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BONUS: Do Trump's Appointments Champion Our Values? · The Lila Rose Show

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Hey everybody, welcome back to the Lila Rose show.
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We are live here on YouTube. I have the window open, the chat
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open here, so I will be keeping my eye on the chat.
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We are going to be sharing our honest take here, the good and
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the bad on some of Trump's top picks, his appointments for his
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new administration. You guys know that I speak my
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mind on these topics and I'm very vocal about what I think is
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good, what I think is bad, and I want to be very direct and
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upfront with you guys about where the positives are and the
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negatives. I think it's important to
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acknowledge both of them with some of these pics and what that
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means specifically for pro family, pro-life policies.
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I think who we have as our leaders is so key and there's a
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lot of opportunity with a new administration to do more for
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life and for family and for our country.
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So we're going to unpack all of that on today's LIVE.
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We're also going to take a look at Volvo and Jaguars new ads.
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There's some warring car ads out online.
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Some of you might have seen these.
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We're going to take a peek at them.
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It's very interesting to see how some of these more woke
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directions that companies are going actually backfire and how
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actually the pro family, pro-life approach is very
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1st. All right, so Jaguar did a big
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rebrand last week and their Internet went crazy.
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This is Jaguar the car company and they have that sort of
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iconic Jaguar and the cool old school Jaguar looking logo.
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Well, they rebranded. Let's take a peek at the new ad
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that has the Internet in an uproar and not in a good way.
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Let's take a look. Lots of color.
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Some kind of androgynous people. It's a live, vivid, very modern
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delete ordinary. No cars in this ad Great mole.
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So it's lots of colors, buggy outfits, copied, nothing.
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Jaguar, OK, the Internet was not very happy with this ad.
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There was a lot of people saying what did you do with this iconic
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brand? Why does everything have to be
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so woke? Why is this?
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Why are all these people androgynous?
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And where are the cars? Where are the cars?
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This looks like somebody from the DEI in, you know,
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administration of Jaguar or whatever.
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They're trying to be popular in the DEI index.
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They came up with this ad and they created it and inculcated
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it in this. Perfect storm of yeah, DEI
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making it androgynous, making it like, fit into a certain current
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vogue mold. And it has nothing to do with
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cars or the brand that so many people have loved in the past.
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Well, right after Jaguar came out with this ad and all of
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these people were in an uproar about it, Volvo must have been
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holding their ad for just the perfect moment because they came
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out with this ad, which was remarkably pro-life.
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So let's take a look at that. Hey, hey.
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OK. You're listening on podcast app.
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She is showing a pregnancy test. She's positive and she's showing
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her husband. And they're all happy.
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OK. And then towards the end, we're
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going to skip again because this is a long ad.
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It's like a story, which is it's very lovely.
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But if you skip to the end, this is the big moment.
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So basically she's pregnant. She's walking across the
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crosswalk in this Volvo ad. And the Volvo that the woman is
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driving on the street is able to come to a screeching halt and
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save the life of this woman because the brakes on your Volvo
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are that good. And then you get to see her,
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this woman in a hospital bed, not because she got hit by a
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car, but because she is now having her baby when she was
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pregnant with the baby. So it's very sweet, it's very
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beautiful. The Internet loved that ad.
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And a lot of people are saying This is why you should buy a
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Volvo and not a Jaguar. All right.
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I just love seeing Pearl life ads.
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And and then at the end it says for life, Volvo for life.
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So yes, of course, it's not saying, you know, abortion is
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bad in this ad, but it's certainly celebrating babies and
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moms and safe cars to protect your family.
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I like that. I think definitely Volvo wins
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this contest. OK, let's go to the deep stuff
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now and the very important stuff.
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More important than What Car you might want to drive is the
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question of who is going to lead the Trump administration over
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the next four years. Now, I have not yet done a deep
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dive on the podcast of the political appointments that
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Trump has been making rapid fire over the last few weeks.
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So I'm very excited to do that with you guys right now.
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This is really important. Most of the appointments, I
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think have been made, virtually all of them.
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I think he's doing a really incredible job of getting these
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appointments in. There is the good and there is
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also the bad. And like always, I'm going to be
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a straight shooter with you guys and give you my honest take on
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what I think about these appointments.
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So we're going to start with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami
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and a new government agency actually that Trump has
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announced he's going to launch called the Department of
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Government Efficiency or DOGE. And we're going to do a quick
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dive on Elon and Vivek and some of my thoughts on them.
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But first, what have they said about being the Co heads of this
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new government agency? So Doge Department of Government
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efficiency apparently is going to be actually reducing the size
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of government. That's its entire aim to try to
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eliminate spending and eliminate some of the bloat in the federal
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government. Now, I think this can only be a
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good thing because right now we are in great debt as a country.
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We spend more than we take in. We're also, I think, overtaxing
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the American people. When you let up the the the
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taxation and you let the economy be more free, good stuff
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typically happens. And that's one of the big things
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that people have said Ronald Reagan was so great for is some
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of his historic tax cuts. And that helped stimulate the
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economy so that the Department of Government efficiency, if it
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can reduce spending, can reduce national debt, can also reduce
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the tax burden on American citizens.
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These are all good things. But my favorite thing, my
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favorite thing about the Department of Government
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efficiency and where it seems Musk and Ramaswamy want to take
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this agency is what was announced last week in the Wall
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Street Journal by these two gentlemen.
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Let's take a look at this article.
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So this is the Wall Street Journal opinion page.
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And when I read this, I was so happy.
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I was so happy to see this, not just because of what they said
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in this article, but because of the fact, and it is now a fact
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that Planned Parenthood, which is the biggest abortion
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corporation in the country, is now on the chopping block.
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And let's look down into this article.
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You're going to see there's a quote that Vivek and Elon right
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right here talking about some of the candidates that they have to
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cut government spending. And one of the candidates is of
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course, the basically government agency is effectively a part of
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the government agency. Planned Parenthood is on the
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chopping block because they are the biggest abortion chain and
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they are also taking in 699 million U.S. tax taxpayer
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dollars every single year. In the last reported year, it
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was $699 million. I'm going to throw this clip to
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you in a minute here so you can read the part of the article
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that actually they actually talk about this.
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And again, I would say in past administrations, this was kind
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of unheard of for this to happen.
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I mean, for Planned Parenthood to be on the chopping block, it
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was George Bush, seen here, a Republican who actually
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instituted funding for Planned Parenthood on the government
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side decades ago. So the fact that now there is a
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Republican call to defund Planned Parenthood, which before
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even had Republican support, is a step forward.
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Now, are they going to actually get it done?
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It's going to, it's going to be hard because Planned Parenthood
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gets, again, in the last report a year, $699 million from
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taxpayers. And a lot of that is through
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Medicaid reimbursements and a lot of that is through Title 10
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funding. So there's lots of different
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funding streams. And it's going to take a lot of
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willpower and bold leadership to disentangle funding from the
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biggest abortion chain from government.
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So here's where they said it. In the Wall Street Journal
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article, they say Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are writing,
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they said. But even if they say DOGE will
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help end federal overspending by taking aim at the 500 billion
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plus an annual federal expenditures that are
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unauthorized by Congress are being used in ways that Congress
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never intended from 535,000,000 a year to the Corporation for
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Public Broadcasting, very biased News Group that is very, you
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know, usually left wing. The government should not be
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funding left wing media to 1.5 billion for grants to
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international organizations. By the way, that often includes
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abortion groups, international Planned Parenthood and it says
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to nearly 300 million to progressive groups like Planned
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Parenthood. And I like how they call them a
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progressive group here. I mean, the truth is they're an
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abortion group, but they also are a hardcore hard left
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progressive group that just takes taxpayer money in.
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It's a third of their budget taxpayer dollars and then they
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give 10s of millions of dollars to pro abortion Democrat
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candidates. So effectively it's a fungible
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system of money that goes into Planned Parenthood and then they
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go and pursue more power politically and more money
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politically. So Vivek and Eli pull this off.
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They will be heroes and I'm absolutely cheering for them.
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Vivek and Elon have their own views on abortion.
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Actually, Vivek Ramaswamy has been on this show before.
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You guys might remember last year when he was running for
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president in the primary and he said that abortion is murder.
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He expressed a very strong pro-life stance.
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I was really happy to see that from Vivek Ramaswamy.
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Elon Musk recently had some some pro-life comments to say.
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I think he's on a journey. Let's take a listen to what Elon
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Musk had to say about abortion. That if a baby can survive
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outside the womb, it cannot be aborted.
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It cannot. If a baby can survive outside
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the womb, if it is, if it is far enough in gestation to survive
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outside the room, at that point it is not abortion, it is
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murder. Part of the challenge here is
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that the education system has terrified girls and girls and
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women relentlessly pushed the idea that that getting pregnant
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can be is the end of your life. Like your your career is dead.
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You're the ostracized society. And, and so when you instill
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terror in in young girls that getting pregnant is the worst
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thing that can happen, they obviously, you know, they
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believe that. OK, so I what I first of all, I
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have an admiration for Elon Musk and a lot of the things he seems
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to be doing. I love the idea of human beings
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as being part of wealth. I mean, he does have this view
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of children as a positive thing, which is really beautiful.
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He criticizes population decline.
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He says that there's no such thing as overpopulation.
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He's very much a visionary and wanting to create more resources
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and wealth for the world. Obviously in his personal life,
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the things that he's done, I don't agree with.
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I think that's very, you know, challenging, problematic, you
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know, divorces, creating children through IVF and
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surrogacy, having multiple, multiple children with multiple
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different women. That is not the best design.
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You guys know that. I, we talk about this on the
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show all the time, but I like to see the journey that he seems to
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be on where he says that he thinks that abortion, at least
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at viability, is murder. Of course it's murder before
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that, but he says that and then he says that he thinks people
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are too afraid. We are instilling fear of
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children, of new life into people.
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That's what society's default is.
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We know this a lot in the work that we do.
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And you've seen me talk with Katherine Pakolak yesterday on
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the show, and she was talking about how there's this negative
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view of children in our society. And she's doing a lot of work
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and research on families that are having multiple children and
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the blessing and the goodness that is big families and how
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they're actually good for the economy, they're good for
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society. So I think all of that is a
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journey that it looks like Elon Musk is on.
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This is good. I hope he becomes fully
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pro-life. And I'm going to keep along with
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other folks who have are on X who I think he's on X all the
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time. Apparently, Elon Musk always
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tweeting, always posting. But I hope that one day he will
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wake up to the fact that abortion before 20 weeks, at 19
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weeks, it's the same baby. Killing that baby at 18 weeks,
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10 weeks, 5 weeks is just as immoral and just as wrong as
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killing the baby when the baby is older.
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So I've hoped for him. But I'm very excited to see
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Ramaswamy and Musk taking aim at Planned Parenthood as well as
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all kinds of other government bloat in the Wall Street Journal
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last week. That was really great news.
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OK, So that is a good agency in my view.
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Good appointments that Trump is making.
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I'm happy to see that. Let's go to some other good
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news. Sean Duffy to lead the
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Transportation Department. Now, you might remember that it
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was Pete Boot Edge Edge that was involved in transportation under
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the last administration and he was this, you know, living a
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very publicly same sex lifestyle with his partner.
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He was very much progressive in that view.
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He had, you know, he was very publicly adopting children or he
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was creating them via surrogacy. It's unclear how he thought
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these precious children, but he was living, you know, very
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publicly a very alternative, you could say lifestyle.
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I mean, he wasn't certainly pro family who was anti natural
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family. You have now Sean Duffy taking
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leadership here. And Sean Duffy is a father of
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nine children, including one with Down syndrome.
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Down syndrome children, as you know, are very targeted for
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abortion in this country. Over 60% of couples, you find
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out they have a baby with Down syndrome, choose to abort that
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baby. And he has this beautiful family
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of nine kids. He's married to his wife Rachel.
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I have to share. I know Rachel, she's a friend of
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mine. I admire Sean, I think he's a
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great man. He's somebody that is true blue.
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I mean, he is a family man who has done great work.
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He was a pro-life advocate during his time in Congress.
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He was a representative for Wisconsin.
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He has spoke out against the high abortion rate.
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He has spoken for family policies.
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So all of this is a really great thing in my view.
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As far as what about his qualifications, I mean, he's
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been in government. What kind of qualifications do
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you need for the Transportation Department?
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Well, let's look at what The New York Times had to say here.
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They're usually pretty critical if they don't like someone on
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the right wing. And the New York Times says
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this. Mr. Duffy's nomination did not
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appear to set off the sort of opposition that some of Mr.
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Trump's other Cabinet picks have.
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So Mr. Duffy, congratulations, you're awesome.
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And I'm excited to see you take this leadership position because
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I think you are a true leader, not just of your family, but in
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the political space and of this country.
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So thank you. I want to point out one other
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thing, though, that is really beautiful and positive here,
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which is the wife of Sean Duffy is Rachel Campos Duffy.
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She was a former reality star. She was a former host on The
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View. She now is an on Fox and Friends
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on Fox News. But she has said some really
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beautiful things publicly about being a mother of nine children,
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being married to the same man for her entire life and also
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about her role in their in her children's life as their mother.
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And this is her family right here.
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You can see these nine kids, beautiful family.
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And she recently had this really beautiful comment that she made
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to National Review where Rachel said, and this is the wife of
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Sean Duffy, who is now appointed, being appointed, will
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be appointed to the transportation department to
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lead it. She says, I always tell all my
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kids, my job isn't to get you into Harvard, it's to help you
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get into heaven. I love that her focus is the
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faith of her children even more than any other worldly standard
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or metric. And I love that.
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Not that Harvard's bad, but getting into heaven is the most
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important thing. And and how do we do that?
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By seeking God first and living our faith.
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So congratulations to the Daffy's.
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OK, let's go to Linda McMahon, the secretary of education.
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So there's all of these different departments, lots of
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appointments being made here. Linda McMahon was another one
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that created quite a wave. There was a lot of people
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excited about this, a lot of people expressing some concerns
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about this. Let's look at her track record
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here. Now, apparently Linda McMahon
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has been in the Trump orbit for quite some time.
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It's not a surprise that Trump seems to really appoint people
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that have loyalists. They call them Trump loyalists
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really closely in his orbit. Linda McMahon was a is a woman
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who served on the Connecticut Board of Education and was on
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the board of Sacred Heart University for years.
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So she has a background in education.
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She also worked to bring school choice to 12 different States
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and has worked to make federal changes to changes at the
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federal level to support school choice.
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Now, what is school choice? School choices, you know, a
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broad term to cover a number of policies that empower parents to
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pick which school their child goes to using government
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subsidy. So right now, obviously we have
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our public school system and typically speaking, if you're a
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parent and you want to not have to pay for your child's
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education except with your tax dollars, you send your child to
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the school that's in your district, to your local public
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school. Well, the idea of school choice
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is that if you are a taxpaying parent, then you should get to
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pick which school your child goes to, whether it is a
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faith-based school, whether it is a charter school, whether it
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is a private school, whether it is maybe even you want to home
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school. And you should be able to direct
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your taxpayer dollars specifically to that school or
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that educational method of your choice.
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So it's really focused on empowering parents to choose the
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school that is best for them and their kids, their family.
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Now, the critics say, well, this disproportionately effects
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poorer families, poorer neighborhoods, because there's
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going to be stuck with the local schools that are not getting the
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money that it needs. But the reality is if you really
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empower the parents, then it helps.
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Schools want to be better, to be able to get those funds and be
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able to serve those students better.
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So you there's a lot of wind stories or success stories from
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states or communities that have had school choice that have
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helped families that are disadvantaged so that they can
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actually have better educational outcomes for their kids.
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So this is all a good step in my view.
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The criticism at Mcgahan, this is all the good stuff.
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The criticism is people don't like some of her, her closeness
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with Trump. I mean, I'm not surprised.
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Trump is appointing people that are going to be close and loyal
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to him in the past. And she had a lot of the World
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Wrestling Organization. She did a lot of work there.
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Her husband was, she was a Co founder with her and there was
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there's been a lot of reports, especially from more left wing
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media saying, well, there were sexual abuse charges at the time
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of people involved in WWE and she was on the periphery of
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this. And so there's trying to, you
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know, be critical of her reputation because of this.
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I have seen no direct evidence that she in any way was involved
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in any kind of sexual abuse cover up.
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Obviously, that would be a huge issue if that was true.
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But largely speaking, it seems the biggest with Linda McMahon
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is that she supports school choice, which is actually a good
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thing. So this is something a lot of
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people are excited about, and I think that this is something
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that we can be positive about. Let's look at Trump's statement
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about Linda McMahon that he made on, of course, his favorite
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platform, Truth Social. Here is his statement.
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He says Linda will fight tirelessly to expand choice to
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every state in America and empower parents to make the best
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decision, the best education decision for their families.
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And you can see here, he's wanting to obviously appoint
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Linda. He's very excited about Linda.
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So I think overall at net, this is a good thing.
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Let's move on to the next appointment here.
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This one's a little more complex and it's a big one.
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Pete Hegseth, as you might have already seen in the news, this
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is actually all over the news. Pete Hegseth has been chosen by
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Trump to be the new Defense Secretary, the new Secretary of
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Defense. Now, this is a huge job.
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This is a, a huge job because you are ultimately in charge of
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the military. You are incredibly influential.
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You get to make hugely consequential decisions.
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And this is about our our defense.
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This is about our National Defense, our national security.
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So let's look at Pete Hegseth a little bit.
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And by the way, as we go, I'm going to keep an eye on the
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chat. I should have said that earlier
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because I want to see what you guys think about all of this.
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Vanny is saying, aren't they getting rid of the Department of
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Education? That has been threatened by
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Trump. That has been threatened.
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I think that might be part of Linda McMahon's plan is to try
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to downsize the department. I think that would be a good
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thing. Take more of the federal money
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that's bloated and very illogically driven a lot and
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send it down to the states. Let them make more of their own
22:48
decisions at a more local level with that money.
22:51
I think that would be a good thing.
22:52
School choice, by the way, does do that.
22:54
So that would be very good thing.
22:57
Shelby says love school choice. I think it's a wonderful
22:59
equalizer. Absolutely.
23:01
I agree. OK, guys, let's go to Pete
23:04
Hagseth. What do we think about Pete
23:05
Hagseth? So this is a huge appointment
23:08
that Trump made. It would be a big job to be the
23:11
head of the Defense Department. It involves our national
23:14
security. It's huge.
23:15
Let's look into Pete Hagseth's record.
23:17
Let's start with the good and then we're going to go to the
23:19
bad. The good is that he seems to
23:21
have a great pedigree in terms of his education.
23:23
He went to Harvard and Princeton.
23:24
He can't get any more Ivy League than that.
23:26
I like that he has said that he doesn't think that women should
23:29
be involved in he they should have a limited role in combat.
23:33
I agree with that. I think it is very problematic
23:37
if we erase the differences between the sexes and pretend
23:39
that men and women are the same when it comes to military
23:41
service in combat. They are not.
23:43
Not saying women shouldn't serve in the military, but how they
23:45
serve should be connected to the fact that typically they're
23:48
weaker than men and they're they can get pregnant.
23:51
They have a different biological system than men.
23:52
Those are all facts. I also like the fact that he
23:55
doesn't think women should be drafted.
23:57
I think that that's a good thing.
23:59
I think that there is a ideology that's very woke that is
24:03
besieging a lot of the military today.
24:05
That is not good for the military.
24:07
It's weakening our military, and part of that is erasing the
24:09
differences between the genders. Heg Seth is also a decorated
24:13
veteran. He has two Bronze Stars and he
24:15
has a combat infantry. He has a combat infantry badge.
24:17
So those are good things. He was an Army National Guard
24:21
major. All right, let's talk about the
24:24
bad or the potentially problematic, though, with
24:26
headsets. So you guys have the full story
24:27
here. Now, a lot of people are
24:29
criticizing this appointment, including on the right, not just
24:32
because of some of his personal life issues.
24:34
We're going to talk about that in a minute, but because of
24:36
Pete's lack of experience. He has not been a general.
24:39
He's not a decorated general with a lot of military
24:43
leadership experience. He obviously is a veteran.
24:45
He served in combat, but he was not leading, you know, thousands
24:49
of troops. He just hasn't done that.
24:51
And to give someone a role as the head of the Department of
24:55
Defense that's going to be ultimately in charge of the
24:58
entire military, I think it's over 1,000,000 military members.
25:03
And he's only been in charge of maybe several dozen.
25:06
That is, that is an incredible gap.
25:09
So I understand that criticism and I, I would tend to agree.
25:11
I mean, I think they're probably, I'm, I'm, I know there
25:14
are actually hundreds of great, well educated, decorated veteran
25:21
members of the military who have had more leadership experience
25:25
than Pete. Pete has spent most of his
25:27
recent career as a Fox News host.
25:30
So I think that, you know, being a, you know, Fox News host
25:33
doesn't disqualify you, disqualify you by any means.
25:35
But he doesn't have the many years of military service and
25:40
leadership experience that many other potential picks would
25:43
have. So that is one of the criticisms
25:45
of this pick by Trump. Another major criticism of this
25:49
pick by Trump is some of the allegations and some of the news
25:52
coming out about Pete Hegseth's personal life.
25:56
And I think this quote from, I'm going to watch this clip now
25:59
from Megyn Kelly, who I think has a lot of really insightful
26:02
takes on some of the stuff she had this to say about some of
26:07
the allegations that were coming out against Pete Hegseth.
26:10
Now, before I play this clip, I want to just update you guys in
26:13
case you don't already know, Pete Hegseth was someone who has
26:17
had multiple divorces in his personal life.
26:19
Apparently he was married and had a recently postpartum wife
26:23
or a wife of their young children and then he ended up
26:26
getting a Co worker pregnant and then divorcing the the former
26:30
wife to marry the second woman. Around this time or before this
26:34
time, there was an allegation of sexual assault that was made
26:38
about him at an event in California with this woman where
26:41
she ended up filing a police report days after the supposed
26:45
alleged assault claiming that Pete had assaulted her.
26:48
This is very, very serious stuff.
26:50
Now, Megyn Kelly said that she spent spent several hours going
26:52
through the police report and, well, the whole thing is very
26:55
seedy and dark and sad, quite frankly.
26:58
The reality isn't that Pete necessarily.
27:01
The claim here is that Pete did not assault anyone and the
27:03
police did not find any evidence to prove that he assaulted
27:06
anyone. By the way, I think that's
27:07
obviously a key point. But that, yes, he was involved
27:10
in some hookup kind of a affair and that that's problematic.
27:14
That's not great. So here is this clip from Megyn
27:16
Kelly, and I think she has a good take on this.
27:17
Let's take a listen. This allegation should not tank
27:22
his nomination. It was not enough to cause the
27:27
police to bring charges. They're not saying why, but
27:31
obviously they thought they had proof problems because they
27:34
would have brought the charges otherwise and it's not fair to
27:38
cost him a position like this based on an unsubstantiated
27:42
accusation. It doesn't become more
27:44
substantiated because it wound up in a police report.
27:47
Maybe slightly more because she's at least taking the risk
27:50
of, you know, potentially perjuring herself when she goes
27:54
down this lane lane, but not much.
27:57
But the whole thing is just so gross.
27:59
And what it does show, like the parts that Pete admits she's
28:05
kind of gross. I'm sorry.
28:06
I'm going to be honest. It's just gross.
28:08
And it's brought up Pete's, I guess, Achilles heel, which is
28:15
his marital relationships. And the bottom line is he he's
28:18
cheated on every wife he's ever had, and he's had many.
28:21
He's had three wives. We can pause it here.
28:23
So I think Megyn Kelly's basically saying, you know, the
28:26
fact that someone made allegations against him that
28:28
weren't were, you know, not proven in any way that doesn't
28:31
shouldn't alone disqualify someone.
28:32
I mean, think about that. Anybody could accuse anyone of
28:34
anything that shouldn't disqualify you from having a
28:36
political appointment or a job or anything just because someone
28:39
makes an accusation. That being said, she's very
28:42
clear in this clip and I agree with her that he has a very,
28:44
very seedy personal life and it's all gross and it's very
28:47
sad. And she's saying that's that is
28:50
a problem. That is a problem.
28:51
Now, does it mean he shouldn't be the secretary of the
28:53
Department of Defense? Well, I don't know.
28:55
When you combine that with the fact that he has such limited
28:59
leadership experience in the military, I very much understand
29:02
why so many people are saying this is not an appointment that
29:05
makes sense for this country. So we'll see where this lands.
29:09
As you may know, Matt Gaetz, who was a now former congressman,
29:13
was appointed for a good, I think, 10 days or he was
29:16
nominated for a good ten days by President Trump to be the head
29:20
of the Department of Justice. And then he withdrew his
29:24
candidacy and and said, I'm not going to do it anymore.
29:26
So that has already happened in the short time since Trump won
29:30
the election. So that might happen here with
29:32
Pete Hagseth. He might end up withdrawing his
29:34
candidacy. We're not sure.
29:36
But I do think they're obviously some pretty troubling stuff
29:39
here, not just with his personal life, because, you know, someone
29:42
could have a very complex and, and checkered personal life and
29:45
still show up and maybe do a really good job in their job.
29:49
But that combined with the lack of experience, I think is
29:52
problematic. All right, this is 1 headline I
29:54
have to show you guys though from Politico, Pentagon
29:57
officials alarmed over headsets lack of experience, some of them
30:02
saying would you trust him to run Walmart?
30:04
So pretty critical, pretty concerned.
30:07
And again, I can understand why when he has had such limited
30:10
leadership experience in our military.
30:13
All right, that said, we're going to go next to RFKI.
30:17
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Pat here before we go to RFK, Jada is saying about Pete
31:52
Hegseth. She says if you do it in
31:54
private, you do it anywhere. His character is his character
31:57
and it'll show in his leadership and he doesn't even have the
32:00
experience. Get him out of there.
32:03
Fair words, Jada. And then we have a few other
32:07
comments here. Shelby Jackson says.
32:10
I completely understand these stances.
32:13
Yes, it is concerning the lack of experience, all of this.
32:16
We should be concerned about that, Shelby says.
32:20
I am glad Matt withdrew, sure about Matt Gates.
32:23
I think it's smart to move forward with people who have a
32:24
chance of approval. All right, what about RFK?
32:28
There is so much controversy about Robert F Kennedy Junior
32:32
and his positions and I want to unpack it here and now for you
32:36
guys, because there is the good and there is the troubling,
32:40
there is the bad. So he was a nominated by
32:43
President Trump to be the Secretary of Health and Human
32:46
Services and that is a huge job. That is a huge job.
32:51
And basically any abortion or health related policy at the
32:56
executive level is done through HHS.
33:00
They have huge control over the FDA, over the CDC, over the NIH.
33:05
There's so much power that this position holds.
33:08
So it's really understandable and there should be scrutiny of
33:11
whoever the appointment is. I'm hopeful, but there's some
33:14
significant challenges here. We'll talk about the good first.
33:18
Now, RFK Junior has been very critical, very critical of the
33:23
fact that our vaccines and our vaccine schedules given to
33:28
children, that the manufacturers of those vaccines and the people
33:34
behind those schedules do not have the children's best
33:38
interest at heart. That there are a lot of politics
33:40
that have gone into vaccine policy and that there have been
33:43
a lot of vaccine injuries or vaccine related injuries that
33:47
have not been made known to the public and the rate of injury is
33:50
a bit of a mystery. That there is a lot of impunity
33:54
that these vaccine companies get away with, meaning they're not
33:58
be held to the same standards as other companies.
34:01
You can't sue a vaccine company. They are protected from that.
34:05
And so all of these things have created a perfect storm where
34:09
there's these often mandatory vaccine schedules for children
34:12
wouldn't even be able to go to school, and there's a lack of
34:15
transparency about the risks for parents and there's a lack of
34:18
accountability when these children may get harm due to
34:21
vaccine injury. And so he's been a huge critic
34:24
of the current vaccine safety that exists for kids especially.
34:28
And he's also been a huge critic of our food industry and the
34:31
fact that food additives and the way that our government is
34:35
subsidizing, you know, corn as an example, corn syrup and all
34:39
of the food dyes that go into our food.
34:41
And the whole setup of our food industry in the way that parts
34:45
of it are government funded and what that means for consumers
34:47
and the cost of groceries favoring certain products over
34:51
others that ultimately this has led to a health crisis in the
34:53
United States. Let's watch a video where he
34:56
talks about the really war that Americans are facing, where
35:04
chronic disease is afflicting increasingly so many Americans,
35:08
including children, and food is being blamed as a major culprit.
35:13
So here's RFK talking about this.
35:15
And he's actually saying in this clip that he believes that God
35:19
has put him on a mission to be able to protect particularly
35:23
children from chronic disease. Let's take a listen.
35:28
Since 2000. Five I spend 30 minutes praying
35:33
every day when I get out of bed and I
35:56
people are saying right now because is Kitty I can get a
35:59
perfect events or you're speaking at Turner Falls and
36:02
that that there's a lot of this is posted by Catholics for
36:06
Catholics. I think so and my is this
36:09
they're cheering. I asked Scott for 19 years to
36:13
put me in a position where I could end the chronic disease
36:18
epidemic and bring health back to our children.
36:25
He's saying that he has prayed for 19 years that God would put
36:29
him in a position to help end the chronic disease epidemic is
36:32
what he calls it and brings bring health back to our
36:34
children. So that's a very beautiful goal
36:36
that he seems to have had. He says he's had for years.
36:39
Let's take a look at this clip about what this actually look
36:41
like. He looks like he actually did a
36:44
little video recently walking through some popular food
36:46
products and the risks in the ingredients to families and how
36:51
in America. Food manufacturers are allowed
36:54
to put things into our food like our everyday food, like cereal,
36:58
breakfast cereal that are actually disallowed in Europe.
37:03
So European countries actually ban certain ingredients of the
37:07
same product that then American manufacturers of the product put
37:10
into the food and that these product, these these parts of
37:15
the product, these ingredients are actually harmful to the
37:18
consumer. And most consumers have no clue.
37:20
And an example of this, of course, would be red or yellow
37:22
dyes. But let's take a listen.
37:25
Most alarmingly, into the bodies of their children.
37:28
And it's no coincidence that Americans die earlier than
37:31
Canadians or Germans or Italians or Japanese or Koreans or
37:36
Australians or most any other comparable country.
37:40
And it wasn't always that way. Until the early 1990s, our life
37:44
expectancy was the same or better than other developed
37:48
countries. Then suddenly, more and more
37:51
Americans began suffering from chronic diseases, from obesity,
37:55
cancer, diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's, heart
37:59
disease, and all kinds of autoimmune diseases.
38:02
Our maternal mortality rate soared to the highest of any
38:06
developed country on earth. Same with infant mortality.
38:10
Like the frog and the slowly boiling water, we didn't really
38:13
notice as we got sicker and sicker.
38:15
We've grown now to accept chronic disease conditions as
38:18
normal. But now, in 2024, we're finally
38:21
waking up to this cataclysm, and we're asking ourselves, how in
38:25
the world did this happen? A big part of it is our diet.
38:29
Restaurants that serve contaminated food are fined or
38:33
shut down. And when it's the government
38:35
that approves the poisons in our food, a few people get very,
38:38
very rich and the toxins end up in every supermarket aisle.
38:42
Let me show you what I mean. Doritos Cheez, its cat and
38:47
crunch gummy bears. Everyone knows that these are
38:50
junk foods, so maybe you wouldn't be too surprised to see
38:53
that the ingredients include a lot of poisons, including a
38:57
harmful yellow dye called tetrazine or yellow dye #5.
39:01
What you may not know is that this dye was originally made out
39:05
of this sludge that's leftover when you turn coal into coke for
39:09
blast furnaces. It's called coal tar and I've
39:12
actually sued many big industries or legacy
39:15
contamination of coal. We can give it a pause here.
39:18
He's talking about the harm specifically of yellow dye and
39:21
its source and why it has actually all these adverse
39:24
health effects. And he was a when he wasn't a
39:26
lawyer, he was an environmental lawyer for obviously many years.
39:29
And he would sue the companies that would create this dye and
39:33
put it in our foods. And you know, he's here with, if
39:36
you're watching on YouTube, you can see it's all these different
39:38
foods on a table. And he's going through the
39:40
ingredient list and he's saying this ingredient is banned in
39:42
Europe. This ingredient is in United
39:44
States. These are the harms that come
39:45
with this ingredient. Most parents have no clue.
39:48
And then at the beginning, he's talking about the context that
39:51
in the last couple decades that chronic disease has afflicted
39:54
America at alarming rates that the rest of the world is not
39:57
seeing, especially Europe and countries that have more food
40:00
restrictions and regulations. And he's saying that this is in
40:04
no. Part due to what we are eating,
40:06
that the food we are eating is poisoning us.
40:08
So a lot of his content, I think a lot of the things that he's
40:11
saying are very compelling. I think that there's a lack of
40:13
awareness at large about what we eat and where the food comes
40:17
from. And there's also a lot, a a lot
40:20
of people who are suffering. A chronic disease is a major
40:23
issue in our country and the rates of cancer, diabetes,
40:26
etcetera are going up for younger and younger people, not
40:29
just for elderly folks or put people towards the end of their
40:32
life, but for younger and younger people.
40:35
So I think this is only a good quest to have to try to improve
40:39
health outcomes for Americans and and reform our agencies so
40:43
that they are not unduly favoring 1 type of industry over
40:48
another like the corn, like corn subsidies and giving them extra
40:52
money. And then corn syrup shows up in
40:54
all of our food instead of healthier alternatives or or
40:57
none. I mean, I was just at Trader
40:59
Joe's recently and I was looking at bread crumbs to make, you
41:03
know, breaded chicken and the just standard bread crumb
41:05
packet. Sugar is a is on the menu.
41:08
You know, the amount of things that sugar is put into is
41:11
incredible. It can be, of course, addictive,
41:12
but because there's a lot of subsidies that go to sugar and
41:18
go to corn syrup in this country.
41:19
So all that to say, all that to say, I think this is a step in
41:23
the right direction to have someone who's critical of those
41:26
things and who wants to reform the food industry in charge.
41:31
Now, there are some concerns that RFK takes this too far.
41:34
I get that. My biggest concern with RFK
41:38
Junior is not his skepticism of vaccines or his skepticism of
41:44
the food industry. I think some of that skepticism
41:46
can actually be really healthy. Even that's very controversial.
41:50
My biggest criticism with RFK Junior is some of his recent
41:53
statements and a positions on abortion, which is the leading
41:57
cause of death. So yes, we should be concerned
42:00
with chronic disease, diabetes, cancer, stroke, all of these
42:04
things, but the number one cause of death is not diabetes or
42:09
cancer. The number one cause of death in
42:11
this country is abortion and they are 100% preventable deaths
42:19
because we, if we didn't incentivize abortion, have
42:22
taxpayer funding, funding abortion clinics.
42:24
If we banned abortion, we could eliminate almost all of these
42:27
deaths. And tragically, RFK Junior has
42:31
made statements in support of abortion.
42:34
Now, there was a very infamous statement that went viral
42:37
several months back. This was when RFK was running
42:40
for president, so before he joined Trump's team.
42:42
And he made the statement where he effectively said he supported
42:45
abortion until birth for any reason in a news interview.
42:49
Now, afterwards, there's a lot of backlash, and he said he was
42:51
misunderstood, and he clarified his position.
42:54
And I want to pull a video now of the latest content that I can
42:58
find where RFK Junior states his position on abortion.
43:02
This is incredibly important guys, because the head of HHS
43:05
makes decisions about how abortion may or may not be
43:08
regulated, including the abortion pill.
43:10
They are very influential and that and they also help control
43:14
funding, funding that can go to planned parent at the biggest
43:17
abortion chain. So let's take a look at a listen
43:20
to what RFK Junior had to say most recently about his stance
43:24
on abortion. Urgent consensus that abortion
43:27
should be unrestricted up until a certain point.
43:30
I believe that point should be when the baby is viable outside
43:34
the womb. Therefore, I would allow
43:37
appropriate restrictions on abortion in the final months of
43:40
pregnancy, just as Roe V Wade did.
43:43
That's the principle that will guide my actions as president,
43:46
whether implemented by Congress or the states or in court.
43:50
It's the right policy for our country, and it is,
43:54
coincidentally, the will of the people.
43:57
But there's more to it than that.
43:58
We should be looking at why there are so many abortions in
44:02
the 1st place. The biggest reason, as it turns
44:05
out, according to the studies, is affordability.
44:09
Almost 3/4 of women cite economic reasons to explain why
44:14
they choose to afford a pregnancy.
44:17
So we've developed a policy that we call More Choices, More Life.
44:22
We can reduce abortion across the board dramatically by
44:26
supporting motherhood, by supporting parents and
44:29
supporting families. Soon we'll unveil our plan for
44:32
universally affordable childcare, which will cap
44:36
childcare expenses at 10% for most families.
44:40
And we will support women in need so that abortion isn't
44:43
their only choice. As I said, abortion has been an
44:47
incredibly divisive issue. I don't think it has to be.
44:51
I believe that we can reduce abortions in America by choice
44:55
and not by force. OK, we can deposit here.
44:59
So this is a mixed bag, and we have to start with what he said
45:03
first, which is that he supports abortion to be legal up until
45:06
viability that is. That is horrific.
45:09
I mean this is abortions on babies and most hospitals don't
45:12
recognize viability until 24 weeks old.
45:15
Take a look at a baby at the very brink of viability. 21
45:17
weeks. The youngest baby who survived
45:20
outside of the womb with medical help is 21 weeks, 5 days.
45:23
So here's a video of a baby at 21 weeks.
45:25
This is who RFK is talking about now.
45:27
He's using words like, oh, this is so controversial.
45:29
It's so divisive. We don't want to force people.
45:32
But we're talking about life and death for human beings.
45:35
And it's easy to just try to look like a moderate on this and
45:39
say, well, I don't want to ruffle feathers, but RFK has
45:41
been ruffling feathers his whole life.
45:43
He has been ruffling feathers his whole life.
45:46
He has taken stances that have been very unpopular and he has
45:50
been brave on issues that he cares about.
45:52
My hope is that he just doesn't get it yet that these are human
45:55
beings too. That the baby at 20 weeks is
45:58
just as valuable as the baby at 21 weeks.
46:01
And at 20 weeks, absolutely, we should ban the the the horrific,
46:06
lethal dismemberment of that baby, which is what an abortion
46:08
would do, just as much as that five weeks at any stage in
46:11
pregnancy, that baby is a baby. They deserve a right to live.
46:14
And you're not limiting the rights of the mother by saying
46:17
you can't kill your child. No parent has the right to kill
46:19
their child. Here's the image of a baby at
46:22
just 21. Weeks right before viability.
46:25
This is the human being we're talking about.
46:28
And again, for RFK to say, we can scroll up on the article
46:32
here for RFK to say, and it's talking about the markers at 21
46:36
weeks and what the baby can do. I mean, it's incredible.
46:38
At 21 weeks, geeks, the baby is already developing the taste
46:41
buds. It already is developing its
46:43
ability to hear from the mother and their father.
46:46
Their voices, recognize voices. This is a human being.
46:50
And so it's incredibly disappointing that the head of
46:53
HHS potentially is in. Support of killing a baby before
46:58
viability. I also take umbrage with this
47:01
idea of like viability. The baby is viable before
47:04
viability. The baby will keep living if
47:06
they're not killed. Viability has has to do with
47:09
this idea of can the baby live? Can the baby survive?
47:11
The baby's not supposed to be outside of the womb at 10 weeks,
47:14
15 weeks, 20 weeks. The baby's supposed to be safely
47:17
nestled in his or her mother's womb and developing.
47:19
So this arbitrary idea of viability at 21 weeks, 5 days or
47:23
24 weeks, whatever the hospital decides, right, is unfair.
47:28
The baby actually is viable if the baby is alive and growing.
47:31
And if you don't interrupt that baby's life and growth by
47:34
killing it, then the baby will be able to be born and be able
47:37
to grow and continue to live. So this is a great tragedy that
47:42
RFK Junior is doubling down on supporting abortion up until
47:45
viability, as he says. Now, some of the other things he
47:48
said in this clip were encouraging.
47:50
He talks about supporting moms. He talks about helping women not
47:53
choose abortion. He talks about abortion being
47:55
this tragedy. Those are good sentiments.
47:59
Those are good impulses that it seems that RFK Junior has.
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I hope that he will be open to education on this and hope that
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he will be open to acknowledging the scientific reality that life
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doesn't begin at viability, this arbitrary standard, or at birth,
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but life begins at fertilization.
48:15
That's what the science tells us.
48:17
And that these human lives deserve protection.
48:20
Now, what can RFK do anyways? As the head of head of HHS, one
48:24
of the big things he can do, he could he could do is stop the
48:27
trafficking of abortion pills. Abortion pills are almost 60% of
48:31
all abortions nationally, and they're right now sent from
48:35
state to state. There's not even a doctor's
48:37
appointment that is necessary. President Biden lifted all of
48:42
the regulations of the abortion pill and so it would be a no
48:46
brainer in my view to ban the abortion pill.
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This is a lethal drug that should not be shipped through
48:50
the mail and sent to women and girls in their homes to do self
48:54
abortions that we need to ban this lethal drug.
48:56
So that is a no brainer. And then also defunding Planned
48:59
Parenthood and any money that's administered through HHS should
49:02
not be administered. They should be blocked from
49:04
receiving tax dollars if they are abortion providers.
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So those are some no brainers that I believe RFK Junior could
49:12
do and I hope he will be open to listening.
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To reason on this issue. And so let's pray for his
49:18
conversion and pray that he will wake up to the value of life
49:22
before the arbitrary standard of viability.
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All right, we are going to do one more appointment review, one
50:46
more appointment from President Trump before we close out here.
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Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, that President Trump is
50:54
his nominee for Secretary of State is Marco Rubio.
50:57
And this one I am excited about because Marco Rubio is another
51:01
true blue person. He has been very pro family.
51:05
He has been very pro-life. He is very adamant about his
51:09
faith and open about his faith. He is somebody that has been in
51:12
politics now for many years and has demonstrated a consistent
51:16
track record of being pro-life and pro family.
51:19
I also like his position on foreign affairs.
51:22
I think right now, obviously the Hamas Israel war is a huge
51:26
conflict and Secretary of State, he would have a lot of decision
51:30
making influence in that when it comes to how we what our posture
51:34
is in that war. I'm going to start with a clip
51:37
here from Marco Rubio talking about his view of Hamas and of
51:43
the Israel Hamas war. Contrary are you filming it
51:49
wait. I want you guys to get this.
51:50
I want them to destroy every element of Hamas they can get
51:53
their hands on. These people are vicious animals
51:55
who did horrifying crimes and I hope you guys post that that's.
51:59
What? About the civilians Every day
52:01
Hamas has stopped hiding behind civilians, putting civilians in
52:04
the way. Hamas knew that this was going
52:05
to lead to this. Hamas has stopped building their
52:08
military installations underneath hospital.
52:11
The 15,000 have died. You don't care about the babies
52:13
that are. Being I think it's parable and I
52:16
think Hamas is 100% to blame. That's what I think.
52:19
Make sure you post that please. OK, I like his tough but polite
52:24
response here. So he's being cornered.
52:26
He's running through, I think, the halls of Congress, going to
52:28
his office, Senator Rubio here, and he is being cornered by an
52:31
activist who says, well, you do not care about the civilian
52:35
deaths in Gaza and, you know, basically do.
52:39
You. You know how?
52:39
Could you support the civilian deaths in Gaza?
52:42
And he's saying those are the fault of Hamas.
52:45
And then they push back and they say, no, you know, they're
52:47
blaming Israel for this. And you're saying, well, it's
52:49
Hamas. He was putting their
52:51
infrastructure structure and their military supplies, their
52:55
military leaders in civilian places like hospitals and
52:59
schools. They do launch rockets from
53:01
hospitals and schools. They hide under hospitals.
53:04
And the horrific crimes that they committed on October 7th a
53:07
year ago now, absolutely heinous crimes against men, women and
53:11
children. Innocent Israelis, by the way,
53:14
not just Israelis, but people of all different religious
53:17
backgrounds were targets of Hamas.
53:19
It wasn't just Jewish people, There were people.
53:21
That were killed that were Islamic, there were people that
53:24
were killed that were different religions.
53:27
And so Hamas was this did this bloodthirsty campaign against
53:31
innocent Israelis. And they are.
53:34
Horrific leaders for the Palestinians, horrific leaders
53:37
for the people of Gaza, and they have led to so much pain and
53:39
suffering for the people of Gaza.
53:41
So I like Marco Rubio's strong stance here.
53:44
He's unapologetic. I mean, today if you say that
53:48
Hamas is evil and they are responsible for the deaths in
53:51
Gaza, there's a whole. Horde of folks on the Internet
53:55
who are very angry about that and say no, it's the fault of
53:58
Israel. Israel is to blame.
54:00
And we're not going to get into all of that right now.
54:02
We've talked about that on the show before.
54:05
But I think Marco Rubio has his head screwed on straight here
54:08
when it comes to the war. And he understands that allaying
54:12
with Israel is important in a region that is often very
54:16
hostile to the United States and is very, very hostile to Israel
54:21
and to the Jewish people on faith and culture.
54:24
He is also passionately pro-life.
54:25
I want to play another clip here which I love his views on life
54:29
and family. Well, I'm speculating now, but I
54:32
can speak from personal experience as a Catholic and
54:34
American and someone who voted and supported Donald Trump.
54:36
And that is, you know, our our faith instills in US, hopefully
54:40
a set of values that are ancient and tested and proven and have
54:43
been true for successful societies for thousands of
54:47
years. And we are now living in an era
54:49
where really important people, really powerful people are
54:52
telling us that those values, they're not just wrong, they're
54:54
hateful. That if somehow we believe, for
54:56
example, that biological men should not be competing against
54:59
women and women's sports or that, you know, children should,
55:02
you know, we shouldn't have schools where children are being
55:04
encouraged to turn. Your son is being encouraged to
55:07
maybe he's actually a girl and not a boy.
55:09
We're being told that if you if you speak out against these
55:12
things, you're some sort of an evil retrograde Neanderthal
55:16
backwards thinking person. And so they are.
55:18
And so I think there's a real resistance to that and and the
55:22
fact that we. Have so here.
55:23
Here's. Unapologetically sharing his
55:24
values and how he's against gender ideology.
55:27
He's pro-life, he's pro family. These are all really good
55:29
things. He talks about his faith.
55:30
That's all great. Let's take a look at his
55:32
statement that he made about his foreign policy that he would
55:35
have under President Trump if he ends up being confirmed as
55:38
Secretary of State. So here is Senator Rubio and
55:42
he's basically thanking Trump for the nomination.
55:46
He says leading the US Department of State is a
55:48
tremendous responsibility and I'm honored by the trust
55:51
President Trump has placed in me as Secretary of State.
55:53
I will work every day to carry out his foreign policy agenda.
55:55
Under the leadership of President Trump, we will deliver
55:57
peace and through strength, peace through strength and
56:00
always put the interests of the Americans and American America
56:03
above all else. I look forward to earning the
56:05
support of my colleagues in the US Senate.
56:07
So the President has his national security and foreign
56:09
policy team in place when he takes office on January 20th.
56:13
So I think this is a good appointment in my view.
56:15
I hope he gets confirmed by the Senate.
56:17
And yes, that's a rundown. There's a lot more appointments,
56:21
but we're going to wrap here. Again, it is a mixed bag.
56:25
I think that there are some bright spots here among the
56:28
appointments that President Trump is making.
56:29
And I think that's reason to be very.
56:31
Positive about the future and I think there are some problems as
56:34
well that we need to be real about and we obviously deep dive
56:37
that today. All right, I'm going to take one
56:39
more look at the chat here. John Henry, thanks so much for
56:42
joining. Thanks for coming on, he says.
56:44
I agree the pill should be banned.
56:47
The baby's life is just as valuable and matters as much as
56:50
any person at any stage of life. Absolutely, M says, capping
56:54
childcare costs. Wow, yes, I think there's it's
57:00
something that can help families be stronger and not be afraid of
57:02
children. A new life is a good thing.
57:04
When it comes to childcare and daycare policies, I think it's
57:07
always best to empower the family to be there for their
57:10
children so that instead of the mom having to drop their child
57:13
at daycare, they can actually get money back into the family,
57:16
maybe through a cash credit because they're having kids so
57:18
that they're able to be with their babies more.
57:20
I'm always for that. But again, a mixed bag here and
57:23
let's, let's pray. I mean, I think folks listening,
57:26
a lot of you people of faith, you're already praying for the
57:29
country. A lot of people saw Trump's win
57:32
against Kamala Harris as a mercy, at least maybe a, a
57:35
temporary mercy. And there's a lot of things to
57:38
be figured out with this new administration.
57:41
There are there's a mixed bag. I think we need to pray a lot.
57:44
We need to make our voices heard about the issues that matter,
57:47
especially life and family and having qualified appointments.
57:50
But we also need to pray, pray for our country, pray for our
57:54
political leaders and appointments.
57:56
And in that spirit, I'm going to close us with a what we've done
57:59
doing on a lot of lives before. You guys probably remember
58:03
during the election, in the weeks leading up, we do a lot of
58:06
these lives and talk about the candidates positions.
58:08
And we would close many of these lives with a Chaplet of the
58:12
Divine Mercy, with a decade from the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.
58:15
And so I thought we would do that today.
58:18
And we're doing this for these appointments that President
58:21
Trump is making. We're doing this for our
58:24
country. And we can also do this for
58:26
whatever other intentions that you have.
58:28
So here is on the screen is how to pray the Chaplet of Divine
58:31
Mercy. This is asking for mercy on our
58:33
country and mercy on ourselves. We're going to start with the
58:36
sign of the cross in the name of the Father and of the Son and of
58:39
the Holy Spirit, Amen. And we're going to be doing 1
58:42
decade, starting with the prayer of the Eternal Father.
58:46
Eternal Father, Ioffer you the body and blood, soul and
58:50
divinity of your dearly beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, in
58:55
atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.
58:58
For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on
59:01
the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful
59:03
passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
59:06
For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on
59:09
the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful
59:12
passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
59:15
For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on
59:18
the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful
59:21
passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
59:24
For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on
59:28
the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful
59:30
passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
59:34
For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on
59:37
the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful
59:40
Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
59:43
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
59:46
Amen. Thank you all so much for
59:48
joining. We will see you guys next time.