This is not nom, this is bowling, they're a rule. - Hey, hey, hey, junior, America! (upbeat music) - It's like four. - Bestest. - So stand by. (upbeat music) - All right, everybody. Welcome back to the Stakes for Breakfast podcast. I'm Ron Noah's here with me. Yo, 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 Friday. Here we are, Noah. Welcome back. - Welcome. How you doing? - I've never left if you're listening to both episodes in a row. - Right, or this one first? - If you're not, and much like Noah just alluded to, we'll see you in a little bit. Go back and check out episode 502. That was our first Friday edition of the podcast today. We featured Republican Senator from the great state of Alabama coach, Tommy Tuberville, and also caught up with Chairman Jim Jordan. We talked about the continued battle over Pete Hegcess's nomination for SecDef. We're gonna be starting off a little bit of that today. And, well, we're getting close to the end of this session of Congress, the 100 18th, and there's still a lot of work to be done. We got a CR that needs to get passed. According to some of the people that we spoke to lately, it could be as one that takes us to February. I don't think that's very realistic in my opinion. It gives, it's well within the 100 day mark and a little early to have to maybe revisit CR again. What I'm hearing is March or April, which would be the spending limits for Joe Biden's last approved budget continually resolution until April of next year and would give Congress who gets sworn in on January 3rd of 2025. That same window is Donald Trump getting things started in his administration, the first 100 to 120 days to figure out all things budgetary. What we're cutting, can we get all 12 appropriation bills hashed out? And then moving forward, have a much more balanced and spending reduction, heavy budget moving forward. What do you think, Noah? - So are they trying to make the continuing resolution go into the Trump presidency so we can't make these cuts? Is that the motive here? I mean, maybe I don't understand exactly how this works. - Well, what happens is without funding the government would essentially shut down. If you would only do a CR from like December 20-ish until like February, which would be ideal for everyone that's outside of Congress, it doesn't give Donald Trump in his first 100 days the opportunity to get all of his agencies and cabinet level people hitting the ground running on his mandate and agenda. It also allows Congress only like four weeks to figure out a budget which would encompass years if you look at the way CRs have kind of dictated the way the government goes. - So basically, we're seeing manipulation again in order to hamper the Trump's effectiveness when he gets in. - The only thing that's positive to me about pushing it towards March or April is it means that Donald Trump doesn't have to worry about it first, first 100 to 20 days. Then he can get with House leadership once they're sworn in and 119 is official and actually tell them what his budget spending limits are, what his expectations are for everyone voting on these appropriation bills, and whether or not we need to stop grandstanding on the case of Republicans say the only way to fix the budget is to vote on all the bills separately. And if that's not gonna be the way that realistically this is ever gonna work, then we need to figure out a different one. - Well, having these bills with just a million bullshit pet projects laced inside them is not the way that we need to be going. That's never gonna continually be feasible for the country to operate in that way. It's just, it's not. - Yeah, so if we're gonna be continuing resolution into next year, I personally think it's better to have it go to March or April, only because it lets Donald Trump get off to the best foot forward and then lay out his expectation for House Republicans to wear if they can't figure it out by March or April, then he gets our holding people accountable. If you wanna do it in the first like four or five weeks of the new administration, there are so many moving parts going on. Just think about on the first day, how many people are gonna be getting fired? You know, we joked about the amount of the federal workforce that works from home. You know, they have come up with a contingency plan on that. So apparently there is gonna be some blanket mandates to these agencies and they're gonna go back to the language that was used in their original hiring, which I would say in an overwhelming majority of the cases requires them to actually physically come to work. So the way they're looking at it right now is if you work remotely and you don't wanna come back, they're gonna be looking at two year severance package and saying goodbye. Don't necessarily love it, but I don't hate it as well because if you wanna incentively based people who are just part of the deep and administrative state to get the fuck out of there, no better way to do it than giving them a lump sum of two year sour all at once and saying goodbye forever. It's a lot of money. It is, but you know, when you talk about people like who are going to be putting this all together, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami, they have run businesses, they understand the way the world works, they understand the way the world changed, whether we like it or not during the pandemic. And there's a lot of people who might've worked in Virginia or DC prior to COVID and now live in Montana or Utah and can't do it anymore because they were told a different thing. - Yeah, well, it makes sense because do you wanna fight with these people for two years or do you wanna just give them a number that, well, an offer they can't refuse, basically. - Yeah, that's it, right there. And you know, when you're talking about replacing a lot of these bureaucrats who are in there for a career and only job is to stymie presidents they don't ideologically line up with, I think it's a good way to figure out this problem. And there are a lot of problems going on, consequently that with the nomination of Pete Haggseth. We talked about that extensively in our first new segment of the first podcast today. We're gonna touch on it briefly right now. I've got one more clip because late yesterday John Thune came out and he jumped on with Fox News to talk about some of the rumors. So Tuesday night after we did the show and it's like the meme, no one. Absolutely no one of the Wall Street Journal and then insert any meme of Ron DeSantis's just awful laugh. And the rumors had started, much like in the case with the allegations being made against Pete Haggseth, that Donald Trump had already moved on from his nomination and has decided to vet other people including the embattled meatball shaped governor from the Sunshine State of Florida. Now we all know that Ron DeSantis is out in 2026. There are a couple different exit strategies he could take. Marco Rubio seats gonna be back up for re-election after someone sits there for the next two years because Marco is going to be the Secretary of State. And people have thought Ron DeSantis could might be able to vie for that. They're also wondering if he still has presidential aspirations which we could tell you resoundingly it's never gonna happen. We're not gonna ever have a president who's a five eight fat guy, a retired Italian from the state of Florida. For as much as just the tale of the tape is enticing to me 'cause in a lot of way shapes and forms both physically and metaphorically, I line up with those but I don't think Ron DeSantis is going to be anything except probably a news commentator following his services to governor of Florida. I definitely don't think he's gonna be the next Secretary of Defense. There are a lot of other agencies that I thought Ron DeSantis could have been considered for although I don't want him in any of them including those having to do with intelligence. Obviously the Department of Justice as he was a jag and things like that. But again, this is what DeSantis World does. They start rumors and they all started circulating because there was a funeral service held in Florida on Tuesday afternoon for three, I believe, bike cops who were killed in the line of duty. And Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump shared a stage there with many others, Eric Trump, a lot of other political figures. I believe Pam Bondi was there as well. At the memorial service for these police officers and it was within hours of them going their separate ways that these rumors started to circulate online. Now I've asked a couple people pretty close to the president. I've asked one of his pretty good friends. He may or may not be joining the show as a guest on Tuesday on which we could ask him in real life. What I thought about this, everything from fuck no to LOL were a lot of the responses I got. So when new Republican Senate majority leader, John Thune joined Fox News yesterday and was asked about this following all the rumors circulating from, of course, shit tabloids like the Wall Street Journal, this is what he had to say. Let's check it out. - Aaron Bill Malusian, our reporter said that Mar-a-Lago president-elect Trump is considering the possibility of Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, to be the secretary of defense nominee. That would mean that Pete Tegset would no longer be. Have you heard from any senators about that possible switch? - Well, I think Dana, the important thing is the president is still committed to the nominees that he's put forward. There's a lot, as you know, swirl around this process. There always is conversations on side conversations that go on, but you know, at the end of the day, these nominees need to have the opportunity to make their case. I'm meeting later today. I think it's been reported with Pete Hegseth as are many of my colleagues. And I think the readouts from these meetings are he's very smart and he's got, you know, great experience, obviously, he's a combat veteran. So we're gonna give him the chance to make his argument, make his case. Clearly he's gonna have to answer some hard questions, which he is, based on the reports I'm getting from the meetings he's attended so far. But that is part of our process. And under advice and consent and the constitution, our responsibility as the Senate is to give him that process and to determine based upon confirmation hearing and background search and things like that. They're qualifications for the office. - Now again, since then, Pete Hegseth has sat down with Meghan Kelly. Pete Hegseth has also received a very strongly worded true social post from Donald Trump continuing his endorsement. And I don't think anybody really understands that the backing here is different with Pete Hegseth as it was when compared to maybe Matt Gaetz or in administration's past what those endorsements are lack thereof would've looked like. So I think Pete Hegseth still looks good. I think he's going to get confirmed. I think there's gonna be a lot of people who are gonna go out and continue to virtue single on this. But you have to take into consideration the fact that what's at stake here, and it doesn't look good for Donald Trump when his nominees are not only drug through the mud, but then he abandons them. Because we have to take into consideration also. The most important component of this is that Donald Trump has a mandate. And whether the media wants to admit it or not, whether Democrats wanna talk about how big it was or wasn't, you know, it's one of those things that it's Donald Trump's pressure to put on them, not vice versa. I know we played a clip from him at the end of our last show. I've got another brief one here. My cue challenged Democrat Senator from the state of Pennsylvania. John Federman had this to say about the possible nomination of meatball around DeSantis. Check this out. - I'm considering voting yes on DeSantis if he's finally admits that he has lifts in his boots. Oh, I'm sure he does. I think he's 83 inches, four inches at least. - Noah seems to be breaking news. - Yeah. - Best timeline ever? - Yeah, it's wild. - It certainly is. Now Lindsey Graham has kind of said the same, the verbiage when it comes to Pete Higgseth as Joni Erst has, but I strongly feel that Lindsey Graham, who voted for so many of Joe Biden's cabinet selections, will eventually succumb to the pressure and confirm him when it comes time for the vote. However, there are a lot of other cabinet picks, some who are great friends of the show, that are going to be up and require votes as well. And although he hasn't made it up to the Hill to meet with Senators yet, I've been told by the man himself that he'll be doing so in a very short amount of time. Of course, I'm talking about the originator of hunting government gangsters, Cash Patel. Now Lindsey Graham was asked yesterday about Pete Higgseth and Cash Patel. And since we've heard enough about Pete Higgseth and based off the fact that we think at this point, he's fine. Well, what's here, the original Mr. Garrison. - Oh, scissor me timbers. - Way in on our favorite. Consideration for the FBI, let's check it out. - Carl Cash Patel, counterterrorism prosecutor understands the government. And if the FBI doesn't need to be cleaned out, what does? So yeah, he'll make it out of committee. I don't know if he'll get any Democrats, but I think he'll get all Republicans. I'm a big fan of his chores to be FBI director. So are we. Now I can also confirm after talking to a couple of senators and their staff that looks like Cash is good in committee. And he will make it to the full floor hearing and eventual confirmation vote. However, I've also heard some good news that it seems like a lot of people are optimistic about what he brings to the table and that he's going to get confirmed as FBI director. So no, we can't hope that a better candidate was picked in Cash Patel. We're a little bit biased here because he's a great friend of ours. But when you talk about his extensive resume and how he served in so many different contexts, it was in such a short amount of time, four years Donald Trump's first term, worked within three different agencies. He was a specialist assistant to the president and chief of staff to the Department of Defense. Guy brings a lot to the table, including an extensive background as a federal prosecutor. - Cash is literally the best person that we could have in this position, I think. I mean, he's got the experience. He has the will to do it, which is probably the most important part right now because there's a lot of people there. Yeah, they may want the job, but they're just planning on just being a bureaucrat and sit there and do nothing like the last few administrations, except for Trump's. But Trump even had his bad picks that wanted to get in there and do nothing too. So yeah, the previous administrations, yes. - Or thought they could get in there and then we're way over their heads. - Yeah, that too. - You've got your attorney general recusing himself from the Russiagate investigation. You've got Rex Tillerson like sitting across the table from literally terrorist regimes and being like, "Well, cowboy, this job ain't for me." You know, it was one of those things where you could say a lot about some of the people who didn't work out during the first Trump administration when you talk about the ones who are going to in the second. Cash Patel is a slam dunk for us. I saw last night on Fox News, former great friend of the show, someone who doesn't do any media anymore, even though we ask every single week for him to come back on the show. Devin Nunes, a former oversight chairman and a great friend of Cash Patel as well, jumped on to provide a little bit of insight into the narrative that has been built up behind cash. And it's not just from what you're hearing up on Capitol Hill, some of the rank and file FBI agents who were friendly with Devin Nunes when he was a congressman have reached out to him privately and talked about how enthusiastic they are of cash potentially being the man who heads the Bureau come January. Let's hear it. Oh, just the other night, I had a former FBI agent come up to me, this was before Cash. So I had to deal with my family before Cash had been appointed by the president. And he says, boy, I sure hope President Trump appoints that Cash Patel. I think he's doing a heck of a job. I want him to be the next FBI director, the FBI director, or the FBI needs to be cleaned up. Now, I've had countless conversations like that over the last eight years from current and former FBI agents. You know how many times an FBI agent has come up to me and said the opposite that said, oh, McCabe and Comey, and these guys were great and Cash Patel and then Gouty are wrong. You know how many times? Zero, zero times as that happened. And I bet I've had dozens and dozens and dozens across this country of FBI agents begging for this agency to get cleaned up and I think that's what Cash Patel will do. - No one wants to see it more than Devin who had fallen victim along with Cash to just how corrupt the FBI was when they were doing the counter investigation to the Russiagate narrative and Robert Mueller special counsel. So, you know, coming from a large outside entity is the CEO of the Trump media group now, the former congressman, obviously, heavily endorses our great friend, his great friend Cash Patel as well. You know, we had joked a little bit about what was going on with the federal workers and the fact that they aren't. And Speaker Johnson was actually asked about this yesterday because when you start to break down the reason why government spending is out of control and the amount of work that's getting done is at all time lows. It's because these people are essentially, no one of those mouse mover thing calls. Apparently this is a pretty big epidemic with federal workers who are working remote as well. - Mouse movers? - Yeah, they now have like these, so they have a machine that sits over your mouse and every so often. - Oh, the jiggler. - Yeah, the jigglers. - Yeah, and they, I mean, I think a lot of that stuff, those jigglers are spyware too. - Yeah, it seems like a lot more people who use them get caught than don't. - Yeah. - But, and you always gotta remember, there has to be a cover sheet on all the TPS reports. The TPS reports. I'm so excited for TPS reports. - But yeah, there's gonna be a lot more people who are filing their TPS reports appropriately moving forward, I think, and in a lot of cases in person, or there's gonna be a lot new fresh faces, working within the federal government and some of these agencies moving forward also that I think that are gonna make things a lot better when it comes to government efficiency. Speaker Johnson was asked ahead of the, I guess, sit down what they had with Vivek Ramaswami and Elon Musk yesterday before the Doge Committee pre-committee hearing and was asked about federal workers and they're keeping fair share. Let's hear it. (indistinct chatter) - Some labor unions are already fighting back to have they've already signed contracts to try and get this, that they could be able to work from home, things like that, your reaction to that. Well, there was a report that came out today, I don't know if you have seen it, but someone did a little survey of how many federal employees are actually working in the office. By one estimate, it may be about 1% if you don't count the security personnel that are covering these buildings. That is absurd and it's not something the American people will stand for. And so one of the first things that I think you'll see is a demand from the new administration and from all of us in Congress that federal workers return to their desks and get back to the work that they're supposed to be doing, I think that is common sense. What you're going to see here, the overriding theme here, is they return to common sense and are returned to accountability and efficiency in government. I think that's going to serve the people well. There'll be a lot more to tell you all in the days ahead. Thanks for being here. - And again, you want to talk about things like schedule F. It's going to be a harsh reality for a lot of these people who are going to push back on that, especially some of these labor unions who represent the workers of our federal government. First of all, none of them essentially, outside of the Border Patrol, ever even endorsed the Republican candidate, got forbid Donald Trump. And I saw somebody the other day who had pointed out online that Joe Biden was already working to protect some of these affortibilities that have been given to these people who don't have to show up to work. And it's like, oh yeah, Joe Biden's setting up another roadblock for Donald Trump. I said, first of all, double wrong. First wrong is that could be taken out of existence with the stroke of a pen on day one. Secondly, this is what Democrats do to secure votes and future elections from Democrat heavy bodies like federal workers, labor unions. So understand the game that's being played here. And maybe it won't be such a broad stroke. Maybe it will be just for like Speaker Johnson who always alludes to the common sense swats of people who need to physically be at work need to go back to work. And then they're gonna be more willing to work in some context in other ways with people who maybe can efficiently work remotely. I personally think that if you get hired from one of these big times, six figure government jobs and you're in charge of helping grease the gears, then you need to be working physically on the engine in the engine. And that's just my take. There's a lot of people, I would assume a vast majority of our listenership are hard working blue collar and of the middle class. And in that context that they have to go to work and do a job 40 hours or more a week, especially in this economy, just to make ends meet face to face and in person. And you would expect the government to do the same as well. You don't want some ghost entities running this country from the comfortability of like I've seen this morning on some social media posts that were thrown up as part of the argument to go back to work, people drinking wine in their bathtub while their Zoom meeting is up and their camera is off. We can't be having that when it comes to our, we're not Ukraine for pizza. - Wait, so we knew that they were in the bathtub drinking wine because somebody accidentally had their camera on or we just heard sloshing and their teeth clanking against the glass. - No, they had gone and looked for like federal workers who have like boast posted. This person had taken a selfie of their feet and their wine glass and their Zoom meeting from their bathtub. And they had just used that as one of the examples. They also had the wife who takes a picture of her husband from down the hallway when he's sitting at a desk with a suit jacket and underwear on while he's performing tasks of the government from home. - Well, I would do that too. If I was only doing it just for, if I had to be home and I had to be wearing a suit, there's no fucking way I'd put the whole thing on. - I get it, but it should be for our government workers, absolutely not. - Well, no, they shouldn't be home anymore. There's no reason to be home. There's no reason to be wearing a mask anymore either. - And we're gonna see what happens with, I was an interesting take on Dr. Fauci from Chairman Jordan in our last interview to round out our first edition of the show where he thinks the receipts are gonna come to fruition and be a constant thing, but he thinks accountability, like he basically said without saying it, all the people who are going around telling people to keep their receipts and that like they're going to Gitmo, like that's never legitimately going to happen. Like none of the people who did bad stuff in the Biden administration outside of some of the people who literally really, really broke the law are ever probably gonna be charged. And I would say even less of a percentage of them are ever gonna go to jail. And I'm talking about Dr. Fauci, Alejandro Mayorkas, Merrick Garland, these people are not going to jail. - Well, Fauci's probably gonna get a pardon as much as we don't want him to, of course. But you know, Jim Jordan did say when it comes to the pandemic and the whole COVID narrative, we're gonna find out that his entire legacy was a lie. And if anybody's gonna make that history moving forward, it's gonna be Donald Trump. But at the end of the day, what needs to be held accountable is China. And Donald Trump campaigned on the fact that he thinks China owes us at least $50 trillion in retribution for what happened during the pandemic. So many hundreds of thousands of Americans died. And educationally, kids lost an entire generation of learning. Small businesses were snapped out of existence faster than Tom Holman could deport people from Venezuela. So it's like one of those things that I hope we do hold China accountable. And no one would like to see somebody thrown in the deepest, darkest dungeon that CIA black ops site could offer than me when it comes to people like Dr. Fauci and Alejandro Mayorkas. But in the reality, it's just not the way the world works. So remember, social media is not real and the real world is real. And the only people who ever go to jail are the good ones, like Republicans. - Well, like the house report on the pandemic literally says that it came from a lab. There was over 200 billion in relief funds lost to fraud. And the prolonged lockdowns caused irreparable harm to children and economic devastation. - Yeah. - There's no way fans are butts about it. Like Fauci is a piece of shit. - I've noticed after the low test scores out here in California, which was last year, which consequently was the first full year back to school in school instruction following the pandemic here. 'Cause we were one of the last ones, if not the last one to go to school full-time. They're sending so much more homework home this year. And in some instances, like I look at the homework and it's like a lot of busy work. And they wanna do like projects and arts and science and school when the kids aren't meeting their educational standards of reading, writing, and arithmetic. - I don't get the point. I don't get the point of busy work. I don't understand. Like does that, is it like one of those things where they think like doing small tasks and having a bunch of successful completions, make these kids feel better and it's gonna make them like psychologically more apt to learning? I don't know what the point is. - Well, here's the thing. I'll give you a couple of examples. So this is the busy work that's coming home with, let's just say my son who's an elementary school student. They have this computer program and you can go in, you're supposed to read it and then answer multiple choice questions. The teacher counts for credit. Any score that you get 88 or above, which I believe is like four out of, or three out of 12 answers wrong, right? But the kids in any instance can, they know what their score is in real time. So they don't wait till the end to show how many you got right or wrong so you can go back and see what you got right or wrong. They tell you when you answer it and press enter, whether it's right or wrong. So the teacher literally told me when I went in for the teacher meeting, we liked them to do like three or to five of these independently at home a week. But the hard part is, is looking at all the kids that have like 10 of them open at the same time 'cause they got to the third one wrong, knowing that the fourth one wrong would put them under 88%. So they just go on and do another one to where, essentially they could guess correctly and get the score that the teacher counts. - Mm-hmm. - And then my son who's in fifth grade, they sent home this book. It's like 200 pages of small print, no pictures. And because of the reading, both in English and Spanish at my kid's school was so awful, they want them to independently, independently read a 10, 11 year old kid, independently read for 30 minutes a night and then talk about it with your parents. Why the fuck aren't they doing this in school? So the teachers can see that the kids are having difficulties reading or not. - Well, they're making you do the teacher's job basically because you know the parents probably don't have time to do it. The teacher doesn't wanna do it. - That's exactly what it is. - That's the whole point of going to school is that the teacher is assessing your ability to cope and-- - Not see it. - Complete these tasks, yeah. - We're the ones seething over. And I almost like went to school this week 'cause it was like, you want me to sit down with the principal, the school psychologist, the guide counselor, whatever and be like, listen, last year I went to all the teacher conferences and you told me like, well, you know, test scores aren't really where we wanted to be because oh, COVID is so crazy what happened with COVID, right? Remember when your kid watched YouTube for two years at home and threw a grapefruit into a laundry basket as part of PE and now we expect them to come back and they should have automatically, through osmosis, learned everything, they should have, while we didn't teach them for two years and then let's just move on to the next grade. - It's crazy when you think about that that lasted for two fucking years, holy shit. - Here, Illinois, many other blue states across the country is just absolute disaster. - Well, and as an adult, you don't really think about it. You're like, oh, okay, I gotta wear a mask at work, but it's like two years of a kid's most formative, like psychological and mental time. It's just gone. - Oh, I've seen a lot of the kids that did no sports and whose parents were super COVID out here and they're just, I tell my kids, I was like, you shouldn't be friends with those people anymore, they're just weird. - Yeah. - And it's like, I almost went up to school and was like, listen, I sat through these meetings last year, it was like COVID mulligan for us, not for your kids because they still have to meet their standards and move on, but we'll also do social promotions because they keep growing, imagine that. And you know, if they're struggling a little bit, don't worry, we'll just send them home. I mean, both of my kids don't get home until after. They leave the house at like seven in the morning, they get home after eight o'clock at night every day of the week because of sports. - Yeah. - It's like, you could either try to crunch it in before school, but you just got out of school or you could do it at eight o'clock at night. Half the time, my son is passing out while he's trying to do the work or stressing out over it and can't sleep. So, yeah, they sent some like bullshit book work home over the Thanksgiving break. Like the second day in the break, I saw my son was like starting to get an anxiety about it. I wrote her an email, I was like, hey, listen, if you wanna talk about sending this work home during Thanksgiving break, we can talk about it when we go back to school and the time for in-school instruction work, like homework, is actually appropriate. And I never got an email back. And I asked him, did they say anything to you? She's like, no, she never mentioned it. I know she read it. You don't send work home that you should be doing in school, but instead you wanna do arts and crafts or dance or whatever and make us try to do it during break. Like just in the case of ours, there was actual Thanksgiving. My wife and I both worked and we had tournaments on the back end of both weekends that we were off. It's just not gonna happen. And I'm not gonna let you hold it negatively against my kid. Like if you want the educational standards to go up, start teaching the educational standards and stop giving them for homework and having fall on the responsibility of the parents. So let's bring it back now. Guys, wherever you're listening to the show today, welcome. Second of two big Friday editions of "Stake for Breakfast." Hope you guys are enjoying it. While you're doing so, make sure you're sharing us with friends, family, coworkers, and loved ones. And then check us out on every podcasting platform, including Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Samsung, Amazon podcast. 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So I guess we're gonna get ready to hear what he has to say to the press today if it's important-ish or funny, which is gonna be like the next Michael Baimeen from Joe Biden. We'll bring it. But Chuck Schumer was asked yesterday, amidst all of this leadership, changing of the guard going on. And Chuck Schumer about ready to relinquish majority leader to John Thune. He, well, he was asked about the Hunter Biden parton. Didn't have much to say about it. Let's check it out. - Question. - Yes. - Do you agree with some of your Democrat colleagues to see that President Biden's part in Hunter Biden was wrong or unwise with personal interests ahead of duty? - I got nothing for you on that. - Can I call up on that? Are you concerned with the lack of transparency, lack of honesty? - Oh! - As I said, I got nothing for you on that. - A little bit of that too. - Nope. (crosstalk) - Parting anyone on the way out of office, family members, that's a poor president. - Thank you. I've got nothing for you on that. (crosstalk) - But the question is, they've talked about January 6th parties. This is a playbook for incoming president Trump. Is it this a problem? Did he not establish a bad precedent for a part? - I got nothing for you on that. (crosstalk) - Nothing for you. - What do you think Noah, the continued historic and transparent nature of this administration is going to be one that is talked about throughout the, well, annals of history in my opinion. - Yeah, it's a joke. - Certainly is. As much as we were just mentioning it and kind of got off the rails on it, we're gonna bring it back and throw it on the tracks. And that's, the rumors now, which have been leaked to the press, I guess kind of as either a soft conditioning or in preparation of actually happening. And that's potential pardons for people like Dr. Fauci and Liz Cheney and everybody else who supposedly never committed crime and were the best members of Congress or doctors for the country and the history of actual Congress in the field of medicine. All CNN was doing what they usually do on CNN and that was kind of rationalizing it at the same time using four out of five of their panelists outside of Scott Jennings. Oh my God, how funny was that new? Scott Jennings head around the Twitter, I said, he was rolling his eyes with the lady, poor guy. He should have been given an admin job. Maybe he'll be the next press sec if Caroline Levin doesn't want it for four years. He'd be pretty good. But let's check out this CNN panel talking about Joe Biden and how he's getting ready to pardon everyone under the sun. - Actually on the opposite of that, I think that it is actually smart. When you have somebody not only in Trump, but in a lot of his acolytes who also hold elected office, who are dead set on carrying out his retribution tour, be it whether it's with Liz Cheney, Dr. Fauci, any and everybody, I think that it's smart. It offers a certain level of protection, but it also helps as a stalwart, because I hear what you're saying about what the founders intended. The founders also didn't intend a twice because he's talking so fast. - He's a convicted guy to pop up and run for president and win multiple times. I think that at this point, when you have someone who is operating with immunity, because quite frankly, the Supreme Court gave him that, in all aspects and does not match up to any of the presidents that we formerly had, or any, I think, of the principles of American democracy, you have to have safeguards. And one of the safeguards against a lot of the attacks that this incoming administration and a lot of those who align with it against those that they see as enemies is actually issuing those preemptive pardons. - Do you think, again, when you're a whole narrative to Joe Biden and rationalizing him, giving this part into his son, and at the same time, your argument for that is. - Democracy! January 6th, Trump! (laughing) It's never gonna move the needle for America, and it was resoundingly rejected just a few short weeks ago in the presidential election, and that's just the facts. I wish it was up for debate, but it's not. What is up for debate is on who we're letting onto the squad and why. I don't know if you saw it, but there's been a change of heart recently, not just from Mark Zuckerberg, the lizard man himself, but even more recently. Jeff Bezos, have you seen any of this? - No, I don't think I've seen all of it. That's for damn sure. - He sat down for an Amazon exclusive this week and was kind of talking about not only an optimistic outlook on the future of our country and the fact that it is time for change, but that he has actual faith and is looking forward to. Some of the things that are gonna be happening within the Trump administration, with the Trump government, I got a clip of him here right now, talking about Elon Vivek and Doge, let's hear it. - I think it could be true. I think he probably is trying to, I think this is the Department of Government and Efficiency and that he and Vivek are helping Trump with and so on. Again, I'd like to take, I've had a lot of success in life not being cynical, and I've very rarely been taken advantage of as a result. It's happened a couple of times, but not very often. And I think that cynicism, why be cynical about that? Let's go into it, hoping that the statements that have been made are correct, that this is gonna be done above board in the public interest. And if that turns out to be naive, well, then we'll see, but I actually think it's gonna be great, I'm hoping. - We're hoping too. Are we starting to add billionaires to the roster now? - Bezos. - More billionaires. - Bezos, Lizardberg, joining Elon Musk. I mean, why should these guys just be like openly disdain competitors of each other when the proof is in the pudding, that their influence has a lot more effect than the Democrats did, especially in this last election cycle and where we had only an Elon spending SpaceX bucks and going out and talking to just one battleground state. Just imagine if we could use several to not only open up the avenues of communication and the way the news is, remember Jeff Bezos still does own the Washington Post and have social media a lot better place and not just applications like X, but on places like Facebook and Instagram too, when they talk about Mark Zuckerberg, what do you think? - Yeah, I mean, we need more people to just jump in and participate, whether or not they're a billionaire or not, but these people, the fact of the matter is they probably like to maintain their status as billionaires or trillionaires or whatever they are. - Do we have any trillionaires on our team? - No, Elon Musk has looked at as going to be the first one of them. I think he's around like 400 and some odd billion now. Also saw another interesting news item. So NASA canceled their moon landing for 2026, which gives Elon Musk the opportunity to lap them again in getting up to our planet's satellite before they do. And because he said he wants to go to the moon in the first 18 months of the next Trump administration and then Mars by the time Donald Trump leaves office, it's gonna be interesting to see how much of the space race continues to ramp up as Elon Musk is being pulled in a lot of different directions right now, but he says he's still finding time to play video games. - Nice. Well, I mean, I think in order to get to Mars, you have to go to moon first and probably resupply. - In here, yeah, it's the whole Armageddon narrative. - Nope. - I like it. I also like Stephen Miller. He's usually talking about illegal immigrants and telling them to pack their bags. However, he was on Jesse Waters yesterday talking about Vivek, Elon and Dodes. Let's hear him. - It's really gonna happen here is again, you're either gonna go back to work or you're not going to work because we are not going to waste American taxpayer dollars. And we're gonna make sure these departments are performing the essential functions that the American people pay for. And they're not wasting their time, their money, their energy, or even worse, weaponizing government against the people that actually do go to work for a living. The social contract's gonna be restored. If you're watching tonight and you're an honest law abiding citizen who takes care of yourself and your family, then this government is going to protect you. And we're gonna make sure that the people in Washington DC are protecting you. That's Donald Trump's commitment. That is what the 47th president is going to do. And that's what Dodes also is all about, making sure that your tax dollars are serving you. - You know, I also look at the way that this is all shaking out, talking about this billionaire class, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, et cetera. I was talking with some people yesterday who really understand politics. And when you see the way that this administration, talking about the incoming 47 Trump White House has been put together. I mean, you have to be able to look at where everything comes from and know that people like Peter Thiel and the America First Policy Institute have their fingerprints all over that. And you look at what you give and what you get and the way I kind of rationalized it and it really did hit with the group that I was talking to. You know, just generally about politics but they understand the way the game is played is like figuratively we got our emperor back. If we really are restoring the public here and using Roma as an analogy in Donald Trump for his second term. And I said at the same time, you move into potentially with J.D. Vance being obviously the next in line to be the leader of the party, the the old dynasty for many, many years to come. Now there are some people in and around Trump world who don't necessarily love that. But I would rather have the billionaires on our side, all the government officials with the America First, interest and notion moving forward. And I just think it's like better than the alternative that we've had to suffer through for 12 out of the last 16 years and even longer before that if you count the time that George W. Bush is an office is, you know, kind of a middle of the road. I mean, that's kind of where the Democrats were turning into the war party anyways. So in our last audio clip, before we jump in with Congresswoman Nancy Mase, I've got one of our great friends at the show. He should be joining us, I believe in the next two weeks. That's Virginia Congressman Ben Klein on the House floor yesterday countering some of the narratives that we heard from the Democratic counterparts in our first edition of the show talking about the mandate that the American people has given Congress and the Senate and of course, Donald Trump and his incoming administration. It's time to get back to work. Let's hear it. - This administration has consistently failed the American people. Allowing $6 billion to flow to Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism is both reckless and dangerous. Simultaneously, we see China continuing its human rights abuses while our nation grows increasingly dependent on its supply chains. At home, we've seen a Chinese spy balloon surveil sensitive military sites, a border crisis that continues to spiral out of control and a fentanyl epidemic devastating our communities. Working with the incoming Trump administration, House Republicans are ready to lead. We will secure our borders, restore energy independence and prioritize America in foreign policy. We will protect American jobs and combat the inflation that is squeezing hard-working families. As we enter the 119th Congress, I look forward to working with my colleagues to reverse the damage done by the Biden and Harris administration and get our country back on track for the American people in their future. - Like it, I really like Congressman Ben Klein. I could see of a higher office in his future, maybe even potentially a run for the governorship down the road, as Glen Yunken's determined out after this one. I know when some Sears is gonna be next in line, but maybe after her, I could also easily see Senator Klein in the near future as well out of the state of Virginia. You know what I heard? No, you'll probably love this one. There are some rumblings on the ground, and although they'll never admit it, there's a lot of people working to kind of spread the good word of Eli Crane out in Arizona. - Really? - We fucked up our last two Senate races there. We fucked up the governorship last time, and we know there was all some big inconsistencies with the 2020 presidential election, but here's the deal. Donald Trump essentially got a little bit less than 100,000 more votes in 2024 than he did in 2020. The difference between the winner and loser at the presidential level in the state of Arizona, therefore, was the same as it was in 2020, except the parties were flipped. Joe Biden supposedly won Arizona then. The difference in the Senate races for both years, though, however, were exactly the same. And the only way we're gonna get real generational change into states like Arizona and move it out of the purple category is we highly feel that it isn't. It's the number one, get people like Elon Musk in there doing his thing, and number two, getting candidates in there they're gonna bring generational change to the state government. I'm hearing that there are some people who are thinking that Eli Crane could be potentially a future governor of Arizona. What do you think about that? - I'm still mad that we didn't get Kerry Lake, but that wouldn't be bad, I wouldn't hate it. - No, I get it, but Eli Crane is solid, solid. - Yeah, I know he sees a good guy. - I mean, there are people who do stuff in district, and I'm not taking away from any of the jobs that the congressman and woman who come on the show. Everyone goes out in district, they go to the pancake breakfast, they go and do this out of the other thing, they do all the veteran stuff, like we love it. But you wanna talk about someone that has built real inroads with the community, with cleaning up his district. The Native American community has just embraced the work that he's done for his district as well. Eli Crane is making huge, huge gains, I believe, political capital-wise in the state of Arizona, and I think moving forward, he's got a higher office for himself as well. But we'll leave it at that, and talk to somebody who's, well, right before she jumped on with us, she was walking around the halls of Congress with a bullhorn and telling the transgender protesters who were set up in the Congressional bathroom, have fun in jail. Of course, I'm talking about South Carolina, Congresswoman Nancy Mays, but before we do, here's another check-in with one of our partners. This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Battleborn Coffee Roasters. They're law enforcement family-owned, and they produce some of the best available special-to-grade coffee. That means all those beans have gone through an extensive process to remove all defects. Battleborn researches all their sources, farms, and milling stations to make sure you're not getting any pesticides or chemical fertilizers. 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But listen, Congresswoman, when last we talked, we were right at the start of a congressional bathroom gate. It seems to have gotten a little bit out of control. I mean, not like you can't handle it, and we couldn't hope for someone who's a stronger warrior standing in the breach for us when this goes on. But listen, as the father of a daughter, and tracking all of the stuff that you've got going on, why don't you just catch our listenership up on the pretty whirlwind week you've had up on Capitol Hill leading up to the show today? - Well, we filed a bathroom bill to ban biological men or trans women who are men, by the way, from women's faces up here on the Hill, and it just ignited a firestorm. I was getting hundreds, hundreds of death threats a day. And guess what? Not a single person has been arrested. I then filed a bill that would ban men and women's faces like dressing rooms, locker rooms, bathrooms, and all federal property. The third bill I filed was one that would ban any location, any of any organization that got any federal funding to do the same thing. And so I'll do a prison bill next. We shouldn't have rapists housed with women. All of this makes a lot of common sense. But today, up here on the Hill, we had protesters show up to protest my bathroom bill. Men with beards, many who are confused about who they are in their gender. Very confused men up here protesting. My right is a woman, because women have rights, to pee in private and to not be forced to undress in front of men. I don't wanna need chicks with dicks in the bathroom, locker room, dressing room. It is a hard no for me. And I've been meeting with groups all this week, groups that are LGB, that wanna divorce the T, they don't like it. And groups that are trying to protect children and just met with a group that wants to end gender affirming care for all kids. I mean, the stuff that one person in the population is doing to our country, it should be a crime. - It certainly should. And as we saw some people carted out of the capital this week to some of the protesters that you had mentioned. Listen, this is a pretty dangerous situation though, because you had mentioned the threats on your life. Now there's people coming straight down the hall from your office. We saw on social media the other day some of the wonderful things they wrote about you in your congressional sign-in book. This is kind of spiraling out of control. And I'm trying to figure out what you think this narrative is all about. I mean, obviously I'd like to segue and talk about the groundbreaking historic, even though we shouldn't even have to say that. The thing that's going on at the Supreme Court regarding these issues this week, but here's the deal. America resoundingly rejected this narrative and then this demographic in an overwhelming fashion a little bit over a month ago. And I don't know why it's starting to spark up on Capitol Hill because if I were the Democrats, I kind of want to distance myself away from this in any way, shape or form. - If I were a Democrat, I would take a seat. I mean, they lost on this issue. They lost to Trump in a historic landslide election, a mandate. Hey, if the Democrats want to double down on insanity, more power to them. It'll be less of a bloodbath for Republicans in 2026. And in fact, I just met with a lesbian who doesn't want gender affirming care. She was a progressive. She was on the lap. She was a Democrat. She voted for Donald Trump this year. And if they want to all become Republicans because of our sanity and our will to protect women and kids, we need to welcome them with open arms into our party, into MAGA, all the things because Republicans and MAGA, we are going to protect women and kids. - Yep, certainly are. And then when you see or are waiting for the results of the Supreme Court and what's going on with the case coming out of Tennessee, do you think they're going to rule in the side of a common sense here and just kind of put at least at the Supreme Court level, or do you think they're maybe going to send it back and see if they could volley over this for a little bit longer? - It's hard to say and it'll be months before the Supreme Court makes this decision. But based on the questions, the way that we interpret it is that the Supreme Court will answer with sanity, that they will protect kids from gender or farming care, these hormones that will permanently harm children, that they're going to go with common sense. Is what it seems like, of course, the leftist, the leftist activist judges, Judge Jackson, who can't even define what a woman is. I don't even know how she should even be qualified to answer anything regarding this case in Tennessee because she can't even define what a woman is. So if you can't define what a woman is, you have no business inviting what should be done to women and kids. It's crazy to me that this is where we are today, but we got activist judges all over the country, even in the Supreme Court, but it sounds like they're going to rule in Tennessee's favor. - Yeah, it's a good point and we're looking forward to that ruling coming down and whether it's weeks or month, we'll eventually get to the bottom of it. You know, I do want to kind of segue, unfortunately, we have about 45 days left to talk about Joe Biden and the disaster that his legacy is going to be. Before we even get into the part and stuff, which I do want some commentary from you on Congresswoman. Listen, he jet-set to Angola. He fell asleep at a meeting. He donated a billion dollars in disaster relief. He pledged to give Ukraine tens of billions of more dollars, which thankfully, Speaker Johnson's getting ahead of and ahead of Donald Trump coming back to the White House. But here's the deal. There's still Americans who are sleeping in FEMA tents in rural North Carolina and portions of Tennessee and Joe Biden, the State Department and the Department of Defense are sending every dollar they can to every corner of the globe except here in the United States. How is this just, we're reaching new levels of unacceptable here. - Yeah, and we should just ban foreign aid right now at all until our people are put first. Once you put the American people first, then we can talk about what we can do. We've spent over a million dollars just to Russia to study Russian cats on treadmills. We've spent millions of dollars in China to buy puppy parts at wet markets. I can't wait for Doge to become a reality and start implementing and defunding, including the ACLU who was in that Tennessee case yesterday making horrific arguments about why kids should receive gender or farming care to the Supreme Court. But we gotta end this. And once you put our people first, then we can talk. - Yeah, it's the truth there. And it's just a shame to see the way that they're conducting themselves. It's almost like a sore loser, a chip, the type behavior that they're playing as they're going around the world and trying to continue sparking up all these things that Donald Trump is gonna have to deal with, obviously House Republicans in the Senate as well once we get back to work in January after the end of this session of Congress. So let's talk about the pardon. For Joe Biden to pardon Hunter, everybody probably saw it coming even though they swore to high heavens that it wasn't going to. But the sweeping nature of it, making the one that Gerald Ford afforded Richard Nixon kind of looked like child's play when you talk about the things it would cover. And now the rumors coming down for people who supposedly hadn't committed any crimes, maybe getting, you know, advanced pardons before Joe Biden leaves office, but sticking in the thread of Hunter's right now. I mean, listen, nobody called him out stronger than you did when he was up on Capitol Hill, albeit briefly. A couple months ago, I'm sure your eyes were rolling very far into the back of your head when you saw that headline come across the Chiron this weekend. But also, it's like, was anyone surprised? Was anyone shocked by this? We know that we've all been lied to for four full years by Joe Biden, his administration, Karine Jean-Pierre, who I almost feel bad for, because of all the lies she was forced to tell and maybe she did it willingly. I don't know, but what they've done to do and still so much to trust in our institutions, Joe Biden did that. And it just wasn't a surprise. It was just tired, it was expected. And it's what Washington always does. They screw over the American people. And they treat themselves to a much different standard than they do the American people. - These are the same people that told us our bank accounts are fine. They said the borders are closed, the streets are safe and there's no foreign wars that are spinning out of control because of lack of American leadership for the past four years as well. - And they also say that no one's above the law. Well, that's bullshit. So, yeah. - Well, maybe they'll get some people who are running the House Democrat Ways and Means Committee Twitter account to come on and invite you to commentary on this because man, you want to talk about sticking in the thread of like the back in the transgender thing and then, you know, coming off it in the lead's nature. The Democrats just can't get out of their way right now. - No, they can't. We should just let them just give them all the rope that they need. I'm totally here for it. - No, we are too. And then, you know, another thing I wanted to touch on, is there some committee work and hearings going on right now, obviously, so we saw the big outverse between the Acting Secret Service Director and Rep. Thal on this week. But I do want to jump into the COVID one that's going on and the likely continued investigations into the origin of it. I mean, we've seen the House release some stuff. We've seen the federal government release some stuff over the course of the past week. That is, you know, basically confirming all the things that people were essentially canceled for. We don't have to go in every way, shape, or form. We could just talk about what Mark Zuckerberg did on all of his platforms during the pandemic. But the fact of the matter is, moving into the next session of Congress, obviously retaining the majority, the Senate has flipped into Republican control and Donald Trump coming back, he's talked about China being held accountable. And I would just ask, you know, what your thoughts are heading into the end of this session in recess, how primed Republicans are going to be to get not only a firm understanding of where the origins of COVID came from, but actually holding China accountable all the way up to things like financially. - Well, what we need to do is we need to make sure that Trump's administration is ready to go on day one. We'd have everyone he wants nominated, nominated, and appointed to those positions. We have no time to waste. And what I don't wanna see is the establishment get in his way. And thank God for the work of Senator Rand Hall, what he has done to expose the NIH, to expose the COVID lies, to expose Fauci, to expose China. I mean, all the conspiracy theories that Republicans, you know, that people accused Republicans of saying during COVID turned out that they were true. They were right. It was found in a lab in Wuhan. It was funded by American tax dollars. And so everything, you know, and we have to really, we gotta thank Rand Paul and get behind him and the work that he's done leading up to this. And, you know, who's gonna get fired? You know, what are we gonna defund from China? Like, how are we going to address this in a meaningful way? Because it's not enough to do hearings. I'm tired of hearings that have no outcome. I'm tired of writing strongly worded letters. Like, if we're gonna have a special committee, what are we gonna do with it at the end of the day? How are we gonna defund these things? How are we gonna hold people accountable? And how are we gonna put that money back into the back pockets of American taxpayers and put them first? And then in closing today, you know, but sticking in the same thread, it's the agency heads and those who are gonna be in Donald Trump's cabinet that you guys are gonna be working closely with on a lot of where these investigations eventually go. You know, when you see what's going on in the upper chamber right now, and for the fact that just a few short years ago in 2021, we saw people like Xavier Becerra, Pete Buttigieg, Alejandro Mayorkas, and Merrick Garland confirmed by large margins and with Republican help. Do you think it's a whole lot of virtue singling going on by some of the Republican Senate right now? Or do you think by the time we get through confirmation, everybody gets to hear the hearts of the nominees, hear the goals and ambition of what Donald Trump wants to do with a robust agenda and a pretty diverse cabinet heading into the next presidency in terms of these gonna have, that we're gonna get these people over the finish line for the most part, if not all confirmed. - My greatest concern today is what the Senate will do with the nominees Trump wants to appoint. And I am very concerned about the deep state and very concerned about establishment members of Congress who will do anything in their power to get in his way and stop him from being successful. That is a reality that we live in in D.C. And I hope that we're able to disrupt it. I hope that there's time because we have no time to waste. - There are a lot of members of the House who are lobbied in the upper chamber right now and I hope you guys continue to put pressure on them. Just thinking like looking at some of those confirmations, Merrick Garland, 90 votes, Pete Buttigieg, 92 votes, Lloyd Austin, 93 votes when the majority was only one or two in the last session. It's one of those things that we have to be able to give Donald Trump the team that he wants to take on the field and if these people aren't right for the, we'll hold him accountable, but we have to give him the opportunity to, well, make America great again. Much like we did during the segment today, Congresswoman, we've got everything in the show description today, including a link to your congressional website. Where can we find you on social media and check out all the things you're doing? - You can find us at Nancy Mace. - Yeah, and you might actually see her running around with a bullhorn, she didn't bring it today, but she brought the fire and fury as well. This is the Congresswoman who represents South Carolina's first congressional district, Rep Nancy Mace. Thanks for coming on the show, have a great weekend. - Thank you so much. - Let's talk about the Republicans now. Now they are calling themselves the disruptors. It sounds like one of those cartoons, like the ex-presidents that they used to have on SNL, the disruptors, you know, this crew of people. So let me ask if we just agree on these two basic premises that I look at. One, the country does need disrupting. I mean, the country needs a colonic and a slap in the face, so bad. (audience laughs and applauds) This is not who I would choose to administer the colonic, (audience laughs) but it's not like the bureaucracy isn't bloated. It's not like the debt isn't $36 trillion. It's not like there aren't thousands of regulations that do stop people from living lives that they could live better and don't do anything. There is woke in the military. Whatever they're going after, I'm not saying there isn't a judge, and I'm not going to pre-hate anything. Do I have really good, optimistic feelings about it? No, I don't. (audience laughs) But I'm just not going to pre-hate, okay? I can't get into that mind God. Let's see what the disruptors can do, because quite frankly, the experts have just sort of like let something go for so long that it's just florotic now and constipated. We'll make it. All right, jump back into the news portion of the show here. Last news segment on the back end of two all new Friday editions of "Stake for Breakfast." I'm Ro Noah still here with me. Yo! Great catching up with Congresswoman Nancy Mase. Ken confirmed that she did say "chick with dicks." Absolutely love it, love her. (laughs) And listen, she has been under constant attack for so long. Having moved, she's had to move four times this year, Noah. She's getting death threats. Not just anonymous people online. People are putting just some of the most hateful rhetoric you could ever imagine on the sign-in book right outside of her congressional office right now. And like we had mentioned before we jumped into the interview, on Thursday, there was a large delegation of men in women's clothing who took over the congressional bathroom right outside of her office before they were consequently ushered off to prison for, well, trespassing and parading, et cetera. What do you think? It's a bathroom insurrection. There's gotta be some kind of preparation, H, innuendo I could make here, but I don't have the guts for it. Yeah, pretty bad. Moving on here though, I'm watching up on the big screen. Kreen Jean Pierre is justifying the rumors that obviously the Biden regime had leaked the press this week that Joe Biden is considering preemptive pardons for a lot of people in his government. We had heard names like Alejandro Mayorkas, Dr. Fauci, Liz Cheney, et cetera. So you could pretty much understand. Again, Democrat 101 is rejection, projection, deflection. And that's what's coming out with all of this bullshit here because according to her they've been the most historic and transparent administration and the history of administrations so diverse that they need to pardon every single person that's on the way out, literally as every agency they're walking out of is burning to the ground. Speaking of which, and not in the kind of forecast that we like to predict here on the show, Noah talks about it often, nuclear winners. So did you hear about the recent news with Tucker Carlson? I mean, it's specifically, I'm not sure which one you're talking about, but I've heard several things. Well, he was back in Russia this week. No, and that's not one. He was also denied recently an exclusive interview with Vladimir Zelensky or high ranking officials within the Ukrainian government. I wonder why? By the Joe Biden, Kamala Harris State Department. He can come and sit down with CBS, NBC, CNN, MSDNC, and even Fox News, whenever he comes to grift more billions from the United States, but he was forbade from sitting down for an exclusive with Tucker Carlson. Yeah, God forbid somebody doesn't ask him why he's not wearing a suit. So Tucker Carlson took his show back to Moscow and where he did have a pretty historic and tell-all interview with Vladimir Putin about six months ago, he sat down with Russian Foreign Minister, someone who's been a part of the Russian government for I believe, damn near three decades now, and that's Sergei Lavrov. He's the Russian Foreign Minister currently, and he's like number three on the totem pole, the power structure, which makes up the way the former Soviet Union conducts themselves. You know, I think the biggest thing here is to understand Russia's perspective of the conflict in Ukraine right now. I don't even have a clear picture of it, and the only reference points I really have is whatever is in the mainstream media, whatever gets promoted online. And then things like the Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin interview, but again, that's only one-sided, that's Vladimir Putin telling his spiel, it's not having the opportunity to be dissected, or autopsies in the press, but when you can get another high-ranking government official, someone who knows how the game is played, like Lavrov, to sit down with Tucker Carlson and do an hour and a half interview, you're gonna get a lot of good receipts. I pulled a clip from the beginning of the interview, and it talks about one of the concerns that everybody has here. How close are we to World War III? The answer may seem reassuring, but again, at the same time, understand, Russia probably doesn't want to play their hand, especially in the American press. Let's check it out. What do you think of Donald Trump? - I met him several times when he was having meetings with Putin, and when he received me twice, I think in the Oval Office, when I was visiting for bilateral talks. Well, I think he's a very strong person, a person who wants results, who doesn't like procrastination on anything, and this is my impression. He's very friendly in discussions, but this does not mean that he is professional. Some people try to present him. The amount of sanctions we received under the Trump administration was very, very, very big. And we respect any choice which is made by the people. When they vote, we respect the choice of American people, and we are open, as Putin said, we are open to contacts with, we have been open all along. And he would go on after that brief explanation of his life and times with Donald Trump politically, and throughout the course of his first term in office, to answer the question that a lot of people have been asking, and we just posed before we played that last clip, and it's how close were we to World War III and the hot war, essentially between the United States and Russia, listen to this. - Do you believe the United States and Russia are at war with each other right now? - I wouldn't say so, and in any case, this is not what we want. We would like to have normal relations with all our neighbors, of course, but generally, with all countries, so not especially with the great country like the United States. President Putin repeatedly expressed his respect for the American people, for the American history, for the American achievements in the world, and we don't see any reason why Russia and the United States cannot co-operate for the sake of the universe. - But the United States is funding a conflict that you're involved in, of course, and now is allowing attacks on Russia itself, so that doesn't constitute war. - Well, we officially are not at war, but what is going on in Ukraine is some people call it hybrid war. I would call it hybrid war as well, but it is obvious that the Ukrainians would not be able to do what they're doing with long-range modern weapons without direct participation of the American servicemen. And this is dangerous, no doubt about this. We don't want to aggravate the situation, but since attacks and other long-range weapons are being used against mainland Russia as it were, we are sending signals, and we hope that the last one couple of weeks ago, the signal was the new weapon system called Derechnik, was taken seriously. However, we also know that some officials in the Pentagon and in other places, including NATO, they started saying in the last few days, something like, well, NATO is a defensive alliance, but sometimes you can strike first, because the attack is the best defense. Some others in Strathkom, I think, the Euclidean is his name, representative of Strathkom, he said something which allows for an eventuality of exchange of limited nuclear strikes. And this kind of threats are really worrying, because if they are following the logic, which some Westerners have been pronouncing lately, that, well, don't believe that Russia has red lines, they announce their red lines, these red lines are being moved again and again and again, this is a very serious mistake. - So, doesn't sound good? - Scariest scenarios confirmed. The man speaks very quietly in a monotone level. You can rest assured he carries an extremely big stick, that new mid-range ballistic missile system that was unleashed on Ukraine a few weeks ago is what he was referencing as well, and it didn't bode well for the targets that they were looking to take out. - No, no, no, you know-- - And that was 100%, he stated that was a warning. - Yeah, yeah. What do you think when you, you know, just the fact that when Tucker Carlson's talking in front of the historic Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow, saying how the Biden-Harris regime and the US State Department denied media access for him to talk to any, you know, competent official from Ukraine, including Zelensky. And then at the same time, he has to go himself to talk to Russia to again get a side of the story since the only one we get from Ukraine and from the Biden regime is that this is the greatest war in the history of the galaxy and Ukraine has to win or the world fails. And it's not really, and they're not even calling it a war. They reference it as like kind of a hybrid war. That's in the proxy terms of, you know, the United States and Russia fighting each other, but Russia is saying that this is a special operation to reestablish boundaries after, you know, years of getting completely lied to and steamrolled by NATO. Well, it's just, we've seen this catapult itself into, I don't think anybody can dare say that this isn't actual full-blown war at this point. Like they're lobbing missiles into the fucking air. Like, I mean, that's categorically what war is. Like people are dying, there's tanks, there's battles, there's people getting killed with drones, all that kind of stuff. I would be hard pressed to say that it's not war and it needs to get figured out because if it continues to move in the direction that it's going, there's no other option, except for a full- - Escalation. - complete escalation, yeah. - And now you see what's going on with Syria, Russia and Iran and China are having to divert some of their resources there because, you know, terrorist-backed, ISIS-backed rebels have swept into the Northeastern part of the country and moved three quarters of the way to Damascus. They're tearing down statues of Bashar al-Assad in cities and towns like miles away from the Syrian capital. Like you're seeing another minor Arab spring, this one prided by terrorist-linked organizations in the Middle East again. And this is what happens when things like that go on in Ukraine, things that happen against Israel and the United States' response to Israel's response to October 7th, it allows for these groups to expand. I wouldn't be surprised if these terrorist entity that's sweeping across Syria right now wasn't at one point CIA back to, you've guessed it, stop another terrorist entity, which always seems to be the case. - No, it seems to be the theme. - It's just ridiculous, I really can't wait. You know, there's a lot of people who are saying like, Donald Trump's lack of social media presence lately is making a lot of people like fill in the blanks for him. No, it's not, like Donald Trump is doing a lot of heavy lifting behind the scenes, especially geopolitically. He's already, and I'm talking about literally and metaphorically, reestablished our borders with Canada and Mexico. He's talked to the presidents of several other countries. I believe he's met with well over 85 leaders, both face to face or on the phone. BB's been to Mar-a-Lago, his wife was just there again last week. Obviously, he's working behind the scenes regarding Russia and Ukraine. He's gonna have to fix the Middle East pretty quick and it's getting out of control. 46 more days until we're there. Here's the deal, Jack, anyways, and I'm being serious. So they lit the Christmas tree at the White House last night and Joe Biden fresh off the plane from sleeping in Angola, made it to the stage, sounded worse than he did at the presidential debate against Donald Trump a few months ago and couldn't complete a full sentence. Meanwhile, his hair looked like Dr. Emmett Browns from Back to the Future. - I just saw that picture for the first time. It didn't last like 20 minutes. I was like, what? - Marty, we've got to go back and fix your kids. - Great, scut. Here's Joe Biden at the White House, Christmas tree lighting ceremony last night. Let's hear it. - Merry Christmas, everyone. (audience cheering) Merry Christmas. This Christmas, he lighting is one of my wife, Jill's favorite events. So she's truly a guest, not being here tonight. She's on an international trip and cut her in the United Arab Emirates in Sicily in order to promote women's health research. (audience cheering) She sends her best wishes to all of you on behalf of common and Doug. Where are the common Doug? (audience cheering) There you go. Welcome to, on behalf of them, welcome to the National Christmas tree lighting. Thank you. Nikki, all the artists in performing tonight, special thanks to the Jones family for their service and sacrifice in our military families. (audience cheering) Tonight, to help light this beautiful tree. Nikki, will you start to countdown? - No one's listening to Joe Biden count back from 10 on this show. We have some standards and we're sticking to it. It mentioned Kamala Doug who were there in the front row. It's also a Gala season up in the nation's capital. So on the way back to wherever she was going and whether it be the vice president's residence or they were gonna jet-set back out here to Southern California, she stopped by the national black journalist, whatever, where she got that softball interview that one time. They were having like one of their holiday reception dinners. And listen, for as much as Joe Biden sounded as awful as he did at the national Christmas tree lighting, last week, then any point of his presidency, including during the presidential debate, Kamala Harris sounded just as drunk as everybody said she's been throughout the course of the presidential election campaign and leading up to her land side loss about a month ago, let's hear her. - I knew y'all were in town. I couldn't let it go without coming by to say hello. - Oh. - And to say thank you to everyone here, all of these extraordinary leaders. I wanted to come by and say happy holidays, Merry Christmas, happy Kwanzaa, happy Hanukkah, whatever you may celebrate, but most important, let's make sure we celebrate each other. - Now, that will be completely honest with me. - Loaded. - You missed her. - No. - Come on, man. - I'm waiting for her to just go back into the footnotes of history and just be a honorable mention. - Speaking of honorable mentions, an audio clip that didn't make the cut, but I'll throw it in here since we just got done talking about the war in Ukraine from the Russian prescriptive. Did you hear what's going on in Canada? - We're making it the 51st state. Hopefully, especially after shit like this. So, you do know-- - Where are they gonna move to? - Well, Donald Trump said it's not gonna be the 51st, it's gonna be the 51st and 52nd, because they're gonna take a conservative side of Canada and a liberal side of Canada, so the vote total doesn't change the overall outcome. They, we gotta get even Canada in as our state, so we're gonna make it into two states. Like a base-- - They're gonna have to make like a oval shape in the middle then, 'cause I think it's the left side and the right side are probably pretty left side. - Like this, so Canada now, which has already banned a multitude of guns and has had like forced buyback incentive laden programs, yesterday laid out-- - They're gonna send those to Ukraine. - 324 additional firearms, and that the ones that have already been confiscated that fall under this new demographic will be donated to the war in Ukraine. - So you're saying that these weapons are good to defend your country from-- - Another country. - Forces. And you're gonna give them away. - Well, only if they're using another country. Again, there's probably trillions of dollars in oil and rare earth minerals in Canada as well. They can make up that trade deficit they have with the United States, just like that. Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, Dr. Fauci and General Mark Millie are the White House weighing pre-emptive pardons. You love Mark Millie, don't you know her? - Ah! - No, not even a little bit. - At all. Guys, wherever you're listening to the show today, last call, make sure you subscribe to Stake of Breakfast. Make sure you're sharing the podcast with your friends, family, co-workers, and loved ones, head over to your favorite podcasting platform. Apple Spotify, iHeart, Samsung, Amazon Podcast, or wherever you're listening to the show today, hit subscribe, hit follow, make sure it's download and share electronic device. You can always check us out on social media as well. Twitter, get our true social Instagram and TikTok is where we have accounts, find 'em, follow 'em, hit the notification bell. You'll never miss out on all the great stuff we've got going on down here, like our still incoming interview with Georgia Congressman, one of our favorites, he attended the Tim Burchit 15-minute Christmas party yesterday with the Santa as George Santos, Mike Collins. We love Mike Collins. We're gonna talk to him about Trump's nominations, the Biden pardons, and just about everything in between. Right now I saw a post online last night, so the bankers boxes have officially showed up at the White House as a keen eye journalist was able to peer into one of the windows and see all the shits getting packed up there. So that's good. - Good. - What's not good is-- - Make sure you pack up all that classified material. - I'm sure it'll be coming for the next tell-all book. So Barack Obama has been out there, 'cause again, it is the Galaxies, and for those who pay the highest prices, you get keynote speakers like Barack Obama to come and talk to you while you're eating your dinner. Definitely used to be one of the Democrats' aces. He was probably like a third or fourth starter this election cycle, chastising black men and, you know, proprieting false narratives like Donald Trump is Hitler, and if he's elected president, the world's gonna end the day after election day. We're still over a month out, and although what's going on between Russia and Ukraine is quite alarming, hopefully those new backed Canadian arms will help Ukraine finally turn the tide. But Barack Obama, again, instead of coming to a realization that that narrative doesn't hit it anymore, instead of reading the writing on the wall, that the Democrats need to change direction and come back to the middle if they're ever gonna be relevant again, especially in the next election cycle. Nope, threats to democracy and rigged elections and everything in between is what he was pushing at this whatever kind of dinner last night up at the nation's Capitol. Let's hear it. - There are going to be times, potentially when one side tries to stack the deck and lock in a permanent grip on power. - Just talk about it. - By actively suppressing votes, politicizing. - Now, forces using judiciary, criminal justice system go after opponents. - And in those circumstances, pluralism does not call for us to just stand back and say, well, I'm not sure, that's okay. In those circumstances, a line has been crossed, and we have to stand for it. - Calling for more division, just imagine that. Shut up, bitch! (screaming) - Like if you took that quote and put Donald Trump at the bottom of it and posted it on Instagram, people would share it. - Hmm, yeah, yeah. They certainly would. We're gonna end on a better note, Noah. You know, the Fox Nation Awards dinner was last night up in the Big Apple and Donald Trump traveled from Marlago to a place he also resides in, New York City to attend. Did you know that he won the Patriot of the Year Award? - Not surprised. - Not surprised at all. And it was during that, we got Lee Greenwood, live, intro. God bless the USA. And then outro with Donald Trump doing the Trump dance, something that he's been kind of holding back from publicly since he won the election, because again, we're acting presidential. That was all part of the, remember, the campaign was like an entire season of WWE. So those were all parts of the promos. And man, when I see like, I follow a lot of WWE accounts 'cause they're funny. When they show like the old promos of like fighting on the back docks, fighting in stores, like usage of things like garbage cans, tables, Donald Trump harnessed so much of that narrative and put his own spin on it on the back end of this election cycle. But one of the things that Donald Trump talked about in accepting this award was the recent conversation see it had with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. I thought it was pretty funny. So let's check it out. - With Canada and Justin came flying right in because we talked about 25% tariffs, that's just the beginning. (crowd cheering) This is a hell of a nice crowd. I like this one. (crowd cheering) This is a nice crowd. A lot of people thought we're gonna drill baby drill. We're gonna get your prices down. (crowd cheering) And we're bringing the cost down. You know, when we were campaigning, a lot of people thought the biggest thing was the economy and it is. It probably polled the best, but I never believed it was as important as immigration and the border and stopping our country from being invaded because this was a massive invasion of our country. - You know, when the people were fired up, so much so that they would continue to pull him down that road. And again, no, I admit it, you miss him. - Mm, yeah. - I do. And the last two years have been so much Trump overload that now that we don't have it, I'll be honest with you. There's parts of me that have feelings of compassion for Hunter Biden in my heart. Like I'm not saying I'm gonna go and start picking Parmesan out of the carpet and smoking it because I missed the Trump dance. But when you're addicted to something and you don't have it, it's all you want. The people wanted him to stick in the thread of talking about annexing Canada and believe it or not, no, even got a 51 chant going. Let's hear it. As you know, I spoke with Canada and Justin came flying right in because we talked about 25% tariffs. That's just the beginning. (crowd cheering) This is a hell of a nice crowd. I like this one. This is a nice crowd. Yeah. That's an interesting statement. Thank you very much. I do appreciate all that pent up anger and love, it's everything at one time. See, he knows we miss him. And one of the favorite things I always used to like about WWE is when somebody was gone for a long time, you knew they were around. I mean, we didn't have social media to know that they were just taking some time off or their wife had had a kid or they were going through a divorce or they had blown out their knee or needed to get their neck fused. And then at SummerSlam or King of the Ring or WrestleMania, they'd be checking in all the regular people that have been there all throughout the season and then some random intro song comes on and to be the wrestler that you miss so much. Donald Trump was acknowledging that saying that all that pent up love and anger at the same time and that he appreciates it. He would go on to mention a little bit more about that love in Alaska, but I've got a president Trump and that he's seen a lot more of it in the last two weeks that we had kind of shared as a nation for the last four years of terror. - And we're gonna bring our country back and it's gonna be bigger and better and stronger than ever before. (audience cheering) And we're gonna be proud of our country again. Right now we're not so proud of our country. We're gonna be very proud of our country again. It's going to be, it's going to be better than ever before. It's gonna be more successful than ever before. We're gonna be more respected throughout the world than ever before. Countries are going to respect us again. They already do actually. I think you have seen more happen in the last two weeks than you've seen in the last four years and we're not even there yet. (audience cheering) - So I don't know if you saw the news and this is actually pretty big news here. Did you hear about YMCA and where we could be going with it? Where the founding member has given Trump permission to use it? Not only that, but he said if Donald Trump would reach out and extend an invitation to perform it live at his inauguration, they would be more than inclined to do so. - Are they all still around? - Yeah, Victor Willis and the rest of the group still does a tour every now and then. - No shit. - Was on the news the other day and said, "You want to know what? "I used to buy into the media narrative "but I saw the amount of joy that Donald Trump "using that song." And then he said that they're there. He's like, "We're back to number one." - Yeah, we're back to number one of the charts. So the world, he's just started rolling in again. And he's seen probably the success of Greenwood and the God bless the USA. So, dude, that song is so old. That song's from like the 90s. It got kind of reharnessed right after 9/11 as he sang it at Yankee Stadium in the first game after the attack on New York before the World Series game where George W. Bush threw out the first pitch. And Lee Greenwood's come back. He's actually just done like a rock remix of God bless the USA, which just came out a few weeks ago. That's pretty high in the charts as well. But yeah, Victor Willis said that they would perform at the inauguration if President Trump so wanted them to do so. And I think that would be friggin' awesome. And so was seeing Donald Trump last night in great spirits, in big smiles and all the things we missed and haven't been able to see as much because he's doing a lot of work behind the scenes right now, getting ready to get his White House and administration ready for Judy come January. Getting ready to round out now and jump in with Mike Collins before we do. I do have a couple of clips. So Melania sat down for a first lady exclusive with Fox and Friends this morning. She had done one before the election in promotion of her new book, but she was there talking about some of the things she's passionate about, what she looks to do in serving as the first lady again during Donald Trump's second term, a little bit about Baron Trump as well. Here, let's hear that clip. Here's Melania talking about her son, Baron Trump. - How has he managed to navigate him or would advice you give him to try to be, is it possible for him to be a normal student? - I don't think it's possible for him to be a normal student. He's experienced at college. It's very different than any other kid. And I'm very proud how he's handling. He's very strong and he knows that he's in different position than other children. And I just say, make your dreams come true. This is your road, this is your life. And make sure that you listen yourself and your likes and dislikes. - It's had to be tough in that household over the course of the last couple of years. Just imagine the amount of weight and pressure that had been lifted from that family's shoulders, from their consciousness and from their mind, just in the last month. Not only did they defeat every weapon forged against him, but they got to see a popular vote victory in a major electoral landslide, which confirmed, I don't know how many times Donald Trump probably went home over the years, especially when the law fair was at its peak, maybe after the assassination attempt. And he had to reason with his family and say, like, I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. I feel like this country really loves me when every other angle that you looked at suggested otherwise. And he was able to beat all that. And I think a lot of that has to do with having a strong woman by your side. And I can't think of very many stronger than Melania Trump and what the future holds for Barron as well. I heard the kids brilliant. He's definitely well liked and loved. And as we're getting ready to jump in with Congressman Mike Collins right now, and as our last audio clip of the day, you couldn't have a conversation about Donald Trump without getting a little bit of backstory about the Trump dance. That was one of the other clips I pulled from Melania's Fox News interview this morning. Let's hear it. 'Cause last night at the Patriot Awards, I think we got a clip. He was doing the Trump dance. And I'm sure you've seen that evolve over the last. As you look right there, how do you describe your husband's dance moves? Oh, this is very special and unique dance. It is, right? And I think a lot of people are copying it and everybody has fun with it. Yeah, which part? Is this how you dance? No. No. Which part of the Trump, did you give him any tips like in the beginning? It was like, whoa. And it was up high. And now there's a ball swing. No, he's coming all on. He's all. Have you ever done the Trump dance? You are, Mrs. Trump. I did not. (laughing) So I guess you're not gonna start today. If you could practice. Okay, if you thought you were gonna get Melania Trump to come in, I'm short-ner. Just do an interview with Fox Studios and bust out the Trump dance at seven o'clock in the morning. She's a very strong and powerful woman. She probably is. You did, though. Yeah. She probably is told Donald Trump so many times that it looks stupid. Knock it off. Yeah, please. I did see like, and it's those endearing moments. I remember at Madison Square Garden, they were walking off the stage and there was like the long pathway back to behind the curtain. And they got about halfway down and Donald Trump just stopped and started dancing and she turned around and then she turned around again. And she just kind of did like, this is my husband, this is who you love. And he was just doing the Trump dance in his own little world. And you know, I've seen some video service online this week from some of the beauty pageant that he presided over like in the late '90s. And when the models were walking across the stage and this was one of the songs that they were playing, he was doing the exact same dance in like 1994. Yeah. So for as much as we've seen Donald Trump and all those videos of him at high end parties and in the nightclub from when he was a younger guy, this is pretty much what he's got left. But when you ask what he's bringing to the table, America has resoundingly accepted and loved the Trump dance. So we're gonna leave it at that as we're getting ready to jump in with Georgia Congressman, Mike Collins, but before we do, here's one last check-in with one of our partners. Friends, I wanna take a minute and talk to you about cigars. Whether you're on the golf course, fishing on the lake or doing some yard work around the house, our friend Alan has got you covered. He's launched the Patriot Cigar Company. 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Donald Trump's coming home to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We've got a good majority in the Supreme Court. Things are good, but there's still a lot of work ahead of us, Mike, give us an update. - Well, there is and there's good reason to have a smile on our face. It's a good reason to be optimistic. And you know, Ron, we were out there for months. And I know people kept asking me, what are you seeing, what are you feeling? And I always told them, I hope I don't have blinders on, but from the way I see things, the American people all across this country have the same issues and they're all on the same page. And no women to fifth, we showed that. As a matter of fact, in our state of Georgia, we showed the American the world that we are not purple, we're not blue, we're solid red. - And if I were John Ossoff, I would be worried about what's gonna happen in two years 'cause we're coming for. - Yeah, everybody thinks that's gonna be a cakewalk to eventually what would be an avenue to him get into the presidential lane, but I don't think it's gonna happen. I think Georgia's made a big turnaround. I think Georgia understood what happens when you don't participate in your elections and the way people came out, we added a couple of house seats. Obviously, you know, Governor Kemp's down there, bunch of great people in the House of Representatives from the great state of Georgia. - A lot of good members who come and partake on the show, Rep Clyde, Brian Jack, who's gonna be a congressman to come January 3rd. It's good times and we're here for it. So I definitely agree with you. You know, a lot of America, not only woke up, they felt more comfortable heading into this election because I think the more people understood that the border is open, that crime is rampant, that the education and healthcare systems here are just in shambles, you know, that their bank accounts are empty. And geopolitically, we just don't look like America anymore. So why risk nuclear war or being the victim of a violent migrant crime in your community and vote for safety, security and prosperity? It looks like that's kind of what we saw. I mean, even with Donald Trump winning the popular vote, something we hadn't seen since George W. Bush back in 2004. - Yeah, but it's so much, so many things digest at one time. I mean, number one, yeah. We had a decisive victory. You look at who Trump is picking now to put in his cabinets, great picks. Actually, I thought Matt Gaetz was a great pick. - Same here. - He could have really, really gone in and exposed the weaponized federal government, but that's okay. We've got Pam Bondy stepping in there. You know, Pete Haggseth was with us during lunch today. Great guy, you know he's qualified, even though you may not have heard his pitch and we got to hear the pitch. And I tell you, once you really get into the weeds and you hear what Pete has to say and what he believes and what his agenda is and the guy's got goals and he's got objectives, it is not hard to get behind him. And I encourage everybody that's listening, you need to get in touch with your US Senator and make sure that they're gonna back Pete Haggseth to be that Secretary of Defense over there. And we'll get that department straight now and get that Pentagon straight now as well. But we've got so many things we need to do to Trump tax policies have got to be put back into place immediately. We've got to get our energy independence. You're gonna see HR1 and HR2, I think, come out right out the bat. And I know a lot of people say, "Hey, the first 100 days are gonna be crazy." I think we need to do like 100 hours. I don't care if we don't go home. Order, order, pizza in, whatever we need to do, tons of coffee, stay awake. We just need to keep hammering this thing and strike while the iron is hot and get things pushed over to the Senate, get budget, get anything we can do in reconciliation and get this thing just back to humming like it was during the first Trump administration without executive order. This time around, baby, we gonna sign legislation in the law. - That's the way it seems. You know, I saw Senate Majority Leader Thune earlier this week said they're already sitting down behind closed doors and talking about reconciliation, something that he's looking to include in a 30-day or less span. That's definitely within the first 100, 120 days of a lot of cabinet members like to get the work and get the ball rolling. You know, when you talk about some of, you mentioned Pete Hegseth, you know, we're breaking it down a little bit of his interview with Megan Kelly, some of the hits that he'd done in the media, obviously a portion of his mom's interview on Fox News this week. You know, this is what the left does. This is what the mainstream media does when they wanna do something to make Donald Trump's victory not look as important or as big of a mandate led as it actually was. You know, and here's the thing, like, there's a lot of people who are in the community, operators, you know, retired veterans, those Navy SEALs have come out online over the course of the past couple of days with resounding endorsements, including all the coworkers. I mean, let's just bring it down to brass tacks. Pete Hegseth is a 20-year veteran. He is extremely decorated for his service. He did a ton of veteran advocacy before he got into the whole media apparatus. And the thing is, is that they're trying to minimize his service and maximize his time in the media when that's not really the component that Donald Trump probably looked at the best when vetting him to become the Secretary of Defense. I think he's a phenomenal choice. There are a couple of picks in this incoming administration when I just think our generational Cash Patel's another one, great friend of the show here. You know him well. And it's one of those things where we have to be stronger than what the media is putting the pressure on. We did it with Donald Trump and the House Republicans and Senators leading into this election. We shouldn't let our guard down or feel any kind of mental exhaustion or anguish from the constant pressure here. Like, you know, we were talking before we recorded today you made a football analogy. And when the coach gets hired, the first thing he asked even before salary is, if I'm gonna work here I have to bring in my assistant coaches to run the team with me. And that's the same way you could look at these cabinet selections and appointments and nominees and kind of want your commentary just to, you know about the whole narrative of the Pete Hegsek thing but then jump into a couple other ones 'cause I mean the media is polarizing Tom Holman, Cash Patel and just about everybody else who's not completely working in the government like congruently for the last decade or not. - Well, you know, I step back and I say, okay, what is Donald Trump? How is he choosing his people for the cabinets this time around? And it's different now. You know, last time around I think he was trying to pick more established people that run the show or been in a job, know the job. This time around from the way I see it from Mikey's perspective, he's looking for people that are willing to knock the door down. People that are willing to stand the gap that'll take the bullets and won't waver when he calls the play or when he says, this is how we're gonna set this thing up and this is America first agenda and this is where I think we need to go. And we don't need people that sit there and have been bureaucrats forever. And I say, oh no, that's not the way we've done it or, you know, no, I'll bring in this style. No, sir, we need somebody who's willing to stand there and be on guard 24/7 and willing to just give it, give it their all. And that's where, even with Pete, which I don't know as well, other than seeing him on TV, knowing his background, hearing him today, but you take like cash to tell. That guy is the epitome of, he is the poster child for the American dream for what this guy's been able to do. And for him to be willing to come back into the fire and was as loyal as he was the first time, to me, that's an easy pick to run the FBI. Oh man, you talking about straightening it out and exposing what's been going over there? That guy will straighten that place up and excellent pick. Tom Holman, he's been in this position before. He is itching and raring to go to get this border secured and get these folks out of our country. I loved it the night when I heard him say, if you're in a sanctuary city and the folks in the sanctuary don't want to help us get you. We're coming anyway. You're going to leave our country. And I like that. That's what we've been saying all along. That's what the American people demanded when they voted. And that's what we're going to do. And it is time to deliver. I know people are getting tired of me saying it, but if we could get started on this thing tomorrow, heck, I'll be up here to the cows come home till we get this thing done. I don't like having to wait till January 20th when we get to get the big man in the White House, but we're going to be sitting right here waiting. Yeah, certainly are. There's a lot of people who forget about the dog days or the lame duck portion of a president's out going to term an office. And I think a lot of people felt so great after November 5th. They were ready to go to work on November 6th and forget we have to wait till January 20th. Unfortunately, January 3rd for you guys. But when you saw Donald Trump tap Sean Duffy as a transportation guy, Mike, you were in the truck in business for a long time, family owned, and just a staple down in the peach state. And then you see Donald Trump bring in someone that's going to like reinvigorate not only the sector, but there's a lot of different components. We've even heard they might even be helping out with deportations in some context, moving forward into the next session and under the Trump 47 White House. But as you see the new transportation secretary coming in and something you've been sat on committee for, how do you feel that pick goes? And what do you think it's going to do to help out the industry, which honestly has been kind of beat up under Joe Biden's term, whether it's the blue states, which are out, crazy regulations or the way they came out of the pandemic and just weren't supported? - I think you're going to see some regulations roll back. I'll give you one that's just crazy as I'll get out of the American people may not realize. And I don't haul personally into California, so it's not going to affect me. But do you realize that starting in 2028, if you're an interstate carrier and you haul into the state of California, 10% of your fleet has to go 100% electric. Do you tell me how a person that operates out of the state of Georgia? And I've got a different amount and they do. And they haul to California. How is he, what is he going to do? You don't have any trucks out there that can do that. As a matter of fact, I'm Neil Pete Buttigieg to the wall with that question. And he finally admitted that Congressmen, we don't have an answer for class eight tractors. But yet these people with these crazy regulations that they've been cramming down our throats and they've been cramming down our throats for decades. And people like Shonda, they understand that. And President Trump, he understands that. And we're going to be right there to help give some ideas. And I tell people in our industries, be it whether it's aviation, waterway, rail or road. I tell them, please, you need to think outside the box. And I think anybody in any business, in the industry out there, you think about what's the number one thing that's been on your back forever. Write it down and let somebody know. Because right now the 119th Congressmen have the ability to make history. We're going to write a lot of these wrongs and we're going to set this place back up the way it was. And it's going to be business friendly, which it should be because small businesses made this country. This country was built on the back of small business. And we're going to get this country just humming and singing where every American out there has the ability to go out there and do what they want and to be able to be successful without the federal government with their thumb on the scale, their hand in your back pocket and always on your back. So it's, you know, I know people say, hey, Mike, you've got to, maybe you're looking at rose color glasses and those are, I'm not. I'm looking at this thing with an opportunity and we're going to take it. - No, I saw Speaker Johnson set in for an interview this week with Martha McGallum and even his whole ass hack has changed. We're getting America First or Magma Mike back, I think he knows. Listen, the way the House of Representative works now, 435 seats, but there's like two dozen or less that are up for grabs every two years. So it's not like a one-seat majority or a five-seat majority or a 10-seat majority really makes a difference. It's what side of the aisle wields the gavel, and that's it, legislatively. And I think you guys have such a huge opportunity. You obviously talked about deregulatory stuff, Mike. Super important, everything from the trucking to the energy sector and everything in between, everything's connected as well. You know, HR1, HR2 are definitely things that are going to be revisited, maybe tweaked, but got to the Senate, I think, very expeditiously once you guys are sworn in. Lake and Riley Act, got to talk about that. You know, we saw a verdict in the case since the last time we talked to you. I know that's something that you've been up and working with the upper chamber on for a really long time. Now that it's back in Republican control, we're hoping to see it, you know, come to fruition. You want to let our listenership know maybe some updates about that or on your plans to revisit? - Yeah, no, sure. I don't remember what the last update that I gave you, but it just so happened, ironically, Senator Britt and I were flying to DC on the same flight. And so when we got off the plane, we had opportunity to ride in together and discuss how we wanted to get Lake and Riley on the plate as soon as possible. And in the 119th Congress, and I'll tell you why, Ron, and you know why. This is a great piece of legislation. This is not politics. This policy will actually help increase and help get these people deported because it's just a good piece of legislation that's going to help law enforcement go out there and contact ICE. Right now, they can only contact them when there's a major crime, like in the Lake and Riley case where murder. But, you know, this guy had already been arrested for shoplifting. We should have deported them then. Right then, these people are breaking into our country and then we're giving them passes every time they break their bad-blowing law. And so Lake and Riley Act, it just allows local law enforcement to go ahead and call ICE and say, "Hey, we picked this joker up on minor charges, "theft," or whatever. And they can come and get him and boom, they're out of here. And that needs to go through as soon as possible and get that back to the Senate. And I feel comfortable that we had all Republican senators last time and I feel very comfortable. We'll get them again this time. And we'll get this thing on President Trump's desk and get it signed. - Yeah, speaking about pieces of paper that are flying across the resolute desk, Mike, I know I gotta ask you about the pardon, which came down for Hunter Biden earlier this week. Listen, we all knew it was coming. I didn't expect it to be as sweeping as it was, you know, over the course of more than a decade, covers all the years that he was in Ukraine and Romania and Kazakhstan and China and Russia, basically absolved of many crimes that he may even have thought about in his head, but didn't act out in real life. It was pretty much a joke. We know House Republicans were the ones who blew the lid off of this, which is why it was probably as long as it was. And we also know that for the other Bidens who have been looked into, you probably understand that Joe Biden's brother and probably other members of the family are gonna get pardoned much similar to this one before he leaves office. But as the administration, which is currently in power until January 20th, who claims to be both historic and transparent, they did another good job of lying to the American people for several years. And I just kind of wanted to hear what you had to say about it. - Well, I mean, probably the same thing that most people have been saying, two things. I mean, if you've got a president that's sitting there saying that the DOJ has been weaponized and it's politically motivated, why in the second part of that, I pardon Hunter Biden. And oh, by the way, Garland, you're fired. Where's that? - Yeah. - I mean, if you've got a weaponized deal, what are we doing here? You know, he should start fixing that, but you're exactly right. He's gonna pardon his brother. He's gonna have to, you know. And the thing is, I think the biggest takeaway that's gonna be good for this is the media who has been pretty much brushing this to the side is not gonna say, be able to say a word when Trump steps in there and we start pardoning, he starts pardoning these J-6s that were put in jail because of politics and a weaponized DOJ. And it's time for those folks to get out of jail. - Certainly is Donald Trump's been working on it for a long time. I know a lot of people who are connected to the J-6 families. I know a lot of times Donald Trump has un-publicly gone to private events to show support, not just for the people who are incarcerated, but their families, which a lot of people don't understand, you know, for every mother and father, and grandma and grandpa and aunt and uncle that's locked up in jail. There's nieces and nephews and sons and daughters and grandkids and stuff that are at home. Sometimes for years, no parent in the house for Christmas, no job and livelihood, breadwinner happening and stuff like that. And we know that Donald Trump has been putting a lot of emphasis behind the scenes, even leading up to the election of taking care of that is probably an early priority as well. - Well, this is Mike. This has been great catching up with you today. I think we got everything we wanted to cover with you in. We're already going to be looking forward to the next time you're joining us, but in the meantime, we're going to live link your congressional website, let everybody see all the great stuff you're doing. Some of the good memes you're posting as well. You guys are in a neck and neck running, you and Tim Burchit on the two most based accounts and house representatives. We'll see if there's any new members. I think we've got four or five new congressmen joining the collective body in January who might be bringing some stuff to the table, but we'll have to see. And anybody who wants to follow you on social media, or can they check you out? - They can understand it, just Mike Holland's GA. You can search us through all the social media outlets and you can find us. But you're exactly right, Ron. We've got some good folks that we've been able to help get across the finish line. You know, I spent a long time out there. We was actually on the road trying to help nine of them get across and in the meantime, when we were with leadership, flying around to visit some of these other people, trying to just trying to do what we could to help bring more America first. In my case, small business people that were solid conservative Christian people to this place up here. Because Lord knows the more that we could get up here, the more citizen legislators it will have. And in my opinion, the better legislation that you're gonna get out the other way. - You know, we keep hearing it more and more every time we sit down with a member of the Republican House Conference making small businesses great again. It's something that I think is gonna be flourishing in the next Trump administration in the 119th session of Congress. We got a little insight on it today with the Congressman who's representing Georgia 10. Representative Mike Collins, thanks for joining us on the show. Have a great weekend. And if we don't catch up with you for the big day, have a very Merry Christmas. - Appreciate it, man. You too. - Plugged in right along here on State for Breakfast. Two more episodes in the book. And as always, we nailed it. If you enjoyed this episode of the show and wanna hear the now over 500 other additions to the podcast, you best be subscribed to us across every downloadable podcast and platform. Find us on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Samsung, Amazon podcasts, or wherever you listen to your show. And then check us out on social media, Twitter, get our true social Instagram and TikTok is where we have accounts, find them, follow them, hit the notification bell. You'll never miss out on all the great stuff we've got going on down here. At State for Breakfast, we wanna thank all of our guests for coming in and sharing with us today. Alabama Republican Senator, the coach, Tommy Teberville. Oversight Chairman, and Ohio Congressman, Jim Jordan. Georgia Congressman, Mike Collins. And South Carolina Congresswoman, Nancy May. So you guys all helped make, State, great again. Guys, we're heading into the weekend and I'm gonna be doing a little bit of traveling, but don't you worry, we'll be back on Tuesday with two all new episodes of State for Breakfast. Guess line up. It's heavy America first and you're gonna absolutely love it. We'll be catching up on a reschedule with the iconic Roger Stone. Oklahoma Congressman, Josh Burkine, Georgia Congressman, Andrew Clyde, Tennessee Congressman, Andy Ogles, and Wisconsin Congressman-elect, Tony Weed. So on behalf of the pot of team, I'm Ron. Thanks for listening. Have a great weekend and take care. I said I have it. I said I have a red button on my desk too, but it's bigger and stronger than yours and mine works. Bye, go home to mommy, go home to mommy. He said I have a red button on my desk, meaning a nuclear button. I said I have a red button on my desk too, but it's bigger and stronger than yours and mine works. Bye, go home to mommy, go home to mommy. Tell her to tuck you in bed. Oh, Don, you're a little controversial. You're talking about illegal immigration. I said it's illegal. Do you want to go back to them or do you want to stay with Donald Trump? He would have been sitting in my scout, quiet please. You're the only person on this stage that's ever been fined for hiring people to work on your projects illegally. You hired some workers from Poland. No, I'm the only one on the stage that's hired people. David, David, I mean, I know you're a sophisticated guy. The world is a mess. She's shocked that I picked her. No. She's like an estate of shock. I'm not thinking about that. That's okay, I know you're not thinking. [ Silence ]
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We check in on the House, Seante and Republican Leadership ahead of the upcoming end of session and holiday season
There’s a stark difference between outgoing and incoming administrations and we examine the contrast between recent appearances by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Barack Obama compared to Donald and Melania Trump
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