Reaction from Rep. Jim Jordan, David Bossie and Corey Lewandowski on 'Hannity'
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Its pathetic
Kayleigh thanks a lot.
We always appreciate your
comments.
This month, millions of Americans
travel to Florida in search of
warm weather, beautiful beaches
and, most importantly, freedoms
like William Wallace found
Florida is open for business.
Meanwhile, liberal governors and
other states are increasing
locked on measures and
destroying small businesses
in an idiotic attempt to battle
pandemic.
They call it following the
science
watch this.
If we can go back now with
everything we know, wed, probably
all make different decisions
following the science, I think,
has served the state of Michigan
well and im grateful for the
incredible experts we have.
That was Michigan
Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Despite strict lockdown
measures, her state is home to
one of the highest covid death
rates in the country
to the east. The state of
New York has the second highest
death rate. Is one
New York Post columnist weeded
out anyone tweeting that
Florida is not doing well, is
just hoping
its? Not even debatable.
Anything can happen, but right
this minute, both New York and
California would trade with
Florida, and everyone knows it.
Florida is wide open, while
California and New York are
crippled with closures.
I live here
its true,
despite this, California is
planning to extend its
stay at home orders well after
the holiday season
joining us now. As a ranking
member of the House Judiciary
Committee, Congressman
Jim Jordan, two thousand and sixteen Trump campaign
manager, Corey Lewandowski,
informer Trump campaign manager,
Dave Bossie,
Congressman ill, go to you
first,
the left is absolutely losing
his mind after president trumps
two feet, suggesting that Florida
is performing decently,
Nobodys performing great
its a pandemic right.
Is this just evidence of how
this hyperpartisan sick media
culture even of virus gets
politicized?
Of course,
its that cancel culture mob
its two days left
use the right word when you use
the word freedom
think about it.
There are over sixty million
Americans who live in a state
that has a stay at home order or
curfew
in Ohio. You have to be in your
home at 1000
in Pennsylvania, when youre in
your home, you have to wear a
mask
in Vermont when youre in your
home, you dont have to wear a
mask things: youre not allowed
to have people over
Governmentgovernment is telling
you can leave your home, who you
can have in your home and what
you have to wear while youre
there,
if that isnt an assault on your
freedom and we find out the
states that are doing this have
worse numbers than states that
are actually opened up and
allowing people to exercise
their liberty open their
business and exercise freedom,
thats the fundamental issue and
im glad the president is
talking about it.
We all need to be talking about
it,
Cory Ill go to you
next.
I find it sad tragic, really
disturbing that California, which
is engaged in these ridiculous
lockdowns right now. I was
reading a number today that just
totally blew my mind that when
you look at hospitalizations per
million, California is actually
has more hospitalizations per
million people in Texas and
Florida combined
and I live in Florida.
Florida, listen its relatively
open for business.
This people in restaurants-
I saw Dave Rubin tweeting.
He was like him. I was in this
crazy place called her
restaurant and people brought
food out.
It was bizarre.
It was crazy pills with the
media.
You have to remember these
government officials havent
cared about small business
owners.
They havent cared what they
have done to these people who
build their businesses over twenty
and thirty years.
How many government, employees,
county employees, municipal
employees or state employees
have been laid off?
The answer is: none
government continues to grow.
These governors have failed
their states,
they failed the people who put
them in office and what theyve
done is theyve destroyed the
economy for tens of millions of
people in perpetuity
New York is not going to recover
anytime soon.
We are seen because of the high
tax burden, New York City, because
of closures and the ineptitude
of both the governor and the
mayor of New York City is the
people who can get out of the
city are doing that
permanent damage on those
communities for a long time, and
most people are going to move
Stu and I have a friend who owns
a private airport and he says th
private airport. He goes.
You have no idea how many
people he goes. There are
people flying down privately
escape from New York
people with money im going
to reject California reject
New York.
Your average person in
California right now is finding
petitions to recall their
incompetent governor
enough is enough.
The american people are fed up,
remember, fifteen days to flatten the
curve
laughs.
We are going on a year where
they are destroying the american
way of life.
They are destroying schools,
sports, destroying our churches.
It doesnt matter
theres no place off limits to
the government, overreach,
thats, whats, so dangerous.
Remember Dr Fauci used to say:
dont wear a mask
it doesnt matter,
masks. Dont, do anything.
Of course, we have mask mandates
in state after state after state
across this country.
The american people are very
smart and they know how to take
care of themselves and their
families, and they dont mean the
government to do it for them.
We have a long way to go here
and we are in a dangerous spot
with socialism on the rise.
Thats going to be honest with
you thats why these two Georgia
Senate seats matter so much next
month,
yeah, no thats, true
congressman. What worries me
about this? On a serious note,
I feel like the scientific
method and the search for facts
are just dead.
You have a hypothesis and you
test it.
The hypothesis was that
lockdowns would stop. The spread
in the data is not there to
support it, and yet we continue
to bankrupt people in states
that people like you represent
its kind of sick.
It sure is,
let America work again,
make America free again
thats what we should be focused
on.
I failed to accept this premise
that somehow government cares
more about a small business
owners and employees.
Government somehow cares more
about a small business owners
customers than the small
business owner
its ridiculous.
We need to make America free
again and focus on that and talk
about that, and I think the
american people are starting to
push back
yeah and ive seen
some of the videos.
There is a video of a business
owner.
He used his truck and blocked in
a health inspector.
He was like listen. If I cant
work, you cant work.
The video went viral.
It was all over the place.
Listen. This is a government by
the people for the people.
It was supposed to be.
How long can this possibly go on
before people collectively say?
Listen, ive had enough
ive got to feed my family.
We have seen gym owners with
fines in New Jersey.
They couldnt operate their
business. Even the there was no
science that Covid was being
spread in the facility.
People in the furthest reaches
of our country in the western
part in Washington State swing
their governor for money, saying
let us run our businesses.
Governor Whitmer has destroyed
Michigans economy right now in
the states that have remained
opened are doing better than
ever.
Their tourism industry,
restaurants, their tax base, is
improving every day.
Theyve done whats necessary to
take the precautions to curb
this covid virus thats
impacting our country, but we
have to have personal
responsibility and thats whats
missing here with some of these
overzealous overreaching
governors.
Quick final answer:
ive got about thirty seconds.
Uc political change coming
people are clearly getting fed
up.
Sadly, its democrats leading the
way with lockdowns.
The only good thing I can see
is a long term. Rejection of big
government
thats going to be the one thing
that you and ive been fighting
for a long time:
high taxes and big government
and the overreach.
This is a perfect example for
the american people.
If they can shut you down, they
can do anything to you
if they can shut your schools,
determine who gets a vaccine and
who doesnt. This is what big.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-29.