And thank you, Scott Shannon. And thanks to all of you for being with us right down our

toll free telephone number. It's eight hundred nine four one. Sean, you want to be a part

of the program. I don't really have much good to say or really care about what Joe Biden

had to say last night because I think most of it is irrelevant in the end of the day.

And there are too many dumb decisions that he's making that we've got to focus on. We

have a lot of a lot of ground to cover as we now are I can confirm this is now imminent.

What is happening? And on the ground in Israel, this this incursion into Gaza is about to

begin in full force. That's what every every single sign indicates every single source

I have that I talk to is indicating. I would imagine that this is very real. I do those

start the show with good news. And that is according to the IDF, most hostages, they have

identified two hundred and three of them are they believe are alive and have confirmed

that they're alive. And the fact that two American hostages abducted in Israel have been

released. That has been confirmed. Hamas linked. And why Joe Biden, you know, this is a guy

that just paid five. What was it? Six billion dollars. He's willing to give the number one

state sponsor a terror for the release of five Americans. I just want to be very clear.

I do not support paying ransom for hostages because when you pay ransom for hostages, you

end up with a lot more hostages. That's how it works. Unfortunately, however, there are

things that that I think might be worth negotiating on. Like if you want the lights turned back

on, you want the water turned back on, you want some services available to the people in Gaza.

Well, Hamas can turn over all the hostages and maybe in exchange for that, I would not

really have that big a problem. Conceiting those things to them for the sake of the lives

of the people that are held hostage and they are in our prayers. But I think also the release

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