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Senate gets Ready to Rumble over Trump Nominations · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: It is official. We have a new leader in the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: It is Senter Thun. And before we get into that,
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  Speaker 1: we also have President Trump and President Biden meeting in
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  Speaker 1: the Oval Office in a very interesting moment. And I
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  Speaker 1: want to explain the grin on the face of Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 1: This is a meeting that did not take place in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, but it has taken place now. Why I
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  Speaker 1: actually believe it's because now Joe Biden understands what a
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  Speaker 1: coup attempt against you feels like. After the Five Families
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  Speaker 1: and the Democratic Party went against him and I believe
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  Speaker 1: threatened him with a twenty fifth amendment, He's now the
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  Speaker 1: happiest man in Washington because one of those that was
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  Speaker 1: involved in that coup was none other than Kamala Harris,
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and the
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  Speaker 1: Obamas were all involved. Well, now he gets to laugh
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  Speaker 1: because it was a disaster. After they threw him out
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  Speaker 1: of the White House and room at midnight at the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Convention early on in that week to say see
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  Speaker 1: you later, We're done with you. They also did not
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  Speaker 1: want him on the campaign. They did not want him
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  Speaker 1: helping Kama Harris whether that backfired or not, we may
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  Speaker 1: never know, but it was very clear they didn't want
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  Speaker 1: him anywhere close. We also are seeing Democrats who said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you must concede if you lose an election. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess what. They're full of crap. Bob Casey now
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  Speaker 1: refusing to concede the Pennsylvania seat with Dave McCormick, as
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  Speaker 1: Democrats tried to block him from even coming to Congress
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  Speaker 1: to get his orientation. Now we're going to get back
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  Speaker 1: to all of that in a moment, but I want
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  Speaker 1: you to hear Joe Biden welcoming Donald Trump to the
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  Speaker 1: White House, and this is the friendliest we've ever seen them.
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  Speaker 2: Ms President elected in former President found congratulations, thank you
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  Speaker 2: and looking forward to having, like you said, through transition
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  Speaker 2: to every week and Rich sure you're a comminating.
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  Speaker 1: What you need.
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  Speaker 2: It's very good chance to talk about some about today.
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  Speaker 1: It's good.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 4: And politics is tough, and it's many cases not a
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  Speaker 4: very nice world, but it is a.
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  Speaker 1: Nice world today.
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  Speaker 2: And I appreciate very much a transition that's so smooth.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be as smooth as you can get. I very
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  Speaker 1: much appreciated on you you will there. It is their moment,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a genuine grin from Joe Biden to
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. I also think these two men may have
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  Speaker 1: been softened a little bit. I think the assassination attempt
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  Speaker 1: on Donald Trump's life has changed him, and I think
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden, in the way that he's been treated by
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic Party has also changed him. And so what
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  Speaker 1: we are now witnessing is something that is truly shocking.
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  Speaker 1: What we are witnessing now is something that Democrats absolutely hate.
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  Speaker 1: They can not stand watching a Democrat and a Republican
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  Speaker 1: get along in this way. Now, let's get to the
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  Speaker 1: other news that everybody's obsessed with, and that is Senator
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  Speaker 1: Thom Chuck Schumer coming out on the floor of the
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  Speaker 1: Senate saying this, I.
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  Speaker 5: Go, mister President, I have just been told that Senator
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  Speaker 5: John Thune will be the next Republican leader in the Senate.
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  Speaker 5: I congratulate Senator Thun on being chosen by his colleagues
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  Speaker 5: as the next Republican leader. I look forward to working
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  Speaker 5: with him. We've done many bipartisan things here in the
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  Speaker 5: Senate together, and I hope that continues. As you know,
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  Speaker 5: I strongly believe that bipartisanship is the best and often
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  Speaker 5: the only way to get things done in the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to call bs on that line. We
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  Speaker 1: all know that that's crap, And I love how he's like,
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  Speaker 1: We've done many bipartisan things in the Senate, except we're
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  Speaker 1: in charge, and then we say to the republic Wilkins,
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  Speaker 1: here's our two middle fingers. But now that we're in
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  Speaker 1: the minority. Oh, we want to work together. We want
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  Speaker 1: to get along, we want to be best friends. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: all of these things we want. We want to get along, kumbaiaism.
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  Speaker 1: We're so excited that everybody can just work together.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 1: There are many Conservatives that are angry right now. They
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  Speaker 1: are frustrated that Thune is the guy that got it
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  Speaker 1: Mini Maga. Conservatives saying this is not who he wanted,
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  Speaker 1: and they're angry, and a lot of senators who voted
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  Speaker 1: for him. Let's be clear, there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Conservatives that voted for the senator from Florida, Rick Scott
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  Speaker 1: on the first round. Now we're going to find out
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  Speaker 1: more about that. But Manu Raju on CNN as he
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  Speaker 1: was reporting on this news, here is what he said about.
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  Speaker 3: It, and I apologize.
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  Speaker 7: We're going to get back to you. We want to
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  Speaker 7: go back down to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue
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  Speaker 7: once again because we have breaking news on the Senate
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  Speaker 7: Republican leader race. It is John Thoon of South Dakota Monor.
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  Speaker 3: Take it away.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the new Senate Majority Leader, Senator John Thun, elected.
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  Speaker 3: First in two thousand and four, has worked.
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  Speaker 4: His way up the rungs of Republican leadership. Has been
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  Speaker 4: a committee chairman, was now the current Republican Whip has
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  Speaker 4: now is sended from the number two spot to the
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  Speaker 4: number one. He will be the Republican leader the majority
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  Speaker 4: of the person who is in charge of setting the
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  Speaker 4: agenda on the floor of the Senate, one of the
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  Speaker 4: most consequential jobs, and Washington will have to work with
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  Speaker 4: the incoming Republican White House and incoming Republican President to
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  Speaker 4: get this agenda through.
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  Speaker 3: Now, this a vote just wrapped behind closed.
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  Speaker 4: Doors, according to multiple sources that John Thune edged out
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  Speaker 4: John Cornyn on a vote of twenty nine to twenty four.
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  Speaker 4: Cornyn was a former Republican whip, a two time member
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  Speaker 4: of the Senate GOP campaign chairman. This campaign had taken
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  Speaker 4: shape behind the scenes for about nine months and the aftmat.
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  Speaker 3: Of Mitch McConnell making that decision not to run again
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  Speaker 3: for Republican leader.
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  Speaker 4: Mc coney has dominated the Senate GOP for eighteen years,
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  Speaker 4: the longest.
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  Speaker 3: Serving Senate party leader in.
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  Speaker 4: History, but decided it was time for him to step aside.
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  Speaker 4: And now we're seeing a new generation of sort of
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  Speaker 4: John fud is sixty.
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  Speaker 3: Three years old.
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  Speaker 4: He has served in the Senate, says two thousand and five.
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  Speaker 4: His politics are much more in the mainstream of GOP orthodox.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have to figure out a way to work
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  Speaker 4: with Donald Trump. Sometimes they have not always been in line.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, and the aftermath of that Access Hollywood tape
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  Speaker 4: in twenty sixteen, he called on Trump to step drop
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  Speaker 4: out of the presidential race, and the aftermath of the
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty election, he thought the election should not be overturned.
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  Speaker 4: He criticized Donald Trump as well and supported Tim Scott
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  Speaker 4: for in the Republican presidential primary.
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  Speaker 3: But Fune over the last.
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  Speaker 4: Several months has endorsed Donald Trump has gone on the
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  Speaker 4: Trump train.
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  Speaker 3: Of sources, they've been in frequent.
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  Speaker 4: Communication up told the last he and his team over
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  Speaker 4: the last several months to try to bolster that relationship,
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  Speaker 4: and Trump himself decided to stay neutral in this race,
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  Speaker 4: perhaps recognizing.
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  Speaker 3: That even though fun may not be in line with.
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  Speaker 4: Some of the others who were running, particularly Senator Rick
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  Speaker 4: Scott who lost in the first on a balloting, that
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  Speaker 4: decided to stay up because this race could have gone
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  Speaker 4: any which way. And oftentimes, Dan, as you know, these
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  Speaker 4: races come down to relationships, they come down to commitments
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  Speaker 4: they have made to these members, committee assignments that they
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  Speaker 4: may promise, fundraising.
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  Speaker 7: In the like.
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  Speaker 4: So there are lots of different reasons for people to
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  Speaker 4: vote a certain way. But this momentous decision by the
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  Speaker 4: Senate GOP picking John Thune as the next Republican leader,
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  Speaker 4: the majority leader, someone will decide the party's strategy for
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  Speaker 4: the years ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is again and you heard, and this is
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  Speaker 1: the part that I think many of you need to understand.
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  Speaker 1: There was a first round ballot and there were a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people that voted for Scott, the Florida Senator.
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  Speaker 1: He was the one that many Conservatives wanted. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: have the vote, so that was the problem number one
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  Speaker 1: with that. Then you move on to the second round.
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  Speaker 1: The question is would you rather have Thune or corn It.
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  Speaker 1: Many conservatives believe that Thune is better than Cornyan. I
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  Speaker 1: wish that we could have gone in there and picked
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  Speaker 1: exactly who he wanted. The reality is, the Senate's a
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  Speaker 1: old school club with a bunch of really old people
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  Speaker 1: that were going to do what they wanted to do,
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  Speaker 1: and there was nothing that was going to happen without
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  Speaker 1: them saying, all right, we're fine with it. They were
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  Speaker 1: not going to be bullied. That was very obvious. If
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  Speaker 1: they could have been bullied, then we would be talking
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  Speaker 1: right now about the next Senate majority leader being the
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  Speaker 1: senator from Florida. We are not, because on that first
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  Speaker 1: ballot he did not get the votes that he needed. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is again one of those moments where I do
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  Speaker 1: believe that there is a lot of good that can
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  Speaker 1: still come out of this, because I do believe that
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  Speaker 1: Thune understands his role right now and doesn't want to
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  Speaker 1: go against Trump. Okay, I just I don't I think
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  Speaker 1: he understands that. Now do we watch him like a hawk? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Is this the guy that I think everybody really really
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  Speaker 1: really wanted. No, but this is who we got. And
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  Speaker 1: some other breaking news by the way, Cia officer has
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  Speaker 1: So the numbers are now coming out, so let's get
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  Speaker 1: into the votes. And as I'm recording this as the
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  Speaker 1: latest information that we have, so if something changes after this,
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  Speaker 1: it's because like while I'm recording this, something could change.
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  Speaker 1: But this is what I'm getting from sources in DC.
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  Speaker 1: I'm being told now that Thune received twenty three votes
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  Speaker 1: on the first ballt and I remember these are supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be secret ballots. That's why I'm saying. I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: this intel and I believe it to be pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Fun received twenty three votes on the first ballot for
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  Speaker 1: short of locking up a victory, Senator John Cornyn received fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: that is Cornyn from Texas and Senator Rick Scott came
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  Speaker 1: in last place with thirteen votes. So on the second ballot,
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  Speaker 1: Thune secured a victory over Cornyn twenty nine to twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a very tight race obviously divided. There
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  Speaker 1: Republicans convened Tuesday night for a leadership forum that was
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  Speaker 1: organized by Senator Mike Lee, the Republican from Utahs. They
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  Speaker 1: grappled with who was best to lead them through the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration and beyond. Those discussions centered on how to
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  Speaker 1: return more autonomy to individual centers as well as effectively
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  Speaker 1: advanced to a conservative agenda after McConnell often partnered with
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  Speaker 1: Democrats to advanced legislation, most notably the ridiculous spinning bills.
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  Speaker 1: And that was a problem that obviously many conservatives in
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  Speaker 1: Congress had a real problem with. And I understand why
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  Speaker 1: now Scott, the conservative favorite, seemed to gain traction after
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  Speaker 1: the forum. His candidacy likely initiated concessions also from Thune
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  Speaker 1: and Cornyn to have certain people that they would make
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  Speaker 1: promises too. McConnell, as you know, sir, for eighteen years,
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  Speaker 1: screwed many hardcore conservatives every chance he got. It's unlikely
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  Speaker 1: Thune will match that record. By the way, fun generally
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  Speaker 1: considered the favorite despite his past and a mosity towards Trump,
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  Speaker 1: now is going to have to navigate the challenges of
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  Speaker 1: a much different Senate composed of much more Trump friendly Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: and so there I am sure, okay, I am sure
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  Speaker 1: that that is something that is going to be part
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  Speaker 1: of the back room deal that happened here to get
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  Speaker 1: him the job. Now we're also hearing more about Trump's
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  Speaker 1: orbit and the people around him. President elect Trump, it's
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  Speaker 1: just been announced as bringing four advisors from his presidential
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  Speaker 1: campaign into his White House, his deputy chiefs of staff,
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  Speaker 1: including two longtime aids, and the political directory put a
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  Speaker 1: key role in his victory. This coming now from the
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  Speaker 1: Associated Press. President Elect Trump bringing in these four advisors
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  Speaker 1: from the presidential campaign into the White House's deputy chief
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  Speaker 1: of staff, including these two aids as well. Trump announced
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  Speaker 1: the longtime aid Dan Scavino, will serve as deputy, without
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  Speaker 1: giving a specific portfolio. Now, Dan's been around him since
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  Speaker 1: early in the campaign twenty sixteen. He was the White
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  Speaker 1: House and then went down to Florida with him as well.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a surprise and a great person to
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  Speaker 1: serve the president.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Campaign political director James Blair has been named as Deputy
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  Speaker 1: for Legislation, our Legislative, Political and Public offas that's the
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  Speaker 1: official title, and Taylor Butterwich will also have a major
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  Speaker 1: job as Deputy chief of Staff for Communications and Personnel.
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  Speaker 1: All of these will have the rank of Assistant to
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  Speaker 1: the President in their title.
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  Speaker 8: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Trump also formally announced Stephen Miller and Immigration Hardliner will
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  Speaker 1: be Deputy chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security
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  Speaker 1: advisor that had previously been confirmed by Vice President le
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  Speaker 1: Like Jeddi Vance on Monday as well. Now Blair was
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  Speaker 1: the political director for Trump's campaign and, once Trump became
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  Speaker 1: the presentative GOP nominee, the political director for the Republican
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  Speaker 1: National Committee. He previously worked on Trump's twenty twenty campaign
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  Speaker 1: in Florida and was a top aide to Florida Governor
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  Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis as well. Now Dan was a senior advisor
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  Speaker 1: on Trump's campaign. In his first term in the White House,
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  Speaker 1: he worked as a social media director and did an
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  Speaker 1: amazing job. He began working for Trump as a caddie
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  Speaker 1: at one of Trump's golf courses and was part of
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  Speaker 1: a small group of staffers who travel with the president
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  Speaker 1: across the country for the entirety of the campaign. He
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  Speaker 1: frequently posted memes and videos of Trump's campaign travel online,
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  Speaker 1: cataloging the campaign from the inside on social media, and
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  Speaker 1: it worked. Before joining the campaign, Butterwich worked for the
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  Speaker 1: pro Trump super pac MAGA, Inc. And Trump's political action
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  Speaker 1: committee known as Save America. Dan, Steven James, and Taylor
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  Speaker 1: were best in class advisors on my winning campaign, Trump
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  Speaker 1: said in the announcement, and I know they will honorably
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  Speaker 1: serve the American people in the White House. They will
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  Speaker 1: continue to work hard to make America great again in
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  Speaker 1: their respective new roles. Miller is one of Trump's longest
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  Speaker 1: serving aids, dating back to his first campaign for the
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  Speaker 1: White House. He was a senior advisor and Trump's first
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  Speaker 1: term and has been a central figure in many of
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  Speaker 1: his policy decisions, particularly on immigration, including Trump's move to
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  Speaker 1: separate thousands of immigrant families as a deterrent program back
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  Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. So that is obviously very big news there.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's also another war that is shaping up. And
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned this in a in a prior show, but
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  Speaker 1: it's very clear now Democrats they're going to try to
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  Speaker 1: derail the nomination of Pete headseth Uh, the the Fox
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  Speaker 1: News weekend host at Fox and Trump is going to
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  Speaker 1: nominate as he's as he's already said him to be
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  Speaker 1: the Secretary of Defense. Nobody fights harder for the troops
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  Speaker 1: is what troops are saying about him. That the pick
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  Speaker 1: is being loved by those in the military community, it
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  Speaker 1: is not being loved by many of the establishment warhawks
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  Speaker 1: in Washington, d c. Because this is where they make
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  Speaker 1: their money. And if you are pro defense, and when
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  Speaker 1: I when I say pro defense, I mean pro buying
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of goods and services and technology, and you're
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  Speaker 1: one of those, you do not like this pick at all,
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  Speaker 1: because this is a guy that's not necessarily going to
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  Speaker 1: spend just insane amounts of money and make a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people really really rich, defence contractors and lobbyists. The
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  Speaker 1: list goes on and on, and so they are fighting back. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the media also is seized on this, and the Democrats look,
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  Speaker 1: they want a conservative Trump pick ahead on a stick,
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  Speaker 1: and it looks like this is the one that they're
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  Speaker 1: wanting to go after. I say that to again go
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  Speaker 1: back to what you need to be telling people and
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  Speaker 1: saying it to them over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 1: Lloyd Austin, for example, is a guy that went a wall.
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  Speaker 1: That is the current Secretary of Defense. He was in
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  Speaker 1: the hospital incapacitated. Didn't tell anybody you want me to
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  Speaker 1: believe that Pete is a somehow threat to America while
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  Speaker 1: that guy was doing that. Let me also just put
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  Speaker 1: it in perspective for you that Pete and let's compare
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  Speaker 1: him to the vice presidential candidate Tim Waltz under Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 1: They both served in the Minnesota National Guard. Waltz, however,
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  Speaker 1: decided to abandon his unit right before they were deployed
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  Speaker 1: to Afghanistan. He also lied about his rank. Many have
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  Speaker 1: said it's stolen valor. You can decide for yourself, But
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  Speaker 1: Pete actually went to Afghanistan and getm and Iraq. You
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  Speaker 1: want to know the difference between these two men, Well,
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  Speaker 1: Pete received the Bronze Star and two Army Commendation medals
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  Speaker 1: as well. And what do we have from well Tim?
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  Speaker 1: He lied about his service, He lied about combat. Never
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  Speaker 1: forget this dude lied about being in combat. He said
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  Speaker 1: it clearly. We played that clip on the show before
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  Speaker 1: To be successful, I think. And again he was asked
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  Speaker 1: Pretty clear, Thune was speaking directly to conservatives, to MAGA voters,
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  Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is going to face is so far
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  Speaker 1: and all of the people that he's announced is going
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: to be the Attorney general nomination of Matt Gates. This
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  Speaker 1: happening late in the day yesterday, and it was an
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  Speaker 1: immediate bombshell because nobody saw Gates's name on the shortlist
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  Speaker 1: at all. The media losing it immediately. Former Democratic Congressman
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  Speaker 1: saying on CNN, Gates's appointment is horrifying. My niece or
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  Speaker 1: nephew are more qualified than he is. For example, they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to derail this nomination. And what's also very interesting
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  Speaker 1: is Gates is the only one that we've seen that
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  Speaker 1: is actual. They resigned from their position in office to
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  Speaker 1: then move forward with their nomination process. That's not normally
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  Speaker 1: how this happens. Normally, you actually wait till you're confirmed
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  Speaker 1: and then you resign for your position. Listen to this
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  Speaker 1: on CNN as they are ready to go to war
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  Speaker 1: over the Gates nominee is So we'll get to more.
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  Speaker 10: On Pete Hexseth that's coming up. I want to start
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  Speaker 10: with the shock waves developing from Matt Gates's nomination. If
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  Speaker 10: you will to be the next Attorney General of the
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  Speaker 10: United States, Mondarra Jones, you're a former US Congressman.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think? What is your take on this pick?
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  Speaker 1: To pick your former colleague.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, look, I started with Matt Gates on the House
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  Speaker 11: Judiciary Committee. He is not only unqualified for the role
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  Speaker 11: of Attorney General of the United States, but my niece
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  Speaker 11: and nephew are each more qualified than he is because
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  Speaker 11: they know right from wrong.
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  Speaker 3: At least, this is horrifying.
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  Speaker 11: I mean, we have now someone who could become the
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  Speaker 11: nation top cup, the top law enforcement officer who has
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  Speaker 11: been credibly accused of child of sex trafficking and who
• 25:08
  Speaker 11: was actively under House ethics investigation, a committee I used
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  Speaker 11: to serve on when I was in the House, being
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  Speaker 11: close to having tremendous authority. It's one of the most
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  Speaker 11: important positions, and I don't think the American people understood
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  Speaker 11: that that's what they were voting for when they elected
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  Speaker 11: Donald Trump president.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get Aaron Parini's thoughts on this as well.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Aeron, I don't think we Let me just
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  Speaker 1: stop there and go back through this for a second.
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  Speaker 1: This is the interesting part about this because what the
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  Speaker 1: media seasoning on here is the fact that he has
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  Speaker 1: resigned from Congress and then there's this ethics investigation going
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  Speaker 1: on around him. Ned Ryan on Fox News saying something
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  Speaker 1: very different than this about the Gates nomination, and this
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  Speaker 1: is what he said, talking about how he believes that
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  Speaker 1: Matt Gates was attacked and by a Department of Justice
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  Speaker 1: that was weaponized to go after Trump allies, and that
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  Speaker 1: he was one of them. It was a great time.
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  Speaker 12: Today now, Ned the Gates nomination. I mean, we're going
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  Speaker 12: to get to the hegseeth fury. There's some of that building.
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  Speaker 12: But the Gates nomination takes official Washington fury to a
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  Speaker 12: new level, and some conservatives are also criticizing it. I
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  Speaker 12: have someone crawling on my floor by the way, right now,
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  Speaker 12: this is live TV.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you take away from this right now?
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  Speaker 12: Where we are on the attorney general pick. It's a
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  Speaker 12: critically important position, and of course President Trump was undermined,
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  Speaker 12: he believes, by previous picks in that position, so he
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  Speaker 12: wanted a loyalist there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's a very clear signal from Donald Trump
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  Speaker 8: that you will never weaponize the DOJ against the duly
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  Speaker 8: elected sitting president of the United States. We're going to
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  Speaker 8: have somebody in there who's a loyalist, who will fight
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  Speaker 8: for Trump inside of the DOJ to make sure that
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  Speaker 8: never happens. And I think another part to it, Laura,
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  Speaker 8: is the idea of Matt Gates being Attorney General.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure how many.
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  Speaker 8: Of those career DOJ lawyers will be left by January
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  Speaker 8: twentieth if Gates can get confirmed. But it was a
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  Speaker 8: very clear signal from Donald Trump with Gates's nomination, you
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  Speaker 8: will never weaponize the dj against me Again.
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  Speaker 3: Congressman, I totally agree.
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  Speaker 13: Look, I sent out a message earlier today, congratulations to
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  Speaker 13: the Florida man, Matt Gates. But if you want to
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  Speaker 13: clean out the Department of Justice, this is who you want.
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  Speaker 13: Somebody who's not afraid to open up all of the
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  Speaker 13: all the files were.
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  Speaker 12: Going to lead. Where is what's going to lead if
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  Speaker 12: he gets confirmed? Where where could we find the real
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  Speaker 12: bureaucratic bodies buried here?
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  Speaker 13: Fortunately, I think you're going to find a lot of
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  Speaker 13: it in the political brass. I think the rank and file,
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  Speaker 13: they just want to do their job for them. You know,
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  Speaker 13: for the most part, we respect that. But the political
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  Speaker 13: brass has been allowed to stay and linger for a
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  Speaker 13: long time. I think that's where you're going to find
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  Speaker 13: most of your rot. He's going to get to the
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  Speaker 13: bottom of that. Have full trust in it.
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  Speaker 12: Need Can he get confirmed?
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  Speaker 1: I think this is going to be a test of
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  Speaker 1: the new centement, he said. I think it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a test. That is the big question. There are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Republicans that are very quiet tonight over
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  Speaker 1: this pick. As I am looking at their words, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people that have not come out and
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  Speaker 1: endorsed Matt gets Or said he's going to be confirmed.
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  Speaker 1: This is something that is And by the way, I
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  Speaker 1: said this earlier and I'm going to I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say it again. I thought the Democrats are going to
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  Speaker 1: dig in and really try to derail Pete Headseth at
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  Speaker 1: the at the Department or at the Pentagon and the
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  Speaker 1: Defense nominee. I don't think that's going to be the
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  Speaker 1: case now. I think they're going to go all in
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  Speaker 1: on Gates to do everything they can to stop him.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I think this is one all in to stop,
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  Speaker 1: no matter why, Matt Gates from being in this position
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  Speaker 1: of power. I also believe that this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be yes a test for Trump with a new Senate
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  Speaker 1: majority leadership and the Senate majority leader electing Thune, are
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  Speaker 1: they going to do what the President says or are
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  Speaker 1: they going to say, hey, this is a stretch too
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  Speaker 1: far for us because of some of the allegations against Gates. Now, again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving you the lay of the land here. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to come on here and tell you how
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  Speaker 1: I think he's going to get confirmed, because I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I don't know. But what I do know
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  Speaker 1: is there's going to be a fight over this, all right.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a fight.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: There was also something else interesting that happened, and that
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  Speaker 1: was Representative Thomas Massey on whether Gates will be confirmed
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  Speaker 1: as the Attorney General by the Senate. He said, really simply, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's called a recess appointment. Gop Massey saying, recess appointment.
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  Speaker 1: When ass of Gates can get confirmed by the Senate,
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  Speaker 1: he's the attorney general. Suck it up. Those were his words.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked by a reporter today, listen carefully, he
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  Speaker 1: turned general, suck it up. Recess appointment. When ass Gates
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  Speaker 1: can get confirmed by the Senate, he's the attorney general.
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  Speaker 1: Suck it up. Massy's words came after President like Trump
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  Speaker 1: announced Gates had been selected to serve as the attorney
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  Speaker 1: General under his incoming administration. Trump praising Gates as being
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  Speaker 1: a deeply gifted and tenacious attorney who had been trained
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  Speaker 1: at the William and Mary College of Law. He then
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  Speaker 1: went on to talk about how they came after him
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  Speaker 14: Blindsided. That's how many Senate Republicans feel by Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 14: choice of Matt Gates to be Attorney General, Sources telling
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  Speaker 14: CNN they were audible gasps on the Hill as the
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  Speaker 14: from reporters. Here's how Republican Senator Susan Collins described how
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  Speaker 15: I was shocked that he has been nominated.
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  Speaker 1: If the nomination proceeds, I'm sure that there will be
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  Speaker 1: an extensive.
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  Speaker 12: Background check by the FBI and public hearings and a
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  Speaker 12: lot of questions.
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  Speaker 14: As Kevin Kramer also raising the issues very explicitly of
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  Speaker 14: the background check from the FBI making it clear many
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  Speaker 14: perhaps feel that that will block it before they have
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  Speaker 14: on Capitol Hill, and Manu, I mean you have been
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  Speaker 14: trying to talk to Republicans tonight there you were there
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  Speaker 14: witnessing those audible gasps. What are they telling you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very clear, Aaron, that this is going to
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  Speaker 4: be a rocky road to confirmation because a lot of
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  Speaker 4: Republicans are concerned about a number of things that mad
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  Speaker 4: Case has said or done.
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  Speaker 3: Over the years' efforts to try to oust.
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  Speaker 4: Kevin McCarthy's speaker, successful efforts and leading that charge, the
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  Speaker 4: fact that he's facing a House Ethics investigation into sexual misconduct,
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  Speaker 4: something that he denies, as well as his defense of
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump in the aftermath of January sixth.
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  Speaker 3: And it really goes down the line. It does not
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  Speaker 3: inlign with the.
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  Speaker 4: Of the views of the Republican senators who have the votes.
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  Speaker 3: To confirm him.
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  Speaker 4: Now, that doesn't mean that everyone wants to talk about it.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, I try to talk to a lot of
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  Speaker 4: Republican senators tonight about Matt Gates being nominated to the post,
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  Speaker 4: and they made clear they were not ready to engage.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very I'm about Matt Gates.
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  Speaker 11: Process.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know yet I think about them.
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  Speaker 4: You have any concerns about it, we'll see what do
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  Speaker 4: you think Matt Gates is confirmable? You find out war
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  Speaker 4: Senator Kennedy, what are you think of Matt Gates the
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  Speaker 4: attorney general?
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving? You can hear it. There a lot of Republicans
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: not necessarily want to say anything about Matt Gates now,
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  Speaker 1: even on Fox News. Uh, and this is where this is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is going to be a big fight.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to hear what Byron your set about
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  Speaker 1: this nomination. This was on Fox.
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  Speaker 16: There are, to her point, very few people in Washington, Byron,
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  Speaker 16: who are going to take on the task of real
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  Speaker 16: DOJ reform in the specific way that the President elect
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  Speaker 16: wants it.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 15: Well, what the Senator said can be true, and Matt
• 36:21
  Speaker 15: Gates can still be a terrible pick. And I do
• 36:24
  Speaker 15: think it was a terrible pick. And we don't know
• 36:27
  Speaker 15: the status of the House Ethics Committee investigation into alleged misconduct.
• 36:32
  Speaker 15: We do know the Justice Department investigated and didn't charge
• 36:36
  Speaker 15: him with anything, But the thing we really know for
• 36:39
  Speaker 15: a fact is that Matt Gates played a hugely aggressive
• 36:42
  Speaker 15: role in nearly destroying the House, the Republican Party in
• 36:46
  Speaker 15: the House of Representatives, and with based mostly on a
• 36:50
  Speaker 15: personal vendetta against Kevin McCarthy, who was then the Speaker
• 36:54
  Speaker 15: of the House. And I mean, he's very lucky that
• 36:58
  Speaker 15: the House has no role in confirmations because this guy said,
• 37:03
  Speaker 15: he's got enemies all over the place, and the reason
• 37:06
  Speaker 15: he has those enemies was that the things he did
• 37:08
  Speaker 15: were so damaging for no good reason.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: That was on Fox. Now you listen to that, and
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I'm going to leave you with one final thought about this,
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  Speaker 1: and this is going to be a fight. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a war. This is going to be intense.
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  Speaker 1: Coming out after that. On Hannity, Lindsey Graham, who will
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  Speaker 1: get a vote on this, said this about Gates.
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  Speaker 6: After all that Donald Trump has been through and the
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  Speaker 6: weaponization of our DOJ and it's so sad to me
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  Speaker 6: that great agencies like the FBI and the CIA have
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  Speaker 6: been so politicized.
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  Speaker 1: The way they've been.
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  Speaker 6: Anybody that is not in favor of restoring those agencies
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  Speaker 6: and those to their former greatness and those apartments to
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  Speaker 6: their former greatness to me, would be disqualified. Let's get
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  Speaker 6: to the issue, and that is the hissteria on the
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  Speaker 6: left about back Gates and Matt has been in the
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  Speaker 6: forefront with Jim Jordan of fighting against weaponization.
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  Speaker 1: Does he not deserve a chance to be heard?
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  Speaker 17: Well, not only does he deserve a chance to be heard.
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  Speaker 17: Every president deserves a chance to pick their cabinet.
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  Speaker 1: Elections do matter.
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  Speaker 17: When I say elections have consequences and I vote for
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  Speaker 17: Democratic nominees that I would not have chosen, I am
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  Speaker 17: some kind of great statesman. When I apply that same
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  Speaker 17: standard to a Republican president, I'm somehow a lackey.
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  Speaker 1: I am telling you exactly what I'm going to do.
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  Speaker 17: I did it for Bush, I did it for Obama,
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  Speaker 17: I did it for Biden, and I'm going to do
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  Speaker 17: it for President Trump. He won the election. He deserves
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  Speaker 17: a chance to pick his cabinet. I am predisposed to
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  Speaker 17: allow him to do that. I think Matt Matt Gates
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  Speaker 17: is very bright. I think he's qualified. He'll have a
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  Speaker 17: hearing and he'll have some tough questions to answer. But
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  Speaker 17: to every Republican, please follow a process to give President
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  Speaker 17: Trump the ability to pick the people he thinks can
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  Speaker 17: do the job and give Matt a chance.
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  Speaker 1: And you have a history of that. You do it
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  Speaker 1: for everybody. I do it for everybody.
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  Speaker 6: And in fairness to you, you are being consistent. And
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  Speaker 6: I wish Democrats would be as consistent as you are.
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  Speaker 3: But they're not going to be.
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  Speaker 1: It's clear Lindsey is taking a different approach. This is
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  Speaker 1: going to be the nomination they wanted to derail because
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  Speaker 1: it's such an important post. They want this to be
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  Speaker 1: a fight where he has a big loss. This is
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  Speaker 1: all about wanting to make sure that they get a
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  Speaker 1: head on a stick politically of somebody that Donald Trump nominated.
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  Speaker 1: Be ready for this, because if they get momentum and
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  Speaker 1: they can get Gates gone, they're gonna move immediately to
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  Speaker 1: Pete and they're gonna move down the line. And Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are gonna use this as a rallying cry. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: letting you know right now this is gonna end up
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  Speaker 1: being a serious fight. Don't forget. Shared this podcast with
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  Speaker 1: your family and friends, shared on social media wherever you are,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll see you back here tomorrow.