
07:37March, and everything else is falling rapidly, and it's not done yet. But boy, are we making progress.
07:44Nobody can believe what's going on. Here are just some of the efforts that we have underway that you
07:50will see in your wallets and bank accounts in the new year. After years of record-setting falling
07:56incomes, our policies are boosting take-home pay at a historic pace. Under Biden, real wages plummeted by
08:04$3,000. Under Trump, the typical factory worker has seen a wage increase of $1,300. For construction workers,
08:14it's $1,800. For miners, we're bringing back clean, beautiful coal. It's $3,300. And for the first time
08:24in years, wages are rising much faster than inflation. Remember that. Just look at it. Wages are going up
08:33much faster than inflation. How big is that? Very importantly, there are more people working today
08:41than at any time in American history. And 100% of all jobs created since I took office have been in the
08:48private sector. Think of that. 100% of all jobs have been in the private sector rather than government,
08:57which is the only way to make a country powerful and great. This historic trend will continue already.
09:05I've secured a record-breaking $18 trillion of investment into the United States, which means jobs,
09:12wage increases, growth, factory openings, and far greater national security. Much of this success
09:20has been accomplished by tariffs. My favorite word, tariffs, which for many decades have been used
09:27successfully by other countries against us, but not anymore. Companies know that if they build in
09:34America, there are no tariffs. And that's why they're coming home to the USA in record numbers.
09:40They're building factories and plants at levels we haven't seen, AI, automobiles. We're doing
09:47what nobody thought was even possible, not even remotely possible. There has never,
09:52frankly, been anything like it. One year ago, our country was dead. We were absolutely dead. Our country
10:00was ready to fail. Totally failed. Now, we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. And that said,
10:07by every single leader that I've spoken to over the last five months. Next year, you will also see
10:14the results of the largest tax cuts in American history that were really accomplished through our
10:20great, big, beautiful bill, perhaps the most sweeping legislation ever passed in Congress. We wrapped 12
10:28different bills up into one beautiful bill. That includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
10:35and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. Under these cuts, many families will be saving
10:43between $11,000 and $20,000 a year. And next spring is projected to be the largest tax refund season
10:52of all time. Because of tariffs, along with the just passed one big, beautiful bill, tonight, I am also
10:59proud to announce that more than 1,450,000, think of this, 1,450,000 military service members will receive a
11:12special we call warrior dividend before Christmas, a warrior dividend in honor of our nation's founding in
11:211776. We are sending every soldier $1,776. Think of that. And the checks are already on the way. Nobody
11:35understood that one until about 30 minutes ago. We made a lot more money than anybody thought because
11:40of tariffs and the bill helped us along. Nobody deserves it more than our military. And I say,
11:46congratulations to everybody. And by the way, we now have record enlistment in our military. And last year,
11:52we had among the worst recruitment numbers in our military's history. What a difference a year makes. In
11:58addition, I'm doing what no politician of either party has ever done, standing up to the special interest
12:06to dramatically reduce the price of prescription drugs. I negotiated directly with the drug companies and
12:12foreign nations, which were taken advantage of our country for many decades to slash prices on drugs
12:18and pharmaceuticals by as much as 400, 500 and even 600%. In other words, your drug costs will be
12:28plummeting downward. And I use the threat of tariffs to get foreign countries who would never have done it
12:34to pay the cost of this giant dollar reduction. They stopped ripping us off. And it began
12:41as of four days ago. There has never been anything like this in the history of our country. Drugs have
12:47only gone up, but now they'll be going down by numbers never conceived possible. It's called
12:54Most Favored Nation. And no president has ever had the courage or ability to get this done until now.
13:01The first of these unprecedented price reductions will be available starting in January through
13:07a new website, TrumpRx.gov. And these big price cuts will greatly reduce the cost of health care.
13:15I'm also taking on the gigantic health insurance companies that have gotten rich on billions of
13:21dollars of money that should go directly to the people. The money should go to the people. That's you.
13:27So they can buy their own health insurance, which will give far better benefits at much lower costs. It will be
13:34far better health insurance. The current Unaffordable Care Act was created to make insurance companies rich.
13:42It was bad health care at much to higher costs. And you see that now in the steep increase in premiums
13:49being demanded by the Democrats. And they are demanding those increases. And it's their fault.
13:54It is not the Republicans fault. It's the Democrats fault. It's the Unaffordable Care Act. And everybody
14:02knew it. Again, I want the money to go directly to the people so you can buy your own health care. You'll
14:07get much better health care at a much lower price. The only losers will be insurance companies that have
14:14gotten rich. And the Democrat Party, which is totally controlled by those same insurance companies,
14:19they will not be happy. But that's OK with me because you, the people, are finally going to be getting
14:25great health care at a lower cost. Another major focus is the cost of energy. For years, the radical
14:32left Democrats exploited the green energy scam as an excuse to funnel many billions of dollars into
14:39their own massive slush funds as their energy restrictions drastically drove up prices and they
14:45drove them up at record levels. Electricity costs surge 30 to 100 percent under Biden. And the typical
14:53family lost $5,000 to $10,000 in higher energy costs. Think of that, $5,000 to $10,000 you lost. On day one,
15:02I declared a national energy emergency. Gasoline is now under $2.50 a gallon in much of the country.
15:11In some states, it, by the way, just hit $1.99 a gallon. And within the next 12 months, we will have
15:19opened 1,600 new electrical generating plants, a record. And it's a record that won't be beaten by
15:26practically, I would say, by anybody or certainly not very soon. Prices on electricity and everything
15:33else will fall dramatically. The Democrat inflation disaster, again, the worst in the history of our
15:40country, also robbed millions of Americans of home ownership and indeed the American dream.
15:46The yearly cost of a typical new mortgage increased by $15,000 under Democrat rule. In 11 months,
15:55we've already gotten that annual cost down by $3,000 and it's coming down a lot lower. Wait
16:01till you see. The numbers are going to be shocking. And I'll soon announce our next chairman of the
16:06Federal Reserve, someone who believes in lower interest rates by a lot and mortgage payments will
16:13be coming down even further early. The new year, and you will see this in the new year,
16:19I will announce some of the most aggressive housing reform plans in American history.
16:25A major factor in driving up housing costs was the colossal border invasion. We have never been
16:31invaded. This is the worst thing that frankly, in my opinion, the worst thing that the Biden
16:38administration did to our country is the invasion at the border. The last administration and their
16:44allies in Congress brought in millions and millions of migrants and gave them taxpayer-funded housing,
16:51while your rent and housing costs skyrocketed. Over 60% of growth in the rental market came from
16:57foreign migrants. At the same time, illegal aliens stole American jobs and flooded emergency
17:03rooms getting free health care and education paid for by you, the American taxpayer. They also
17:09increased the cost of law enforcement by numbers so high that they are not even to be mentioned.
17:16For the first time in 50 years, we are now seeing reverse migration as migrants go back home,
17:22leaving more housing and more jobs for Americans. In the year before my election,
17:27all net creation of jobs was going to foreign migrants. Since I took office, 100% of all net
17:37job creation has gone to American-born citizens, 100%. In the end, government either serves the productive,
17:48patriotic, hardworking American citizen, or it serves those who break the laws, cheat the system,
17:54and seek power and profit at the expense of our nation. Look at Minnesota, where Somalians have
18:01taken over the economics of the state and have stolen billions and billions of dollars from Minnesota and
18:07indeed from the United States of America. And we're going to put an end to it. For so long as before my
18:14election, the vast majority of good and decent Americans were forced to watch as corrupt politicians
18:21plundered the halls of power, exploited our taxpayers and pillaged every system that makes civilized
18:27society function. But not anymore. And you see that every day. Not anymore. We're putting America
18:34first and we are making America great again. Very sure you're going to make it. This looks like the
18:40the border is secure. Inflation is stopped. Wages are up. Prices are down. Our nation is strong.
18:50America is respected. And our country is back stronger than ever before. We're poised for an
18:58economic boom, the likes of which the world has never seen. Soon we will host the World Cup and the
19:04Olympics, both of which I got. But most importantly, we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the
19:12Declaration of Independence. There could be no more fitting tribute to this epic milestone than to
19:20complete the comeback of America that began just one year ago. When the world looks at us next year,
19:28let them see a nation that is loyal to its citizens, faithful to its workers, confident to its identity,
19:34certain to its destiny, and the envy of the entire globe. We are respected again like we have never been
19:42respected before. To each and every one of you, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. God bless you all.
19:53All right, that was President Trump live from the White House with a major address to the country here
19:58with reaction in Washington. We have Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, Alabama Senator Katie Britt,
20:04South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. Senator Barrasso, you were saying it during the speech,
20:10that is, well, first of all, what a difference a year make. A guy by the name of Joe Biden could not
20:15give that speech. With the energy and the force of Donald Trump, you called it political shock and
20:22awe. And that's what we've had for a year, shock and awe with the president focused on the economy,
20:27focused on putting more people, more money in people's pockets, and as you heard him tonight,
20:31focused on affordability. We have reversed the direction of this country dramatically.
20:36On the border, the border is now secure. On energy, we're now energy dominant. On taxes,
20:42we prevented a $4 trillion tax increase that the Democrats were promoting, and on national security,
20:47it is now peace through strength. He inherited and we inherited as Republicans a country that was
20:53weaker, poorer, less safe, and we said we need to provide safety and prosperity. We've done that.
20:59The president talked about this major piece of legislation that we passed, the working families
21:04tax cuts. There are things in that for everyone. Tax cuts as well, no tax on tips, no tax on social
21:10security, no tax on overtime. These things are all going to continue to put more money in people's
21:16pockets, and they really go into place in 2026. So next year is going to be better than this year.
21:22Senator Britt, I'd look at this and break it into categories.
21:25The mess he was left, all that he's done, the difference in comparing and contrasting. I thought
21:31they very effectively use these charts tonight. Absolutely.
21:35And I think they speak loudly to the American people because there's always an impatience,
21:40but his entire tax plan has not even gone into effect yet. Hasn't even gone into effect yet. That's
21:44exactly right. And you look at the contrast. I mean, that was outstanding. And you said it during the
21:48break, we talked about it. President Otto Penn, just left office, could have never done that.
21:54He very clearly said to the American people, I see you. And look at the things that we've done,
22:00what he has accomplished in just these first 10, 11 months is remarkable. But I think more is yet to
22:06come. Look, as a parent, I think about this. He secured our border. He did it. We passed the Lake and
22:12Riley Act. It's actually the first immigration enforcement law that we've passed in like 30 years.
22:18In addition to that, he has taken on fentanyl. How many kids are going to have to die before we
22:23actually take it serious? President Trump said, I'm not talking about it. I am doing something
22:28about it. We've seen it from the border to what he's done with Venezuela. And then you look at no
22:33men in women's sports. Look, I have a daughter who plays volleyball, who plays basketball.
22:38I want her to have a fair opportunity to compete on that court. And President Trump gave her that.
22:44You want them to feel safe in the locker room when you want them to have opportunity in the arena.
22:49And he changed the dynamic on that. Look, we could go on and on. He talked about no indoctrination.
22:55We've said we want our kids to be educated, not indoctrinated. He has said our Department of
23:00Education is failing our next generation. And he's not just going to talk about it. He's going to do
23:05something. And tonight he laid out for the American people, not only what he has done,
23:10but he has said there is more to come. It's things like the Trump accounts. Sean, look, as a new
23:15parent, if your child is born during the Trump administration, you're going to get $1,000 into
23:20this account. We're already seeing philanthropists step up. We're already seeing different businesses
23:26saying, I'm going to do this for my employees. So he is creating this public-private partnership
23:30that ultimately is going to allow everyday Americans to achieve the American dream. And
23:35having a piece of that and having a piece of hope again, because after the Biden administration,
23:40with wide open borders, with total chaos abroad, total chaos, and with parents who felt like
23:48the government was in their way, President Trump has changed the dynamic. And it's a good day for
23:53our country and more to come. Senator Graham, I mean, he touched on everything. He talked about issues
23:59abroad about all the time, energy resources, the personal investment he has had in world conflicts
24:06to bring peace in the Middle East, but also around the globe, peace in Europe, still working on that
24:12deal, how he inherited a mess, all the changes he's put in place, closed the borders, bringing back,
24:18restoring law and order. This city is, you know, exhibit A, right? Lower taxes, largest tax cut in
24:24American history, energy dominant policies, which I think everybody will be impacted by.
24:30Again, no tax tips, overtime, social security. There's a lot in this speech.
24:35Well, the headline for me is when he says the best is yet to come, he made a case
24:40to make that believable. The trend lines are all going in the right direction. In 2022,
24:48gas was almost $5 per gallon in December this year. It's the lowest it's been since 2021.
24:56The trend lines are going in the right direction in terms of gas prices. In terms of energy,
25:01Biden canceled the XL pipeline. He stopped new leases to find American-owned oil and gas.
25:08Trump has reversed that. In July of this year, the most oil produced in a day in America,
25:15we hit that number in July of 2025, a 25% increase of exporting natural gas,
25:21which is good for domestic markets here. So the bottom line is these charts tell you that the
25:28trend lines on energy, on housing costs are going in the right direction. And if we stay with these
25:34policies, we do another reconciliation bill, be patient, help is on the way.
25:40Anyway, simple explanation of housing. If 12 million people come into your country legally
25:47in a four year period, and they're not sleeping in the streets, they're staying in hotels or
25:53staying in apartments paid for by your government. And the Biden administration won't let you build
25:59new houses because you can't cut down a tree. Then housing prices are going to go up. What is Trump
26:04doing different than Biden? He's kicking people out and he's unleashing the ability to build a house
26:10in America. So mortgage rates are coming down. Housing supply is going to go up. Gas production
26:16is at an all time high. So the trend lines are real. Mr. President, you just did not say the best is
26:23yet to come. You proved to the American people that when it comes to their prosperity and security,
26:29by this time next year, you will see a major difference. When these tax cuts go into effect,
26:35when energy dominant policies drive the lifeblood of the world's economy down even further,
26:40when the trillions in investment come into manufacturing with 100 percent depreciation in
26:46year one, where are we going to be at the end of the second quarter next year? Because
26:51if Democrats want to talk about affordability, I would imagine they might be eating a lot of those
26:56words. Well, I think they will. And it's so interesting watching the president because he's
27:00so good. He didn't even get to the fact that we stopped a lot of bad things that the Biden
27:03administration had been doing. The Biden administration wanted all of us to be force-fed
27:08electric vehicles. We reversed that. They wanted to eliminate the internal combustion engine.
27:14So, you know, what we're doing is producing more gas, oil, coal and energy. The other thing we didn't
27:19talk about yet are these warrior dividends. I was overseas at Ramstein Air Force Base for
27:24Thanksgiving. I go every year to visit our overseas Wyoming troops for Thanksgiving. This is going
27:28to go over very well with the 1.4 million men and women in uniform in Thanksgiving. What, $1,776?
27:361,450,000 troops will get that. Look, we're putting more money back in Americans' pockets as a result
27:44of President Trump's leadership. We're going to see it on everything, the no tax on tips,
27:48no tax on overtimes, but even in child care. This is something Democrats have talked about for years,
27:52Sean. And President Trump has led the way, allowing parents to keep more of their hard-earned money
27:57and actually tackling the affordability and accessibility of child care. So there are so
28:02many things that we have done that people haven't actually gotten to reap the benefits of yet,
28:07and they will next year. When that happens, I think the economy, it's going to be good stuff.
28:12Senator Graham, we're going to give you the last word, but Polymarket, by the way, they're running
28:16a poll right now where they have odds on whether or not you're going to say the word
28:20B.S. the way you did the other night. I want to get in on that.
28:23I want to get in on that. Being a G-rated virgin, I feel good. I'm happy I don't cuss,
28:29and let me know what I'm happy about. If you want to bring health care costs down,
28:32listen to President Trump and follow his lead. All the money under Obamacare goes to health care
28:38insurance companies. President Trump wants to take some of that money and give it to you so you can
28:44shop for better health care. That will lower health care. Monopolies are bad.
28:48Wait a minute. The Affordable Care Act needs permanent subsidies because it's not so affordable?
28:54Millions lost to doctors' plans. Obamacare is the best thing that ever happened to a health
28:57care insurance company. It's the worst thing that ever happened to a consumer.
29:02I thank you all. Senator Barrasso, Senator Britt, Senator Graham. Thank you all.
29:06And by the way, if you were voting that that Senator Graham would use that word,
29:11you lost money tonight. All right. Obviously, economic plays a huge role in the lives of
29:16every American. It was a key part of tonight's speech here with analysis,
29:20the host of Making Money on our sister network, Fox Business, Charles Payne.
29:25Charles, let's let's go through. I'll put up as you're analyzing this. But the president talked
29:32about price increases under Biden and price decreases since he's been in office. Food price
29:38increases decreases. He also talked about real wages that, you know, went down under Biden.
29:44They've since gone up. And again, the one big, beautiful bill. All those tax provisions have not
29:48even fully taken effect yet. Yeah, I almost line by line, if you look at all the things that make
29:56headlines, whether it was the beginning of the year and then people were complaining about
30:01the, you know, eggs, for instance, those prices started to rise two years earlier under Biden,
30:07and they started to rise pretty rapidly. Right now, electricity. And I really worry about this one,
30:13Sean, because we need these data centers that President Trump brothers back significantly,
30:17if we're going to remain the preeminent nation in the world, not just now, but for the next 50 years.
30:22And the Democrats are making that a political talking point. And that's going to hurt a lot
30:26of communities that push back against it. But these electricity prices, they went up significantly.
30:30They went up 70% under Biden, because he went to war with energy. He went to war with energy.
30:36It's amazing to see a state like New Jersey, where you had a governor's race over electricity,
30:41when the Democratic governors shut down electricity operations, including nuclear power plants.
30:47But again, item by item, I don't care what it is, all of it went up under Joe Biden,
30:53because he flooded the country with cash. He flooded the country with cash for one specific reason.
30:59Ultimately, he knew it would end up in the pockets of his donors, the top one percent.
31:04And that's exactly what happened. All America was left with was a T-shirt that says,
31:08I'm in runaway inflation. I can't get out of it. It's a tall order for President Trump. But all the
31:13pieces are in place. And here's the thing. I just want to real quick, this is from Goldman Sachs,
31:18the top executive analyst there. And I just got to tell you, because you want sort of third-party
31:22kind of thing, right? In 2026, we expect more constructive U.S. consumer backdrop,
31:27especially middle income. Given a pickup in real income growth, aided by job growth,
31:33tax cuts, fading tariff-related inflation, all of these things are in place. We are expecting a
31:38gangbuster year in 2026, a noticeable year where almost every American will feel it,
31:44and it will feel really good. And those who are naysayers who are doubting this,
31:48whether it's political or you just don't believe America can do it anymore, you're going to see it.
31:54Charles, let me ask you this. Rental prices are down because we had 2 million illegal
31:58immigrants self-deport. You have gas prices down. Okay, that impacts every American in
32:04unimaginable ways. Inflation is down. Interest rates are coming down. They come down much further.
32:09You're going to see sale of pre-existing homes go through the roof. And I would imagine right
32:14behind that is new home construction, right or wrong? Absolutely right. Lennar, the second
32:20largest home builder in America, has already dropped their prices 27% since the pandemic.
32:27And they need the urgency. Everyone needs that in this industry because everybody was pretty
32:32comfortable with the status quo to get to work. Mortgage rates are coming down. When they get a five
32:37handle, when they're less than six percent for a mortgage, you're going to see massive opportunities
32:43because a lot of folks don't want to sell if they've got a three percent mortgage for a six
32:47or seven percent mortgage. At five, that changes instantaneously. Tomorrow morning,
32:51speaking of inflation, we'll get the CPI number. A great analyst over at Bloomberg says that we've
32:56already seen peak inflation in appliances, apparel, sporting goods, personal goods, and things like
33:03that. So inflation is going one way. Wages going the other way. Opportunity. It's going to be a spark.
33:10What we call in the financial community, animal spirits are going to be reawakened in a way that
33:17they really have been reawakened in this country. All right, Charles Payne. It's not a public school.
33:22We can wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We appreciate you being with us.
33:27Keep in mind, despite the constant gloom, doom from the legacy media mob,
33:32President Trump does continue to outperform his predecessors in approval polls.
33:36A new Reuters survey shows that Republicans have a clear edge on very key issues. They're up
33:42by 15 over Democrats on crime, 11 on immigration, seven on the economy. Meanwhile, according to
33:48Quinnipiac, well, congressional Democrats now are polling lower than ever, a negative 55-point
33:54approval rating. Now, let's bring in Fox News contributor, former Speaker of the House,
33:59Newt Gingrich. Mr. Speaker, you know, you are somebody that always liked to use a lot of charts
34:04and graphs. I remember because I was the emcee the night you became Speaker and I followed your
34:10five years as Speaker, the last one to balance the budget. You did it four years in a row.
34:16The Democrats have been screaming affordability. Things, according to all these charts, seem to be
34:21turning around rather dramatically. Where will we be in six months from now at the end of the second quarter?
34:27Well, look, I think that we're going to see a choice in 2026 between a Trump boom
34:38and the Democrats gloom, literally that wide. I think I think the president's right. And again,
34:43I'm a disciple of Art Laffer and others. I believe in supply side economics. You look at the trillions
34:49of dollars the president's brought into the country in investment. You look at the trillions
34:53he has sold of American products. You look at the impact of the tariffs. You look at the impact of
34:59the one big, beautiful bill and all the different tax changes. I would be shocked if we did not have
35:05a roaring economy by July of next year. And I think that's going to wash away an amazing amount of the
35:14news media's effort to, frankly, talk badly about America. I mean, the elite media, the democratic
35:21propaganda media has done everything it could to hide reality. Just take the price of gasoline.
35:28When you start having states that are below $2 a gallon, and you think about what people used to say
35:35the price would inevitably be. When you see the big auto companies all going back to producing
35:40internal combustion engines, because guess what? That's what their consumers want to buy.
35:46I see so many good things. But I'll tell you, we've known each other a long time.
35:51To watch President Trump give a 19 minute disciplined speech that covered that many facts was worthy of
36:00Ronald Reagan. That was a good speech. It was an important speech. Someday people will say it was
36:06one of the most important speeches of his career because it set the table for the entire debate over
36:11the next year and laid out what Biden did to make the country a disaster, what Trump has already done,
36:19and where we are going in general and why that's the right direction. I think it's a very, very important
36:25speech. I thought it was very iconoclastic in terms of it shattered the democratic
36:30talking point, affordability, affordability. Number one, he laid out that the affordability
36:35crisis was caused by them. I don't think anybody can watch that speech and not walk away with that
36:39conclusion. Senator Barrasso used the term political shock and awe. And then you just go
36:46back a year ago. He's just shy of 11 full months in office. And wow, what a comparison of what we had
36:54and the force of nature that the country saw tonight. Your thoughts?
36:59Well, look, I think that there's no question. This is one of the most consequential presidents
37:05in American history. And he has begun. If he can win next year, and I think he will,
37:11I think we'll keep the House and the Senate and probably gain seats in both. If that happens, I think
37:17he really begins to rival the top three or four presidents in American history because he is
37:24fundamentally changing the Rooseveltian majority, which has been there for 90 years. He's begun to
37:31dismantle large parts of the bureaucracy. He's begun to move us back towards being a work-oriented,
37:36meritocracy-oriented country that encourages entrepreneurs, encourages new jobs, encourages new
37:44technologies. We are going to pull away from the rest of the planet because of the sheer dynamic
37:51of the American economy. When it has a cheerleader president who is himself an entrepreneur,
37:58it makes all the difference in the world. Mr. Speaker, let's look forward. 2026,
38:03midterm election year. Three times in the last hundred years did the party in power maintain control.
38:10Four times in 150 years. We had a private conversation and I spoke to you about that.
38:17You were the architect of bringing Republicans back to power, starting with renewing American
38:22civilization. And I still have old VHS tapes of that series that you put out. But you were the
38:28architect to bring Republicans back to power after 40 years in the wilderness. Tell me how this
38:35president can defy historical trends in this way. Is it all going to be based on the economy and peace
38:42around the globe? Does peace and prosperity tend to drive elections? Well, look, I think it's a very
38:49simple question. People are going to say to themselves, is it working? Whatever it is. If they say it's working,
38:56they're going to vote for Trump and the Republicans. If they say it's not working, they're going to vote for
39:01the Democrats. And what's happening is, when you talk about crime, clearly it's better with Trump.
39:07When you talk about the border, it's unbelievably—I mean unbelievably better with President Trump.
39:14When you talk about the war on drugs, it's dramatically better with Trump. When you start
39:19talking about sheer volume of American production, it's better with Trump. So Republicans have to
39:25really get in their heads. You have to win the argument. You have to recognize that the news media
39:31is your opponent, that they're going to try every day to make you feel bad, that they're going to try
39:36to raise issues designed to hurt you. And you just have to run over them. And you have to come back to
39:41the basics. You know, I'd like—I'd love to go around the country and debate some left-winger.
39:45Is it good to have gasoline below $2? Or is it bad? Now, if you're a true left-winger,
39:50it's terrible, because it means you're not going to get electric cars. You're not going to stop oil and gas.
39:55You're going to have regular traditional cars. So from a left-wing standpoint, gasoline under $2
40:02is a nightmare. Is it good to have people getting off of welfare and going to work?
40:07Well, if you're a Trump, MAGA Republican, you think that's terrific. If you're a left-winger,
40:13you're going, wait a second. I need them to be dependent. I need them to be part of the welfare system.
40:19Gosh, I mean, what if everybody actually had a job and we had no welfare program left?
40:23So I think we have to win the arguments. And every time you've seen this happen,
40:28the most famous being 1934 with Franklin Roosevelt, the party dominated the argument.
40:35And I believe President Trump showed tonight that he's prepared to focus, to be disciplined,
40:41to communicate. And if I were a Democrat, tonight would leave me very unnerved.
40:46I'll tell you, I would not want to be in the position of the shoes of Democrats. They have to
40:51hope that the president's policies fail, that the economy doesn't recover, uh, that somehow,
40:57you know, his border policies and his, his peace policies are not successful.
41:02I don't think that's a good position to be in. Uh, Mr. Speaker, we appreciate your time.
41:07All right. When we come back, we'll continue our coverage. Also a lot of other breaking
41:10news to cover tonight, a live update on the manhunt for the Brown University shooter.
41:15Also Nick Reiner in court, wearing shackles and a suicide prevention vest to face charges of murder
41:23against his celebrity parents. We've got new details tonight, that and more as we continue
41:28reporting tonight from our nation's Capitol. We'll continue.
41:30Now there are other major breaking stories. We are following tonight, the manhunt for the Brown
41:40University shooter, uh, that continues yet another night as police now say they're seeking a person
41:46who appears on video walking towards the suspected shooter who then walks the other way. And while there
41:53is plenty of security camera footage from the home surrounding Brown University's campus,
41:58there is basically no footage from inside any campus building at all. Uh, that's a fact that
42:05President Trump pointed out on truth social last night. And well, now with more, he's live on the
42:10ground. He's in Providence, Rhode Island tonight with the very latest, our very own Fox news contributor,
42:14Paul Morrow. Paul, it is in this day and age, and they have an eight, well, $8 trillion of $8
42:21billion rather, uh, endowment. And they don't have AI facial recognition, security campuses around the
42:29perimeter in every crevice and hole in that university is unforgivable to me.
42:37Yeah, it's very, very hard to fathom, Sean, this building where the shooting took place,
42:41the engineering building is in fact, as you say, a perimeter of the university. It is the first thing
42:47that you hit as you come into Brown University from the residential neighborhood. So where you'd be
42:52thinking in terms of security, that is cameras, key card access, security guards, all the things
42:58that campus police really take for granted, all of those things seem to have been punted on in this
43:03instance. And as a result, the task force working this case have to work the perimeter outside of
43:08Brown to hope to get the kind of video that can lead them to a good lead.
43:12Well, especially they're rather inexpensive. All these AI security cameras, very affordable for
43:19a university with an $8 billion endowment. Um, inexplicable to me that at this late date,
43:25they really don't have a fix on who this person is and local police that there's not a federal charge
43:32that would give jurisdiction to the FBI at this point. Although they have sent in agents from all around,
43:37uh, uh, uh, the country, the local police and campus police are maintaining control,
43:44which I think is a huge mistake. Would you agree with that?
43:49Well, I can say this for you. I would not have comp, uh, confidence in the campus police running
43:54this case in any way, excuse me, any way, shape or form. The task force, according to my sourcing up
43:59here is working in synchronization. They have everybody on board. They're all pulling in the same
44:04direction. They're farming out leads. We saw the lead that went bad over the weekend. It looked good
44:09for a while. They did chase it down and then they developed this new lead today. My sourcing is telling
44:14me that this may only be a witness, but I do have to question something, Sean. It's a pretty good image.
44:20It's good video. It's a good photo. You have to wonder why somebody or the person himself has not come
44:26forward at this point because that image has been very, very widely broadcast. It only deepens the
44:31mystery around this thing. All right, Paul Morrow in Providence tonight. Thank you for that report.
44:35Also tonight, Nick Reiner, the son of Rob and Michelle Reiner, who is being charged with the
44:40murder of his parents, appeared in court for the first time today. Here are the very latest on that
44:46breaking story. He's on the ground. He's in Brentwood, California. Our very own Matt Finn is with us.
44:51Matt, um, 17 stints in rehab, apparently an argument at Conan O'Brien's, uh, a holiday party that he had.
45:00Uh, and now we have new information tonight. Yeah, Sean, several things developing tonight. First of
45:07all, an assistant police chief with Los Angeles police confirms that Rob and Michelle Reiner were
45:13found in their master master bedroom in their house behind me. Also earlier today, the medical
45:18examiner here in Los Angeles County released their report and ruled that the couple were each stabbed
45:24and died from multiple sharp force wounds. Now their son, Nick Reiner, made his first appearance
45:30in court today. Cameras were not allowed to show Nick, but he was wearing a suicide prevention smock
45:35and would quietly answered yes as he waived his right to a speedy arraignment until the new year.
45:40Also new surveillance video obtained by the New York Post places Nick Reiner near his parents home here
45:46just before midnight Saturday as he casually walked past a nearby gas station. Also the day after on
45:53Sunday cameras captured him again wearing a different outfit, walking into a convenience store
45:58and purchasing a drink. Now that was shortly before Reiner surrendered to police near a metro station
46:03some 15 miles from the family home here hours after his parents bodies were found. Also we're hearing for
46:09the first time, Sean, from the other two surviving children. The daughter reportedly found her father,
46:15if not also her deceased mother, in the house behind me. Those two children released a statement
46:20saying they are bearing unimaginable pain and also called their parents their best friends. Sean.
46:25All right, Matt Finn in Brentwood, California tonight. Thank you, Matt. Earlier today, the former
46:30special prosecutor Jack Smith appeared before members of the House Judiciary Committee for his closed
46:36door deposition on how the DOJ under Joe Biden has been weaponized. And of course his investigation
46:43was weaponized and reportedly claimed that politics played no role in his prosecution. Here with more
46:51House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is with us. Well, we had John Solomon on last night.
46:57What did we learn? That apparently the FBI was saying that you don't have probable cause and they win in
47:04any way. And then we have the issue of the dual system of justice because Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden,
47:10top secret classified information not covered by the presidential records act. Uh, nothing happened
47:15in those cases. Your reaction to what happened today? Yeah. Well, Jack Smith testified for seven hours.
47:22Uh, and none of that time did it change my belief. As you said, Sean, that this was all political. This was
47:26this, his investigation, like Alvin Bragg, like Fonnie Willis was driven by, by politics. And the information
47:33that came out confirms what we had learned in a deposition with the former head of the FBI in the
47:38Washington field office, uh, Mr. Dan Tuano, when he said that when they did the raid on Mar-a-Lago on
47:44President Trump's home, that they, they shouldn't have done it. If they were going to go, they should
47:49have notified President Trump's lawyers. They should have accompanied them on the, all these things that
47:53he said we should have done instead of how it was actually, uh, conducted by the, uh, by the Garland
47:59Justice Department. So, um, I can't get into the details of Mr. Smith's testimony, but I will tell
48:04you he did not take the fifth like his deputies did. We have to post three of his deputies.
48:09They took the fifth, a couple of them took the fifth multiple times, 70 and 71 times respectively.
48:15One of them, we referred to the Justice Department because we believe he was truly obstructing
48:20our investigation. We don't do many of these referrals. The facts have to be there. And we did
48:25for Mr. Windham, one of his deputies. So I think we've got some important information today,
48:29particularly on something we've talked about, you know, them using these, getting the phone logs.
48:34Think about this, Sean, the speaker of the house, they wait until Jack Smith waits until Kevin McCarthy
48:40becomes speaker of the house. Then he goes to the carrier to AT&T says, I want his phone records
48:47from two years prior and I want them for a two month time period. And oh, by the way, we're going to go to
48:52a judge and tell AT&T, you can't tell your customer, the highest Republican in the government,
48:59that the government is getting his phone records. I mean, they know when he called someone,
49:04when someone called him, how long the call lasted. And if Kevin initiated it,
49:08they know where he was at when he did so. So we got into those kinds of issues as well. But again,
49:12I can't get into the details of his response until we actually review the transcript and release that
49:16publicly. Jim Jordan, that sounds an awful like, like unreasonable search and seizure.
49:22It sounds like no probable cause. And this was a witch hunt. Jim Jordan, thank you. All right,
49:28here with more reaction to President Trump's address to the country tonight, the host of Outkick,
49:32and of course, the Clay and Buck show, Clay Travis. Wow. What a difference a year makes. Mr. Travis,
49:39I got to tell you, I don't think Joe Biden would be capable of that speech. Your thoughts?
49:47Well, it was after his bedtime. So 100% he wouldn't have been capable of this speech.
49:52But look, I think, and I know, Sean, you agree with me. The biggest challenge that President Trump
49:57has is he has had, I really believe this, the greatest one year of a term that we have ever seen
50:05from any president in our life. He ran on three real things to me, Sean. Economy, border, crime.
50:12Let's kind of take those order because it's as easy as EBC. Nobody even talks about the border even
50:18anymore, Sean. He completely shut it down. Everything is perfect there. Crime. I live in Nashville. No one
50:26is talking about what's happening just down the road, down I-40 in Memphis right now, Sean. The
50:32president has completely, thanks to all the work that they have done there, changed the overall
50:37story when it comes to crime in Memphis. It's a phenomenal story. It's not being talked about at
50:43all. We know what has happened in Washington, D.C. We are seeing this happen all over the country.
50:48The overall rate of violent crime is coming down because we're letting police actually do their job.
50:54And the economy is getting better and better. But they've got to tell the story, Sean. It's going
51:00to decide what happens in 2026. Economy, border, crime, A-plus year one. They have to do a better job
51:08of selling the job that they have done. That's the challenge as we roll into 2026.
51:13Paul said, I think he did a great job of really tearing apart the affordability narrative of the
51:19left. We'll have more Hannity from D.C. straight ahead.
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