WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.240 Pursumes of the Bill Cunningham Show may be pre recorded. 2 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:30.440 Willie Brock. 3 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:33.920 You by Choice Hotels, Econo Lodge and Roadway in Hotels 4 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:37.000 are serving up double points for every qualifying stay book 5 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:40.280 at Choice Hotels dot com. Now here's the man who's 6 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:44.200 been recognized as radio's best, the recipient of not one, 7 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:49.119 but two prestigious Marconi Awards for his broadcast episodes, The 8 00:00:49.159 --> 00:00:52.200 one and Only Bill Cunningham. 9 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:55.759 Hi, Billy Cunningham, the Great America. Welcome this glorious Sunday 10 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:59.840 night between Christmas and New Year's glorious December the twenty ninth, 11 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:02.920 with you Live. I would note the passing of President 12 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:06.239 Jimmy Carter. He had not much of a presidency, but 13 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:10.319 had a great post presidency, spent forty five years in 14 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:12.760 life after he left the office of the presidency to 15 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:15.920 Ronald Reagan. Thank god that happened. If everyone that knew 16 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:18.159 him or met him, he was a great guy. He 17 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:21.840 was a good husband of good father, grandfather, great grandfather, 18 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:27.040 and certainly his conduct after they left the office was meritorious. 19 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:27.280 I know. 20 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:30.319 President Donald Trump a few hours ago issued a statement 21 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:34.799 and to the Cardon family offering his condolences and talking 22 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:37.920 about the positive things in Jimmy Carter's life. As an 23 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:39.799 old man once said, and may all the good be 24 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:42.480 remembered in the bed in turred with the bones. So 25 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:44.920 I pray that Jimmy Carter is in the hands of 26 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:48.799 God Almighty tonight, and that he's with his lovely wife Rosalind, 27 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:51.680 and that he has earned his place in heaven because 28 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:54.439 of his conduct. And I wish the Carter family well. 29 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:58.159 And secondly I wish you a merry Christmas and a 30 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:00.719 happy New Year. We have about two two days to go. 31 00:02:01.319 --> 00:02:03.400 Something good or bad could happen the next two days. 32 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:06.040 Joe Biden, after all, is still in charge, so to speak. 33 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:08.960 We don't know what the hell's going to happen. But nonetheless, 34 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:11.960 may you and yours have a wonderful and a prosperous 35 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:14.719 twenty twenty five. I said to one of my guests 36 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:17.400 earlier this afternoon, as I was talking to Scott Powell, 37 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:19.719 of course off the air, about imagine what would have 38 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:23.919 happened if things had gone wrong and November the fifth, 39 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:28.039 and that somehow we'd be sitting here tonight talking about 40 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:32.240 the first term of Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz as 41 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:34.800 president and vice president, where we would be as a nation, 42 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:38.120 where the world would be right now, there's a sense 43 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:41.360 that the Ukrainian war is going to somehow wrap up, 44 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:45.240 that Hamas is going to play ball and release the hostages, 45 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:48.560 that all the world's leaders are making their way to 46 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:52.199 mar A Lago to talk to the Donald. There's a 47 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:56.080 sense of strength and power. There's a strength of compassion, 48 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:59.680 There's a strength of competency that otherwise would not be president. 49 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:02.319 How Kamala Harris could have gotten that close to the 50 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:05.479 presidency when in twenty nineteen she did not last in 51 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:09.280 the Democratic primary long enough to get one vote. Her 52 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:13.680 four years as vice president were ridiculous. She had the 53 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:17.039 lowest ratings of any VP. She had one point five 54 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:20.039 billion dollars that she blew on stuff like paying off 55 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:25.199 Oprah Winfrey, John bon Jovian Moore ran a terrible, awful campaign, 56 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:28.360 could not even articulate why she was running for the presidency, 57 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:32.240 Yet she still received something in the range of seventy 58 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:35.840 four million votes the final tally. Trump won by one 59 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:39.840 point eight million popular votes, receiving forty nine point eight 60 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:43.360 and she received forty seven percent. But most importantly, the 61 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:46.960 Trumpster got three hundred and twelve electoral votes, and that's 62 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:49.840 how things are measured. And he won first president to 63 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:53.039 win the popular vote since twenty oh four, and the 64 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:56.759 terrible presidency of Bush forty three continued. Of course John 65 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:59.199 Kerry would have been worse. But I wish you and 66 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.199 yours merry Christmas in a happy new year coming up. 67 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:04.560 Many issues are going to have to be dealt with today. 68 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:08.400 One there's Joe Biden himself. He gave a sort of 69 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:11.039 an interview and what she has said his only main 70 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:18.279 regret as president was not prosecuting Donald Trump harder so 71 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:23.519 ball humbug. So that's Joe Biden somewhere in Saint Croix, 72 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:27.120 near the Islands where Alexander Hamilton was born, saying a 73 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:30.319 couple of days ago that his only regret is that 74 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:34.279 he didn't put Donald didn't put Trump in jail. But 75 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:36.560 he says he's going to go to the inaugural and 76 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:39.480 some three or four dozen lawmakers Democrats say they're not 77 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:41.920 going to go. They don't recognize him, they don't accept 78 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:45.600 the outcome of elections. But that is somewhat illustrative of 79 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:48.879 a difficulty. And I did spend some time this afternoon 80 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:52.079 on the phone speaking to some congressman, and I listened 81 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:57.160 with interest. Congressman Michaeh. Lawler of Rhode Island. He's a Republican, 82 00:04:57.240 --> 00:04:59.600 he makes a lot of sense. He's the bearded one. 83 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:01.959 And he said, Mike Johnson's going to get two hundred 84 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:05.040 and eighteen votes. One of them supposedly will not come 85 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:10.639 from Thomas Massey of Northern Kentucky. Well, I know Thomas 86 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:13.079 talk to him about a week or two ago. He 87 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:14.920 said he's not going to it for Mike Johnson. That 88 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:18.680 if that's the case, two eighteen becomes two seventeen, in 89 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:21.000 which case we may have a crisis. I don't know, 90 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:23.399 but Mike Lawler says it. And when I talked to 91 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:26.480 one or two other Congressmen and a certain person connected 92 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:29.160 to the top of the Trump administration, they believe they 93 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:32.279 have the votes to have Mike Johnson selected as the 94 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:36.040 next speaker, which has to happen on the third, maybe 95 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:38.480 as late as the fourth. It can't go to the 96 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:41.879 sixth because, let's face, they're going to get back in 97 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:45.680 session on Thursday or Friday of this week, and the 98 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:48.600 first order of business has to be to select a 99 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:52.040 speaker of the House and needs to be Mike. It 100 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:56.079 needs to be Mike Johnson and Louisiana because the Trumpster 101 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:59.399 wants him. And uh. But those I speak to say 102 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:01.720 somehow it's going to happen. I would also know it. 103 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:05.839 This morning an ABC News with Jonathan Carl, they were snickering, 104 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:10.519 as Jonathan Carl always does, about the tech Bros against 105 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:14.959 the factor of John with Bannon on Steve Bannon on 106 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.920 one side and the tech Bros on the other, and 107 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:20.879 they and their ABC News is calling it a war. 108 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:24.560 It's not a war, it's a disagreement. I think I'm 109 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:26.360 on the side of the Trumpster when it comes to 110 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:29.639 many of these visas that have to be extended for 111 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:34.399 survivalship of the country. I'm gonna give you some salient facts. 112 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:37.600 I spent some time looking them up because I love 113 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:41.680 Peter's eye hand. He's often in exotic ports of call, 114 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:45.000 but he's a philosopher who notes with interest that Russia 115 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:48.839 and China are both in a death spiral. They cannot 116 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:52.720 survive more than two or three more generations because of 117 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:55.480 the lack of births, and the one China policy is 118 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:59.600 killing the future of communists. Read China also Russia is 119 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:03.759 in a spiral population wise, and guess what. America is 120 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:08.439 also in the death spiral population wise. Give me the numbers. 121 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:11.360 By the end of this century, America is going to 122 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:15.680 have a demographic problem of incredible proportions. In nineteen fifty, 123 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:21.399 which wasn't that what seventy seventy four years ago, every 124 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:25.079 woman had on average three point five babies. Three point 125 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:27.759 five A woman has to have two to maintain the 126 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:32.519 population the baby boomers through nineteen sixty four, three point five, 127 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:37.000 that's good number. Nineteen eighty got down to two point 128 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:40.720 five per woman. Well, that's a little bit above sustaining 129 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:44.560 the population. Every woman allegedly must produce two point one 130 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:47.040 in order to maintain the population. By the way, men 131 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:52.480 do not have babies. Women do not have testees testicles, 132 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:55.800 and women do not have the ability of producing children, 133 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:59.120 and men do not have fallopian tubes. I hate to 134 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:02.199 say that, but that's the case. And twenty twenty it 135 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:05.240 got down to one point six. So in America every 136 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:09.600 woman on average has one point six babies, which means 137 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:11.879 you got to have two point one to maintain the 138 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:14.839 population or losing the population. But the other thing is 139 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:20.000 happening We're not losing population because of illicit immigration into 140 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:23.439 the country. So to me, the immigration debate is not 141 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:28.160 about immigration yes or no. Immigration must be yes, But 142 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:31.639 the issue is who's coming into the country and who's 143 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:34.360 not coming into the country. We went into the country. 144 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:38.559 We want those best and brightest. We want legal immigration. Americans, 145 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:41.600 We're so good, so many peoples all over the world 146 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:44.799 want to come here. We can pick and choose who 147 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:49.159 can supply us with legal immigration that we need. They 148 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:52.320 could be tomato pickers, that could be engineers, they could 149 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:56.159 be nuclear physicists, or they could be waiters. Whatever it is, 150 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:02.399 America must decide, not the marketplace. So the debate to 151 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:06.960 me is not about illegal immigration or ilegal immigration. The 152 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:09.799 only debate is who to legally admit into the country 153 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:13.519 and who to keep out of the country. Because having 154 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:17.440 an unbridled immigration system where those coming into the country 155 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:21.080 decide who comes, is a disaster. It is the most 156 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:24.799 important issue, a vital issue, because it affects every part 157 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:27.279 of your life and every part of my life. It 158 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:30.519 affects every part of the American way of life. It 159 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:35.320 affects the macro economy and the micro economy. It affects 160 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:38.799 the labor market. Who's hired, who's not hired. Many Americans 161 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:41.399 don't want to apply for work anymore because the jobs 162 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:45.200 they want to take are not available. It impacts terribly 163 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:49.480 negatively the welfare state. I live in Little Cincinnati, Ohio. 164 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:51.759 We have a county about one hundred miles away named 165 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:55.519 Clark County. Will Springfield, Ohio, is located in that little 166 00:09:55.559 --> 00:10:00.519 area of forty thousand people. The government, Joe Biden, put 167 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:03.879 twenty thousand hations in a community of forty thousand that 168 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:07.200 doesn't work, and none of their job skills are needed 169 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:10.159 in Clark County. Believe me. Now many are dispersing all 170 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:14.039 over the country. The welfare costs are well over one 171 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:16.720 hundred billion dollars a year. And on top of that, 172 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:21.480 the criminal expenses, the cost of crime committed by these illegals, 173 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:24.279 it's well over one hundred and fifty billion dollars a year. 174 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:27.840 It affects the welfare state, It affects national security. We 175 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:30.919 don't know where the thousands of terrorists are in this 176 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:33.600 country because of Joe Biden. We don't know where they're located. 177 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:38.080 It affects everyday crime, It affects all the Chilean and 178 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:42.440 Venezuelan gangs praying in major cities because of the policies 179 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:48.120 of Joe Biden. It affects our language, our religion, our culture, 180 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:52.840 our values, It affects our ethics. It affects our customs, 181 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:56.440 our lifestyles, our habits, and our way of life. I've 182 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:00.799 gone to several legal immigrations, swearing in sara ceremonies in 183 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:05.360 a federal court. It is heartwarming to watch individuals who've 184 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:08.320 gone through the system legally, that know what the first 185 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:11.799 Amendment is, that know what the federal's papers are, that 186 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:16.120 know how many states there are that I've sworn them in, 187 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:20.039 and I feel great about that. We need legal immigration 188 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:23.279 in ever increasing numbers for the needs that we have, 189 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:28.279 and also illegal immigration affecting all those other things, the 190 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:31.559 ethics and the values, the morals, the customs, the lifestyle, 191 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:37.480 the language, and fundamental questions about our politics. How are 192 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:41.399 we literally a nation with no borders? How does that work? 193 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.879 It doesn't work. We've tried it now for the past 194 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:48.159 forty to fifty years since Ted Kennedy stuck his nose 195 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:51.639 into it, and it's accelerated the past four years under 196 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:55.240 Joe Biden, with the goal of replacing the electorate with 197 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:58.320 these large numbers of illegals. Who if the Democrats have 198 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:00.120 won the House and the Senate and the President and 199 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:04.039 see in November, guess what we would have illegals voting 200 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:07.679 tether and fro and the country is done. So I 201 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.639 don't consider a debate between Viveake Ramaswami on one hand 202 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:14.879 and Steve Bannon on the other. The debate among we 203 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:19.960 Trumpsters is we need legal immigration. H one ends absolutely, 204 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:24.039 but we decide who comes in. They don't decide by 205 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:27.840 walking and or legally entering the country. The founding fathers 206 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:31.759 recognize this. I'll get into this later with the Scott 207 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:34.879 Powell and that we're the only country on Eor two 208 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:38.480 hundred and fifteen countries. There's only one that says in 209 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:43.799 our constitution that individual citizens living in the United States 210 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:48.960 of America receive their rights from God, from divine providence. 211 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:53.159 And the purpose of government is to protect our rights 212 00:12:53.200 --> 00:13:00.519 given by God. So it's God citizens, and government protects 213 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:03.120 the rights given to us by God. Every other country 214 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:08.279 like Canada, has rights given to citizens in Canada from government. 215 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:12.320 Government decides what your rights are, and government can take 216 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:14.159 away those rights because they gave them to you in 217 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:18.200 the first place. But government only exists in this country. 218 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:23.080 God bless America in order to protect us from those 219 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:27.039 who want to take from us God given rights. That 220 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:30.720 analysis doesn't work anywhere else in the world, but in 221 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:33.480 the good to the United States of America. So as 222 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:36.159 we begin twenty twenty five, I want to share with 223 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:40.200 you a few words from Alexander Hamilton, one of the 224 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:43.519 founding fathers, one of the most important. He was the 225 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:46.639 main author of the Federalist Papers, which I'll explain to 226 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:50.399 you later what those are. And he opined in eighteen 227 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:54.799 oh two before he was murdered by Aaron Birth that 228 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:57.759 the safety of a republic he's talking about America being 229 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:02.679 a republic, depends essentially on the energy of a common 230 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:07.559 national sentiment, on a uniformity of principles and habits, on 231 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:13.279 the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice, 232 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:17.039 and that love of America will almost invariably be found 233 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:22.279 to be closely connected with birth, education, faith, and family. 234 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:26.480 He lastly said, how extremely unlikely is it that foreigners 235 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:31.159 will bring with them that temperate love of liberty so 236 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:36.559 essential to real republicanism quote unquote, It says it right there. 237 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:41.200 We've tried for fifty years, since the nineteen eighties, and 238 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:46.799 Ted Kennedy through now to go the other route. Open 239 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:52.440 the borders, report date years in advance, live in the country, 240 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:55.480 get the benefits of citizenship without the cost of the 241 00:14:55.519 --> 00:15:00.799 price bankrupting the treasury, affecting our major cities, affecting home land, security, 242 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:03.960 affecting crime, and the culture and religion and values and 243 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:08.039 ethics and morals and customs, and all of a sudden 244 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:10.480 we find ourselves now saying enough is enough. We can't 245 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:16.000 take it anymore, so let's continue. I have also some 246 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:19.639 comments to make about the comments of one Joe Biden 247 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:25.360 saying that the Afghan when we had thirteen service members 248 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:30.919 murdered at the gates of the airport and Cobbo Afghanistan, 249 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:34.799 that wasn't a serious problem that Joe Biden had. The 250 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:39.399 worst problem was not prosecuting Donald Trump quicker to get 251 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:42.080 him locked up so he couldn't be the president. Plus, 252 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:44.200 I want to get in a little bit about the 253 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:48.399 Greenland and about the Panama Canal and things of that nature. 254 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:52.200 And we'll continue glad to be with you live tonight. 255 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:54.600 The name of the show is after all, Bill Hunningham 256 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:57.840 live between Christmas and New Year's I'm with you now, 257 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:01.080 and now let's take some calls and number to call 258 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:04.840 his eight sixty six six four seven seven three three seven. 259 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:06.919 I want to hear from you what went right this 260 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:10.679 year went went wrong? I think one thing went right. 261 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:14.279 I almost exempt from your comments Donald Trump, but picked 262 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:16.840 something else that went right, because that was the hand 263 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:20.000 of God making sure that Donald Trump became the president 264 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:23.639 and didn't continue the policies of Barack Obama. Because obviously 265 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:26.639 Biden has not been the president. By all the reporting, 266 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:29.320 he had no clue what was going on. He still 267 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:32.639 has no clue, and he probably won't give any eggs 268 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:36.399 in interviews or any statements because he's babbling and the 269 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:40.440 country knew it. The Washington press corps knew it. Democrats 270 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:44.039 knew it, Republicans knew it. The media knew it and 271 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:46.879 didn't do a damn thing about it. In fact, anyone 272 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:50.159 in the press who sat in the Presidential press briefing 273 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:54.080 room the Brady Briefing room should not get a renewed 274 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:57.480 pass press of a press pass, because, after all, they 275 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:00.679 didn't do their job the last four years. Why anticipate 276 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:03.159 they might do their job the next four years. Let's 277 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:06.799 continue eight sixty six, six, four, seven, seven, three three seven. 278 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:09.400 Happy New Year, Bill Cunningham, the Great American with you 279 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:23.680 and all other great Americans. Every Sunday night, it calls 280 00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:30.839 some Louisiana, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City in Florida. If two 281 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:32.559 lines open, I get to in a moment, I'm gonna 282 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:34.640 take calls quicker tonight because I want to hear from you, 283 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:37.880 the American people. One thing that has to occur, in 284 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:40.759 my opinion, to change the direction of this country. It 285 00:17:40.759 --> 00:17:45.160 can't be four years, because the Trumpster this time will 286 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:48.640 not be besieged by his own FBI, by illegal search warrants, 287 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:51.759 by eavesdropping and lawsuits and all the rest, and by 288 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:55.000 the FBI out to get them under James Comy and 289 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:58.319 then under Christopher Ray. But for this to be a 290 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:03.359 successful movement, Jane Vance needs to step up, which he's 291 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:07.200 done so magnificently thus far, and be the nominee in 292 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:09.319 twenty twenty eight and twenty thirty two. It needs to 293 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:11.559 This can't be a four year run than back to 294 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:16.519 Kamala Harris or back to the governors of Pritzger or 295 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:19.720 Illinois or the governor of California or some other left winger. 296 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:22.640 It can't happen that way. It's got to be a 297 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:25.440 long period of time in which you have eight to 298 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:29.039 twelve years to turn the country around. And Janey Vance 299 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:32.160 is fluent in the language of the modern GOP. His 300 00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:37.240 performance in that debate against Tim Waltz was great, unbelievable. 301 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:42.799 His appearances in person on the campaign trail has been very, 302 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:47.079 very good. He's demonstrated a nimbleness and an acumen that 303 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:50.559 many forty year olds do not have. He's the freshman 304 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:53.480 senator from Ohio. On the other side, I'll tell you 305 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:55.720 a story. The first time I met him, which was 306 00:18:55.720 --> 00:19:01.079 about seven or eight years ago, and the guy right intelligent, 307 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:04.319 only had a one kid at that point, and we 308 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:06.519 talked a little bit about the future. He wasn't going 309 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:09.559 to be involved in politics, but then something changed his 310 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:13.200 love of country. He said, why not choose me? Like 311 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:16.519 in the Marine Corps. Jd Vance said, I'll go. So 312 00:19:16.599 --> 00:19:20.440 let's continue and if line becomes available eight six six 313 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:24.599 six four seven seven three three seven quick story about 314 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:27.480 jad Vance on the other side, then your calls Bill Cunninghan, 315 00:19:27.559 --> 00:19:29.200 the Great American with you and all of the great 316 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:37.000 Americans Happy New Year every Sunday night. And then David 317 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:40.960 and William and Larry and Andy and many others I 318 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:44.039 first met why this must be an eight to twelve 319 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:47.039 year process, because four years will not be nearly enough 320 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:50.759 to correct what ails this country. But jd. Vance has 321 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:54.480 got to be the anointed one to have four to 322 00:19:54.519 --> 00:19:58.599 eight years, hopefully eight years after Donald Trump, who Ronald 323 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:02.119 Reagan was so popular. Nineteen eighty eight, the American people 324 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:05.000 took a flyer on Bush forty one, which turned out 325 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:08.039 to be a disaster. Bush forty three was even more 326 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:10.920 of a disaster, and Dick Cheney even more of a disaster. 327 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:14.440 So anything can happen. And I have trust, in faith 328 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:17.960 that JD. Vance would not go the way of Bush 329 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:21.000 forty one or Bush forty three, and that he'll pick 330 00:20:21.079 --> 00:20:23.519 up the cues from Donald Trump, the greatest politician, the 331 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:26.319 greatest survivor, the greatest comeback story in the history of 332 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:30.400 not just American politics but American life. I first met 333 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:33.920 him in twenty sixteen or twenty seventeen. There's a county 334 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:36.920 north of Hamilton County called Butler County, and as you 335 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:41.599 may know. JD. Vance spent many years in Butler In 336 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:45.519 Butler County, Middletown, Ohio, we call it Middle Tucky, and 337 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:49.680 he grew up in a dysfunctional household. His father was 338 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:51.640 not in the picture. His mother was a drug addict 339 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:55.039 and worse. But nonetheless he had someone in the family 340 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:57.640 that showed him the light and they came out of 341 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:02.359 Butler County, got to eventually got to the Marine Corps. 342 00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:04.720 He had the sense as a young guy saying, you 343 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:07.559 know what, there's got to be a world out there 344 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:11.839 other than the drug addiction of so many in Butler County, Middletown, Ohio. 345 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:15.160 He spent about four years in the Marines. That gave 346 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:18.720 him the money to go to Ohio State, which he attended. 347 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:21.799 That gave him the mental ability to finish top of 348 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:24.680 his class to get to Yale Law School. That's where 349 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:27.920 he met his lovely wife, Usha, and the rest is history. 350 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:30.680 Made his way out to Silicon Valley and wrote a 351 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:34.079 book called Hillbilly Elergy, which was the best seller and 352 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:38.359 Hollywood made it into a successful movie. So as happens 353 00:21:38.359 --> 00:21:41.400 in many counties. As you may know, there's something called 354 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:47.759 the Lincoln Reagan Fundraiser once a year, each County Republican 355 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:52.759 Headquarters has a speaker come in to to raise money 356 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:57.400 to keep the headquarters aflat and Butler County is a 357 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:00.000 wonderful county north of Hamlet County. It says, I would 358 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:03.759 think about three hundred and fifty thousand people in Butler County. 359 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:07.920 And at that point, needless to say, JD. Vance wasn't 360 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:10.319 the biggest draw in the world. We're going back twenty sixteen, 361 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:13.920 had the book JD. Elergy, and so someone made a 362 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:19.240 connection with JD to come and be the Lincoln Reagan 363 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:25.559 Day speaker. And he asked that said, you know, public 364 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:28.119 speaking is not something I've done a lot of. At 365 00:22:28.119 --> 00:22:30.000 this point, what he would have been thirty one thirty 366 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:33.640 two years old, and said, someone said, what about getting 367 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:37.359 Bill Cunningham to kind of interview you on stage about 368 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:40.200 your book Hill Billy Elergy, how it relates to today 369 00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:44.640 and in Butler County right now? If JD. Vance showed 370 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:47.599 up in Butler County, you can hold to get together 371 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:51.039 at the pay Course Stadium where the Bengals play. But nonetheless, 372 00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:55.039 at that point they wanted to bring in JD. Wanted 373 00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:58.319 me there to you know, to modestly say to add 374 00:22:58.319 --> 00:23:01.319 a little more star power. But Jade Vance was a 375 00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:04.960 guy that lived in Butler County, but not really connected 376 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:07.480 to the Butler County Republican Party or in fact any 377 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:12.079 Republican Party. In fact, at that point he had used 378 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:14.839 the H word to describe Donald Trump and was a 379 00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:18.839 Hillary Clinton supporter. So I said to the organizer, I said, 380 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:22.440 you know, this is raising money for the Republican Party, 381 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:25.039 and I don't know jd Vance from Adam. I read 382 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:28.720 the book. I then called him in preparation for the 383 00:23:28.759 --> 00:23:33.400 appearance to promote the appearance and talked about the book. 384 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:37.559 He'llbilly Elogy, and I said to him, you know, we 385 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:40.319 have to kind of downplay your support for Hillary Clinton. 386 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:43.759 Had a Republican function. He said, oh, I understand completely. 387 00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:47.920 That was twenty sixteen, might have been twenty seventeen. So 388 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:51.400 they sell it out, get two hundred and fifty tickets sold. 389 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:54.960 And my good friend, Sheriff Richard K. Jones was the 390 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:58.759 co chair of the Republican Party in Butler County along 391 00:23:58.799 --> 00:24:02.000 with Don Dixon, who county commissioner. And so I met 392 00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:05.400 him for the first time, and I'll say it, he 393 00:24:05.799 --> 00:24:10.240 was shy. He was uncertain of himself because he was 394 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:16.000 appearing as a Republican, but he had Democratic viewpoints eight 395 00:24:16.119 --> 00:24:20.279 nine years ago. But he wanted to, you know, connect 396 00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:23.559 with Butler County Republican Party. That as a kid growing up, 397 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:25.960 grow up, growing up in Middletown, Oh he had no 398 00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:29.839 idea about politics at all, didn't care. And it's pretty 399 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:32.960 hard to come out of Silicon Valley at that point 400 00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:35.920 and not dislike Donald Trump and not love Hillary Clinton. 401 00:24:35.960 --> 00:24:38.000