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>> welcome to the special edition of "hannity" countdown to iowa. it will kick off in exactly one week from tonight. we should have full results from the republican iowa caucus next monday, but don't expect any numbers from democrats with a very complicated mail-in voting system and the reshuffling of the democratic party's primary calendar, we will get an official tally for months. of course barring a major trip in the fall biden will almost certainly be the democratic nominee. the big question to men, why. joe biden has been a terrible president. his approval numbers show it. they are at record lows. his cabinet doesn't even bother to keep them in the loop on major issues. no one even bothered to tell your president joey biden that his secretary of defense actually incapacitated in the icu for several days. just wondering out loud. what if we had a national emergency or some international crisis and we need our secretary

of defense and we don't know where he is? i guess it wasn't a concern for the administration since biden pretty much sleeps, eats, takes vacations. occasionally he'll travel somewhere close to the white house for a short speech delivered from a teleprompter with giant font. he's frail. he is weak. he's incompetent. he so frail that now his wife dr. jill biden is hoping the president manages his daily schedule. this week jill biden is actually sitting down for an upcoming interview on joe's behalf. lately more often than not first lady also has literally had to help her husband, you know, very dazed and confused, walk off a stage after a rare speaking event. we saw this on friday after bidens big "i hate donald trump. i will repeat it for the next 11 months" campaign kickoff near valley forge. the biden campaign was trying to use the location to draw comparisons to george washington.

really? instead biden resembled a bitter angry aging politician. he's demonized maga republicans, obsessed over january 6 for the fifth million time, and even bring to both throwing certain rioters in jail. he had nothing but praise for violent looters and rioters and arsonists and in some cases tutors and americans died and dozens of cops injured in the summer of 2020. those were peaceful riots that his own vice president tweeted out a veil fund for the perpetrators in the minneapolis case after the police precinct they are burned to the ground, it was so nice of her. didn't have the commission for the riots in the summer of 2020. we had a couple dozen dead americans, we had billions in property damage, cops pelted with bricks, rocks, bottles, molotov cocktails. 2,000 plus cops injured, no

investigative anything? nothing? no arrests. we have all the evidence. why are we arresting those people? sadly more on south carolina were biden used scent of a horrific 2015 mass routing to further vilify his political opponents. make no mistake. the biden campaign, all they have the sell's fear, hatred, and loathing. that's all they have. they have nothing else to offer. take a look. >> donald trump's campaign is about him, not america, not you. donald trump's campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. trump's assault on democracy is just part of his past, he's promising the future. he is being straightforward, not hiding the ball. trump is not concerned about your future, i promise you. trump is now promising a full-scale campaign of revenge and retribution. the same movement that

throughout the mob in the united states capital isn't just trying to rewrite history and generation x, they are trying to erase history. and your future. banning books. denying your right to vote and have it counted, destroying diversity, equality, inclusion all across america. replacing hope with anger and resentment. >> sean: democracy and peril. trump, maga republicans, january politics, fearmongering. that's all you're going to hear from the democratic party and their surrogates, and their willing accomplices in a media mob from now until election day november. biden has given up on his fake pledge to fight for the soul of our nation. instead he's looking to divide and conquer. he's actually adopted the eric holder strategy of "they go low, kick them."

that's his style of campaign or at least that's what the democratic party is trying to do. joe barely knows what day of the week it actually is and will spend most of the upcoming year in his basement or in the white house basement or on the beach somewhere resting and relaxing. but so far, it's not working for joe biden. voters remain angry at their president. look at these polls. the president is down in nearly every single swing state in the country and now two of the biggest trump haters in america are reportedly freaking out. there would be former barack obama and former first lady michelle obama. they apparently are getting very, very nervous. according to "the washington post" during a meeting at the white house "obama grew animated discussing the 2024 election" and the former president donald trump's potential return to power scares him. meanwhile michelle obama expressed her fears on a recent podcast. take a look for yourself. >> what will happen in this next election, i am terrified about

what could possibly happen because our leaders matter. who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit. it affects us in ways that sometimes i think people take for granted. the fact that people think that government, you know, does it really even do anything? i'm like, oh, my god. does government do everything for us and we cannot take this democracy for granted. >> sean: i took her at her word for the first time in her adult life she actually was part of her country. what happened? the government does everything for us. really? now the aromas are completely out of touch. we know that. but they are right to worry about joe biden's political changes. the biden white house has mishandled everything. attacks in the middle east, war in europe, bidenomics, inflation, is there anything that's going well? are you better off than you were four years ago? what drives elections?

peace and prosperity. okay, well, the world is not so peaceful. joe biden is getting bullied by china, russia, iran, seemingly everybody else. on prosperity, 60% of our fellow americans are living paycheck to paycheck. democrats have done great damage to the democratic process despite their melodramatic pleas to save democracy and their nazi analogies. they are the ones ripping republicans off the ballot without any due process. now that's a pretty innovative way if you really want to save democracy and the other ones attempted to jail their geopolitical rival in an election year. again, they don't care about democracy. this is a slogan. this is a political strategy. all they really want to the end of the day is power. here now with reaction, fox news contributors joe concha, kellyanne conway, the host of out kicks. tomi lahren. kellyanne, start with you. the polls speak volumes but here's the strategy emerging

that's very simple. going to talk about maga republicans, trump, trump, trump. they are going to talk about january 6th. they are going to demagogue abortion and use that playbook republicans are racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, islamaphobic. will it work? >> it should not work. if we let it work, we are the stupid party. i have faith in the american people. it's a choice between what you see with your own two eyes and what they tell you you should see with your own two eyes. we see the rise in crime, rise in prices. we see what's going on in the middle east and every day because of fox news and people like bill melugin and sara carter and you showing us what's going on at the border. people know what they see they're going to vote according to that. now, joe biden is nothing else. big people talk about big ideas and big policy issues. small people talk about other people. he has nothing else. his poll numbers are not just

down in disapproval generally bow down every major issue america says it's important to them. joe biden has made history being the oldest, least expiring least accomplished and least ready to lead present we've had and if michelle obama has a problem with this that she should have a talk with joe biden and kamala harris. she's made history, not why you think she's made history. her approval rating is the lowest of anybody's president since we've been looking at it. one last thing. >> sean: i want to ask you, as upholsterer. as a pollster you say he's losing huge numbers demographically. hispanic americans african americans young people, women, female voters. how real are these numbers question what he's losing in some cases 20%, 25% of the port. that is the base of the

democratic party. speak with the numbers are real, sean and the excuse the democrats use to keep joe biden and kamala harris on the ticket is trump, trump, tom. i challenge everyone out there if you want to have a conversation with someone who is supporting biden, asked him a question about biden and see how many words or seconds it takes them to say trump. they can't get to ten seconds or ten words. what you just said is important. i think we're going to have a record number of voters among hispanics. why is it relevant? hispanics on average are 30 years old. white's average age 44. african americans 35, 37. it's important because if you can lock up the hispanic vote, you basically win the election. i think trump will do better among independents, first-time voters, he'll do better among certain groups of women than people predict because they are

so sick and tired of being talked about the waist down o only. whatever candidates willing to talk from the waist up can prevail. january 6, 2017. they don't about golden showers in russia. 2021 is all joe biden can focus on. i can't believe this man goes to hallowed ground link the liberty bell and independence hall. the ame church were nine innocent people were slaughtered and castigate and denigrates and divides us. they want to be lifted up, not brought down by their president. >> sean: let me go to tomi. the playbook maga republicans, democracy and peril, jan january 6th. is any of this going to work? nazi analogies? do you see that working? is it resonating. you are in touch with people more than the three of us, no

offense to my fellow panelists. our young people inspired by them? >> i don't think they are inspired by but unfortunately did work in 2020. joe biden launched his campaign with video images from charlottesville. this playbook has worked for them before but the biden campaign is operating as if trump is the nominee and he very well could be. the republicans can't fall in to the trap of operating like joe biden is going to be the nominee because as you know, i don't think he's going to be. come the convention will have a major shake-up. different wiccans are smart will operate and campaign as if we are competing against any democrat whether that be gavin newsom or michelle obama. that's how republicans need to play the game because focusing on frail joe and lost john horrible economy joe, that's going to work to decimate drills poll numbers but if joe is not the nominee we better have a backup plan. we better educate the american people why the republican choice

is a better choice. remind young people who may be work quite young how great things were. maybe they could afford a house or pay their rent or pay for gas when donald trump was their president. i would also say pay close attention to how the obamas operate here because they don't want their legacy tied to a failing joe biden. if it looks like joe biden is really falling and tumbling even more so than he is now, i think they're going to jump ship. watch them. watch their moves. they are really in charge here. >> sean: let me go to joe concha. you analyze the media better than anybody. you should have your own media show. it would be great. there was apparently an invitation-only meeting, briefing and dollar with media. the biggest contributor to joe's campaign in 2020. they allowed him to hide in the basement. they never fact-checked him. the only thing i would add to what tomi said is the difference

between 2024 and 2020 is that joe has a record and it's atrocious. so in this briefing i'm assuming that the mob and the media, your friends, the blue check mark media cult recently are getting their talking points and basically being spoon-fed what the biden campaign is going to want them to say. >> the sports analogy is yes, they are working on the rafts and the refs are more than willing to be worked as stenographers. it's a broken record played to avoid talking about an actual record. this president's grand opening argument to kick off his campaign in 2024. saying he and he alone can save democracy than joe biden is in serious trouble. this is a president who spent 138 days last year and relaxing locations on posh vacation spots. that was in 2023.

so apparently saving democracy will be done on a part-time basis chock-full of long weekends at bernie's. we are seeing a common thread from biden in terms of what we are not hearing about. no mentions of the wonders of bidenomics, no mention of americans drowning in credit card debt. even democrat sound the alarm. no mention of u.s. test scores their lowest in decades. no mention of the u.s. looking like a complete nut or laughingstock to our adversaries because the commander in chief has no idea where his defense secretary's. issues and common sense will win the election if joe biden thinks he can run by ignoring his own record and strictly demonizing donald trump who has the shoes on his side he will go down as the first one term democratic president since jimmy carter. >> sean: here's the problem with the january 6. if you want to criticize trump and that's part of your argument, that's fair. you can say you should have done, abc. the worst thing about the

january 6th committee is never put together a plan to prevent something like that from happening again. the other thing is they never talked about the riots, they never spoke about the rise of the summer of 2020. 574 of them. i don't think it's rioting that they cared about but they never talked about, even nbc and lester holt. lester holt reported there was actionable intelligence in the days leading up to january 6. that never came up in liz cheney's hearings or the fact the police chief, the capitol police chief his son who i interviewed, he saw the intelligence and was begging for national guard help. i have the acting defense secretary miller, his, his chief of staff, mark meadows, president trump. the days leading up to january 6. they never tell a story that donald trump talked about bringing up the guard and they'll never mention that he said many of you will peacefully and patriotically march to the capital so your voices will be

heard. it's a complete picture. they acted in the media went completely along with the total narrative that misses very key aspects that need to be examined if you don't like rioting and you want to prevent it from happening. does that matter? will the american people remain ignorant of those facts? >> i think the american people want to hear from this president terms of okay if we reelect you, what will you do to advance the country forward and solve these problems you created? if you want talk about an event, a horrific event three years ago then roll the dice and take your chances but in the end those january 6 committee hearings that was made for msnbc and cnn audiences. most of the country tuned out because they have their own problems and think about and not some of your three ago. >> sean: exit question for all three of you. tomi, you don't think biden is

going to be on the ticket. if he's not, who will be? who do you think wins on the republican side? we'll know week from tonight about something, we'll know about iowa. >> i think it's going to be very interesting. on the democrat side i'm sticking with gavin newsom. you've dealt him quite a blow with that debate about a month ago but i still think it's going to be gavin newsom so i think it's going to be a newsom-trump election. hang onto your hats and your hair gel. >> sean: kellyanne. >> joe biden kamala harris on that ticket. if i were a democrat i would have gotten rid of them a long time ago, rolled the dice and said we are going to lose in 2024 but we'll save the party and get back to being the party of youth energy and forward-looking. they can't do it now. they think biden petro before, they can beat him again enough they are stuck with him. >> sean: joe concha. >> if joe biden versus donald trump. that's three match. it's a rematch not a lot of people are hungering for but that's what we are going to have

in 2024. i don't see any curveballs coming at this point. >> sean: i say too early to decide on the democratic side. this guy is one fall away from not being on the ticket, i'll tell you that. i'd be very careful. watch every step, joe. you fall on your face, you break your nose, it's not going to be good for you. thank you all. happy new year. when we come back donald trump surging ahead of next week's caucuses while biden continues to sink even further in the polls. we'll check in with our posters doug schoen, lee carter reacting in biden's border crisis is now reaching every corner of the u.s. we'll explain as a special edition of "hannity" election 2024 continues.

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>> sean: welcome back to the special edition of "hannity" countdown to iowa one week from tonight. former president trump is holding a pretty commanding lead on the rest of the g.o.p. field. he's ahead by over 30 points in the real clear politics average while trump surges the bad polls keep coming for joe biden. joe's approval rating on the southern born or reached a new all-time low at just 32%.

his problems don't end there. south carolina congressman james clyburn who was instrumental in helping biden secure the 202020 nomination. hehere's what he told fake news cnn. >> black voters were instrumental in joe biden getting the nomination. how worried are you about black voters showing up for president biden in november? >> i'm not worried. i'm very concerned and i have said. i don't know. i saw those reports. >> sean: here with reaction, democratic pollster doug schoen and pollster lee carter is with us. as a democrat, african americans, hispanic americans, women, young people, that's pretty significant portion if not most of the

democratic party base and he's losing double-digit support in every demographic. in some cases 20%, 25%. can he recover? >> i think the only way he can is what you were saying in the early segment. a sustained negative attack on donald trump. trump's numbers, as you know, are almost as bad in terms of approval as biden. he's ahead on every issue. but he has vulnerability. frankly i think joe biden is looking forward to this campaign because he knows he can't run on his record. you're right about that. but the real clear politics members are plus two for trump. >> sean: if i may interrupt for a second. i hear your point but my question is, we've heard nothing but negative comments about trump since the minute he came down the escalator. the american people have heard it. joe biden, he get more extreme. maga republicans, comparisons to

nazis. i mean, at some point, there's got to be diminishing returns to that strategy. >> here's the thing, sean. biden spent the last eight or nine months running on bidenomics, running on job creation. >> sean: how did that work? >> not so well. you've got to go to plan b and plan b is a sustained attack on donald trump. if he's two points behind, their view is it might work. i don't think it well. i think trump is the favorite. i think with michelle obama saying for the first time she's terrified, we are hearing that the former president and his wife, his wife being a likely winner in an election, or mobilized, that suggests to me that biden has a real problems of the type jim clyburn alluded to. >> sean: you know, there's two things, lee. if you look at it subjectively, he can't say are you better off anywhere four years ago? and doug was a big supporter of

bill clinton. bill clinton, he made adjustments after the first midterm and said things like the era of big government is over, the end of welfare as we know it. he didn't double down on going left. he moved more to the center and it served him pretty well doing that. i only see biden doubling down on nothing because there's not a single policy success that i see that he can run on. >> biden is in a real conundrum because there's not a single measure he can run on successfully. he's underwater in every polling category that you can think of whether it's the economy, immigration, you go through it and he's just not going to win on any single issue. most incumbent presidents can run as a referendum, saying you want four more years of what i've done for you. or let's finish the job together. he can't do that because nobody wants him to finish the job. those numbers are very good for him so the only choice he has right now is a choice between good and evil.

he's painting himself as to the choice, donald trump is the evil choice. but i think you're right a lot of people have a lot of fatigue about this issue. we've heard in 2020 it was the end of democracy. we heard in 2016 if donald trump were to win it was going to be the end of the economy as we know it and none of it has happened. you ask the american people what they prefer from an economic policy, go through the line, they prefer donald trump's policies. to your point, he's lost ground with every single one of the constituents that carried him into office. blacks, which he lost by 21%. hispanics also in the double digits, younger voters. he has gone from 24%. lost by 33 points and it's unbelievable. the numbers working against joe biden right now so he has no choice but to run dirty. >> sean: all right. doug schoen, will joe be the democratic party's nominee in november?

>> i think right now the answer is yes but sean, we've got a long way to go. with michelle obama saying what she said and barack obama saying when he is reported to say, i would say keep a close eye on the bidens and keep a closer eye on the obamas. >> sean: okay. if it's not joe, who would it be? >> michelle or gavin newsom are the only ones who can win. kamala harris cannot win. >> sean: you think michelle obama would run? you believe that? >> i didn't believe until i heard her say she was terrified. she seemed animated. i think with poll numbers probably showing her five to ten points ahead at the outset there's a greater chance today of that than the ones week or so ago. >> sean: lee, you get the last word. will joe biden be on the ticket? >> i think it's going to be a rematch between biden versus trumpet i don't see how joe biden can get out of this.

i don't think the democrats want kamala harris to run and if he were to step down as most no way he could do it without her being the second choice and that would be another firestorm. i think he's going to be the choice. >> sean: lee carter, doug schoen. happy new year. biden continues to endure the crisis he himself created at our southern border as 2024 g.o.p. candidates about to close it as of course the disaster is impacting cities and small towns in every corner of this country, fatal stabbing at a migrant shelter in new york city is shedding more light on the dangerous conditions inside the camps and yesterday a group of illegal immigrants trying to steal over $5,000 of sunglasses from the new york city bloomingdale's. the problem has gotten so bad that city leaders are pleading for help. denver's democratic mayor calling for support for the "unsustainable crisis" in his city.

the city of whitewater wisconsin, they are asking for help. they say the influx of illegal immigrants is putting a strain on resources. here with reaction, former acting i.c.e. director tom homan fox news contributor sara carter. tom, sara carter, your part of a new group called border 911.com if i'm not mistaken. >> yeah, it's a nonprofit. sara is part of it. i started the nonprofit. it's a bunch of us of us immigration border experts who are going to spend the next year about why border security matters. border security means national security. >> sean: you been down there so many times. you have chronicled how badly these deliverable immigrants are being treated by the cartels. we know about the opioid and

functional crisis but what scares me the most is the sheer number of people they've allowed in unvented coming from countries like iran and syria and egypt and afghanistan and china and russia. why would people from those parts of the world be making their way to our southern border. they are coming here because they want better lives for themselves and families or do you think maybe they could be terror cells walking across the border? >> absolutely guaranteed there are terror cells that made their way into our country with a slight open border policy. sean, you were discussing, even with michelle obama and barack obama. it's their policy. open borders nonsovereign policy. americans have to understand it's just that president biden is so terrible at it. so terrible at delivering the message and americans are seeing it across board. this border is wide open. 32% approve of biden's

immigration policy. i'd like to know the 30 t 32%. december numbers for us through the roof with 300,000 people coming in and let me make this clear over 85%, this is what we're hearing right now, bill melugin reported on it earlier. i've been talking sources saying the same thing. over 85% are being neatly released into the country so what we are seeing in chicago, we are staying in new york, what we're seeing in denver, dayton, ohio. to top it off, we are focused on the over 112,000 fentanyl deaths. so you're right. it's a national security alarm going off so loud that the american people have one chance and one chance only. in 2024 to turn our nation into a right direction and end the open border policy before it destroys our country. what i think it's happening.

in many ways the fact that we have secure borders under president trump, tom homan. now they're not secure. they abandon the policies that were working. i would say they're going to have blood on their hands. they already have blood on their hands in terms of allowing drugs into every crevice, every corner of our country. they don't seem to care. they don't seem to care about the human trafficking on top of it. they don't seem to care at all about preventing people from countries, our top geopolitical photos. that scares the living daylights out of me. you get the last word. >> i have done this since 1984. i spent 34 years doing this job and you're right if president trump is still the president i was the i.c.e. director these people wouldn't be in new york city. they be waiting to be deported. this administration is no humanity, a record number of migrants have died crossing borders. a record amount of americans have died from fentanyl overdoses. sex trafficking up 600%.

people on the terrorist watch list, over 300. just on the southwest border. for years under trump, 11. three years under biden, over 300. it's a national security failure of huge proportions and i'm scared to death of what's coming. it's coming. it's because this administration purposely unsecured our border, the most secure border of my lifetime, they tore it down intentionally. >> sean: clear and present danger, no doubt about it. we appreciate you both. sara, tom thank you. when we come back, biden's failures at home and abroad are making our country in the world less safe. congressman mike waltz, jason chaffetz will discuss it as this special edition of "hannity" countdown to iowa one week from tonight continues.

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>> sean: welcome back to the special edition of "hannity" countdown to iowa one week from tonight. joe biden's weakness has emboldened america's geopolitical flows. less than a year after spying on our military and nuclear sites without slow-moving surveillance balloon that we now know they knew about, china has now launched more balloons to spy on

our ally, taiwan. what is joe going to do? probably nothing. what does he do with all things china? nothing. meanwhile russia is showing no signs of backing down in ukr ukraine. reportedly moving nuclear weapons in the belarus wage three nato countries. of course iran continues their proxy war against american forces in the middle east. they continue to fund the houthi rebels, hamas, hezbollah. those attacks on marines, nearly 200 in just a few months. don't expect any response from joe biden. apparently the commander-in-chief didn't even know his secretary of defense was in the icu, totally incapacitated for days. in fact, defense secretary lloyd austin is still in the hospital. nobody has been given a reason why. so much for transparency. make no mistake. our enemies are watching this chaos. we need new leadership. that all starts one week from now at the iowa caucuses. here with reaction, florida

congressman mike waltz, fox news contributor jason chaffetz. former congressman himself. jason, you look at the actions. iran is emboldened. they are fighting multiple proxy wars. number one state sponsor of terror. vladimir putin, no problem moving nuclear weapons into belarus. we have three nato allies now within range of his weapons. you see what's happening with president xi, talking about reunification almost daily with taiwan, our ally. i don't think joe biden is going to lift a finger to help taiwan if, in fact, something happens. do you? >> you add onto that the movement by north korea, all the things are happening around the world, and the commander in chief doesn't even know the secretary of defense is in the hospital. the chain of command is totally broken. even the underlings within the secretary's purview don't know this is happening. this has been a projection of weakness and stay one. since what went down in

afghanistan and we turned over billions dollars worth of equipment to who knows. terrorists? now you have this. you just wonder will p putin and xi, are they frightened? no. look what's going on in israel. we have american hostages for goodness sake. we don't even hear about these things for the president of the united states. i just cannot get past the fact that the secretary of defense is incapacitated and the commander in chief didn't know for days. that's just unbelievable to me. >> sean: that's unforgivable to me. what if we had, mike waltz, what if we had a national security emergency? what if there was an international incident in our military was needed question like everybody would show up in the situation room. then we would say "oh, where is our secretary of defense customer" joe biden didn't know for days.

heads are apparently not going to roll over that. >> you're absolutely right. this was an utter breakdown of the chain of command. it's a total dereliction of duty. let me tell you where this is so dangerous, as you were alluding to. in our nuclear command-and-control posture if an adversary launches a nuclear icbm, we have 15 minutes to determine whether the united states is targeted, how it's being targeted, or whether it's some type of test. the national command authority gets on the line with the commanding general of no rad and the secretary of defense makes a recommendation to the commander in chief of whether we respond in kind with launching our own nuclear triad in our own nuclear missiles. if you're not 15 minutes you can find literally can't find the secretary of defense because he is in the icu, that is not only dangerous to every american.

it's dangerous to the entire world and case in point, this last week we launched a drone strike on the commander of the iranian backed militias in iraq, the iraqi government is calling to expel all u.s. forces in response. these are forces that are going after isis right now keeping us safe. what if the iranians had hit back in a major way? again not only could you not find your secretary of defense. the deputy secretary of defense is in puerto rico on vacation and also doesn't know that he's gone. we've got to get to the bottom of this. we are not going to let this go because this is just the tip of the iceberg of the incompetence that's in this white house and this pentagon and we are all far more dangerous for it. >> sean: it almost sounds like a bad novel, jason. i'll give you the last word. >> this isn't pete buttigieg. we don't know where the secretary of transportation is

because united airlines is leaving from laguardia. this is the pentagon. this is the chain of command. we put all of these assets in harm's way. we have hundreds of thousands of military servicemen and women who put their lives on the line. you know what? there's a chain of command that this commander in chief does not take charge. he doesn't grab it and make it happen. this commander in chief is just absolutely impotent when it comes to running the united states military. >> sean: jason, thank you. >> if any of those soldiers pulled something like this that would've been fired. he would've been court-martialed and they all know it. secretary of defense was a general for 30 years and if you pull some electives with your commanding officer you be out of there and he needs to lead by example and i think this is a resignation or a fireable offense in my view. >> sean: all right, thank you both. happy new year. up next, iowa farmers are

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♪ >> sean: welcome back to this special edition countdown to iowa, one week from tonight iowa farmers are sounding the alarm as voters await next week's caucus, one iowa farmer predicted a lot of destruction is ahead if biden is reelected in november. the u.s. department of agriculture estimates production costs for farmers has increased, get this, a whooping $15 billion in 2023 alone, and not only

bidenflation hurting farmers thanks to its green new deal radical agenda, corn producers are concerned the electric car push will reduce corn based ethanol which powers gas engines. americans don't want electric vehicles if they did they would buy them. ford lost $4.5 billion last year alone. here with reaction the big money show cohost brian bremberg along with washington examiner editor kaylee mcghee white. we'll start with you tonight brian. just a bad idea all around add to that the cost of replacing costs and equipment for farmers, that's through the roof also and that means that all gets passed on to us. >> yeah, absolutely. they got hit first with inflation, that's what you first talked about $15 billion more in expenses, now they have the high interest rates because they have to borrow money to buy equipment or float their business from season to season, so it's inflation, then it's interest rates. then the biden administration

trots out john kerry every few months to tell the world that american farmers are the problem, they're the reason we have climate change we have to stop eating meat we have the change our food habits. if i'm a farmer thinking about 2024 and beyond, first inflation then interest rates then john kerry i don't want to find out what's next. all i want to do is produce and earn a living and i think that's what america wants because we're sick and tired of having to pay for all the coughs that biden has fousted on all our farmers >> sean: every single item that we have he a been buying kaylee in every single store we go to under bidenflation has gone up dramatically. this is the reason, a lot is rooted in this new green deal, socialism, or climate change radical alarmism. it's like a religious cult but those policies are having a real impact. if i'm an iowa farmer, i don't know, i'm thinking things aren't looking bright in the future if

this guy's elected again. >> right. and what's remarkable even as america struggles and as joe biden keeps falling in the polls his white house continues to insist the economic realities facing americans today are not all that bad. and that's because the voters who are struggling right now, the farmers in iowa, the rural americans, the working class, are not joe biden's voters. we have seen a political realignment over the past several years sean, one in which the democratic party has become the party of the elite, wealthy and educated. we're still seeing this now as a record number of hispanic and black voters say that they're no longer going to support joe biden heading into 2024. and that's why joe biden can keep looking at americans in the face and claim that his economic agenda is working. it's because it is, for his supporters, for those who can afford to suffer the high cost of inflation, for those who haven't noticed that their wages have stopped growing. this is also why he can continue to push his counter productive

and costly green energy agenda because his supporters can afford it, this he can afford the $60,000 electric vehicle and outfit their homes with solar panels meanwhile the left of america is left struggling >> sean: let me tell you, we're all paying the price. you know you know what when the people that feed us and feed the world, we're making their jobs harder and more expensive for them to produce the food we all want and need that sustains us that's a big problem. kayleigh thank you, brian thank you. happy new year to both of you. unfortunately that's all the time we have left this ng oh. as always we thank you for being with us and making the show possible. please set your dvr so you never, ever, ever miss an episode of hannity. news all the time anytime all the time, hannity.com, foxnews.com, and in the meantime let not your heart be troubled, greg gutfeld standing by to put a smile on your face. have a great night. we'll see you back here tomorrow. ♪