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 26, 2024, and this is the State For Breakfast Podcast, episode 496 and 497. Make sure you're subscribed to the show. It's available across every downloadable podcast on the platform to find us on Apple's Spotify. I like Samsung when I was on podcast. Check out the State For Breakfast Linktree. It takes shows to Instagram, our latest sub stack, and verified accounts on Xgetter & True Social. What's up everybody, and welcome to the first of two big Tuesday editions of the show today. I'm Rowan, I've got Noah here with me, and as always, there's lots of breaking news. Donald Trump runs out his cabinet with a flurry of Friday night higher announcements. We'll bring you all the latest on that. New poll numbers is showing that the country is ready to make America great again. We'll bring you the latest after the weekend numbers came out. Joe Biden continues to cement his legacy as the worst president ever. And now ramping up not just the rhetoric, but the ammunitions between Russia and Ukraine, and Jack Smith calls it a career. For now, while Tom Holman is ready to go to war, with not just the Mexican cartels, but the Blue State governors will bring you the latest theirs. We're about to have a great slate of guests coming in here today, pre-Thanksgiving edition of the show. Incoming Alaska Congressman Nick Baguic will be here. The president of the conservative caucus, Jim Paffle, will be joining us as well. We'll catch up with California Congressman Kevin Kylie, and incoming Arizona Congressman Abe Homiday. Be joining us today, too. But before we get into any of our interviews, let's dive right into these headlines and change the way you consume your news. Monkey, this is not nom. This is bowling. There are rules. Hey, hey, hey, junior! America! It's like... For the best! So stand by! All right, everybody. Welcome to the State for Breakfast Podcast. 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, I'm Roan. Noah's going to be here in just a bit. Getting things started here. We are coming out of a weekend where we saw Donald Trump complete his cabinet nominations and selections for his incoming Trump-47 White House. We'll bring you the latest on that. I'm also how new poll numbers are showing America is ready to make America great again. Joe Biden continues to cement his legacy as the worst president in the history of the United States by ramping up all things related to the Ukraine and Russia conflict. And also, Jack Smith calls it a career for now. And Tom Holman is ready to go to war, not just with the Mexican cartels, but some of the biggest Democrat governors in the sapphire of bluish states. So we'll bring you all of those news items today and anything else that's coming across the wire. It's a busy heading into Thanksgiving-type week. Thanksgiving just a few days away. I know we're very thankful for a lot of things here on the show, not just the amazing relationships and the way we've been able to tell the story of making America great again to you guys for over the course of the past, you know, seven plus years now here on "Stake for Breakfast." We're also nearing our 500th episode. A lot of podcasts can't say that in regards to longevity and being able to stay current and hip and cool and honest and truthful, which are the two big ones, which allows us to continue to operate in the manner we do. We're also thankful for a lot of the great relationships we made along the way, not just with our listenership, but with all the people, you know, from in and outside of the government, some of the biggest pundits, people that are, you know, in Donald Trump's family, members of Congress and the Senate, a former and soon-to-be government officials, and everyone in between. It's really the way, you know, we kind of look at things here on the show as closing in on a decade ago, the fact that we were able to start this off as a little bit of, well, at least Noah and myself coming in as contributors for what was apparently going to be a variety type podcast and Segway heading into the 2020 presidential election cycle to a political one and have made quite a name and a brand for ourselves. It was just seven short years ago that we were doing this on a beer pong table in the original founder of State for Breakfast, our former host, Nick's Garage. We had a soundproof curtain up against the garage door. It was very hot. There were some mice. The equipment was bare bones. And, you know, now we operate out of some of the finest, do-it-yourself state-of-the-art studios. If you can call it that here in the America-first echo sphere. What's up, Noah? I was just talking about us, and guess what? I don't mean to put you on the spot, even though you're jumping in a few minutes late, but we're talking about what we're thankful for here on the show as it is Thanksgiving Week. Ooh. So what are you thankful for? Well, I was just talking about, you know, in regards to the show, the evolution of it, the way we've been able to kind of cement ourselves as a, you know, reliable, credible news source, all the relationships we made along the way, not just with the people who come and contribute on the show, but our vast listenership, both, you know, in garnering feedback on our episodes, but most importantly on social media as well. Do you really get to see what the stake for breakfast personality is like by perusing our social medias? You get commentary on X, you get My Literal Mood by clicking our Instagram story over there, you know, and you get a lot of reposts and shares on places like True Social. So, but when you look at things outside of the show, obviously for my family, everybody's made it through another year healthy and happy and we're together. We're getting ready to say goodbye to the way California is and hopefully the way California will be over the course of the next four years, which is maybe a little bit more affordable, at least when it comes to like groceries and things of that nature. If you talk to any of our guests today who are coming in the show, including the Congressman from California's Third District, who's going to be starting off our first interview of the second podcast today and that's Kevin Kylie. He's back after Longston away from the show, but really glad to catch up with him. But, you know, it seems like they're very optimistic on the job that's been laid out ahead of them, the mandate that's been issued by the American people and obviously the tasks that is ahead starting in January. But more specifically, do you know what you got this year? What are you thankful for? Well, you know, I don't usually peruse all the social media comments and stuff like that. So, whenever you do, you know, bring some stuff to my attention, send me screenshots and stuff like that. We have a really good listenership that's fine-tuned to what's going on in the world, whether that's from listening to us or just being awake and aware in general people. So, that's pretty good. But, yeah, I mean, I'm thankful for my family stuff. You know, I'm a healthy relationship and a nice place to live and got my animals and that's about it. That's all I need. That's all you need. And, you know, going back to what you said about our, you know, our listenership here and the way they interact with us on social media, I've seen it in, like, the Apple and Spotify podcast comments and the ones who frequently interact with us and on a regular basis, they get it. I see when they write, like, show reviews. It's like, once you understand the comedic aspect or political satire that they're using and how they just say it without even flinching sometimes, you'll really appreciate the show a whole lot more. And those are my favorite kinds because we just kind of -- there's no reason to harp on a joke to make it seem funny-ers when we say it in just normal conversation. It's really funny-est. And that's kind of the way we've done it here. You know, there are a lot of things about politics that are the things that may be, you know, risque or not appropriate for mainstream media or cable news, but that's why the ratings are in the toilet. And independent media is not only being able to bring it to you in a different way. We call it here, changing the way you consume your news. But at the same time, it's like you're getting the most accurate parts of the story. You're getting the insider information that a lot of people aren't privy to. But at the same time, we're putting a little bit of a spin on it to where, like, everybody wants to say, and we're one of the only outlets that has the huevos to do it. So what do you think, Noah? Yeah, definitely. I mean, being able to be funny nowadays is it's a task. So whether or not it's just dry humor, sarcasm, or just regular dick and fart jokes, I mean, when the real world is, I've always wanted to be a fisher of them. Yeah. Like, how do you attack that and try to be funnier than real life? Well, we've played so many clips of it over the course of the last couple of weeks as well. You know, I think one of the biggest things that the mainstream media, especially those in outlets like MSNBC and CNN are coming to realize is that there's an old guard of people who present the news to you with a narrative that's kind of stale, much like their age. At the same time, the new people there are so progressive that number one, it's hard to watch them. But when you hear the side commentary that they try to put in and around actual stories, it makes it almost unbearable to be able to kind of digest. I'm talking about people like Kate Collins and obviously Randy Mattow, Joey Reed, just to name a few. Yeah, insufferable twats. Yes. And you just have to be able to filter out all that stuff. You know, we're very opinionative here, but our opinion of nature is that of what we feel like is going on in the real world, not the ones that you have to tip toe around when you have executive producers and multi-billionaires who run your news outlets. I'm not a multi-billionaire. No, are you? No, I wish. Maybe someday. But I have a couple more steps to get up that mountain. Yeah. Same here. But, you know, it's just, it's been a real big blessing here. You know, we'll probably touch on a little bit of that Rush Limbaugh monologue that he had about Thanksgiving on our Friday edition of the show as the news should kind of ramp down after today. But it doesn't say it's ramping down in the form of our guessless. I mean, if you're talking about the people that are coming in here over the course of the next two episodes in this week, just starting with today at the end of this segment, we're going to jump in with the congressman who's going to be representing, I guess, all Velasquez since they only have one house seat there, and that's Nick Bijic. We've tracked him heavily throughout the course of back-to-back election cycles now. He was able to get in there to be the house representative. He just completed his two-week freshman incoming orientation, and we'll be catching up with him for the first time. Someone who's going to be a continuing contributor into the next session of Congress here on the show. Political commentator and the president of the conservative caucus Jim Paff will round out this episode's interview segments. Jim heads an organization. It's the oldest conservative organization in America. That's number one. Number two, grassrootsly, they poured almost $9 million into election-related material, including the preservation of some of the house seats that were up for grabs and ones that were heavily fought over throughout the course of the last waning days of this election cycle as well. Jim's doing a great job. Since he's been the president there, he's bringing it back to national prominence level. We really like some of the commentary. The guy was the chief of staff to Capitol Hill. He knows both the upper and lower chambers well. He still talks to a lot of the staffs that are connected to a lot of congressional offices in addition to that. We'll catch up with him to round out today's episode. Our second podcast today at the end of the first new segment, we'll be sitting down. I already mentioned it. For the first time in a while, catching up with California Congressman Kevin Kylie. This is someone who knows everything about all of the important issues that are going to be affecting the House of Representatives starting on day one and after their sworn in on January 3rd, leading up to President Trump's inauguration with reconciliation and things of that matter. That's getting H.R.1 and H.R.2 back on the docket. That's getting things like de-regulatory stuff, the Lake and Riley Act, et cetera, up to the upper chamber to get ready to get signed into law. He's also one of the people that, as a state legislator, before he went to the U.S. Congress, battled with Gavin Newsom for years here in the state senate and assembly. And whenever he can come back to the show, it'll be how much time has passed in between. We're very thankful to catch up with him. And then we'll round out the second episode of the podcast today with an interview with someone who's also going to be a contributor once he's sworn in for the 119th session of Congress, and that's Arizona Congressman Abe Homaday. So it looks like we got a pretty good guest list today talking about, congressionally, moving forward. But in addition to all the people you, you know, traditionally here on the show and up through the last session, we're going to be adding begetch, we're going to be adding Homaday, we're going to be adding Brandon Gellin, of course, Brian Jack, as a new incoming monthly contributor. So lots of great stuff going on. I've already got some locks for Friday's show. And Tim Burch, it'll be here. I can't expect to get any better back-end commentary on all things Thanksgiving than with the Tennessee Congressman. Also got a confirmation. We'll be sitting down with Corey Mills. We'll catch up with someone who couldn't have been closer to Donald Trump in the days leading up to the presidential election. And now is a major factor working for the transition team, Elizabeth Pipko. And we'll see who else we get to round out our Friday edition of the podcast and following Thanksgiving. So everything's kind of setting up for this week. And as we're getting ready to jump into the news and before we get things started, how about we do a quick check-in with one of our sponsors. Hi, this is Birdo. We're at Birdo. What's wrong with America today is that Americans are putting convenience over values. We need to start thinking about our dollar as a vote. 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Did I miss something? I wasn't listening apparently. Well, we're going to go through all of them and I'm going to read off the roster, but it came in the afternoon. You know, I was ready to, we finished the show. We had done our post-production. Everything was sent over to you to complete the editing. I was getting ready to feed my kids some lunch before they have their athletic activities in the afternoon. And then all of a sudden I see breaking news, breaking news on my phone, on the TV. And it wasn't just in the form of one. I believe there were four or five cabinet selections, which came out around 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Eastern. And out of, you know, West Palm Beach from President Trump, here's how the news started to break. It was one of the most critical components of the incoming administration. Let's hear it. As expected, breaking news. President-elect Donald Trump will name key square capital management CEO Scott Besant to be his treasury secretary. Besant is the founder of key square capital management. He's a hedge fund manager who lead the treasury department. He has been really one of the finance world's most vocal supporters of President-elect Trump. And he has been an advisor, a key economic advisor to the president-elect and his team, talking about economic policies. He has suggested to the president to pursue a 3-3-3 policy. In other words, cutting the budget deficit to 3% of gross domestic product by 2028. It's a shit together prep there. By 3% through deregulation and producing an additional 3 million barrels of oil, or it's equivalent a day. He has seen as a key economic advisor. And now after a long process, which took some time to find a treasury secretary, Scott Besant, the hedge fund manager, is the pick for President-elect Donald Trump. Senior national correspondent, Rich Edson, isn't -- We don't need to hear from Rich because we're going to commentate on it. No, this seems like a fantastic pick. Someone that doesn't buy into climate change. He's a billionaire and a former hedge fund trust one of those guys that manages all that crap. But he's not one of these elitists who have traditionally donated to the Democrat Party. Also, one of the, I think, biggest items and not a lot of people are highlighting. He has a really strong relationship with Elon Musk. And when you see how Donald Trump and Elon Musk have been working so closely together through the transition, and especially off each other with the cabinet selections, it seems like this was going to be the guy they were just trying to figure out how to, I guess, softly let down all the other people that were being floated out there by the media who were more tied to the establishment, who did have more of a track record in DC. This is another outsider that's going to be coming in that has like, you know, the best way about, I could just describe Scott Besson is he comes in with a whiteboard. He writes three things down and he says, this is how we're going to do it. And they're like, oh, yeah, that's not the way we traditionally do stuff here. And then he just points, but no, this is the plan. And they're like, yeah, but you know, that probably won't work. Oh, it's going to make the economy go crazy. This right here is how we get good over here. And good over here is the US government and they're out of control spending. And it probably made a whole bunch of people who like to spend buttholes tighter on Friday. But I think it's a great pick. And you'll see in just a second how it triggered the market in a good way as recently as yesterday. But what do you think? Yeah, I mean, we have all these people that are trying to say that these picks are not qualified or they're too much of a Trump loyalist. And I was having a conversation with somebody and they're like, well, he's just picking a bunch of people that are going to be loyal to him. And I'm like, well, that's how you have a successful administration. Yeah. Not necessarily that they're solely loyal to you, but they're going to be on board for what you want to do and what your goals are. Yes, that's those are people that are loyal to you. That's that's a good thing. Or would you rather it be the exact same Waffle House parking lot fight that it was the entire last time he was in the administration where everybody's trying to knock this fucking feed off under him and he can't get anything done. Half the people last time were insiders half the people last time were outsiders and like, no, it just alluded to the first hundred hundred twenty days to the like the parking lot of a Waffle House at about 2 a.m. rule Atlanta on a Saturday. So, you know, it's one of these things right now where we're getting a lot of wrecking balls. We're getting a lot of outsiders shit. We're getting a lot of people who weren't Republicans like as recently as six months ago. Yeah, who are coming into this administration and are looking to make big inroads into turning this country back in the right direction and getting our heads out of our ass as much as like what is going on with Joe Biden. And you know, this comes on a day where we're seeing a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes, but directly really the President Trump. So Netanyahu is going to well, he was just on the news. The Israeli prime minister and he was talking about them going into a ceasefire with Hezbollah. And apparently that's, you know, the terrorist organization that's funded by Iran out of Lebanon tomorrow. And that's something that Donald Trump said that he'd be working diligently behind the scenes on since his meeting with Beebe a couple months ago and leading up to the election. Tom Holman's also down on the U.S. Southern border today with Texas governor. We like to call him Hot Wheels, Greg Abbott. And, you know, they're talking about all the things that are going to make our borders great again. Everything from finishing the wall and remaining Mexico to going to war with not just the criminal cartels, but with some of the blue state governors as we've seen them just making a huge cope and see that in the media since Donald Trump won reelection. It's really embarrassing to see, you know, some of these governors that go out and act like federal law supersedes whatever the fake made up laws. They memo into reality in their states. And which one is, you know, going to win at the end of the day. But I'm telling you right now when Tom Holman says that he's going to war with these people. He's going to war with these people. And Tom Holman is going to go be what goes bump in the night. Yes. Yes. Remember the toughest decisions require the strongest wills. And I can think, listen, Tom Holman is going to wind up being the crown jewel of all the people that are going to be going to work on January 20th for Donald Trump. And you could time stamp that right now and play it back for us. He will make more of an impact than all of these radical progressive governors and everyone that's wanted to circumvent immigration law over the past several decades. But more importantly, during Joe Biden's administration leading up to now. I did say there was a best in effect. And there sure was as the markets were closing yesterday, no, we hit an all time high in the wake of the news of Donald Trump picking Scott Besan as his treasury secretary. Let's hear this. What a great way to start Thanksgiving week. A rally that carries stock prices to new all time highs. Look at it. The Dow industrial is up over, well maybe 380 points at the opening bell. Now stick up about 140. S&P is up 0.6% still a solid gain there. Trump's treasury pick, Scott Besant. Now he's a big hit on Wall Street. He's stimulating some of this rally. His priority is tax cuts. You might call this the Besant Rally. I'd like to hear it. Everyone that has a retirement fund, a 401k, a TSP, et cetera. Congratulations on the last two days. So, you know, and listen, the Trump effect and the effect that people will have coming into his cabinet are going to be critical on the success and the public opinion, the way it's swaying in the first 100 to 120 days. And you really have to think that a little bit of that went into the selection of Scott Besant as the treasury secretary. A lot of commentators who have come on this show said it's one of the big four that needed to be staffed with the right person heading into the next administration as well. We also had a selection. Well, actually, let's go over the completed cabinet first. I pulled a post that had them all written out and they even had nice little emojis next to them. So this is what the Trump cabinet officially looks like, Noah. Secretary of State's going to be Marco Rubio. Obviously, we've just been talking about Scott Besant who's going to head the treasury. Pete Hegseth for the secretary of defense. Doug Bergam's going to be the interior secretary. We did have an announcement on agriculture Friday night and that's coming from Trump loyalists. One of the Susie Wiles, Caliber staffers. And when I've told you guys for the past year that these major policy institutes were having the most influence over who was going to be selected for the next administration and who was going to dictate a lot of the policy measures moving forward. Well, you don't have to look any further than the incoming agriculture secretary and that's the president of the America First Policy Institute, Brooke Rollins. We also saw JD Vance who was someone that was not only pushed but at the America First Policy Institute was selected as the vice president of the United States. And if he's going to be the gold standard for where some of these other selections are going to have to reach the bar on, then I think we're in pretty good situation with someone that brings the fire and fury much like Brooke Rollins. You want to talk about Trump loyalists. Her picture is probably next to the definition in the dictionary. Commerce secretary is going to be Howard Lutnik, labor secretary, kind of a weird pick, but one that has been celebrated by the steel workers, by the pipe fitter unions, by the teamsters. And that's outgoing Republican Congressman Lori Chavez Duremer, best known here on stake for breakfast for having a panic attack right before we started our first interview with her, therefore not interviewing her. The soon to be former Congresswoman from Oregon is going to be the labor secretary. Her, I guess, longstanding good relationship with the labor unions is what kind of willed that pick. And when you look at the not endorsement but big time support we got from international organizations like the teamsters, especially in the back half of this election cycle, it makes sense where one hand is going to wash the other. Robert Kennedy Jr is going to head HHS, Scott Turner, former NFL player, someone who worked in the first Trump administration as well as coming back to man HUD, Ben Carson's former cabinet position. Sean Duffy, the former congressman from Wisconsin, is going to be the transportation secretary. Chris Wright, who we're going to get to in a second, is going to be the energy czar, Linda McMahon, and all things wrestling related will now be DDT, the Department of Education, hopefully out of existence. Rep Doug Collins is going to head up veterans affairs. And of course, we all know that the Department of Homeland Security will be headed by Christine Oh, now these are not the agency appointments. These are not the czars and all mythical creatures in between. These are Donald Trump's cabinet selections. The major players who are going to head the biggest industries and agencies going into the next administration. So, similar cash. Well, I did our post this morning. Trump transition team draft day 21, because we're three Tuesday's post election day here. And we're on Cash Patel Watch with a picture of Cash Patel. So, yeah. Oh, I also wanted to put a big thank you out there today. I forgot. I wrote it down. I need to mention it. Dinesh D'Souza. Thank you for sharing the show and saying some nice things about our podcast. It did help that on Friday. We hosted your son-in-law. His daughter, Danielle, is married to incoming Texas Congressman Brandon Gill. And we got the share there. He's someone that likes to do his research. So, hopefully, Dinesh listened to it. Hopefully, he liked it. And we'll get some more shares. I'm going to be sending all the show. Once you've got a big account and you share our show, I just send them all to you. When you like our guests, you share them. When you're on, obviously, you share them as well. But, yeah, it was really good to wake up this morning and see some nice commentary. And the share of our show post is downloads are up today, which is traditionally, you know, on a day the show airs. They're at one of their lowest. So, but that's neither here nor there. No, what do you think about Tom Holman down on the border today? I love it. He's dressed up in cammies. And Hot Wheels has got his standard suit on. But, yeah, they're talking about making Texas sealed again come January. And I think it's going to be good to see just exactly what Tom Holman has in store. I really do feel no. I think you're in the same category here. You think a lot of these high ranking figures in the Mexican cartels are going to be getting Abdul letters? Abdul. Oh, Donald, senior Trump. Why would you send me a picture of my Casa? Boy. So jumping into Chris right here, who's going to be the energy secretary, I did see, I pulled a clip on his incoming cabinet level selection, and I wanted to play it for you guys. Let's check it out. So energy matters. It matters for human lives. It matters for human well-being. It matters for low-income people and social mobility. Low-income people to come up. When you hear crazy stuff today, check it out. Dig a little deeper. Hurricanes are not growing. That's in the IPCC report. Tornadoes are actually on the decline. Floods, droughts, all of these things you hear ceaselessly. They just simply aren't so. It isn't even controversial that they're not so. But media politicians just continually abuse these facts. And I'll end with one last fact, because anxiety is growing among kids. I'm sure everyone has seen that. Twenty percent of kids go to bed at night, worried about climate change. Your chance of dying from extreme weather today is greater than 95 -- has been reduced by more than 97 percent over the last century. There's just an absolute plummeting from 500,000 people a year dying from extreme weather to less than 10,000 the last couple of years while the world population is quadrupled. So facts matter, human liberty matters, bottom-up social organization has always been the way to a better world. Let's resist this force of top-down control that's not benefiting humans except those in government. All right, Noah, what do you think about that? If there's one thing that kind of gets me -- gets me going and thinking about our incoming energy secretary, it's that he's talking at like a national conference on national conservatism, debunking climate change. I mean, it's a solid move since climate change is all but debunked itself. I heard there's as many as 10 dormant or in the process of being shut down in nuclear facilities in the United States including Three Mile Island, maybe the Chi Chi's out in California, that nice pair of sea cups, that sits on the five freeway to the left overlooking the ocean if anybody's ever passed it out here. And even like Oyster Creek down in South Jersey, which are going to be reopened in regards to reharnessing nuclear energy in the next Trump administration as, you know, they do have some concerns with the storage and maybe some of the meltdowns that can happen over it, both figuratively and literally. But when you want to talk about some of the cleanest energy and the way to keep the lights on the greatest, it comes in the form right now in that of, you know, nuclear reactors. What do you think, Noah? Yeah, I mean, it's literally the safest and cleanest option of all things. Like, and the technology has gotten so much better. That's the big thing. They can manage everything like it's not. We're not in the same level as Fukushima where they literally didn't build an off switch on the thing or whatever it was that caused that huge catastrophic failure. But according to the movie theaters, I thought that was because of Godzilla. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Could have been that as well. I'm not talking about Hideki Matsui either for all Yankee fans out there. So one of the most controversial picks, maybe the only controversial pick. And I'm talking in the sense of controversial to America first because those like Pete Higgseth and Matt Gates, we kind of see that. And after all, what we've seen for the past near the decade are just kind of like, hmm, if it happens, it happens if it doesn't. So the way things are going is the incoming surgeon general, Dr. Jeanette, I believe her name is Naishmit, and Naishwad. And the issue with her was, and again, these people are heavily vetted. These people have had face-to-face meetings with Donald Trump and his transition team selectory committee, whatever, face-to-face time. Okay. They've also looked at the collective body of work, who is coming into the administration, you know, that they may have worked with prior, who that is not going to be in the administration that they may have worked with in the past as well. There are a lot of different benchmarks you have to clear to even be considered as a finalist, albeit mentioned or selected as a nominee for some of these positions. A certain general is going to be something that's going to be extremely important moving forward and over the course of the next four years and hopefully beyond. But it's also going to be someone that's going to be reporting directly to Bobby Kennedy Jr. So I don't know what the big, you know, crying over it is about. But here's the deal. As soon as her name came out, Friday night is being selected for a certain general. There were all of these people with like the basement dweller accounts that have like hundreds of thousands of followers that start showing videos of this lady as a doctor in the beginning of the pandemic, supporting masks, distance learning and things of that nature. You know, in the first six months or so in the start of the pandemic, every single person in the medical field who wasn't directly tied to the people that were proprietying the pandemic were lied to, led to believe something that was not true and basically had no research and or collective data to refute the argument otherwise. Plus there were all these punitive emails going around saying if you buck the trend and wind up costing lives, you can pretty much call it a career. And like again, when people didn't have the data and they didn't have, you know, the examples laid out before them of having any time in the first few months of the pandemic had hit here in the States, a lot of people came out with bad takes. There isn't a person who is listening to the show right now that at least in the first couple weeks, if not months, in the start of the pandemic, didn't have some fears that if you caught something, what would happen because of what you were seeing on TV, what you were hearing in the international news, you literally had to go through it to be able to formulate or at least confirm your own opinions. That's the way it was for us. That's the way it was for me. Now when it came to getting the vaccines and all of that other things, they could, you know, kiss our ass. That was never going to happen here on stage for breakfast sure didn't and wouldn't move in forward as well. But when you talk about the incoming surgeon general, you know, going back and getting her takes. Remember, it's about to be 2025 from three, four, five years ago and trying to play them against her when there's ones much more reason than that. Let's hear this clip from very recently right now when she appeared on Fox News and some of the commentary she had after she was able to kind of experience it for herself and as a frontline doctor, check this out. >> I'll start with you. What do you think about this at this point? Is there any reason to have mandates? >> Absolutely not, Carly. I think it's illogical to mandate something that's ineffective. You know, what they're asking are these young healthy college students who are low risk to mask up and to live like a hermit to social distance and to avoid, you know, large gatherings and parties. But I can tell you firsthand, having taken care of thousands of COVID patients, these little flimsy surgical masks, they're ineffective. Now, if you choose to wear a mask and if you're in a high risk group, that's one thing and you probably want to wear an N95 mask. But to mandate masks, to mandate vaccines at this point, I think is the wrong move to shut down schools, to have remote learning as absolutely breaks my heart. I can tell you my last shift I saw about 55 patients had about eight or nine who tested positive for COVID. All of them, their symptoms were mild, sniffles, cough in sore throat, that sort of thing. But they did very well. And it's important to remember, Carly, we now have the tools to treat COVID. It's not like where we were three years ago. >> Again, so playing clips of Dr. Neshwatt from three years ago don't really make any sense when she's already formulated a logical solution and opinion on where we should be moving forward as recently as today. And you know, it's one of those things, I don't know who the account was, I can't remember, but they said like, oh, great, Trump picks a pretty face with a set of circus tits. I asked for clarification on what circus tits mean. I honestly don't know. But if anybody has any feedback that could lead me to, you know, complete this investigation that I've launched into the definition of circus tits, I'd surely be, you know, appreciative of our listenership if they could reach out to us via social media or obviously email, which are all live linked in the show description today. But yeah, you know, and again, reporting and working underneath Bobby Kennedy is one thing, but having a completely different opinion that you did at the end of the pandemic or now than you did in the first couple of weeks or months of the pandemic, it's no way to judge a person. And for everyone that may have felt that way, don't feel that way now and maybe even forget that they even had some worries or concerns, you know, you have to be able to give people, they're picked for a reason. And she brings something at the table that both the Trump team, obviously, Robert Kennedy Jr., et cetera, want involved with the incoming administration and when it goes towards gutting out some of these agencies that need to be done so. No, maybe you could help me out with this one. You know, before we break on the selection of the incoming U.S. search in general, someone commentated that she wasn't anything more than a pretty face with a pair of circus tits. I wasn't sure on what the definition was. I asked the original poster, which was a fairly large account. If we could get clarification on that, I even used a gift to where a guy would seem to be flipping through notes and couldn't find the answer he was looking for. Have you ever heard that one before? Circus tits? I mean, I don't think anything that wasn't a compliment, maybe. Maybe. Well, again, listenership, if anybody out there wants to reach out on social media and clarify for us what the definition of that is. It sounds like that poster may have a weird like fetish or something. It was a girl. A clown porn. Oh, God. We're not playing that clip here on the show. No, I don't want McDonald's anymore. Sticking in the same thread here with the search in general, but moving it down to another organization that I'll be working directly with HHS and Robert Kennedy Jr. is the FDA. If you want to talk about someone who is a great selection and you should have no concerns about his stances of what went down during COVID or who people were that were pushing back the hardest, it is definitely Dr. Marty McCarry. And I pulled a clip of one of the committees that he sat on where he was testifying on all of the abuses and now the public mistrust for the government and all of these health agencies regarding coming out of the pandemic. And listen, if you are excited about the work that Bobby Kennedy Jr. is going to be doing come January and with all of these organizations regarding health and food and wellness and stuff like this, know that he's got one of our strongest soldiers and Dr. Marty McCarry working right alongside with him at the FDA. Check this out. The greatest perpetrator of misinformation during the pandemic has been the United States government. Misinformation that COVID was spread through surface transmission that was far greater than natural immunity. That masks were effective. Now we have the definitive Cochrane review. What do you do with that review? Cochrane is the most authoritative evidence body in all of medicine and has been for decades. Do you just ignore it and not talk about it? That myocarditis was more common after the infection than the vaccine. Not true. It's four to 28 times more common after the vaccine. That young people benefit from a booster. Misinformation. Our two top experts on vaccines quit the FDA in protest over this particular issue, pushing boosters in young healthy people. The data was never there. That's why the CDC never disclosed hospitalization rates among boosted Americans under age 50. The vaccine mandates with increased vaccination rates. The George Mason University study shows it didn't. It did one thing. It created never vaxxers who are now not getting the childhood vaccines they need to get. Over and over again, we've seen something that goes far beyond using your best judgment with the information at hand. We've seen something which is unforgivable and that is the weaponization of medical research itself. The CDC putting out their own shoddy studies like their own study on natural immunity looking at one state for two months when they had data for years on all 50 states. Why did they only report that one sliver of data? Why did they salami slice the giant database? Because it gave them the result they wanted. Same with masking study. Well, the data has now caught up in giant systematic reviews and public health officials were intellectually dishonest. They lied to the American people. Thank you. What do you think about that? Yeah, true story. Anybody is still clinging to that the vaccine is 100% safe and effective and we didn't do anything wrong with muzzling our kids and just making them socially awkward and inhibiting their growth. They need their fucking head examined, but they're also the same people that may or may not still be driving around with their mask on their car and screaming about how Trump is Hitler. Right. Well, we all know how well that worked out for them three weeks ago, but and I digress. You know what? Actually, my wife has pointed out maskers twice in the last three days. It's amazing when you see them and it's almost like it's the virtue signal now. That's all it is. I just want you to know that you should know that I know that I'm better than you. Yeah, we were pulling into grab lunch following my son's son. He's got a travel ball tournament this weekend. They lost in the semis. So no ring that looks like a turkey. It was kind of a heartbreaker. Lots of shame. Yeah. We still got two more tournaments on deck right now. One this weekend and then we'll be in Vegas at some point in December. But yeah, that we were pulling into a parking spot and the guy who was backing out to let us in like he was wearing a ski jacket in Southern California in the middle of the day with it zipped all the way up to his chin and then he had on like a beanie hat glasses and a mask. And my wife was like, dude, look at that guy. I was like, yeah. It's not that cold yet. Then yesterday we were pulling out to go pick up my daughter from open gym for volleyball. And when we go to turn the corner out of our off our street and onto the main drag, there was a guy walking three dogs. They were long haired doc hounds. And he was wearing a mask. T-shirt shorts and a mask. Like I don't understand what the benefits of that is. I mean, it might be compromised immune system with the high allergens and air lately. But no, the search will mask your stick. You're trying to like not get other people sick maybe, but still not when you're walking your dogs out in the middle of the street right or in the car by yourself. And that's what, you know, we're still seeing from these people who are still hanging on to that. They did a poll like in my wife's office of should we go back to masks and doors throughout the winter. And it was like 98% of like three different offices said, no. Yeah, fuck that. My wife said she feels like she gets sicker or gets sick easier when she has to keep putting those things on and off and touches her face a million times and they get kind of sweaty and stuff every day. I think people did like actual like studies on whether or not encouraging people to touch their face. Seven thousand times a fucking minute will cause you to have more germ transfer than you would if you were just normally occasionally touching your face. There is that too. Guys, wherever you're listening to the show today, welcome to first of two big Tuesday editions pre Thanksgiving editions of State for Breakfast. Do us favor in addition to sharing the show with your friends, family, coworkers and loved ones, which you guys are doing a great job of. We've almost recouped. I would say a majority of the people who were kicked off by Apple when they did an iOS update and unsubscribed everybody if they didn't have our obscene content selected as one of your preferences. But also go over to your favorite podcasting platform whether it's Apple Spotify, Samsung, iHeart, Amazon podcast or wherever you're listening to the show today and even more importantly, hit the subscribe button, hit the follow if you're on Apple podcast. 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She had said as much on the show several times when she's been a contributor here, as long as she's not tapped to be working in any kind of the agencies or whatnot moving forward, she'll continue to contribute here. Hopefully in the next two weeks, as we've reached out to her and she said she needs to see what the schedule looks like moving forward. In the running with her was former Trump 45 White House veteran and the president of the America First Policy Institute, Brooke Rollins. And when the announcement came on Friday that Brooke Rollins was going to be leading the agriculture department, there were a big sigh of relief in America first. I mean, I think a lot of people wrongly so hold what happened in that special election back in 2020 against, you know, Kelly Lawfler and former Senator Purdue. But here's the deal. When you see the amount of votes that Donald Trump got in this election, without the free-for-all mail-in ballots going out there, it's now well over 77 million. And when you see the results that have come in in states like Georgia and all of the swing in battleground states, shit, Arizona was the state he won by the largest margin in. That was one of the ones he lost by the greatest margins in 2020. You have to understand there were other entities at work, which not only prevented Donald Trump from winning back the White House and a reelection, you know, in consecutive terms, but flip the Senate into Democrat control. And that's what came with the special election, which saw both Purdue and Lawfler lose their seats. So I think for a lot of the ill will in America First, it's been directed towards her. I could reassure you that she has done some amazing work. If you look at the way that, and he never showed up at a rally, I'm talking about Brian Kemp, but they did the Hurricane Disaster relief press conference together. And they talked positively about each other in the mainstream press. And I think it led enough people in Georgia feel relieved enough or compelled enough to say, you want to know what? If these guys are going to be on the same page and I want that to be the president to work with my governor and a lot of the credit for that goes to. And she's also been one of the biggest independent outside domestic donors for Donald Trump in this election cycle as well. And that's Kelly Lawfler. So she didn't get selected to be the agriculture secretary. Brooke Rollins did. Not too much of a surprise to anyone, but here's the deal. She was on Newsmax last week talking about how things might have been a way back in 2016 when Donald Trump was elected to the White House. But heading towards the end of this election cycle and into the transition, they're not going to fall for all the same deep state and establishment tricks twice. Check it out. Well, we will have the bills. There's no question. I would start with President Trump for three years in the last White House running his domestic policy agenda along with a lot of other projects. And then for the last four years, I've been running the America First Policy Institute, which we launched in January of 2021 with nine former Trump cabinet members with 50 former White House Trump senior officials across the administration. And the whole point of this entire effort was to ensure that whomever took the White House next, whichever America First President took the White House next and, of course, how great it's President Trump that we would never be caught unaware again that in fact this time we would be ready and we'd watch the Democrats do this over and over again. They were always ready, but this time it was never going to happen that we were going to be unprepared. So the team is ready. We're going to put the best team on the field. We've got an outside game with Turning Point, America First Policy. We're going to have the most amazing people inside. And it's time to go and save our country. When people ask, as being appointed to the Secretary of Agriculture what she brings to the table, she grew up on a farm, a farm that produced. So that's one of the items. But again, as someone who worked on domestic policy in the Trump 45 White House and then someone who headed, I would call it the most influential conservative policy institute in the United States for the years that Donald Trump wasn't in office at America First, you have to understand all of this different, it has to do with energy, it has to do with agriculture, it has to do with transportation, it has to do with the interior. All of these views or angles or directions that they want America First policies and legislation to move in. She's been the person that's been basically a proven everybody that puts papers across her desk for the last three plus years. So it wasn't maybe necessarily that she was always going to be the Ag Secretary, but adding her to the team as the Ag Secretary brings something just outside of her policy background to the table. It also gives her the ability as a cabinet member to be able to work more streamlined with all the other cabinet selections since she's been overseeing all of the policies and all of the angles and all of the cabinet level narratives that have gone through the America First policy institute or been produced by it for the last four years. So I think it's a good pick. I think you need somebody that close to President Trump, again, she's Susie Talver. When it comes to the inner circle on your cabinet. And now you got two of them. What Susie is the chief of staff and Brooke has the AgSec coming in. I saw the Vikram Aswami decided to jump out on the Sunday morning news circuit this week. And he was of course talking about Doge. You notice how there was a big push in the mainstream media for the last couple of weeks saying that how Elon Musk is the de facto president, he's the de facto vice president. Like he's the person that's running the transition team. None of this stuff is true. What was true, though, was based off of all the experience that not only Elon Musk, but everyone else that you've seen down there over the course of the last three weeks has. Everyone's had the opportunity to, well, lend their two cents and then give strategic input on where some of these agency appointments and cabinet positions were going. And I think that's a good thing because you don't want Donald Trump doing it by himself simply based off the fact that you'll have everybody that's going to get hired by him, criticize him from the ground up once he gets into office like we saw during the first Trump administration. You know, there were the deep state or the swampy picks who would be like, yeah, you know, I know Donald Trump picked me, but he's not telling me to do things the way things are supposed to be done in Washington, DC. We don't need that ever again. And then there were the people like Rex Tillerson who got picked as the secretary of state in the first administration who had run a major energy company for decades. But, you know, when it comes to sitting across the table with the terrorist organizations from Iran or let's even say the Taliban, it just wasn't his cup of tea. And he didn't feel comfortable doing it. And he was very public about it. And that's why he was out of there very fast. Someone like Vivek is going to do a lot better job from working outside of the government and pushing in on the overall waste and spending. I think that's the biggest X factor that both he and Elon Musk and Doge are going to bring to the table. A lot of people are saying it's not realistic, but again, Donald Trump says once I'm sworn in, you have 530 days until America's birthday, the second year of his last term, to do what you say you're going to do. And that starts and ends with at least $2 trillion in cuts. It's going to be coming from every angle, not just the wasteful spending, but maybe the closure of complete agencies like the Department of Education. Let's hear it. Are you expecting to close down entire agencies like President Trump has talked about the Department of Education, for example? Are you going to be closing down departments? We expect mass reductions. We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright. We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated. We expect massive cuts among federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government. So yes, we expect all of the above. And I think people will be surprised by I think how quickly we're able to move with some of those changes given the legal backdrop the Supreme Court has given them. And there it is. I mean, if you don't think that Vivek, Elon, and Linda McManner are going to make sure that the Department of Education goes back to the States and is no longer a federal entity by the time Donald Trump leaves office, I've got a WWE promo that you should probably watch. It's amazing when you see these people that are like, well, you know, I don't know why we're going to get rid of the Department of Education because kids can't fucking take tests and they can't do things. And I'm like, that's the point. Yeah, we've never seen scores lower in this country. No, and the Department of Education was the catalyst that caused everything to get worse. Yep. And it caused these mafia or so teachers unions to go fucking buck wild inside the entire system. Randy Winegarden, who's, you know, the president of the biggest teachers union in the United States was literally was able to use her weight. I'm not saying figuratively, this is literally because she's a fat bitch. But end her influence to keep schools in blue states closed for as much as two years in the pandemic. We experienced it here in California. Yeah. We closed right before 2019, heading into the holidays right before 2020 started and our kids went to back to in school instruction here for the spring session of 2021. And it's, and it stole things from children and kids that they'll never get back like homecoming dances and graduations and all these things that are supposed to be just like a huge part of your, of your, I don't know, your coming of age story of yourself, you know, I mean, it's, it's idiotic. Imagine all the scholarships that weren't able to be fulfilled because whether you were an athlete or an exceptional student or you were part of a club or you even did like, you know, the performing arts and you weren't able to do these things. Yeah. I mean, again, I literally watched my son for a year. You get his education from Spanish YouTube. From an iPad. From an iPad and do PE by throwing a grapefruit into our laundry basket. I'm not even joking. That literally happened. A grapefruit into the laundry basket. Like how many times? Lots, but still it was. You know, I'm sitting there trying to play Fortnite or Call of Duty and my son keeps running in front of the TV to get the grapefruit out of the laundry basket because from the dining room to the living room, it was a, it was a decent amount. So he wanted to see how far he could shoot it into there. But that, that was literally like their PE. So you're saying it was grapefruit juice, all of your carpet eventually? Yeah. Well, I mean, I would always keep closing the basket so it didn't burst. But yeah, that's, that's what we had to endure. I mean, if we didn't keep our kids in, in pay for play sports and, and force them to go out and socially continue to develop, my son was pretty small to start the pandemic. My daughter was just entering into her, her very important educational years where they were going to start taking notes and doing like actual tests and longer form math and things like that. If me and my wife didn't go out and pay for our kids to get tutors and keep them in sports, they'd be weird. Like a lot of the other kids that, you know, didn't do that stuff throughout the course of the pandemic. And it's a shame. You're never getting that back. And I see a lot of people now having kids because I don't feel like necessarily they're like, yeah, well, those ones are broken and I don't want to play with them anymore, but their kids are broken and it's hard to play with them because they're not normal. Yeah, or they're just going to read when you say something wrong or try to see the tablet or video game away from threat. Yeah. And I'm, I've always, well, I haven't always been super anti-social, but I mean, that was the one thing in the pandemic that I nearly, I really mind the most. It's not having to deal with people. That was actually kind of a blessing, but watching it, watching it happen to people that actually needed those interactions, like people that were susceptible to depression and suicide and the amount of people that we lost. And I don't even mean to the fucking disease. The people we lost suicide or the people we lost just plain sanity. Yeah. There was a lot. And I know what it's like going through some of these cabinet selections and agency appointments, you know, especially like the Surgeon General where I see so many nasty comments like, I, I watched my father die on Facebook Live. Like this is not an acceptable cabinet selection. You have to understand the overall plan is to not only reform and streamline and make more efficient. A lot of these government agencies and outlets, but it's to ensure that things like that never happen again. And you have to be able to, I hate saying trust the process, but right here, it looks a lot different than it did in 2016 with a very broad diverse and not just by skin color or sexual orientation, but just what they bring to the table of backgrounds coming together to do the job that we've appointed President Trump and his incoming cabinet to do. Some of the Democrats see it. Most of them don't. But one who's biparticently worked with some of our America First Congressman and women like outgoing Congressman Matt Gates, but many others is California Congressman Rokana. He jumped on CNN with shitbag Jake Tapper yesterday to talk about Doge and the fact when he kind of hears about it online, it's one thing, but when he sees what they're looking to do on paper, it kind of entices him. Let's hear it. >> I want to ask you about what we were just talking about this a few moments ago. Doge, as it's called, this Department of Government Efficiency led by Vivek Remiswamy and Elon Musk. You come from Silicon Valley. You represent that part of the country. What are your thoughts on this? Should this be taken seriously? Should two people from outside of government like Elon Musk and Vivek Remiswamy have that kind of sway over what, you know, what stays and what goes in the federal government? >> Well, ultimately, they're going to provide recommendations. It's Congress that appropriates money. Let me provide an area where there could be bipartisan collaboration. I mean, the defense budget, which is nearly a trillion dollars, is dominated by five primes. There has been tremendous reporting about the waste fraud and abuse in that budget. The Pentagon hasn't passed an audit as failed. The last six or seven audits. So if they go to say there needs to be more open competition, not the monopolization and defense contractors and propose recommendations, that's something that I think could be supported. If they find areas of truly wasteful spending across the government, they would get support. >> And there you have it. So it looks like, I mean, when you talk about Democrats, when you talk about someone who's worked by partisan Lee with Republican members of Congress, when you talk about someone who's physically, the House member who represents a great portion of Silicon Valley in Rokana. It looks like he is optimistic about some of these big cuts that are going to be coming our way. And when you think there's so much negative press in regards to the jobs that we want to get done here in regards to getting this day one agenda up and running, well, at least there's people on the other side of the aisle who are optimistic about talking with their Republican counterparts come January of next year. Three other massive day-to-day operation appointments were made by President Trump over the weekend, and all of the men that were tabbed have extensive experience both working with the president and knowing the way things go up in the swamp. And these are for three key White House office directors. Jane Braid will be the Director of Legislative Affairs. Matt Brissau will be the Director of Political Affairs, and Alex Lapman is coming in to do the Director of Public Relations Liaison. So a bunch more people coming in to work with President Trump. I mean, we've already seen him make a couple great picks. Obviously Caroline Levitt's going to be the press secretary, but James Blair, many of the other contributors who have come on the show over the years are jumping in to work directly in the 45 White House, which brings me to my last point. And, you know, you talk about the caliber of this cabinet and what Donald Trump's trying to do and how he's putting it together. It's creating a lot of meltdowns, but I honestly feel that's for all the right reasons. And when you look at some of the people who bring a voice of reason in the mainstream press, obviously Scott Jennings on CNN is one that we often allude to. He was talking about the fact that Donald Trump isn't getting enough credit for not only creating a cabinet that looks like it's getting ready to work for the American people, but does have a broad and diverse nature that's bringing with it as well. It's here. Trump is not getting enough credit here for building an ideologically diverse cabinet. When you got everybody from Russ Vaux, who's very conservative all the way over to the pick for labor secretary as a supporter of the pro act and somehow Randy Winegarten is happy about it. I mean, what he has done is, you know, which makes me squeamish to be candid. And so what he has done though is put together an ideologically diverse group of people to sit in a room and help run the government. And that's kind of how he won. His coalition was kind of ideologically diverse that elected him. And there you have it. I mean, it's the narrative we just painted out for the opening segment of our show is getting ready to wrap here and jump in with the incoming congressman who's going to be representing all of Alaska upon Capitol Hill next year. And that's Nick Baguiche. But before we jump in to his interview, let's have a first check in with one of our partners. This episode of the podcast is brought to you as always by man rubs. Rubs, barbecue tools, blow torches, t-shirts, coffee cups and all around barbecue related gear for you to make barbecue great again. Can be found at manrubs.com at an Instagram. Man rubs. Music goes steak 15 to 15 percent off your order. All right. Joining us next on the show today, this big Tuesday edition of the state breakfast podcast. He's the congressman elect for the incoming at large congress seat. Of on Capitol Hill out of the great state of Alaska and joining us for the first time. Mr. Nick Baguiche, thanks for coming on the show. How you doing? Thanks for having me. We're doing great and we're honored to have you. Congressman elect, thanks for taking some time to join us. Listen, we just finished the end of a huge, not just election season and historical win for President Trump. Both electorally with getting well over 300 but, you know, securing the popular vote for the first time since George W. Bush and for the second time, I believe in over 40 years. You know, America has been fed a narrative for a very long time. If you just want to talk about who's in the White House, we'll talk about it in the last 16 years to be exact. And that's no matter how high prices got, no matter how out of control crime was, no matter how wide open the U.S. southern border is, no matter how close we were to World War 3, everything was fine and keep voting for Democrats. This election proved that busting through that narrative, whether it be through independent media, whether it be through candidate quality, whether it be as we saw it here on the show where Republicans got together and kind of checked their egos and inhibitions in totality for the first time in a long time. It led to a historic victory where not only is Donald Trump going back to be President of the United States, but we retain the power in the House of Representatives and flip the Senate into Republican control. Just a little back end commentary before we jump in with you. I mean, you experienced this running for congressional seat up in Alaska and just kind of tell us how this cycle was for you kind of inside looking out and then when you saw the results watching across the country on Wednesday after election day, you know, what it means for the country and obviously the mandate that now Republicans have. Yeah, you know, I'll tell you just from the perspective of our race, starting there, brutal race, very challenging. There was a lot of money flying into our state. We never have seen in a house race in Alaska the amount of outside money that we saw in this last election. I mean, there was more than $40 million on all sides spent for a two year house seat in Alaska. And what it demonstrated was to me that the national, Democrat machine recognized Trump was in a great position to win. The Senate was a foregone conclusion in many respects because of West Virginia and Montana. And so the Democrats spent an inordinate amount of money on house races in order to try to stop the America First agenda. And they came to places like Alaska and spent incredible amounts of money. And they were completely unconstrained by the truth. On the right, we have a constraint called the truth. We tell the truth. We make sure people understand the facts. We know that the facts are on our side. But on the left, they're unconstrained. And so there were a lot of lies told in the campaign about me and about Republicans generally, about what we believe, about what our priorities are. But as I said to folks during the campaign and afterwards, I said, look, you know, the truth only requires a little bit of oxygen in order to breathe. But a lie requires continuous fuel in order to be told. And we had the resources, thank God, to put out the message of the truth and what we were trying to do with an America First agenda from an Alaska perspective. And came out with a win on election night. No, that's an excellent point you make there. You know, we had heavily tracked a lot of the news we were getting either it was from former Trump administration officials who had been dispatched out on the road across the campaign trail, whether it was other members of the US House who were leaving their districts when they felt like the races were secure. Although they did have to pretty much run up until election day to go to different parts of the country and help campaign for these candidates. Because listen, if you look at the way that the equations, 220, 221 at the most is what the Republicans are going to have in regards to House seats, it would have took in your district. It would have took in Scott Perry's who they threw so much money into up in Pennsylvania. Anna Paulina Luna, they went after in Florida and then a couple districts down in Texas, which we were all able to retain, obviously, flip yours and keep the majority for Republicans. But when you want to talk about the balance of power, it looks like, you know, one of the races that would have been called last on election night in Alaska is what is going to be the one that keeps the power in Republican control. So that's good looking forward. And now that you are in and you've gone through that whole experience, we've talked to Brandon Gill already. We had a pomadee on the show today. We're going to be catching back up with Brian Jack next week. Tell us about a little bit when you went over to Capitol Hill. You just finished congressional orientation for the past couple of weeks. It started off with Donald Trump stopping into town and talking to the Republican conference and kind of ended with some fun things like you having a lottery draw for your guys' congressional offices. So when you saw how everything kind of went out meeting with some of the people who are going to be, you know, your future coworkers in a few weeks and then talking about things that you already feel that are important in this end of session of Congress right now, how was the whole overall experience? You know, the experience was pretty impressive to see how much information they can pack into a relatively short period of time. There's a lot to know about the inner workings of Congress. And I'm not talking about, you know, the procedure and how you take votes. I'm talking about how the office operates and, you know, what the boundary conditions are, how you interoperate with the committees and so forth. So that was all very helpful. But the most important takeaway for me was the quality, the high quality of the incoming freshman class for the Congress, right, particularly speaking specifically of the Republican class. We got some great people. I mean, you know, Brian Jack and Abe Hamada and, you know, Brandon Gill, the gentleman that you just mentioned, I had a great opportunity to interact with them. And they're very intelligent, very sharp America-first representatives. And they're going to be great representatives. And there's a number of others through that freshman class that are coming in having run on the America-first agenda. And they're committed to it. And so I'm encouraged to see that. It moves what I call the political center of gravity in our conference to the right on balance. And I think it's going to be a really exciting time in the 119th Congress. I think we know the first hundred days and possibly, you know, those first six months. That provides us with the political window to move priorities through for the entire nation and our respective districts. As I've told people throughout the country in other national venues, I've said, look, the pathway to America's prosperity being begins in my home state in Alaska. We've got energy and abundance. We have critical minerals and base metals and rare earths. We have timber resources. We provide 60% of the nation's seafood. So Alaska is important. And Alaska has been a target of the Biden administration's effort to shut down domestic production. And Trump has been the greatest friend to Alaska in his previous term and will be a great friend to our state. But it's not just about Alaska. It's about opening us up. And so the ability to have that conversation and to advance an agenda that's America first, that respects the will of the people of our respective districts is going to be pretty impressive in this next Congress. I think we're unified. We're ready to work together and we're ready to move these priorities forward for the people who sent us to DC. No, that's a great point. And, you know, before we get into some of those things about Alaska specifically, which I did want to talk with you about today, Nick. I just wanted to ask kind of about leadership because that's where it all kind of starts and ends in the House of Representatives. Obviously, we know who's going to be sitting behind the resolute desk. John Thune won the vote two weeks ago to become Senate Majority Leader. But in the House of Representatives, Speaker Johnson got a pretty strong endorsement from Donald Trump during the Republican Conference and the start of your guys' orientation. And it doesn't look like there's going to be any kind of a Speaker battle. Obviously, it's a big loss with Elise Stefanik heading over to be the Ambassador for the United Nations. But we're elevating Lisa McLean into her spot. We've got Aaron Houchin, who's a regular guest on this show now going to be moved up to the Conference Secretary. And it looks like Homer leadership standpoint and the obvious things that we're going to be taking care of in the beginning of the 119th session. When it comes to leadership, there's going to be someone there who everybody's familiar with. They kind of understand the way he operates. And now with Majority, especially up in the Senate, it's going to be a lot easier to get that legislation streamlined up to the upper chamber. That's right. You know, and I think that was one of the most impressive things about the orientation that was happening for new members. You know, we had an opportunity to vote in conference for who we'd like to see in these roles in the 119th. And just a tremendous amount of unity. People are all on the same page. I don't expect to see a Speaker battle. I think that we've made clear as a conference that we're ready to move forward on day one for advancing our leadership. We've made clear for advancing the America First agenda. And that's important because, as I just mentioned, we don't have a lot of time. We think we've got a lot of time. We think we've got a big mandate and we do. But, you know, time waits for no one, right? The clock keeps ticking and you have to get started day one. And I think that on the House side, we're ready to get started. Yeah, you certainly are. And then getting into things. Listen, every House Republican who won their race obviously campaigned on, you know, sealing and securing the U.S. southern border and all things related to the economy. But everybody from every different state and district that you represent has something to bring to the table. Alaska is unique because you're the Congressman who's representing the whole state. You already talked about it. There is energy independence in Rhodes in Alaska that Donald Trump is looking to get into on day one. House Republicans are probably looking to get into on day one as well. I mean, they had a chart one also up and ready to go, which had a lot of things to do with the state of Alaska. They're also looking to restart the XL Keystone pipeline on day one as well. But when you talk about Alaska specifically, energy independence, the amount of commercial food that comes out of there, the crabbing, the fishing, things of that nature. You already mentioned the abundance of timber that's up there as well. Talk to us about the state and how big of a component into getting everything back on the right track in this country related to the economy could basically start an end in the great state of Alaska. That's a great question. And I'm glad you raised it because, look, let's first start with the scope and no offense to my friends in Texas. But Alaska is two and a half times the size of Texas. If you look at the entire coastline of Alaska, we have more coastline than the rest of the United States combined. We are a big place. And in this big place are big resources. You think about the story of Alaska. Go all the way back to the time of the Russian fur trading days. Why were they trading for furs? It was a resource. Fishing was a big resource and continues to be the gold rush that we all know about in Alaska. There's still a lot of gold here in our state. But it's not just that. It's all sorts of precious metals. It's critical minerals. There's a critical minerals list for those who don't know that's put out by the federal government every year that says, hey, these are the minerals that we need in order to power our economy. And they're not the things that you would normally hear about. They're things like germanium and cobalt and some of these other elements that we have to have in order to run our modern economy. And so we need these things. And it turns out that two thirds of the critical minerals on the critical minerals list exist in Alaska in economic quantities, meaning you can go out and you can mine these things and make a profit. Now, as we think about the stranglehold that China and other nations have on us because they have controlled the supply chain of so many of these critical minerals or rare earth elements. If we're going to achieve independent, you know, reachieve independence and be masters of our own domestic destiny, we're going to need to have the ability to produce these resources and refine them in the United States. And I emphasize refined because so many of these resources, even when their mind here are then sent subsequently to China where they are processed throughout their supply chains. And as I like to tell people, look, we can mine it here in the United States. But if it gets sent to China, the next time you see that mineral is in an iPhone, we miss out on all of that interim supply chain economic value added activity. And we need to restore American manufacturing and it starts by making sure that we have domestic supplies that are being utilized and then refined and then put into a manufacturing supply chain here. If we can do that and have that vertically integrated supply chain, it will begin in Alaska. It will stay in the United States and it will dramatically improve the opportunities for people in our nation so that we can as we bring back those manufacturing opportunities. Lots of big things happen in Alaska and they're going to be starting it in and congressionally and up on the hill with you come January. Nick, listen, this is great catching up with you for the first time. We're hoping that it won't be the last. Once you guys are sworn in, we'd like you to become a regular contributor on the show. We're on Facebook. We're very active on X. So go out and check us out. It's Nick for Alaska is the handle on both platforms and be a part of the conversation. Look, you know, whether you're in Alaska or you're an American somewhere else, Alaska matters to you. And we want to be a part of the solution that is America first. So be a part of the conversation. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter and we'll look forward to seeing you out there. Absolutely. We were part of the conversation today. We actually had a great one with the representative who's coming out of the state of Alaska. This is Congressman elect. Nick Bighich, thanks for joining us on the show. Sir, have a great rest of your week and a happy Thanksgiving. Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving. Our latest CBS News poll shows that 59% of Americans approve of how President elect Donald Trump is handling the presidential transition. Trump has kept up a steady drum beat of staffing announcements from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. And that is where we find our Nicole Killian this morning with the latest. After Saturday lunch with one of the senators who will vote on his Cabinet picks, President elect Donald Trump announced former domestic policy adviser Brooke Rollins for agriculture secretary. One of his most highly anticipated selections was Scott Bessent for Treasury. If confirmed, the 62-year-old investor would be the first openly gay secretary to lead it and responsible for quarterbacking Mr. Trump's proposed policies on taxes and tariffs. What's the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff. A new CBS News poll shows a majority of Americans support imposing tariffs on imported goods and more have an optimistic view of the economy since the election. Mr. Trump selected a pair of doctors to lead health agencies. Former Congressman David Weldon has promoted debunked anti-vaccine views and has been tapped to lead the Centers for Disease Control. Food and Drug Administration pick Martin McCarry critiqued vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. And Project 2025 architect Russ Beaubland to reprise his role as White House budget director. Our polling also finds many of the president-elects well-known colleagues. We have more support than opposition, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hagg-Seth. I jump back into the news portion of the show here today. First of two big Tuesday editions of Steak for Breakfast, as always. I guess for the first time it was a great kitchen up with Nick Bitch and we'll be moving forward having him be a regular contributor from up on the hill and as a representative of Alaska here on the show. And that was a clip from over the weekend that was shared by U.S. News, which talked about CBS News' segment on recent polling that has come out, not pre-election. This was last week, which is showing 60% of Americans are still thinking Donald Trump in a very favorable fashion. In addition, there is a lot of approval nearly the same mark for the job that he's done with the appointments in regards to everything related to the transition team. So, no, when you hear that, but outside of this program and very few others turn on the news, it seems like the Democrats haven't learned a damn thing. Yeah, and also that is quite possibly the worst news cancer voice I have ever heard. Got it. But yeah, you know, I was a little nervous. I know all the pollsters lie, but here's the thing. If they would have put out things that suggested the numbers were anywhere other than favorable, especially this close and in proximity to the election, which was just three weeks ago to the day, here's the deal. Everybody would have got on a poly market and still would have started betting how favorable Donald Trump's, you know, is in the eyes of Americans, how we view the transition team and all things related to that. And we would have seen a very different narrative much like we did throughout the election cycle, which at the end of the day showed that the money markets really drove the poll numbers this election cycle and the pollsters certainly did not, where some were even saying that Donald Trump was going to lose Iowa literally the day before the election. Yeah, good luck with that. So again, you're hearing a lot of junk. And if you predominantly live on social media, you're seeing a lot of counter narrative, which is good. But don't worry, because when Americans are being pulled and asked and remember, there aren't too many Republicans. I have never been pulled in my entire life. Noah, have you? Is that like when somebody actually calls you? Yeah, I would know because I was hanging up on them. So maybe, I don't know, probably not though. For the most part, Republicans are going to sit there and when somebody says, hey, do you have 20 minutes to take some questions and give some answers on all things related to the nation? For the most part, Republicans are working when the phone calls go out. Well, and then like, if I get one of those email things or the polls on social media sites, like, do you have a couple minutes to help us improve our blah, blah, blah, I'm like, I'll click on and see what the first couple questions are. And then I'm like, man, I'm going to get myself on some sort of weird government watch list if I freaking answer these questions, honestly. I used to think like maybe this, if I said yes and did the poll, it would like lift my shadow band, but then my shadow band gets worse. Yeah, because it's like, well, see, your first mistake was answering, answering the questions, like, what would you do if you could go back in time and change something about COVID and you have to answer with, I would have worn two masks in my car by myself. No, I get, again, our podcast is banned on our Instagram account in Canada because of the news outlets that we don't let show there. But again, if you're looking at what the details are in this CBS news poll that came out Sunday, more Americans are not approved of President Trump's top cabinet nominees. That's a very important factor. Also, Americans overwhelmingly back President Trump's performance during the transition. Honestly, nearly six in 10 Americans say they approve of how President Trump has handled his job performance as the President of the next so far. I don't know if you've noticed, there's been a lot less social media posting activity other than his nominations for picks, congratulatory measures for others until yesterday when he put China, Canada and Mexico on blast and on the clock. We'll get to that in our second podcast today. But more American support President Trump's plan for mass deportations of criminal aliens than not. The policy is also backed by most independent voters and strong majorities of voters across every age group that's all the cross tabs in line with other polls which have consistently shown a majority of American support. The polarity of Americans say that President will make food and grocery prices go down as well. And a majority of Americans also favor imposing tariffs on imported goods. This widely touted proposal is a key cornerstone of President Trump's make America great again agenda. So those are kind of what inside the numbers of that report show. I did see later in the day, maybe even yesterday and on CNN, they did kind of a breakdown of some of their polling data in regards to the favorability and popular nature of Donald Trump's transition process and team. Let's hear it. President Trump's transition net approval. You go back to November of 2016. Look at this. It was just a plus one point. Just a plus one point. That was well, well, well below the historical norm. Look at where we are today. Significantly higher. Plus 18 points at 17 points higher on the presidential transition net approval rating. The bottom line is this. If eight years ago Americans were lukewarm on Donald Trump at this particular point, they're giving him much more of the benefit of the doubt. A lot more Americans are in love with this transition. This much more meets the historical norms where normally presidents get that boost coming out of their victory. What we're seeing here is Donald Trump's presidential transition is getting a thumbs up and dare I say two thumbs up from the American people. That's literally the only guy outside of Scott Jennings that tells the truth on CNN. Yeah, and I'm surprised he gets away with doing it too. No, a 17 point swing from January of 2016 to now. That's a big number. There are a lot of people that are entering the electorate for the first time or those who have switched parties or who have never voted before because of let's just say age. There's also a lot of maybe blue dog Democrats and independent who participated in this election because of the potentiality of nominations like Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. They've both been confirmed to be working in the government for President Trump come January. There's also a lot of big swings in demographics of blue cities, blacks, Hispanics, you name it, and they have moved to the right in huge numbers for this upcoming election. But a 17 point swing in eight years, especially after all the shit that Donald Trump has gone through and how demonized he and all his followers have been made for especially the last four years, that's pretty brilliant. It says a lot. It says a lot for, I mean, the silent majority is no longer silent. And it is actually the majority. Yeah, and it's acceptable for you to, I mean, within certain circles of these echo chambers of liberal stronghold bastions of idiocy, then that's the only thing you can, if you're touching that on the outside edges and you're somewhat involved with people that do that, you may still have to hold your tongue occasionally. But you know those people that are holding their tongues are referencing what CNN says. Looks like we'll CNN just said blah, blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah. It's like, and then they, while the people that are ringing with their pink pussy hats on in the corner, they just kind of laughed themselves quietly. Oh, it's, it's the honest truth right there. And what does the left do when you see all of these numbers come out, starting on the Sunday morning new circuit and rolling in to getting Thanksgiving week started? This is the news that some of Americans are going to get after Thanksgiving. So now they're getting all this ammo before they're leaving work and they're getting ready to travel or to, to hunker down at home and get ready to host for Thanksgiving and saying like, well, it looks like Donald Trump's doing great. So if any of my retard, genderless, purple hair, having relatives come over and want to say otherwise, I'll be like, you want to know what? I saw on CNN and CBS that Donald Trump is actually doing awesome and America is actually with them on this. So what are you talking about? Well, they're not mentioned. We're already, I mean, we're breathing the sounds of world peace already, even without him actually being in office. He's not even, he's not even technically the, the president elect yet. He's just the president. The news said so. Right. Because we haven't officially. And that's, and that is how strong. Yeah. And that is how strong this movement is because the movement and the message and the, the positive ideas that this, this administration has and the fact that the world stage knows that they're not going to be able to just go willy nilly and like the idiot and the freaking vegetable aren't in charge anymore. That's an excellent point. Don't tell Joe Biden that though because I heard he's, he's thinking about giving Ukraine his nukes back. I didn't say which one was the idiot and which one was the vegetable. Oh boy. We'll talk about that in our second edition of the podcast today. But one of the Canada narratives that Democrats have is wheeling out some of their biggest virtue singles to push back on everything related to Donald Trump and the America First Agenda. This came in the form of, well, I guess you could call our Hot Wheels Jr. Tammy Duckworth, the former National Guard's woman turned Congress woman who is legless from an accident that she had when serving in the National Guard. Now, what she does is meet a lot of checkboxes, military experience, woman, radical, progressive, Democrat, communist, Marxist, and she goes on to these outlets like, of course, on Sunday, defaced the nation to do the job that the Democrats wanted to do. Continue to make it difficult to get Donald Trump's cabinet level picks confirmed. First, she started out with Pete Higgsath. I'll let you guys hear the narrative here. America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty and freedom as her sons. Having served in combat yourself, what do you think of the idea that women make fighting more complicated? That was specifically what he focused on. Well, it just shows this lack of understanding of where our military is. He was a pretty low-ranking guy in the military, and he never had a command position. He was a platoon leader, I think, once or twice. But he never even commanded a company. And so this is a man who is inordinately unqualified for the position. Remember that the Pentagon is 3 million servicemen and women and civilians. It is over $900 billion budget. He's never run anywhere near to that size. And frankly, women actually make our military more effective. And I personally found that I brought many insights to my job when I was a company commander, when I was a logistics officer that came from my own personal background, that made things better. I took better care of my men. You're a nasty person. Noah? Get her. So she's saying that because he was a platoon leader and not a company commander, I mean, being a platoon leader is really not that, not something to shake a stick at. I mean, a company commander is more of an administrative role at some point, you know, technically. Listen, when Pete Haggseth's position, as he topped out with, happened on the ground and during very hot times in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, it's a little bit different than peacetime operations as well, right? Yeah. And during such war times, they weren't just passing out bronze stars to just anyone as participation trophies because he garnered two of them. I mean, a bronze star is not anything to shake a stick at. That's for damn sure. No. And, you know, when she left the studio of Devastination and wheeled herself over to CNN, just to get the point across about demonizing these picks like Pete Haggseth and now Tulsi Gabbard, who's been tapped or tapped to lead the DNI, they did the interview. No, believe it or not, full pan out. So you have to watch Tammy Duckworth from a distance so you could get all of her wheelchair into the camera. How do you feel about that? They were making sure that the wheelchair was in the camera. Yeah. Look, this is how they did the interview. Look at the picture. It's like the full studio. Oh, I did see that. Yeah. Dana Bash in her chair and Tammy Duckworth in her wheelchair. Just you know, given her like the Professor X chair, if they're going to do something like that. And any time Dana Bash, like he could have went to do that thing. Yeah. Or if she started flying around the studio. Again, and all joking aside because we don't minimize her service or her injuries. We minimize the way that Democrats now weaponize it to, well, demonize other people who are going to look and serve integrator context than she could as a Congresswoman who only does shit like this. Well, I minimize people's service when they serve and then can't get a fucking brain cell together to think rationally. Like, okay, yeah, you served in the military. But there's a lot of people that serve in the military that don't necessarily do anything. And whether that means that they didn't deploy or they didn't do this, they didn't do that. They have some administrative position. They played politics the entire time they were, they were in. And then they continue when they get out. But using this, using this is like their, I mean, I hate to say crutch. I'm referring to this, but yeah. Oh, you know, my dad for the two years that he did service on Air Force engines loved his service, but until they deemed him colorblind and sent him to therefore be the commander of the kitchen at the Air Force base in LA, he enjoyed that service a lot more. And I get what you're saying. You know, there are ways that people go in. And everybody adds something to the equation when you do something like serving your country. But the way that, just imagine if this lady had the mentality that she has now while she was serving, what did she really do to make us a better strategic ready fighting force? It doesn't seem like too much. And again, I don't want to get too far outside of the narrative here because when she was done on defaced the nation going after that, she went on fake new CNN and sat down very wide cut angle with Dana Bash to, well, Bash. Tulsi Gabbard, let's hear it. Of US intelligence operations, she has promoted Russian propaganda. Your fellow Democrat, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, called her, quote, likely a Russian asset. Now, you and Tulsi Gabbard are both veterans. You served with her in the house. What do you think of her? Well, I think she's compromised. I think by going to Syria and basically backing this, you know, a dicked, brutal dictator there, I mean, Russian controlled media caught her a Russian asset. So I do think that we have a real deep concern whether or not she's a compromised person. And frankly, the US intelligence community, sorry, the US intelligence community has identified her as having troubling relationships with America's foes. And so my worry is that she couldn't pass a background check. No, let me ask you a question. How dangerous is it when a sitting Congresswoman says not former, not retired, current lieutenant colonel Tulsi Gabbard is a compromised Russia, Syrian, Iranian, Chinese asset? And she had what? What did they say? Unfortunate relationships with foreign entities? So when the general under Trump was using his back channel communications with our foes, that's okay. Right? Well, I have another question for you. Riddle me this, Noah. Yeah, what is everybody in Congress's, you know, how does the blame game go for them when this guy comes to town? If you can't give us, can't give us some financial support? Okay. Okay, please give us a credit. The music on that makes it so much better. Thank you, C3P meme. You did an absolute banger there. No, but again, the only way it could have been better is if it comes to the arms of an angel, like the ASPCA one. I love it. We play that song sometimes at dinner. I'll put my phone on the table and we'll look across the room with the dogs who are all sitting in the doorway because they know they're not allowed to come to beg for food. I'll just be sitting there for you to use a keyword that they know so they think it's okay for them to walk into the room. But no, Tulsi Gabbard is still active in the military. She also has had the opportunity to go and meet with some of these entities who Donald Trump probably before day one is looking to better relations with the Bashar al-Assad. Obviously what's going on with the ever changing regime over in Iran, places like China as we found out on social media in the evening hours out here on the West Coast yesterday and all entities in between. And to be able to say that someone who, you know, going out and continuing to spew this garbage into the media and try to move public opinion on nominations like those of R.F.K. Jr. and even Tulsi Gabbard, you know, this could cost her administratively the fact that she might have to go through investigations because you have literally members of Congress going on to the news and saying she's compromised assets to all of these geopolitical foes of ours. It's ridiculous. It is ridiculous. But again, when the poll numbers show as such, when so many cross tabs and demographics and people just outside of the Republican tent are still looking at Donald Trump as a person, as a candidate, as an incoming president, as positive, the work he's doing with the transition team as positive. They have to be able to throw some other things, I guess, onto the fire to remind everybody that they're still the Democrats and this is what they do. We'll talk about the pushback in just a second. But before we do, guys, wherever you're listening to the show today, thanks for listening. Welcome in and do us a favor. 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I mean, he was one of the people that was a hard no on Matt Gates, but that's neither here nor there because he went on to the new Sunday to talk about, well, pushing back on the narrative that Tammy Duckworth was pushing about Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Haggseth, especially when it came to the case of Tulsi. And like I said, interference into her current military career ahead of her cabinet level appointment. And, you know, as someone who literally, as soon as they wheeled her out, entered the studio via Zoom on fake new CNN with Dana Bash and was asked about the commentary that the Democrat Congresswoman just provided. Here's how Senator Mullen pushed back on that narrative in regards to what was going on with Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi Gabbard is still Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. She commands the reserve unit here in Oklahoma and Missouri. If she was compromised, if she wasn't able to pass a background check, if she wasn't able to do her job, she still wouldn't be in the Army. And so Tammy is absolutely dead wrong on this and she should retract those words. That's the most dangerous thing she could say is that a United States Lieutenant Colonel and the United States Army is compromised and is an asset of Russia. It's actually sad to hear her say that. When I heard her say that, I thought, I wonder if this is political because she's upset that Tulsi Gabbard left the Democrat party because they went woke because I know they actually got along when they were in the house and she knows Tulsi Gabbard. She knows her heart. She has a heart to serve. And so I think that's probably more politically motivated than it actually has any truth to it at all. Yep, it's right, no. And the thing is, remember, Tulsi Gabbard was a Democrat like two years or less ago. And she, after this old regime of the Clintons and the Obama eras and the Bidens were all done, she was going to be the candidate that they fully expected her to be able to run and win consecutive terms in the White House for the Democrats. They spoiled that, obviously, with what they did to her and how radically progressive they got, especially in regards to the military, which was one of the main reasons why she got out. But, you know, you see, again, another service woman demonize a current service woman over this kind of rhetoric and it's not just, you know, the way it looks in public opinion. This could administratively lead to some headaches for Tulsi Gabbard. Obviously, the law will all be unfounded, but that's either here or there. They shouldn't even be mentioned in the media or at all as partisan talking points. Rand's previous, former Trump 45 White House staffer, I believe he sits on the ABC show on Sunday mornings. And he was kind of laying into the dangerous nature that we are kind of just throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks negatively against Donald Trump during the course of his transition team's work. We're going to listen to that clip right now. Let's check it out. It didn't rise to a rank of an '05 lieutenant colonel if our intelligence agencies thought that somehow she was some kind of Russian asset, which if people are going to level those charges, they'd better be darn sure that they're accurate. And it's a very dangerous thing to say that. She said that it was simplified. It's all insinuated, okay, it's this cutie hyperbolic nonsense coming out of the media and the Democrats who refuse to accept the fact that almost a majority or a majority of Americans have accepted Donald Trump and Trumpism. I think it's time to give this guy a month of peace and let the process play out. Good point by the former Trump 45 White House staffer and that again, I was correct, that was on this week in fake news on ABC and that segment was called their powerhouse round table. So, but I digress who needs Republicans like Mark Wayne Mullen or Rand's previous coming to your aid when we have those who are current senators like, well, James Langford, who is one of the authors of the Biden, Harris, Mayorkas, Schumer, McConnell, border amnesty bill, which was killed by Donald Trump and House Republicans earlier this year going on after Senator Mullen, who came on after Senator Duckworth and said this about Tulsi Gabbard again. Republican senator, let's hear it. Does anything about her concern you? Well, we'll have lots of questions she met with Beshear Assad. We'll want to know what the purpose was and what the direction for that was as a member of Congress. We want to get a chance to talk about past comments that she's made and get them into full context. So sure there's there's comments that are floating out there, but we want to be able to know the rest of the story. I hate him. Again, Elon Musk, who was pivotal in Donald Trump winning Pennsylvania with his America first super PAC getting McCormick over the finish line to defeat Bob Casey to take the leadership there and retaining some of the most vulnerable house seats like Scott Perry's in this election is going to be expanding his super PAC nationwide, definitely in the battleground states ahead of the 2026 midterms. In addition, Elon Musk has taken a lot of posts much like these videos on social media and quote tweeted them as saying like, if you don't vote for Donald Trump's cabinet picks, you can expect a primary challenge in your next election because we are not going to vote. And Adam, here's the deal. When all of us on the internet or in the podcast community or everyone outside of the mainstream media say, Oh, fuck these guys. They're getting primary. We don't have the millions and bazillions to actually do that outside of a grassroots movement. I would say 9.5 times out of 10. It fails. You saw what the influence of Elon Musk and his not caring how many billions of dollars he spends on this election went. I think pretty successfully, if you ask me, just imagine him doing that into people like James Langford, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and all of the other ones who need to get primary in the upcoming election, it's going to have a major influence. It's not just going to be candidate quality. It's going to be social media, television commercials, billboards, Elon Musk doing events in your states with these candidates that they're going to be pushing in the midterm election. For everyone that thinks we can't do anything about it, there are things that we'll be able to do. But at the same time, we really need to let this process play out and see if people are just kind of grandstanding ahead of the holidays, knowing that when it comes down to it, they're going to vote yes because look at all the awful cabinet picks that Joe Biden got almost without any hurdles back in 2021. So I guess we'll have to see much like we'll be hearing from Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, who's going to be joining us on, I believe, our Tuesday edition of State for Breakfast next week. And his commentary from Sunday mornings with Maria on Fox News this weekend where he was talking about Donald Trump's incoming cabinet. Let's hear it. I'll present that President Trump will be able to staff his administration with the people that are going to fight for his agenda. That's extremely important. I think if you take a look at that, I hope, by the way, Mark Cuban issues an apology for, you know, based on all the strong women that President Trump has now appointed. But, you know, I truly do believe that what you see in these selections are people willing to fight. They're not going to wilt in the face of a criticism. They're going to carry out his agenda. We agree on all that. And we'll get into the nitty gritty as we have a little bit longer segment with Ron John when he comes on the show here. Obviously we do long form instead of the two to three minute hits that you see on cable news. But, you know, in closing here and before we jump in with Jim Paff, who's going to give us an update on all the work that they did leading up to the election. And for someone who's well versed in how all things Congress works, how he sees both the upper and lower chambers, formulating their strategies for the 119th. I do have one more clip. Unfortunately, he's become kind of a voice of reason or bringing a little bit of a comedic component to the show here from the Democrat side. And when you talk about senators and that's our big retard from up in the state of Pennsylvania, John Federman. You know, he was the one that was kind of trolling Matt Gaetz all through his nomination process, talked about Donald Trump, probably crafting a commemorative coin to mark the very short candidacy of the former Florida congressman. But again, he said it over the course of the last three weeks, probably more than anybody on the Democrat side. We are going to, well, when we say we, he's talking about them, the Democrats are going to literally be in insane asylums by the time this is all said and done. And if every single time Donald Trump and nominate somebody, we just have a big massive meltdown. He was talking about that again, not even to the point to where he's pre-hating people because he wants to hear them go before senatorial confirmation. Let's hear it. You indicated Senator this week, at least it seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that you're open to supporting two of Trump's cabinet nominees so far, Marco Rubio for Secretary of State and Dr. Mehmed Oz for the CDC. Is there anybody else on his cabinet list that you think you might get behind? And then on the other side, is there anyone on your sort of over my dead body list? Yeah. Well, and again, of course, I'm a fan of my colleague from Florida and I'm going to, enthusiastic on about yes for Senator Rubio. And then, you know, with Dr. Oz, I mean, everybody understands that we ran in the same cycle and it got kind of ugly and I don't have any kind of bitterness and I just expressed, I'm open to a dialogue here, what he has to say about these things. I'm not sure why that's controversial to say, hey, I think I saw a great from Bill Maher. He just said, I'm not going to pre-hate. I'm not going to pre-hate a lot of these things. And I'm not going to pre-hate this. I'm going to have an open conversation for anyone that I'm open to having part of that conversation. And there's some people that I just couldn't be able to vote for that. And there's some that might be an enthusiastically vote. Yes. And like my Senator Rubio or Stefanick or actually there's a fantastic labor, a labor nominee as well too. In fact, a Democratic colleague from the house just texted me and saying, hey, I think she's really strong and I think that's a great candidate. So I think there's good things there and there's some things that I can't vote for. But that's what happens when the other team wins. And I don't understand why it's controversial to say, hey, we're going to engage in that conversation. But I also would remind my side that in the Senate, we're at 53 to 47 with the new administration. So they're going to have the votes at the end of the day. If we can all get on the same page. And where do we go if that's not the case? I do have one little other tidbit of information I pulled for this segment because I think it's important. We've talked about the narrative surrounding these confirmations. But what happens outside of the traditional avenues and I just want to remind our listenership for as much as it's being looked at negatively in the mainstream media right now. If Donald Trump makes recess appointments, he's literally Hitler. We've all heard that and we know that's what the left is going to say when it gets there because they expect everyone to have goldfish memories. Here's the reality of it though, and I'm going to go down the entire list. You ready to know it? Ronald Reagan, 240. George W. Bush, 77. Bill Clinton, 139. George W. Bush, Jr., 171. Barack Obama, 32. Guess how many Donald Trump made in his first term in office, Noah? How many? It's the number that's right next to one and on the other side of negative one. Oh. Zero. Wow. Yeah. If Donald Trump's picks weren't confirmed, they didn't work in his first administration and we all know how well that went. So as we're set to break here right now and jump in with Jim Paff, who's the president of the conservative caucus, we're going to leave you with that little tidbit to kind of digest on and percolate over. But before we jump in with him, we're going to have another check in with one of our partners. I think it's time we had a conversation about a good night's day. Pillow 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. The end of promo codes take a check out. You're going to get buy one, get one free. 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Listen, historic is just one of the pronouns that America First is using to describe what Donald Trump did three-two days ago, Jim. But if you look at it from top to bottom, electorially, at 312, popular vote victory, over 2 million, mandate to say the very least from someone that's been a little bit more than a DC insider over the years. You pretty much see the writing on the wall. Why don't you tell our listenership how you saw this shake out? What you think the mandate really means for America? Where we go from here is a starting block heading into Congress getting sworn in on January 3rd and the president being sworn in on January 20th next year. Well, listen, throughout this entire process, and I know we've talked about it before on here, I went from the basis of it's the economy stupid, which is almost a hard and fast rule of politics, I think. James Carver was entirely correct about that in '92 when he said it. It was the same thing before. I mean, Carter lost because of a poor economy and so forth. And Reagan almost lost in '84 because he stayed with the economic plan and it took a couple of years to roll out, and they were barely coming out of the woods by '84. So this economic thing is there. I was saying all along, just to my horn, just a little bit, I was saying all along, 311 to 315, mostly based on that. It's more detailed than that. Because you actually had both Biden and Harris were horrible candidates. So Donald Trump had, frankly, had the leg up. I mentioned that the economy turned on its head from what it was in 2020. When Donald Trump, in my opinion, wrongly took the blame for the economy that was going on at that time, and not to mention all the other issues related to changes in elections. But this time it all worked for him. I actually had a friend, or not a friend, but someone that follows me, pull out a July ex post I put out where I said the floor is 312 and it ended up being that way. I felt really confident about that. But why is that? Because not just for what I've said, but also that Donald Trump kept his vision and his plan focused on the issues that matter, economy, immigration, a couple other things, but those two mainly, and saying specifically what he was going to do to try to fix it. And now you'll look at these nominees he's putting out. It's right down the pike. He hasn't changed anything yet. In fact, I think CBS News put out a poll today that said 59% of the American public is pleased with the cabinet nominees that he's making. So this is, you know, Donald Trump's done very well in this election cycle, and it's why he won big and why I think he's going to be able to fulfill a mandate pretty effectively at least in the first two years. You know, I do want to get into the cabinet level picks because I know you are well versed in just about all the people that have been tapped so far by President Trump, but I have to start out in a place that's an area of your specialties and that's up in the halls of Congress. You know, I thought it was pretty great. The Wednesday after the election for Donald Trump to head down to DC for his meeting with Joe Biden as a formality during the transition, but stopped by the Republican conference to, you know, kind of congratulate the body and thank them for their support over the course of the home stretch of this election cycle. You know, at the same time, they cleared up any kind of leadership issues, replacing Lisa McLean for departing Elise Stefanik. Erin Houchin is going to be elevated to conference house secretary, which I think is a great pick as well. I think she's a rising star on the party. But more importantly, Speaker Johnson is going to remain the Speaker of the House. It was almost, you know, going to be a short bet and Donald Trump endorsed him. It looks like the House Republicans are fine, at least for the start of the 119th session to roll out leadership without any big changes. Now, when you look at the work that's going to be done in the lower chamber, it seems like legislatively, they could pretty much all get on the same page. There's obviously going to be an emphasis on cutting, spending and reconciliation in regards to some of the legislation that was promoted, but never pushed up in this session of Congress. But as you see, the House of Representatives kind of coming together and taking shape with the personality is going to be like in the 119th session. How do you see this forecasting going in? Well, I have been a detractor of Mike Johnson's as of the early part of his term. As you know, we've had this discussion before, but what I feel very confident about is that Mike Johnson is, he's not necessarily going to say, yes, sir, what do I need to do next? But he's going to, he is for Trump. And I think he's going to do what he can to get the agenda forward. The other good news about that, the reason that's good news is because all spending starts in the House. My greatest concern in the House is what are the appropriators going to do? At the end of the day, even though I've had my negatives on Mike Johnson as of last year and this year too, the real problem is these appropriators on the Republican side. They believe they run the House. They were really the biggest problem with trying to get the Speaker situation cleaned up from Kevin McCarthy on. So, you know, that's my concern. Will they come in line? I'm hopeful that they will. And I think Mike Johnson may, I mean, how can you look this kind of success in the face and blow it off? Right. And if we cut government the way we need to through on the congressional side of things, I think the House can be a good start for that. So much of this is going to happen in the administration though too. Russ Vogt, a good friend of mine for many, many years. Great. He's going to be a fantastic OMB director. He's got the concept on how to do rescissions. In other words, pulling back the spending. You can't spend more than Congress appropriates, but you can spend less. And I think he's going to be able to take some good steps there. In combination with whatever we can get done in the House, there might be something really positive there. In fact, most of the positive energy is going to be happening in the House. No, I think so as well. And it looks like they're off on the great track. A lot of people we've had everybody from some of the regular members like Nancy Mase in over the course of the last couple of days, all the way up through leadership with Dr. Andy Hatters joining us last Friday as the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. Everybody seems like they're kind of on the same page excited and looking forward to getting work from January 3. Here's the deal though, where we might have happy fun time down in the House of Representatives. The Senate is a little bit more of a different monster if you want to call it that. I mean, we've already seen some of the virtue singling going on with McConnell caucus and that Susan Collins. Obviously, Lisa Murkowski, the people who are, you know, they might not be never Trumpers, but they're definitely not for America first all the time in regards to some of his cabinet picks. And then when you talk about like the leadership components up there, appropriation rules, et cetera, it looks like the McConnell delegation is looking to take over a lot of those chairs and spots as well. You know, as someone who's always outside looking up when you did some work in the House of Representatives, you've seen the way the Senate can act, especially when they're not exactly on the same page with the president, even when all the parties from top to bottom, let's say, Republican next to the name. How do you think some of the growing pains that are going on right now with Mitch McConnell getting out of leadership, the ascension of Leader Thune and what's going on there and how they could get Donald Trump off to the best start possible, you know, heading into the next session of Congress and after his inauguration. Well, the chairmanship picks that are happening over in the Senate prove that McConnell's hand is still on the process. Sure. Mitch McConnell, there's only one area that Mitch McConnell and only one that he's ever been good at. That's judicial appointments. So that's been fine for the most part. I mean, he's actually, it's not as good as a lot of people who say this, say it is, but it is a whole lot better than we might have had otherwise. I'll give him credit for that. But he is a total creature of Washington, D.C. In fact, most of the problems we have in D.C. have their origin and Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer together because you have this issue of the filibuster rule in the Senate, the culture rule in the Senate. You got to get 60 votes to advance legislation. Now, I'm not against that, but Mitch McConnell has used that in ways that have been entirely detrimental to a Republican conservative and even a America-first agenda. So he's going to continue influencing that. John Thune doesn't stray very far from that. And that's a concern. That said, the political inertia here is going to be very strong. There are people out in the Hinterlands, our people out in the States who have already had enough. That's why they got Donald Trump elected and they're going to want more. So I know with our organization, we're going to be looking at independent expenditures in congressional races and Senate races in 2026. There aren't a whole lot of opportunities in the Senate, by the way, that time. But we're definitely going to be looking at that. And I know that the grassroots is going to be looking at that well. If we can just encourage them to take action, I think we will. They're going to be seeing that. The senators are going to see that something is afoot. They're going to understand that Donald Trump's willing to push hard, and he just needs to embarrass these guys. If they're not going to give him most of what he wants. I mean, it is a legislative process. Congress, when it comes to legislation, has their say that the founders created this separation of powers between Congress and the White House. That said, you know, we got a Republican Senate and a Republican House because Donald Trump won. They need to come in line at least enough. I understand it's hurting cats over there. But at the same time, if they want those positions, they better just act on the agenda that the American people are showing over and over again, even still after the election, that they want. They want Donald Trump's make America great again agenda, and they need to come in line with that. So I think Thune will recognize that, but not as much as we like, and we're going to have a few headaches. But I think we're also going to get a few things too. No, I think so as well. I mean, I think America is kind of fed up with the way that things have been ran. Donald Trump has pointed out on both sides of the aisle, the inconsistencies and falling shorts for the American people from both Republicans and Democrats over the year. You know, I think America has also fed up with the fact that we don't want Mitch McConnell's senatorial staff being the one that decides whether or not legislation gets approved and send up to Donald Trump's desk and written into law. As we know, Mitch McConnell's ability to do anything has been massively diminished over the years. It's going to be interesting to see how it plays out. I think the first test will obviously be the confirmation process and then moving forward. It's just such a, it bites you in the ash gym to see that there were so many people on the Republican side quick to confirm Mayorkas, Garland, you know, Pete Buttigieg, Xavier Becer. People with no experience whatsoever. Not only having to do anything in the federal government, but running any of the departments or had left in scandal written cases like Alejandro Mayorkas, departments that he headed under previous administrations like Barack Obama. And then how many Republicans confirmed Eric Holder and then they're making such a big deal about some of these picks at all. I understand it's like the thing that keeps the news cycle churning through the holidays as there's not really too much real news to report on because Congress is going to be out. We're in the transition for the incoming administration, but it's really frustrating to Americans, for Americans to see exactly what's going on, especially the way it's portrayed in the media. Well, what's really frustrating is you see a 54 seat majority in the Senate and Republicans not willing to say, hey, we got our guy elected. Let's just go with it. Whereas when you have a Barack Obama elected and Democrats had a similar majority when he was first elected, all the Democrats just came in line and they went with it. That attitude's got to change in the Republican Party. I understand about thinking, but listen, I'm extremely disappointed that Matt Gates is not going to be heading up the DOJ. I wanted that more than anything. Okay. But now that that's off the table, there really are no arguments against this team. Everybody here is totally capable of doing things. And Republican senators need to not argue about it. Just get the freaking nominees in line. John Thune needs to go into recess, by the way, if there's going to take a little time for certain people so we can get these people in and running and moving. We got four years with Donald Trump to deal with. We don't know what we're going to have afterwards. You got to strike while the iron's hot. But I'm I think I'm less concerned about the nominees, although I think we're have some fights there. I think we're going to get a whole lot of this team in place. And that's really encouraging because I know Donald Trump's ready to go. He's ready to push things forward and and fulfill what he promised on the campaign trail this year. No, I agree with you there. And we had already mentioned Matt Gates and then now the nomination of Pam Bondi. Let's talk about some of these cabinet picks that he's made, whether it be RFK Jr for HHS. I mean, obviously we're going to see Lee Zelda at the EPA. There are a lot of great choices. Congressman Walton in the DNI or I'm sorry, the DoD, Tulsi Gabbard at the DNI. We're going to see a lot of great choices and a very diverse, not just in whether it's men or women or people of color, what their pronouns are, but just different backgrounds, people who were straight up Democrats like 18 months ago were coming into work in a Republican administration and America. First administration that's looking to make some pretty historic gains here. When you see the way that Donald Trump is kind of a chess piece, this team together and what it means for his mandate moving forward. How do you see these picks kind of shaking out? And what's the scorecard grade you give it so far? You know, the one that I think most people are worried about and I think it was a horrible pick is Chavez Deremer for labor secretary. I really, I'm still trying to figure out where that came from. I'm guessing that he told the teamsters, listen, I'm going to give you somebody. Maybe that's what he did. I don't know what even the thinking was behind that. And I certainly don't want to speak for Donald Trump. Cause I don't know what that was. But if I put that aside and what's interesting by the way, RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard are more conservative than her. Correct. And, and I do have a little problem with RFK's pro-abortion stance. I'm a rabid pro-lifer. I believe we need to honor life everywhere. But I, I also believe that he's a focused guy. He understands what he's there to do. And it's not to deal with abortion. He's, he's there to deal with the health of Americans. When it is compelling, when you look at the crap we have in our food and I don't want the government to come in and just make everything illegal, what I want to figure out is getting the science back in line. So Marty McCarry over at FDA is, is a huge positive. A couple of these other health ones. I'd love to see J about Acharya in there somewhere. This health issue may be one of the biggest things positive that happens out of the Trump administration. Of course, the immigration is going to get fixed. Tom Holman is a rock star, like a freaking rock star. That's the guy you want right there. Not just because he's just a hard-nosed person on these issues, but he's not doing it because of the politics. He's doing it because he knows the issue at hand. He's an expert in that field because he's run through it for years in Democrat and Republican administrations. And he's going to make it happen because he knows that little kids and women are being harmed badly right now in our, because of our immigration policy. Pete Heg Seth, I think is, he's, he's imminently qualified for DoD and I'm kind of excited to see what he might be able to do there. You know, he hasn't been high up in DoD, but he's got all the experience and the education necessary to make that happen. And we really do need to take care of what's happening in DoD. And then Pam Bondi and DoJ, I think is very, very hopeful. You know, Jack Smith just dropped his cases today, or at least he's just in the last formal stages. But what's, that's not a win. Okay. That had to happen. There was a political, there were political cases coming in and they're going away because of politics. So nothing's changed. The field is neutral from where it was beforehand. What we have to do and Pam Bondi needs to do this is dig down into DoJ, rip out the roots of all of these problems that exist. Reformat, refashion, rethink the DoJ into what it's supposed to be. She's got to be really aggressive, dig deep and hard. Go through some really negative times while she's doing that because there's disruption to save this republic because the greatest problem we have in this country right now is the rule of law has gone by the wayside. We can always fight in our politics. And this election outcome proves that. We cannot fight against an entrenched DoJ that is determined to destroy political opponents, to destroy people that they want to target for any reason instead of just going out and getting rid of criminals. And that attitude needs to change. Pam Bondi could do that. She was an attorney general of a not insignificant state, Florida. So she should be able to come in there and do well. If she has the guts to do it and if she has the determination like Donald Trump did through all the law fair that came at him to run through the gauntlet to get to the end. And that's maybe the greatest thing about this election is all that Donald Trump went through and his courage to stick in there that had better inspire all these cabinet members, all these appointees to go all the way through what are going to be some really challenging times these first two years as we try to clean up this mess. Yeah, it's going to be a lot of pushback. It's going to be a lot of these fake stories. You'll see a lot of the, you know, fake narrative for pride and not just in the media, but out of the Democrat side of Congress in regards to, you know, kind of breaking up the way things are because everybody's cash cow. Everybody's reliable resources when it comes to providing narratives in the media to, you know, sabotaging things in Congress. They're all up for grabs right now. And Donald Trump has a real opportunity here with his team to do it. And, you know, in wrapping today, Jim, we do want to get caught up on what's going on with the conservative caucus. So why don't you tell our listenership again? We always like to get a refresh here about your organization and all the great work that you guys are doing now. Well, on the back end of this election, just to let people know we were able to spend in the aggregate about eight million dollars in pro-Trump independent expenditures. I calculated that at my last accounting of all IE in support of Donald Trump. We spent about two percent of everything that was out there. That doesn't mean we changed the game, but it does mean we changed the game in some areas. I feel confident about that. So we had a really successful 2024, but we're not going to settle those laurels. What we're going to be doing moving forward is focusing on election integrity issues. On top of some other organizations, I was at Council for National Policy a couple of weekends ago talking to Tom Fitton at Judicial Watch. They're going to be doing some things. There are a couple of others, but we want to put some focus and target on that because it's going to require both the cleaning up of our voter rolls, not just from non-citizens, but from people who have moved and all these other problems that male brings. So we're going to be focused on that. Folks on changing laws, getting to citizen ID. We want to support Donald Trump on the immigration issue. And we're really going to reframe and rebuild our grassroots effort in preparation of 2026 when we're going to get involved in congressional races because, you know, we have a great start this year. We've got to add on to that in 2026. We're going to be involved with that, just like we were in 2024. People can find out more about what we're doing at the conservative caucus.org. And I want to encourage them to go there. And on the top right corner to sign up. Even if the, however, to whatever degree they're going to work with us, we have a virtual university of how to win and how to operate as a grassroots leader in your area. All the training is there. We want to help you out. And, of course, help us out in the state that you're in because I've just been making phone calls all day long of various things that we're going to be doing in the states. We can use a lot of help. And we are going to, we're the, the nation's only going to the nation's oldest grassroots conservative grassroots organization. We were once the largest, we're going to be the largest again here moving forward. And we want your help. So the conservative caucus.org. No, it's, it's so critical for our listenership to understand getting involved means everything we saw. Everybody come together, check their egos. Let go of their inhibitions heading into this election cycle and how big we willed ourselves across the finish line here. Listen, I told everybody leading up to this election for as much and as tiring as this all was, the real work started the day after the election. It's going to continue. Listen, we're already on the time clock right now for the, for the midterm elections in 2026. Organizations like yours, Jim, I see Elon Musk moving around, expanding his pack into battleground states and stuff like that. It's going to take a team. It's going to take a village. And we're not going to have Donald Trump at the top of those tickets anymore. So we really need to stay focused here on what's important in regarding our traditions and our values, how we want, you know, legislatively to be guided in this country right now. And it's organizations like yours that are at the forefront that are helping do some of the most major work there. We've got the caucus live linked in the show description. But where can we find out social media as well? They can follow me. Jim Paff, J-I-M-P-F-A-F-F on True Social, on X, and elsewhere, even Instagram. Also, our organization is at TC caucus. And that's our X handle. We're on Facebook as well too. So make sure that you check out all of our social media. Jim Paff, J-I-M-P-F-A-F-F and TC caucus. Got to get out and get involved. This is the president of the Conservative Caucus, Mr. Jim Paff. Thanks for joining us on the show today, sir. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Thanks for having me on again, Ron. Always a pleasure being with you. Guys, we're coming back with another all-new edition of the State for Breakfast podcast. So sit back, relax, and let us change the way you consume your news. your news. [BLANK_AUDIO]
On today’s Episode (Tuesday 1 of 2) of the Steak for Breakfast Podcast, we are covering:
Donald Trump completes the nominations for his incoming Cabinet with a flurry of Friday night announcements
Weekend polling confirms that a majority of the nation approves of President Trump and his transition teams work ahead of the holidays and following the election
Guests: In Order of Appearance
All profile handles are for X (formerly Twitter)
Congresswoman-Elect Nick Begich: (@NickforAlaska) incoming U.S. Representative, Alaska House seat
Website: https://www.alaskansfornickbegich.com/
Jim Pfaff: (@jpfaff) President, The Conservative Caucus
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