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Biden Admin told "DO NOT DESTROY!" Docs as Trump makes his First Cabinet Picks · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Well, it's time for Democrats to be held accountable for
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  Speaker 1: their lawfare and for their attacks on so many conservatives.
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  Speaker 1: Speaker of the House Johnson has now ordered the entire
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration to preserve and retain all records and documents.
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  Speaker 1: This as many were expecting it to be a dumpster
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  Speaker 1: fire anywhere that the now corrupt government had been doing
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  Speaker 1: shady things. Now House Speaker Johnson ordered the entire administration
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  Speaker 1: of President Joe Biden to preserve all records and communications
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  Speaker 1: in the winning days of the outgoing Democratic administration as
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  Speaker 1: former President Donald Trump's team is preparing to take over.
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  Speaker 1: Johnson has sent letters to all eighteen federal departments ordering
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  Speaker 1: them to retain and preserve documents.
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  Speaker 2: This could become an explosive.
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  Speaker 1: Storyline if outgoing Biden administration officials attempt to delete or
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  Speaker 1: destroy documents that would shed light on some of the
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  Speaker 1: radical policies they pursued, or the scandals with regard to censorship,
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  Speaker 1: or other major storylines over the past four years, such
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  Speaker 1: as a deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan or the wide open
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  Speaker 1: southern border, or what has happened between Ukraine and Russia
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  Speaker 1: and US policy.
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  Speaker 2: If anyone is caught destroying any.
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  Speaker 1: Records that could lead to serious federal criminal penalties. And
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  Speaker 1: now with the House and the Senate and the White
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  Speaker 1: House there, they could actually impose those criminal penalties. With
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  Speaker 1: President Elect Trump's legal team coming in to take over
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  Speaker 1: on January the twentieth, the new incoming administration will find
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  Speaker 1: all evidence on this front, and they want to look
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  Speaker 1: at everything now. This effort from Johnson is a sign
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  Speaker 1: that Republicans are far more prepared during this transition to
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  Speaker 1: a Trump administration than they were the first time when
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  Speaker 1: Trump won back in sixteen, and it also suggests they
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  Speaker 1: mean business when it comes to rooting out corruption across
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  Speaker 1: the federal government. As Trump is assembling his cabinet and
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  Speaker 1: Republicans on Capitol Hill are preparing for next year. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the cabinet issue, I'm going to deal with a little
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  Speaker 1: bit later, because there's some big cabinet positions that have
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  Speaker 1: been filled, including one extremely important ambassadorship position, and that
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  Speaker 1: is the US Ambassador to Israel that has now been
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  Speaker 1: filled by a dear friend of mine, Mike Huckabee, former
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  Speaker 1: governor of Arkansas and former presidential candidate. Mike Huckaby is
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  Speaker 1: an incredible ally and friend of Israel and an incredible
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  Speaker 1: godly man.
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely love this.
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  Speaker 1: Pick, and I'm going to dive into that also a
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  Speaker 1: little bit later. Now, these letters that have gone out,
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  Speaker 1: one such letter that was sent to the Acting Labor
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  Speaker 1: Secretary Sue is making it clear that Congress per Johnson
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  Speaker 1: intends to pursue quote such documents and evidence as the
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  Speaker 1: administration changes hands during and after the quote transition.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: back to this Acting Labor Secretary letter that she got.
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  Speaker 1: It makes it very clear that per Congress, Johnson is
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  Speaker 1: going to look at the corruption of the Biden administration
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  Speaker 1: and the Harrison administration and see if they actually broke laws.
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  Speaker 2: Quote as we re.
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  Speaker 1: As we begin preparations for a new Trump administration and
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  Speaker 1: new Congress, we fully expect Johnson says in his letter,
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  Speaker 1: your cooperation in a smooth transition of power. To that
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  Speaker 1: end is imperative that during the transition you comply with
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  Speaker 1: all statutory retention requirements, including but not limited to, the
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  Speaker 1: Federal Records Act. In addition to compliance with federal record
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  Speaker 1: retention laws, we are also expressly directing that all necessary
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  Speaker 1: steps be taken to preserve relevant Department documents and communications.
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  Speaker 1: Eighteen versions of this letter which I just read from
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  Speaker 1: which many other House Republicans, including House Majority Leader Steve Scalise,
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  Speaker 1: the Majority Tom Emmer, among others, also signed, have per
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  Speaker 1: a Senior Johnson a have been sent across the federal
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  Speaker 1: government to every major cabinet secretary in the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 1: This is amazing. This is what we didn't do right
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  Speaker 1: in sixteen. You want to talk about learning from your mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what they're saying right now now. In the
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  Speaker 1: next paragraph of the letter, Johnson also zones in on
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  Speaker 1: specific things he has focused on oversight wise during this process.
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  Speaker 1: He highlights the border, he highlights Afghanistan, he highlights government censorship,
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  Speaker 1: he highlights weaponization of the government against conservatives, and he
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  Speaker 1: highlights anti Semitism as key examples, saying this quote. During
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  Speaker 1: the one hundred and eighteenth Congress, House committees conducted robust
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  Speaker 1: oversight concerning the Biden Heirs administration's disastrous border policies, the
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  Speaker 1: tragic Afghanistan withdrawal, collusion with social media comings to suppress
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  Speaker 1: free speech, and weaponization of federal agencies against its political opponents,
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  Speaker 1: as well as the anti semitism at our nation's universities
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  Speaker 1: enabled by leading Demmocrats. Johnson also noted in the letter
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  Speaker 1: that the Biden administration refused to comply with many lawfully
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  Speaker 1: issued subpoenas during this Congress, and that in the end
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  Speaker 1: of this Congress and in the next one, Republicans have
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  Speaker 1: held their House majority and picked up the US Senate majority,
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  Speaker 1: saying now Congress will be enforcing these thus far blown
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  Speaker 1: off subpoenas. So if you think that they're going to
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  Speaker 1: get away with it, or they thought they were going
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  Speaker 1: to get away with it, they are wrong. Finally, in
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  Speaker 1: the letter, it says this, in the waitning days of
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  Speaker 1: this Congress, House committees will continue to seek compliance with
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  Speaker 1: many of the subpoenas with which you largely decline to
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  Speaker 1: cooperate Johnson Wrights. Likewise, as the one hundred nineteenth Congress begins,
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  Speaker 1: the committees may determine that it is necessary to reissue
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  Speaker 1: certain subpoenas as they continue with their oversight efforts. Quote unquote,
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  Speaker 1: this letter signed by Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House,
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  Speaker 1: Steve Scalie, Senate Majority Leader, Tom Immerman, Majority Whip, Elis Sephonic,
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  Speaker 1: Chairwoman of the Republican Conference, Glenn GT. Thompson, Chairman Committee
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  Speaker 1: on Agriculture, Tom Cole, Chairman Committee on Appropriations, Mike Rogers,
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  Speaker 1: Chairman Committee on Armed Services, Jody Arrington, Chairman Committee on
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  Speaker 1: the Budget. Virginia Fox Chairwoman Education and the Workforce Committee,
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  Speaker 1: Kathy mc morris Rogers Chairman, Chairwoman, Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Guests, Chairman Committee on Ethics, Patrick Henry, Chairman on
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  Speaker 1: Committee of Financial Services, Michael McCall, Chairman Committee on Foreign Affairs,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Green, Chairman Committee on Homeland Security, Brian Steele, Chairman
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  Speaker 1: Committee on Health Administration, and Jim Jordan, Chairman of the
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  Speaker 1: Committee of the Judiciary. There's other names below that, but
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  Speaker 1: this was a very robust letter to all of these
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  Speaker 1: departments making it clear that the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 2: Is not going to sit on the sidelines.
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  Speaker 1: They are not going to sit on the sidelines and
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  Speaker 1: allow all of this to.
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  Speaker 2: Be swept under the rug.
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  Speaker 1: There is also big news coming out outside of these
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  Speaker 1: letters being sent out by Congress to preserve records, and
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  Speaker 1: that is dealing with Donald Trump's picks, his most important
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  Speaker 1: picks for the cabinet and major positions in the government.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Huckabee has been named as Trump's ambassador to Israel.
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  Speaker 2: He is the first Evangelical in this role.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Huckabee, a dear friend of mine, a former governor
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  Speaker 1: of Arkansas, twice presidential candidate, and television host, has been
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  Speaker 1: named as president like Donald Trump's ambassador to Israel. Huckabee
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  Speaker 1: will become the first evangelical Christian ever in this role.
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  Speaker 2: In a state.
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  Speaker 1: Trump said, I am pleased to announce that the highly
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  Speaker 1: respected former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, has been nominated
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  Speaker 1: to be the United States Ambassador to Israel. Mike has
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  Speaker 1: been a great public servant, governor, and leader in the
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  Speaker 1: faith in faith for many years. He loves Israel and
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  Speaker 1: the people of Israel, and likewise the people of Israel
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  Speaker 1: love him. Mike will work tirelessly to bring peace in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The selection of Huckabee, a.
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  Speaker 1: Christian who has long supported the Jewish state, will delight
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  Speaker 1: many pro Israel advocates in both the Jewish and Christian communities.
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  Speaker 1: Huckabee was considered for the role in sixteen before it
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  Speaker 1: was ultimately given to David Friedman, a Trump attorney who
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  Speaker 1: helped move the US Embassy to Jerusalem and ultimately helped
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  Speaker 1: forge the Abraham Accords between Israel and several Arab states.
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  Speaker 1: Huckabee is known for his Jewish communities and Judea and Samara,
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  Speaker 1: also known as the West Bank. Advocates for some of
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  Speaker 1: these communities have been targeted with sanctions by the biden
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  Speaker 1: Aris administration. The land of the region is central to
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  Speaker 1: Jewish history in the region, but was occupied by Jordan
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  Speaker 1: from nineteen forty eight until nineteen sixty seven, when Jordan
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  Speaker 1: unwisely joined Arab States and attacking Israel. That's when Israel
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  Speaker 1: fought back and conquered the land which pales Indians now
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  Speaker 1: claim as theirs. Now, let me just put this in
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  Speaker 1: perspective real quick for you. Governor Huckabee actually said this
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  Speaker 1: seven years ago. And the liberal media is going to
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  Speaker 1: lose their mind over this all right, like they're just
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  Speaker 1: going to This is about settlements and kumbai Aism, And
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  Speaker 1: I want you to hear what Hockeyby had to say.
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  Speaker 2: Listen carefully.
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  Speaker 4: I think Israel has titled eat to Judea and Samaria.
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  Speaker 4: There are certain words I refuse to use. There is
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  Speaker 4: no such thing as a West Bank as Judea and Samaria.
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  Speaker 4: There's no such thing as a settlement, their communities, their neighborhoods,
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  Speaker 4: their cities. There's no such thing as an occupant.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that is your new ambassador to Israel, which is
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  Speaker 1: just huge.
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  Speaker 2: Now, how could be? Currently?
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  Speaker 1: Many of you may know him because he hosts the
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  Speaker 1: show Howckuby on TBN, an evangelical station, is the largest
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  Speaker 1: Christian network in the world. As a presidential candidate. Hockelby
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  Speaker 1: won the Iowa caucuses and eight before fading later in
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  Speaker 1: the Republican primary. He endorsed Trump before the Iowa caucuses
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  Speaker 1: back in sixteen. You know Mike Cockaby's daughter Sarah Huckabee Sanders,
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  Speaker 1: current governor of Arkansas and former White House Press cretary
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  Speaker 1: in the first Trump administration. This is a huge name
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  Speaker 1: that is needed here and a great leader for the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration.
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  Speaker 2: It shows they're not screwing around.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, while this is all happening, we also
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  Speaker 1: got some interesting dirt that has just come out about
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  Speaker 1: the spending habits and the lies that were told to
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  Speaker 1: the American voters by the Harris campaign. You know how
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  Speaker 1: Harris was obsessed with trendy and pop culture people endorsing her.
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  Speaker 1: We found out she paid a million dollars to Oprah
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  Speaker 1: for example, for that interview. They of course they said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it was just production costs. Working in TV and radio,
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you there's no million dollar production costs
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  Speaker 1: for a sit down interview.
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  Speaker 2: That's a payday.
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  Speaker 1: But we also now know that Kamala Harris's campaign paid
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  Speaker 1: Beyonce ten million dollars. Megan thee Stallion five million dollars,
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  Speaker 1: Lizzo three million dollars, and Eminem one point eight million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: This was the biggest political presidential loss and modern history.
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  Speaker 1: And if you gave money to her campaign, just know
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  Speaker 1: that Beyonce got another ten million, Meghan the Stallion got
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  Speaker 1: five million, Lizzo three million, Eminem one point eight million.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the ones that we know of right now.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm waiting for the media to tell this story
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  Speaker 1: because they're not going to write. But like, can you
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  Speaker 1: imagine if you're a donor and you find out you
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  Speaker 1: worked your tail off and you gave a million dollars
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, yeah, we just sent that over to Oprah.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think Oprah needs another million?
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Though I thought that the left hated rich people, right, billionaires?
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  Speaker 1: You think Beyonce need another ten million? You think Megan
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  Speaker 1: is Sign needed a five million, or liz On need
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  Speaker 1: another three million, or Eminem needs another one point eight million.
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  Speaker 1: Like I would be furious if I was a donor
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  Speaker 1: to a campaign I found out that's how my money
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  Speaker 1: was being spent. Now, you're not going to hear the
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  Speaker 1: story from the left. That's why I wanted to bring
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  Speaker 1: it up number one. But you're also not going to
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  Speaker 1: hear about this story because the media is on fire
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  Speaker 1: right now with exits after the election and people getting
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  Speaker 1: let go after the election because no one's watching many
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  Speaker 1: of these liberal networks. I'll give you a great example
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  Speaker 1: of this, the disgrace Chris Wallace. You may remember him
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  Speaker 1: from Fox News Sunday. He left went over to CNN,
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  Speaker 1: and that didn't work out for him. We now know
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  Speaker 1: that Chris Wallace quote chose to CNN. Yeah, because CNN
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  Speaker 1: has never lied to us before, and Wallace has never
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: lied to us before. So apparently Chris Wallace went over
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  Speaker 1: there to do this big thing and then after three years,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna call it quit. The seventy seven year olds
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  Speaker 1: reported seven figure contract came to an end and rather
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  Speaker 1: than renew, he decided to join all the other young
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: folks online with a Nido podcast. You just gotta love
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: how everybody now just is like, oh, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: do a podcast. Like it's a little insulting when you
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  Speaker 1: work your tail off to do a great podcast every day.
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  Speaker 1: When these guys are like, if you leave a job,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: you lose a job, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: You get fired.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's like I'm gonna become a podcaster now, just overnight,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody's now a podcaster, Like everybody, Oh yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a podcaster, me too, me too.
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  Speaker 2: It just it makes me laugh.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people are calling this the death of
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  Speaker 1: cable TV, and I do believe that there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people now that just don't spend their time watching
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  Speaker 1: cable TV. I think a lot of it is because
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  Speaker 1: they know that it's all propaganda and bias. And so
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: when you look at the demise of CNN, and I
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  Speaker 1: spent seven years of my career as a conservative fighting
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  Speaker 1: the good fight there, and there are still fights to
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  Speaker 1: be had, but the audience now is just become so irrelevant.
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  Speaker 1: And I also think you can see that even at
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  Speaker 1: NBC and ABC and CBS. You know, you look at
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  Speaker 1: the numbers, and Gutfeld, for example, on Fox is beating
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  Speaker 1: the Big three in late night. Now there is true
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  Speaker 1: talent at Fox, but you look outside of that and
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of people like, why the hell would
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  Speaker 1: I ever watch CNN because I know it's propaganda.
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  Speaker 2: I know they're lying to me.
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  Speaker 1: These are the same people that said a week and
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  Speaker 1: a half ago or two weeks ago, that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: said that you know that everybody should kill Liz Cheney,
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  Speaker 1: right that, you know that Donald Trump is saying she
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  Speaker 1: should be executed, Actually was never said. I'll remind you
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  Speaker 1: of how corrupt the media was just a few weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: and you wonder why no one's watching breaking news.
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  Speaker 6: Donald Trump took his violent rhetoric to a new extreme,
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  Speaker 6: suggesting the former Republican congresswoman should be fired Upon.
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  Speaker 7: Breaking news, Trump under investigation for saying warhawk Liz Cheney
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  Speaker 7: should be fired upon right now.
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  Speaker 2: In ABC News Live, he suggested.
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  Speaker 7: Nine barrels of a firing squad aimed right at her.
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  Speaker 7: Donald Trump declaring before a crowd that Cheney should be
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  Speaker 7: put before a firing line.
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  Speaker 6: With the battle over women voters raging, Donald Trump suggests
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  Speaker 6: putting Liz Cheney in the firing line.
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  Speaker 7: Now you have this threat against Liz Cheney, that Trump
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  Speaker 7: is talking about.
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  Speaker 2: A firing squads.
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  Speaker 5: Pointed at Liz Cheney is the latest escalation.
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  Speaker 7: Using the military to kill a political rival.
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  Speaker 2: We've graduated the firing squads, and that seclution.
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  Speaker 3: He really wants to kill with a firing squad his political.
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  Speaker 2: Opponents sounded like to me, he just thought she needed
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  Speaker 2: to die.
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  Speaker 4: Trump was suggesting a fireing squad, evoking images of a
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  Speaker 4: firing squad of an assassination. What's your response to Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump saying she should be fired, that Liz Cheney should
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  Speaker 4: be fired upon.
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  Speaker 7: Donald Trump's closing argument has been Puerto Rico's an island
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  Speaker 7: of trash. I'm not a Nazi.
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  Speaker 2: Liz Cheney should be in front of a firing squad.
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  Speaker 1: He's talking about a firing squad for his political enemies.
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  Speaker 7: A firing squad, a military tribunal.
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  Speaker 4: Talking about sending a prominent Republican to the firing squad.
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  Speaker 1: Now I could keep playing this for another three minutes
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  Speaker 1: in the montage, I think we all know Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: didn't say that. In fact, what did Donald Trump actually say?
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  Speaker 1: Let's just end it with that. What did Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: actually say? Here's Donald Trump, in his own words, not
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  Speaker 1: saying what they just told you that he said.
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  Speaker 2: Echo warhawk.
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  Speaker 3: Let's put her with a rifle, standy there with nine
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  Speaker 3: barrel shooting at her. Okay, let's see how she feels
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  Speaker 3: about it. You know, when the guns are trained in
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  Speaker 3: her face. You know there are warhawks when they're sitting
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• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I want to get into, and I mentioned this earlier,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: is the cabinet positions that have been named by Donald Trump.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Center Cruz, who you know, I co host a podcast
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: with him. We were talking about this as we were
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: doing our podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz, and if you
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: don't listen, you totally should. But I'm going to play
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: for you now our conversation about all of the different
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: people that have been appointed. It's really actually fun because
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: between Cenaer Cruse and I we know these people personally.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Some of them are good friends of ours, like, we
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: know them very well. And so I want you to
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: hear what Senator Cruz and I had to say about
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: these appointments, how important they are, and what you can
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: expect from them. Take a listen, So, Cenater, this is
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: an interesting list of all these different positions that have
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: been filled by Trump. Early on, you and I were
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: talking before the show. We actually know these people. I
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: know several of them very well. You know them well
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: as also, And I actually want to start with a
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: really important post, and that is the ambassador to Israel
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee is getting that position.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: That one made me grin from ear to ear.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: Well, Mike Cuckabye will do a terrific job in that regard.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: Huckabee obviously was governor of Arkansas, but also was a
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: Baptist pastor for many years. And Mike loves Israel. He
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: loves the people of Israel, he loves the Jewish people.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: He has been an outspoken advocate for Israel, and I
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: think it will be an appointment that he will enjoy profoundly.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: It will be markedly different from how things have been
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: under the last four years. And I think it shows
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: just how important changing the page on the Biden Harris
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: abandonment of Israel will be because Mike Huckabee will stand
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: unshakably with the state of Israel. And that's going to
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: be also President Trump's view is to stand unshakably with Israel.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: It's why under the Trump administration in the first term,
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: we saw peace flower in the Middle East. It's why
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: we saw peace a war break out in the Middle
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: East because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris undermined Israel and
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: sent billions of dollars to our enemies. It's a great appointment.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: And you know, as you're looking at the appointments that
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: have come out, let's start with the White House. So
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: the White House are the kind of core team right
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: around the president. First appointment that was announced as the
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Now, who is Susie Wiles. Susie Wiles is.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: President Trump's campaign manager. She's been a political operative forever.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: She's going to become the first woman to serve as
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: a White House Chief of staff.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: And Susie.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Is someone who has worked for She ran Rick Scott's campaign,
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: we ran for governor, she ran Ronda santisus campaign, and
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: in fact, if you go way back, she was deputy
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: director during Reagan's nineteen eighty campaign. So she's a longtime
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: political operative. I'll tell you I know Susie a little bit.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: I don't know her very well, but her reputation is
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: someone who's very effective, who doesn't like the limelight, is
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: not out seeking to be in front, is not looking
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: for a bunch of glowing media profiles, but its.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Intern election night when Donald Trump tried to get her
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: to talk, and she would she went. She went to
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the back of the of the of the stage, is like,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: she walked up to it low and then left.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's have you ever seen that in all
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: of politics? Have you ever seen that?
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: No, everybody's usually clamoring to get in front of a
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: microphone and talk and have their moment in the sunshine.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: And it was very clear there. I think her body
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: language at.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Night was We've got work to do, Like, yeah, we
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: just won, but now the work begins, and that is
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: her type of focus and also really her mo for
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: her entire career.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: Look Susie's reputation is as a serious person who gets
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: things done. That's a good thing, I will tell you.
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: Objectively speaking, Trump's twenty twenty four campaign was by far
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: his best run campaign. It wasn't even close. It was
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: much much better than how the twenty sixteen campaign was run.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: And it was much much better than how the twenty
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: twenty campaign was run. There was greater organization, there was
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: greater discipline, there was better execution. It just they played
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: at a different level. So that's a strong opening appointment.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: Now right behind it is the deputy chief of staff,
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: the Deputy chief of staff for policy, and that's Steven Miller. Now,
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: Steven is someone I know very very well. Steven used
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: to be a White Hill staffer. He was Jeff sessions
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: top person on immigration policy when Sessions was a senator,
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: was a colleague mine. Sessions was one of the leading
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: immigration hawks in the Senate. And Steven is smart as hell.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: He knows the substance of immigration law exceedingly well. And
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: I'm confident there's not going to be literally a single
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: person in the administration more committed to securing the border
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: than Steven Miller. He wakes up focused on that. That
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: is his priority. He is someone who he was in
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: the first Trump white House. He was helping drive those policies,
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: but from a lower profile position. Deputy chief of staff
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: for policy is a big deal. I'm glad Steven is
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: in that job. I think he'll do a very good job.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Talk about that when you expand out from there to
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: some of the other positions Donald Trump is putting together.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I think a team of people that he trusts, that
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: he feels like is ready to go to work. Another
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: example of that is the deep state. We know what
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the deep state has done to conservatives, We know what
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the deep state has done to Donald Trump and the
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: people around him. And someone that we both know well,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: a Texan, has been named CIA director and John Ratcliffe
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: former congressman from Texas in the Dallas area. This is
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: a big appointment, obviously an important one, but also someone
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: that saw from within in those last administration just how
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: corrupt the deep state could be.
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm very glad with this pick. John Ratcliffe is
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: a good friend of mine. He's someone I know very well.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: He's someone who candidly I urged the Trump administration to
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: appoint to this position. I think John is a good choice.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: You know, John was in the first Trumpet administration. He
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: was he was a member of Congress, and then he
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: was the Director of National Intelligence. And he really did
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: an effective job taking on the deep state, and at
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: a level that is exceptionally rare. It's hard to do,
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: and John showed a seriousness. He'd been a US attorney
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: before the Department of Justice. He has demonstrated a courage
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: to take on embedded bureaucrats who were fighting against the president,
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: fighting against the agenda of the president, and I think
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: really fighting against the national interest. And sadly, after years
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: of Obama and now Biden, you have hardcore leftists who
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: have burrowed into two senior positions, and they don't view
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: their roles in those positions as carrying out the policy
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: priorities of the elected president. They don't view the role
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: of those positions as following the instructions that they're given. Rather,
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: they view their role as fighting against presidents they hate
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: and policies they hate. And I think John is a
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: serious guy who is going to be well positioned to
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: try to turn that around. Look, turning CIA around is
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: not easy, but I think John is a very very
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: good choice. As I said, he was one of the
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: people that I've already leaned in and I urged the
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: transition team to make exactly this appointment.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: So I think it's the next excellent one.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about DoD Traditionally it's been someone that's been
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: a little bit older at the Department of Defense. It's
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: so funny how quick these things happen and how things
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: can change. You and I were at at the Republican
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Convention and the night of Trump's acceptance speech, that final night.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Afterwards, I went on to.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Host Fox Nation with the guy who's now been appointed
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Pete Hedgseth as a Secretary of Defense, Jesse Waters and
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Fi tonight. They were just talking about how much they
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: love this guy, how much, how well they know him,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: how he's an individual that has not only serve as
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: country in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he's also Ivy League educated,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: very smart guy, family man, actually lives in Tennessee and
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: would go up to New York on the weekends to
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: host Fox and Friends Weekend. And all of a sudden,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I think he shocked the world Trump did when he said, hey,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I'm appointing Pete as Secretary of Defense, saying no one
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: loves America more than Pete does.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: And he understands war.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: He understands how powerful it can be, how hard it
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: can be, how disruptive it can be, and how it
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: can hurt people's families and American soldiers as well.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: And this is a guy that says, I don't want
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: to start wars, I want to end wars.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Referring to Trump, Pete's been to war in both of
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: these countries in our lifetime and seen a lot.
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: Well, that's right, and Pete's someone who's a friend to
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: both of us. I like Pete personally, I consider him
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: a friend. I think he does a great job. You
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: know Pete's background. He was an infantry captain in the
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: Army National Guard and he did tours in both Iraq
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: and Afghanistan, and he ended up earning two Bronze Stars.
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: He is currently one of the co hosts for Fox
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: and Friends Weekend, and he has been since his military service.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: He has been in the media world more than anything else,
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: including writing an important book on taking on the woke
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: DoD culture. Look, this is a nomination that is going
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: to get some pushback. The Democrats are going to fight
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: against this one. I'm predicting a real battle because typically
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: defense secretaries are people who spent thirty forty fifty years
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: either in they running major military operations or running major
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: logistical corporations, running big institutions, and Pete does not have
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: that background, So I expect Democrats to attack him for that.
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: That being said, I assume that Trump has nominated Pete
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: because he is in particular focused on taking on the
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: generals who were involved in the twenty twenty one Afghanistan withdrawal.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: That was utterly disastrous. He has also been really courageous
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: and outspoken fighting to eliminate the woke initiatives that have
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: taken over the military. And so I think Pete at
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: DoD will do something very similar to what Ratcliffe is
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: going to do at CIA, which is he's going to
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: come in with a real mission of clearing out the
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: hardcore partisans who burrowed into senior career positions. I think
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: that's a good thing. But I would also anticipate at
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: his confirmation hearings, I think we'll see some fireworks. I
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: think we'll see some Democrats going after Pete, and so
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: that'll be a fight I expect in the Senate.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about arming this audience. This is one of
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the reasons why I love this show is because we
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: get to give people some of the talking points that
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: they may not hear anywhere else. And you look at
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Pete in his nomination. You said there's gonna be fireworks.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: We've already seen a lot of this happen on social
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: media over the last I don't know, six seven hours
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: since this broke and they're like, he's unqualified. You look
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: at Pete, he graduated from Princeton and then he has
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: a graduate degree from Harvard.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: He's an Army.
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: Comma, wait, let me stop you, Ben, So you're saying,
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: I just want to understand, as an old misgrad you're
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: saying it is a good thing to have a degree
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: from Princeton and Harvard. I just want to specify exactly
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: the meets and bounds of what you're saying.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: All right, I feel like I'm auditioning now for a
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: job in the administration. What I'm let me clarify to
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: my remarks. So what I'm saying is it's not necessarily
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: a bad thing to go to an ivy school, but
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: obviously common sense and going to by the Way and
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: that then is phenomenal as well.
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: Ben, I didn't get a chance to compliment you on
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: the record for the ass kicking that ole miss unleashed
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: on Georgia.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I was waiting for the text, I really was.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: I thought for sure I was going to get a
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: text from you about that game, because it was unbelievable.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: Like, holy col you got reason to be pretty proud.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I knew you were in that moment thinking, man, that
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: would have been fun to go to that school.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: When you rush the field. At the end, you pulled
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: out a goals post. Have you'all ever done a goalpost
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: of the Ivy League school before? I'm serious?
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: See, we don't actually score goals, so we don't have goalposts.
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: That fair fair enough. So we go to the fifty
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: yard line and we play chess. It's a very different game.
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: We do it in pads, so but it's chest Nonetheless,
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: you know, they.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Say the biggest day at a football stadium in at
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: IV league school is graduation day, when you guys are
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: actually getting graduated. Graduating, you know that, right, Like that's
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the most attended day there is.
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: All right, So I will tell you when I was
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: in college, George Schultz was the Secretary of State under
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: Ronald Reagan, and he's a Princeton grad. And the rumor
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: which everyone acknowledges is that George Schultz had on his
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: rear end a tattoo of a Princeton tiger. And so
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: Schultz would come to Princeton football games, and if you
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: went to the stadium, you would see the band would
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: line up in the shape of Schultz's.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Ass, Are you serious?
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: And the mascot would go and lay down on one cheek.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: And I remember thinking as a nineteen year old, all right,
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: you have really made it in life when your rear
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: end is on the fifty yard line of your alma mater.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: At an Ivy League alma mater at that that's a
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: valid point, valid valid point.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: But you would get Pete.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: He graduated Princeton and then graduate graduate degree from Harvard.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: The guy's an Army combat veteran who did tours. And
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: again this is where I armed this audience with the facts.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Guantanamo Bay, check that mark that box, Iraq and Afghanistan.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: And as you mentioned earlier, for his actions on the battlefield,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: he was decorated with not one but two Bronze Stars
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: as well as a combat Infantryman's badge to boot now.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: I tonight had an interesting text message from a warrior,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: a Sealed Team six member, who said, it's about blanking
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: time that America has someone that went to war, understands
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: modern warfare, understands PTSD, and advocates for those that are
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: mentally wounded in our armed forces, like Pete has done
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: for years. I don't care what anybody says. I'll re
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: enlist and I will go back, and I would stand
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: under this man. I think there's a lot of military
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: veterans that have that mentality as well well.
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: And I'll say this, Pete does not have the traditional
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: criterion that many DoD secretaries have of twenty thirty forty
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: years experience running massive, multi thousand, hundred thousand person organizations
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: and being dooda secretary is incredibly complicated, because talk about
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: like turning a battleship doesn't even begin that that analogy
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: is not even close to out complicated.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: That being said, what Pete brings in addition to being
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: a combat veteran himself is he brings experience calling out
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: the ideological rot that that Barack Obama and Joe Biden
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: put into our military. And so I think Pete there's
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: a reason I drew the analogy between Pete and John Radcliffe,
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: which is I think both of them, the latter has
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: shown and I think the former will show a willingness
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: to take on the corruption that is damaging the institution
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: they've been sent to. That that courage, that clarity, that
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: is rare, and it's one of the reasons why I
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: think the Left is going to attack him and attack
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: him really hard.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Let me ask on another question about this, does this
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: mean that there's a real chance, and we haven't talked
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: about this in a few months, so I think it's
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: the perfect time to go back and really talk about this.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Is the reinstatement of men and women in our military
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: that were kicked out because they refuse to get vaccinated
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: with the Republican singer of the House, and that's official.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: We haven't actually gotten to mention that on the show.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: So let's just have that little moment of victory that
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Republicans retain the House, we have, the Senate, we have
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: the presidency. Is there a chance that those men and
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: women that were kicked out of our military could actually
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: come back in Is that an issue you think will
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: come up in January?
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: I hope and pray that it does. As you know, Ben,
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: I am the author of the legislation that ended the maxine,
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: the vaccine mandate in the military. The Biden administration had
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: thrown out thousands, if not tens of thousands of active
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: duty military members, and I drafted the legislation that Congress
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: passed into law that ended that COVID vaccine mandate. It
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: made sense, we got it done. I tried very very
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: hard to make the end of the vaccine mandate retroactive.
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: In other words, there were some ten thousand servicemen and
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: women who'd been thrown out. To say, look, if you're
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: no longer requiring it, you ought to let back in
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: the people you threw out, particularly when we've got a
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: shortage of servicemen and women.
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: These are very experienced.
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: In some cases, you're talking about seal team members, army rangers,
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: very experienced, highly trained military men and women who were
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: thrown out unceremoniously, in many instances, thrown out with a
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: less than honorable discharge, so they received less in terms
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: of pension and benefits. And I'll tell you when I've
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: fought for that, we have not been able to get
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: that legislation to pass. Every single Democrat, all of them,
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: voted no. They voted no, we're not going to allow
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: those who were thrown out of the military for not
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: getting the COVID vaccine back into the military, even though
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: today the military doesn't required anymore. And sadly, we had
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: two Republicans who also voted no, which was really frustrating.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: What was the reason behind that? Did they give it
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: the time? Because I don't remember.
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: So the two Republicans were mitt Romney mit will be gone,
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: and then Mike rounds and I'm frustrated. I don't know
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: why I disagreed with it. I really was arguing forcefully.
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: I do have some real optimism going forward. We'll get
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: this fixed. I think with the Republican House and Senate,
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: I'm going to fight very hard to get that in
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: the next iteration of the NDAA. The NDAA is the
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: National Defense Authorization Act. I also am going to press
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: the Department of Defense if they can just to do
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: it unilatterally, I'm pretty sure sure they can. Although I
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: say this, I have not studied the legal questions, so
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: that is an instinct rather than the result of a
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: studied analysis. But when Pete is confirmed as Defense Secretary,
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: I'm going to urge Pete that he at the outset says,
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: if you've been discharged for failure to get this vaccine,
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: you were invited to be readmitted and returned to your
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: old rank and your year old old position.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Senator.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: There's an interesting and I want to get your take
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: on this because it went viral when it happened. Donald
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Trump has selected Elon Musk and the Vick Ramaswami to
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: lead the Department of Government Efficiency. Now, I was asked
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: the question right after this broke on social media, Wait,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: is that even an actual department of the US government or.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Is this made up? I laughed.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Wait, there's a lot of people that actually want to
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: know what is this doesn't exist?
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Is this something new?
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: And how big of a deal it is that Donald
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Trump picked the Tesla CEO and AX owner Elon Musk,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: and an entrepreneur and former Republican President of CANDIDATEA vic
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Ramuswati to lead this Department of quote Government Efficiency.
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: Well, it is not currently a government agency. I don't
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: think it's an accident that Department of Governmental Efficiency spells
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: out Doge, since Elon is a very vocal supporter of
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: the doge coin cryptocurrency.
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: I think that was quite deliberate.
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: Listen, I'm very glad that Elon is going to play
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: a critical role in the administration focusing on making government
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: work more effectively and more efficiently. I'm glad Viveks too.
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: He's a very smart guy. I know them both very well.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you I spent thirty minutes on the phone
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: with Elon this week talking about precisely this mission, how
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: you make government operate more effectively and Elon is dealing
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: right now with their There is a major difference between
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: government agencies and the private sector.
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: There are lots of differences.
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: And you know, one of the things I pointed out,
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: there's a fantastic economist man named Ludig von Misis, who
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: was one of the founding fathers of the Austrian School
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: of economics. Brilliant man wrote a lot of different things,
• 43:22
  Speaker 6: but he wrote a book called on Bureaucracy and von
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: Mesis and on Bureaucracy, what he argued is that inevitably
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: you have people who come from the private sector who
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: come into government and they say, we're going to make
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: government more efficient, We're going to make it operate like
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: a business. And von Mesis argued that is always, always,
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: always doomed to failure.
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: And he explained why.
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: He said, Listen, government lacks the essential element of any
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: private enterprise, and that is the profit motive and the
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: analogy he uses. He says, Okay, look, Ben, let's say
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: you have a private company. You have, say a barbecue
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: restaurant in Memphis. If you're running your barbecue restaurant in Memphis,
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: every single employee at the restaurant is motivated by the
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: profit incentive. If the janitor, the guy who is sweeping
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: up the spilled barbecue sauce in the restaurant, if he
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: comes to you and says, mister Ferguson, I've got an
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: idea that can reduce our costs by ten percent and
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: that can increase revenues by five percent. So my guess
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: is a ben you'd listen to him. You'd be like, okay,
• 44:37
  Speaker 6: I want to hear that idea. Yeah, my guess is
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: number two. If his idea was right, that guy ain't
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: going to be sweeping floors any longer. He is immediately
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: going to get a promotion because for him and everyone
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: else at the restaurant, the incentive is the profit motive
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: that that unifies the incentives of everyone in the private sector.
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: In contrast, and this is what von Misis argues in
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: on bureaucracy. In government, there is no profit motive, and
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: in fact, the incentives are precisely the obverse. Let's say
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: you're running a particular office and a government agency, and
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: you've got a million people who are receiving ten billion
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: dollars in benefits. Your incentives are not to reduce the
• 45:30
  Speaker 6: number of people receiving those benefits. Your incentives are not
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: to reduce the amount of benefits they're receiving. Instead, what
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: are your incentives in government? Your incentives and government are
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: to increase the one million people to a million, five
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: or two million. Your incentives are to increase the ten
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: million dollars in benefits to fifteen billion or twenty billion.
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: Your incentives are to take your say, thousand people that
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: work for you and increase it to two thousand, three thousand.
• 46:01
  Speaker 6: All of your incentives not only are they not aligned
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: on the profit motive, they are exactly the opposite of
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: the profit motive. So actually I recommended to Elon he
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: read the book. He did not know the book, and
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: we spent about thirty minutes talking about how do you
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: change this beast that is government. You're never going to
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: make it quickened in. But I also talked about the
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: fact that a huge problem with government is that you
• 46:25
  Speaker 6: cannot fire government employees. Generally speaking, there are civil service
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: protections in place that if you try to fire someone,
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: you have litigation. It's very difficult. And I pointed out
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: to Elon, look, when you went into Twitter, you fired
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: what sixty percent of the employees that is a flexibility
• 46:45
  Speaker 6: that you have and what it means. And I tried
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: to lay this out to him as well, So I said,
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: listen at Tesla's SpaceX. My guess is, you have very
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: very few employees who wake up every day with their
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: mission and life being too stop you to frustrate the
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: objectives of the company and to try to make them fail.
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: And if you did have any employees that were doing that,
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: you'd fire them because they work for you, and that'd
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: be it. In government, particularly with the deep state, there
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: are literally thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of deep
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: state employees who wake up every day with their objective,
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: their mission being to stop everything Donald Trump is trying
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: to accomplish. And so I'm really glad that Elon is
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: doing this, and I think Vivek is very smart.
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: I think Vivek will add to that.
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: We will get some good results out of it, but
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: it is going to be an incredibly important and incredibly
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: challenging endeavor. And I'll say Elon is as smart a
• 47:48
  Speaker 6: person as I have ever encountered.
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: And look, I've been blessed.
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: I've actually run in some circles where I've known some
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: freakishly smart people in including people like Chief Justice William
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: Renquist and Anton Scalia and and Elon is just another
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: level in terms of brilliant. So I'm excited to see
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: what he can do in this role. But it is
• 48:11
  Speaker 6: going to be I think his instinct is going to
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: be to break some China and and we'll see how
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: that plays out in the government world.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, in the government world is a key point there.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about one of the most important appointments, and
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: that is Tom Homan. And there are so many conservatives
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: that voted for Donald Trump, some of the Americans that
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: voted for Donald Trump because they want to secure border.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: He's the former Immigration and Custom Enforcement Director. He has
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: now been named Trump's Borders are tasked with cracking down
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: on immigration and overseeing the southern border the northern border
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: as well. And he said this on Fox yesterday.
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: Look, I've seen I've seen some of these democratic governors.
• 48:55
  Speaker 8: So they're going to stand in the way, They're going
• 48:57
  Speaker 8: they're going to make a hard force. Well, you know
• 49:00
  Speaker 8: a suggestion, if you're not going to help us get
• 49:02
  Speaker 8: the hell on the way, when we're going to do it.
• 49:03
  Speaker 8: So if we can't get assistance from New York City,
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: and we may have to double the number raises we
• 49:10
  Speaker 8: send in New York.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: City because we're going to do the job. We're going
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: to do the job without here.
• 49:15
  Speaker 8: Or with you.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: It's very clear Democrats are already gearing up to fight
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: against the government and deportations. He has said their number
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: one goal is what you and I mentioned on the show.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: I think it was even before election day. They're going
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: to go after the criminals first. They're going to go
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: after the people that have already had due process and
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: have been told that they are to be deported from
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: this country. And again, this is where I love doing
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: the show. Let's remind listeners and arm you guys with
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: the facts. When you hear the left say it's inhumane
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: to deport people, do not forget Barack Obama deported more
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: than three million illegal immigrants while he was president. So
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: this idea that we are doing a million plus at
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: or allens that have been convicted of crimes that have
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: already had due process, don't fall for this, because remind
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: all of the people that say otherwise, Barack Obama deported
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: more than three million illegal immigrants when he was president.
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: So Tom Homan is a serious guy. He cares passionately
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: about defending this nation, securing our borders. I am very
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: very happy that Trump has named him borders are.
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: He also named.
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: Christy Nome, the governor South Dakota, to be the Secretary
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: of the Department Homeland Security. Homan and Nome will work
• 50:32
  Speaker 6: hand in hand. I think that's going to be very effective.
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: Tom Homan understands the border, he understands what is what
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: it takes to secure the border, and I think he
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: is going to be the point person driving the agenda,
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: as I've predicted before. But I want people to hear this.
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: It's November. We are still facing an invasion at our
• 50:52
  Speaker 6: southern border. We are going to secure the border, and
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: it is not going to take a year. It's not
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: even going to take six months. It will be done
• 51:00
  Speaker 6: by January and February of next year. And in February, Ben,
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: I want you to play this clip back and either
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: we're going to say the results are in Cruz was right,
• 51:14
  Speaker 6: or hold me to account and say, Okay, it didn't happen.
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: What went wrong? But either way, that's.
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: My prediction, and I think Tom Homan is going to
• 51:21
  Speaker 6: be driving the effort to get that done. And I
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: also think Stephen Miller, is Deputy chief of Staff, will
• 51:27
  Speaker 6: be driving it alongside him. I'm very optimistic about what
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: we're going to get done on that front.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: And finally, when we're talking and there's more names are
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: going to come out, and we will continue to let
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: you know what we think about them and how exciting
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: this moment is. But there's one of your colleagues in
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: the Senate, someone you know very well. There was a
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: lot of people that were on the short list. I
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: say a lot, a lot that you and I knew
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: that were floated for the shortlist for Secretary of State.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: I was paying very close attention to this one, as
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: I know you were. And the nominee is going to
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: be your colleague, the Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio.
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 52:06
  Speaker 6: I think this is terrific. I think Marco is going
• 52:08
  Speaker 6: to do a good job. He has focused on foreign
• 52:11
  Speaker 6: policy quite a bit his entire time in the Senate.
• 52:15
  Speaker 6: Marco is smart, He cares about foreign policy. He cares
• 52:18
  Speaker 6: about standing up to communists, especially in Cuba. He cares
• 52:21
  Speaker 6: about standing up to communist in China. Marco is more
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: interventionist on foreign policy than I am. But that being said,
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: he cares deeply about it, and and and so I
• 52:32
  Speaker 6: think he is more interventionist on foreign policy than Trump is.
• 52:36
  Speaker 6: And at the end of the day, Trump is going
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: to make the decisions. But I think Marco is someone
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: who is diplomatic, He is articulate, he will be he
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: will be a very effective diplomat for America. I think
• 52:48
  Speaker 6: it's a great choice. I think it's a natural fit.
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: I will tell you so. So I sent Marco a
• 52:53
  Speaker 6: text tonight which I'll go ahead and and and and
• 52:57
  Speaker 6: read to you what I send him. I sent Mark
• 53:00
  Speaker 6: of the following text, Congrats, sir, a big damn deal.
• 53:06
  Speaker 6: You join an historic roster including John Jay Thomas, Jefferson,
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: John Marshall, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay,
• 53:19
  Speaker 6: Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, William Jennings, Bryan Charles Evans, Hughes,
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: Henry Stimpson, George Marshall, Dean Atchison, John Foster, Dulles, Dean Rusk,
• 53:33
  Speaker 6: Henry Kissinger, George Schultz, and James Baker. Truly rarefied air.
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: Every Cuban is deeply proud. And then I finished it
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: with and I'm confident at least that you'll kick the
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: ass of Hillary and John Kerry.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that low bar. But I couldn't agree with you
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: more on that one. Right, it's I have no idea,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: I have no doubt. I should say that Marco was
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: gonna laugh when he reads that last part of the text.
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: So he did laugh, and he responded, I will almost
• 54:08
  Speaker 6: never out my colleagues text, but I think Marco would
• 54:11
  Speaker 6: forgive me for this. His response was, he said, there
• 54:14
  Speaker 6: is hope for the Cuban Caucus and then he sends
• 54:17
  Speaker 6: me a story from Latin Times. Social media users launch
• 54:22
  Speaker 6: campaign to get Pitbull appointed to Marco Rubio's Senate seat.
• 54:26
  Speaker 6: Ron de Santas has only one choice, and I could
• 54:29
  Speaker 6: only respond to that senator.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: One other story is Donald Trump is getting his cabinet
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: together and making appointments. That has not gotten a lot
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: of attention.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: Is the.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Take out the trash, everybody throwing everybody under the bus
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: in the Biden camp, the Harris camp. We find out
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: she blew through a billion dollars, she's upside down in debt.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: They're begging for money with text messages to liberals saying
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: we need your help with accounting of the votes and
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: give money.
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: I wish I was joking, but I'm not, and I
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: don't know. Someone said eighteen twenty million upside down. And
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: then we found out where a lot of the donations
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: actually went. The donations were going to celebrities. Oprah's had
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: to come out after there was a million dollar check
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: given to her Quote production company for production of a
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: one day sit down interview that we many people saw
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: on TV with Oprah. It doesn't cost a million dollars
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: to produce that, but that was the price tag.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: And then we found out that there were a lot.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Of celebrities that were being paid to act like they
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: loved Kamala Harris. And there are some Democratic donors that
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: are livid right now over the price tag on this.
• 55:44
  Speaker 6: You know, there's a terrific article in the Spectator World
• 55:48
  Speaker 6: entitled Kamala Harris ran the Fry Festival of Campaigns, and
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: it points out that Trump's campaign spent roughly four hundred
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: and eighty eight million dollars and Kamala spent more than
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: a billion, so she outspent Trump more than two to one.
• 56:03
  Speaker 6: And Kamala's campaign ended up twenty million dollars in debt. Well,
• 56:09
  Speaker 6: it turns out where did that money go. Well, one
• 56:11
  Speaker 6: of the things that went to is they paid many
• 56:14
  Speaker 6: of the quote unquote celebrities who supported her were getting
• 56:20
  Speaker 6: paid and getting paid significant sums. So for example, remember
• 56:25
  Speaker 6: the Call Me Daddy podcast. Yeah, Well, apparently the campaign
• 56:30
  Speaker 6: spent upwards of six figures to build a custom set
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: for her appearance on the podcast, and the podcast netted
• 56:38
  Speaker 6: only eight hundred thousand downloads, less than a million downloads. Look, Ben,
• 56:44
  Speaker 6: you and I we have roughly a million unique listeners.
• 56:47
  Speaker 6: If she wanted eight hundred thousand downloads, I'll tell you,
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: Kamala right now, even though you've lost Ben and I
• 56:53
  Speaker 6: will invite you on Verdict right now. We will welcome you.
• 56:57
  Speaker 6: We will not charge you to build a set, so
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: you can save all your money. And you paid Oprah
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  Speaker 6: a million dollars for production costs, we will charge you
• 57:04
  Speaker 6: for production costs on Verdict. What do you think fifty bucks?
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: Sure, I think that's a fair price.
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  Speaker 5: Fifty bucks.
• 57:12
  Speaker 6: Fifty bucks will get you a very nice coffee cup
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: with some Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee. That's what we'll spend
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: the fifty bucks on. And you can reach the same
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: number of people, all right, By the way. She also
• 57:25
  Speaker 6: turned down Joe Rogan. So call me Daddy, got eight
• 57:28
  Speaker 6: hundred thousand downloads. How how many do you think Joe
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: Rogan's interview of Donald Trump got?
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  Speaker 2: Ah a lot more than that?
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  Speaker 5: Forty seven million?
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's a lot.
• 57:39
  Speaker 5: Okay, that's a lot.
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: So there were also seven Swing state concerts with expensive performers,
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: and it turns out every one of them they got
• 57:50
  Speaker 6: a price. It is the world's oldest profession and they
• 57:52
  Speaker 6: are charging for it. So who are the performers that
• 57:56
  Speaker 6: got paid millions of dollars? Katie Perry, Lady Yaga, John
• 58:01
  Speaker 6: bon Jovi, Ricky Martin.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: Hold on, you're.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Telling me none of these people were like doing it
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: for free because they were all in for Kama.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: They wanted to get paid.
• 58:10
  Speaker 6: Show me the money. They ended up spending more than
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: twenty million dollars on event production alone. Oprah, as you noted,
• 58:18
  Speaker 6: charged a million dollars, and they went so far into
• 58:25
  Speaker 6: debt that the campaign allegedly had to scrap Alnas Morisset.
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: They were planning to do a lot of Moris set
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: and they said, no, okay, we can't afford her anymore.
• 58:34
  Speaker 5: Nevermind.
• 58:35
  Speaker 6: I mean it is truly stunning, and you've got to wonder, like,
• 58:41
  Speaker 6: I gotta say, I don't get paying millions of dollars
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: for celebrities to fake endorse someone she spent paid money to.
• 58:49
  Speaker 5: What Beyonce.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: Let's go over the big ones.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: This is coming from Fox and I'm gonna play this
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: this audio.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: This is again from Fox as they were going through
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: how much cash was spent.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: I can't get over these numbers.
• 59:05
  Speaker 7: Ten million dollars for Beyonce to step up and back
• 59:10
  Speaker 7: Kamala Harris publicly, five million for Megan thee Stallion, three
• 59:14
  Speaker 7: million for Lizzo, one point eight million.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: For M and M mean is that those numbers are
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: unbelievable if you just look at them. And I was like,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: hold on a second, And I went back and watched
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: that clip a couple of different times because you look
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: at them.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: Ten million for Beyonce.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: If you're a donor and you wrote a big check
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: Meghan the Stallion five million, Lizzo three million and one
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: point eight million, I called on, I just raised all
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: this money for you, and this is how you spent it.
• 59:44
  Speaker 6: Look, I gotta say I've run a bunch of campaigns.
• 59:47
  Speaker 6: I ran my first campaign for Senate in twenty twelve.
• 59:50
  Speaker 6: I ran my next campaign for president in twenty sixteen.
• 59:53
  Speaker 6: We won twelve states all over the country. I ran
• 59:56
  Speaker 6: my next campaign for Senate again in twenty eighteen, and
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 6: I just finished running my most recent campaign for Senate
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 6: reelect a third term in twenty twenty four. I can
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 6: tell you, in the whole time, I've never paid any
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 6: one a million dollars for anything. I don't think we
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 6: paid any entertainers. I don't know of any entertainers we paid.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: Maybe at some point we paid five or ten grand
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 6: for someone performing at some party. I'm not aware of it.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 6: But I can tell you this. Look our stars now,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 6: to be clear, the stars we have at our events
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 6: are our international, supermodeled, global talents like Ben Ferguson.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 5: And I gotta tell you.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: What that ten million dollar payday Once in my career,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: I oh, yeah, beyond say yeah, yeah, I'm all in
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: for the cause, but I just need ten million to.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: Make it happen.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 5: Okay, Ben, To be clear, we don't pay you ten dollars.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: No, that's.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 5: Look.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 6: I'm a fiscal conservative, dammit. If you want to be
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 6: there and you believe in saving the country, stand up
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 6: and save the country, and if not, get the hell out.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 6: But like, what what is it with these lefties who
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 6: ironically they want to put socialists in office, who make
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 6: it impossible for people to earn a living, and yet
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 6: they're such capitalists that they're like, show me the money
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 6: to do it. I mean, there is an intense hypocrisy
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 6: on this.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: I believe this.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: And I'm not just saying this because this moment in
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: this headline, but I'm being dead serious. This could be
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: a huge problem for Democratic candidates moving forward, because when
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: you see this type of abuse of campaign finance money
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: from donors, those same donors, somebody's going to be asking
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: them for money.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: And four years or less than four years from now, and.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 6: I'm the next time Beto O'Rourke, Collin all Red jumps
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 6: on a stage with Willie Nelson, Everyone's going to ask
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 6: how much you pay him?
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: How much of my money that I gave you? Did
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: you just give him for that thirteen minutes of him singing?
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: It's a question.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 6: And it under the entire credibility that I'm here because
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 6: I love America so much and you've got to vote
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 6: for this candidate. Look, I'll give you an example in
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 6: the presidential race. So one of the cooler people that
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 6: I got to meet and spend time with was Phil Robertson,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 6: you know from Duck Dynasty.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and he was a I mean massive back
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: in the day, like unbelievable star.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 5: Huge star.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 6: And so he invited me to Monroe, Louisiana to come
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 6: stay at his place. And I went out duck hunting
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 6: with Phil, which, by the way, ranks among the coolest
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 6: things I've ever gotten to do. And we went to
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 6: the duck blind. We're there at four in the morning. Look,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 6: I like to hunt in Texas. I gotta be careful
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 6: about what I say because there's so many really serious
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 6: hunters that I can't overstate. I go hunting a couple
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 6: times a year. I enjoy it, but I'm not someone
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 6: who like lives and breathes it. Phil in that duck blind,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 6: I have never seen a person who is a better
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 6: shot with a shotgun. He would drop birds at a
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 6: distance that I wouldn't pick up my gun. They were
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 6: too far away. I'm like, yeah, the duck flies over here,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 6: I'll shoot it, but I can't shoot it way over there.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 6: And he would just boom and then the dogs would
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 6: swim out and grab the duck and bring it back.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 6: And Phil, I'll tell you so. So I went there
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 6: and spent the day when hunting with him. He recorded
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 6: an ad for our campaign that we put out. It
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 6: remains one of my favorite ads we've ever done. I'm
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 6: all like wearing camo grease pain and I'm in the
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 6: duck blind with Phil.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 5: It was really cool.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 6: But Phil, it was during the Iowa Caucuses and we asked, Phil,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 6: will you come to Iowa on campaign with me? And Phil,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 6: for something like forty years, had not missed a single
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 6: day of duck season. He'd been out there every single
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 6: day for four decades, and we'd invited him to come.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 6: And that morning he went to the blind at four
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 6: in the morning and he's sitting there in the blind,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 6: and I guess you know, it weighed on his heart.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 6: I can't do this today. I need to go fight
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 6: to save America. And Phil left the blind and he
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 6: went and hopped on a plane and he flew to
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 6: Iowa and he did a big rally with me in Iowa.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 6: And I told him then, I'm like, Phil, I am
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 6: beyond humboldt that you missed the first day of duck
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 6: season in forty years to be here in campaign alongside me. Now,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 6: I didn't write them a damn check to do that.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: I just said, if you gave him Beyonce money, you
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: know you're like, oh, and by the way, here's ten
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: million dollars.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 6: No. No, I just said, come help save America. And
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 6: it meant a lot like for him to miss it.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 6: And that day we were literally touch and go. We
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 6: didn't know who's gonna come, but it meant a big
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 6: deal when he came. If you're paying Beyonce ten million dollars,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 6: I mean, my good I mean goodness. Who would she
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 6: not endorse for ten million dollars? Don't forget this show.
• 1:04:49
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