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Senate And Sworn To Secrecy
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And I don't have word, I don't believe that this West Philadelphia, this tragic situation, but was this dirt bike rider somebody who was illegal on the roads, I believe that this is an illegal situation on the city street. So a dirt bike rider, you know, this is a tragic outcome of riding these illegal vehicles on the roadways. - Let me ask you because, and I get everybody has their own little thing. You know, some people like sports cars, some people like trucks, some people enjoy boating, others like do aviation. - What's the fascination with riding a dirt bike in the city? - It's to be rebellious. - Is it? - Don't it's this tragic, I say, you know, F around to find out. - Yeah. - You know, stop with the, you know, trying to terrorize civilians on the street with your stupid dirt bikes. - Yeah. - And if you collide with something bigger than you, sorry, you shouldn't be riding in the first place. - I've driven ATVs before and they're fun, but you know, in a controlled setting. - Yeah, off road. - Absolutely. - I'm not a motorcycle guy, but I have nothing against people that have a bike. But you know, I would think it's smart to wear a helmet. Do we know if these dirt bikers wear helmets? 'Cause I would imagine just nod. - No, okay. I just know they love to wear the, you know, they love to wear masks and cover their identity up. So I figured they would wear a helmet as well. - They're doing wheelies down the street. - Yeah. - I don't know if this person, I don't know who this person is. If they're underage, I have no idea with this situation. I really don't. - Okay. - That's all the information I have. So I will continue to follow up and get more details for you. We have a 14-year-old charged with, charged with starting one of several huge wildfires that spread across New Jersey over the last month. So New Jersey declaring a drought and asking people, it's a drought situation. We've had very little rain over more than 40 days and they've red flag warnings, all of that. But in this case, this is the Asian police and they're saying that October, back on October 30th, officers responded to a forest fire near Sycamore Avenue. This is near the Berlin Township right in the border there. And they say that this, they accused this 14-year-old of starting a fire that burned at least 52 acres of land. So New Jersey Forest Fire Service, Eve Shum Fire Department, this was tough to fight. Hundreds of first responders and firefighters, you know, trying to fight this thing. We have no injuries reported, but in that one, they discovered that that fire, that original one had been intentionally set, they say, by a teenager. So the teen is 14-years-old, started the wildfire, facing serious charges. The question I have is, will this person, you know, will the parents be fined? 'Cause sometimes we see that, where if it's catastrophic, the parents can face fines. - Yeah, is this kid a pyromaniac? What's going on? - Yes. - That's what I want to know. So because it's a juvie case, and I don't know if the individual will be charged as an adult or anything of that nature, but they won't give the name or anything like that. But they do point out that you will be charged right now because of the drought in Jersey. They're, I don't know that there's a law on this, but they're putting restrictions on water usage and watering lawns, that sort of thing. So asking you to, you know, be cautious about how much water you use amid the droughts. So a big story, it broke mid-morning yesterday, but it's worth talking about this morning. And that is a losing day in court with district attorney Larry Krasner. Remember he had filed that suit against Elon Musk, over Musk's $1 million voter, the sweepstakes, that Musk was offering $1 million to people in swing states, battleground states, like Pennsylvania $1 million, if you signed a petition saying he would support the First and Second Amendments. At this point, the judge, Judge Foglietta had ruled that in fact, the prosecutor's, the DA's office and the prosecutors did not make their case. They did not show evidence. They did not even make a compelling argument, they said. - Oh, fuck yourself. - So Musk's lawyers had, you know, defended that this was a core, this was really at the heart of a core political speech that they were allowed to do. So Judge Foglietta denying Krasner's petition after the hearing last week and saying that Krasner essentially did not even have a case. - Of course not, it was all political, we knew that, and Larry takes DL. I mean, this guy never even goes to court. Now all of a sudden he wants to go to court because of Elon Musk, I mean, come on. - So Elon Musk was giving out a million dollars, you know, per person a day leading up to the, leading up to the election, $1 million there. And now, well, Pennsylvanians will pay at least a million dollars up to their estimates. This will cost all of us here in Pennsylvania as far as tax dollars, $2 million for a recount because Senator Bob Casey want, he did not waive that automatic recount despite all the lawyers and officials saying there's no way that the incumbent Democrat Senator Bob Casey Jr. can win this race against his opponent, Republican Senator elect Bob or I should say Dave McCormack. - Yeah, did you see your boy Guy Sharaki tweeting that Casey's lawyers, some of the substance of this court case, they are actually in court arguing for the following votes to be counted. Number one, ballots of non-registered voters. Two, unsigned mail-in ballots. Three, mail-in ballots without dates. And number four, ballots cast in a county where the voter does not live. I would dismiss this right away, all four of them. This is your argument. Basically, illegal votes is what you're seeking and searching for. - Yeah, so. - Bye-bye. - Okay, sorry. - No, no, no, no, I'm saying bye-bye to these lawyers. Get out of here. - So, I don't know if our friend Linda Kearns is listening. She's been in, she's still in court, ProtectTheVote.com that we've talked about. And yesterday, I write at 10 o'clock, actually, she called in to say they were back in court again for exactly the reasons that you stated what, she broke news at that point because she was saying this that in Montgomery County, Bucks County, the argument here is that they have decided they want to count votes that should not be counted that are illegal. - Yeah. - And so now they're within 30,000 votes. At one point, the margin was reportedly 40,000. They still have roughly 80,000 ballots. Some of these are provisionals, but they are expected to your point, Nick, and what Linda Kearns was saying yesterday, that at the end of the day, they have to look at all of these votes. And then it's gonna go to court because the courts have ruled and the courts have been definitive about what the law says. So this will, that's why this is very costly. The minimum cost, $1 million. And it could be in the millions. And so Linda Kearns have made a plea right here on Talk Radio 1210WPHT. For Senator Casey, I know a long time incumbent, it's difficult to lose a race, she had said, but in essence, she had made a plea that he knows the outcome. And the argument here is that if you get these texts and I get them, they are fundraising off of this. And so they're using this to say, and I keep getting the fundraising texts, I could show them to you, please donate because Bob Casey needs to do this recount, you need to donate money. And so then in fact, they're using this. - Yeah. - And that is, that's something that's out. They are using that as a fundraising tool to raise money, despite the fact that all the experts are saying, and they're arguing in court, that this is going nowhere. - Yeah. I mean, I don't care about your party affiliation, Democrat, Republican, whatever. So it's not a partisan thing. But if you can't figure out how to sign your ballot, how to put the correct date down, or even to put a date at all, then you don't deserve to vote. This is not a complicated process. I'm sorry, you should not be involved in other people's lives and decision-making processes. If you can't actually look down at your watch, and I know most people don't wear watches anymore, or look down at your smartphone and see, oh, okay, today is October 8th. Let me put the correct date down. If you can't do that, then you don't deserve to be a part of the process. I'm sorry. And we're not voting for the homecoming queen here, okay? Are you saying Bob Casey's a homecoming queen? - He might be. - Might have to transition to that. - You think about his Senate career. Dad obviously a legacy famous governor here, but Casey Jr., his career spanning four presidencies from George W. Bush, and obviously through Joe Biden now outgoing. I know we'll talk about, we've got the big take coming up and covering everything that was happening. Fast-breaking hour by hour. A lot of exciting news with our entire country seemingly engaged in the cabinet picks of a president elect, which I don't know that we've ever seen that level of awareness or talk as if it's, I do feel like I'll tell you, like it's an NFL draft. - Yeah, I was just gonna say that. Damn, you stenciled and you took the sports analogy from me, right? - Sorry. - No, it's fine. It does, right? Like you're just sitting there waiting for, all right, who's Howie Rose, I'm gonna grab in this round. All right, Matt, Gates on the fifth round, and this guy in the seventh round, come on down, Tulsi Gabbard. - Yeah. - Look, a lot of people that were involved over the last two to three years. - Yeah, so maybe, you know, no matter what your party affiliation, it's a good thing that people are activated and aware and debating all this. That's probably a good thing, right? - The next step in the process, we did the victory lap last week. Now, let's start looking at some of the key players that are gonna be a part of this administration. - So we do have, speaking of the NFL, we have a big game coming up tonight, Eagles, V-Commanders. - Yeah, baby. - Yeah, get your Amazon Prime subscription renewed if you haven't already, folks. It's the only way to watch it. - Oh. - What, it'll be on here locally. - Oh, that's right, yeah, you're right, yep. - Okay, good. - Channel six, I guess maybe, or 10. I don't know, who owns Amazon? Is that NBC? I forget, no, Peacock is NBC. It'll be on 3, 6, 9, 12, 20, 29, something like that. - I'm trying to look really fast, and I apologize, I don't, I should know that, but I don't know where it'll air because I always just count on one of the three males in my household's gonna have the game on. - Yeah, find that remote, click on that app, find that password, what a process. - So Eagles, Commanders, a lot of excitement over that, and then the forecast real quick here, 'cause we wanna get to the big take, the all important big take, but it's chilly, okay, it's 39 degrees, brisk today. The sun will peep out this morning, but this evening we will see some rain, again, not a measurable amount, but we're not really, we're not really reaching much more than the low to mid 50s today, depending on where you are and cloud cover, like I say, rain this evening, so kind of a raw brisk day for this, it is mid November. We also had the Christmas tree arrive, and the lighting, now the tree at City Hall, will be decorated, so it's starting to feel like the holiday season. - Yeah, geez. - I know. - Yeah, I see Christmas decorations up. - Yeah, yeah, down the hall where the music has already started, apparently. - It's like walking past the North Pole. - No, I'm not. - I might even talk about our sister's season. I've got like houses. - Oh, houses? - Yeah. - Oh, houses. - Yeah. - My wife's already floating out the idea of doing the tree pre-Thanksgiving. - Just to get her done. - I don't, I don't know. - Well, Thanksgiving's late this year, so-- - It is. - It's, you know, yeah, I guess people are taken advantage of it being late and doing it before Thanksgiving. - I guess, I typically do the first Saturday in December, is usually the way I try to approach it with. - I'm with your wife though this year, because like this weekend, we're in the low 60s and it's gonna be sunny. And then what if it, what if we finally do get the rain or we get precipitation or freezing cold? - Yeah, yeah. - So, there's that. - I might cage my wife as well. (laughing) - He caged me yesterday if you missed it. And the dog, and Carvel's cat. - Can you, can you read that, can you read that text you got Nick? - Oh, yeah, yeah, from our buddy Joe. This was great. - So, yeah, one of the Zioli Army listeners is my buddy Joe Snow. He golfs over at Bluebell. He says, "Good show this morning. "I was driving in the Philly area early for meetings. "I was able to listen to the whole ride in. "It would be funny if you do a show from a dog cage. "Do it for charity. "Tell Stalker to get on this, "or do a remote from the SPCA." - I like the idea of putting you in a dog cage in that studio and-- - Yeah, give me a headset. Well, I'll do it like remotely. All the proceeds go to the SPCA. I think that's a great idea. Do they make giant dog cages? - I could actually fit in the dog cage that we use for our dog. It's almost like a walk-in. It's not, by the way, it's not like he's in like a little three-by-three. Like, you know, it's still. It's like a palace. - Oh, still. - Oh, it's not a palace. - It's not a palace. - It's not a palace. - Give him a blanket and his stuff. - He's not happy. - For those of you that tuned in, that didn't hear the show yesterday, first of all, why? - Where were you? - The second of all. - We started six days! - Nick said that sometimes when him and his family go out for 10 or 12 hours, they cage the dog for the entire time. - Yeah, probably four to six times a year. - Four times a year. - Yeah, yeah. - Send your hate comments in the YouTube out of them anyway. - And Greg, I live, I probably live, what, 15 minutes. Greg and I both said, just drop your doggy up to our house. Take the dog. - Jimmy Kelly marked the tape. 836, it's already been sent to me in my files. - Might not get your dog back, you know. I'd be fine with that, actually. - Well, that is Killing Company News Live. - All right, Dawn, thank you very much. 618, let's get to a Thursday big take. - The big take on Killing Company. - And it's brought to you by Wawa Senate and sworn to secrecy. I'm a big believer in saying what you think, meaning what you say and owning your speech and your actions. I have no problem telling you what I have voted for. In fact, I've told you when this show started almost three years ago that prior to being a Trump voter, I grew up in a moderate Democrat family, not really a political family by any stretch. I even voted in 2008 for Barack Obama before becoming a Republican in 2016. But what happened yesterday to Donald Trump and the newly GOP-controlled Senate was the epitome of cowardice. That's right, I think it's cowardice. Yesterday, Republican senators voted to elect John Thune as Senate majority leader as he takes over for Mitch McConnell. I wanted it to be Rick Scott, the Republican Senator from Florida. He and Donald Trump are aligned in vision and policy. He's a businessman, a former outsider. I'm not shocked though, nor am I surprised that Scott didn't get the vote. In fact, I gave you the odds on Monday's show, courtesy of Polly Market, that showed Rick Scott was the favorite, but it was only a 52% chance to emerge as the Senate leader. John Thune was at 40%. So he was in no way shape or form a long shot. But what I can't stand, nor can many of you, I would assume, is how these votes are done behind closed doors in secrecy. Americans across the country elect these senators into office. We pay their salaries as their constituents, but ultimately their customers, we deserve transparency. And I'm happy that Trump is back in the White House, Republicans have the Senate, Republicans have maintained the House, SCOTUS has a conservative majority. It doesn't get much better than that. And I get it, you can't have everything you want. I'm not keen of Marco Rubio. I have my doubts of Kristi Noem in the position she was put in. The rest of Trump's pick so far, I am on board with. But this vote of John Thune over Rick Scott just reeks of establishment Republicans who were looking out for their own interests to play nice, nice with their fellow Democrats, an attempt to slow down Trump's momentum, his vision, and his agenda. And I've been clear about my thoughts on many Republicans in office. I'm not opposed to every single swamp creature. I'm also not in love with every single outsider. I try to judge and evaluate the ones we cover who are in the news and in the spotlight on a case-by-case basis. I've told you before, Carrie Lake, she's a loser, a two-time loser now. Marjorie Taylor Greene makes it all about herself. I like Byron Donalds. I like JD Vance. I don't like Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. I do like Nancy Mace, and I do like Tim Scott. I'm probably unique in those views because usually Republicans are either part of the swamp or only down with the outsiders. It's a blend for me based on personality, voting choices and whether or not they do the job at hand or if they make it about themselves. But John Thune seems like a succession plan. Keep in mind, he's Mitch McConnell's number two. This is the equivalent of the head coach retiring in football and then promoting the unpopular offensive coordinator to fill the vacancy. You look at Trump, he's the new owner of the franchise. I want his guys, not the other person's leftovers. And I know conservatives are probably ticked off about this and they should be. This feels like the equivalent of potentially having to go from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris. Think about it. Kamala tried to claim that it would be a break from Biden, but when asked if she would change anything she's done over the last four years, when asked by Sonny Hostin on the view, she said no, nothing comes to mind. I hope that's not deja vu with John Thune succeeding Mitch McConnell. MAGA Republicans wanted nothing to do with Kevin McCarthy, leading the House. And we want nothing to do with the remains of the Mitch McConnell era. Thune said the following yesterday on television. Listen and watch this. - The United States Senate and it's a new day in America. The American people have loudly rejected the failed policies of the Biden, Harris, Schumer agenda. And this Republican team is united. We are on one team. We are excited to reclaim the majority and to get to work with our colleagues in the House to enact President Trump's agenda. We have a mandate from the American people. A mandate not only to clean up the mess left by the high Biden, Harris, Schumer agenda, but also to deliver on President Trump's priorities. We will make sure that the President and his team have the tools and the support that they need to enforce border security laws and to remove the violent criminals who are wreaking havoc in every one of our states. We will work to make America prosperous again by streamlining the bureaucratic machine and overturning costly Biden, Harris regulations. And we will work to restore American energy dominance. Not just our energy security, but energy dominance, which will lower costs and bolster our national security. - Now look, I'll give him a chance, but if he fails, I want him ousted. Quick, fast and in a hurry. Why you might ask? Because his track record indicates what I just played is nothing more than lip service NBS. The Heritage Foundation rated him 62% conservative compared to 95% conservative for Rick Scott. Now that doesn't disqualify him in my opinion. His past words though are more of a red flag. Here was John Thune a few years ago on Washington Post live, listen and watch this. - Donald Trump is the Republican nominee. Would you support him? - Well, I'm hoping we end have other options. - Mm, I was hoping for other options as well for Senate Majority Leader Rick Scott for one. But that was when he was on the 117th Congress. We're now up to the 119th edition of Congress. Look, I'm willing to give him a chance. MAGA is in love with JD Vance. But after what JD Vance said about Trump eight years ago, things change, right? Trump has also given Marco Rubio a second chance after competing against him in the past. But there's more receipts that Thune is an anti-Trumper. Here's Thune on Trump's social media approach years ago on Fox News, listen and watch this. - But it's certainly not helpful. And it's not presidential. President needs to stay focused. We got an agenda. - Have you reached out to the White House to express that? - I haven't reached out specifically with this latest tweet, but I think the White House is fully aware of what many of us think in terms of the use of social media. And I think the president, I'd like to see him confine it to talking about the issues that the American people care about in his agenda, which is jobs in the economy and tax reform and infrastructure and healthcare reform. - We just heard from the White House saying, "No, mean tweets, my God, he puts out mean tweets. "They focused." - Sources tell Fox News that no candidate reached a majority yesterday during the first secret ballot in the old Senate chamber on Wednesday morning. Senator Rick Scott from Florida received actually the least amount of votes. And he was knocked out of the race immediately. It was down to then Thune and Cornyn. Some of the other details include each of the candidates that made a final pitch to their fellow Republican senators that occurred late Tuesday night in a forum held by Senator Mike Lee, Republican for Utah, joining Thune in leadership are John Barasso of Wyoming, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, James Langford from Oklahoma, and Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina. Now, Rick Scott walked out of the meeting with two new public endorsements from both Lee and Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, but a source familiar with Fox News told Blackburn that he had multiple questions during the discussion, including quote, "How they would give conservatives a more meaningful voice in the Senate and for specific details as to how they would immediately implement Trump's mass deportation operation. Apparently, Scott's remarks did not do much to impress or sway the members. According to reports and sources, he quote, "Focused more on his time as a businessman instead of the priorities for the Senate." So that's an interesting curveball. Now, if true, based on that, then maybe Rick Scott dropped the ball in his presentation and he wasn't convincing enough. If so, that is on him. But Scott had received support from Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Bill Hagerty, Tommy Tuberville, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio. I know we want it all, but you can't always get everything that you want. But let's give him a chance. Let's see if John Thune is like JD Vance and he's had an awakening, or if it's more of the same old, same old, and time will tell. And that's the big take. The big take on killing company. Big take this morning is brought to you by Wawa. Excuse me, getting a little horse here. You may have heard Wawa has pizza, but did you know that Wawa has pizza at a really great price? 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(upbeat music) Come join me, Andrew Philoponi. And me, Patrick Peterson, three-time NFL All Throw Cornerback on first-in-pot for familiar NFL coverage and conversations. Our motto on the podcast is every team every week, and we don't play favorites. Every episode, you get a glimpse of the entire National Football League with first-in-pot. Follow and listen to first-in-pot on Mondays and Fridays on the free Odyssey app, or wherever you get your podcasts. (upbeat music) - It's a killing company on demand from talk radio 1210WPHD and the free Odyssey app. - So I'm one of the get-your-thoughts yesterday as to the way this vote played out in secrecy as John Thune emerges victorious. Rick Scott, he didn't even make it from the trimming of three down to two. So we did not get what I think a lot of us wanted. I know I wanted Rick Scott just because it seems to me like him and Trump are in harmony together, but I am willing to give a guy like Thune a chance. The same thing with Mike Johnson on the house side, and Mike Johnson I think has kind of been, he's been up and down, hit or miss. I would just say Mike Johnson has been meh, you know, meh. Like the kids saying on social media, MEH, meh. I don't really have a take one way or the other on Mike Johnson, but did not get what I wanted yesterday. But the bigger issue is these individuals that we put into office and they vote, and we don't know how they vote. That is the thing that I think we deserve more and we deserve better of. - Yeah, okay, so first of all, I think it's notable that when Trump put out any statement, he did not endorse anybody. He actually did not, 'cause I even went back and looked yesterday after that, I was like, did he actually come out and say, we all inferred, obviously-- - Well, he said Rick Scott's my guy, right, or something like that? - But he then couched, he very, he didn't, I don't know, he didn't come out with what I think is a clear-cut endorsement. I think-- - Yes, correct. - Did he want Rick Scott to obviously, you know, win his Senate election? Does he like him? Does he, did he prefer him? Absolutely? - He is called Thune in the past, Mitch's boy and a rhino, so. - Yeah, but he, but look at the state, the actual statement that he put out, all he really cared about was that whoever gets that majority seat, it was important to him and reportedly behind the scenes, they all promised this, that essentially they would, they would, you know, paraphrasing here to not use the technical terms, but they would, in essence, fast track all of the different appointments so that they can get things done, so that they don't, the things aren't delayed through these procedures that they have in place. So that was the promise that all three reportedly, that they all did promise him that, and then I just felt like Trump put, he stayed out of it. Elon Musk, according to the Daily Beast, Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson were the ones that lobbied the hardest against Thune and for Rick Scott, so to your point, there were people out there pushing harder for Rick Scott than specifically Donald Trump, right? And I saw, yeah, I was watching a little television last night 'cause God, I mean, Tuesday and Wednesday night television is just painful, just absolutely painful. - All right, grandpa. - It's just, you know, Mondays are great, Thursdays, Fridays are Fridays and Wednesdays, you might as well just eat and go to bed. - Is it 'cause there's no sports on? - Yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right. - You know, my sons, this is so weird, but they, you know what they love, Columbo. - Columbo, the old detective. - I thought Nick would love this, actually. - Yeah, my pox was a big Columbo guy. - I'm telling you, things come full circle when you get so much technology and so much everything at your fingertips, you're like, what's this TV thing? Oh, look at this show from the 1970s. - But it's a Lumbo, let's watch this. - It's a Lumbo. - Yeah, I'm sitting there and watching Columbo. By the way, they've done a reboot of Matlock. Have you seen that? It's CBS is rolling it out with, oh, what's her name? She was the Molly Brown in the Titanic. Kathy Bates. - Bates. - I was gonna say Kathy Barnett, Kathy Bates. Kathy Bates, yeah. But anyway, not to get sidetracked and go down a rabbit hole of old television shows, which we could do that when things slow down eventually, but they never do around here. So, I was watching television last night and Byron Donald's was, which by the way, I'd like to see there's still other positions within the cabinet and there's hundreds of jobs. I'd like to see Byron Donald's really get a chance to do something. - He's so great. - He's so phenomenal and he's been good. He's a great speaker. He's just, he's very convincing. He was saying, look, make no mistake about it, that this is the Trump agenda and John Thune knows that. And he pretty much basically was saying without saying, like, if you don't fall in line to make sure that things are accomplished, that Donald Trump wants to achieve, you will not last in this position. So, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out. I don't think we're ever gonna get to the point, like we did with Kevin McCarthy, with all of those votes and those counts and things like that that went well into the night in the early morning hours, but there's definitely people out there that are not ecstatic about this pick. - They're not, but remember we talked about this on Tuesday with Sean Ferris and I just had this, I said at the time, I think it's Thune because, and we have to say his name, Thune, I think he did, I don't know, but yes, that's, - Is that French, by the way, what is that? - Thune, ugh, ugh, I hate it already. - But the thing is, you know, obviously he has favorite-- - Thune, yeah. - I can't say it, you know, Thune, we should just say Thune, like Greta Thuneberg. But, and I just, my sense of Thune is that he's a guy who, you know, has favor with his fellow senators and he lobbied well with him and that goes in part to, that's part of the job. And so what I think MAGA Republicans are worried about and rightfully so is that all of us remember when Thune, when he was on all those shows, and I forget which time it was with impeachment hearings or whatever, Russia, Russia, Russia going back, but this guy was on all those shows, on those Sunday morning shows, all those shows, and I just remember him, I just wanted to throw something at the television, you know what I mean? And so I think it's honestly, it's that visceral reaction, like, oh God, this guy is gonna give the shiv, he's not, you know, he's really not on board, he's saying anything. So that's, I think, what all the MAGA people, because of everything we've all been through, what we think, but allegedly he's on the team, like Johnson had said, that they were all his favorites, the House Speaker, and we know that Johnson is in step with Trump and they've had conversations. - Yep. - So, all right, eight, five, five, eight, three, nine, 12, 10, let me get to Tulsi Gabbard, and I wanna get to Gates as well. But I'm starting with Gabbard because I think she's A, gonna be good at this job, and B, I like her. I'm not 100% sold on the Gates pick, so we'll get to that, 'cause I know there'll be a little more discussion on that. I think Tulsi Gabbard is well-liked, obviously, by some, if not many Republicans, and some, if not many Democrats, as a former Democrat herself, as she is now tabbed as the Director of National Intelligence. I saw this tweet from a Libs of TikTok, and this is perfectly illustrated. I'm just gonna steal this because I agree with it wholeheartedly. They put Tulsi Gabbard on a terror watch list. Now she's the Director of National Intelligence, the biggest FU to the Deep State Swamp, which is absolutely valid. I think she has been phenomenal. You guys know I like her a lot. If Trump was gonna go female for Vice President, I was, you know, I don't know if I was lobbying for, but I said that she would be my top pick. If Trump felt like he needed a female Vice President, especially to win over moms in the suburbs, post-rov-aid for the election, obviously, the rest of that is history, and it's water under the bridge. But I think she will do a really good job. I find it interesting, too, because she's an Iraq war veteran, and she was a lieutenant colonel. And also, the way they frame it is that she controversially met with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in 2019 and declared that he was not an enemy of the US. And it's interesting how the mainstream media tries to paint her as somebody in a negative light, because she deemed somebody in the Middle East not to be an enemy of the US. It's almost like the mainstream media has been corrupted by the military industrial complex, and it's, oh, how dare that? Somebody say that somebody in the Middle East is not an enemy of the US, because why? Because we want to keep blowing things up in the Middle East and going to war. So I really like her. They also characterize it, according to Axios, as in an unusually high-profile pick for a bureaucratic job coordinating between US intelligence agencies. So why is it a bad thing if she's high-profile, and she got one of these jobs? I mean, she's been out there on the front lines with Trump for a while now. I think she's going to be a really good pick. Before we get to Gates, Don, any thoughts on Tulsi Gabbard in this role? Well, I think, first of all, what all of these people have in common is that they're fighters, and they're loyal. I mean, she's been loyal to Trump. She's come on board. She has co-led his transition team, and he trusts her. So he has to sit in a room with his cabinet members. He has to meet with these people. Face to face, he has to work with these people. He wants to be confident that they're loyal to him, because at the end of the day, I don't see him delegating to these jobs, to any of these people. And I think that's the point that individuals are saying, oh, you know, who was it? Susan Collins of Maine, she had expressed surprise with the Gates pick, but I just think it tells you that Trump is, he's the commander-in-chief. He's running things. He respects these people. And the question I have is how much of Don Jr. is how much Don Jr. was involved in- - Some of these selections. - Talking some of these selections out. 'Cause we do know- - Especially the younger outsiders, right? - Yep. - Yeah. - I just, I think that Trump, this time around, he does not want, he does not want in his cabinet any possibility of anybody giving him the shiv. But think about this. Remember that Don Jr. wants JD Vance to carry on the baton. - Right. - So look at who might threaten that. And that's why I think where they've blocked out certain people like Nikki Haley. - Yeah, I agree. And you know, a lot of the mainstream media, oh, who's Pete Haggs said, where'd this TV dude come from? Look, you can be somebody that's never served in a certain role, but yet have all the pedigree and all the chops to do it, okay? Stalker selected me to do Morning Drive when Rich went to afternoon. I mean, I know radio, I've done sports talk radio, I had never done talk radio before. So like, I'll sit here and defend the Tulsi Gabbards or anybody out there, the Pete Haggsests that are being put in a position that they've never actually done that specific position. Pete Haggsest is a combat veteran, right? He's a great communicator, that's why he's on TV. So you can enter a job that you've never worked in before and be a homerun hire. Now, let me get to Matt Gates. Now, he's a lawyer, he's gonna be the attorney general. Do I think he can do the job? Yeah, I think he can do the job, right? He went to law school, he went to William, I think it was William and Mary College of Law. So I don't question his ability, his acumen, to prosecute things on behalf of the United States. I think he could probably do the job really well. He's a pit bull, he doesn't give a damn. That being said, and I'm always honest with the audience, I don't really like Matt Gates, I've made it pretty clear. I think he's kind of a d-bag. I have no disdain for whatever he's been accused of doing, the sex trafficking, the Department of Justice, by the way. I actually, 'cause I was so bored last night and I'm flipping through the channels, Joy Reid was on and I saw the readout on my TV guide on YouTube TV. So I put her on and they had breaking news across with the little red banner that Matt Gates is under investigation by the... That is not breaking news. That is complete journalism malpractice, to say that it's breaking news that he was under investigation by the house, no, he is under, well, he resigned. So he was under investigation with the house ethics committee. But that's not breaking news. That's been going on for a long time. Allegedly, they were supposed to release a report on him on Friday that it was, quote, "highly damaging" and he resigned just in time for that to not happen. - And I can separate, like, there's something, like with Tulsi Gabbard, like I like Tulsi Gabbard and I think she's gonna do a good job. I think Marjorie Taylor Greene, I align with her policy-wise, I think she's a sideshow freak. I just, I don't need the power cleans in your garage gym. Like, I don't care about that. Just do what we pay you to do. So that's where I am with Gates. Like, I agree with Gates on policy. I like the fact that he's got balls, but I do also think he's kind of a jerk off. But that's just me. - Saul Queens says Matt Gates probably doesn't lock his dog up in a crate for 10 hours. - That's fine, he just sexed traffic's kids. (laughing) And we can play that game all day, right? All right, Mr. Morality on YouTube. How about I put you in a cage? (laughing) No, but like, I'd be honest, like, I've said this in the past, like, I think Gates does a little of the sideshow stuff. And like, if that's cool, if you're an entertainer, if you wanna do a show on YouTube or do a podcast, great. You wanna do a radio show? But I like the politicians outside. Well, Nick, you love Trump. Again, Trump is one of one. I don't need a bunch of wannabe Trump's out there. I need people that get things done, right? Like, I don't need 53 showmen on my football team, right? I need my Muckers and my grinders. I've got Jaylon Hertz, I've got AJ Brown. I need guys that get in there in the mud that don't want the attention in the spotlight. That's what I like about certain politicians. But again, I think Gates could do a really good job. And Gates has been against the weaponization of government. So I hope he keeps his word to that, because even though I wanna fight fire with fire, there's been a bad precedent set in this country. I don't want other politicians on the Democrat side prosecuted and being the victims of weaponized government. I want that era of politics to come to an end, right? - Okay, to go through this really quickly about Matt Gates. So pulling up the committee on ethics that was looking into this. And remember, this goes back to Kevin McCart, this goes back to the former House Speaker, why they butted heads. Because they had allowed this ethics investigation, this was going through. There was a statement this past summer that said there's been a significant and unusual amount of public reporting on the committee's activities. This Congress, much of that reported has been inaccurate. And this was speaking about this ethics probe that they had been called to look at representative Gates. And they said their investigations are conducted confidentially, but the committee's confidentiality rules do not prohibit witnesses from disclosing information about the committee's requests or conversations with their investigators. So as far as that goes, an investigation, as they go on and explain it, does not mean in any way that there are charges or that there's guilt of any sort. - Oh, I agree. - So if somebody's tuning in and they're like, what are you talking about? - This is years and years ago, he had allegedly signed up for, I don't know if it was an app, a dating site, whatever. And allegedly, there was a person there who was a young woman who was 17 years old. And that he had gone through one of these dating apps and gone out with her. And that was, that's the allegation. - Gone out with her in Jesus. - Or, well, I don't know. - Took her out for a show come. (laughing) - But hey, do we know about the, do we still know about the Congress member? Remember with the young man in the boardroom and the Senate chambers? - Yeah, bumping and grinding in after hours. - He was videotaping or whatever with an older, an elder statesman who was a lawmaker that they were having relations. - We still don't know who's cocaine was in that cubby on July 4th of 2022. - So it feels, somebody on Substack, and I forget who it was, did a whole thing on this, what a hit job it was on Matt Gates, I have no idea what really happened. - Oh, the Oppo dump on this is going to be glorious. It's going to be galore. - And right, this still might come out. - Oh, yeah? - So this report still might come out. And it's just like Jack Smith. Jack Smith is going to resign. Oh, he's a special product. He's going to resign, but he's still going to dump his report. And so, you know, all of these individuals, I don't know if I agree with investigating somebody, dumping him from it. It's like taking a dump on the whole just judicial system. - Yeah, which I'd like to do someday, actually. - In all seriousness, this is not our process in this country. If you have good, dumb people, if you have a crime, then charge them. The fact that this has swirled for years and years about Matt Gates. And they're trying to destroy his reputation. But if, usually with DOJ, they'll charge you with something. Why aren't there any charges? - I agree. - You guys remember that interview that Matt Gates did with Tucker Carlson about that kid Nestor that he took in? - Oh, yeah. - You guys remember that? And how awkward and weird that was and how he-- - I'll talk for a good guy, Joe. - No, no, no. I mean, Matt Gates was a very odd conversation. - I think there's a lot there. I think there's a lot there. - It's a bizarre situation. - Well, those conversations, they're all insane. - They're all weird. - But then we could say that if there's something here, if there's a crime, then charge them with something. You know what I mean? But the fact that they have, look at DOJ, how active they are, by the way, in the feds, in the weaponization of government. So in my, just in my humble opinion, if there was something here with this guy, they would have charged them. - By the way, Road Warriors is getting back to Nick in the cage. Who's gonna clean up Nick's poop in the cage? (laughing) - I'm putting newspaper down. (laughing) - I love it. - What we used to do for our puppy back in the day is we put the newspaper down in the old sports section. - 855-839-1210. So right now, as we wrap up the hour, here's your administration to date. 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