world. and welcome to hannity.. and tonight, we are in beautiful davenport, iowa, with massive crowd. welcome, all of you. thank you for being here. thank yoand in a little more thn one month, the verywill b republican caucus will be held right here in this state right . it should be. and by the way, in just a moment, the candidate leadindf the republican field by far. donald j. trump, will join us foiey far, r the hour tonight. let s be clear. 024 th in 2024, the stakes could noe t be any higher. r jo three years under joe biden. our country is imploding on everyn, our c level.our our economy is wrecked by inflation. our southernecis wre by border r disaster. the american people are no.t safe. take a look. what i would say that is uniqutr about environment that we re in right now in my career is that while there may have th over the years wherey individual threats could have been higher here or there thango where they might be right now, i ve never seen a timew. wh
welcome to hannity . tonight we are in beautiful davenport, iowa with a massive crowd. welcome all of you. thank you for being here. wow! in a little more than one month the very first republican caucus will be held right here in this state as it should be. by the way, and just a moment the candidate leading the republican field by far, donald j. trump will join us for the full hour tonight. let s be clear. in 2024 the stakes could not be any higher. after three years under joe biden, our country is imploding on every level. our economy is wrecked by inflation. our souther order and is an utter disaster. the american people are not safe. take a look. what i would say what is unique about the environment we are in right now in my career is there may have been times where individual threats could have been higher here or there than where they might be right now. i ve never seen a time where all the threats were so many of the threats are all elevated all at exactly the same
the usn edge navies repelled what they say was the biggest houthi attack on the red sea. you, uk defence secretary says he has no doubt iran is heavily behind the attacks and says actions will come if they do not stop. several major shipping companies have started taking major detours to avoid the red sea which could lead to supply chain problem. it comes as us secretary of state antony blinken starts to wrap up his trip through the middle east, as there were concerns about the conflict spreading through the conflict spreading through the region. for more on this, here is our correspondent in beirut. antony blinken continues with his visit to the middle east someone of his messages this violence needs to be contained to prevent a wider regional conflict. and he had a warning to houthi rebels in yemen who have been attacking shipping vessels in the red sea. he said there will be consequences if those attacks
should we know about the merchant marine the average person is not familiar with? first of all, thank you for the student to speak about the merchant marine and agree with your opening comments, what people should know. we are a vital element of the national economy and vital element of national security, fourth arm of defense, we re responsible for maintaining our troops overseas and keeping economic supply chain open and it s been that way since 1775, in peace and war. steve: sure, captain, every morning we would show images out from the port of l.a. and there was like 100 ships they can t pull in, supply chain problem and a big mess. we re in graduation season right now, is this a good business to go into? well, that s a very good
borrow more money from china to give to somebody who is able bodied, no dependents and pay them not to work. what you rant to help them do is get them in the work force. give them a sense of pride. give them every statistic tells you it helps the individual. i want to help more americans. i want to get us off of the dependency of china and curb inflation and stop the supply chain problem. are you considering something that the democrats want to add to the table, like child tax cuts? if the democrats want to pass a bill and we can go to conference, i m welcome to see what they can pass. the democrats control the senate. they ve had as much time as we had. they talked about it but passed nothing. so i don t see why adding something new would help. [question inaudible] i ve talked about a lot of things. i won t negotiate with all of you. when we look at what we re