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What Did You Accomplish Last Week? With those Simple Words, Elon Musk Drove Dems & the Media Nuts! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with
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  Speaker 2: you and Senator Uh. I got to say, this is
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  Speaker 2: an email I feel like should be sent out every
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  Speaker 2: single week.
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  Speaker 1: What did you do at work last week?
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  Speaker 2: That is an actual email sent out from doges to
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  Speaker 2: government employees.
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  Speaker 1: You even responded to it, well, it's it's amazing. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Every day, it seems we see the same story playing out.
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  Speaker 3: We see Elon Musk holding the federal government to account.
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  Speaker 3: We see Donald Trump standing up to the swamp in Washington,
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  Speaker 3: and we see the media and the Democrats losing their mind.
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  Speaker 3: Elon Musk with the most basic question any any boss,
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  Speaker 3: asks of what did you accomplish this week? And and
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  Speaker 3: somehow that is deemed shocking and unbelievable and and it
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  Speaker 3: really is a sign of of of what needs to happen.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to break that down and break down the
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  Speaker 3: response to it as well. We're also going to talk
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, huge win there, and you want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: another big win you mentioned in a moment ago. I
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  Speaker 2: got to say, there's certain emails that happen in headlines
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  Speaker 2: right now with this administration that center I find great
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  Speaker 2: joy in.
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  Speaker 1: I smile.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people listening to show we're
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  Speaker 2: going to smile at this story we're about to tell
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  Speaker 2: you about, which is there was an email that went
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  Speaker 2: out to all government employees saying, what'd you do last week?
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  Speaker 1: Tell me the top five things you did in your job.
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  Speaker 2: And the left and the unions and the woke people
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  Speaker 2: in the government are just like crying and losing their minds.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: Elon Musk tweeted out this week quote, consistent with President
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  Speaker 3: Trump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email
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  Speaker 3: requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure
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  Speaker 3: to respond will be taken as a resignation. Very simple,
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  Speaker 3: five bullet points, tell me what you got done in
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  Speaker 3: the past week. Now, the media and the Democrats, they
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  Speaker 3: are freaking out. A classic example is Senator Tina Smith,
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  Speaker 3: senator from Minnesota, very liberal Democrat. She tweeted out the
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  Speaker 3: following quote, this is the ultimate dick boss from Musk,
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  Speaker 3: except he isn't even the boss, He's just a dick.
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  Speaker 3: So that's the Democrats response. Asking someone what did you
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  Speaker 3: get accomplished this week at work? Is unacceptable because they
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  Speaker 3: live in a world where apparently meritocraty doesn't exist, where
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  Speaker 3: government workers aren't expected to do anything positive for the voters,
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  Speaker 3: for the taxpayers. And Elon responded to Tina Smith a
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  Speaker 3: very simple question, what did you get done last week? Now,
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  Speaker 3: I got to say I read that, and my reaction
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  Speaker 3: immediately was, Okay, this is something, frankly, bosses do all
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  Speaker 3: the time. It's a very reasonable thing. I've been in
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  Speaker 3: a lot of jobs where my bosses have asked for
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  Speaker 3: a weekly report at the end of the week, what
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  Speaker 3: did you get accomplished. I've submitted hundreds or thousands of
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  Speaker 3: weekly reports over the year of what's been accomplished during
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  Speaker 3: the past week. That's something a lot of very productive
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  Speaker 3: workplaces do. So I responded on Twitter. Here's what I
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  Speaker 3: tweeted out in response to Elon A fair question, Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 3: Here's mine. One passed out of the Senate to Take
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  Speaker 3: it Down Act to Protect Kids from Deep Fake Porn.
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  Speaker 3: Two confirm cash Pattel at FBI and Lutnike at Commerce. Three,
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  Speaker 3: pass the Budget Resolution to secure the border, rebuild our military,
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  Speaker 3: and unleash energy. Four char it a hearing on freeing
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  Speaker 3: up six hundred Megahertze spectrum for commercial development so the
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  Speaker 3: US will beat China to six G and five met
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  Speaker 3: with twenty African ambassadors on strategies to combat China in Africa.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what I did last week. And I got
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  Speaker 3: to say, you know, it's an interesting thing. Why does
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  Speaker 3: it all hundred senators report back on what they accomplished
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  Speaker 3: last week. I think it's a perfectly fine thing for
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  Speaker 3: federal employees to do it. But at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day, I've got thirty one million bosses. I work
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  Speaker 3: for every man, woman, and child in the great State
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  Speaker 3: of Texas, and I try on a regular basis. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: this podcast is an aspect of that accountability. It's an
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  Speaker 3: aspect of sharing with the men and women I work for,
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  Speaker 3: what it is that I'm doing, what I'm fighting for,
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  Speaker 3: and what we're able to get accomplished. And it really
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  Speaker 3: does say something about the current surreal expectations of Democrats
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  Speaker 3: and federal government workers that asking what did you do
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  Speaker 3: last week?
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  Speaker 2: You know when the woke left was like, oh, we
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  Speaker 2: got to have like safe spaces for people in colleges
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  Speaker 2: and kids. That's in essence what their response is here.
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  Speaker 2: They came out hardcore and they're like, how dare you?
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  Speaker 2: This is harassment to ask what we did last week?
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  Speaker 2: You're making us stressed out. This is making people worry
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  Speaker 2: and fearful for their jobs. Yeah, if you're not doing
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  Speaker 2: your job, you should be fearful. If your job is
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  Speaker 2: something that you can't even explain, you should be fearful
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  Speaker 2: you're going to lose your job. But this idea that
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  Speaker 2: this is quote harassment, We had unions that came out
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  Speaker 2: saying you can't harass our union members this way, all
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  Speaker 2: by asking a simple question.
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  Speaker 1: What did you do?
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  Speaker 3: Let me ask you, Let me ask you, Ben, you've
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  Speaker 3: worked in a white house in comms, is this a
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  Speaker 3: strange question to get?
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  Speaker 1: What did you accomplish last week?
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  Speaker 2: No? And especially when you work, for example, on campaigns,
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  Speaker 2: you know there's accountability every ten, twelve, fifteen, twenty four hours.
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  Speaker 1: What did you do to respond to this? What are
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  Speaker 1: you doing this?
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  Speaker 2: Here's the next project? What have you done with this?
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  Speaker 2: Like that is a very normal way of doing things.
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  Speaker 2: And I can tell you whether it was on the
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  Speaker 2: campaign or we were working on Social Security reform, you
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  Speaker 2: had deadlines and you had meetings every day, and if
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  Speaker 2: you came in unprepared, it could cost your job, no
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  Speaker 2: doubt about it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Look, it's the basic idea of having deliverables. But there's
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  Speaker 3: a very strange dynamic in Washington right now. The average
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  Speaker 3: federal office building, up until a few weeks ago, was empty.
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  Speaker 3: The attendance is five to eight percent. More than ninety
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  Speaker 3: percent of federal workers are not going to the office now.
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  Speaker 3: Now that is bizarre. Look, I get in the height
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  Speaker 3: of COVID, there was a period where everyone stayed home.
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  Speaker 3: But you know what happened. The rest of the world
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  Speaker 3: went back to work. Like everyone's gone back to work.
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  Speaker 3: And in the private sector, I don't know a place
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  Speaker 3: where people don't go into the office anymore except the
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  Speaker 3: federal government. And I got to say to Democrats this
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  Speaker 3: is treated as an entitlement that they are owed this,
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  Speaker 3: and to see people freaking out, well, if we have
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  Speaker 3: to go to work, that makes it very hard to
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  Speaker 3: figure out child care. Well, guess what that that's called work? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it is hard to figure out childcare. I mean every parent,
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  Speaker 3: that's real. Look, every parent who has a job has
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  Speaker 3: to figure out childcare. Why do federal employees get to
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  Speaker 3: stay at home in their pajamas and bunny slippers when
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  Speaker 3: everyone else has to.
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  Speaker 1: Go to work?
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  Speaker 3: And and and it. I think these two are intertwined.
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  Speaker 3: That this this expectation. I am entitled to a federal
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  Speaker 3: paycheck for the rest of my life. I don't have
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  Speaker 3: to produce anything, I don't have to ever go to
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  Speaker 3: the office. And I can do my job simply by
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  Speaker 3: diverting funds to radical left wing groups. All of this
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  Speaker 3: is intertwined. It is the politicization of government. It is
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  Speaker 3: the lack of respect for the taxpayers, the lack of respect. Look,
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  Speaker 3: this is intertwined. We've talked about this as well with
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  Speaker 3: how Joe Biden behaved the last three months of his
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  Speaker 3: presidency after the election. I have never in my life
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  Speaker 3: seen a president behave like Joe Biden did, because he
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  Speaker 3: behaved with absolute contempt. He spent three months trying to
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  Speaker 3: do everything he could to stop Donald Trump from delivering
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  Speaker 3: on the promises that he made to the American people
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  Speaker 3: that the voters said overwhelmingly we want. Most presidents when
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  Speaker 3: they leave, when they lose, they're like, okay, fine, all right,
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  Speaker 3: the next guys are coming in. We're going to transition over.
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  Speaker 3: The voters have spoken. You know, I may not like
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  Speaker 3: what the voters say. I was on the other side,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if you if your side loses. But the
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  Speaker 3: absolute arrogance, the lack of regard for the voters and
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  Speaker 3: the taxpayers, it is also intertwined. Name a Democrat, an
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  Speaker 3: elected Democrat who has said once, thank god doj just
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  Speaker 3: pointing out all of this waste, fraud and abuse. Thank
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  Speaker 3: god we have stopped sending millions of dollars for transgender
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  Speaker 3: surgeries in Guatemala. I haven't heard a single Democrat, not
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  Speaker 3: one of them. And it's because they don't think they
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  Speaker 3: owe anything to the taxpayers or the voters. For them,
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  Speaker 3: it's about power. It's not about honoring the commitment you
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  Speaker 3: made to the men and women who elected you.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: The other part about this is there was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people that were trying to spend this email as
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  Speaker 2: like this was a national security risk because it went
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  Speaker 2: out to all employees and there was guidance that came
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  Speaker 2: back very quickly from certain departments going hey, like, you
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  Speaker 2: can't necessarily say what you did this week, so hold
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  Speaker 2: on before you respond back. And yet the media tried
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  Speaker 2: to spin this into oh my gosh, all these rules
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  Speaker 2: were about to be broken, and you were putting people's
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  Speaker 2: lives at risk, Elon must by sending out this email.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's important that we clarify. Look, there were
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  Speaker 2: some positions that it was totally fine to say, hold on,
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  Speaker 2: we can't do this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, of course, and so there were natural places
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  Speaker 3: where employees were told don't respond to this email. For example,
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  Speaker 3: cash Betel told FBI agents, don't respond to this email.
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  Speaker 3: Un run through your management to respond to this email.
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  Speaker 3: Why because when you're dealing with classified and confidential law enforcement,
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  Speaker 3: there are national security and intelligence operations where you can't
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  Speaker 3: have this kind of report going and going through non
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  Speaker 3: classified channels. So of course that's the case. But if
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  Speaker 3: you're a run of the mill employee in the FED
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  Speaker 3: federal agency, those constraints are not there, and those employees
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  Speaker 3: are are obligated to respond, no.
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  Speaker 2: Doubt about it. Also, let's talk a little bit about
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  Speaker 2: c pack. You at a meeting with Elon Musk right
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  Speaker 2: after he was given this chainsaw. You even got a
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  Speaker 2: picture I was there with the chainsaw that we tweeted out.
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  Speaker 2: It was actually really fun and Elon Musk is loving
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  Speaker 2: this new opportunity to make a difference in this country.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say. And in addition to the five
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  Speaker 3: things that I tweeted that I accomplished last week, I
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  Speaker 3: did did follow up with one more tweet and said,
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  Speaker 3: oh yeah, and six, I got to hold a really
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  Speaker 3: badass chip chainsaw. And and and this is okay, you
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  Speaker 3: got to understand. So Javier Malay, the President of Argentina,
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  Speaker 3: showed up with a gold and silver chainsaw for Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 3: And this is not a run of the mill chainsaw.
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  Speaker 3: This is a gold plated chainsaw. It had Elon Musk's
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  Speaker 3: musk on it. It had Viva la Libertad on the blade.
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  Speaker 3: The blade was long, it was it was a massive chainsaw.
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  Speaker 3: It had uh, brass spikes coming coming out of the
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  Speaker 3: main body of the chainsaw, like something out of Mad
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  Speaker 3: Maxim Thunderdome. And and and and the pull cord where
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  Speaker 3: you started was a set of brass knuckles.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was just that was just so cool.
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  Speaker 3: It was seriously bad ass and and and and it was,
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  Speaker 3: I told Elon. So you and I spent the afternoon
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  Speaker 3: at Seapack last week and we did Friday's podcast. We
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: did from Seapac on Thursday, and we interviewed Pambondy. We
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  Speaker 3: interviewed Pambondy live on the stage. We've done done Verdict
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  Speaker 3: live on the stage of Seapac several times. Let me
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  Speaker 3: encourage folks, by the way, if you didn't listen to
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  Speaker 3: Friday's podcast interviewing Pam Bondy, it was one of the
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  Speaker 3: very first major interviews of the new Attorney General that
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  Speaker 3: has happened. Pam and I have been friend friends a
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  Speaker 3: long time, and so we had a really good and
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  Speaker 3: candid conversation about what she's doing, what she's accomplishing, what
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  Speaker 3: her objectives are. So if you didn't listen to Friday's podcast,
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  Speaker 3: go back and listen to it, because it was an
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  Speaker 3: interview that I think was really worthwhile. But afterwards, you
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  Speaker 3: and I hung out. Afterwards, I spent about twenty minutes
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  Speaker 3: with Elon and Javier and Malay delivered this chainsaw to Elon.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, Malay brought it up on stage while
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  Speaker 3: you and I were doing the podcast. I gotta say
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  Speaker 3: my security guys were freaked out. They're like, a guy
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  Speaker 3: is running on stage with a chainsaw, and and never
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  Speaker 3: mind that it was ahead of state running on stage
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  Speaker 3: with a chainsaw. That that's just a little surreal, Like
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  Speaker 3: you have guys that whose job it is to keep
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  Speaker 3: you safe. It is despite the movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
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  Speaker 3: we rarely deal with people running at us with chainsaws.
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  Speaker 3: And yet yet that happened at Seapack, and yet somehow
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  Speaker 3: it was okay, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It really was.
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  Speaker 2: There was also another bad A moment, since we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about bad A moments at the White House, that happened
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  Speaker 2: while we were.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Benjamin and Benjamin, if you're gonna do it,
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  Speaker 3: to do.
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  Speaker 1: There is a badass moment there we go.
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  Speaker 3: There was a bad right, I'm trying to rest I'm
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  Speaker 3: trying to rescue your dignity because because a bad A
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  Speaker 3: moment is just a weeny way of putting this.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well go with bad house.
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  Speaker 2: There's a badass moment the White House where the President
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  Speaker 2: straight up called out a governor who was in attendance
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  Speaker 2: for the governors that a bunch of governors come to
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  Speaker 2: the White House.
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  Speaker 1: They had their big governors at meeting.
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  Speaker 2: They invited these governors come to the White House, and
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  Speaker 2: the President just straight out called out or the governors
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  Speaker 2: for the plan that had leaked in essence that he
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  Speaker 2: was going to defy the directive from the federal government
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  Speaker 2: about protecting women from men playing in their sports transgendered
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  Speaker 2: you know, individuals claiming that their chick and the President
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  Speaker 2: just said like, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Care, you're here, Glad you're here. Are you going to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: not go along with what I told you do?
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: And it was one of those flashpoint moments, just showing you.
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  Speaker 2: I think the difference is time and the mentality of
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: this president.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's exactly right. Trump is not backing down.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: And I got to say the Democrats that seems they've
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: learned nothing from the election. Here, give a listen to
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: the exchange betwtween the governor of Maine and President Trump.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: The NCAA has complied immediately, by the way, that's good,
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: But I understand Maine is the main here, the governor
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: of Main are you not going to comply with it? Well,
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: we are the federal law. Well you better do it.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: You better do it because you're not going to get
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: any federal funding at all if you don't. And by
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal orlough,
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: I did very well there. Your population doesn't want men
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: playing in women's sports, so you better you better comply
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding. Every state. Good.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: I'll see you in court. I look forward to that.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: That should be a really easy one. And enjoy your
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: life after governor, because I don't think you'll be an
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: elected politics.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, the trush talking.
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  Speaker 2: I just got to say, looking at the female governor,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: maintained like, hey, the people there want this too. You
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: should listen to people. I'll see you in court, all right, great,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: look forward to it. I don't think you're in me
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: in politics much longer either, if you keep this up.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: This is just a different Donald Trump this time around.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Well it is, and by the way, there's also real
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: teeth to it. So simultaneously with this exchange, the US
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Department of Agriculture announced that it had initiated a compliance
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: review of the University of Maine, and the state could
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: be in jeopardy of losing one hundred million dollars in
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: federal USDA funding over non compliance with the Executive order
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: on keeping males out of female sports. And at the
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: end of the day, and and and by the way,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: this is not hypothetical that this is happening in in Maine.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Uh in Maine, that there was a transgender boy who
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: identifies as a girl who took first place in the
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: girls pole vaulting at Maine's Class B state championship. And
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: and it's a win that helped helped the high school
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: take first place overall. And and and so you know,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: how would you feel if it if it's your daughter
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: who's in second, and she's the best pole vaulter in
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: her in the state, who's a girl, but there's a
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: dude who says, no, I'm a girl who beats her
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: and dominates. It's just fundamentally unfair. And I got to
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: say overwhelmingly eighty to ninety percent of Americans agree with
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: that proposition. And what's striking is this is not Democrats
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: fighting on some issue where where the voters are with them.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: I promise you, even in Maine, the voters don't want this.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: They're not happy about this. And today's Democrat party this election.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: If there is an elected Democrat who learned anything from
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: this election, I don't know who it is, because not
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: only are they this has.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Become like the new Littus Test though of the extreme
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: left right.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: They're also doubling down in open borders. They're also doubling
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: down on anti Israel. Look that the Democrats in the
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Senate voted against sanctioning the ICC, the International Criminal Court,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: which has gone after Benjamin et Yahu in Israel. Every
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Democrat but one Democrat but John Fetterman, voted against Israel.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: And they did that after the election. They did that
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: just a few weeks ago. I mean, that's where the
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Democrats are right now, is they're still open border, they're
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: still anti Israel, They're still pro boys and girls sports.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: And it's look, look, this is the same issue we
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: started with fundamentally. I think, you know, the Democrats love
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: to prattle on about democracy, but when they prattle on
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: about what democracy, what they really mean is they want power,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: and they don't care what the voters want. They don't
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: care about respecting the will of the voters. Instead, they
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: want to fight against the will of the voters. It's
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: why they indicted Trump not once, not twice, not three times,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: but four times. It was designed to stop democracy It's
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: why you had multiple Democrats, judges, and state officials trying
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: to remove Donald Trump from the presidential ballot because nothing
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: says defending democracy like stopping the damn voters for voting
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: for your opponent and making it impossible. This is all intertwined,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: which is it is a lack of humility, a lack
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: of understanding that you have a boss, and the boss
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: is the men and women who elected you.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great point, and it goes back, I
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: think to the core issue of he's listening to the people,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: as you mentioned, and he's doing what the people said
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: with a mandate, and that is what this election was about.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: And it's also I think it's clear the reason why
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: he's doing things which.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Moves me to the FBI.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: You got to go to the squaring end of cash
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Fortell at the FBI. But it's clear that the presence
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: not just like checking a box at the top and
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: saying okay, now, business as usual. We also found out
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: today that he has decided to name Dan Bongino, who
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: many that listen to show probably listen to his show
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: his podcasts as well, and knowing from Fox News Channel,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: former Secret Service agent, former police officer in New York City,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: a very outspoken critic of the deep state. He's now
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: the deputy director of the FBI. I mean he is
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: truly draining the swamp and bringing in people that are
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: all about reform.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: On Friday, I was at Cash Betel swearing in, and
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: it was a terrific moment. I think Cash is going
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: to bring fundamental reform to the FBI, and I think
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: it is desperately needed.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: The FBI is an institution.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: It is an institution with a long and storied history,
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: and I don't think there is any institution in America
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: that has lost more respect, that has had its integrity
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: compromised more than the FBI has. Actually, the CDC may
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: be rivaling it. FAUCI may have done as much damage
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: to the credibility and respect of government health sciences as
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: James Comey and Christopher Ray did did to the FBI.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: But both institutions are sorely in need of reform. I
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: think Cash Hotel's going to come in and do that.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: And I got to say, Dan Bongino, he's a good
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: friend of mine, he's a good friend of yours. He
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: is a strong conservative, he is a reformer and that
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: combination of Cash Motel and Dan Bongino, I think.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Is going to be really.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Potent to bring the FBI back to its core mission,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: and its core mission is stopping bad guys. It's stopping
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: violent crime. It's catching the very worst criminals. It's stopping terrorism.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: It's putting terrorists in jail. It's keeping America safe. It's
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: not being a politically woke enforcer for left wing ideology,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: or for that matter, for right wing ideology. I don't
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: expect the FBI to suddenly be a right wing inforce.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: So I want the FBI to lock up murderers. And
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: to be clear, I want him to lock up murderers
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: whether they're Republicans or Democrats. I don't care if you're
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: killing people, if you're raping women, if you're hurting kids,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: if you're human trafficking, if you're drug trafficking, if you're
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: a terrorist, I want the FBI to go after you
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: and lock you up. And that's what their core more
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: mission is. And I'm very confident that Cash Mattel and
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Dan Bongina, with Pam Bondy as Attorney General, that they're
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: going to bring the FBI right back to that.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Let's give a quick update about where we are with
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: all these cabinet positions. You guessed that you thought all
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: the big ones were going to get through so far
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: that has been exactly the case. And look, they didn't
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: want Pam, they didn't want Patel, they didn't want several
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: of these others. They went after Christy Noame. We saw
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of them at SEAPAC this weekend. The big,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: big positions are getting filled with the people that Donald
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Trump promise the American voter. How encouraged are you by
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I would also say the Republicans that are in Congress
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: right now seeming to stick together pretty well.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Look, I think the Republicans in the Senate and the
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Republicans and the House are aware that that that we've
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: got an historic mandate from the election in November, and
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: we've got an obligation to deliver on our promises. We
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: can't screw around. Failure is not an option. And I
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: do think that is something in both the House and
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Senate that that that that Republicans get. I'll tell you
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: when it comes to confirmations, we we are moving at
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: the fastest pace in twenty five years. We're moving at
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: a much faster pace than than cabinet nominees were confirmed
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: under Biden or in the first Trump term. I predicted
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: on this podcast that that that all of President Trump's
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: cabinet nominees would be confirmed. And that's been the path,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: that's that's been the ones they went after. They went
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: after Pete Hegseth. Hegseth was confirmed. They went after Toolsei
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Gabbard Tulci was confirmed. They went after Bobby Kennedy Bobby
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: was confirmed. Uh, and and so other than Matt Gates
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: who withdrew very early and and and Gates would have
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: faced a very rocky path. But other than that, once
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: once once Gates withdrew, and I made the prediction after
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Gates withdrew, that's exactly what happened, which is every cabint
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: nominee has been confirmed.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's incredible.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: What do we have on the horizon when it comes
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: to what's next when it comes to confirmations.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Well, next week the confirmations that are coming up, we're
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: going to do the Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll uh.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: And then we'll be voting on Jamison Greer to be
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: the United States Trade Representative. Both of those are expected
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: next week, and then we're going to go after some
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: of Biden's failed energy policies in the Senate. We're going
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: to go after rules and regulations that drive up the
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: cost of energy and make it harder to to heat
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: your home, harder to to that that drive inflation and
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: so that So that's going to be the priority in
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: the Senate this coming week.
• 28:48
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• 28:49
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• 29:01
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• 29:02
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• 29:04
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• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Wednesday morning.