And now, this is the moment you've all been waiting for. It's time for the strength of breathless partner. It's Friday, December 6, 2024, and this is the Snake Directed Podcast, episode 502 and 503. Make sure you're subscribed to the show, it's available across every downloadable podcast and platform. Find us on Apple's Spotify I Heart, Samsung or Amazon Podcasts. Check out the Stake Food Breakfast at Linktree to take your show's Instagram or leave a sub-stack and verify the accounts on X Getter and True Social. What's up everybody and welcome to the first of two big Friday editions of the show today. I'm Ron, I've got no here with me, and as always, there's lots of breaking news. The battle over Pete Headsex. Nomination for SecDef continues to rage on up on Capitol Hill, we'll bring the absolute latest there. As the incoming nominee gets a big endorsement from President Trump, the House and Senate remain busy. As this session is winding down, everything from Tim Burchits Christmas Party to Elon and Vivek up on the hill, talking doge. We'll hear the latest from Chuck Schumer, Leader Thune, Speaker Johnson, and even Jeff Bezos. As the narrative is shifting towards Donald Trump's incoming presidency, and we'll bring you the latest on outgoing leadership and incoming. Presidents of the United States as Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Round out our last new segment of the show. As always, we've got a great slate of guests coming in here today. We'll catch up with the coach, Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tubberow will be here. Chairman Jim Jordan will be joining us as well. We'll catch up with South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mase and Georgia Congressman Mike Collins. But before we get to any of our interviews, let's dive right into these headlines and change the way you consume your news. Okay, this is not nom. This is bowling. They're a rule. Hey, hey, hey, junior, America! It's like four. Bestest. So stand by. All right, everybody. Welcome to the State for 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. Noah, how's everything going? Not too bad. What's going on with you? Busy as always. Just finish up an abbreviated work week because we're traveling out of town out of state for baseball tournament this weekend. Thanks, perfect game. Geez, I don't know how you're forward to do that shit. Well, it's funny that you mention that because a couple of parents backed out in the last week. So instead of taking the standard 12 to 13 kids, we're riding with 10 or 11. Only nine play at once and no matter how many kids you take, they're all bad. So there are pluses and minuses, but there's potentiality in about 35 hours to play five baseball games at 11 years old with no subs. So, yeah, we're going to be heading out of town today, arrive late tonight. Games are Saturday at 10 and 12, and then it's knockout round. If we lose some on Saturday, we'll have to play three. If we do okay on Saturday, we'll only have to play two, but that's going to put us going into the evening and then it's about five, six hour drive home without stop. So probably seven, eight hour drive home with. Let me guess the hotels are set up by the organizers of this event. They are. Well, you want to know. That's another funny thing. You see too pyramid scheme. I'm telling you, they all get kickbacks. You see how much the events cost and then you break it down by the number of kids. And then the fact that it's like two thirds of the money is more than the tournament costs. But again, the coaches don't like have a salary and they have to travel with their whole family and we really like our coach. So we don't really mind it, but we have seen the almost mafia like mentality of some of these. We're in a really good spot right now, so we're happy. The coaches don't get a salary. No, they don't get a salary. I think they get when they have tournaments at the end of the year, I bet, which is the equivalent of a salary probably. Probably, but I mean, like our coaches regular job and I know they get their expenses paid for when they travel. So he's definitely getting ripped and getting kicked out an Applebee tonight. I knew you were going to say Applebee's and I'm glad you went with it. Man, and it's not like the work week outside of our regular jobs hasn't been busy either. The new cycle has been a churning so much stuff to cover. A lot of it is centered on Capitol Hill and the nation's Capitol right now. We were really going to heavily focused if not, I think just about all of the show is going to be in there. We're going to start off, unfortunately, still continuing to talk over the battle regarding Pete headsets, Senate confirmation hearing, which is coming up in a few weeks here. How can a guy better get it? He better get in better get it. There's probably a lot of people that are. I mean, just what that'll do to staffing numbers in the military. Like there's probably people that just got out of the military that be like, you know what, I might go back in. Yup. Oh, for me, a bonus and it's going to it's going to look pretty tasty right now. Absolutely. For the World War three part, that might be a little bit of a downer. You know what are you going to do? Hey, we're getting away from that. Listen, we're probably going to buy Greenland. We're annexing Canada. I can't think of our national posture. I'm not strong in England. Who cares? I just want to, I mean, I hope whoever's planning on buying it knows that Greenland is the one that's ice and Iceland is the one that's green, right? I still remember that meme back from 2016 when Donald Trump took the Trump Vegas and put it like in the middle of like the basin of a mountain ranging Greenland and said, I promise not to do this. No, that'd be great. Like a Louisiana purchase type event in regards for the nation. It would be incredible. Another part of the Trump doctrine that they'll never be able to take away from him. But yeah, we're going to start off today talking about Pete headsets and battle nomination shouldn't be. And it's going to be likely the case with some of our other favorites here. Cash Patel, obviously another one of them. Tulsi Gabbard, they're getting ready to come after her. It's pretty funny that they can't use the Me Too movement to attack her. So they're just saying she's a Russian asset. Again, a lot of the things that are being... That always works. Yeah, thrown at some of these nominees that Donald Trump has for his agency heads and his appointments and his cabinet members. These are all things that America resoundingly rejected in the election just a month ago. So that's all just kind of taking the context. Even though this is clogging up a majority of the news cycle right now, the way America feels about it. But definitely over 50%, probably closer to 70, really don't care about past allegations and things from unnamed sources. Yeah, I don't care about any of that shit. None of that matters to the normal everyday person that can't afford to fucking buy groceries right now. Well, actually, I will say gas prices have gone down. A little bit. A little bit. Which is nice. It's like, you know when the Indian reservation changes from $3.99 to $3.89? Mm-hmm. They're like, "Oh, shit, this is real." It's real. He would have left that shit at $3.99 forever because it was still killing everybody else's prices. Yeah. Just can't wait for gas to get cheap again next year. So, yeah, again, we're going to be focused heavily in on the nation's capital, the Hill specifically. You know, we're going to be doing back-to-back news segments to finish out this episode and jump into our second one today, talking about the winding down of the 118 session of Congress, what it looks like in both the House and Senate. We've got guests to complement that narrative as well. And then the latest on the outgoing and incoming heads of our nation is how we're going to round out our second edition of the podcast today. We're going to be talking about, you know, the overall encompassing narrative of Donald Trump's incoming presidency and the embarrassing outgoing nature of Joe Biden's band. Did you see those pictures from last night at the Christmas tree lighting where you looked like Doc Brown? It was awful. It was awful. I mean, the memes, that's what, that was my screen caption for it. But I saw like all of the memes, the last things somebody, some kid sees before he sniffed. And I mean, yeah, you name it. That one uncle that you find hiding out in your garage on Thanksgiving. It was just, it's really all. I mean, Joe Biden fell asleep at Angola. Didn't take any questions from the press. When he comes back, the thing is he can't handle the travel anymore. You know, and I heard Monica Crowley, congratulations to her. I don't know if you heard Noah. She's been picked to be the assistant secretary of state working with Marco Rubio. Fantastic. For a great guest of the show here, one of our real life friends as well. Yeah, it's nice. Yeah, just a phenomenal woman, she was the assistant treasury secretary under Larry Kudlow in the last administration. And I think she's going to do just great things. A lot of people don't know Monica Crowley has an extensive foreign policy background. And that comes from one of her first jobs, her real jobs following college when she worked in the then office of former president Richard Nixon because a lot of the things that Richard Nixon left us in his waning days was a new way to work at foreign policy. You'll never guess what it was. Angle that Noah. Peace through strength. Of course, I like it. Peace through strength is probably the best option that we have right now because the other thing is peace by nuclear winter. Yeah, this was peace by peace through strength and energy independence, how they go hand in hand. Pretty interesting with Donald Trump. Listen, there are a lot of people who are always going to love Ronald Reagan. A lot of me thinks it's because they're not old enough to have really done their homework on Richard Nixon or were alive for it. There are so many more correlations between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon's presidencies and legacies than there are with Ronald Reagan when you're just talking about conservatives. And I strongly urge everyone who hasn't heard Monica Crowley on our show. We always ask her a question having to do with that correlation every time she's on. But you can go and find old episodes of her podcast was I'm sure winding down. I reached out to her yesterday and asked if she joined us one more time before, you know, she's going to kind of shut it down because everyone that's nominated and has to go through confirmation. It's kind of getting media blacked out unless you're going on like a very vanilla segment of Fox News. So we'll see what happens. What else? We touch base with incoming Republican House conference chairwoman, Lisa McLean's office this week, they vetted us to see if as we were a host to outgoing chairwoman and soon to be UN ambassador from the United States, Elise Stefanik, Lisa McLean will be elevated into that position. It's already been voted on. And we're going to see if we can't form a relationship with her office and get her to come through the show, you know, every couple of weeks to kind of give an update from leadership perspective. And again, we keep hearing from Speaker Johnson's office that they're working on it. You know, the guy doesn't do a lot of media as it is, but I do feel like at some point he will be here with us. I mean, obviously he's going to be the speaker in the next session. He's not going anywhere. So we'll keep working on that for you guys as well. Going to try and catch up with Tom Holman heading into the holidays. But a lot of the other guests. And, I mean, I literally got the, the directive read from the Trump team. If they're being appointed, they're getting vetted to do media. And if they have to go through Senate confirmation, they are not permitted to do any media right now. So when you talk about some of the ones that have historically come on the show, I already named Stefanik, but Lee Zeldin and some others, even Cash Patel. You know, I can, I can talk to Cash any time I want, but as far as him coming on the podcast, that's going to be put on hold for the very near future. So it's one of those things where we can't have a slip up turn into something that's used as a receipt in Senate confirmation hearing. Much like the case with, I'll give you some good examples, some of our guests today. We're going to be catching up with the coach, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, talk about all of the confirmation preview meeting greets that are going on in the upper chamber right now. And then we got a trio of America First Congressmen and women coming in to round out the rest of the podcast. House Judiciary Chairman, Weaponization Chairman Jim Jordan will be back. He's here today. Georgia Congressman Mike Collins will be here as well and keeping it in the south. Even taking it down to Low Country. We'll be catching up with South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy May. She'll be without the bullhorn, but bringing the fire and fury. She might even use the term chicks with dicks. We were going to watch it together, which she literally did when I interviewed her about an hour ago. So buckle up. I love it. Love her too. I want to wish her again and ahead of our interview with her, a happy belated 47th birthday. I would have assumed 37th at the oldest, maybe even younger, but yeah, she was happy to turn 47 47 days before 47s sworn in, which makes today 46 days until inauguration day. So we're here for it and we're very excited here on the podcast. We're going to jump into this right now and get through our coverage of what's going on with Pete Heddeseth. Again, this is a Kavanaugh level, just craziness in the media right now. Any one that wants to make up an unnamed source is producing it. You know, they're really trying to break down this one instance where we told you what happened with the married woman who wanted to show her friends that getting with someone like that wasn't a big deal and then did what every woman who gets caught red handed. Like she did does, took it to law enforcement. You know, there was a settlement. There was also an NDA, but it was explained at the time and without Pete Heddeseth's knowledge of ever being nominated for something in a future administration, the election did not happen yet. And this was years ago, you know, that the NDA was there in case anything ever did come up and he did move on to a different job and this accuser wanted to come out and try to stop him from getting it. Wait, so there was an NDA, and they still did it? Yes, there was, and there is, which is just a shame, but this is what's going on right now in regards to, you know, and they keep trying to break this thing down. And now the media saying like, oh, why was there a settlement? Well, it was very clearly outlined publicly that the settlement was that this woman made a claim that was law enforcement found to be unfounded. But because she can continue to take it to different levels, maybe even civilly. Yeah, this is a common thing, and I would be willing to bet that there's probably a lot of members of Congress on both sides of the aisle that have paid people to go away because that's what people do. It's just like the frivolous lawsuits that are totally rampant in our legal system where somebody goes and the wheelchair ramp is three inches too short and they roll down the ramp and then they freaking kickflip into the parking lot and sue the business out of existence because of it. There's literally ambulance chasing piece of shit lawyers that just go around looking for this stuff. Like, oh, you don't have the wheelchair accessible handle in the bathroom. Sorry, I have to sue you. And on top of all that, all of these bullshit allegations for everything or the reasons that they use for the anonymous whistleblower, this, that, the other thing, from somebody who sat next to him once on the bus, like literally the level of quality that they're quantifying with these people too. Yeah, it's the truth. And you know, the unnamed sources, they say, come from Fox News. You have just about every one of his media counterparts come out and last week and say, like... No, they're like, no, no, that never happened. Who's saying nobody should complain about that guy? Everybody liked him. Yeah, he's doing the morning show, especially on the weekends. It's not like we would know if he came to work drunk. Yeah. And, you know, he's worked with, and you know the way it is in the media. I mean, I'm not saying... He's not a travel ball coach. No. Oh, man. All the ladies that work on Fox News aren't ugly. So, you know, if there was ever going to be sexual improprieties, you know, there would probably be people looking to jump on that bandwagon. But again, heavily refuted from the agency which he worked at. And you want to talk about, oh, man, for a few minutes, let me read you this. I pulled a good one. This was actually a headline in... Kind of right here. The Washington Post yesterday. You ready to know? Because we made fun of this, like, two weeks ago that they were eventually going to get here. Good ol' Wapo. Bronze stars like those Hexeth earned are common amongst military officers' subtitle. Supporters point to the wartime decorations and declaring him qualified to lead the Defense Department. But military experts will say that doing so distorts those medal significance. I have no comment about that. What do you say? That's ridiculous. Yeah. And again, I want to remind everybody who... It's not like a bronze star is one of those medals that everybody gets just for being there. That's not how those work. Again, if you haven't reached out to your senatorial office, whatever states you're in. And even if you've got somebody, like, incoming interview at the end of this segment, the coach, Senator Tommy Tuberville, who's 100% on board with Pete Headset and Cash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard. You call him anyway and tell him to put pressure on his counterparts. Because, uh... You know, where you're looking where this narrative all comes from. Joni Erst, the Iowa senator, someone who has, in almost a mansion-like fashioned, walked the fence on loyalties to Donald Trump over the years. And it's really disappointing. Like, we know who Joni Erst is. We understand how she votes. We'd like to hold her accountable for said votes. Um, the current secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, when the Democrats only had a 50-seat plus Kamala Harris, one majority in the current session right now, 93 votes as part of his confirmation. 93. So that means 42 Republicans voted for him. For Lloyd Austin. Understand that Afghan withdrawal, off the grid for a week, uh, didn't communicate things correctly, and even lied about some things to the president. And 93 confirmation votes. And we have to go around covering this bullshit on the show and talking about people within the Republican Party who are not yeses yet when we have a 53-seat plus one majority. It's embarrassing and disgusting. Um, to even have to think about this. A lot of those numbers, same for Alejandro Mayorkas, same for Merrick Garland, same for Mayor Pete, same for Xavier Becerra, same for Janet Yellen. Like, there was no pushback. You know, they go in, they do a little grandstanding during their confirmation hearings, like, "Oh, yeah, you're gonna screw this country over so hard." And Alejandro Mayorkas is all like, um, no, I won't, because I'll never have the data that supports that narrative. And then he gets confirmed. I hope we're seeing it from, from those within, again, I don't know why or what it is, but Joanie Arst is enjoyed by a lot of her Republican counterparts in the upper and lower chamber. I don't know why. Uh, Joanie Arst often gets an audience with Donald Trump. You don't see senators from across the country who have that affordability. Uh, Joanie Arst obviously has a decent relationship with Elon Musk, because she's gonna be one of the senators heading the doge committee oversight, whatever. God, her as a senator and then MTG is the, the Republican, uh, house member doing it. Maybe they're putting all the people they don't like and want to get the primary and the next election on like this doge, uh, congressional committee, so we can all have them in one place. Maybe that's the thing here. But there's a lot of people who think Joanie Arst wants to be the secretary of defense and is now playing this out in the media. Oh, I don't know of them. Yes. I don't know if I could ever be. Yes. After these awful allegations against this nominee, you know, and we've got a clip of her saying just that and we'll play a little bit later. I'm looking at some old lady right now on like a health insurance benefit network. Commercial looks just like her speaking of people that need a medical network. That guy that got shot in New York the other day. Geez, man. My wife works for a subsidiary of that company. Pretty wild that the big boss got gunned down in New York and they still haven't found the really weird looking guy that. I mean, weird looking as in like his eyes and nose look weird. Well, they got a picture of him full face from Starbucks down the street before it happened. Full face like full face, full face. Yeah. Huh? Yeah. I don't even want to get into that. Well, so they're probably going to find him unless he was actually. Well, so that that probably rules out the fact that he was an actual legitimate hitman because I'm pretty sure they're smarter than to do that anywhere near where they're going to shoot somebody. You know, there was a lot of people online who identified Haley Welch and your like Starbucks employees are still celebrating the mask. I went through the drive through at Starbucks the other night and there was literally a fucking true believer in there with a black mask on and she didn't have a shaved head. So I wasn't sure if she was like one of those people or not. I'm tracking people get them. Scissors. Yeah. So that happened in. Yeah, they got a good picture of his face. They're like I was saying. Well, that guy is going to be getting caught pretty soon then. I don't know why he hasn't already because like I like I had mentioned much. If you could find a grandma that rolled her wheelchair three blocks away from the Capitol on January 6 and you can't find this guy. I feel like your priorities are misplaced. Cash or tell. We're talking to you. But remember when they docked the Hawk to a girl in like 15 minutes, but then it went on for like weeks trying to confirm that that was her. And then there's a I was looking online last night. There's a lot of like viral New York City based like crime stopper accounts that like know where this guy lives have his name like pictures of his social medias, which are now taking down. And I'm just waiting for, you know, the other foot to drop because law enforcement and stuff like this. They. Well, it's going to turn out that this guy was somebody who had their claim denied, had a loved one that had their claims denied or he's a former employee. A jilted lover. Yeah. Yeah, former employee, but it's like it's ridiculous. Like, it made it look like a professional hit initially, the only things that. The only things that looked odd to me when I was watching the video of it, other than the fact that seems like he's prepared for the non cycling of the weapon, which subsonic rounds with a suppressor will cause cycling issues. So it seemed like he was ready for that. But then like the weird, like it looked like he was like trying to slam it back into battery at one point. And I guess when you really start, like literally ending someone's life and the heart starts racing and you're probably going to lose your fine motor skills to some extent. But yeah, I mean, he had Starbucks before that's going to make you jittery. That's true. And a granola bar. He probably really had to go in a granola bar too. Well, I just saw a video, not a Republican, I'm watching a video on Fox News right now. It's like the day after the murder, there's like a video of him riding his bike down the street, the bike that he or the e-scooter that he took off on. So it's like, like a narrow sticker on it, probably. The people that are celebrating this, like, yeah, nobody likes these big, rich fucking health moguls that are just fucking everybody over. But like, when did the left go from being peace and everybody's fine and we're anti-violence to these raving, rabid lunatics that they've become? It's fucking weird, Republicans are starting to be the reasonable people. It's the truth. We always point back here on the show to Barack Obama's, I mean, he took this country back 50 years. Oh, it's so divisive. Of the civil rights movement that kind of evolved into the trans and pronoun and safe space and participation trophy movement. And what happens when everyone's seen the blob or at least could look it up on Google? It's kind of hard to put it back in the box once it pops out of the lab. And that's where we're at as a country right now. And there needs to be some real work that needs to happen. There needs to be some real results that happened. And I guess talking about all this stuff that's not really important to us here on the show, but using it as ammo figuratively, of course, into getting kickstarted here, talking about Pete Higgsath. It is movements like this, the me too or the she's first or the whatever you want to call it that we have to kind of get away from. This has already been forensically autopsied in the press. We all know what happened, when it happened, where it happened, why it happened, what happened afterwards, and what the eventual consequences of that were. So to use this as ammo to stop somebody, and again, just remember back to the cabin on confirmation. There was, first he was a big drinker, nobody cared. Nobody cared. Okay, you mean Scott Kavanaugh used to get hammered at Boston Red Sox games and sing Sweet Caroline with everybody and the seventh inning stretch, good for him. Then it was like, oh, he was also a very promiscuous youth, okay, cool. Who else doesn't have raging hormones when they're a gigachad athlete going to Ivy League school to eventually become, you know, a lawyer and then a judge. Oh yeah, but then he was a serial rapist and everybody was like, what? No, like, yeah, him and his friends, they all ran trains on people back in this small little town that had like a couple thousand people that lived in it and everybody knew everybody else's business. But for the last 35, 40 years, everybody kept quiet about or forgot the fact that red Kavanaugh and the boys used to go around to parties and serial raped people in train-like fashions, like, that was really what happened. And then they brought out the Blasey Ford girl and one thing led to another and America kind of rejected it, you know, that was part of where some of the first inklings of that we were going to turn this stuff around and America was going to reject these narratives I think came from, but again, we've got two of Barack Obama's terms and a third one in the form of Joe Biden to reverse a lot of work on over the course of the next four years. And we'll get started talking about Pete Hakeseth right now as well again, we've kind of told you what the media is doing to condition America to think that everything we already know isn't true and that it's actually worse. Here's how CBS news addressed it yesterday. Good evening. I'm Nora O'Donnell and we begin with new reporting tonight by CBS News. But tonight, that nomination appears to be on the rocks. Hakeseth is facing new allegations of sexual misconduct and excessive drinking. Tonight, CBS News has learned that Hakeseth may not have the support of enough Republican senators to be confirmed for the job, meaning his nomination is in serious jeopardy. That's kind of where they've been going and confirms of what we just told you guys over the course of the opening minutes of the show today, that the media is running wild within no confirmed sources, no name sources, just a lot of hearsay and rumors. I really do hope there are some, out of all the deregulations we're going to do in the next Trump administration, getting rid of 230 and regulating some of these media outlets. You see it a little bit starting to manifest in the form of the view having to read legal disclaimers three, four, five times a show these days. But to run with the headline as that, and then the entire green screen backdrop behind Nora O'Donnell's there was Pete Hakeseth's confirmation in peril. So again, the misinformation is out there to confuse the audience. It's out there to sway public opinion. And in reality, what it does is it puts pressure on Donald Trump to, much like I'm sure Senator Tuberville will allude to today, when a coach comes in, even before he asks about his salary and he gets hired by an organization or a school or whatever, the first thing he wants to know is can he bring his coaches with him? Because that's the only way his success works. It's not like a head coach gets hired at the University of Let's Just Say Auburn, where the coach Tuberville is from. And as soon as he gets hired, they say, okay, this is how much you're going to get paid per year. And then we're going to go start the process of hiring all of your assistant coaches. Many if not all, you have no idea who they are, what their philosophies are, how they work with kids or adults, depending on what level of profession you're at here, and everything should be fine. The first thing you would say is, well, no it isn't, I have all these coaches that I've worked with for decades and I want to bring them in because we've proven that it's worked. This is kind of what Donald Trump wants to do with his cabinet level picks, his agency heads, his ambassadors, and everything in between. And every single time we don't get one, we've already lost one in Matt Gaetz. Now, if you want to talk about formidable alternatives, Pam Bondi kind of moves the needle for me. But outside of that, I don't want to lose any of these. You know, the next one that either doesn't get confirmed or abandons the confirmation process, it's really, and I know Donald Trump's kind of been taking a little bit of a low profile posting very few things on his social media accounts. I think outside of announcements of what he was doing or who he was appointing, the O Canada flag one meme that he posted the other day after the meeting with Trudeau is really the only shit posting that he's done over the course of the last week to 10 days. Yeah, they've, I think they've been kind of looking over his shoulder a little more often the social media. And again, it's not like he hasn't been busy because he's been meeting with world leaders. He's traveling to France this weekend. He's had taken phone calls with some of the continuous neighbors in the United States, both in the north and the south. And there's a lot of preparation that goes into having those phone calls. It's not just like, you know, he picks up the phone and calls down to Mexico or up to Canada is like, hey, Justin, it's Donald. We're annexing you. I mean, that's not really the way it goes. So there's a lot of stuff going on behind the scene. And there's also a lot of preparation in regard for these confirmation hearings like these people, some who might not be completely an expert in the area they've been appointed for. They need to go through intense policy training and reference points back to everything from maybe their career service, military service, voting records, private entrepreneurship, etc. So anything could come up during these hearings, but yeah, I just don't really see how what they're trying to do to Pete Hexett sticks unless we allow it to. And I'm talking about Lindsey Graham. I'm talking about Joanie Erst. I'm talking about a couple others who are, you know, I mean, it's not even worth saying Collins and Murkowski, but Collins and Murkowski. They voted for every Democrat confirmation and are likely going to vote no in a couple of Republican ones. So Pete Hexett was on Capitol Hill yesterday meeting with some senators and again, spread the good word with backing of President Trump. We'll get to it after this audio clip. Take it out. We'll get to Pete's mom in just a second. She did sit down for an exclusive interview with Fox and Friends yesterday morning. We'll also bring you the latest by the end of these two episodes today of the guest that was on Fox and Friends today as well. And that's the incoming First Lady, Melania Trump, great interview. She talked about everything from like what she's looking forward to working on to Baron Trump. No, did you see the viral video that's going around of Baron Trump introducing himself to guess when he came out with Donald, we finally get to hear this kid talk. No, I didn't see it. What does he sound like? Donald Trump. Nice. Yeah. What if he had like a horrible like high pitch voice or something? Well, he used to have like the Eastern European accent because, I mean, you saw the little video even my daughter, my daughter told me it's viral on TikTok right now of hit ready around like, oh, I need my briefcase. She's like, he sounds like Grouford minion, I was like, oh my God. But no, he sounds like he's like, hey, Baron Trump, very pleased to meet you. I'm like, yes, he is the second coming. But getting back to that statement from President Trump again, this came out yesterday about probably a couple hours into Pete Haggseth meeting with senators up on the Hill via Donald Trump's true social account. Pete Haggseth is doing very well. His support is strong, deep and much more than the fake news would have you believe. It's a point we're trying to make here on the show. He was a great student, Princeton, Harvard educated with a military state of mind. He will be fantastic, high energy secretary of defense, one who leads with charisma and skill. Pete is a winner, and there is nothing that can be done to change that. You have my full support. So yeah, that's kind of where they were at yesterday. I talked about Pete's mom joining Fox and Friends. I did pull a clip of that so you guys can hear it, you know, and again, in my opinion, it shouldn't even have to come to that where this nearly 50 year old man's mother needs to go on to a major news outlet to sit around to say that like, for all the Italians out there, how bad do our mothers yell at us behind closed doors, even when we're an adult? Yep. I mean, everything from like asking too many questions about when dinner's getting ready to get the fuck out of the kitchen, I'll tell you when it's ready, all the way down to if they want to be hypercritical of something you're doing as a parent or with your kids. You know, the same probably goes for the Irish and a lot of different other ethnicities, but it's one of those things I couldn't imagine some of the stuff my mother said to me over the years, endearmently, and then have to go on the news and justify why she said it. You know, my mother would honestly be like because he was being a fucking moron at the time. And I think a lot of other people's parents would do so as well again, here's her sitting down with Steve Ducey yesterday talking about her son on Fox and Friends and his mother. What's what's one thing about people don't realize that he's got a big heart that he's very smart. Yeah. He's the most he is the most faithful patriot of this country. He loves his country, loves his country. He's fought and almost died for his country. He's a good dad, he's an amazing son and father. And that's the P that I want people to do. And then I want to say it one more thing. I said, I believe he's the man for the job, but more than that, I believe he's the man for such a time as this. Those big words from a mom, based off of the stipulations which led up to that interview happened and it's got to be a lot of pressure on her to have to go and have to candidly talk about and endorse her own child like that. Again, I shouldn't have to come to this. I think probably with a lot of doings all think Trump world. Pete Hakes did take a brief break from his senatorial meet and greet yesterday to sit down with. And I'm trying to figure out how they were going to bring her back into the fold. But again, historically Trump fenced it her, now grifting a little bit because she knows it's getting good. In fact, a matter of shame, too ugly, they're Megan Kelly. And they sat down for Pete's glue suit, I guess we'll call it. I pulled a couple of clips because these are the things that Americans want to hear. These are the things that are probably going to be talked about behind closed doors when he's meaning face to face with senators and probably more importantly, their staff. Here's the first clip I've got right now, check it out. There, that you'd be surprised how little that has come up. Now when they ask, I answer candidly. I don't answer these questions to the hyenas in the hallway trying to chirp at my wife and I as we walked on the hallway. I don't owe them an answer. I owe an answer to the members of the United States Senate who are going to vote for a confirmation here. And my meetings with them have been fantastic. No one has looked me in the eye and say, I have concerns and I can't vote for you. In fact, most have said, let's take a picture and I'm behind you all the way. And that's a reflection of Donald Trump and the strength of his election, but also the mandate to change something at the Defense Department. So the meetings have been great. We're going to continue doing it. We're not backing down one. And again, I just want to kind of remind everybody, there is a reason for all of this. It has nothing to do with the woman or the sexual interaction that took place years ago. It has nothing to do with whether or not Pete Hexeth enjoys a drink every once in a while. He's actually going to talk about it in one of these clips about what it's like to be a serviceman in some instances where he almost did lose his life. What's it like to come back from a tour and get stateside for a minute? You want to crack open a couple of beers and hang out with your friends, your family and enjoy it. Enjoy yourself because you just came back from defending our nation and survived, which not everybody could say during the Iraq and Afghan wars. They want their pound of flesh. Remember, the Democrats have a leadership vacuum right now. A lot of the things that we have told you guys is starting to come to fruition. I told you guys that AOC months and months ago would be vaulted into a position of higher leadership and prominence closing out this session of Congress and into the next. Well, just last week, there floating her name out there as a possible presidential candidate for the Democrat Party. We told you guys after she started grandstanding in committee throughout the course of this session of Congress, they are going to turn Jasmine Crockett into the next AOC. I can't turn on CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and not see her on one of the shows every day now. She's a new AOC. They want their pound of flesh. Donald Trump won the election. No matter how much Jerry mandering an election fraud, they committed in this election. The Democrats could not steal back the House of Representatives. They fell one House seat short and we flipped the Senate. We've also got a favorable margin on the Supreme Court bench right now. Things are good and once we get past this little period of transition, get Donald Trump's hand on the Bible, Congress will be sworn in two weeks before that and his agency heads can get to work. His cabinet can get to work on day one. It's over for them. Yeah. Is California still counting? I heard they're still counting. One district that's ridiculous. Talk about finding the votes. They found they found two new Democrat House seats by less than 500 boats in both instances. One of them was John Duardis. Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit. Yep. But we've got Gavin Newsom out here until 2026 and he has pretty much a super majority in the Senate so nothing will be challenged, nothing will be changed until after that. And I guarantee California is grabbing ballots that are spoiled and/or after the date. I mean they're just literally going around looking for anybody that hates you. Forget the mail your ballot. Yeah. Just gonna swing by tomorrow, drop it off. No, it's the truth. But again, the Democrats want their pound of flesh. Matt Gaetz, he took himself out of the running. And again, Matt Gaetz has been hanging out with Bokelly down in, where's he the president? El Salvador? Like, yeah. I think he's got a better than average chance of maybe being a presidentially-impoited envoy or maybe even the ambassador to that country and he's living his best life. You know, I think Matt Gaetz is getting ready to start a family. Nothing's beneficial and he hasn't told me but, you know, him and Ginger are around that age. They've been married for a couple of years and we wish him all the best. He's more important to us working than hanging out in El Salvador but the man's been doing a lot of work for the last couple of years and putting his neck out there for Donald Trump in the American First Movement. He is the man who vacated a speaker of the house for the first time in modern history. If not, you want to count it as ever. He's the one that goes into oppo territory all the time and sits down on CBS, NBC, CNN, MSD and CNN. All the ones in between. Even the ones where he goes on Fox News and they try to give him shit and has done the work that a lot of his congressional counterparts can't or won't do. But they want their pound of flesh and they want it in one of these major nominations. Secdef is a big one and that's for position-wise. RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, Cash Patel obviously. But this is some of the stuff he's up against and it's these fake news narratives like in the next clip right here where Megan Kelly asks him if he has a drinking problem which I just think are absolutely ridiculous. It's Gala season right now up in the nation's capital. Every single person that was elected to office and all of their staff and all of the consultants and all of the donors are going out to every foundation and organization every night this month and getting absolutely hammered in taking Uber's home. Yeah, it's drinking problem season. Yeah, it is. It's domestic violence season, it's cheat on your wife's season. It's all the great things that make our nation's capital what it is. Oof. Yeah. Christmas party season. Maybe people to go away season. I wouldn't mind if Anna Pauli and Luna was Xerox and her booty on passing them out during one of these timber Chet had his 15 minute Christmas party yesterday to see it Noah. Wheat things. No. Cheese in a can and more Mountain Dew than one man can ever consume. Oh, cheese in a can so much better on like Ritz crackers though. George Santo showed up in a Santa suit and believe it or not in 15 minutes for as much debauchery was going on. It came and went and it was over. He literally does a flash mob Christmas party in his office. He goes and everybody leaves. That's awesome. So is he. We've had some fun people on our team. I'm not going to lie to you. We are the party of real people again. You know, the three piece suit, tight ass, parted hair having only talk about certain things and gosh forbid you have a personality Republican party, they're on their way out. Consequently, I've got the clip of Mitt Romney saying goodbye to the Senate. I believe in our second edition or in our next new segment of the podcast today. Well, let's hear making Kelly ask him Pete Hicks at about a drinking problem that doesn't exist. They're not upset about your drinking. You know what? There's an interesting one there. First of all, I've never had a drinking problem. No one's ever approached me and said, oh, you should really look at getting help for a drink. Never. I have no problem drinking. Never sought help. I respect and appreciate people who do. But you know, what do guys do when they come back for more oftentimes? Have some beers. You know, how do you deal with the demons you see on the battlefield? Sometimes it's with the bottle. Unfortunately, tragically, for too many guys, it's with the bottle and then it's depression and even worse suicide. I mean, we've got an epidemic of that in our country. Thank God, by the grace of God, I found my chapters of purpose that pulled me out of that. You know, and everybody should be celebrating somebody that was able to do that. Let me tell you something. People who have faith have no problem going on the air and talking about it. I'll give you a good example of Speaker Johnson, that man walks with the Lord, but he never missed an opportunity to tell you about it. But when you have to use things like do you have a drinking problem to make somebody circle back and talk to their, maybe newly or reestablished relationship with Jesus Christ? It makes my stomach turn. Not that Pete Hexeth is saying it is that that's what he has to kind of say as a part of the answer to a bullshit narrative question. It is just really embarrassing on behalf of all these media outlets. Dude, Greg Kelly on Newsmax last night, this is, this is, this was like one of his opening monologues sentences. He goes like this. Pete Hexeth is a changed man. Hunter Biden is a changed man. Like that's how we're justifying this now. I don't understand it. I felt rage when I heard that. It's so irritating that we're attacking people just because, like show me the man. I'll show you the crime. That's exactly what's going on. That's, that is what the media is doing. That is what every left wing pundit is doing. And it's fucking gross. Like there's no problem with a lot of these people. There might be a couple of problems like the DEA guy that, you know, jailed a fucking pastor. Like yeah, that guy might be a kind of a dick like that might not have been a good choice. But it, it, those problems will solve themselves by our own party. Yep. Like if, if he picks a bad pick, we let him know. Yeah. And he's like, oh, you know what? That was a shitty decision. She's like, he's like, I, I did not know that. Well, it was not a word that like the lady that was nominated for a certain general as soon as she got nominated, without anybody doing any research, understanding that I believe she's the sister in law of Mike Walts, the congressman who got nominated to run one of the agencies, right, the NSA or something. And then you, and not only that, but everybody starts showing videos of her from like the opening weeks of COVID where nobody knew anything about this. And everybody was getting told by their higher ups, like, all right, we don't want to freak out. So we're going to make everybody stand away from each other and make everybody wear a mask and we're going to make everybody stay home. Yeah. But they were showing stuff from like 2020 and 2021 in 2023, she was one of the leading voices like no vaccines, less vaccines for kids, masker retarded, social distancing, whoever made that up, she go to jail, but everybody wants to show the videos from like four years ago instead of two years ago, and it made her look like a bad pick. But as soon as sensible people start seeing like, hey, this was like a high ranking doctor, like a very prominent doctor, not a high ranking doctor, but you know, a prominent medical figure who had a voice, she was a television commentator. And when she realized that she was getting fucking duped, she came out and completely flipped the narrative against what was going on. Yeah, because there was a lot of people that were taking their cues from people that they thought knew what was going on. Like, for instance, uh, Ron, I just want you to know that it still says five fauci. If I have found she on Dr. Rand Paul's website, if you go there, it says make a donation. This does make a donation to fire me. Fuck that guy. I can't wait to hear what you're doing. If he gets a pardon, somebody's literally going to United health care that guy. There's no way somebody like some fucking cooke isn't going to be like, you know what? And I'm not advocating for violence. I'm not saying it's going to be us. I'm literally Robin softballs at Chairman Jordan today. I'm going to say like, Hey, uh, who else is getting a pardon? I'm just going to be like, uh, Dr. Fauci, uh, Liz Cheney and see what he does with them. So yeah, he's, he's, uh, their team actually, they got a couple new staff members on, on Congressman Jim Jordan's team. They've been very awesome connecting this week and getting us back in a cycle with him and it's going to be good having him on the show today. And there's nothing they can do about these pardons. There's, there's no way that, that Congress can be like, no, that, that's too far. No, it's going to be up to the States. And the district DAs across the country to examine these and see, you know, I heard in California, he might not be out of the woods yet when it comes to all the tax evasion stuff. I heard he still might have to answer some stuff, not just questions in court, like we were talking about the other day. Oh, I was talking about the Fauci pardon, but yeah, that's, that's, that's valid as well. Oh, yeah. I can't wait to see what he has to say about Dr. Fauci, him and Jim Komeran. I hate Dr. Fauci, everybody hates Dr. Fauci. Oh, it was an interesting day about Dr. Fauci, Dr. Fauci, yeah, you, you know, uh, rep Fallon from Texas. He comes on the show every month. Did you see him have an absolute nuclear meltdown on the fucking acting director of the Secret Service yesterday? No, I'll wait to hear this clip and, and when one of them invoked 9/11, uh, but before we get to, uh, into the weeds here, guys, wherever you're listening to the show today, welcome. And thanks for joining us on stake for breakfast. Do us a couple things. Share the show, friends, family, coworkers and loved ones, spread the wealth, spread the gospel, not like some of these, uh, cabinet picks are having to justify, but in the good word of stake for breakfast and make sure you're downloading us across every major podcasting platform, including Apple Spotify, I heart Samsung, Amazon podcast, or every listening to the show today. It's pretty simple. Click on the app. You make sure you're following us and that the showdown loads to your electronic device helps us out big time. Uh, you can check us out on social media as well, Twitter get her true social Instagram and TikTok is where we have accounts, find a follow, hit the notification bell. You'll never miss out on all the great stuff we've got going on down here at stake for breakfast. So, last couple I've got of Pete Hegset's Pete's exclusive with Meghan Kelly yesterday, and she did set up a, uh, makeshift studio in the halls of Congress. Well, she asked the overall encompassing question, tell us about this inappropriate relationship. Tell us about a potential drinking problem. Tell us about this set and the other thing. Do you think you're getting Kavanaugh, which would have covered all of it, but I guess you just wanted to make a longer podcast. Let's hear it. Do you think you're being Kavanaugh right now? I had a member, um, not 45 minutes ago, look me in the eye in private, just he and I and say, that's what they're trying to do to you. That's what they're trying to do to you. That's their playbook. Get ready for more. And they're going to make it up just like they have so far. All anonymous, all innuendo, all rumor, nothing sourced, no verification, and they're just going to keep doing it because you're a threat to them. You're a threat to their system. You're a threat to all the, the, the things in Washington DC, the swamp, the things that people have rejected, you're a threat to that. And so they're coming after you. And, and, and I know that he knows that, and when you stand firm on that, it's, it's, it's not difficult to just continue to fight. So yeah, we saw what happened, but guess what happened? Kavanaugh stood up and he fought and he won. And hopefully Republicans have learned that lesson and Trump stood by him and Trump stood by him. They're right. You're seeing right now with me is the art of the smear is the classic art of the smear. Take whatever tiny kernels of truth and there are tiny, tiny, tiny ones in there and blow them up into a masquerade of a narrative about somebody that I am definitely not. And what they never quotes, and we can get into this too, are the legions of people from who I serve with in combat, multiple tours from the multiple veterans organizations that I very proudly ran and I really want to get into that. And my time at Fox News, they never asked the people closest to me. No. They never asked the people who were involved directly. And when they do, and I've got a list right here of people and Will Cain and my host at Fox News have come out, all the folks on Fox Friends have all come out and said, "This is not Pete and we've worked with Pete for 10 years, every single morning, every single day." They never ask those people. And that's what a smear looks like. It's a couple anonymous nuggets, usually from disgruntled people who were fired for cause, who are jealous or want a little bit of retribution. And so they peddle stuff to reporters who are not interested in the truth. They're interested in smearing someone who supports Donald Trump's agenda. It's... And then we can just leave it at that as we've kind of outlined all the rest of it. Again, really sucks that Pete has to go through this. I mean, this is part of the process. We saw it in the same context with Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh when he went through his confirmation hearings as well, you know, difficult for probably him and his family. A lot of people who know him and served with him and worked along side of him for so many different years and all the great stuff he's done for this country, including his service and veteran's advocacy. The part that makes me optimistic about this is that Donald Trump is continuing to stand shoulder to shoulder with him. You would have to think that Trump world had some kind of... I don't want to say pressure, but involvement in him sitting down with Meghan Kelly, just based off of her huge broad reach with her show. And I really hope this works out because this is the kind of generational pick we need. This guy is like a cash Patel for the military. He's going to go in there and not make any bones about it and make the changes, the hard changes that need to happen because they need to happen. I got up next, Joni Ernst, the Iowa Congresswoman, the Senator, who... She's got an R next to her name, but she doesn't act like it most of the time. And there's a lot of people who understand that she probably wanted to be considered for this and is why she's going to be one of the co-chairs on the Doge committee. But she sat down for quite a while behind closed doors with Pete Heggsest yesterday and even after being down at Mar-a-Lago and meeting face-to-face with Donald Trump and Elon Musk last weekend and seeing the way this is being pushed and prided in the news, all while Donald Trump is openly still continuing to support this pick, listen to what she had to say following her face-to-face meeting with Pete. Well, I did have a very long lengthy discussion with Pete yesterday and I do appreciate his service to the nation. I also am a combat veteran. So we talked about a number of those issues and we will continue with the vetting process. I think that that is incredibly important. So again, all I'm saying is we had a very frank and productive discussion. I know that we will continue to have conversation in the upcoming months. Is there a date certain for his confirmation hearing? I have not heard that yet. The incoming chairman will be Senator Roger Wicker and so that will be established between the chair. I am understanding and the nominee. Okay. It doesn't sound on your answer that you've gotten to a yes. If I'm wrong about that, correct me. And if that is the case, it sounds to me as if the hearing will be critical for his nomination. Am I right about that? I think you are right. I think for a number of our senators, they want to make sure that any allegations have been cleared and that's why we have to have a very thorough vetting process. And that's why I was happy to sit down with Pete and have that conversation with him yesterday. So again, all I will say at this time is that we did have a very thorough discussion over a number of those issues and the vetting will continue. I am certain through the next month or so until we approve. All right. She's tough. Listen, I would strongly advise all these Republican senators. You know, our show is promoted heavily in the House side of the Republican Conference. So we're just starting to make some inroads now up in the Senate. There was no Elon Musk in the last four election cycles that Donald Trump had participated in two presidential, obviously four midterm, right? You saw what he did in Pennsylvania. He helped flip the state. He saved Scott Perry's house seat and he got McCormick over the finish line beating a Democrat incumbent in a purple state with Elon. Wow. All right. Just imagine what he would do with Elon bucks if he's set up in a red state like Iowa. Every time somebody doesn't agree with the America first movement, all the major and oh, God, they're getting primary. They're getting primary. They're getting primary. Don't make it. They're getting primary. Lindsey Graham's getting primary. People don't get primary because number one, everyone's scared to go against the throne, respectively. And number two, cost a lot of money to primary a same party, sitting Congressman or Senator. When they usually win their votes by large margins and ones that run right alongside the presidential candidate, when they're at the top of the ticket, like it was the case with Donald Trump this year, the game's changed. These senators start derailing Donald Trump's picks and you will actually get primary. I firmly believe that we are not going to go to plan B or plan C or the establishment alternative. Yes, these picks are all screaming for change. America voted resoundingly with change. And yeah, we just can't take it anymore. So in the last club I've got before we jump in with Senator Teberville, this was Pete Hexett this morning and talking about just pretty much the narrative that we led you guys down for the last 40 minutes or so regarding this, pre-senic confirmation process that Hexett's going through. Let's check it out. We've had great conversations about who I am and what I believe and frankly the man I am today because of my faith in my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and my incredible wife, Jenny, right here. I'm a different man than I was years ago and that's a redemption story that I think a lot of Americans appreciate and I know from fellow vets that I've spent time with, they resonate with that as well. You fight, you go do tough things in tough places on behalf of your country and sometimes that changes you a little bit and by the grace of God and my Lord and Savior I had an opportunity to come on up out of it and do great things with great veterans organizations that fought for vets, that fought for reform at the VA and for war fighters and at the Fox News channel to advocate for those very same causes and I'm proud of what I fought for. I'm not going to back down from them one bit. I will answer all of these senators questions but this will not be a process tried in the media. I don't answer to anyone in this group, none of you, not to that camera at all, I answer to President Trump who received 76 million votes on behalf and a mandate for change. I answer to the 50, the 100 senators who are part of this process and those in the committee and I answer to my Lord and Savior and my wife and my family, I'm proud to be here and as long as Donald Trump wants me in this fight, I'm going to be standing right here in this fight fighting to bring our pennegan back to what it needs to be, what have your time. And again, that video was posted by Elon Musk's super PAC account. You can't go and say that Hunter Biden is a changed man and he's doing so much better now and that's why he's okay. And then totally discount this guy's fucking miraculous story of being a war veteran and coming back and probably having some issues and clearing himself up. Yeah. You think a lot of, I do, a lot of his veterans' advocacy came probably from personal experiences both those of which he experienced himself and what he saw from his friends and I guess platoon mates when they came back. You know what I'm saying? Tough adjustment. That's the thing. What's the thing with the left is they always, they're going to contradict themselves and everything that they do, that's the wildest part. I think we're going to win this one and again, we shouldn't have had to open up our show with it today, but this is where we're at. We can never enjoy nice things, but it seemed like all the right people from Donald Trump and Elon Musk, a lot of the other people who are running for some of these confirmations as well that might have a little bit of an easier path of come out and advocated for Pete Hegzeth, obviously a lot of the people who are in the conservative media apparatus are supportive of them as well. We need this pick. So continue to put pressure on your senators, both in the forms of calls and emails and then stay up to the minute here as we'll continue to bring you the latest. We're getting ready to jump in with the coach, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville right now, before we do, here's the first check in with one of our partners. I think it's time we had a conversation about a good night's sleep. The pillow king of Minnesota, Mike Lindell, and the apparatus known as the MyPillow family has been cranking out savings down at MyPillow for over 20 years. And for the first time in 20 years, they've changed the long-standing MyPillow and now have the MyPillow version 2.0. You end up from a code to take a check out, you're going to get buy one, get one free. In addition to that, they've got great savings on all things like MyPillow Dogbeds, the Air Lindell version 1 and 2 My Slippers, and Giza Dream Everything. If you're more of a morning person, they've launched MyCoffee. It's available on the Bean, the bag, and the pod. When you need a promo code stake here, you're going to get 25% off your order, or 50% off when you make it a monthly subscription. MyPillow.com/stake for anything sleep-related. If you want the coffee, my store.com/stake, or you can always talk to a qualified pillow representative, 1-800-658-8045. Alright, joining us first on the show today, this big Friday edition of the State for Records podcast. These are the Republican U.S. Senator from the great state of Alabama. Of course, the only person we could be talking about is the coach, Tommy Tuberville. Welcome back to the show. Thank you. Great to be here. Got a smile on my face for about a month now, so looking forward to continuing smiling. Well, let's talk about that. Stake, stick in that thread, and keep that smile going. Historic win for President Trump on November 5th, Republicans in general, the America First Movement, as we like to call it here on the show, not only an electoral victory, but a popular vote win, which was Hughes, retention of the House, and flipping of the Senate, all in the same elections. You've got a favorable margin on the Supreme Court bench. Coach, it seems like America spoke and spoke loudly. They've given you guys a mandate, everybody that's up on Capitol Hill working in Congress, all the way up to the resolute desk in the Oval Office, and just kind of want to get your back in commentary on how you saw the election finish out. And what does it mean now that the dust settles and Congress is getting back up on the Hill, ready to conclude the 118th session and ahead of the 119th? Yeah, well, it was obviously a huge win for the country and really for the world, to be honest with you, because the leader in Washington, D.C., and the president of our country, leads the world. And the world goes as the policies of the President of the United States. Well, we can see what this last group has done, that we've got wars all over the world. We're dead broke. Our borders are open, crime, inflation, and all the oil and gas nonsense of cutting back on drilling new wells for gas and oil has put huge pressure on the wars over in the Middle East, in Ukraine, and put a lot of pressure on Europe. And so, at the end of the day, American people, Democrats, Republicans, and independents said enough's enough. You know, there was no plan here, Joe Biden and his family, the most corrupt family, political family in the history, maybe other than the Clintons. They took millions of dollars. It's all proven, came from China, came from Burisma, came from Ukraine, and no taxes paid. All those things happen. Of course, the mainstream media just sets back, doesn't do anything, but they're going to go after a few of these nominations that we have, and not spend any time on a corruption that's been going on. So, at the end of the day, we have a chance. The American people and our country has a chance to get back on the right track, and we've got to start that January the 3rd, when we come back and take over Congress and send it in the House. The president comes in the 20th, and we're going to hit the ground running. No, it certainly looks like you guys will, and you know, when you talk, and before we get into talking about the mandate, I like how you've called it a chance because there's a kind of a changing of mentality for some of the members, both in the upper and lower chamber that probably needs to happen before Donald Trump is sworn in. Was there any surprise to you this week about Joe Biden doing the pardon for Hunter Biden and how that kind of played out, I mean, they denied it to the high heavens for the last two-plus years, but you know, seeing the way that this kind of shook out, the length of the pardon maybe is a little suspect as well, going back to a lot of the things that House Republicans and those in the Senate have been investigating for years now, and just kind of the way he jetset over to Africa and won't answer any questions about it moving forward. Yeah, and of course, going back to 2014, now that's when Ukraine had the overthrow of their government, obviously, an embarrassment, and Hunter Biden went to work for $186,000 a month or whatever it was for them, and again, the money started flowing. The things that the Biden family was doing to make money for all their members, and the problem of getting ready to have here, that's not going to be the only part. I can maybe understand a little bit, their son has been on crack, and it's almost impossible to get off that. Sure. He's going to have a tough life in front of him, but there's other family members that are involved here. Other people involved will see more, probably more pardons, but at the end of the day, even some of these judges are saying these state judges, "Wait a minute, you can pardon for some of these crimes, but you're not going to pardon for some of the state crimes that have happened." So, I think you're going to see a big investigation. We're going to have a different department of justice, Pam Bondi, hopefully, a cash patel and the FBI, they will turn the DOJ on its head, get better people in there that believe and love this country, and go after whoever. I don't care whoever. If you broke the law, we need to go after them. I don't care what side of the aisle you're on, who you are, how long you've been up here. We have got to straighten this mess out, because we don't. Our country will be gone, and we'll go all the way to ground, it'll burn up, and we'll have to start it over. Our kids and grandkids will have to start it all over and build it back the way it should be, and we can do that right now, but we got to get the people in place. Very opportunistic moment that we're in right now and talking about some of those nominees that you'd mentioned, we're going to jump into that now. So Donald Trump is putting together a pretty robust cabinet. It's people that are unwaveringly America-first, people who have been solid within the Republican Party, those who have supported President Trump for years and even outside of the time that he's been in the political arena. And even people that, just as recently as two years ago, weren't even considered Republicans. You know, I like the healthy mix of people that he's nominated so far. It looks like it's going to be a pretty diverse, but working for the American people and the America-first agenda as he campaigned on for the greater part of the last decade. And I just want to get your commentary before we dissect a couple of the picks on how you see the cabinet that Donald Trump's putting together right now. Yeah, first of all, I love the Elon Musk getting involved, RFK Jr. getting involved on the health side, the Vivek, Rem Swami, and then of course, Tucker Carlson. We've got a lot of people that, they've got a lot of skin in the game that understand everything that's going on, that's giving advice to the president. They're not going to be on this cabinet. Now of course, we're going to, they're going to be the Doge group, trying to cut back. And if there's anything that needs to be done up here, we have got to cut back on the spending in this bureaucracy of Washington, D.C. It is out of control. We're leaking oil. Our country's engine is going to burn up if we lose all the oil we have in it. And so I'm really, I'm energized by what I see and I'm on the health committee, health education, labor and pension, Robert Kennedy will have to come through our group. But I am so much on board with what he has come up with about the vaccines, about the high price of drugs, about the drugs that are being given to our kids, the food that we eat, the things that we, we have an alternative put into our food to make it more healthy as Europe does, but for some reason we're allowing these companies to poison our kids and us. Everybody involved in our health care is going to out the roof if we don't stop this. So I think it's a great, great addition that President Trump has added. No, he certainly has. I like all of the medically related, you know, selections that he's made so far. I think they're going to be critical components and doing everything from a re-regulations or deregulation into the food industry, getting a lot of the wasteful and toxic content out of the things that we're eating and also looking into the medical aspect of it, everything from affordability down to, you know, what's the real deal with vaccines in regards to what do we need, how much do we need of them and moving forward, what the medical field is going to look like here in the United States. I even think there's a big manufacturing component of it that we might start making medicine in this country on a regular basis again by the time Donald Trump leaves office. And I think that's a good thing and a big win for America first. You know, some of these picks though have been put out there in the mainstream media, of course, and labeled as controversial. These are people that have been campaigning with Donald Trump or have been supporters for him for a very long time. None of the issues really came up or have been manufactured in the media as most often as the case, things from like unrelated sources, et cetera, until Donald Trump nominates them for high-ranking positions. Of course, I'm talking about people like Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Haggseth, and Cash Patel. Cash Patel has been a great friend of the show, a great friend of mine in real life for a very long time. The work that he's done for this country has been absolutely stellar. He stood shoulder to shoulder, but not just Republicans in the conservative movement, but Donald Trump for the entirety of his time in the political sphere as well. Just getting to know some of these people as they're coming in and out of your senatorial office ahead of confirmation hearings, which should be in about a month, Senator, just kind of want to get your take on how you're getting to know some of these people. Maybe some of them you already know, like cash them out on the campaign trail, but put to rest some of the noise that we're hearing in the media right now and give us a little bit more clear picture from your office's perspective. First of all, the Democrats aren't going to quit. They're not going to lay down. They're coming out at us with everything they've got in their gun. They're going to try to tear down every nominee. They're going to try to slow us down. They know they're in trouble. Their socialism, communism, Marxism, philosophy has gotten bad problems if we get these people in place. Now, President Trump's not interested in business as usual. He knows that because of American people have told them that change what we're doing, and that's what he's doing. He's going with guys like Pete Hekseth, the sector of defense. I love Pete, a 20-year veteran hero, but a lot of these washed up, or young media people are coming after him right and left. He might have had some problems in the past, but let me tell you, if you live in a glass house, don't throw rocks. There's not one person up here that is 100% clean. Pete Hekseth is a great person. He's a patriot. Get out of the way and let him get our military back to where we are a war machine. Right now, we are running on one cylinder. It is terrible. What we've done, the DEI, the critical race theory, the transgenders in the military, there's no discipline. We have a lot of good people, but there's no leadership. We have to get strong leadership in the Pentagon and Pete's the guy we need to do it with. It certainly is, and we like to remind our listenership and everybody that comes through the show. It was Republicans who helped through the confirmation process, people in the current administration. You have those like Merrick Garland and Alejandro Mayorkas, who prior to their service under Joe Biden, and had some scandals that had followed them around throughout the course of their public service, and in times when they were working with the Obama administration back previously before Donald Trump was president. We also have people like Pete Buttigieg and Xavier Becerra, two people who had no relevant experience in the cabinet level position that they would be leading. If you want to go back a couple sessions of Congress, even before you got to the Hill, Senator Eric Holder was confirmed by some Republicans who helped Democrats get him over the finish line. He's probably the most controversial and corrupt cabinet pick in the history of this country. So when we look at the coming togetherness, do you feel people like Pete Hexett, who's going to go through the process, Cash Patel and others are going to have pretty favorable? I mean, when you have a mandate of both the electoral landslide and popular vote victory like Donald Trump has, he should at least get the opportunity to have the people he nominates to start his term when January 20th rolls around. I would have never taken a coaching job had I not been able to hire my own people that knew me, that understood my game plan. And this is what President Trump's done. Now, we got some Republicans up here saying, well, I don't know about this or that. I get the hell out of the way and let President Trump have his people because if we don't and we falter, this country is gone and the Republican Party will be over with. But we've got a bunch of know-it-alls up here that voted for most of the Democrat nominees. And I did a speech on the floor the other day and we went back and looked at it now. One Democrat voted against any of the nominations of President Biden. You know what, I'm fine with that because that means that they gave him who he wanted. Now, they might not have been great, but we didn't go out there and try to investigate this or investigate that, you know, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, he was on the board for Raytheon. Yep. Oh, come on. He had to get a waiver to get that position because he hadn't been out of the military long enough because you have to been out like seven years and to get a waiver. Hey, I don't care. Take the ones you think is going to make this country better. It didn't work. They had a bunch of people in there who didn't have a clue what they're doing. And they were God awful. And let's go back to Cash Patel. Sure. Perfect. Perfect pick to work with Pam Bondi in the Justice Department, but let me tell you something. Thereafter Pete Hetseth, you wait till Cash starts making rounds up here on Capitol Hill. They are scared to death of him because he is going to put him in jail. He's going to go after Adam Schiff, all these liars that have done this Russia collusion, he doesn't care who they are. He has been given the task of clean this mess up. The fake Bureau of Investigation needs to be brought to his knees and started over because if we don't, I'm going to go back to this again. This country can't survive with all this corruption and all this nonsense of these third rate lawyers up here trying to run this country. You make an excellent point and we are very excited to see the work that Cash Patel is going to do both at the Bureau and making it legitimate again moving forward. All right, Senator, in wrapping up today, we do want to talk about a little bit of a preview of the 119th session coming up here. You guys get sworn in, I believe, on January 3rd, get to work a little bit ahead of the President. I know a new majority leader Thune has talked about reconciliation in the first 30 days. Listen, the Energy Act, the Border Security Act, the Lake and Riley Act, there are so many things that were produced in the House and sent up to the Senate shelved by Chuck Schumer that you guys can review and start to look at a lot of the regulatory stuff that both Donald Trump and Elon Musk is looking to get out of the way so we can make ourselves energy dominant again. What are some of the things that you're looking at to get to work on immediately in regards and ahead of Donald Trump getting sworn in on the 20th? Well, if we want to remain in power, if we want to remain in control of the United States of America's Republicans, we got to close the damn border and that's got to be the first thing done. We've got to do an immigration law. We've got to have everything put into place where American people know that they're safe and don't have people coming across the border that are going to rape or kill or blow up a building. We've got to do that. Anything else that goes before that is wrong. Now we can put it with that, but the first bill that we should do is got to be the border and it's got to be under President Trump's purview in terms of how he wants to do it. We've got to deport people and then we can get to the the jobs, tax and jobs acts got to be reformed. We've got to do it permanent. We can't do it for four or five years. We've got to give the American people more money in their pocket where they can live a good life, but in in advance of our economy and of course we've got to do all those things you said earlier. You know, the Lake and Raleigh, the everything to do with men and women's sports. We've got to get our military back. There are so many things that these these people have destroyed up here that we pretty much have to start over again, but we can do it, but we got to do it in a hurry. We have about two years and again, unfortunately, we want to get some of these Republicans out of the way. Some of these rhinos, they're going to try to, they're going to try to say they know better than everybody else other than Donald Trump. If I tell you what, if I'm President Trump, I got me a sledgehammer and I'm fixing to come after anybody on the Republican side that's going to be against anything that he's doing because the American people voted for him to put him in place to stop the madness in this country and get it back going again. No, that's the truth right there. And I think a lot of people are maybe forgetting how strong Donald Trump is when he's at his best and when it comes to getting things started, how important and critical the first 100, 120 days, it's going to be the absolute, you know, keystone to getting his administration off onto a successful start. Senator, last thing, you know, how excited are you? We talked about border security right now to see Tom home and finally be able to get to work. Newly appointed, as the borders are, we had him on the show last week. He's been a great friend, a stake for breakfast for many, many years. And you know, to see the way Donald Trump has already done a little bit to help out immigration, it's obviously more than the current borders are and that would be Kamal Harris had done for the last three plus years. But when you have somebody coming into that role who knows what border security looks like is worried and wants to get back to top tier national defense and security and then starting to deport and remove these criminal aliens who are in a lot of cases already up for deportation. But then rooting out the ones who have been dumped in communities all over the country, it seems like there are very few people in America who can handle the task at hand. If I had to think of a short list, Tom Holman would always be at the top of it. Yeah. Well, first of all, the thing at the border has got to happen. No matter what rules or laws you put in or Tom Holman, you got to build a wall because you got to have some kind of security. Now, when people are going to come in, they got to come through certain areas. We can't have all that wall. Now, I will say this, I've had buddies of mine that's going online and bought 10 cents on a dollar. The border wall has been laying down or that President Trump bought, but the Bidens were selling it online. No, no, no telling who got the money for that. So President Trump's going to have money to build a wall. Tom Holman is perfect. I saw him down the night of the election. He is fired up. He's getting ready to start sending people home, starting with the criminals. We cannot afford 20 new million people in this country and we cannot afford not to make sure that we get into Mexico. President Trump will do this by talking to the President down there. The President of Columbia, the President of Panama, we have got to have some help from some of these Central America countries. It's not going to be as much money other than the wall. It's going to be deportation and getting relationships with these people in Central America say, listen, don't let them through. Do not let them through or you're not getting a dime from us because we help all those countries. So let's hold people accountable, not just us, but people in other countries. Yeah, we send billions down to a lot of the countries that you mentioned who don't have visa requirements to come in. So essentially anyone from anywhere on the planet can have a passport and fly into places like Panama and all those countries that you had just brought up. Listen, Senator Tuberville, we don't get to catch up with you as often as we like, but when we do, it's absolutely fantastic. This has been a great hit for our listenership. So much to share and kind of digest here. We've got everything live linked in the show description, including a link to your Senate website. They can see all the great stuff you're doing online. Speaking of which, what's your social media handle? We could live link that in the show as well. Senator Tuberville. We got it. You put it in the search bar, comes up, and you're going to enjoy it. As much as we enjoy talking with the Republican senator from the great state of Alabama today, Coach Tommy Tuberville, thanks for joining us on the show. Sir, have a great weekend. Merry Christmas. See you. Yeah, look at who Donald Trump is empowering in his new administration. This is not what people wanted. I mean, it looks like the requirements to be in the Trump White House that you either abuse women or you're an out of touch billionaire. What's next? Are they going to replace FBI background checks with a Fox News screen test? I mean, forget about a White House cabinet, Donald Trump is making it into a junk draw. His Commerce Secretary, a billionaire, a billionaire, big surprise. I don't think this guy is capable of understanding what average people in my district deal with. His Education Secretary, yet another billionaire, what's her qualification? She ran WWE. I guess some schools have wrestling programs. It would be funny if it weren't so sad. I mean, there's new Attorney General Pick, an election denier. The person he tapped to lead Health and Human Services, he thinks tap water turns kids gay. His Defense Secretary, I mean, this guy is probably dropping out momentarily. Apparently, he drinks on the job and paid to cover up his sexual assault allegations. Even his mom doesn't like him. I mean, these people don't shop at grocery stores. Do you think that they pump their own gas or cook their own booze? Of course not. These are people who hop on helicopters to avoid traffic, post to children for the out of touch elites and the Republicans are bending over backwards for them. I mean, it's unbelievable and it's not just bad governance, Mr. Speaker. These fights matter because they are fundamentally about who we want working for us. These people are going to make important decisions that are going to impact all of us, all of us. All right, Jim, back into the news portion of the show here today. Second news segment on the back end of first of two big Friday editions to stake for breakfast and before I even get started and this one has been heavily requested over the course of the last week or so, sorry, Noah, what in the actual. Somebody actually put it in one of our Twitter comments on like several posts. Where is the what in the actual fuck audio clip after some of the videos that you guys play? I had to appease the fans, but that was Massachusetts, Democrat, Congressman, Rep McGovern. Just the most reaching a land fucking nonsensical arguments like you're just taking the lowest denominator of every single one of those people and just being like, well, this is something that people won't like completely discounting any positives like it's just it's so fucking frustrating listening to these people talk. It is frustrating to listen to them talk, you know, and when you talk about some of the bangers we play as part of our audio clips, we appreciate it when our listenership gets involved when you hear about the Democrats making a justification for said clips. It helps us out even better. One that really doesn't need too much help though and that we play, well, hopefully not much longer here on the show. I know it's definitely one of Noah's favorites. If you can't give us, can give us some financial support? Okay. Okay. Please give us a credit. Well, guess what? The credits run dry Joe Biden has proposed in addition to the, I don't know what he did last week is $785 million just like a president, what was it called? Slush fund check in the form of lethal aid and cash. Well, we told Congress, hey, I'd like to give Ukraine $24 billion more dollars on the way out so they can keep the lights on obviously in the greatest war in the history of wars. How do you guys feel about that? Everyone's going to be pleasantly surprised with Speaker Johnson's answer. I'm not planning to do that. They're developments by the hour in Ukraine. I think as we predicted and as I said to all of you weeks before the election, if Donald Trump is elected, it will change the dynamic of the Russia war on Ukraine and we're seeing that happen. It is not the place of Joe Biden to make that decision now. We have a newly elected president and we're going to wait and take the new commander-in-chiefs direction on all of that. So I don't expect any Ukraine funding to come up. No more bling chinks for Ukraine, Noah, what do you think? I want to recall some of the checks that have gone out. Yeah. I want my money back and I want to know where it was that the money was spent, that did go there. You need a big audit on one of the most corrupt, if not corrupt, nations in the history of the planet. I mean, I know it went into oligarchs' luggage as they flood the country, but besides that money that we already know, well, we better get 100% of the rebuilding contracts. If this war ends as fast as we think it could, once Donald Trump gets back to office, he's definitely going to be taking the lead on that. I also want to dip my toe on the waters of liquid natural gas and all the wheat that they have there. Mm-hmm. And again, Lindsey Graham said anywhere between $7.11 trillion dollars in rare earth minerals, we better get first dibs while the getting's good once the skirmish comes to a close. And then we could have like a pretty good starting point to have more formal relations with the embattled Eastern European nation. So we'll be bouncing between the House and the Senate now as they're getting ready to close session and have things, I guess on the calendar-wise, they're starting to wind down even though philosophically and in the media, they're starting to ramp up. Big gay Republican Senator, weirdly from the state of Oklahoma, James Langford, best known in this session for being one of the authors of the Langford, Biden, Mayorkish, Schumer, Jeffries, you name it, and leadership-wise, they had their hands in it. Border amnesty bill, the one that Donald Trump supposedly killed and that was such a bad narrative, it was going to prevent him from winning the election, that didn't go over too well. Talking about how the mainstream media is ripping all of these cabinet selections, the nominees and agents he had appointments apart like they know them, and not even starting at Square One, which would be sitting down and kind of getting to know the person before you make a news narrative about them from unnamed or unconfirmed sources, let's hear it. What's interesting is the national media, CNN, MSNBC, all those for CBS, all those folks all talk about people as if they've met them, all of us get the privilege of actually getting a chance to be able to meet them and to be able to walk through that. So there's all the noise that's out there, then there's actually what's happening on the Hill as people are one by one getting a chance to be able to meet with folks as I'm doing later on today with several different nominees. So let's let everybody walk through the process on this and actually do the constitutional responsibility. President Trump, like every other president, has the right to be able to hire his staff and to be able to pick the people around him. I have that right to be able to hire the people around him, but the Senate also has a role in key people in what's called advice and consent. Very often, everybody is put in place on that, but there'll be a couple of folks that'll go through the process that there'll be a few senators that'll say no to. At this point, let it play out, let's get past the media noise and let's actually do the constitutional process and let's actually support the president and who is actually trying to be able to pick to put next to him to be able to actually turn the country around. You know, that journalist had any shred of integrity, they would have stopped him right there. He said, you said senators are going to, at the end of the day, maybe vote no on them. Are you talking about the Democrats or are you talking about Republicans? And if you're talking about Republicans, how did Lloyd Austin get 93 confirmation votes out of a hundred? How did Alejandro Mayorkus get 87? How did Merrick Garland get over 90? How did Pete Buttigieg and Xavier Bessera get confirmed? They had no experience into the agencies that they were going to head in transportation and health and human services. And a lot of them still don't have experience with the locations that they're heading. Excellent point you make, Noah. You know who made an even excellent er one yesterday was great friend of the show, stake for breakfast and joyer, apparently fierce committee man himself, Texas Congressman Pat Fallon. So Acting Secret Service Director Rowe came in for a hearing or committee, whatever you want to say, and they were going over some of the logistics that led up to the two assassination attempts against Donald Trump, namely the Butler one in this instance. And then it got into completely went off the rails in ways that we couldn't even reciprocate on this show or reproduce. And here's why. President Fallon had done his homework and asked about a certain instance, namely this year's 9/11 memorial service in lower Manhattan, when Donald Trump and JD Vance went, Joe Biden and his staff was there. Now believe it or not, Acting Director Rowe was not assigned to the detail that was predicting Joe Biden, however, based off the ability to break down the pictures that were taken that day, and it was right around the same time where Donald Trump did like the iconic point at you and then do like the Mr. Miyagi thumbs up meme. Because Acting Director Rowe was in such close proximity to Joe Biden, he asked him about it, to which he said he was not the person that was going to be leading the detail that protected the current president that day, to which Pat Fallon said, then what were you hell were you doing so close to him? You switched out with somebody to have a photo opportunity. And that's when it kind of completely went off the rails. I thought it was a very good way to show how these ass hats. And again, I don't care what Director Rose, Acting Director Rose background is, he was a former Obama White House staffer who was promoted into one of the top jobs for the Secret Service following when Barack Obama left office. Okay. So what is the significance of that? The fact that he was not part of the protection detail, but was using his position to get some face time or what? Yep. And that is the problem with this agency because there's no accountability. So then they asked him, if you're that close to Joe Biden, you must be on a security detail. So that means you had a radio and a badge and a gun that day did you and he's like, Oh, yeah, I had a gun. Did you have a badge? Well, yeah, I always have my badge. Did you have a radio? And that's where it kind of like went off the rails because you could see both sides of the picture here and he had no earpiece in. Oh, you're not going to be standing there with an open radio. No, wearing a suit. It was completely done for optics, for a photo op to show all the good guys that are on the same team, et cetera. And you want to know what, if we don't call out this elite nature and the problem that's wrong with the tops of a lot of these agencies, those guys set the standard for the people that work under them. So if it's okay for them, it must be okay for everybody. It says how the standard, you can see how well the standard was set. Yeah. It is. Everybody that doesn't like Donald Trump, everybody that doesn't like the American First movement, everybody that doesn't want to have to go to work outside of the 6% of the entire federal government who has a nine to five and actually have to punch a time clock. Absolutely crazy. Elon Musk, somebody said it was 17%, Elon Musk had already broke down the numbers, 6% of the federal workforce is in person for a 40 hour work week, 6. When you take Border Patrol, ICE, CBP, and building security out 1%, 1% of the federal government has in person work for 40 hours a week, 1%. That's fucking wild. Insanity, and that's the thing with the lockdowns and all this remote working and stuff. The government doesn't want to give up A power and B, an easier job. Like I can work from home, I don't even have to be in the office pretending to work like I normally do. I can just watch TV and go drive around on my RV and then just throw on a Tuxedo T-shirt. Yeah, remote send that memo that I was going to send once a month anyway, like yeah, perfect. I mean, sure, I miss sexually harassing my secretary, we all do. But again, sacrifices were made. So how many secretaries lost their jobs, like if you don't need a secretary anymore, but then they probably didn't fire them, they probably put them in some administrative remote position too, like you're going to be remotely working the mail room. Yeah. How do I remotely work the mail room? Well, you don't. You're just going to click to paycheck and, you know, we'll meet for our sexual harassment meetings where I sexually harass you at the hotel. Speaking about people, I hope isn't collecting a government paycheck for much longer. Let's hear the clip right now of Texas Rep Fallon versus Acting Director Row. Let's check this out. In order now, thank you, recognize this photo. Yes, sir, I do. Okay. Is that, uh, remember? I would have been like, that's the beam. That's the beam. It was. Was it in New York? It was at ground zero. Okay. Who's usually at an event like this closest to the president of the United States? Security wise, the sack of the detail. Special agent in charge of the detail, were you the special agent in charge of the detail that day? Actually, let me address this. Could you please staff leave the, oh, no, leave that one up with the circle around me. Thank you. So actually, Congressman, what you're not seeing, I'm going to pause that real quick. So I kind of led into this before we went off the rails again. Rep Fallon had did his homework and understood exactly where these people are supposed to be, what it means for them to be in positions where they're at. It's not just like they were at a 9/11 memorial and like general staff and anybody who was like either friends with Joe Biden or friends with Donald Trump or friends with Rudy Giuliani could just fill in behind them and take the picture. Everybody immediately around these people was their immediate staff and all of the security that's tasked with protecting them in public. And you get, you hear where Roe is going, as soon as he asks that question, he knew that this is something that he would probably been poking around about. I'm talking about House Republicans, probably got wind of and was going to make an example out of him during this hearing. Now let's hear the actual nuclear components of the argument. Is the sack of the detail off out of the picture's view? And that is the day where we remember the more than 3,000 people that have died on 9/11. I actually responded to ground zero. I was there going through the ashes of the World Trade Center. I was there at Fresh Kills. I'm not asking you that. I'm asking you. I'm asking you. I'm asking you. I'm asking you. I'm asking you. I'm asking you. I'm asking you. I'm asking you. I'm asking you. Congressmen. I'm asking you. Congressmen. I'm asking you. I'm asking you. Congressmen. I'm asking you. I'm asking you. Congressmen. Congressmen. I'm asking you. Congressmen. I'm asking you. Congressmen. Congressmen. I'm asking you. I'm asking you. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm a public servant who has served this nation, and you won't answer the question. On our day, on our country's darkest day. Mr. Chairman, he will come to order. He will come to order. He will come to order. He will come to order. He will come to order. He will come to order. He will come to order. He will come to order. He will come to order. He will come to order. He will come to order. He will come to order. He will come to order. He will come to order. He will come to order. He will come to order. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. I'm asking you a serious question. Now, I've been in public service for 25 years. I have learned that politics alone cannot measure up to the challenges we face. A country's character is a reflection not just of its elected officials, but also of its people. I leave Washington to return to be one among them and hope to be a voice of unity and virtue for it is only if the American people merit his benevolence that God will continue to bless America. May he do so is my prayer. Never mind what I said leading into that clip. He took the entirety of that last minute to just bash Donald Trump. So don't the door hitch on the way out someone who has celebrated national hot dog day more than anybody in the upper chamber and had the weirdest of birthday party birthday cake. Candles getting blown out. Failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Happy trails from stake for breakfast. That penis candles? Oh, they might as well have been. So I don't know if you saw yesterday Noah. Elon Musk in a son X in Vivek Ramaswami were up on the hill meeting and greeting with members of Congress and the Senate from both sides of the aisle as they're getting ready to start doge. This was the first formal meeting which is going to include the guy who looks like Bert from Sesame Street on the Democrat side, Moskowitz. He'll be counter parted by one of our least favorite in the annoying Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. Looks like Joni Urs is going to be a representative on the Senate side for Republicans while Bernie Sanders will be there for the Democrats. Ro Khanna also is going to be involved as well as are many of the America First Congressmen and women and senators from our side of the aisle here to be realized. Old Mittens was going to be involved. Let's see what you did there. You're talking about Bernie Sanders, Mittens, not Mittens Romney as we just said goodbye to him. But Speaker Johnson was excited to host the dynamic duo plus one. As I had mentioned, X was with Elon, wrote on his shoulders the entire day and throughout the halls of Congress as he talked a little bit with the press. Well, about what's going on with doge. Let's hear it. This is an important day. It's the beginning of a journey. What doge is all about, the Department of Government and Efficiency, it's a new thing. And this is a new day in Washington and a new day in America. We have long lamented the size and scope of the government that it has grown too large. And let me be frank about this. Government is too big. There's too many things and it does almost nothing well. And the taxpayers deserve better. They deserve a more responsive government, a more efficient government. One that is leaner and more focused on its primary objectives. And that's the opportunity that we have here now. We believe it's an historic moment for the country. And these two gentlemen are going to help navigate through this exciting new day. Elon and Vivek don't need much of an introduction here in Congress for certain. And most of the American people know what they're capable of and what they've achieved. Both of these gentlemen have run very successful organizations. They're innovators and they're forward thinkers. And so that's what we need right now. So what you're going to have today is first is a meeting that we'll have here with decision makers. He figures in the Republican House and Senate who are chairs of committees of jurisdiction who deal with the money and financing of government and the structure of government. We'll have chairs of the new Doge caucuses that have been set up in the Senate and the House. And then after that we'll proceed to the Congressional Auditorium where all of the Senate Republicans and House Republicans have been invited and I think many of them will gather for this discussion. So there won't be a lot of detail for the press today. And that's by design because this is a brainstorming session. It is the first, again as I said, of a long series of meetings that will be held as we're laying the groundwork for the new year and the new Congress. And you're going to see a lot of change around here and in Washington and the way things are run. We need to make government more efficient. And that is what this whole objective is. The Doge effort will be about and you're going to see a bicameral cooperation and it will be, by the way, bipartisan over the last 24 or 48 hours. You've seen a number of our Democrat colleagues both in the Senate and the House who have said, "You know what? Sign me up. I want to be a part of this as well." So we welcome that. It should be a bipartisan effort. And I think we're going to-- You know, one of the things I urge everybody to tread with caution in regarding Doge has to be what Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett told us the other day on the show. If you're cutting the money from one place, where are they trying to spend it in another? And are these going to be actual cuts with no additions or subtractions in other components of the government? Are these cuts that are going away and we're running thinner and cleaner moving forward? Because that's the only way to reduce this budget deficit and national debt that we've got. So a lot of work ahead for these guys. When it comes to Elon Musk, I can't think of anybody more qualified to probably get the blueprint and infrastructure of this going on. When you talk about adding Vivek Ramaswamy as a component there, I think you need somebody who's charismatic and got a big smiling face to tell people that, you know, their goal of reducing government spending by at least $2 trillion by the 4th of July of next year and that's 2026. It's crazy, but I want to see it be a reality. And man, they're showing right now empty federal offices still costing the government billions and they're showing social media accounts of people who work for the government doing like Zoom calls from their bathtub while they're drinking wine. Anybody about that, Noah? Well, I mean, everybody likes to treat yourself. And the sad part is lunch beers are so heavily frowned upon, but I guess tub wine is fine. I'm not working for the government. Not the tub wine that you make, the tub wine that you consume. One of the, I guess, most sensible members of the Democrat conference right now more than likely has the lowest IQ. And that's saying something, and that's Pennsylvania Senator John Federman. You know, just this morning, no, I saw on the view, he joined the heffers via remote. And when they tried to lead him down to, like, bullying into saying how bad Donald Trump and his win and where the country goes from here is, much like Charlemagne the God did yesterday, Senator Federman actually cut off those cows and said, "You want to know what? With the way things are going right now?" Joe Biden should probably pardon Donald Trump for, you know, all past transgressions and maybe crimes that he would commit. I didn't have that on my bingo card today, did you? He also had some very nice things to say about Elon Musk yesterday following the huddle for Doge. As our last audio clip, before we get ready to jump in right now with Jim Jordan, let's check this out. You see yourself ultimately working with folks like Elon Musk and Vive Ramaswami who will be heading. Yeah, again, I admire Mr. Musk. He has been involved in very important parts of American society, AI, SpaceX and other kinds of things. Yes, he's on a different team, but that doesn't make me an enemy. I don't be automatically going to become a critic. It's like, hey, he's made our economy and our nation better, and our politics are different, and I don't agree with some of the things that he might say, but that doesn't make him, like I said, an enemy. Interesting analysis from the Pennsylvania Democrat Senator Noah, what do you think? A new way looking forward is that the writing on the wall with Senator Casey, his Democrat senatorial counterpart, getting beat by McCormick in the recent election, or is it a combination of a lot of things, maybe even including the John Federman, and it's sad to say, things different than your traditional progressives. They must hate him. They have to be rooting for him. When they were propping him up, there's probably a lot of people that are regretting that now. Yeah, and it's not like you can go and do anything about it, because what happens if you piss him off too bad? It's been mad. Still want to see him fight Stephen Chung. Got a couple posts to go over, including a few polls right now. Dr. Andy Harris, Republican congressman, great guest of the show, chairman of the Republican House Freedom Caucus. This was on his ex yesterday. We're going to follow the lead of President Trump. His coattails brought us the House majority, and his coattails brought us a larger Senate majority than we could have had otherwise. So I think Congress is, to a large extent, going to take the lead of the President. I like to hear that from House leadership. Also saw some poll numbers come out. This one's from the Team Trump account. Here's what you need to know. More Americans than not approve of President Trump's cabinet nominees. In fact, the plurality is back almost every one of the President's picks as they pledge to fulfill the government mandate earned with this resounding electoral victory. A majority of Americans approve how President Trump is handling the transition, including a priority of independence and one in five Democrats. The numbers in line with our recent polling highlight the strong support for President Trump's transition in agenda. Also, his net favorability is back in positive territory. A recent Gallup post was President Trump's net favorability exceeds the incumbent Biden by 17 points. 50 to 38, I believe it is. And Gallup also shows Republicans are viewed far more favorably than Democrats. The Republican Party's favorability right in line with the 22-year average, while Democrats' party rating is 11 points below its historical average at the same time. So the proof is in the numbers, and we're hoping here the best is yet to come. As we wrap up this segment right now, as we're getting ready to jump in with Ohio Congressman and Chairman Jim Jordan, but before we do, here's another check-in with one of our partners. It's an unpleasant truth that 42% of Americans are obese and 79% of Americans are overweight. That's practically one in every two Americans living day-to-day with every minute counting down to the end of an unhealthy existence. It's time to change that and make Americans healthy again. You've probably heard about weight loss injections that can help you get back into that right mindset and help curb those cravings so you can focus on what's really important. New Hope Wellness has changed thousands of lives and maybe it can change yours too. They are American family owned and operated with the goal of saving lives. With convenient telehealth options, you can speak to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home, and all products are delivered discreetly to your front door. Visit newhobellness.com/state and start your journey to a better you. That's newhobellness.com/state to get your free consultation and a hundred bucks off your first order. 1-800-527-2150. Make America healthy again. Alright, joining us next on the show today, this big Friday edition of the State's Breakfast Podcast. The Congressman who represents Ohio's 4th Congressional District. He's also the Chairman of the House Judiciary and Weaponization Committees. Welcome back, Mr. Jim Jordan. Chairman, thanks for coming on with us. Good to be with you. Always a pleasure. Listen, we want to start off talking about what a lot of the buzz is up on Capitol Hill this week. I mean, there's confirmation hearings that are coming up, but there are, you know, you guys were able to retain the majority in the House of Representatives. But Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami were up there yesterday talking about the Doge and meeting with Republicans, trying to get some Democrats on board. Just kind of wanted to get the way you were looking at this from the outside, looking in and getting to see it firsthand yesterday. Yeah, I think, I mean, look, these are two amazingly successful people, two really sharp people who want to make government work for we the people. So, and that, I think, is cutting expenses, reducing the level of spending. Everyone knows government waste money. But I think it's also, I think they're also going to be looking at how we reduce regulation, which is, you know, such a strain on the job creators and the entrepreneurs in our economy. So, I think all that is part of what they're looking at. And then, of course, this simple idea that, you know, if you work for the government, you should actually have to go to work. We have so many people who work remotely and don't even show up for goodness sake. How can you be productive and efficient if you're not even coming into work? So, I think all those things need to change and they're going to bring the focus to all that. Well, we love our Border Patrol and ICE agents out there, but outside of them, there's very few people who have to show up for a nine to five, seven days a week or five days a week regardless of the work for the government. Pretty astronomical numbers there. You know, I do want to stick in that thread real quick, Mr. Chairman. You talked about deregulation. Is that something that's on the top of the docket up there for you guys at the start of the 119th session of Congress? I mean, obviously, HR1, HR2, a couple acts like the Lake and Riley one, but deregulatory stuff is something that every single cabinet member looks like they're focused on. Something that Donald Trump heavily campaigned on during the course of his cycle and how that's going to lead us back to energy independence. But it means for a lot of different things, everything from the way that Republicans handle the environment all the way down in some aspects to border security and where we can house illegals who come in on their way back to their country of origin. So talk about some of the deregulatory things that you guys are looking at heading into the next session as well. It's all part of growing our economy. You got a $36 trillion debt. You're competing to remain the superpower, the economic engine of the world against China. You got to have a robust growing dynamic economy. And you do that by making sure taxes stay low so that, you know, reauthorizing the tax cuts, doing some other tax cuts that President Trump campaigned on. That's real important, but also reducing the regulatory burden on the job creators, like the Reigns Act is without getting into all the weeds. It basically says if you're going to have some age, you're going to do some rule that's going to have a huge impact on the economy. It needs to be okay by Congress before these agencies can proceed with that. So that kind of thing is really important. And then, frankly, reducing the regulation on the ability to get energy. Energy is the fundamental thing. You always say, you want to lead the world economically. You want to lead economically. You want to lead economically. You have to have readily available energy at affordable cost. And you can't have that when you got this crazy, you know, green agenda. We're all environmentalists. We all want a clean environment. But you got to be able to get to the energy the good Lord's blessed us with so that we can have that dynamic growing economy to deal with the debt and to stay number one economy in the world. We can do a lot more for the world economically if we're taking care of our energy at home. That's something that everybody who understands politics knows. And when you talk about the economy, it all starts and ends with being energy dominant. You know, when sticking in the thread of dough here, Mr. Chairman, you know, do you think that they're going to have a successful run? There is a lot of government waste. I mean, House Republicans, especially in the last session, wanted to try to valiantly to do everything they could, whether it be the separate appropriation bills, whether it be talking about, you know, how fast the debt's going up every hundred days, another trillion dollars. The over two billion and, you know, annual deficit now. And they're trying to look at, you know, as much as two trillion coming off of the federal debt in just the first two years is they're going to give themselves an end date, at least in this component of what dough is going to be. Do you think they have a pretty good shot at getting some stuff done here? I do. I think, you know, right now, the American people spoke, I think, loud and clear on Election Day, and they said they want this town to change. They want the agencies not to be weaponized against the American people. They actually want to serve the American people, and part of that is being efficient. Part of that is not wasting taxpayer dollars. And when you put two guys as, you know, with, again, the attitude that both Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami have, you put them in charge of identifying this and making recommendations to Congress on how we can save the taxpayers' money. I'm positive. I'm hopeful that this is going to be real success. There are a lot of people coming into the incoming administration with a business background. Now, we all understand that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami are going to be operating outside looking in because of their business interests and stuff like that, but still just a third party oversight over what's actually going on and the fluidity of amount of people that want to work from both sides of the aisles. I think this has a good chance of, again, at least getting off on the right foot. Okay. I want to segue and talk about immigration. You know, you guys had a hearing this week and had the head of CIS there. It's been a embattled agency since all the way back in the Obama administration, where, unfortunately, the current head of DHS, Alejandro Mayorkas for a time, did head it there as well. Now, there have been a lot of things immigration-wise over the course of the last nearly four years, Mr. Chairman, that the Biden-Harris administration has done outside of the rule of law, outside of constitutionality, outside of court rulings, et cetera. You know, when you're trying to get to the bottom of this and fix things, you know, coming out of this hearing and looking into the next session, you have to talk about kitchen release. The changes that have been made to parole, every time there's a ruling or challenging of the law, it's memoed around by Alejandro Mayorkas in this case. How did you feel coming out of that committee here and getting some pretty good receipts and a lot of transparency that a lot of people didn't know about for the American people? Yeah. Yeah. The Biden-Harris administration deliberately, intentionally, willfully on day one, decided they were just going to have an open board. They said, "We're going to get rid of the remaining Mexico policy. We're no longer going to build the wall, and when you get here, you will not be detained. You will be released." So, once that message was sent, everyone came. I mean, not everyone, but even millions and millions came. So, that has to change. And the hearing we had this week, I think, just underscored, because in addition to doing that, they created this kind of new, probably this lawful pathway. They made up this term for individuals from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti, and they just said, "We'll fly you in. You don't have to come to the board. We'll just fly you in and say, "Okay, you're here on temporary protective status." And it's on a scale that we've never seen before. So, I mean, that's the concern. And this program was so bad, they even let people who came in on the program, then after some time become a sponsor for someone else to come in. Like, I don't think that's ever happened in the history of our immigration policy, but they just kind of did it on their own. So, it just underscored how bad this administration is, why the American people spoke so loudly and clearly on Election Day, and of course, what we need to do with President Trump to fix it and get our border secured. Now, there is a great starting block for you guys in revisiting HR2 in the upcoming session of Congress. There's also going to be a lot of things that President Trump could executively order into existence that are going to be part of his foreign policy, which have big dividends that pay off domestically here when it comes to immigration. There is going to have to be an immigration debate over the course of the next four years, especially with somebody like President Trump and Tom Holman pulling a lot of levers when it comes to who could come in this country. And not do you think Congress is up to the task, you know, after seeing how bad and how fast the floodgates could get led open to do a little bit of immigration reform to make sure that these things can't legally do. And just kind of want to get your take on that. I do, and again, I go back to what the people said, what the great people of this great country said on Election Day. I mean, I think President Trump won like all those counties down on the border. And you see this huge increase in the vote from Hispanic Americans for President Trump. People who came to the country legally and they're saying, wait a minute, this has to end. And some of that biggest dynamic took place right on the border, particularly in the state of Texas, where they've been on, you know, they've been ground zero. Dealing with this crisis created by the Biden-Harris administration. So I do think we're going to get it done. And remember, we had the most secure border in modern times just four years ago under President Trump. So President Trump knows how to get it done. We can be helpful in that with resources they're going to need and with policy. The main thing you can't do is you just can't release, and you send the message, there's going to be a wall built. We're going to work with Mexico so that you have to wait in Mexico while we evaluate your claim. And if you're a legitimate asylum seeker, fine, under our law, then you will get to come to our great country. But we're not going to release you while you get here to the border. So you do those three things. You immediately send a message. And I think that goes a long way. And then there'll be a few other policies that we need to get done. Sure, think so as well. And then, you know, something that probably didn't surprise you much at all this week, Mr. Chairman. And that was the coming down of the pardon for Hunter Biden on the behest of Joe. You know, listen, we all knew it was coming. We just didn't know it would be a sweeping as it would be. I guess you could say the parameters of the pardon is a tribute to you and Chairman Comer who have done a hell of a job of uncovering the Biden crime family and the extensive years of things that Hunter Biden was doing around the world with collecting bags of money and just doing things illegally that most Americans not paying taxes, etc. You know, when you saw it came down and probably read into it a little bit, did it surprise you that a lot of the investigations that you led in the house probably led to some of the parameters of this pardon? Yeah, I mean, Democrats said, "Oh, the Republicans impeachment inquiries, you know, it's ridiculous." Well, if it was so ridiculous, why did he pardon for the very things that we were looking into and inquiring about? Because as you point out, the breadth of this thing was unbelievable. It was 10 years and 11 months from January 1st, 2014 until December 1st, 2024. 10 years, 11 months, pardoned him for crimes that he's been charged with and crimes he may have potentially may, you know, commit it like whoever's ever seen a pardon like that. But it's interesting, 14, 15, 16 those years were when Joe Biden was vice president and he took actions with our tax money relative to the prosecutor in Ukraine who was applying the pressure to the company Hunter Biden said on the board up and Joe Biden said, "I want that guy fired or you're not getting the loan guarantee money of American tax dollars." Now, if that's not suspicious in helping the brand and helping the Biden family enterprise, I don't know what is, that's what we were looking into in the difficult, "Oh, no, no, nothing there." So, yeah, I think I was, I think most Americans were surprised about the length of time and how broad this thing was. Yeah, and I think moving forward, you guys are going to continue to show exactly why that is. You know, when you hear about the prospectus of preemptive pardons for people who supposedly or allegedly didn't commit any crimes, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, maybe even Dr. Fauci, does that kind of re-dry browse a little bit when you hear it? Yeah, because they made a big deal about, you know, they said there were some people who were asking for some of my colleagues who were asking for it. I don't think they were, but the Democrats made a big deal of that. Now, they're like, "Did we hear it while? We need..." And I mean, jeepers, this is crazy, but I will tell you this. You know, Dr. Fauci, I'm not saying go after Dr. Fauci, I don't think President Trump's going to do any of that. I don't think you should. I think it's just like, you know, President Trump's never been that kind of guy where he's, you know, he didn't go after Hillary Clinton after all the things that she did with her campaign and Perkins Cooey and this steel dossier working with using this whole thing that was a lie to spy on his campaign. He's just not that kind of guy, but one thing about Fauci, everything that guy told us was not accurate. I mean, it turned out not one thing he told us turned out to be accurate. He said it didn't, he said it didn't come from the lab it did. He said it wasn't getting a function done to the lab it was. He said it wasn't our tax dollars. He used it to the lab. Yes, it was. He said mass work. He said six feet. So distancing was based on science when they just kind of made it up. He said the vaccinated can't get it the vaccinated can't transmit it. And he told us this was the first virus in the human history that there's no such thing as natural immunity. I mean, you got to be kidding me. He's O for eight. And then because of all that stuff he told us the restrictions they placed in our liberty. It's no wonder Americans are ticked off about it, but I don't think President Trump's going to go after these guys. But the fact that they're talking about pardons is just the crazy left talking crazy. No, it certainly is I'm kind of in the same demographic as you, Mr. Chairman. I think if anybody's going to be eventually held accountable for the COVID pandemic, it's going to be China. It's going to be coming via sanctions. It's going to be coming with cash coming back and retribution in the United States for all the people that we lost. And, you know, all the things that happened during the pandemic. But I think when you're talking about lining people up personally, and of course I'm speaking figuratively here, Donald Trump has never been that kind of guy. I don't think he's going to be one moving forward because there's a lot of work to do to get this country back in the right track, which is where we're going to round out with you today. You know, there's some just phenomenal picks coming in here. A lot of your former coworkers up there on the hill. You've got Congressman Walts. You've got a chairwoman Stefanik. You've got a former Congressman Zeldin. Just to name a few, when you see some of these picks getting so much pushback from the radical left, members of your opposition party, the press, et cetera, like Pete Hegset, Tulsi Gabbard, Cash Patel, just to name a few who are great friends of the show here. You know, we all expect it, but it's gone to like almost critical mass right now. And, you know, as the Senate ramps up for confirmation and the House is doing a good job of, you know, reintroducing all of your upper chamber counterparts to these nominees, it seems like the left's not going to take any time off heading into the holidays here of trying to demonize these picks before they can get to hearing. Yeah, I love the, I think it's an attitude that President Trump has with the selections he's making for these various cabinet-level positions and agencies. And it's reflective of what the people spoke on Election Day. They want a new attitude in their government. They want an attitude that says these agencies are going to serve the taxpayers, not be turned on the taxpayers, not be weaponized against the taxpayers. So I love the picks he's making. And I particularly like, I mean, I particularly hope that Tulsi gets in. R.F.K. Jr. Cash Patel, because they're focused on liberty, on freedom. I know cash, I know Tulsi, they want the FISA reforms that I want. And so many of us want to make sure government's not, you know, infringing on your first amendment, your fourth amendment rights, not going and searching this database with your name, phone number, email address without getting a warrant. That's what we need. And I know Tulsi and Cash are with us on those kind of things. So I certainly hope they get through, as well as all the others who former colleagues and everyone else who I think are going to do a good job for President Trump. No, they certainly are. You know, you talk about that FISA stuff. We won't have to worry about finding votes in the Republican House if the nominated agency heads and cabinet level positions can get in there and endorse, you know, the generational change which we could see happening with this incoming cabinet and the 119th session of Congress, which is where we're going to wrap it up with today. Mr. Chairman, always great catching up with you. We know you got such a busy schedule and whenever you come to share with our listenership, it's a treat. We've got your congressional website live linked in the show description. Where can we find on social media? You can go to our Twitter. Jim Jordan, I think underscore Twitter. You can go there and we got a number of followers and we're always putting things on our tweeting things there. Talked about a lot of them today on the show. This is the chairman of the House Judiciary Weaponization and Representative for Ohio's 4th Congressional District. Chairman Jim Jordan, thanks for joining us on the show today. Sir, have a great weekend. You bet. Thank you. You too. Guys, we're coming back with another all-new edition of the State for Breakfast podcast. So sit back, relax, and let us change the way you consume your news. your news. [ Silence ]
On today’s Episode (Friday 1 of 2) of the Steak for Breakfast Podcast, we are covering:
The battle over Pete Hegseth’s confirmation for SecDef continues to rage on but President-Elect Donald Trump stands firm in the wake of the latest media smear tactics
As the current session of Congress is coming to a close, House Republicans remain busy stumping for Trump’s Cabinet nominees in upper chamber and host Elon and Vivek for a little DOGE preview
Guests: In Order of Appearance
All profile handles are for X (formerly Twitter)
Senator Tommy Tuberville: (@SenTuberville) Republican U.S. Senator, Alabama
Website: https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/
Congressman Jim Jordan: (@Jim_Jordan) U.S. Representative, OH-4; Chairman, House Judiciary, Weaponization Committee
Website: http://jordan.house.gov/
Subscribe to the show and rate it, don’t forget to leave a review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. And find everything Steak for Breakfast at https://linktr.ee/steakforbreakfastpodcast Be sure to listen, like, follow and SHARE our Steak for Breakfast content!
Steak for Breakfast:
SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steak-for-breakfast-podcast/id1498791684
SUBSCRIBE on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3MXIB2s8IWLoT4tnBMAH9n?si=izN0KShBSAytW5JBBsKEwQ
email the show: steakforbreakfastpodcast@protonmail.com
Steak for Substack: https://steakforbreakfastpodcast.substack.com
linktree: https://linktr.ee/steakforbreakfastpodcast
MyPillow: Promo Code: STEAK at checkout
Website: https://mystore.com/steak
Website: https://www.mypillow.com/steak
Via the Phone: 800-658-8045
My Patriot Cigar Co. Enter Promo Code: STEAK and save 25%
http://mypatriotcigars.com/usa/steak
Man Rubs Enter Promo Code: STEAK15 and save 15%
https://manrubs.com
Beard Vet Coffee Enter Promo Code: STEAK and save 10%
https://www.beardvet.com/
BattleBorn Coffee Roasters enter promo code: STEAK and save 20% off your first order
https://www.battleborn.coffee
New Hope Wellness use this link or enter promo code: STEAK during intake for free consultation and $100 off your first order
https://www.newhopewellness.com/steak
Call: 1-800-527-2150
