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we're going to have on this program for most of the program my buddy sean hannity shawn and i worked very closely with rush and we're very good friends with rush. before i do that, i want to show you what kind of a human being rush was. he was the soul of the earth. he was going to help people he didn't even know. over the years, he and i would communicate a lot as a matter of fact, years ago we would text and e-mail late into the night early into the morning, every single day. we shared our thoughts about life, we shared our thoughts about government, economics events of the day, and he was the smartest person, the most wise person, frankly that i've ever known apart from my parents. i want to read you something from a book i wrote the second book i wrote that had nothing to do with are politics or

philosophy rescuing is right this little book and i wrote this little book after we had to put our adopted dog our rescue dogs bright to sleep. we've never experienced that before since that we've done it three additional times and it is horrific every time. but as i was going through that, i was texting rush, and i want to you hear some of the things he had to say. and i know he would want me to share them with you afterall it is in the book. so -- as sprite was ill and had to put him in sleep a huge dog lover as people on radio know, for decades i've talked about that. i said there were night when is i was alone working in my home office that i could barely stand emotional pain from the thought

of losing sprite. we hngt put him in sleep yet but we were about to. and i had a very deep bond with this dog and suffered from ailments since the day we adopted him. and yet sprite was a dog at peace with himself he didn't have a mean bone in his body. from the day we first met him at the foster parents house, we were all taken by his friendliness and tenderness. say mark what does this have to do with anything you'll see in a moment. sprite had overcome obstacle after obstacle, now he was facing the biggest challenge and i thought i was letting him down. i was his caregiver. and in his time of greatest need i couldn't do a damn thing to help him, it was killing me. i began reaching out to certain family members and close friends one such friend of the rush limbaugh. we've been close friends for many years, all politics aside he was one of the most compassionate and decent people i've known.

i wrote this book in 2007. when i had complications from heart surgery back in 2000, spent nearly six months in and out of hospitals rush asked me, what i needed to do to get well. i told him i was thinking of going to the cleveland clinic he asked me why i didn't i just go i told him, that i had to find out if my insurance company would pay for it. with examination the procedures which would be expensive. obviously, back then i didn't have a great deal of money. rush responded, to hell with the insurance i'll pay for it just go, do whatever you have to do and let me know how much it is. the remarkable man and he didn't just do that for me but he did that for many people turned out i didn't need his help. all of the cost were covered paid for my insurance and by me. but i never forgot rush's generous offer and he's generous

with complete strangers too. but he doesn't like to talk about it so i won't either. on september 29th, 2006, rush and i were instant messaging each other as we do most nights. i rarely speak to him on the telephone, he's totally deaf and even with his cochlear impact difficult of hearing phone conversations since we're both on the computer most nights instangt messaging best way to communicate anyway. but on this night i was very down. as i was sitting at my desk i could feel myself sinking into a dark hole. rush and i talk about everything. so i began a conversation about sprite and where my emotions on my sleeve. looks like our dog sprite is dying, i started out i can't imagine dealing with this. i pray i'm wrong about this. may i ask you a question -- when your cat was dying what did you do? rush was a huge cat lover he had a couple of cats that he really

adored. and when one of them got sick he was deeply pained by it and he would later -- add dogs to his family as well. rush wrote i feel for you. very sad when one of my cats died. she had a stroke, it was sudden. gave her a weekend to recover but then had to put her down. as very sad. did you take her to the vet to be cremated i ask? yes scattered her remains on the property. in a long time since i really bawled but won't be able to control it well here, i said. this is going to freak you out aye been wondering what the hell am i doing with my life sometimes. do you ever do that? i just wonder sometimes if i should be doing something else i always try to do the right thing i try to be a good dad and husband. try to be a good friend. but just wonder about life's purpose.

rush replied i once said that to a soldier i met at a dinner. he lost an eye an arm in iraq i felt embarrassed because he was praising me for my role. he poo pooed me and said, we all have our roles. i think you have creeping guilt mark, fight that. we're all who we are, and takes all of us to make a country. i said people who are true believers in their particular religions have some satisfaction and that they think they know how things will work out. i don't know. rush wrote, i think about this all of the time. i have incredible faith. i don't go to church but communicate with god so many times day i can't count. i know what you mean. you should research malcolm, he sought to disprove christianity and became a believer saying that smart people go through

these all of the time. well these dogs are the essence of love i said. and he responded try to think of it this way -- your dog is a dog animal unable to fend for itself because it is domesticated. you took it in, gave it a life far better than it could have had on its own in the wild. your dog sprite has been loved and in case of dogs knows it. and he loves you back and in his own way unconditionally. you have done a great thing by giving him the life he's had and vice versa all positive. every living creature will die some time. but the quality of life you have given sprite is no doubt been much more than some humans have. yes i'm trying to look at bright side -- if you're right and he's paged that's sign of close attachment but you can be assured that he had a great life for a dog it

was fulfilling both ways. and having him not suffer at the end is an act of compassion. it is not easy emotionally and shouldn't be because of the attachment. if you are close to anything you will eventually lose it and one way or another -- but as getting close that provides the joy that it worth it all in the end. i said sorry to be a downer he said you're not a downer, mark this is deep stuff. it touches our souls. these are the things that give real meaning to life. which is what you're questioning tonight. and he added you never stop to think of all of the amazing positive ways you impact others for good. none of us are aware of the positive ways we affect those we will never meet. but it is profound. you may think from time to time that your kids are in trouble but they aren't. they're going through the normal stages at their time of life.

your influence and impact as a parent will blossom in them as human beings long after you're gone and they'll pass on in the same way. it's amazing cycle to me. you don't even stop to think about these things. but the way you feel about your dog is noticed by your children. it affects them in ways you cannot know and will translate and positive ways about how they treat other people and life in general. they are little things. that continue to accumulate through values are what you are or what they are, and they're good and they do get transferred. in the end i wrote i don't deal with death very well. funny i'm not afraid of my own death but worry about others close to me. rush said i ponder this stuff all of the time. i know there are questions we humans are capable of asking to which there are no human answers. which proves the existence of god to me. that is natural too. because you don't miss yourself when you die. but you will miss those you have

loved and who die before you. he said you know, what i've noticed -- not one old person who knows they're going to die is panic over it -- neither my parents was panicked there's something that happens -- sudden death, plane crash whatever it is different i've been thinking about it all of my life. we all want to know the purpose of all of this. i said well rush i'm going upstairs now, spend a little time with the dogs and then go to bed. you're a great friend. you too mark, enjoy your time with the dogs make the most of it for yourself. that's the rush limbaugh i knew. about dogs -- and yet listen to his passion and his compassion, listen to how much he thought about these things. he was a generally decent, kind human being and he thought deeply about deep subjects.

we all got to participate in his life and he will be gravely missed dying at the young age of 70. right to the end, family members tell me he fought very, very hard. he was a bull he was stubborn. he didn't go easily. and we know those last days he broadcast on radio he was talking to us on december 23rd he was talking to you. and i can tell you he told me many times and he told you, directly, on the air -- he adored you and loved you. and i can tell you it is true. he lived for his family, he lived for his friends and he lived for you. radio was his passion. not tv -- not writing and he did those thaings excelled at those things. but radio -- he was bigger than life to me. and to many of us. he had an enormous number of

friends. people admired him, powerful and utterly unknown embraced life and i guess that's the morm of moral of the story when you make of your life what you contribute to your society. and what you leave behind that's your legacy when we return i'll be talking to my dear friend sean hannity about the life of rush limbaugh. nicorette® knows, quitting smoking is freaking hard. you get advice like: try hypnosis... or... quit cold turkey are you kidding me?! instead, start small. with nicorette®. which can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette®

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mark: welcome back america, you know, sean hannity and i are like brothers like rush and i were david limbaugh and rush's wonderful family katherine and david, and their extended family. we attended rush's wedding we spent time with rush we talked with rush. his brother represents us, and our relationship with rush and our relationship with each other is very, very deep. people think that because you're on radio or tv or whatever that you're competing with each other. we're not competing with each other.

we adore each other we root for each other. we celebrate each other. that's the nature for most of us in this business. and i wanted to have sean on for the program to talk with this magnificent audience and his magnificent audience about, about rush, sean, you know, rush saw a lot of talent in you. he asked you to be his substitute host early on you were the one. nobody else. do you remember the first time you spoke to him or met him and how that took place? >> i do. boy, no one has ever asked me that question. i do -- believe it or not, i was in atlanta, and i was local host there. i was traveling all over the country doing radio. i lived in five different states as you know mark, rhode island, california, alabama, georgia i

was in georgia at the time and nflt i met him at it was a trip i took up to new york. to be on phil donahue daytime show about talk radio and i'll never forget the experience because there are a bunch of us talk radio host neil on the panel. tom was on the panel bunch of guys that we all know on radio but until donahue you all be micked up you would walk in, you know sooner than we're all seated, he would start i call it that donahue walk right and i realize he was a talented guy and talented broadcaster. although i disagree strongly with his opinions and he starts like this he goes you see those guys. all of these guys -- they're the ones saying these horrible things about your president that's how this show started. like all right here we go a heck of an hour although --

tom was described on that show as a pissed off liberal so i went to wabc, and i met rush he couldn't have been more gracious he knew who i was. and i then saw him not that long thereafter there was a big station event from the atlanta station we're both on the same station i met him there, and i got to see him with people and be gregarious. we did a contest a local radio station contest where we had winners fly up with me to go watch his tv show. during the taping of that show, he actually called me down a local host didn't have to acknowledge me at all, and remember he had rush ties, and he gave me one on his show. that night. and that was, that was a beginning of getting to know somebody. you know, this is important to know mark. you are describing that --

that deep personal side of rush that i know existed as well. and sometimes when he was chatty we would be texting away about all sorts of things about the country, about the constitution, things that you and i talk about all of the time. and you know, he's just this guy that had this passion and this love and this desire. it wasn't just about him being successful he's on three hours day. radio stations run 24 hours day. he always understood that it was good for all of us we've all benefited he was a trailblazer. he cut and forged the path we followed behind him. but he always -- it wasn't ever a zero some game for him. he celebrated your success. he celebrated you know couldn't have been kinder to me about my success. let me fill in for him on his radio show and you as well.

and help all of us and every way possible and there was a generosity in him that a lot of people i wish they knew the side of him that we're talking about here. but people. the to believe what they want to believe, an he took a lot of -- you know those -- darts those slings and arrows came at him first. and when we followed it, became easier for us because we got to see okay that's part of this job. we just assume that's going to be part of our life every day, and i know he's very proud of you, of all of your success. we used to make fun of you behind your back. [laughter] i say this -- mark: made fun of you behind your back. >> sure you did -- hope you did. and you know, it was he respected your genius. i always say that your wheel houses are constitution. your wheel house is our framers and our founders.

your wheel house is, and we have a shared love of all things america. at the rush's core mark think about this, it was really about a belief that this country is so -- the greatest country god gave man, and what distinguishes us from these other countries is that we believe in liberty, we believe in freedom and we believe in something called natural rights. you know, these are topics you go into deep depth in your books, and rights come from god not from government. not from man. and that, and a belief system in the individual, and that if you live in freedom, if you have liberty and you have freedom, that then you have the opportunity to pursue your happiness, pursue your dream, what it is you love to do in life, and that is not only good for you but it is good for society.

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of friends, your family, a lot of media was constantly good and bad pulling at him. and yet he was able to keep the sense of humor he was able to keep his head screwed on straight, you know. he didn't have these -- wild tantrums or anything of this sort he was very even tempered. again, the generous part of rush 2018 it was actually voted into the hall of fame you've been there he's been there. but to have levin former director of the legal division, as he would call me, he created that whole genera to be in the hall of fame he couldn't have been prouder and he wanted it to come up to new york and 2018, and as you know, sean and to give this speech inducting me and it snowed horribly and he called me said i can't i'm so sorry i'm so sad next day out of

the blue on radio show he did the speech that he was going to give he loved this show 24. years ago, as did my son chase, so what he's in washington, there's a big meeting and he says, mark, you bring your son chase i want to you meet all of these people and so forth just out of the blue. invites us for thanksgiving. to his house, i go down there with my daughter. makes me sit next to him when he's doing a radio show another time to see what he's doing said to me you're studying me aren't you flee you said you damn well bet i am he said what do you want to do radio one day not really i just study these things. i mean, patsy he loves in new york we were in new york he calls patsies in new york says take care of levin. he just -- i want the nation to know what he was a regular guy.

but he also went out of his way for people and so many ways. you see, if you readed new york times and washington post, and listen to all of the hate media they never pen gauged with rush and never debated rush or understood rush they didn't want to understand rush and trying to do it today. those people do not matter to us. those people are in their own sick little bubble and sick little world. they do that to all of our greats whether it is reagan or rush, or trump or whomever it is. this is our rush limbaugh. and you know, reagan sean would talk about the shining city on the hill i thought about this last night. so did rush. that was his personality america is the shine city on the hill and when reagan wrote him in 1992 and basically said okay, i'm passing the baton to you. that's what he basically said. you're now mr. conservative. and he was right, wasn't he?

>> he was -- he was right, it is hard for me to wrap my, my mind around the fact that any major political issue that will come up we're not going hear his voice. i'm having a hard time understanding what that means. nobody can replace this man, mark, and my audience on radio and tv and people i talk to they ask all of the time what -- what we missing rush, and my only, only answer i can give them is that nobody can replace him about and we all better up our game because we just lost a guy that led the movement for 30 years. plus -- and and we've all got to do better because he would want us to do that. before the break, i was talking about his respect for the audience. you touched on it in your opening monologue tonight, and he and i think this bears

repeating -- and i talked about it in a number of times now. is we now know what bucket list was, it was a dire diagnosis from day one. you know, advanced stage four lung cancer. we know what that means. you and i -- that day, when we heard it, we called each other. we talked for a long time it was a very emotional call. and we knew this day would come unfortunately, we wished it wouldn't we prayed for a miracle. and, but rush's bucket list in the audience i hope they understand this. it wasn't travel the world. it wasn't rocky mountain climbing. or skydiving -- or riding bull man as song goes live like you're dying from tim mcgraw it was his audience and go through treatments that nearly killed him because i know

people who have been through cancer and especially stage cancer treatments like this they nearly kill you to save you or nearly kill you to buy you time. and that's been the last year of his life and when he was well enough, even when he really wasn't well enough, his time -- the way he wanted to spend it, was with his audience. that was his choice. the people that listen to him, that was the top and only, only item on his bucket list. i mean, that to me speaks volumes about him, how much he loved what he did, always he was born to do this. nobody did it better. nobody will do it better. and i think that -- i think that we can all take comfort in knowing that, that's the man that we put our faith and our trust and our hope, and learn from. generations of americans learning from them. this pretty profound kayleigh

mcenany you know tweeting, i'm one of those rush babies. my i drove around the car with my dad and i listen to rush, and it helped shape and helped form my political views, and opinions. and you know, just a special guy, mark, we love god. he loved great faith, he loved his family. he loved his country. and he desperately wants america to be the best it can be. always -- and he fought every day for that, and he did it with humor and he did it with grace, and this mischievous side of him that you and i know a lot about, i mean how funny is it that the snow flakes we didn't use term back then, he would say, half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair. you know, talent on loan from god drive people crazy.

he's saying god gave him that talent. well in a way it is very humble statement because he's saying any talent come comes from god y profound and he had a way of anything his points that, you know, always just -- he do things that none of us would even think of and we would sit back in awe just say wow. i wish i thought of that. we'll be right back. how do we ensure families facing food insecurity get access to their food? we needed to make sure that, if they couldn't get to the food, the food would come to them. we can deliver for food banks and schools. amazon knows how to do that. i helped deliver 12 million meals to families in need. that's the power of having a company like amazon behind me.

mark: welcome back. you know, sean, rush had a big library. >> huge. mark: he read voracious ancient read about philosophy, economics every day as we all do read enormous amount current events so forth he prepared very, very hard for his program never stopped here's a man of enormous

fame, and yet he had that work ethic day in and day out. he had that midwest ethic. he was raised to love this country and he loved this country and that's what he was all about, and i think that's why so many people were attracted to him nobody ever heard this before here he comes in in 1988 heard it from reagan never heard it on tv or mass radio it is just the usual liberal trite and here this guy comes on bigger than life. proudly, no apologies, in your face, nicely -- but in your face. i'm an american and nibble this i believe in this country and this is what we believe in and people said oh, my lord this man finally speaks for me do you agree? >> listen, you know, he referred to it as flyover country. you know, we -- and it is very similar today i don't think it is changed much

if anything gotten worse maybe, perhaps. and that is that you've got your coastal elites, new york, d.c., san francisco, l.a., and then you've got the rest of the country that red part of the country which most of the country geographically is red. all higher concentrations of people in the big cities. and, but that -- those were his roots. that was cape jar but never left him and never forgot about cape jarardo when you think what makes america great it is people, and it's the people that get up every day, and we discuss this all the time and those are the people that we champion that we're fighting for. this is their country. and this is their rights. we're fighting against the oppressive taxuation fighting against bureaucratic nightmare and burdens place on businesses

all across the country. we lose jobs with open borders and drive down wages for working people. we lose manufacturing because of burdensome regulation. you know, mark, conservatism and we can get into all of the deep philosophy and i strongly recommend your books. liberty and tyranny start there. but at the end of the day, what we believe is conservatives is fairly simple. we want liberty, we want freedom. we want lower taxes, we want less government regulation and bureaucracy. we want our borders secure we want energy independent we believe in second and first amendment. we want safe schools, we want school choice. we believe in law and order, and safety and security. we want trade deals, free trade, fair trade. we want peace through strength.

that's pretty much it, mark. and those principles are the things he fought for every single day. it was one piece that fox was running an old tape of rush saying, i've never changed. my views have never changed. i am the same person i was on air in 1988, my views have not changed. because these are timeless principles. you said on my show that he was the thomas paine modern version of thomas paine and if i was a great line -- he or paul revere or george washington it was a call to america's principles that gave us all of this success. >> you know what sean he had the guts to say these things and guts to confront the out of control people trying to destroy

our culture. he would do it through humility but he would humiliate them on occasion. he tried to use humor to underscore how crazy they were. >> funny. mark: but stood up no these people and mob would form and try to take him out organizations perform to try to take him out and didn't want to discuss issues and confront him on the subjects. they tried to destroy him because they knew that rush limbaugh was speaking for americans. we'll be right back. nicorette® knows, quitting smoking is hard. you get advice like: try hypnosis... or... quit cold turkey are you kidding me?! instead, start small. with nicorette®. which can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette®

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♪ ♪ mark: welcome back sean hannity, you know, rush really admired ronald reagan enormously. >> yeah. mark: he admired bill buckley enormously they became friends. and he admired donald trump. i think he came to love donald trump they got to know each other quite personally. and we don't have a long segment here but i want to suggest this to you and like to know what you think. i think they had some characteristics in common they were both outsiders they were both gourd underestimated both

kflt, confident and independent played by their own rules and they were successful beyond anybody's imagination donald trump becoming president, and you can see rush limbaugh what he accomplished. i think that's one of the things in addition to substance and policy one the things that really attracted rush to donald trump. what do you think? >> it's interesting because in the last seg whment i gave the list of what we as conservatives believe when you break it down what are the thing we're fighting for -- well, reagan fought for that. rush fought for that every day of his life he never changed. we -- i talk about three -- you can add a fourth one. the foundational conservatism or modern conservatism look at william f. buckley no doubt about it and number of occasions

when i did interview and you can really look at reagan and what he did and how he advanced conservatism. i would argue the next wave was newt beginning rich and contract with america, newt this week on my show said he doesn't think that they would have taken control of the house without rush in 1994. and the third would be donald trump. and that was a surprise for people. and i think you remember i came under tremendous fire because i stuck my neck out it's what i do i tell people what i really think, and i was telling my conservative audience that he will governor a conservative and he governed as a conservative but many terms of outsider status, you know, it bothers me people don't remember this. the term about reagan he's only an actor, and dunce all of these

horrific things a lot of that kale from establishment republicans at the time. and like as establishment doesn't like donald trump or never like donald trump here today -- the american people seem to respond to -- to people that break that mold, that are disruptive that don't play by the swamp rules and that are forces of nature in their own individual way. advancing the principles that will work if they are implemented and that is always my argument with any liberal. is that, conservatism works. socialism and my last book i wrote a whole chapter about socialism failure i don't care what name it was given. i don't care what form or manifestation it took on. doesn't matter. the same result every time unfulfill promises more poforts, and then it is a question of

degree. how much freedom did you give up in the name of false security? offered by those mighty politicians and bureaucrats that are saying, everything is trees, free, free, free -- and and this is one of the great things about your books is you go into underpinnings that led to modern day conservatism in other words the thought, the philosophy, it's deep, it is profound, and that was rush. and that was reagan, and that was trump too. mark: we're going to miss rush enormously it is hard to believe he's gone like a family member -- tens of millions of us, and what he did with his life was really quite fabulous spectacular and rush, i think would appreciate the fact that you're on this program talking with me about him. sean i want to thank you very much my friend and god bless you too. be well.

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his wife lisa. his nieces and nephews and his wonderful staff. the late great h.r. who was kit carson. so many others on his crew and staff. and his dear friend craig kitchen who advised him every step of the way. he adored you folks. he really did. we'll not only remember him, we'll have to continue in his footsteps. we are all rush's friends, family and children. and he stood for something that is so crucially important in this country. america. americanism. the founding. the founders. the framers. the military.

law enforcement. the hard working men and women in this country who get no attention. that was our rush limbaugh. we'll miss our rush limbaugh he- enormously. [♪♪♪] jesse: welcome to "watters' world." i'm jesse watters. the sick obsession, that's the subject of tonight's watters words. the democratic party isn't who they say they are. long gone with the days where they cared about unions, women, children, edge covid-19 don't seem to be a -- a big priority. beside the obvious power and control, the main issue democrats care about are trump suppor.