And now, this is the moment you've all been waiting for. It's time for the strength of breathless partner! It's Tuesday, November 19th, 2024, and this is the State for Breakfast Podcast, episode 492 and 493. Make sure you're subscribed to the show. It's available across every downloadable podcast and platform. You'll find us on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Samsung, or Amazon Podcasts. Check out the State for Breakfast Linktree, it takes shows on Instagram, our latest sub-stack, and verified accounts on tech, skater, and true social. What's up everybody, and welcome to the first of two big Tuesday editions of the show today. I'm Ron, I've got Noah here with me, and as always, there's lots of breaking news. The battle heats up over Donald Trump's appointments, looking to round out his incoming cabinet. We'll get you the latest from the Senate. The fake news media continues to ramp up the negative rhetoric against some of the cabinet picks. We'll get Matt Gates, Pete Hicks-F, Vivek and Eline, even Tulsi Gabbard. We'll catch you up on that as well. The boys were back in town this weekend, and by the boys, I mean Donald Trump and the crew, and back in town, I mean the big apple and at Madison Square Garden. We'll bring you a complete recap of the event at UFC 309. And Joe and Mika complete a humiliation ritual down at Mar-a-Lago as the Democrats look. For any kind of leadership within the party right now, we'll catch you up to date on that as well. We've got a great slate of guests coming in here today. South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mase will be joining us. The senior editor-at-large at Newsweek, Josh Hammer will be here. We'll catch up with South Carolina Congressman Ralph Norman and RNC Attorney Christina Bob. But before we get into any of our interviews, let's jump right into these headlines and change the way you consume your news. Mumpy, this is not nom. This is bowling. They're a rule. Hey, hey, hey, junior! America! It's like four! Bestest! So stand by! All right, everybody, welcome to the State for America's podcast. I'm Ron. No one will be joining me in just a sec if you're a first-time listener. Welcome to the show. If you're a long-time listener, welcome back to America's Fastest Growing. And quickly becoming favorite political podcast on a busy news Tuesday here in America and around the world. What everybody's doing well was a busy news weekend, to say the least. Stories coming out about picks that Donald Trump is making, trying to add to his cabinet and agency appointments. We've got the fake news media still trying to decide whether or not it's going to be the blame game within the own party. Or is it going to be changing the way that they present their package? People who have been voting them in and out of office moving forward here, and I really have to say, getting things started, you know, the Democrats have really kind of done this to themselves. The more I see the layers getting peeled back and following the 2024 presidential election, you really do have some leadership void there, to say the least. Who is in charge of the party you've seen? Many members of Congress, including Senator John Federman come out over the course of the last ten days and take former two-time loser speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi, the task after she announced that she would be running again for her congressional seat, one that will put her up on Capitol Hill until the ripe old age of 86. In addition to that, you've seen changes coming within maybe the Democrat party as they're looking to not want to be the party of freak shows anymore. And they're looking to change the chair of the DNC, who I believe happens to be a gay black man. So you see a lot of people come into terms of it in the media, the fact that Donald Trump won, and no matter how many illegal votes they want to continue to tally across the country, his electoral victory is going to be one that will be remembered for the ages. In addition, the popular vote, which there is no mathematical way that Kamala Harris can even come near catching, has sent him into the transition and hurtling towards Washington, D.C., come January with a mandate, much like we have never known in the modern era. And it just speaks a lot for where this country is at right now. You see a lot of the, and it could be a combination of two things. I want you guys to think about this. Have we been so repressed that some of this stuff has been going on for a long time and we just weren't keen to it? Or are more and more people in and around America and across the world finally starting to say, it's okay to support us, the America First Movement and the clearly defined leader of that movement, Donald Trump, as we saw to great extent over the course since the end of the election. The Trump dance take off, MAGA hats everywhere, more prominent figures in our society, especially when it has to do with the social stuff, coming out and being supportive of the America First Agenda. You see poll numbers for favorability of things like nasty portations, not missing a beat. And we really have to kind of take all this in and allow it to digest for a minute as we formulate what our next moves are going to be. And obviously that is getting everybody sworn in in Congress on January 3rd, a couple weeks ahead of Donald Trump's triumphant return to the White House on January 20th. So let's start to break this down a little bit as we are helping to change the way you consume your news here on the show. And a great guest list today, the Palmetto State is going to be more than represented with both Congresswoman Nancy Mase and Congressman Ralph Norman joining us on the programs. In addition to that, we'll have the senior editor at large and the host of the Josh Hammer Show, Josh Hammer, circling back with us, and we'll be catching up with one of our favorite, Wonder Women, attorney for the RNC, author, Marine, former Trump administration official Christina Bob will be here as well. And we're starting to round out the guest list up for the next couple of shows. And it's just starting to look great as always. You know, we really have to, as I said, start to break this down now. As it looks like it's finally going to be OK to be MAGA. I think one of the biggest things I took away from the weekend, whether or not it was Donald Trump making a return to Madison Square Garden as a guest of Dana White to watch UFC 309, whether it was all of the college football and NFL players this weekend who, in some way, shape or formed, concluded a play with the celebratory dance, which mimicked or mirrored Donald Trump's iconic end to the rally moves. And you just start to feel like, even though still a good portion, I would say around 75 to 80 percent of the mainstream media still just absolutely dead set on stopping this agenda, delegitimizing picks, comparing. I even saw it last night, they were doing like one of these polls on CNN. And they said that Donald Trump's popular vote victory ranked 44th out of 51. And listen, anyone who was out there saying that Donald Trump was going to sweep not only the big three, but walk away with a popular vote victory more than 10 days ago. A is a whole lot richer. And B was smarter than some of the most prominent minds closest to the president in his campaign. We talked about breaking down an electoral path to victory for Donald Trump and how it started with sweeping the East Coast. That's the Carolina's, Georgia and Pennsylvania as the polls were closing on election night. And by that time, and if that scenario unfolded as it did, there would be one or two avenues that Kamal Harris could get electorally to get over 270 and it never happened, never materialized. And she wound up capped out at 226, which is where we said she would probably end. Maybe even when one more state than that from our angle here. And you just have to take into consideration the fact that the media is going to try and not only confuse the viewers by saying what Donald Trump hasn't accomplished is monumental, which it is. They're going to try and repress the voices within their own side of the echo chamber that all the stuff that people came out and presented as a referendum to Democrats wasn't true. And moving forward, it's time to start the resistance. The best part about it is, is that the way that some of these leaders on the radical left are presenting the case. How women's reproductive rights are still on the table when I think an overwhelming majority of Americans now believe in the federalist fashion that Donald Trump saw it has been pushed back to the states. And if you want to, you know, live in a place that has more access to abortions, well, every two years or four years, you'll have the ability to go out and vote for it. And then it's up to, you know, the secretaries of states and attorney generals and obviously the governors to enact the will of the people. But you have the JB Pritzkers, you have the governor up in Massachusetts, so you even have Eric Adams kind of walking that fine line when it comes to mass deportations. Obviously Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, of course, many others coming out and just virtue singling that they will protect their citizens, which is again a huge blurring of the line, which starts when these people come in with no status, which transpires in the communities when they commit crime and aren't treated as illegals, and all the way up through the governments of these states, which see no difference between someone who was born here, maybe a several generation American, and someone who was flown in on a Biden-Harris flight over the course of the last three years and is now trying to destroy the community, which, you know, many Americans don't want to see anymore. So I think the best part about where we're at right now on the heels of such a big victory, and bear with me, Donald Trump did a really good job of proving a lot of the things that people went out and voted as part of the ammo they used to cast their vote on election day, figuratively, of course. That was that the mainstream media lies about everything. Now we've seen so many people go and bend the knee, especially from the Democrats out of the aisle since the election, and in the shadow of Donald Trump, who was literally 11 days ago referring to him as Hitler, threat to democracy, leader of the fascists, and that if the election didn't go and come on Harris' favor, it would be the end of our republic. Woke up this morning, my kids still had to go to school, I still have to go to work, and here we are recording more podcasts, so don't really see any basis for the factuality of the arguments that they made. In addition, he was able to point out prominent people within the Democrat Party, who he considered, again, figuratively targets against the America First Movement, and you saw, in historic fashion, a lot of these people were feuded and sent back to the locker rooms with big "Ls" throughout the case of election night, and in the ballots that would be counted in the days following the 2024 presidential election, so how can we not understand that we have now control of the news narrative? You're seeing it a lot with some of these major outlets, believe it or not, MSD and C being one of them. We'll get into that a little bit later, I believe in our second edition of the show today. On understanding that, if they're not going to accurately cover Donald Trump, well, all it takes is a press conference, a press release. God forbid he starts doing rallies again, if he really feels like he needs to turn the tides in regards to the fake news. To present to the American people, this is what they're saying, this is what we're doing, tell me which one is the truth. And for the first time in a long time, we saw the censorship industrial complex, we saw the media industrial complex, we saw the governmental industrial complex all taken to task. And listen, it starts and ends with Donald Trump being at the top of that ticket, so my warning to everybody is for as much as we're enjoying these times right now, and they're only going to get better through the holidays. And leading up to inauguration day on January 20th. Now is when the hard work begins. I can't stress that enough. You know, it starts with the formulation of the Trump government and all the stuff they're looking to do and continues to roll through that with the confirmations that we're all expecting here. Now again, the pushback to anyone in the fake news media, that's telling you that Tulsi Gabbard or Matt Gates or Pete Haggseth or anybody that Donald Trump is putting up for nomination or is appointing to high ranking positions in the government as, you had enough Republicans, many, if not most of which, are still in the Senate who helped confirm Alejandro Mayorkas, Merrick Garland, Xavier Becerra, Pete Buttigieg, and an administration's past, Eric Holder to the positions that Donald Trump is nominating people for. Now again, some people will say it's over the target. Cool. That's a good narrative. It's also a little bit lazy. I think it's a collective of the work that these people have put in over the years and for the positions they were being nominated for. I mean, Pete Haggseth not only had a 20-year career in the Army and was highly decorated and did veteran advocacy work, but while he was working within the parameters of his official duties as being in the military, he was pushed out for inaccurately being labeled a white supremacist. Same thing with Matt Gates. You know, they want to talk about this House ethics report that's coming out right now and how damning it would be that Matt Gates, you know, it was alleged that he had sex with a 17-year-old girl, that he trafficked women, that he did illicit drugs. Here's the deal. It was blackmail. Hey, Noah. What's happening? I'm here. I said he was going to be here and here he is. But I mean, honestly, the DOJ, the FBI, found nothing substantial enough to move on this case and for a Department of Justice weaponized against conservatives and will literally do anything to put them in prison. Don't you think if they had even an inkling of what they would think is a winnable case in court, they would have waged that against Matt Gates in a very official context, right? Believe it or not, jail. Yeah, but you have these major outlets out there saying that he's a human trafficker, that he's, you know, someone that had sex with a minor. And they're saying it like this is something that is confirmed, like it's official, like they are privied or have knowledge firsthand of this information or that he's been convicted in an actual court instead of the court of public opinion. Mm-hmm. You know, it's the same thing with Tulsi Gabbard. Meanwhile, Joe Biden has allowed Ukraine to use United States long-range weaponry to strike targets inside of Russia, which again has led to a lot of nuclear backdrop, the Joe Biden walking away, turning around smiling to the Michael Bay credits to starting World War III memes. We love those, but we don't like the actual inkling that we could be inching even closer to World War III during the transition. And, you know, to say that Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset, and she's going to be catering to this stuff, and she just, I mean, she's working for the, as the DNI, she's not the Secretary of Defense, she's not the Secretary of State. Even though she will be collaborating with, I believe, 18 different agencies on Intel, it doesn't mean that she's going to be pulling the levers that move the needle on anything that has to do with going to war. And again, it's like I said with all of these cabinet picks, they all come from different backgrounds. Again, when Donald Trump entered the political arena, Marco Rubio was a politician coming out of the School of Reagan, coming out of the School of the Bushes, coming out of the School of Fiscal Conservatism, Immigration Reform, we got to work on healthcare, and let's get a tax cut. Donald Trump changed the game. He's nominating these people because he's seen the evolution of a lot of them. Shit, Tulsi Gabbard was a presidential candidate for the Democrats in 2020. You know, you just can't go out and listen to the news and have them do these drive-by headlines in the form of a sentence and think that this is the way that every senator thinks that every single person that's going to have a hand on voting or confirming these people in. And here's the deal. The people who were up in the Senate, most of them were senators before Donald Trump even came down the Golden Escalator in 2015. They fully expect you, as was the case for the last several decades, to hear what anyone in the media says and believe it so when they make the case to go against the Trump agenda and either vote no or vote absent on some of these confirmation picks, they'll think you'll be okay with it. Because, oh, well, you know, John Smith heard that Matt Gates, you know, eats sex traffic kids, and not only did he sex traffic him, he had sex with a 17-year-old while he was doing drugs. Tulsi Gabbard, she's a Russian asset. Oh, Pete Hexett, he was labeled a white nationalist by, you know, his own military superiors. Now, Donald Trump is having him come in and cast out a start revenge against the same people who were his superiors during the time he was in service. None of this is true, and we have to just take into it. What did you send Donald Trump? If you think he can do it himself, we told you guys this a long time ago, you need your head examined. Donald Trump will bring everybody along with him, but once he's there, he needs everybody, or the stuff like in 2017 starts happening again. It'll start off in the house with many revolts amongst leadership, people and committees, all these sidebars. It'll fester up, you know, into the Senate. And you'll have these career politicians coming out and pontificating about how Donald Trump can't do this, that and the other thing. And, oh, I guess we're just going to have to leave it to the Supreme Court. How much is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris left to the Supreme Court over the course of the last four years? It seems like every ruling they have, they just write a memo to circumvent the decision and continue to do exactly what they were doing. Everything from student loan debt to dropping illegals on every street corner in America. And we have to be able to have thick skin like that, much like the Democrats just not care. If it's working in the right direction, just not care. They're going to lose their shit for the next four years. Today is the 14-day anniversary of the election, and they're already going bonkers. Now, no, I'm sure you saw the UFC event over the weekend, even though you're not the biggest sports fan, you probably also saw everything from the captain of the USA soccer team to collegiate and NFL players ending plays with a celebratory Trump dance. Trump Jimmy. Throughout the course of the weekend as well. It's like America has spoken. And if the Democrats and the mainstream media and all these lobby groups and the billionaire industrial complex, things that were good after 14 days, like we got our win on paper. So we don't care what happens with it. We're just getting started. And again, for anyone who doesn't think the hard work started on the first day of the transition, it's only going to get harder moving forward until we get, you know, our feet wet. And I'm talking about through the first 100, 120 days. So we're still looking at a long time here in this ship. We got to buckle down. We got to be able to push back on everything much as President Trump did and relied on us to do not just us here on the show, but everyone, the people that went out and gave him the popular vote victory two weeks ago. To do the jobs that we need to do to kind of blow through these fake news narratives. Now, some people are starting to realize that Donald Trump is the truth. And some people are having a tougher time with it. We'll start to break it down throughout the course of the show is getting ready to jump into the news now. Consequently, we're going to be talking about how the battle over Donald Trump's appointments started ramping up last week and continues to today. I saw over the weekend, there was a panel discussion on ABC news where they had a commentator and four guests in and Alex Henning was pushing back on everyone who says like Donald Trump doesn't have a mandate Donald Trump did not win a historic election victory. He only won like a, you know, three, three and a half million popular vote victory over Kamala Harris. Like, there's been people who have gotten more votes in the electoral college and now he's just trying to get a whole bunch of his loyalists. That's another thing you'll hear loyalists. Yeah, I've heard people try to run that one by me. It's like, well, if you were going to be in charge of something, wouldn't you want people that are going to be on board for what you're trying to do. It doesn't necessarily mean they're loyalists. It just means that they're believers in what he's trying to do. You can start to debunk these arguments by just doing head-to-head matchups. Pete Buttigieg was a reservist. Pete Buttigieg was a mayor. Tulsi Gabbert was a reservist. Tulsi Gabbert was a congresswoman. Tulsi Gabbert has now had no direct experience heading an agency like the DNI. Mayor Pete had no experience formally heading the Department of Transportation. Pete Buttigieg was automatically confirmed, cleared without any pushback. Because he was a presidential candidate, consequently in the same election, so was Tulsi Gabbert. So I don't know why people don't understand. The answers to these arguments that the mainstream media is trying to make are easily pushed back on. Same thing with Pete Hexeth. Donald Trump complains the biggest problem within the Pentagon and the Department of Defense right now is people who kiss their ass up into unfireable positions and TV generals. People who worry about their careers and what think tank they're going to be speaking at following their service instead of what wars they're sending people to while the Commander-in-Chief is authorizing long-range lethal force against one of not only our biggest geopolitical foes. But a nuclear superpower. Why wouldn't you want the military leadership to get completely cleaned out, especially after the Afghanistan debacle? And if Hexeth was being labeled as a bad guy by his own unit, then he probably was ruffling some feathers on the higher ups that they didn't like. Or, and if they were trying to get him to not go and guard for the inauguration, then it most likely would be a punishment just because he's either a Trump supporter or not on board for their narrative for what's going in. Disaster. Top to bottom. And I mean, Matt Gaetz, who people think is going to be one of the least attractive nominations that Donald Trump has made outside of the liberal press, I haven't heard much pushback on him. You know, I know people have a lot of respect for Matt Gaetz for the legal prowess that he brings to the table for the amount of committee work that he does. It doesn't matter what he seems to go and opine on the house floor. And the minute that anybody on any of these cable news outlets pushed back on him, he's prepared to retort or refute the argument with X, Y, and Z examples of evidence. It's very well spoken. Yeah. Very well spoken. And anytime anybody has a problem with Matt Gaetz, I would just play on the video of him dropping the Hunter Biden laptop on it. And here's like a freaking Moab. You can pull a point people just about to every position within our government to not completely destroy it. And I'm talking about, you know, figuratively, administratively, like changing the culture. You could probably put every single one of Donald Trump's people in there and say, like, you're going to bring in your own people. We're going to start to clean it out. And over time, we're going to get this agency. We're going to get this department working for the American people again. It's not like that at the Department of Justice. In four years, you have to completely take a wrecking ball to the entire agency. These people have been weaponized to go after going after presidents is on the table now. That's not what we do in this country. That's why we left England. And we cannot have people who go in there with a chip on their shoulder and revenge on their mind like Merrick Garland because he was pissed off at Republicans for not getting confirmed to the Supreme Court in a lame duck session on the back end of Obama's presidency and be weaponized again. People have committed suicide for verdicts that have stemmed from fake investigations that have come out of the US Justice Department. And people's lives have been ruined. They tried to do it to Donald Trump. You know, more power to him being a billionaire that was able to be able to play golf and keep his mind off of all the things. But it doesn't replace the fact that that man was in sitting in court hearing all of these lies being perpetrated against him being charged with things that people do every day when it comes to his businesses. You know, I saw the hush money case. The sentencing has been officially permanently adjourned as of this morning. So I guess Donald Trump was going to jail forever for that. But now that he's won the presidency and everybody's scared of what he could do or who he could appoint or what direction. Legally, he's going to be looking in in regards to the people that have made him and all of his supporters lives miserable over the course of the last four years. That's not a big deal anymore. I guess he's not that much of a threat to democracy. Listen, when you have commentators from MSDNC lining up at Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring. Hitler's guest list is at an all-time high. It's like one of the five star restaurants that you just can't get into unless you know somebody. And everybody wants to spend a little time with Hitler, I guess, during the transition before he goes back to DC and, you know, makes the fourth Reich official. It's weird how Hitler's so popular right now. He's in Vogue. Popular Hitler at all-time highs. Never thought I'd seen in my lifetime yet. Here we are. It's not just funny Instagram reels anymore where someone's cosplaying and everybody in Germany is first surprised and then happy. It's literally happening here in the United States. And I do say that with the biggest, you know, piece of community evidence that it's just, it's embarrassing. They're all embarrassing. That they have pushed this narrative for so long. And again, when you're talking about literally lining up to be able to shake Hitler's hand and say you can't wait to work with him for the next four years. It kind of just tells you the state of the mainstream media. Much like four out of five panel guests here forgot what happened two Tuesdays ago, but leave it to, again, to Alex Hennig to remind the military. Sounds like everyone on the panel kind of forgot what happened last week. I mean, Donald Trump ran and united independence, Republicans and Democrats. I traveled with the president. I saw what he was building in Wisconsin and Michigan. He went 312 electoral college votes and the popular vote and flipped the House and flipped the Senate. And the loyalty question, I just, I have a problem with that talking point. What are you supposed to appoint when you are president and you win the people elect to no one here I don't believe was elected? You choose the people that are going to support your agenda. Barack Obama did that. Joe Biden did that. And Donald Trump is going to do that. And regarding DOJ, we just watched some of the most polarized, politicalized actions from Merrick Garland. He jailed grandmothers and pastors for praying. He arrested parents for speaking out at school boards. I mean, that was someone that directly went after his political, Biden's political opponents and they went after Donald Trump. So I think there's a lot of goldfish memory going on. A lot of people forgot what has transpired over the last five years, eight years, even in Donald Trump. In fact, as he united so much of the country around these ideas that we would have, we would see power restored back to the American people and away from the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. And a lot of people joined his campaign because of what RFK said. I mean, yes, no one should be surprised by this, but I've never heard anyone say, oh crap, this is not what we wanted. This is exactly what people wanted overwhelmingly. So the media has been working 24/7 on trying to debunk the fact that these people in the media right now are trying to make Americans think that whatever happened two Tuesdays ago, it was not the will of the American people, that the appointments that Donald Trump is trying to make. And the thing is, it's like the media wants the narrative to switch it like, well, why isn't Donald Trump just straight up nominating prominent Democrats, his agencies, that's literally what they want. And, yeah, what do you think, no, it's just like, how much longer can they do this? Because, you know, I know we're still 60 some odd days away from inauguration day. But once Donald Trump's sworn in, we're going back to work. Oh, they're going to continue to do it until they feel like their failsafe point has been reached or they can properly whip up the leftists and assholes in the country that are just going to freak out and just make a fuss. Like, the goal is to have the left version of January 6 happened, I would assume. Sure. And, you know, I led into today's show talking about the big leadership void that the Democrats now have. I saw a poll yesterday, you know, of top members within the party, and it was like Kamala Harris was at 41% and she was number one. And then it was broken up between like, anywhere between 10 and 6% between Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg, Tim Walts, and a couple others. Like, who would you think of the leaders as a Democrat party right now? That Nancy Pelosi who just announced that she's going to be running for reelection in 2026, which would put her as a member of Congress until the age, I believe, of 84. You had John Federman come out and absolutely crap on her in the media over the course saying that she needs to sit down and that she's holding younger portions of leadership like Hakeem Jeffries back. And that all the plans that she tried to carry out over the course of the 2024 presidential election cycle failed. Same thing for Chuck Schumer. You know, he's on the floor last week calling for, oh, it's time for the Democrats and Republicans to bury the hatchet, you know, that whole rhetoric ramped up so high that it almost led to Donald Trump's assassination trying to throw literally all of you guys in jail. We just water under the bridge. What do you see is someone that's prominent in the party that can like literally take the reins right now? I tell you what, the more Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker and Gretchen Whitmer come out and try to push back on Donald Trump's incoming agenda, which includes mass deportations. I think the more America is not with those people to be party figures that look to lead the caucus heading into the start of the Trump presidency and into the midterm elections. What do you think? Well, a lot of people are going to see all these things that these media pundits or whoever are going to be saying. And they're going to be like, you know what? Like you keep saying this like it's a bad thing. Like I'm kind of into that shit. So, in the Major News outlet, MSNBC's their viewership is down 71% last quarter, 71. That's not like they're down 30%. It's not like they're down 25%. Three quarters of the people who are watching MSNBC just a quarter ago are now not watching that show on a regular basis anymore. And a lot of that one where the media conglomerate that owns them is thinking about just getting rid of it. Yeah, like just putting it up for sale and saying if anybody wants to continue MSNBC, more power to you were selling it in its entirety. And there's a lot of groups that are looking on the conservative side to maybe pick it up and add it to our repertoire of America First Media outlets. But there are there are prominent podcasts who don't air live and don't promote or publish episodes every day, which are getting more downloads than MSNBC is getting live viewers for some of their primetime programming. That's fucking wild. Yeah, and it's their key demographics of people that aren't watching anymore. 18 to 34 have just absolutely walked away from the radical left. I'm telling you and you're seeing it. The joy is back and it's coming in the form of America First and the Trump dance and MAGA hats. You know, you see all of these big seismic shifts, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Boston. You talk about these major cities that are just like sapphire blue strongholds forever, having 20, 30, 40% shifts in their electorate. Now, again, Democrats are still winning these places by a two to one margin. But if you look at the numbers from 2016, that was racist Donald Trump. It was a threat to democracy, Donald Trump in 2020 and 2024. Well, they're still winning on the dead voters to a lot of them, though. I mean, you figure California with their massive mail-in voter campaigns that they have and all this fucked up infrastructure that they have for voting. But I'm sure you've seen that map of what California looked like just four years ago and how many people came out and voted for Republicans this election. A 40% shift in the entirety in regards to the state of California's electorate. It's wild. Yeah, when you look at those pictures of the electoral map and people are like, oh, it's just, you know, it's not so much red. There's a lot of that. You know, there's nobody that lives in a lot of those areas. Like, yeah, that's true that it's not as densely populated. But it just goes to show that these people that live in these liberal enclaves just, they're in like a weird echo chamber and they don't live in the real world. And so when you factor in the X percent of the population, it kind of looks about right. Like a bunch of people live in the city that those areas went blue, but that's just because 50% or more or less than 50% voted for Biden. But there's probably a lot of people that still live in the city or just like, fuck this shit. Yep, there is. They don't want the illegals there anymore. They don't want the taxes continuing to get raised. They don't want the chance to ever own a home to be out of their grasp forever. Their children's educational systems are completely ruined, so it's the healthcare system. And crime is just rampant everywhere. It's not just illegals. The drug addiction epidemic and the mental health crisis in this country are both two things that need to be heavily addressed moving forward here as well. So here's Rep Hudson, who is with the rest of House Congressional leadership, talking about wanting to get back to work and what this is, is the presentation of one side of the coin and we'll explain after we hear them. Let's check it out. Well, thank you. I want to welcome the new members of this leadership team. I'm proud to serve alongside each one of you. They bring unique talents and backgrounds and will strengthen our team going forward. Listen, we ran our last campaigns based on the issues that mattered to the American people. The Democrats on the extreme leadership of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the Keem Jeffries in the House made every American less prosperous and less safe. And so our candidates went out and talked about those issues. We talked about energy. We talked about inflation. We talked about the border. We talked about the crime and fentanyl that come from that. And we told the American people our ideas to fix it, and they gave us a mandate. And together with President Trump and Republican Senate, we're going to start delivering on that on day one. Thank you. I'll now bring up. You know, and it's interesting. We're not going to have a leadership vacuum in the House of Representatives. It's going to be Speaker Johnson. He's going to be overwhelmingly voted back as Speaker as the House. He continues to talk about those issues that allowed House Republicans to retain the majority and to flip the Senate and get Donald Trump back. You have to act on it. It starts with you guys. And even though you had some great pieces of legislation in the last session of Congress that were obviously tabled in the Senate by Chuck Schumer, HR one, HR two, off top. Here's the thing. It's going to take a lot more than that. And it's going to take a lot more people checking their egos continuously because it seems like there's a lot of PP measuring in the House of Representatives. And I'm not just being facetious here. I don't know if you've heard over the course of the last 24 hours, but. And listen, I don't know where it's from. I don't know what district or state it came out of, but no, there's going to be the first transgender member of Congress being sworn in on January 3rd of next year. Did you hear that? No, who's that? I don't know who she him is, but Nancy May, so over the course of the last 24 hours, who consequently will be joining us at the end of this segment. Nancy May is a rape victim survivor. She's also an advocate for people who have been sexually abused and just an advocate for women in general. She's not just someone who goes and stumps about it in low country. She's taken the fight to Capitol Hill, standing up for things like Title IX, no transgender in women's sports and things of that nature. Now comes to the debate on where this dude, once he's sworn in, will be changing in regards to locker rooms and bathrooms that he's going to be blowing up after, you know, hitting the Swedish meatball bar at the Nancy Pelosi Happy Time Hour. And it's just like, this is really where we're at. They tried to pin Speaker Johnson this morning when he was doing his, like, you know, beginning of the week spiel on what they plan on working on throughout the course of the next couple of days and they're like, so, and Johnson has to give the PC answer. Oh, we treat everybody with dignity, everyone's human beings, but I'm not going to weigh in on where this person's going to the bathroom. I'm not going to weigh in on where this person's going to be changing. But the fact of the matter is, is that, you know, it might be a non issue. I'm sure that they virtue signaled like, when you see the public bathrooms nowadays and you see the one that say all gender and all these fucking wackadoo signs and stuff like that. All you had to do is just put restroom. You didn't have to virtue signal by putting all genders welcome or whatever the fuck it was. Most likely, there's probably already some weird bathroom in an odd spot. But of course, this person is going to want to, to prove a point. So they're going to go into the normal, most heavily, I guess, most foot traffic. Sure. But traffic. I don't know. What do you want to call it? They're going to go into the busiest area just to prove a point. Do a quick search of this gem on your phone or your computer. No, I just put a newest transgender member of Congress and it literally looks like a skinnier version with darker hair of it's ma'am. You remember it's ma'am, right? No, yeah. Yeah. It's embarrassing. And what state did they come from? I didn't even want to outside of watching Nancy May so pine about it and what she plans on. I mean, she's already produced a house resolution that says under no conditions can this person be using the multiple stalled women's restrooms or changing locker room. And she went into the hole as someone who is victim of aggravated rape. She knows what it's like when women are in places where, you know, they can be vulnerable and things of that nature and we'll get into it a little bit more with the Congress. And we got a ton of shit to talk. Listen, we want to talk about the win. We want to talk about house business, but she also sat on the UAP committee last week. No, did you hear that? Really? Yeah. I mean, that was just burning up the airwaves. But, you know, the fact that they've all but confirmed we've been reverse engineering technology, which is not of this world. And in some instances where there have been crashed UAPs, they've collected biologicals that are also non-human as well. So a lot of stuff to talk about with the Congresswoman. And we'll be touching on all of it. And I showed you a perfect example of house leadership there in Chairman Hudson. But all you have to do is turn on cable news to see what again that other side of the coin looks like. Here's Congressman Clyburn, who's best known for flipping the state of South Carolina for Joe Biden and the Democrat primary back in 2020. Also, someone who was heavily influenced or an influencer of the sham, which on January 6, tribunal on Never Trumper, Neil Cavuto, of course on Fox News, saying some of the things that got us to this instance and time in the first place. But now they're seeing it. Well, how are we seeing it? He's not president yet. I mean, are you visiting another Hitler? Is that what you're saying? That's exactly what I'm saying. I signed the 1930s in Germany. Yes, you did. And of course, and we go to Mussolini in Italy. These things. So you don't think that's a little hyperbolic. No, you may think so. Okay. I'll tell you what's happened about it. It's asking the Senate to approve all your nominees without innovating that. Mm hmm. They have a leadership problem right now on the Democrat side. I don't know what young, I mean, I know there's like Wes Moore. I don't think he's ready for the national stage yet. There's a couple others who have stayed out of the constant rotation of he's Hitler. He's a threat to democracy. We love illegal aliens and abortions and transgender's. And, you know, I even saw this week that I read an article where the DNC is looking to no longer be the party of freak shows. And they plan on replacing the chairman of the DNC who just happens to be an extremely flamboyant gay African-American guy. So I don't know where they're going with it. But when people, I guess outside of the beltways start picking up on this stuff, I'm talking about low ratings, fake applause, garnering primetime HBO tacos, Bill Maher. Well, he doesn't think referring to Donald Trump to Hitler is that prominent anymore. And we should probably take a different angle, but this might be a generational problem that needs to get rooted out less than this one. It's run for office as if the voters don't live here, as if they don't go to the grocery store and Starbucks and the office. But they do. They live here. And they actually see women and people of color. And it doesn't look like some patriarchal racist nightmare. Do problems remain pertaining to racism and sexism? Of course. But a poll last year asked if America is the greatest country in the world. More blacks than Hispanic Americans agreed with that than the white progressives. It asked if racism is built into our society. White progressives agreed with that at higher levels than black and Hispanic people. It asked if governments should increase border security. Same result. Hispanic Americans are less okay with illegal immigration than whitey. The votes are in. They don't want your pity. And black people can't afford to indulge rich white people's need to endlessly flatulate themselves. They just want prices to go down and good jobs and the police when you call them. Black people. They're just like us. Carmel has spent 100 days telling voters, "I know it feels like crime and illegal immigration or bad, but fuck your feelings. Look at this chart." Yes, there's a lot to not like already about the new regime, but maybe take one week to ask what you did wrong. The basis for democratic campaigns has become "We're the smart people." That we know from the good go. No need to look into that. We know that a priori, which is a Latin phrase the Red Hat people wouldn't have a clue about. But they don't need to. Have you seen my "In This House We Believe" long sign? See, it says right on it, "We Believe in Science." Right, which is why you demanded no one even debate whether COVID could have escaped from the one lab in the one city where they were studying it. How far fetched? The New York Times called it racist. Democrats have become like a royal family that because of so much incest has unfortunately had children who are retarded. Speaking of which, I sat down last night with my son. We've been trying to figure out a time to do so and in lieu of homework, caught gladiator for the first time together. Got to kind of let him watch the old one, the 25-year-old one, the original. He really enjoyed it. There was a couple twists in there that he didn't see coming. He also had lots of questions about Rome and our Italian heritage, which he did not even know anything about moving in here. And when I started to show him that the statues and the stories, a lot of things that were presented in that movie were actually real, my son has some major concerns about the fall of Rome and the end of our republic. No, weird. You just set him on the path of that was the meme about men thinking about the Roman Empire. Yeah, so I even woke up today and he's like, so I saw the statue of the gladiator on the horse. He's like, it didn't look all the way like it's the same. I was like, yeah, it's the same person. I was like Russell Crowe didn't have a bronze beard, which is kind of how they made it look on the statue. I said, but I can rest assured the portrayal of him in the movie is accurate to the memorials that have been left in his memory and about his legacy moving forward. And yeah, he just couldn't believe like he was looking and then I started showing him how they built literally Rome, modern a Rome around all of these, you know, pieces of ancient history. And he just can't believe that like you walk out of a condo and you make a hard right and you're like on a normal street with like a McDonald's and then you make a hard left and you're standing in front of the Coliseum. And I was like, yeah, that's really the way it is. I said they did a lot of things with the historical and then store, you know, ancestry places having to do with Jesus Christ in the Middle East too. I mean, now again, because of wars and things like the rise of Isis, a lot of those modern day marvels have been destroyed, but in places like Israel, they're still a lot preserved to remember the life and times of Jesus. And I hope to go to all of them with my family at some point, someday when it's a little bit safer to travel the world. But hopefully that happens. Yeah, Bill Maher makes a point, you know, and it's like the Democrats have inbred, they're narrative so much. They are literally now like 1980s Republicans, you know, they want forever wars. They want the military industrial complex to thrive. They acknowledge open borders, but don't want to do anything about it. And, you know, the tables have turned. And when they talk about the inbreeding leading to retarded children, I mean, look at some of the best representatives of the party right now. And I'm talking about people like Elizabeth Warren, John Federman, Akim Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi. Adam Schiff, do you throw in there? Can't really wiggle your way out of that one. There are some pretty fine retards within the Democrat party. So, yeah, they have an identity crisis right now. And the continued hatred, the push for division, and projection towards Donald Trump. It doesn't seem like it's resonating. Number one, when you turn on the news, number two now, when you turn on sporting events, which we'll get to in a little bit. Guys, wherever you're listening to the show today, no matter what platform it's on, thanks for joining us. And make sure you're sharing stake for breakfast with your friends, family, co-workers, and loved ones. Then head over to your favorite podcasting platform, whether it's Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Samsung, Amazon podcast, or wherever you're listening to the show today. And make sure you're subscribed and that we're downloading to your electronic device. And then check us out on social media, Twitter getter, TrueSocial, Instagram, and TikTok is where we have accounts. Find them, follow them at the notification bell. You'll never miss out on all the great stuff we've got going on down here at the show. Now, Speaker Johnson jumped on CNN's State of the Fake Union with Cry and Lion Jake Tapper this weekend to discuss some of Donald Trump's nominees and potential appointees in what will be his cabinet moving forward. And, you know, listen, and Mike Johnson, man, what a weekend for that guy. He has a warm welcome from Donald Trump before the House Conference on Wednesday to where Donald Trump says, "Mike Johnson's my guy, let's just leave it at that." So, he's going to be able to get the Speaker gavel for at least the start of this incoming session. And with Matt Gaetz heading to the Department of Justice, I doubt we'll be seeing the speakership vacated, especially with us having control of the Senate now. Then he went and did a little bit of the news heading into the weekend, pushing back on the narratives that, you know, all of Donald Trump's nominees are SS soldiers. Before he jet-set down to Mar-a-Lago to jet-set up to UFC 309, where, man, it looked like he was absolutely... He walked out behind Donald Trump, Noah, and was seeing people in the stands and was doing the double pistol points at him behind Donald Trump. And by the end of the UFC event, his tie was gone, his shirt was open, his hair was messed up. And then you saw, obviously, the iconic McDonald's pick, which came over the weekend. Poor RFK Jr. Dude, he's gotten memed into oblivion. We have entered the age of chicken nuggy nationalism, and I can't wait to see where this goes. But again, well, the RFK thing, it's like, he wasn't necessarily saying, like, never. Listen, we're making hitting up McDonald's with the bros at 3 a.m. great again. And that's all we're doing. So, they're normal people. Yeah. Let 'em be normal. I was surprised to see the Coke in front of them, though. That's a little, you know. Loved it. No diet? Come on. Well, actually, the real sugar is actually probably better for you than the diet stuff. The RFK Jr. in the shadows, memes that are out, and the captions that put the fruit loops down. What are you doing in the refrigerator? Or the one where he's in the car, and it's like, get in, we're deporting all the fats. Yeah. Epic. But again, here's Speaker Johnson, pushing back on Jake Tapper, who's crying about all of the nominations for President Trump's cabinet. Let's hear it. The nominees that the president has put forward is that they are persons who will shake up the status quo. And I think what the American people have believed, and what they've delivered with the mandate in this election, is the man that we shake up the status quo. It's not working for the American people. So, use the term in the opening about how these are disruptors. They are. I think that's by design. Any president has the right to name their own cabinet, to nominate persons that they think will fulfill their agenda. And the people that are on this list will do that. They will go into the agencies that they're being asked to lead, and they will reform them. These agencies need reform. And I think the vast majority of the American people understand that. You can't have status quo appointments in a moment like this. I'm really excited about the days ahead. I think the America First policies will deliver for the American people. I think we're going to have a warm embrace of all the new folks who came into the Republican Party in this election cycle. The demographic shifts that we saw that were historic. Because we have a chance now to demonstrate for them that our policies, our conservative constitutional policies, common sense policies are best for them as individuals and families and communities and states and the nation as a whole. So, exciting days ahead, it is a new day in America. These individuals will help deliver that. And I think the Senate needs to do its job and get them appointed so that the president, President Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance can begin that administration and run with it on day one. He makes some good points. It's not going to be as easy as, you know, in a skip in the park as he's making it seem. You've got to be a realist when it comes to some of this stuff. And we understand after covering it for so many years just how much. And I'm sure he does in some context, but you've got to say the right things. And again, you could just look at a lot of these people that we continue to outline throughout the course of the show over the last couple of weeks that have been effortlessly confirmed with the help of Republicans and to the cabinets of other administrations. You also want to talk about the following presidents who used recess appointment power. So, apparently Mitch McConnell spoke, I guess without vapor locking, before some supporters down in Kentucky this week. And during that closed door fundraiser said that he will be pushing back on the fact that Donald Trump might want to use recess appointment powers to have people join his administration. And the way this works now is, so I guess if there's a recess appointment Donald Trump can take who's ever not going to get confirmed. Let's just say it's Matt Gaetz. And he can appoint him to be the Attorney General of the United States. It will be for a duration of 210 days. And then I guess after a two week grace period you can extend it for another 210 days. So, not for the entirety of the course of the administration, but it might be enough to kind of see where we go from there. But just looking back at the recents and going all the way back to the beginning of presidents who again who have used recess powers to appoint cabinet level positions and agency heads Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, USC's S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and even George Washington. So yes, Donald Trump absolutely can push through with recess appointments, but we'd like to give these people the hearings that they so rightly deserve and want to see where it goes from there. Ron Johnson had something to say about the pain in the assets been in the media regarding Donald Trump and some of his appointments. He's going to be joining the show again. I believe next week we just confirmed with them. It's been busy scheduling because again, leading up to the election. We had a whole bunch of people that were coming in in the final days that were like, "Hey, we've been dispatched to Pennsylvania. We're going to Arizona. We're flying directly with the president. We're doing like two rallies today. Can we just meet up after the election?" And then I don't hear anything for a couple days, you know, following two Tuesdays ago. And next thing I opened up my email this morning was like 14 emails of people that were like, "Hey, we're available this day. That day isn't at all different times." And you got to say what days the show are when we're operating in, but we're getting everybody back and we'll have everybody in here for you all. So again, here's Ron John talking about the appointment process and what's going on with that. To vote for the people that President Trump wants to serve by administration. Again, as a U.S. Senator, I'm probably the minority view here. I don't particularly like being the Human Resource Department of Administration. Again, the top picks, lifetime appointments. I have no problem with that, but you start getting down to the lesser agencies here or positions. It's really ridiculous what we do. I'd much rather spend time on oversight and investigations here. Let the president pick and put those people into place. And if there's a problem, let Congress come in with oversight. Now, don't think that like people in regards to Tulsi Gabbard or Matt Gaetz or Pete Hexath or any of these nominees are going to get into their cabinet-level positions. And that's the last we're going to hear of them. I mean, we for the greater part of the last four years have extensively in the same way that we, you know, attention to the rallies and all the major events going on around America first to the committee hearings that we've seen, where we've had Merrick Garland, Alejandro Mayores, Christopher Ray, Pete Buttigieg, et cetera, go in there and have to lay out what the deal is and what the hell's going on. So, you know, there will be accountability for these people. It's not like Donald Trump is just appointing them to have a free-for-all within the government. They still work, obviously, within the same parameter set up by the Constitution of the United States. But Democrats and the radical progressive press are making it seem like, you know, Donald Trump getting some of his cabinet picks in there, and especially some of the more controversial ones like Matt Gaetz is literally, again, the end of democracy as we know it. Or the end of the world, which, I mean, if they're saying that the world is ending, they could be right if this Russia stuff keeps going. It's getting pretty hot and heavy. Don Jr. was on Maria Bartiromo show yesterday morning talking about the people that he wants to see surrounding his father. I know that Don Jr. has been staying in pretty much great extent down at Mar-a-Lago with Elon Musk and some of the -- or those closest to President Trump and helping weigh in on a lot of these picks that are going on right now. And he just wants to see the best people, you know, be able to hit the ground running with the best team possible. It's here. I think the reality this time is we actually know what we're doing. We actually know who the good guys and the bad guys are. We know who the guys are fake. And it's about surrounding my father with people who are both competent and loyal. They will deliver on his promises. They will deliver on his message. They are not people who think they know better as unelected bureaucrats. And so a big part of that process is just something that we didn't understand in 2016, where he came to Washington, D.C. He had no experience. He didn't know any of the 4,000 people that make up the plumb book, which are the presidential appointees. So now we have a great understanding of that. And we can have a cabinet that is so powerful in delivering the America First Message that the American people clearly voted for on November 5th. And that's the thing. You know, the more that I think about it, for as much as Jeff Sessions had a very robust resume coming in, Bill Barr, who had been, you know, whatever, the Attorney General of the United States and prior administrations. Mike Pompeo, who had been the Director of the CIA in a previous life as well. I don't want someone who is operated at the top of one of these positions in the swamp to come in and jump into one of these roles for this administration. You saw the success that Donald Trump had during his first term. And it was because he was entering into, like, literally one of the only jobs he could have ever gotten into that he's never done before. He's been the Chief Executive of his shows, of his companies, of this, that, and the other thing. He'd never been the Chief Executive of the world. And there is so much more responsibility in picking the right people to go along with you. I mean, I'm sure there was a lot of people from the inside out, a lot of the swamp that was pushed on Donald Trump at the beginning of that first administration. Don Jr. talks about the plumb book. And it's the four to 10,000 people that are presidentially appointed, who were saying, like, okay, we're bringing in some of these outsiders. You're an outsider, but we need people that, like, know how the game is played here and what happened. Every single time Donald Trump turned around, there was another knife. He played the game. Yeah, plunged into his back, figuratively, of course. And I think what we're doing here, we have people that have worked in the federal context. We have people that have worked up on the hill. We have people that really understand the beltway. But we also have all of these people that are getting nominated by President Trump, they understand the people of this country. You know, so many touchable candidates and people like Elon and Vivek and RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard and Matt Gaetz. People that, like, when they go out campaigning or they campaigned with Donald Trump in the last election, they were signed in autographs. They were taking selfies, but they were also listening and sharing, you know, their concerns with the American people and taking back the concerns that the people had for them on what we were going to do to make this country great again. And, you know, you just can't keep shitting your pants on a 24/7 basis every single time Donald Trump dominates someone. You would think that the smartest people within the Democrat apparatus understand this, but it's actually one of the dumbest who was on CNN this weekend talking about it. Listen to this. Senator, always good to see you. You have said that Democrats shouldn't be, quote, "freaking out" over every single thing Trump does. Are you freaking out at all about any of these cabinet picks, I wonder? Well, I mean, there's some that I would absolutely be excited to vote for, like my colleague from Florida or the representative from New York, of course. And then there's others that are just absolute trolls, just like Gates and those things. And that's why, you know, Democrats, you know, like, Trump gets the kind of thing, I mean, he gets the kind of thing that he wanted, you know, like the freak out and all of those things. And he hasn't even been, it's still not even Thanksgiving yet. And if we're having meltdowns, you know, every tweet or every appointment or all those things, I mean, it's going to be four years. And just the last time I think the last time I was on your network, I was warning about the jackpot. And I use that metaphor of the slot machine, the 777. And if Trump wins, then then, likely that's going to happen. He's going to get the house. You know, we're going to have the Senate, any of the presidency, and the real jackpot is the Supreme Court. And that's been very clear that that's a strong, a conservative slant. So they can run the table right now. And at least for the next two years. Now, those are the things, if you really want to be concerned about that, that they have the absolute ability to run the table, at least for the next two years. And that's what I think we should all be concerned on, not small tweets or, you know, random kinds of. Well, I'm so confused by him. Yeah. And he's like, Oh, wait, hold on. Gotta, gotta put my Democrat pants back on, or my Democrat shorts. He likes representative Waltz, and he likes departing chairwoman Stefanik for their cabinet level positions, but still not on board with Matt Gaetz. I guess we're going to have to see after some rigorous committee confirmation hearings what that looks like. But yeah, that's kind of what we're seeing in the media right now. A lot of ebbs and flows. You know, Donald Trump rolls something out. The Republicans come out and say it's fantastic. Let's get to work for the American people. This is the mandate. They're sending him back to the White House with and the Democrats. I mean, obviously you've heard it. Bill Mars talking about them in breeding. Congressman Clayburn is talking about Hitler still and maybe the product of in breeding. John Federman is saying, maybe we should just take a chill pill. And we'll kind of leave it at that as we're getting ready to jump in with South Carolina Congressman Nancy Mase. But before we do, let's have a first check in with one of our partners. This episode, the podcast is brought to you by Battleborn Coffee Roasters. They're law enforcement family owned and they produce some of the best available special to grade coffee. That means all those beans have gone through an extensive process to remove all defects. Battleborn research is all their sources, farms and milling stations to make sure you're not getting any pesticides or chemical fertilizers. Sit back and have a couple of their borderline Mexico Chappas blend while you're out sitting on an X or sitting in the office. High quality coffee from high quality people use promo code STATE for 20% off your first order. Make sure you go check them out at Battleborn.coffee. All right, joining us first on the show today, this big Tuesday edition of the State Breakfast Podcast. She's the Congresswoman who represents South Carolina's first congressional district. No one's working harder for the Palmetto states, low country. Of course, we're welcoming back Congresswoman Nancy Mase welcome back to the show. Thank you so much for having me. We are pleased to have you. And as always, we've got a ton of stuff to talk about. First of all, we're on the heels still kind of glowing a little bit from a historic election just two weeks ago. America went to the ballot box and sent referendum and mandate across the country, which swept Donald Trump back to the White House. Obviously is allowed House Republicans to retain and hopefully extend that majority a little bit in the house and flip the Senate back into Republican control. Coming out of that, Congresswoman, we just want a little bit of backend commentary. It took a village to get this done, but it was everybody on the same team working forward and working hard. How you saw the selection kind of shake out, what it means for the House Republicans. And also, what do you think about Donald Trump returning back to the White House in such an illustrious fashion, even winning the popular vote? Well, this was he received more votes than any other Republican presidential nominee in history. And to win the popular vote is resoundingly as he did. That means he won over conservative Republicans, independents, and even a few Democrats in some states. We saw that in Michigan where he won statewide in a place where the U.S. senator elected the same night was a Democrat. And so he won people over from all political sides. And this is a return to normalcy. This is a return to common sense. This is a pushback against the radical left with these crazy and the same ideas. And we're getting back to the Nutsken Bowl. I'm so proud to be an American. I've never seen so much joy in people's faces and relief. You know, the people did this. This was a mandate. This was huge. And it's going to be a historic turn for the betterment of our country and our fellow countrymen. And I'm just so proud of the citizens and residents of our great nation that they overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump in common sense. No, you make an excellent point. And when you talk about the mandate that America gave, not only House Republicans and the newly incoming Senate majority, but President Trump and the agenda that he, you know, crisscross the country with in the weeks leading up to the election. I want to just kind of talk about how you set a sense of relief and I think we're starting to see it. If you turn on any kind of sports game, whether it's Team USA soccer, anywhere in the NFL or maybe college football, you're seeing the Trump dance spontaneously break out as part of like the celebratory repertoire. Now that's finishing up on big plays. It seems like MAGA hats are coming out more frequently, even in places that you wouldn't expect it, like blue states of New York and California and everywhere in between. When you talk about the collective sigh of relief, America is probably breathing, knowing that these radical, progressive policies that have pinned this country, you know, to the floor over the course of the last four years are all going to be going away come January. What does it say for how fast things can change and a little bit of the work that's ahead for you guys heading back to the Hill now? I just hope that members of Congress don't block from agenda. I'm very concerned that he won't get all of his appointees and nominees to these cabinet positions. This was a mandate and you're right. People, I mean, the MAGA gear I saw across South Carolina, even in my bluest county in my district as I represent a swing district, people have been wearing their MAGA gear, unlike anything I've ever seen before. And there's just a huge, I think, joy and relief as I see it. Even Democrats, you can see the twinkle and their eye, you know, and the relief that they're seeing that this radical, the radical stuff that was happening under the Biden Harris administration, it's no more. And we just can't stand in the way like this is time for a radical shift and change to protect our country to protect the people. You know, we're seeing the Doge agency coming to fruition, get rid of government waste and that's going to help with inflation. I mean, there's just so much that we can do. And this is the time to rally together for everyone in this country regardless of the affiliation. You know, you'd mentioned Congress getting back to work and I think you guys took a great step following President Trump's meeting with you guys in conference last Wednesday before he went over to the White House and had a face to face with Joe Biden. It was so weird. It seems like the request list to actually sit down shake hands with and have a photo opportunity with Hitler is at all time is right now. But you know, but the fact of the matter is, is that you guys have come off a session where America was frustrated what was going on in Congress, but at least on the back end of the session, you guys have held the line. No major pieces of legislation passed for Joe Biden. You guys had, you know, produced and set up to the Senate. Also, pretty productive pieces of legislation that look like you guys might want to revisit or, or hit up in reconciliation, you know, HR 1, HR 2, things that are deregulatory. A lot of the acts, Lake Riley Act comes to mind. You know, at the end of this session of Congress are heading into the next. It seems like legislatively. And when you talk about the actual agenda, it's like House Republicans have a pretty good foot to stand on right now. And it comes to the MAGA agenda and what President Trump wants to be getting done in his first hundred days. I agree with you, except for one thing, and that is spending because Republicans and Democrats alike on the Hill are drawn with spending. We did a debt ceiling bill led by Republicans last year that didn't actually have the ceiling on the debt. And that's the kind of thing where we have to stop Washington. We can't have the same people doing the same things year over year over year. People want to be able to afford milk and eggs and then gas when they go fill up their car, which means Republicans have to stop spending the way that Democrats do. And so I'm going to be holding the line on that, but there's so much that we have to do. What are we going to do to stem the tide of illegal immigration? You know, these are these are real problems for real American people and women and girls and, you know, and what are we going to do to protect women's rights? I'm going to fight right now on the Hill with mainstream media and the radical after saying I'm a threat to society. You're absolutely right. I am because I'm fighting for women and girls and I'm going to protect them. But we have to make sure that not only do we file these bills that we passed them and we get them signed into law because enough of the talk, I want to see action. Yeah, no, it's an excellent point. And then when you saw President Trump kind of give Speaker Johnson endorsement and that there won't be a huge leadership battle heading into the 119th session of Congress. Is it a little bit of relief knowing that we won't have to be doing what we did last year with first speaker McCarthy and then what happened after Speaker Johnson was kind of whisked the speakership. I voted to ask the former speaker and it was the most popular vote. 75% of the country supported it and Johnson has proven himself as a great leader as an honest man, as a God fear and Christian man of faith. And he's kept his word and he's been honest with Congress and the American people and we need more of that not less. Well, it's the truth. And then when you look at the upper chamber and some of your congressional counterparts up in the Senate, which is going to be now newly in Republican control. We do have a new leader there. South Dakota's John Thune is going to be the new Senate Majority Leader in the next session of Congress. You had mentioned some of the agency heads and picks for his cabinet that Donald Trump has, you know, been publicly nominating over the course of the last two weeks. You also mentioned the Doge Agency is one of the ones that's going to be getting started outside entity looking in but still heavily scrutinizing. I mean, Elon Musk said it is recently is yesterday. He'd like to see $2 trillion of wasteful government spending come off in the first year alone. You know, when you talk about this team that Donald Trump is putting together, which includes some of your congressional counterparts, Congresswoman Stefanik, obviously the chairwoman is going to be heading on to be the UN ambassador. There's going to be, you know, Congressman Walts from Florida is going to be working in the Trump administration as well. Former Congress people like Lee Zeldin are going to be joining as the EPA chief. What does it talk? You know, or what do you have to say about this team that he's putting together and then heading down the road of getting his picks confirmed. I mean, I do see a little bit of virtue signaling going on in the upper chamber in regards to getting these picks confirmed. When you look at it at the end of the day, these are the same Republicans who voted for Alejandro Mayorkas, Merrick Garland. And if you just want to take it back in administration or two later, Eric Holder up into cabinets for presidents. Yeah. I mean, look, this is this is a hall of superheroes. I mean, this is like this is like the cast of the Avengers coming to the Hill. And there is going there are going to be people who threaten Trump's agenda. You're hearing about all these bureaucrats are going to quit their jobs. If Matt Gates is AG, that is a great idea. You leave. You don't want to work for the federal government. You don't want to work under the administration of the Trump presidency. Bye bye. Like, we don't want you there. There are deep state, you know, issues that we have in this country in the law fair. We need disruptors. We need people who are going to go out there and change the system because the system is against the American people, not for you. They are against you. And the minute you get someone a title and power, they will give an inch. They're going to take a mile. I've seen this all the time with bureaucrats and it's time to put an end to the bureaucracy. If you like, they kept saying Trump is a threat to democracy. No, he is a threat to bureaucracy and it can't happen fast enough. Yeah, even with a lot of the picks, you mentioned Congressman Gate. I kind of left that door open because no one's not going to mention him. I think he's an amazing pick to lead the Department of Justice. But you have to take into consideration. They're starting to do some of these exit pollings out of, you know, when the picks are coming out and stuff and it seems like America is on the page like they don't want people to just go up there and continue to hold the line and not make change. They want real reformists who are going to go into these agencies, be bomb throwers and start to close them out so they can get back to working for the American people. Washington as usual isn't going to work anymore. And that's why I am adamant that we put forth and support Trump's agenda. Come hell or high water like this is the fight of all fights and we have to push the radical left to the side and make sure that we get back to normalcy back to common sense and back to putting the American people first. That's all Trump wants. And that's what we should all work toward to make sure we're protecting Americans everywhere that we're making their costs of living lower. That their standards and quality of life are better. That we are, you know, deporting people who broke the law to get here and come into our country. And by the way, that we are protecting women and girls because that was on the ballot to this year. Not a person to do the job in regards to deportations better than Tom home and how you mentioned the Avengers. We've always tapped him as kind of like a thing elsewhere. In the first hundred days of the Trump administration, he possibly has the ability to snap his finger and remove half of the criminal legal aliens from this country starting on day one. Yeah, they flew if we flew them here to get here, we can fly them home. Like, I don't want to hear. It's going to cost a hundred thousand per legal to deport them that that just cannot possibly be. Here's your $500 one way ticket home. Goodbye. And you don't get to come in illegally, like come here, legally work and go back home. We've got to fix the visa issue because I've got jobs in South Carolina that we need H1B and H2B visas. But that doesn't mean you get to come here illegally and not pay your fair share, not pay your taxes, et cetera. There's a way to do it legally and right and be a part of the economy here, but you got to get in line like everybody else. And there's no amnesty. None of that leave and come back and hear legally and then we can talk. Yeah, we certainly can. And speaking about talking, you guys did some committee work among Capitol Hill last week and everyone is talking about the fallout from another committee on UAPs. So, listen, I don't even want to kind of lead in with questions or anything like that. You sat there. You heard some of these extremely powerful testimonies. We want to talk about being historic and transparent for the American people. Much like KJP said, the Biden-Harris administration was moving forward with committee work like that. It seems like we're getting a little bit closer to having a lot more disclosure on things that people don't frequently talk about, but it's definitely something that's a huge topic right now, especially in the news. It's a huge topic, and the American people have been lied to. So, for example, the Arrow agency put out a report just a few months ago saying that there were no unknown aerial phenomena, that everything had a reason and it was discovered and debunked. That's just not true. I mean, when you come out with a report and say that UAPs are zero, you know, that's not true because statistically and scientifically, they're going to be things out there that are anomaly. So, right off the bat, logic and common sense, even if you're a skeptic, whether you are pro UAP or you're skeptical of UAPs, it doesn't matter. You know the agenda of the federal government is a lie, and then we overclassify things. So, if there's no there there, why are we spending millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars on these programs, and why is that number classified? Why can't we share the financial side of it and say, this is how much we're spending on these programs? And, you know, if we're compensating people for injuries from programs where they're retrieving craft craft, the American taxpayer ought to know what bills they're paying. I mean, it's just, it's crazy to me, and even if these things don't exist, the American people at least have some rights to know where their money is going and how it's spent at the very minimum Congress. When I sit on the House Oversight Committee, I sit on the House Armed Services Committee, federal agencies need to be more transparent about these programs, and they're not. And I think even, you know, if we were to dig deeper, I would imagine that some leaders, including presidents and had the agencies like the FBI or the CIA or, you know, the, or different military service branches, you know, that things are hidden from different people. It's so compartmentalized. Who's really empowered? Because I don't think it's the president of the United States. Now, when it comes to things like this, and then just a, just an opinion, a statement moving forward. Do you think we're months? What were a couple committees or doesn't committees away? Do you think we're maybe years away from having, you know, this being a more formal topic that Americans got to, you know, get to kind of understand and start to come to terms with. We might not be alone in the universe, and this is what the government has been doing to cover it up to, you know, keep it away from the American people for all these years. What do you think? Well, it is a hundred percent of cover up, and you can, and people can go and look at declassified documents. And, you know, it's a little details. It's a word here, a sentence there, where you know there's some kind of program, you know, we discover things, but we bring what we're being lied to. And from my perspective, also, it's a national security issue. I want to know if there's technology out there that we have discovered, I want to know that we're ahead of China, that we're ahead of Russia, or ahead of Iran, that our adversaries aren't going to get their hands on this technology. How are we protecting it? If it's in the hands of defense contractors, how are we ensuring that our adversaries don't have access to it? They're much larger, I think, more, even more important questions about what all this means. And then, of course, you know, if we're not alone, or, you know, this technology is here, I just want to make sure that we are harnessing it, and that we're going to win the arms race. I mean, that is a fair question to get answered. It certainly is. I mean, just to kind of put it in perspective to our leadership, thousands of years to get indoor plumbing, but we've gone from Atari to PlayStation 5 in the course of less than 50 years. So, what are we doing? What's the reverse engineering technology look like? What does it mean for the way that we use it here in the United States? And what does it mean for our adversaries, like you said, across the globe, it's a national security issue, especially when it comes to all things related to weaponry and everything in between. It's such a huge Pandora's box that once you open up that can of worms, there's so many different things to talk about. But if you're talking about bringing those answers to the American people, you're definitely at the forefront of that. And then, Congresswoman, in wrapping today, you know, you fight for a lot of things. Nobody does more for veterans out there. Nobody does more for the victims of rape. You're always at the forefront of the America First agenda and the movement. But here we are up on Capitol Hill and talking about making congressional bathrooms great again. Before I even kind of get into it, you just want to tell our listenership what's going on. Yeah, so I filed a resolution last night that would prevent men, biological men, being in women's private spaces at the Capitol. That would include restrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms. And so, you know, being a feminist today, because I want to pan penises from women's restrooms and locker rooms, I'm now a bigot and a threat. So, if being a feminist and protecting women and girls who are vulnerable makes me a threat to the radical left. I am 100% totally here for it. I'm absolutely going to be a threat to their insane ideology. And to think about it, too, is 25 years ago this year, I became the first woman to graduate from an formerly all-male military college. I was celebrated for breaking that glass ceiling. But today, as I fight for women and girls' rights, I'm now being attacked as a bigot by the mainstream media. As a threat to the radical left, absolutely 100%. I am here for it, and I'm going to stand in the way of anyone, anyone, who's going to force these insane policies on women and girls. And I'm not going to just stop with the Capitol. This is just the start. This is a conversation we have to have, but I'm filing legislation similarly for all federal property. And also, if you're an institution, a school education facility, higher education, et cetera, if you get a federal dime, this isn't going to happen. So I'm filing multiple pieces of legislation to get ahead of this, because this ends and it ends now. It certainly does, and everybody knows, when you pick up a fight, you're not coming at it until you're the victor. Congresswoman, this has been awesome catching up with you as it always is. Busy times up on Capitol Hill and ahead of holidays, but still, we made it happen for our listenership here. We've got everything, including your Congressional website, live linked in the show description. If you just want to tell us where we can find it on social media, we could live link that as well. Yeah, you can find me on Nancy May, or Rep. Nancy May, some all over social media. Get out there and have your voices heard. UFOs, women's rights, you name it, she's fighting at the front of it for America first. This is Congresswoman Nancy May. Thanks for joining us on the show. Getting things started and we'll catch up and see you again soon. Thank you. Well, there's going to be a lot of hard work, Maria. I've been in the Senate for four years, and we've fought back against this radical agenda from the left. We've had to play defense. We've had no chance to play offense. Now we have a new head coach in President Trump. He'll start January the 20th, but we'll start in the new Congress January the 5th. And we need to all come together. Our job in the Senate is to advise and consent. And we need to talk about each one of these confirmations. If anybody's got any problems between now and January the 5th, let's work this out. We've got the numbers to do it ourselves. We don't need any Democrats to help us. We've got the numbers. Let's step to the plate. Do our job because we have to get this country back going in the right direction. President Trump only has a short period of time. Four years is not long, and we're going to need every second to get this country back going in the right direction. All right. Jump back into the news portion of the show here. On the first of two big Tuesday additions, the state for breakfast. And as always, South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mase didn't disappoint. We'll be rounding out this new segment. Jumping in with the senior editor at large at Newsweek. commentator, podcast host, guys expecting the baby. Got a lot of stuff going on. Mr. Josh Hammer will be joining us. So busy, busy, busy as I'm seeing some breaking news here. Noah, Ukraine has finally launched US long range weaponry into Russia. Well, it's not that we didn't see it coming. We were hoping it wasn't going to come. For the third time in about the last 10 days, Russia has responded to Ukrainian pushback into their special operation into the country with simply promoting and publishing to the international press drone footage of Vladimir Zelensky's motorcade and bodyguards as he's asking a vehicle somewhere in Ukraine. So for as much as they want to continue to proprietate that they're in control of this war, even more so now that they're using our weaponry into Russian territory, the only reason that Vladimir Zelensky, I believe, is still alive is because Russia hasn't decided to take him out yet. Yeah, they just gave him the Trump treatment, basically, like here's a picture of your house. And here's a picture of Abdul. Was that Abdul? Yeah, Abdul. Vladimir. No one anticipated that Joe Biden would escalate the war in Ukraine during this transition period. This is as if he is launching a whole new war. Everything has changed now, and all the previous calculations are null and void. And nobody on either side wants this, except for the most retarded of war mongers. Yep. That quote was from the official ex-account of former US ambassador to Germany. Great friend of the show, Rick Grinnell, which just came out in the last hour as well. This is happy anniversary day 1000 of the war in Ukraine. So there's that. And we let into this segment right now, hearing from the coach, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, who should be joining us again on the show. According to his staff, Hannah, I'm talking to you in the next two weeks, as he's been very busy whipping his senatorial counterparts as he laid out there. We have the numbers 53 plus JD Vance. We don't need the Democrats to confirm one of these positions for Donald Trump. There's no reason we shouldn't go non-trad. There's no reason we even need to dip our toe into the water of recess appointments. But like Donald Trump said, and he put out quite a pointed statement about it yesterday, Matt Gates will be the attorney general of the United States, no matter what. So it's up to Congress and essentially the Senate to decide on whether or not they're going to send him to the AG's office as a confirmed picker as a recess appointment. It's going to be up to them. I saw Brooke Rollins was on Fox Business yesterday. Now, for a lot of people that don't know her, she's one of the major players within the inner circle of Donald Trump's MAGA orbit. Someone that people on the outside looking in have compared to having the capital of Susie Wiles, especially during the course of this campaign. I think it's going to be interesting to see where she kind of lands as well. Someone who served in the Trump 45 White House, extreme loyalist President Trump, and she was kind of out there saying that, you know, the American people understand what happened two weeks ago. It's the media that's having a hard time digesting it and therefore accurately reporting on where this transition goes. It's not really rocket science and sticking in the thread of what's going on between Ukraine and Russia right now. But at the same time, it's up to the American people to continue to hold their lawmakers and the media to task in regards of, you know, just never ending cycle of fake news. She had had it and was kind of opining on it on Fox Business yesterday. Let's check it out. New Jersey, Minnesota, New Mexico, Virginia, and several other states were five points or less that President Trump lost by. These are states that no resources were spent in, no door was knocked on, no TV ad was run, and then you look at the ward in Chicago. You look at my home state, the entire southern tip of Texas, which is I think 90% Hispanic majority. You look at other places around the country where we are seeing a complete realignment. We are seeing the American people stand up and say no more. It's not Republican versus Democrat any longer. It is prosperity versus bankruptcy. It is a southern border that is secured versus open, you know, for anyone and everyone to come through, including criminals and murderers and rapists. It's no longer okay, and so when you see that realignment in American politics, the largest in more than 100 years, then I would hope that the editors of these left-leaning organizations would wake up that they no longer, not only do they not represent the conservative movement, they don't represent 85% of the people in this country. And again, it's our jobs here. This independent media was so critical. Even when people like Brook Rollins go on to places like Fox Business, sometimes I feel like the show host have this uncomfortableness with letting them know you know this. It's been a long time since people that are closely associated to President Trump, including his top surrogates, have had the opportunity to go on to major networks, and the producers are like, we're just going to let them go, let them say whatever they want. Yeah, I mean, every time Jake Tapper has somebody on CNN during his show, the worst thing they could do is show a split screen, because the whole time, first he like looks up, then you see him like look at the box next to him, even though the person is literally not in the same room, and they're via satellite, then for the whole rest of the time, he's just kind of like riding in the chair, like he's literally getting stabbed with every true statement. The guest that comes on his show makes, and it's like the reality. It's on the watch. It is, but the reality check that the Democrats got two Tuesdays ago, I still feel like it hasn't really taken its effect yet, and the long-term ripples we're going to continue to enjoy from this is going to be one for the ages. You know, and I do think there's a lot of theater going on as well. I think an overwhelming majority, I think there's a possibility, listen, Donald Trump winning in the fashion he won, there was maybe a handful of experts in the world that said it was going to go down that way, a complete sweep of the East Coast, a complete destruction of the Blue Wall and the Rust Belt, and winning out West in the fashion he did, in addition to garnering the popular vote, victory, are not things that people saw on the radar here. Did we see Donald Trump winning and being able to, you know, get the big three? Yes, but in the fashion that he did, we really need to accept the responsibility of that, and for people who, like I said, have been senators for longer than Donald Trump has been in the political arena, this is not the time to go and try to throw, because a lot of these senators know, especially the older ones, like look at Mitch McConnell, they think they're literally like the president of their state, and they have some kind of opinion or bearing, or, you know, they could throw their weight around, like, in the same context as the president of the United States. And it just doesn't work like that anymore. The times of operating in that manner are pretty much over at this point. Yeah, and again, it's with the continued new fresh faces that we're bringing into the Senate. I mean, we're bringing some really good ones with us this time. Continuing to add members of the House that are young at America first, Brandon Gill, who's going to be a congressman representing a border district in Texas, we heavily tracked his campaign. He'd been on the show a couple times. He'll be joining us as a congressman elect on our Friday edition of the podcast, and we're going to be bringing in a lot of the ones we've tracked, Brian Jack, who's going to be representing Georgia III, a pomadee from out in Arizona. These are all people that we've tracked from the beginning who are going to be joining our monthly contributor guest list. So very exciting to see, but we have to continue to bring in these faces of people who have served, whether it's in the military, live in border states and understand the problem, have worked with the president in the instance of people like Brian Jack, and know that when they go there, they just can't get, you know, all absorbed into the swamp bullshit because that's a big part of the reason why we're in this problem in the first place. Yeah. And I think, you know, we've finally gotten it to a point to where America does not believe the establishment media anymore, we cannot let that go. For as much as we like to play clips of it here on the show to kind of accompany our commentary, it's just to kind of give you examples of where exactly they're at right now, and the state of things on both the conservative and progressive sides are not well in the media, and they know that they're losing their grasp on just about everything. And it's like Fox viewership is up in some context over the course of the last quarter, but that's only for a certain amount of time. How long can you have some of the Sunday shows where the host just don't like Donald Trump or anything to do with him, have people like Neil Cavuto, or, you know, want to have like kind of shock, shock fever, and think that people are going to actually get consumable news out of that. It's just not the way things work. So if you're cooking dinner, cleaning the house, you want something on in the background, where you might get a chuckle or have a video compliment to what you might not get on podcast, that's what people are going to be turning into legacy medias for. So let's hear Molly Hemingway going off on just how much, it's almost as much as we do here on the show, loves Donald Trump tapping Matt Gaetz for AG. Right, Matt Gaetz was nominated for this position because we have a problem with the Department of Justice. For the last eight years, they have run roughshod over rule of law in this country. They have prosecuted political opponents. They ran the Russia collusion hoax. And too many people in Washington, D.C. did not stand up against what was happening there. And many Americans are upset about it. Matt Gaetz is one of the most effective people at fighting that Russia collusion hoax and other information operations, whether it was the Brett Kavanaugh information operation, the Donald Trump Russia collusion hoax information operation, or the one that is referenced here, which is something that the FBI and Department of Justice, which hate Matt Gaetz looked into and cleared him of any wrongdoing. The idea that this is about, the issue is corruption. It's the Department of Justice's corruption. And people are sick and tired of people in Washington, D.C. doing nothing as these people try to destroy the country and getting upset at someone who actually might root out the corruption there. We don't have a Department of Justice. We have a Department of Injustice. And that's why you get Matt Gaetz. And again, those boomer one-liners, I don't really, you know, it's never going to come on, Molly, you're better than that. But here's the deal. She says what the there there is. And that's that the Department of Justice and the FBI did a thorough investigation of this. And when they found nothing that had to do with criminality, they kind of abandoned... There's this whole controversy swirling around Noah. And it's why Matt Gaetz has already abandoned his congressional seat for Florida One while people like Elise Stefanik and Congressman Walts from Florida are still operating as members of Congress right now. And it's because there was a house ethics investigation into the investigation led by the Department of Justice and the FBI. You tracking with me? So an even bigger waste of taxpayer money and time after the first waste of taxpayer money and time was deemed nothing criminal happened. Okay. And what's going to happen now is they are set to release today, well, were, the ethics report on Matt Gaetz and these investigations that went into like the sex trafficking, the sex with the minor, the drug use, all of which were deemed have not crossed the threshold for criminal. Now if it was Matt Gaetz and he did any of these things and he crossed the threshold in any of these things, Matt Gaetz would be going to jail on trial, going through all the procedures, is that anything? But again, they deemed that there was not a criminal component to this stuff and therefore that's why he was not charged and the investigation ended. So what the house ethics panel wants to do is release an report and all it's going to do is this. Outline all of the original allegations, have 11 billion pages of bullshit in between and then talk about how this is a black eye for not just his congressional seat and his district but for House Republicans again. Not highlighting the fact that there will be no criminal charges brought against Matt Gaetz. So all they want to do is continue to rehash this in the media and make it seem like just because he was accused of these things that he's guilty of them. Therefore, making it harder for him to get confirmed in the Senate. So Matt Gaetz resigned from his seat as we reported on our Friday edition of the show. We read the statement he gave to the speaker of the speaker of the House on the floor like the clerk woman who handles the ins and outs of House business. And what the traditional rule is, if that's the case, the report doesn't come out. Now everybody's already saying, number one, it's already been leaked. And number two, it'll get leaked by the end of the week. So everyone in the Senate could read about how, oh, there was this huge investigation. These are the allegations even though they were unfounded. Such a black eye. Oh, that you could even say Congressman being investigated for this stuff. Dude, if they're going to release an ethics report on Matt Gaetz, they should release one. How about the guys that were butt fucking in the Senate chamber? Exactly. Every single person in the Senate, every single person in the House for the last 20 years that has used taxpayer dollars as hush money to make people not come out and stop the agendas of presidents. I would like to see all of that. Let's just have full disclosure if we're just going to continue to, you know, promote these witch hunts and character assassinations on real patriots like Matt Gaetz. And I'm going to be honest, I don't care if Matt Gaetz did coke. Doesn't matter to me either. I actually, I could see it when I close my eyes. He's got huge, huge hair. Imagine Matt Gaetz with coke hair, how much higher it would be. It'd be hilarious. You know, and as I'm watching him in ginger clean out his Congressional office today, I get a little tightness in my chest, not the heart attack kind, but the heartstrings getting tugged kind because I know we're not going to have that warrior for us moving forward in the House of Representatives who, you know, stood up in committee when everybody thought it was a joke who gets booed on the house floor when he's talking about things that are actually important to the American people. You know, pushing back on all these agencies within the federal government who have done nothing but promote DEI and wokeism. And everybody gets a participation trophy-ness. You know, I'm going to miss that, Matt Gaetz. Now, am I going to like the absolute enforcer? I saw Elon Musk put out a little statement of support on X last night. I want to read it for you right now because no, I think you'll like it and you'll help me find a clip for the end of the show that will support this. Matt Gaetz has three critical assets that are needed for the AG role. A big brain, we just talked about that, a spine of steel. We also lose to that as well, and an axe to grind. We're talking about things like this now, debunked investigation. He is the judge-dread American needs to clean up a corrupt system and put the powerful bad actors in prison. Matt Gaetz will be delivering our hammer of justice. And again, that was from Elon Musk in the, uh, we hours of the morning yesterday, and I have to say I agree with him. Yeah, all those charges are trumped up fucking bullshit that they're bringing against him. It's very convenient that it's like, oh, we were charging him with this stuff and we were investigating, but now he's gone, so now we just have to let it go. It's like, oh, we almost had him. It's just an excuse to sling mud with no real backing. Yep. And didn't somebody go to jail for trying to extort him for money at some point, too? Like, I can't remember the guy's name. He and his family. Yes, you're correct. So again, Donald Trump sent a letter and a strong worded statement to leader Thune yesterday, stating that if the Senate does not confirm Matt Gaetz's Attorney General, he will appoint him using the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, which allows for temporary appointments for up to 210 days with the possibility after a two-week extension to have another 210-day extension after that. This individual would not require, in any way, Senate confirmation. So, like I said, you're getting Attorney General Matt Gaetz whether we like it or not. We love it, but I know there's a lot of people coping and seething about it. Well, hopefully he's got some good security, too, because I think anybody that's, as this high on the, you know, veritable radar for these psychopaths on the left, I mean, there's these people literally have just been brainwashed into thinking that they will do anything, no matter what, no holds barred to stop this. There are limits, no no bounds. You know, Donald Trump has also pissed today. Imagine that about some stuff that's going on. So apparently, and with very few members of the Republican Senate actually doing work right now, because we're in the transition and there shouldn't be any votes going on, they called a floor vote yesterday and were able to sneak in a confirmation, it was like 46 to 41 of a federal judge nominee that is now going to be on a bench who was picked by Joe Biden. And Donald Trump put out a statement on True Social about 20 minutes ago. It's almost the noon hour here on the West Coast on Tuesday saying like, and I'm paraphrasing, "Hey, Senate Republicans, what the fuck are you doing? Get back onto the hill." And when they call these votes, get out there and don't confirm these judges, so they're not on benches forever once I become president again. Because every time somebody goes and complains about the border, every time someone goes and complains about Tom Holman, Roman the streets, in liberal cities, rounding up illegals and wants to put injunctions on all the things that you voted me to get into the White House for. Well, congrats. Yeah, they're going to give it to you. Yeah, congratulations. Keep confirming these judges. I heard two dozen more on the docket that Chuck Schumer is going to try and ram through between now and Christmas, which means they're going to know exactly when they have the numbers and that's when they're going to call the senators to the floor for a vote. So we have to be very steadfast and diligent. Unfortunately, that goes for people like JD Vance, who's working in the transition, probably spending a lot of time in Florida right now, that he's going to have to go back up to Capitol Hill and be one of the votes as a no here to make sure that we're not just letting another dozen radical, progressive federal judges get on benches before we hit recess here for the holidays. So they're just doing these surprise votes when there's nobody there? Yes. How is that even a thing? I don't know. They go on to the news every single night and say this is exactly what Donald Trump wants to do if he's allowed to get all of his people in power. Isn't it funny how that works? Wait, they're saying that what we're doing right now is what Donald Trump wants to do? No, they're physically doing it. No, that's what I'm saying. But then they all go on to the news and they're like, "Oh, we can't confirm Matt Gaetz 'cause Matt Gaetz will do all this crazy shit that Democrats would never think about doing while they literally did it that day." Yeah. It's disappointing. It is. It's disappointing that their base will completely ignore everything. It's wild 'cause you can literally tell somebody, "I'm going to paint you a picture of why everything you know is wrong." Mm-hmm. And they just, you'll make a good point and then they just ghost you. Like, "Okay, well that conversation's over, I guess." Howard Lutnik has just been formally nominated as Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary. He was being pushed heavily by Elon Musk for Treasury Secretary, which I know incoming interview that we're going to have in a few minutes here, Josh Hammer says is like one of the big four vacancies still left without cabinet pits for President Trump. Here's just the... Why are they slow walk in some of these, I wonder? Just to put them in as late as possible so they can't do damage to them while they're waiting to go in. I mean, recess is Christmas. So why rush? You know, I want to talk to Josh. I want to know. Listen, you're telling me I'm running out of fucking Christian Bale Batman memes. I had to resort to sting memes yesterday to put out on social media how I feel about Cash Patel waiting for his number to get called. Yeah. I had the one where Sting was in the rafters and then it like pans out and he's all the way up at the top of the arena and I said, "Cash Patel waiting for his number to get called in the 2024 transition draft." Yes. And you know, it's one of those things where Matt Whitaker, we even announced it on the show the other day. There were reports that Dr. Ben Carson had accepted the job of Surgeon General of the United States, but then I saw conflicting reports on the news. So like I do with anyone when I have a question, I just reached out and he said the reports are untrue and that's not a position I'm going to be working in in the next administration. Now, what position will we be working in? We still don't know, but it's not going to be Surgeon General of the United States. You know, there's a lot of other collaborative agencies within HHS, FDA, CDC, et cetera. That Dr. Carson is well qualified for. But again, he headed HUD as a former neurosurgeon. So he could go anywhere if he wants to serve. And still somebody will say that he's unqualified. Yep. And he'll be the blackface of white, whatever. You know, Matt Whitaker's still on the sideline. He'll be the blackface of the white lab coat. Yeah. There you go. Matt Whitaker's still on the sidelines. A former acting attorney general. Yeah. A lot of people had him tabbed as someone who might be a safe-ish pick to go back to, you know, hit the agency again. So we'll have to see. A lot of our friends and favorites are still waiting for their number to be called. But again, here's a statement from President Trump. I am thrilled to announce that Howard Lutnik, chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald will join my administration as the United States Secretary of Commerce. He will lead our tariff and trade agenda with additional direct responsibilities for the United States of trade representative. So we'll have to see where that goes. You know, this guy's been a Wall Street big shot for more than the last 30 years. Fun fact about him, which isn't really so fun. It's actually really sad. He's someone that, you know, rose to prominence in the wake of 9/11. A lot of people don't really know this, but both his brother and his best friends died at the World Trade Center on 9/11 as well. So call it to serve. Who's brother and what? This is Howard Lutnik, the guy who's been tapped. Oh, Lutnik. They've been waiting for a second, I was like, what? No, no, no, no, no. But again, we were talking about Molly Hemingway kind of saying how it is. Now all you have to do is grab your television remote and go up one channel and you'll be on one of the progressive networks. Here's exactly what's going on while Fox News is promoting one, you know, view of the way that these pics are being looked at and how other outlets, like CNN, or in this case, Fox News, when they bring on people like Carl Rove, the human thumb with glasses, says in the next segment. This could be very harmful. There'd be one thing if this guy had a reputation as one, an extraordinarily gifted legislator, to a tremendously gifted trial attorney, a proven prosecutor, somebody who had managed a big law firm and had demonstrated legal ability. But no, he has none of those attributes. In fact, he has a reputation on the floor of the house for having shown pictures of his conquest to his fellow members. So if that's the best you can do, you're not going to get confirmed. Wait, what? I mean, I used to, you know, the people used to call him Pussy Slayer Gates. I'm pretty sure I've seen a lot of people that are very left leaning do the exact same thing. Well, or they just butt fucking like the Supreme Court confirmation chamber, right? Yeah. Again. They need more bleach. How does Fox News go to a commercial break after Molly Hemmingway talking about Matt Gates, and then run right back in with Carl Rove, literally the next segment saying just that? That's wild. It is. And that's what you guys are being fed. You know, things that we do like to eat here, figuratively, of course, is when we see Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna doing what she does best, going on to fake new CNN and kind of blowing them up when they're pushing the same things that Carl Rove is saying. Let's hear her. There's the same testimony that was, again, dropped by the DOJ and the FBI because these people were not credible. And I will say that for the senators that are coming forward and stating that they need to read this testimony, let's look into these people's stocks portfolios and how they're becoming multi-millionaires on the $175,000 a year. The reason why people want outsiders, the reason why people are not buying this Gates smear and that is exactly what it is, is because of the fact that they understand that there is a two-tier justice system. You know, you mentioned earlier that I do think the DOJ has crept. Absolutely. When I find that they're giving special treatment to the Attorney General that he doesn't have to testify to Congress yet if any single other American does that, they go to jail, that is absolutely government corruption. But when you're then talking about cabinet picks, you're talking about an ethics investigation. I mean, I'm sure to share Matt Gates has also been investigated for a campaign, a misuse of campaign funds that were also dropped. So the fact is that Matt Gates has again, time and time again, stood up to the swamp. Frankly, I know him as a person. I know his family. And I've been able to be privy to the conversations behind closed doors of members looking forward to this leaked ethics report because they know that it's going to smear him. I'm not going to state who the members are, but what I will state is that that type of behavior, putting this forward to the American people, smearing Matt Gates' reputation, and then also undercutting the credibility of President Trump, who then the American people trust to lead this nation. I'm not going to play that game. Good for you, sister. Yeah. And again, you turn on one channel, you see one thing. They go to a commercial break, you hear another. Then you're like, okay, I don't know what's wrong with this bipolar network, Fox News. I'm watching Neil Cavuto. They go right to Jesse Waters after that. It's making me feel all chemically imbalanced. Let's go up to CNN. And then what the hell is this? One of Donald Trump's favorites, Anna Pauline Aluna on there, shitting on the commentator who was like, you know, Matt Gates, there was a time where he was accused of sex trafficking and having sex with a minor. He also did a whole bunch of drugs. Like, I didn't feel about it. Like, they were investigations. She's like, yeah, the investigations were concluded and found to have not enough evidence to charge him criminally. So why do you keep only leading in with the point instead of saying what the actual results were? And the guy's sitting there the whole time she's talking, and he's like, blah, blah, blah. And she's like, no, I'm talking. Yeah. They were fishing for money. They were fishing for all this hush money that all these people are doing. And it doesn't matter if it's a baseless claim or not. Nine times out of ten. It's just like if you sue a large business for something. They're just going to pay you to go away. Yep. That's just how it is. It's cheaper for them to just pay you to go away than deal with the litigation. Yeah. It's the truth. You know, and where we see a lot of the America first, people who are getting tapped by Donald Trump's have family members continuing their government work as well. I believe Tulsi Gabbert's father in Hawaii and Matt Gates father in Florida both joined their state governments. And we're sworn in this week as state senators and legislators and things of that nature. So we're seeing a lot of these people who are coming under high scrutiny, have families who are going in to do some public service work as well. And I think it's pretty awesome. Let's take our show today. Guys, wherever you're listening to the show today, thanks for being here. Do us favor. Share us with everyone, you know, friends, family, coworkers and loved ones. Check all the boxes. Don't hog us for yourself. And then head over to whatever podcasting platform you're listening to the show today on, whether it's Apple Spotify, Samsung, iHeart, Amazon podcast, or wherever here in the show. And make sure we're downloading to your electronic device. That means you hit the subscribe button, the follow button. If it's Apple podcast, it's a plus follow button. And that just means your subscribe for free. We'll never charge you a dime. And then check us out on social media, Twitter, get our true social Instagram and TikTok, is where we have accounts. Find them, follow them, hit the notification bell, and you'll never miss out on all the stuff we've got going on down here. Let's take for breakfast. So, Rotund, Michigan Senator, Democrat, of course, Elizabeth Slotkin. Yeah, who just narrowly won reelection in the Wolverine state. She's one of the people that's out there. Really, and again, Donald Trump won the state of Michigan. A state that a lot of people didn't have him adding to the win column on election night two weeks ago. And this is because of a lot of things, but especially having to do with illegals over American citizens and the whole DEI transgender wokeness that a lot of the Arab and Muslim community there just refuted. In addition to that, the manufacturing sector, whether it be the automotive industry or just regular factory workers, unions. We're not on board with what Kamala Harris and Tim Walts had brought to the table. They want the America first agenda. They're expecting a lot of Donald Trump. So, why not have one of the senators from your state jump on ABC and talk about how she thinks Pete Haggseth's mandate to get rid of all the DEI shit within the government work, especially when it comes to things regarding the military, is a bad thing. Let's hear it. Haggseth has also said that any general that was involved in any of the DEI woke crap has got to go. I don't think Donald Trump to fire top generals who he considers woke or those close to former chairman Mark Millie. I mean, I don't think you have to interpret anything. Yeah, I don't think you have to interpret anything. I think they've been very clear that they're putting together some sort of panel that's going to look at generals. People who have served their nation their entire lives over multiple administrations, Democrat and Republican, in combat, they are now openly talking about dismissing them like some sort of kangaroo court. You can imagine the stress in the Pentagon about that, but also in the future of who we are as a military, right? Our military and the role of the military is in the Constitution for a reason. And I think we're really at risk of politicizing the military in a way that we can't put the genie back in the bottle. But there have been issues with recruiting of late and Haggseth talks about that. Sure. I mean, there's issues with recruiting. I think you talk to any business leader. There's issues with recruiting as well. There's just a high demand signal. But I don't think that showing that you can be summarily fired in the system is a way to increase recruiting. And I will just take note that-- Instead, it would attract normal males if we-- Well, his idea of normal may be different. We want a diverse force. Right now, the military is one of the most diverse institutions in the world. So the officer corps should reflect that diversity. And if that's just not me saying it, that's the Supreme Court. The United States, when they went after diversity issues at our campuses, they excluded our service academies, West Point, the Naval Academy, so that because they understood that a diverse workforce, a diverse officer corps is a national security issue. Shut up, silly woman. Now Noah, I'll let you lead in with some commentary on that. The fact that we have to remain the most diverse and woke whatever in the history of whatever's in our military is critical to making sure that we're the best and bold and brightest military in the history of militaries. What do you think? No. And that's the reason why we're hemorrhaging people. Because when you have to sit through some of that idiotic training, you deal with the fucking labeled bathrooms and all this just idiotic stuff that means nothing, just the most virtuous of virtue signaling. It is not making us a lethal warfighting machine, it is making us weak, it is making us impaired and it is making people take advantage of the military because they think they're going to go in there and get their dick chopped off for free on Uncle Sam's dime. It's making us vulnerable, don't you think as well? Yeah, we're 100% vulnerable because that's the thing, when they were trying to do the transgender surgeries for service people, for service them. For service day thems? Yeah, so when these service thems needed to get their parts chopped off or other parts added or they wanted their butthole turned into their penis or whatever it was, these people are on medication forever and they have to do medieval type of maintenance on these things and they are automatically not fit for duty. They can't go to war, that's 100%. If you are on these medications and you have to do all this crazy shit and the years long follow up that is required on this stuff and who knows what price tag is on this stuff. These people are not, they're not a viable source of government defense or country's defense or whatever you want to call it, like they're off the board, so to speak. And if you're off the board then why are we paying you? Yep. Oh, wait, we're paying you and we're paying for you. And then when you decide that this was a mistake or something goes horribly wrong with it, then probably the VA will pay you forever. No, when you talk about accountability coming for, let's just say, you know, the media spinning out of control saying we're going to have tribunals, but opening up the door, which eventually, I remember talking about tribunals, remember that, opening up the door to things that eventually lead to court marshals for anyone who had their hands on the Afghan withdrawal. Why is that a bad thing? Why the Afghan withdrawal would, I miss part of that one. I just wanted you to weigh in on like, why is the media turning it into wire politicians spinning this into having hearings to, which could lead up into court marshalling be a bad thing in regards to accountability for Afghanistan? Oh, there needs to be just an insane amount of accountability for that. All those people that were involved in that need to be fired and there's nothing wrong with people saying that, wanting that or pushing for that. And you see the same kind of behavior and argument and case being made against these nominees in Donald Trump's incoming cabinet, as you do on places like MSDNCs, inside Gen Saki's vagina, stop, let's hear it. Let me just start with Tulsi Gabbard, because you served as the CIA director for four years. What would having her in charge or in the role of director of national intelligence mean for the intelligence apparatus of the US government? I think there's so much uncertainty about what Ms. Gabbard would bring to the job. As you pointed out, she has been an apologist for Vladimir Putin, Bashar Assad. So many of her substantive comments as well as previous actions have called into question whether or not she has a good understanding of global politics and the US role there. But also she doesn't have any experience in intelligence. She has never served in the intelligence community. And the director of national intelligence is somebody who sits on top of the 18 departments and agencies and needs to orchestrate these agencies so that they collaborate, so that they coordinate, so that they're able to pursue the national security priorities in an effective fashion. So they need to have some understanding of the human intelligence, technical signals, intelligence, geospatial intelligence, other types of things, and she has none of that. And third, she doesn't have the executive leadership experience of running a large organization. And under the director of national intelligence comes the national counter-terrorism center, national counter-intelligence center, counter-proliferation, malign, influence center as well. So there's just a lot of responsibilities, and so the people, the professionals that are in these 18 intelligence agencies want to have confidence that the person who sits on top of them, and that person by law is the president's principal intelligence advisor is going to be carrying out the duties in a qualified way, but also in a political objective fashion. And I think there are serious questions that have been raised about Ms. Gabbard's ability to do that based on her lack of experience, as well as her very questionable comments that she has made and statements trafficking and conspiracy theories. Yeah, shut the fuck up. No one better than Russi Gate proprietor, someone who has lied under oath multiple times during investigations and before Congress, former CIA director John Brennan to kind of toe the line of Tulsi Gabbard as a conspiracy theorist and a Russian sympathizer and this, that and the other thing, and everything in between. But I digress, this is literally what we're up against right now, and it's going to take a village and places like here to continue to allow us to have a clear path to getting the job done and getting off on the right track, which America responded resoundingly in their vote two Tuesdays ago. So and in our last audio clip before we jump in with Newsweek's Josh Hammer, I saw Vivek Rama Swami was on mornings with Maria yesterday talking about doge and what government efficiency really means in his eyes and collaborating with someone like Elon Musk moving forward. Let's hear it. Because we want to go right in through executive action to do the failures of the executive branch that need to be addressed because the dirt of the little secret right now, Maria, is the people we elect to run the government. They're not the ones who actually run the government. It's the unelected bureaucrats in the administrative state that was created through executive action. It's going to be fixed through executive action. Think about the Supreme Court's environment over the last several years. They've held that many of those regulations are unconstitutional at a large scale, rescind to those regulations, pull those rakes back and then that gives us the industrial logic to then downsize the size of that administrative state. And the beauty of all of this is that can be achieved just through executive action without Congress. Score some early wins and then you look at those bigger portions of the federal budget that need to be addressed one by one. So I think that's one way to think about this is how can the president of the United States, who's been elected with a historic mandate, actually do the thing that the voters have voted for. They haven't voted for incremental change here this time, Maria. We have voted for sweeping change and the voters actually deserve to get it. And we're focused on how to do that as early. And as often as possible once we are sworn in on January 20th and we really need to understand that it's our job, our listeners of the show, those in the America First Movement, all these people that are being tapped by President Trump right now. And even those in the media who are kind of inching back towards a little bit of normalcy following the results of the election two weeks ago, who really need to take this opportunity that we have right now and deliver on the referendum that was sent to the deep state, the administrative state, the swamp, to the media, the press, and of course, the Democrats, especially those in leadership, that what they've done for this country over the course of, well, you know, 12 out of the last 16 years has failed them and we're tired of failing. We're tired of not being great again. We're tired of not being pieced through strength and having secure borders and safe streets, people who have stopped here, education, money in our pockets, et cetera, then we're going to put the people in place to not only examine how we got to this point, but what we could do moving forward to rectify and restore the Golden Age and heading towards American greatness again. So we'll leave it as that as we're getting ready to jump in with Newsweek's Josh Hammer. But before we do have it another check in with one of our partners. I think it's time we had a conversation about a good night's sleep. Willow King of Minnesota, Mike Lindell, and the apparatus known as the MyPillow family has been cranking out savings down at MyPillow for over 20 years. And for the first time in 20 years, they've changed the long-standing MyPillow and now have the MyPillow version 2.0. You get a promo code to take a check out, you're going to get buy one, get one free. 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Listen, when last we met Josh, we were talking about heading into this election. We're now at the two-week mark following the historic, not just the electorally, but popular vote, referendum on all the crazy stuff that's going on in the world right now, which is whisking Donald Trump back to the White House and flip the Senate into Republican control, and we were able to retain power in the House of Representatives. Here's some back-end commentary before we jump in on any of the issues. I kind of want to definitely talk about the Trump transition, all the people that are being nominated there. But how did you see the selection shaking out? What is the mandate now that Donald Trump has heading back to Washington, D.C.? What does what happened two weeks ago really mean for America moving forward? So I think two things can be true at once. On the one hand, on the one hand, my public prediction, including on my show, the Josh Hammer Show, indeed, was that Donald Trump would win all seven swing states. So that was my actual prediction. I'm not going to pat myself on the back too hard, but I did kind of call it. So I guess I would just get that out there. On the other hand, it is one thing to publicly call it is another thing to see it actually happen on an election night. I realistically thought that it would probably be a coin flip 50/50 at best as to whether or not we would wake up next morning knowing definitively who was president of the United States. So many of these states just take so freaking long to count these ballots, especially these Western states, Arizona, Nevada, California, not that it's in play. But I have no idea what's going on out there, frankly. But it was a legitimate question as to whether or not we would know when we woke up the following morning who will be president. And indeed, we actually knew by I think 1.15, 1.20 AM Eastern time, which relatively speaking these days is really not that late. So it was one thing to predict it. It was another thing to actually see it happen. It was really just a fantastic night, American people essentially sticking to large middle fingers to everything that the modern Democratic Party represents, all the woke stuff, the open border stuff, the crime, the economy, the global stage being on fire, all of it. It is a mandate. People are using that word. I think it's a mandate. When you win the national popular vote as a Republican for the first time in 20 years, when you win states like Nevada for the first time in 20 years, you would be forgiven for interpreting this as a mandate. I am pleased thus far to see that seems to be how Donald Trump is interpreting it based on his cabinet picks. Sure. And I hope that he I hope that he only continues to do so frankly. Now let's talk about these cabinet picks as I agree with you, you know, watching it go down in real time. The way we looked at it on the show is if we could sweep the East Coast and actually get calls on the states on election night, it would be extremely difficult. The electoral avenues for Kamala Harris reduced down to like one real one and maybe two as kind of which casting which kept a lot of the West Coast in her favor, which you know turned out didn't happen to be the case with Arizona and Nevada, as you already mentioned, going to Donald Trump, the Blue Wall and all the battleground states kind of dissolved in the wake of him sweeping the East Coast. And that's the Carolina's Georgia, obviously Pennsylvania as well in addition to all the traditional states. But how he moved the needle, you know, in seeing some of these Sapphire Blue cities vote in record numbers for a Republican for the first time in decades to see historical numbers, you know, sometime older than 100 years in the shift of demographics and age groups which came to Donald Trump. I think it's a very good analogy used with the double middle fingers to all of the woke progressive stuff the way the world is on fire right now in our country is kind of teetering on the cliff of heading into the abyss. But when you talk about the mandate that Donald Trump has, you know, leave it to the mainstream media and the establishment Democrats to try and make America forget just two weeks ago, they sent Donald Trump, you know, this huge message in the form of the election. And now they're going after all of his cabinet picks. So even though over the course of the past several administrations, we've seen people like Becerra, Buttigieg, Mayorkas, Garland, Holder, all confirmed easily in the Senate. Now any single person Donald Trump picks is, of course, again, a threat to society, a threat to democracy, you know, completely and unequivocally unprepared or, or, you know, not qualified for the job. And this is probably a lot of the rhetoric we're going to see heading right up into the holidays. I don't know if you agree with me on that though. Yeah. I mean, this is basically how I see it. What do you people think you were voting for? I mean, the guy is out there on the campaign trail as he has been for three presidential elections in a row now saying we're going to drain the swamp, we're going to make America great again, which necessarily implies that America is not currently great in its current manifestation that we are going to take actions drastic if need be to restore it to its former greatness. I mean, what did you all think was going to happen? I mean, is this the kind of guy based on what he says that he's going to go up there and just pick some, some old fart, some old boomer from deep in the bowels of some white shoe law firm on Wall Street, the bees, attorney general? I mean, you voted for the wrong person. I'm sorry to tell you there. And I know a lot of people are shocked, they're just shocked to kind of, you know, go back to Claude Renault in Casablanca, they're shocked to discover that a politician could actually campaign on something and then actually do what he says during the transition period. That's basically how I see it, what's happened thus far. And you know, sure enough, he has tapped people like Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. to DNI and HHS. These are positions that a standard Republican would not have done. Guess what? You didn't vote for a standard Republican. So you had that choice in both the primary and in the general, you chose Donald Trump and you're going to get a good and hard. There's a, there's a great quote from H. L. Manchin, who was a, a newspaper columnist, kind of a social critic. He lived maybe about 100 years ago or so in the early 20th century, and I'm going to butcher the quote. So it's just a paraphrase must say in this verbatim, but what H. L. Manchin basically says that democracy is a theory that the people deserve they vote for and they deserve to get it good and hard. And they're getting it good and hard right now, my friend. That is exactly what is happening right now. That is what Pete Heg said is at the Pentagon, that's what Matt Gates is at DOJ. These are not the quote unquote standard picks. But if you actually want to drain the swan, if you actually want to clean out the Audrey and Stables, so to speak, to clear out the corruption, the rot, the wokeism there, these, these are some very, very bold picks. And I think there's a, I think that a lot of these pimps are probably going to pay off quite handsomely. I'm particularly bullish on the Pete Heg set pick. I just love the love, love this pick. I think it's fantastic, honestly. No, I certainly do as well. And I kind of wanted to get into deconstructing some of these. You already had mentioned the outsiders, listen, and like you alluded to Josh, Donald Trump campaign on making America great again, defeating the swan, reforming all of these agencies, reducing the size of government, getting some of it out of DC. How was he not going to appoint some of the biggest characters outside of the MAGA 10 who wound up coming into America first and literally have risked everything to come over and get behind Donald Trump leading up to this election? And then when you talk about some of the people that, you know, might not have been on others' radars like Pete Heg Seth or Matt Gaetz, you need these wrecking ball type characters in places where, okay, you have seven audits in a row where the Department of Defense has failed to tell you where the money's going in regards to, you know, SEC Deaf and then when you look at the Department of Justice in the Attorney General spot, yes, it is one of the most coveted, if not the crown jewel of any cabinet, of any president moving forward and in the past, but the fact of the matter is when you look at what it's been, you know, reduced to the fact now that it's just kind of a revenge agency to where if you don't line up with the narrative of who's ever empowered, they're legally coming after you in every way, shape, or form in every single person that supports you or is important to you and family members, et cetera, and we just can't have that anymore. We have to have people to go into these agencies that, in some cases, don't care what others think about them and don't care what they're going to talk about, you know, on the Sunday morning new circuits. And when you talk about a Heg Seth or Gaetz or even an R.K. Jr. and Tulsi, I think those are some of the perfect picks, but, you know, moving forward and outside of those, I do want to kind of a little bit of commentary and you to develop Matt Gaetz a little bit, but also talk about what are your top four or five biggest positions within this cabinet right now and what are some of the people who are still on the outside looking in? Where do you see them maybe coming in underneath the MAGA tent in the days and weeks to follow? Well, look, at least as the time at the time that you and I are speaking, I don't think Treasury Secretary has been announced yet. It looks like Howard Lutnik is going to get commerce secretary. He was considered to be one of the front runners for the Treasury Secretary post. When I think of MAGA, when I think of what this movement represents, to me, economics and political economy is one of the most important facets of it. When you look at the issues, really, that Donald Trump spoke about on the campaign trail in 2016 that allowed him to pierce through the so-called blue wall, the Ross Bell states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, we're talking here a lot about trade, a lot about tariffs, a lot about reshoring critical supply chains, manufacturing, I mean, to say that that was a shock to the system for the Republican establishment and kind of the Wall Street Journal editorial board supply side economics way of thinking. I mean, to say that that is a shock to the establishment, the notion that America should actually make stuff and not just rely on a services and export based economy. I mean, this was basically a 180 degree turn that has caused a lot of people to basically have symbolic heart failure, so to speak, within the ranks of the journals and think tanks on the institutional controlled opposition, right? So Treasury Secretary is a very, very, very important pick. I would personally love to see someone like Robert Lighthizer get that position there. This is someone who was Donald Trump's trade representative the first time around. Donald Trump really became the first president since Richard Nixon went to Beijing in the 1970s to fundamentally reorient the US-China relationship. We tried to extricate ourselves from this mutually harmful bear hug of sorts. We have gone ourselves into with our civilizational foe, the Chinese Communist Party. I think Treasury Secretary is a really, really, really important position. I know I'm very excited to see where that particular one goes there. Just some lower names as well that I guess I probably should mention there. I was pleased when I turned my phone on after Shabbat ended, the Jewish hour this past Saturday, I saw that my good friend and Jews against Soros co-founder Will Sharf was just announced as staff secretary at the White House. I just started smiling ear to ear. I mean, this is one of the cool things when your side wins, right? I started to see like actual friends start to get in very cool positions. Will Sharf is a fantastic, fantastic pick by Donald Trump to be staff secretary. This is a position that not a whole lot of people have probably heard about to be honest with you, but it's actually very, very important position. Brett Kavanaugh actually held this very title under the George W. Bush administration. You're basically the hub in the hub and spoke that is the White House. Everything has to go through you, all papers, all briefings. You control what the president sees when it comes to intelligence briefings, when it comes to daily reports, memoranda. It's extremely, extremely critical and boy, Donald Trump has hit a home run there in picking Will Sharf. John Sauer similarly, Will Sharf's fellow Missourian, a fantastic pick for United States solicitor general. He was one of the most prolific state solicitors general working for the good people in Missouri there for I think six years he held that position. Truly fantastic picks. So even below the top level names that we just mentioned, some of the lower level picks or I guess it's probably say mid-level picks have really just been exceptional so far. Yeah, it's that orbit directly in the White House, the ones who are going to be dealing with all the goings and comings around President Trump that are going to kind of shape the narrative, shape the direction of the country. And as he's looking to push his agenda, maybe help prioritize which ones we're tackling first or how many we could tackle at the same time. You know, I am kind of watching the transition team draft happen and everybody's building a fantasy team. We've kind of tapped it that way. I still see some picks out there. It might be the Tom Brady of the draft. It might be Mr. irrelevant when it comes to formulating the rest of this cabinet. People like former acting attorney general Matt Whitaker, former chief of staff to the DoD Cash Patel and former hood secretary Ben Carson. We all know that these people heavily campaigned with President Trump. They're obviously Trump loyalists when it comes to the narrative that the mainstream has built about anyone that he's appointing any position in his future administration coming in January of next year. But as you see, some of these other kind of players that are still kind of hanging out on the sidelines and really at this point, no rush going through the transition as we're not really going to be working on some of the other things, you know, heading into the holidays or whatnot. How do you feel that some of these other players could take shape and maybe some people that I didn't mention who are you're still also looking to potentially join the administration as well? There's a lot of names that haven't really gotten in formal titles yet that you would expect to be involved in some capacity or another. So one issue that you and I have spoken on quite frequently on the show in the past would be the Israel issue in the Middle East in general, Abraham Accords, all of that. So Mike Huckabee, his pick for US ambassador to Israel, I mean, grand slam homerun, literally something like, I mean, I actually don't think I could have named a single person who I would have more liked to have seen in that particular position. You know, my Israeli father-in-law, my religious Jewish father-in-law, just like such a Mike Huckabee mega fan. I mean, we all love the pick so much. I mean, I mean, the guy was basically born to do this frankly. So, but having said that, one of the people that did not get that position, who I think wanted it, was the former ambassador to Israel, David Friedman. So that's one that that's one type of person who I will be curious to see what if any role he gets there. And that issue, more generally speaking, I think is going to be a Donald Trump legacy item. It certainly was one of his big foreign policy legacy items from the first term was the Abrahamic hordes, these dynamic peace deals between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan. The big Kahuna this time around is Saudi Arabia. Everyone wants that peace deal that is definitely going to be a Donald Trump foreign policy, day one priority. Everyone from Marco Rubio, it's Secretary of State, to Mike Huckabee in that ambassador position, basically all the foreign policy folks. So kind of filling in that Abrahamic hordes team, so to speak, last time, it was Jared Kushner, Avi Berkowitz, Jason Greenblatt, a lot of those folks, kind of filling out that broader Middle East diplomacy team. I'm definitely paying close attention to that, I'm curious to see how that goes there as well. And getting back to RFK Jr, who we just briefly touched on, I mean, he's going to get HHS, but who's going to get FDA, who's going to get CDC? I mean, look, HHS is a massive, massive bureaucracy, and there are a lot of agencies within there. In the aftermath of COVID in particular, I think we ought to care a lot about who becomes the head of the NIH, the CDC agencies like that. So I'm definitely paying close attention to those sort of positions as well. You know, one of the ones that goes hand-in-hand with the DOJ and outside of the CDIA, which has already been, you know, you've got Radcliffe there as a nominee, is the FBI. That is an agency that is long-standing needing reform. I mean, we've saw the way that this agency has kind of operated and been on the national stage, pointed out so much under the course of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. When you see, you know, things like that agency still open as well, what are some of the ways, I mean, do we go in there with someone who knows their way around D.C.? Do we kind of put a wrecking ball in there to coincide with someone who's going to be like Matt Gates is probably the Attorney General of the United States? Which way do you see us handling that? Or is it going to be like we need a good cop, bad cop to kind of, you know, make that whole transition? Because, I mean, when you talk to the admin staff there, a lot of them are going to have to go. You had mentioned, you know, RFK Jr. and HHS, he's talking about firing 600 people on day one. That's a drop in the bucket. You've unloaded it for our listenership there on how big all of these collaborative agencies are. Well, I think FBI is really ground zero of the rot. I mean, the FBI has utterly disgraced itself going at least as far back as Jim Comey's decision in the summer of 2016 to not charge or to not recommend charges against Hillary Clinton for the 33,000 emails. He gave this famous spiel or his infamous spiel he might say about how no reasonable prosecutor would bring this case there. Because ever since then, the FBI has just committed one glaring error after the next. I mean, the FBI is basically ground zero as far as I see it up. The intelligence community and the Department of Justice turning into this deep state corruption. The FBI and the DOJ were really the epicenter of the internal coup against Donald Trump and his administration the first time around. So I know that I will be very disappointed if Donald Trump does not try to pair Matt Gates with a fellow outside disruptor, Cash Patel's name has been mentioned a lot. You know, he would certainly be one such pick. There are other names possible that come to mind as well there. But you're definitely not going to have a go along to get a long style pick at the FBI. I mean, at least I would be shocked if that were the case. I can't imagine that the guy who just named that Matt Gates would be his next attorney in general. I cannot believe that that would possibly be the case there at the FBI. So I definitely have high expectations for that FBI. That's for sure. I'm running out of Cash Patel waiting on the sideline memes to produce while waiting for Donald Trump to come up to an ounce who's going to run the FBI moving forward. But it's a great point. You're definitely going to need an outsider or a wrecking ball to kind of get that agency still on its ear for a little bit, kind of shake it and see what falls out of the pockets and then get them actually working for the American people instead of saying every bad thing in this country that happens had been on the radar, but they didn't act on it instead. They're going after people standing outside of abortion clinics, praying or, you know, grandma's at PTA meetings and everything in between. Josh, tell our listenership about some of the stuff that you've got going on as well as we're getting ready to cut with you here. I mean, obviously you're the host of two great shows, which come out, you know, multiple times a week in addition. You've got a book on the way and everything that's going on in your personal life right now. Yeah. So I have my book coming out right now. It's set for March. We actually might try to move the publication date up even further. So we'll see if we're able to do that, but right now, except for March, it's called Israel and Civilization, the fate of the Jewish nation and the destiny of the West. But the title is slightly misleading and so far as when I use Israel and the title, it's referring not just to the state of Israel, but the people of Israel. It's really a book about the Western civilization and the Jewish people and calling for very tight-knit Jewish Christian relations and how we basically all need to come together in this fight to preserve what we call the West today against the three forces that I identify, which are Wokism, Islamism and global neo-liberalism, those really the three forces that in my eyes threaten to undermine that which we today call the West. So that's going to be super exciting. Can't wait to come back on the show, maybe closer publication date to give a further update on all that there. And more generally speaking, yeah, you know, just wrapping down on my two shows, the Josh Hammer Show America and trial with Josh Hammer. I still have that weekly syndicated column that goes up everywhere as well, Newsweek and a bunch of other concerted publications, been writing a little bit for the Daily Mail, the British publication as well. And then on a very personal note, I'm set to become a father in about a month's time, give or take. And that is really what we are talking about here in the Hammer household. It's pretty exciting stuff. It certainly is. We're happy for you. But you know, God bless you and your family moving forward in this very exciting times for you guys as you're going to be adding a plus one. It's going to be, listen, for someone who's, I remember it like it was yesterday and both of my kids are entering Teenagerdom Hood. And I can tell you for as busy as our lives have become, you take every single instant of what it takes to get from point A to point B, like I said, my kids are just about to enter teenagers. And you remember every single thing anytime you close your eyes, you can just go back and really enjoy this, Josh. We're so happy for you. Looking forward to the book as well, right up my alley in regards to the kind of books I love to read. I love all the history stuff, especially when it comes out of like, you know, the cradle of civilization as well. And then the show is definitely two that I listened to on a regular basis. We got everything live linked in the show description today, a link to your bio and Newsweek and your column there. Obviously, both of the podcasts are going to be live linked as well. Anyone who wants to check out on social media, all the great work you're doing in between times that you're appearing here and contributing on Stake of Breakfast. Where can they find you? Yeah. There's always always a pleasure to join the show. So I'm on X, Josh underscore hammer. My Instagram is Josh be hammer and yeah, go ahead and subscribe and leave me that five store. If you, if you will in those two shows as well, got to do it. Can't miss it. This is the senior editor at large at Newsweek, the host of the Josh Hammer show and America on trial with Josh Hammer. Well, it's Josh Hammer. Thanks for coming on the show. Sir. Have a great rest of your week. You too. Thank you. Guys, we're coming back with another all new edition of the state of breakfast podcast. So sit back, relax and let us change the way you consume your news. [ Silence ]
On today’s Episode (Tuesday 1 of 2) of the Steak for Breakfast Podcast, we are covering:
The battle in the Senate heats up over President- Elect, Donald Trump’s cabinet nominations - we’ll bring you the latest from The Hill
The democrats and their media counterparts continue to ramp up the fake news narratives against the nominations of Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk. We’ll bring the latest on who’s pushing back the hardest in defense of Donald Trump’s incoming admin picks
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