remember the spin stops right here because we are definitely looking out for you. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. >> sean: what a coincidence one day after the flip flop on the same-sex marriage issue president obama is embarking on a tax funded campaign journey in the liberal land of california. tonight he is hanging out with george clooney at a hollywood mega fundraiser. it may rake in as much as $15 million and then on monday he will continue to capitalize on his new found believes as he joins ricky martin at an event in new york city. again, this is all coincidental and has nothing to do with politics, right? >> anything about the politics is incidental. i don't think this is political at all.

i dismit dismiss the idea thiss had anything to do with money. >> sean: today the washington post released an article detailing an incident in which mitt romney allegedly bullied a student back in high school who was believed to be gay. the post chaims that romney and h his friends back in 1965 tackled their classmate and his eyes filled with tears "romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors." unfortunately this ridiculous hit piece is already unraveling because the post claims that one of romney's friends has "long been bothered by the labor incident." the same told abc news he wasn't even there for the alleged hair massacre. unlike the stanton case of romney bruteally being propagated by the mainstream obama mania media we have uncovered somebody who has

admitted to engaging in real inappropriate behavior as a youth. it is hard to distinguish this voice. >> i spent the last two years of high school in a daze locking away the questions that life seemed insistent on imposing. i kept playing basketball, attended classes sparingly drank heavily and tried drugs enthusiastically. or on the beach with a couple of hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and spent most of their time look for an excuse to brawl. >> that puts the romney the pulley issue to seam now, doesn't it? joining me with reaction from the five, eric and kimberly guilfoyle. >> i don't want to minimize this but i want to go through a list of issues and. what about college

transscripts. these are college years you are talking about not 1965 and mitt romney in high school and they are interviewing somebody who admits later they were not even at event. >> such a double standard here it is ridiculous. it is so blatant. they can go back and find a witness who wasn'tahu who there at the time. president obama everybody has selective memories or they can't release the transcripts. >> sean: the biggest campaign donor in 2008 was the media eric. he said i was in a daze for years in high school playing basketball. i drank heavily. used drugs plural. he admitted to cocaine use. and i don't remember many questions about the specifics of his drug use. where degette the drugs? who did he do drugs with? how did he get off drugs? what drugs did he use?

is that fair? >> that is more than fair. i think he even admitted to buying or selling drugs as well which makes it a little bit different. take one step back at first, though. on sunday joe biden let this cat out of the bag. it sounded too planned. on monday jay carney did a little bit of fake damage control. on tuesday we all talked about it and tuesday president obama comes out and says you know what i'm pro gay marriage. interesting because today this $12 million west coast fundraiser became a $15 million maybe even north of $15 million fundraiser. it really -- >> sean: you think this is about -- >> i think this is politics. president obama tacking left and doing it at the exact right time to raise a lot of money. he may raise more money but isn't going to get more electoral votes out of it. he may lose the latino vote. he has a huge margin in the latino vote. >> sean: you say it is political.

in 1996 when ran for the state senate in illinois he supported same-sex marriage and then became neutral and then supported civil unions and this is actually him going back to his original position and the timing of it changes coincide coincidentally here coincide with the campaigns that he is running. >> it is absolutely ridiculous. and we talked about this on monday. are this was obviously very strategic on his part. this is how he has felt from the beginning and he has been quietly telling people that were his supporters that were in favor of gay marriage, i got this wait until i'm reelected. then he had biden jump out ahead of him and that put him in a tough position. now, the fundraisers and going out to hollywood and with clooney and the whole group. he will profit financially but eric is right he faces a challenge in key states with electoral votes. >> sean: let me show this to people out there. i like everybody else i only read four hard cover newspapers

a day and i like the feel of an old paper so i print most of the articles i read. this is the washington post from today. 11 pages the day after and the headline is mitt romney's classmates recall pranks but troubling incidents. now, a problem, barack obama wrote a book dreams from my father and in that book he admits to bullying. i'm waiting for the same writer to talk about his drug use. i'm not her boyfriend i shouted and ran up to coretta and give her a slight shove and she staggered back and looked up at me but still said nothing. leave me alone i shouted again and suddenly she was running faster and faster until she disappeared from sight. he shoved a girl. that is bullying a girl when was -- what year was that? >> i'm surprised they haven't

destroyed or confiscated all copies of this book. >> sean: i need an 11 page story. >> you won't get an 11-page story. you will not find anything written about it because they refuse to cover it. they are campaign headquarters for obama and this type of behavior that he is talking about yet they put down mitt romney with witnesses. >> sean: this is a war on woman. >> how proud am i of my president. he admitted to drug use and bullying, pushing a girl. can't be more proud. the other point is this washington post piece comes out today. sean, today. this is orchestrated. >> sean: absolutely. >> well, documented. well, vet. well, researched. just so happens to break today. this is completely in line with the whole here is how we are going to lay the whole gay marriage issue out. here is my conspiracy theory and i don't think i'm wrong. they have been feeding this to the washington post. the timing couldn't be any

better. h this was waiting for the right timing and we will give you the story and you go do your work and at the right time you run it for us. >> how about the polarizing issue that really gripped the nation about bullying. you say that somebody was a bully or said have done something to hurt children this that way, that the' bad. >> governor romney was on with neil cavuto and asked governor romney about the bullying story, the 11 pages in the washington post. >> first of all, i had no idea what that individual's sexual orientation might be. going back to the 1960s that wasn't something that we all discussed or considered. so that is simply just not accurate. i don't recall the incident myself but i have seen the reports and not going to argue with that. there is no question but that i did some stupid things when i was in high school and obviously if i hurt any one by virtue of that i would be sorry

for it and apologize for it. >> sean: who has a worse background when it comes to drugs, bullying, all this stuff. >> the article, too, they reference five guys allegedly with him and one now wasn't with him. all five lean left and one worked for an obama campaign in 2008. that is a perfect hit piece. i mean there was no other way to describe that. it is not investigative. it is purely pure and simple politics. >> they had to go back to the 1960s to find something to try to say bad about mitt romney. >> sean: you weren't born in 1960. >> he was four years old. >> sean: and eric wasn't born. the lengths they are going to to try and taint him. they are worried about his candidacy and they should be and good luck because this is a man that has lived his life in an exemplary fashion.

>> sean: i do care about college and i would like to know what happened at hob bet and columbia. >> he is the most transparent. he will be releasing it any day now. >> transparent as cement. >> sean: guys, thank you for being with us. coming up our media mass seth. how biased was the media this week. president obama doesn't seem to have a problem taking money from any one when it is come comedian bill maher and now a bundler who made some comments. what she has accused the u.s. of funding. mark levin says that somebody in the administration has committed tree son. his epic rant, comin

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>> sean: and welcome back to hannity. time for media mash. the most out ragous examples of how the mainstream media tries to put the liberal spin on the news. none other than president of the media research center brent bozell. brother bozell, how are you? >> sean: the media rushes to support the president on the issue of gay marriage. let's take look. >> so many people in the media team to uniformly support same-sex marriage.

do you think the dialogue doesn't recognize for many people. >> it really isn't. >> one advantage the president has here is the advantage he has on some other issues as well. i think the media is as divided on this issue as is the obama family which is to say not at all. he will never get negative coverage for this. the republicans will say it is a flip flop but when you have almost the entear media establishment on your side on an issue in a presidential campaign it is hard to lose. >> sean: when you have the entire media establishment on your side. you are just admitting that they don't really care what the mainstream, the people of this country that make the country great even think about it. >> you know, you and i have been very critical of nbc and they deserve it. on this one occasion we can give them kudos for telling the truth. both savannah guthrie and mark halperin when they say this is

unanimity with the national press. no question about that. the last time there was a poll taken on this that we found was 0 years ago. 20 years ago it had 73% approval. i guarantee it is 100% approval today and really does show the complete disconnect between the national news media and america. because in america it as hugely controversial issue. look at north carolina and colorado just the other day. happened in state after state after state. >> sean: california. maine. >> controversial thing. >> sean: every time it is voted down. california by 8%. 22% in north carolina. let me go to this. >> it is just like abortion. same thing as abortion. >> sean: if governor romney changes his mind on something he is a flip flopper. but if the president changes his mind and then changes it back and then changes his mind and changes it back this is an evolution. liberals evolve. conservatives, republicans they flip flop.

i will give you an example. watch this. >> good evening. president obama's stand on same-sex marriage completed its evolution today, changing from opposition to support. >> good evening. president barack obama today became the first american president to say he approves of same-sex marriage. he says his position has evolved. he now personally supports it. >> it has been called a landmark moment for equality and also a political risk. president obama revealed on wednesday that he now supports same-sex marriage. >> it was a dramatic moment felt around the country and sure to effect his campaign for reelection. >> brent, he is evolving and the rest of us are not evolving with him those of us that have disagreements on the issue that agree with his old position which was previous to the other position. >> i mean look, it is like there is a mathematical formula here. liberals evolve and

conservatives devolve. when in indiana dick luger loses it is an outrage according to the press. what was it so startling that nbc and abc broke into live coverage. this wasn't pearl husher that took place the other day. secondly, changed his position. i don't know who thinks he changed his position on this. did anybody think he was anything other than progay rights all the time? not i. i'm not the least bit surprised by this. this was a fundraiser. >> sean: and this was his position in '96 until he started running for other office and ran against allen keys and then was running for president and talked to rick warren. let me go to -- >> to your point absolutely about romney. romney is a flip flopper. this man is an evolutionary. >> sean: liberals are evolving. we are devolving i assume according to them. the hand picked reporter by the

white house, robin roberts in fairness, full disclosure has been very nice to me. i like her. she was describing how she felt hearing the words and here we go again. we have reporters getting thrills when they interview the president. >> boy, do you know how to make a flash. >> a little news from the press yesterday. and robin, what a waterhead moment. whatever people think about this issue and we know it is controversial there is no denying that when a president speaks out for the first time like that it is his tore arery. >> i'm getting chills again because when you are sitting in the room and hear him say those historic words it was not lost on any one in the room. >> sean: i mean chills and thrills. i like robin roberts a lot but you can't say that. >> put it aside here. comfort the afflicted. that is all out the window. these aren't reporters they are sten foo graphers for barack oa

barack obama hand chosen to say what he wants them to say. >> the entire press corps they are all press secretaries then because they use the same language. evolve. forget it. coming up, wait until you hear this. what one of president obama's bundlers said about our ally israel. so will he return her donations? probably not. tonight you don't want to miss it. the great one mark levin takes on the cia double agent leak and claims this is poe let cali motivated. his epic rant coming up. it has been called the train to know where. investigation of ainsley earhardt into her project that could end up wasting billions of your tax dollars all to of your tax dollars all to benefit harry [ man ] hmm. a lot can happen in two hundred thousand miles... are you guys okay? yeah. ♪ [ man ] i had a great time. thank you, it was really fun. ♪ [ crash ]

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>> sean: first it was bill maher and then spike lee and now another top obama fund razor is facing scrutiny this time over comments she made bashing israel. she has helped raise between $100,000 and $200,000 and made a personal donation in the past and we are reminded about an

outrageous "new york times" op ed written by the san francisco democrat. she accused the israelis of wrecklessly murdering innocent people while giving palestinians a pass. as god faring americans we cannot sit still and continue to be sighent when your tax dollars are financing a war that is causing the death of innocent civilians and destroying places of worship and education. perhaps somebody should inform vice president biden about who he is taking money from because just this week biden claimed this administration was just about the best friend that israel has ever had. >> i'm proud of our record. i believe that no president since harry truman has done more for israel's physical security than barack obama. every port in our administration -- every point in our administration at ever i have juncture we have stood up on behalf of the state of israel. i'm so proud to serve with

president barack obama. >> sean: this is a case they may want to refund the hundreds of thousands of dollars that were bundled. joining me is fox news contributor liz cheney and the author of hopelessly divided fox news contributor doug schoen. if the president is the best friend israel had why did he snub the prime minister at the white house and why did he do something we said we would never do to israel, call anthem to return to the '67 borders and accept money from somebody that takes a position that is false, number one. >> what you see here is vice president biden continuing his unbroken record of being flat wrong on national security informed policy issues. for somebody who served as many years as he did in the senate on the foreign relations committee and now as vice president i do think his record of mistakes and ignorance is

pretty much unparalleled and in this case it seems to meow have to ask why given the views is she supporting barack obama. you know they are not going to return the money, they will find reasons not to do that. what is it about the president's intentions in the second term that she feels will in fact be in line with her views about what is happening in the middle east today? >> sean, i would be happy and pleased if they gave back the money from someone like her. but obama has increased military aid to israel by $600 million. up to $3.1 billion. cooperated on intelligence. provided offensive and defensive weapons and the policies are the obama administration are close to those of the bush administration. >> sean: no they are not. >> yes, they are. >> sean: do you think george bush would invite the muslim brotherhood to the white house and. would we give 1.5 billion

taxpayer dollars to a terrorist group? and the implementation of sheridaia law now in egypt which seems likely. >> we are talking now about egyptian law. >> they declared israel their biggest enemy and we are inviting them to the white house. >> that is horrific but we are talking about israel and bottom line, bush and obama supporting going back to the '67 lines. both supported a palestinian state. >> sean: you're missing pie point. >> i agree with your point but it is about egypt and egyptian policy and i think obama is wrong. >> sean: you want to jump in. go ahead. >> it is not true what doug is saying. if you look at the way that prime minister netanyahu was treated when first came to washington. the president on one day said in front of apac pro israel audience that he has israel's

back and then the next day washed it back and said i didn't really mean that. most importantly you have to look at what is going on in iran and that is the issue on which the united states and israel should be standing shoulder to shoulder. instead this administration repeatedly conveys the idea that they are more afraid of an israeli strike to stop that nuclear program than they are of an iranian nuclear program. there is no better evidence of the space between the two nation. >> sean: another issue that i want to get to. migrate friend mark levin brought up the issue of announcing the intelligence issue and the fact that we had a double agent if you will as it relates to the new underwear bomber case and here is mark on his radio show the other day. >> this administration, this executive branch throwing all this information out in the public realm where our enemies can see it. that is absolutely nuts. senior u.s. intelligence officials. the reporter think we are

idiots? those are administration officials. fend out if you can who the hell is putting this information out, weakening our national security and potentially exposing great patriots who put their necks on the line to get this information to us so another plane is not the blown out of the air because i smell politics! >> sean: liz, do you smell politics? >> it is really troubling. you had the chairman of the house intelligence committee calling for an investigation today. you know, it is hard to say exactly where this leak came from. it is in fact the case that the obama administration has done things like invite hollywood directors in to share the details of the operation that got osama bin laden. but whoever is in office when you have a leak like this that frankly threatens the operation, the chairman of the house intelligence committee said this put a halt to this critically important counter terrorism operation involving the new underwear bomber who was a double agent you have to

investigate and the justice department ought to be as concerned about that as they are about a whole range of other things that frankly are are not nearly as important. >> sean: i totally agree with you and i agree with mark. this is disgraceful and this was right in the middle of the administration speaking the football and doing their end zone dance. >> again, i think politics should be out of intelligence and foreign policy. steve hadley said on high ran that the bush policies and obama policies were relatively close. he, too, said get politics out. with the bomber the fact that the administration may well have played politics is wrong and the investigation is warranted. >> sean: good to see you you. and liz, how is your dad doing? >> he is doing great, sean, thanks for asking. >> sean: let not your heart be troubled. when we come back, our great, ♪ dave, i've downloaded a virus. yeah. ♪

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>> sean: and tonight on our great, great american panel the

author of capital punishment, former lobbyist jack abramoff is here. cardinal bernard himself. bejesus sean hannity what are you looking at. ever since you slapped the think in the wall street organizer i wanted to mary you, sean hannity. >> i'm taken. i'm he getting applause for the first time in 15 years. i'm sure they will roll over that any time, bernard. >> please say i do. >> sean: i don't. so here the president comes out as you point out for gay marriage, timing is interesting. washington post. big story. mitt romney is a bully. but if we are going to go back to 1965 we got to go back and do it for both candidates so i

will do the job of the mainstream media. here is barack obama in his younger days in his own words. >> i spent the last two years of high school in a daze. locking away the questions that life seemed insistent on posing. i kept playing basketball. attended classes sparingly. drank beer heavily and tried drugs enthusiastically. i discovered it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van or in the dorm room of some brother you met down the hall. >> sean: everything they do it backfires. war on women and then becomes about bill maher. every trick they are trying. >> shay musshamus the dog and e ate dog. >> sean: dog was a little tough. grasshoppers are crunchy.

>> it all backfires but this is even worse. pushed around a woman in the book. i'm shocked. >> i think what he did on the coming out with the gay marriage acceptance i think he did this because you guys tonight as we are sit here there is a george clooney fundraiser and he will have a very liberal audience at the fundraiser. does he want to phase the liberal audience when has to fess up to the fact that joe biden has come out king gaffe and says i support this and barack obama is like you know what, i do, too. >> sean: obviously this was coordinated with the washington post. they are taking dictation and it backfires. as he points out even the dog story in the kennel backfires. >> i think it is important to note when was in high school he was in in a daze and drinking heavily and now the country is in a daze and most people are drinking heavily. >> a hangover right now.

>> sean: all right, he said drugs plural. we know he said he did a little blow. nobody be really asked him about it. >> you got to think about it. when was campaigning in '08 he campaigned like he was going be a ronald reagan. when got in office who is he? he is worse than jimmy carter. >> sean: i guarantee nobody can believe that i playd that in his own words. the rest of the media is not going to play that. this was an 11-page story in the washington post today. 11 pages. >> so it is out there but god bless you for doing the vetting that they won't do. that is what fox news and you do. >> sean: did you know why because i'm not fair to the president. there has to be some reason. >> you have sinister motives, of course. >> it doesn't fate th fit the e that they have for him. reading his own book. imagine how embarrassing it must be now to hear his own

words reading that he is using, selling drugs whatever he is doing. >> sean: where did he buy his drugs and what drugs did he do? when said drink heavily was he an alcoholic? are these fair conditions. >> we have mitt romney who doesn't drink. doesn't even have any caffeine and doesn't have any vices. he is up against someone that is pretty pure and clean. >> i have a lot of caffeine in my blood system 24 -- >> uh-oh. >> howard dean says republicans don't like latinos. al sharpton says the gop has has declared war on black people. the strategy of demonizing and dividing work. we will have more coming up we will have more coming up straight ahead with our great, i'm more of an absentee plant parent. [ cellphone rings ] tuscaloosa? schenecty. des moines. ok. ok. ok. i can't always be there to weed my petunias. so now we use miracle-gro shake 'n feed plus weed prevente it feeds plants and preven weeds for up to three months.

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>> sean: we continue with the great, great american panel. i keep talking about the paul ryan look alike ad throwing granny over the cliff. show the new add except this time it is barack obama

throwing granny over the cliff. watch this. ♪ >> my doctor has told me that this pacemaker will save my life. oh, be careful, mr. president there is a cliff here. >> maybe this isn't going to help. maybe you are better off not having the surgery but taking the pain killers. >> but mr. president, we're not just talking about my pain we are talking about my life. no, no, i need a pacemaker. aah. >> they cut the best part! >> what, her hitting the rocks? what do you mean the best part? >> oh, my -- >> it is not a real person. >> do you want to see blood? >> sean: that was the best part they cut off. >> devil horns on you. >> you want to hear the sound of the flat. >> sean: go ahead.

>> what is fair is fair and validity to it.voteris like obama said we bring a gun to the knife fight and republicans can do the same thing. >> sean: we bring a knife they bring a gun. howard dean republicans don't like latinos or care about working americans. gop has declared war on black people and war on women. >> sean, they have nothing. they are having to manufacturer a crisis. this is the biggest bunch of b.s. i have heard. this is not true. >> sean: is that why we are going back to 1965 and romney bullied somebody? >> people can see through this junk. >> they have to turn the voters out and in order to turn the voters groups out they have to scare them and create all these horror film ads and create a scenario where people are afraid to death of the

republicans. if they don't do that they will lose this election. >> sean: so the president uses class warfare and dividing the country and his buddy howard dean republicans don't like latinos. al sharpton, gop declared war on black people, time to fire back and the war on women. they got all the bases and now the gay community. so they got all -- >> i'm sure more are coming. there have to be more are minorities. >> sean: are they energizing their base because the president is to doing so badly. >> promoting warfare against race and anything they can covering all the bases instead of addressing what in the heck has obama done for the country anyway. he has done nothing so he has to manufacture some junky crime. >> sean: he is appealing to different parts one by one. >> but he is not dividing. he is assureing that a lot of people in the middle are not going to vote for him.

>> they need people to be stupid. they are counting on people. >> sean: a lot of stupid people in the world. >> if you tough on terror you hate muslims. if you are against gay marriage it is because you are a bigot not because you have some religious belief. and does any juan tak one taked dizzy dean serious? >> what they are doing is dividing america to wen reelection. it is tragic and horrible. >> sean: will it work? >> will it work? >> i don't think so. >> i don't think so either. when we come back, thank you all for being with us. ainsley earhardt is here and heads out in the desert in california to tell us about people who are calling it it people who are calling it it the

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>> sean: it has been called the train to know where and our very own ainsley earhardt traveled out to california to find out why. >> our goal is to give 80% of americans access to high speed rail. >> reporter: bringing high speed rail to the united states has long been a priority of the obama administration. >> high speed rail is coming to america and this will fulfill the dreams of many, many

people. >> senator harry reid has tried for years to tie, california's ambitious high speed rail plans into h his state's biggest draw, las vegas. >> to southern nevada southern california corridor will be a critical route to the region's recovery. >> a dream that has never been closer to col coming true. >> we welcome california's decision to extend its high speed rail corridor to include las vegas. this could not have happened without senator reid's leadership and version. >> and a private company founded by las vegas developers called desert express enterprises wants to be the first to fulfill that vision the private in vetment made has positioned desert express project to be the first shovel ready high speed project in the entire country. >> with trains traveling at speeds of 150 miles an hour it will move people from california to las vegas in only

about 80 minutes. >> there is one problem, the closer you get to southern, california's major population centers the harder it is to build a train. >> would this be cost prohibitive to get the right-of-way they need to cut through so many cities and simply be too expensive. >> so instead the train will start outside victorville california, a desert city of 120,000 people more than 90 miles from the hoped for starting point of los angeles or anaheim. >> the why is the question that is a common one and even people here in victorville understand that is confusing for some people. it is a straight shot from here to vegas. not a lot in between and we will be able to run pretty much alongside the interstate 15 right-of-way. >> with the widespread population dispursed throughout california victorville serves as the collection point of an stemmed 18 million people that make the drive to las vegas. >> reporter: this literally the end of the road off the 15 in the middle of the desert and

the proposed site for the train. 90 miles that way. l.a. 188-miles that way and you hit las vegas. the question is would you drive from l.a. park your car here hop on the train to get there? >> i don't think the people of los angeles which is where we are are going to be drawing most of the riders are going to drive halfway to vegas and then catch a train the other half and then once you get here, check in your bags and wait up to 20-30 minutes for a train and then when you get to vegas, sit there and gather your bags and wait another 30 minutes or a cab or a shutting. now, you have just blown the hour savings. >> and many of the millions who make the drive every year say that the biggest traffic headaches come when trying to get out of the l.a. basin before you get to victorville. >> this is ultimately as you look behind you here where the desert express station would start. >> victorville's mayor. >> is it a good idea? >> i think it as good idea.

i think the reason that you are seeing this happen is vegas sees there is a reason for it. they are the ones that are pushing for it. a lot of this money, private equity is coming out of vegas to allow people to get up there much quicker. they underand it that they can't really get down into the l.a. basin. so this is where they are going to start. >> what is standing in the way of turning this desert pitstop into an oasis? the answer is really simple. money. with private funds drying up the desert express is asking you to chip in. they say they need at least $5 billion in taxpayer money in the form of a loan. >> they are so quick to point out it is a loan that will be paid back and paid back with interest but i think there is a lot of people that are nervous about that. >> solyndra was supposed to be paid back also and we know how that worked out. i don't buy it. i think it is a boondoggle. $25 million per mile. >> the low interest loan would

come from the federal railroad administration financing program to which congress has appointed about $35 billion for projects like this. >> they are tasked with doing that. that was the mandate interest congress.m >> as long as that loan is paid back in full down the road maybe a lot of people out there watching are saying i'm fine with it. how can we guarantee that the loan is going to be paid back? >> it is up to desert express to market this properly. it does give an option to people who do not want to sit in the traffic or even sit in their cars driving through the desert and enjoy a short ride to vegas versus a long ride in their vehicle. >> sean: joining us our own ainsley earhardt. how are you? hey, sean. >> doing the 5:00 a.m. >> doing the 5:00 a.m. show.

it's so much fun. thank you so much for waking up with us. it's a blast. >> the train starts in the middle of no where. >> in the middle of victorville, california, which is like the mohave desert. who is going to drive 90 miles out to the desert on the 15 which takes you to vegas, stop, park your car. pay a hundred bucks, get on the train and take it to vegas. >> sean: and you have other options. >> you can fly to vegas for about the same price. you can drive. for about a hundred bucks that are a lot of planes that take you there. there are about 17-18 million people it will reach in southern, california. who is going to drive in the middle of the desert. it is on the way to vegas. and the benefit, you are saving it could take you three to four hours to drive from victorville to vegas in the middle of rush hour traffic so it does on the take 80 minutes. you can get served food and

drinks on the train. it is a lot of money. it is $5 billion. >> seas the most. a senator from nevada by the name of harry reid. it is not necessary. we don't need to waste $5 billion. >> a lot of people are saying in this economy do we need to spend money that we don't have. $35 billion is allocated for railroads. they are saying we have the money and going be spend why not spend it on the high speed rail so we can be compared to china. >> sean: a train in the middle of the desert so take you half the way when you could fly for the same amount of money. >> this is a government loan so if it is successful the loan will be paid back. >> sean: sort of like solyndra. >> people were saying that. we'll see. the middle of the summer it will probably be passed. >> i'm watching you way too often. i go to bed late and i'm up