How Pete Hegseth BROKE Democrats in Confirmation Hearing | Guest: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna | 1/15/24
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I mean, if you're a Democrat, you're like, no, no,
it did not go well.
If you're a Hegseth fan or you're a Trump fan, a Republican, or just somebody who just can think clearly, boy, did it expose everything on the left.
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So I don't know about you,
Stu, but boy was I impressed with Congress yesterday.
You know?
They always find a way to make you think a little less about
them.
You know, they always can cross that line.
Maisie Hirona was
what?
Well, she's America's dumbest senator.
That's already confirmed.
She won the competition with Ryan Seacrest hosting.
And
it's a great show, by the way.
Yeah.
I would totally watch that.
Oh, I would watch that.
Oh, I would watch that.
Can you imagine the jeopardy with the Senate and the House?
Oh, my gosh.
And they ask him to tough questions.
They all end up with zero, and the winner gets zero.
Like, you know,
Maisie Hirono somehow wins, but she's got zero dollars.
Yeah.
Everyone else has negative.
Right.
Right.
And then I think they should have to pay the negative dollars to Ryan Seacrest.
Oh, my gosh.
Okay.
So
here's one of the more incredible cut 15.
Here's Maisie Hirono on
taking over Greenland.
We have it.
To take over Greenland or
an ally of
Denmark.
Senator, one of the things that President Trump is so good at is never strategically tipping his hand.
And so I would never in this public forum give one way or another direct what orders orders the president sounds to me in any context.
It sounds to me that you would contemplate carrying out such an order to basically invade Greenland.
Oh, does it?
Take over the Panama Canal.
Does it?
Oh, wow.
Oh, that's.
Wow.
You don't know what the English language really means, do you?
You don't know what the English language is.
The automatic problem.
Hey, do you have a big sword?
Because I think Secretary of Defense should have a big sword.
I like swords.
How much do swords cost?
And that was the smartest line of question.
It really was.
It really was.
How many tanks do we have?
Do we have like just the ones I see on TV or do we keep some of them secret so we can surprise people with more tanks?
I want to know.
Answer the question.
Are drones really just like big bees?
They could be.
They make noises like big bees, Maisie.
Instead of missiles, have we thought about using Thor's hammer?
Because it would come right back to us.
That's actually a pretty good idea.
Can we get the Space Force to look into alien cows?
I read online that alien cows are why we need strong defenses in Iowa.
What's the Pentagon doing?
Do you like nachos?
I mean,
I would rather watch that.
Whatever you just did, I would rather watch them doing that.
Oh, my gosh.
I mean, those could have been questions yesterday.
Yeah.
It was that, it was that insane.
Will you you use the military to invade Greenland?
Do you like nachos?
Of course not.
Invade Greenland.
Iceland, maybe, but not Greenland.
No, no, never.
It's too big.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, no, of course.
You know, it's funny because he says he would never
strategically tip his hand.
And it's funny because Trump, in a way,
always
tips his hand, right?
Like, he does want Greenland.
He has tipped his hand.
He's told us about it for years.
But he's told.
He does want the border secure.
He's told us about that for years.
He's very, but when it comes to specific things he's willing to do and not do in a negotiation,
he'll suggest a bunch of stuff, but you don't know what's real.
Right.
That's why he's a good negotiator.
You don't know.
You know, you bring up that Tiffany's example.
Yeah.
You brought that up before.
I was in the city and I saw, I was telling my kids that story.
God only knows if it's true.
You're the one that told it to me.
No, I said to him, I told him,
I said, your negotiating gift is unbelievable.
I said,
I've never questioned your negotiating power since I heard the story about Trump Tower and Tiffany's.
And he laughed and he said, good for you for knowing that story.
And I said, that is just what incredible.
That takes.
balls of steel.
Yeah.
I mean, for people who don't know it, maybe you should give a 30-second version of it because I always teased it.
Tiffany's was not going to sell him the air rights so he could build the Trump Tower.
He had already bought the property, so he goes, It was either Tiffany's or Cartier.
And so he goes to the board and he says, Look, I'm going to build this building.
It's going to be beautiful, gonna be 70 stories.
And they're like, Hmm, well, we own the air rights, and we're not gonna sell them to you because we don't want a big building like that.
And he said, Oh, you know what?
I thought you might say that.
I already own the property.
So if you don't, and he rolled out architectural plans of what he describes as the ugliest building he could possibly build.
Three stories.
And he said, okay, well, if you don't let me build the Trump Tower, I'm going to build this.
And they said, no, you wouldn't.
And he said, watch me.
And he left.
By the time he got back to the office, they had given him the air right.
Right.
That's who he is.
That's who he is.
Now, would he have built that building?
I think
the answer to that is there are circumstances in which he would have.
Yes.
Which is important.
And there's also threats to make promises, right?
There's also circumstances where he would have just sold the property.
Yep.
Yeah.
And you don't know which.
And you don't know which, and that's why it works.
Yes, right?
Yes.
So I don't think there's any chance.
I don't believe there is any chance whatsoever outside of like, I don't know,
China taking over Greenland first.
Right.
Right.
Something like that.
We might invade Greenland.
But there's, I don't think there's any chance we just invade Greenland.
Of course not.
However,
first of all, I said, I don't think there's any chance.
There's some doubt even in my mind that we might do it.
And that's why it works.
Right.
When he was like, hey, you know, the little missile guy, you know, I'm going to show you new missiles.
That's why it works.
Because Kim Jong-un and everybody in the world went,
is he willing to launch nukes against this guy?
I don't know.
Who knows?
Maybe.
Who knows?
And like, that's why it's successful.
It's why there's something behind it.
So, you know,
it's why the hostages are being released by 12 o'clock on Monday.
Have you heard that?
I've heard, it's not confirmed, right?
It's
credible speculation.
Okay, because I know, obviously,
if you're...
If you're...
I mean, Donald Trump has been threatening it, and he said, get it done before I come into office.
Yeah, or there will be real consequences.
And there will be.
And like, Stephanie.
You might take Greenland.
Just thinking of the...
Exactly.
Think of the politics of this for a moment.
Because if you go back to
Iran, Carter's leaving, Reagan's coming in.
Right.
The second Reagan takes over, they release the hostages, right?
And everyone remembers it exactly that way, right?
Reagan essentially is responsible for that.
As soon as they came in, two things.
They didn't like Carter and they were afraid of Reagan.
And they said, okay, we're out.
And they leave the blackjack table.
Trump,
I don't know.
You know him better than I do.
But in my view, Trump is smart enough.
First of all, number one, really wants the hostages out.
Can't believe the way we handle this.
So that's true.
Yeah.
But also has thought about that historical precedent.
Oh, of course he has.
And he comes out and he says, do it before I come in.
Yes.
Which now, if they do it before he comes in, it is not a Biden credit.
Nope.
It is his.
And of course, if they do it after that, it's also his.
He wins both ways.
He is, I mean, he has.
I'm telling you, I think he's the sharpest he's maybe ever been.
Oh, please don't.
I'm having PTSD after four years of hearing that about Biden.
I don't know.
I can't handle it.
No, no, no.
Don't say he's sharp as a tax.
No, no, no.
Just the best negotiator he may have ever been.
Everything is a negotiation.
What he's doing with Pete Hegset,
Hegseth, all negotiation.
How he's handling all of the stuff with with the House and the Senate, all negotiation.
He is a master negotiator and he knows, you know, the reason why he's so good at real estate negotiation is because he knows it inside now.
Experience.
He didn't know it the first time.
Yeah.
And the first term was
the, yeah, it was.
There's two things.
Like we, I think, have argued for a long time, it would be great to have someone outside of the system who thinks about these things differently.
And he had that part of it.
But the criticism of that, and this has played out in other realms before,
where you say, well, the person, you know, they don't know the system.
They don't know the buttons to press.
They don't know the levers to pull.
And so
that...
Especially at the beginning of his term, really wasn't there.
He was learning it.
I mean, to his kind of his own, he's even told that story before.
Oh, yeah.
Now he's in the position where he kind of has both.
You know, he's an outsider and he knows the system, which is a combination we haven't seen before.
It's because it's unique, right?
It's not something that occurs a lot.
No, everybody goes in wanting to use the system.
He wants to shut the system down.
It's going to be fascinating.
It's going to be unbelievable.
We are going to have plenty to talk about that.
I can guarantee.
Are you?
I'm not tired of winning yet.
Are you tired of winning?
No.
No.
I mean, let me give you, let me take a quick break and then we'll get back to Pete Hegseth.
But I got to tell you, we had four huge ESG wins.
Huge.
Like, it's over.
And I hate to say that because they never surrender.
They just morph.
But
the way they've been operating and what happened here in the last couple of days, it's over.
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Federal judge in Texas just ruled that ESG cannot be used in employee retirement accounts managed by employers or their asset manager companies.
This is huge,
huge.
You can't understate the importance of this ruling.
If it survives court challenges, and it likely will because the appellate court is very conservative, it means that companies that push their employees into ESG investments, and many of the large companies did, will be in violation of federal law and need to pull out of the ESG funds.
Companies are probably going to go running before the case ever gets to the appellate level because they don't want to run the risk of being found in violation of federal law later.
This one case alone
will go a long way to crush ESG.
Tired of winning yet?
Because I'm not.
BlackRock left the UN's International Association of Asset Managers.
Do you know what that is?
Do you remember the Glasgow
Net Zero conference?
When they were in Glasgow, they had, just like they did at the Paris Accords, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero.
It was the biggest weapon that they had, the elites had, to enforce ESG.
BlackRock just...
left.
That's coming undone.
More good news.
Every large U.S.
bank now has announced they're leaving the U.N.'s Association of Net Zero ESG Bankers.
That's also part of the Glasgow Financial Alliance.
We've been talking about this for years.
ESG in banking is one of the most important ways Biden, Davos, and other elites were planning to push the reset button on the world's economy.
The fact that the banks are now running away from ESG is a great sign of the things to come.
They are clearly afraid of the Trump administration that they are going to come down hard on the banks.
Amen and amen.
Finally,
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The rule specifically mentions concern made by our allies about ESG.
This isn't as comprehensive as we need it to be, but the Trump administration is coming in for tougher rules for banks,
and it is surprising and a very good start.
We are doing...
Are you tired of winning yet?
I mean, all of these companies are running for cover.
And if they're not running running for cover, they are running to kiss his butt.
Now, that is something that I don't like.
It shows that our companies don't really have, they don't have a spine at all.
They don't actually believe whatever it is they're preaching to you.
They're just joining the bandwagon, and it's all an ad agency thing.
They're just doing whatever they have to do to get into bed with the king.
Well, we don't have a king.
And that's the good thing.
We don't have a king.
No company should ever be afraid of the president of the United States.
But they're not.
What they're afraid of is not Donald Trump.
They're afraid the rule of law is coming back and we're not going to have these public-private fascistic partnerships with the government.
That is fantastic.
So very, very good news on that.
Now,
next week is going to be really interesting.
It's kind of like all of life, life, isn't it?
I mean, how many conversations do you have with people that are like, well, you know, it's going to be interesting to see what's going on, to see what happens.
Yeah.
Next year's going to be wildly interesting.
It looks like
Donald Trump is going to address the World Economic Forum next week via satellite.
to Switzerland.
He's one of the few world leaders that have been allowed to make a virtual appearance.
I'm going to be watching that with eager eyes to see exactly what he's going to say to the elites in Davos.
So that happens as well next week.
The Hegseth thing went really well yesterday.
Did you see a single stumble from Hegseth?
He couldn't remember all of his kids' names, but he has seven.
So
that, I mean, you know, you liked it.
It It was a little bit of the old school Rick Perry thing where you say, I've got four things.
When you say I have seven children and you start naming them, you need to get to the end of the list.
Yeah.
And that's tough.
This is why maybe you only have four or five.
But other than that, no, he was, he was good.
I mean, it was, he was put in a very difficult position.
Did you see Blumenthal?
How many Marines do we have?
175,000.
No, sir.
173,500.
That dude.
Dude, gotcha.
That was the big thing they did try to get.
There was one
Asian
collection of nations that they came after.
That is an economic thing.
Yeah.
That's an economic thing.
Yes, it has defense as part of it, but it's not something that the
Department of Defense is
leading.
I'm always mixed on the gotcha sort of, hey, here's pop quiz.
You know, answer every detail about your job in advance.
Like, I don't know that that's fair.
I would like to see, like, for example, if Hag Seth was prepared for something like that and said,
well, you know, I can't answer that question.
Of course, we're going to have people, you know, we're going to be going through all this, blah, blah, blah.
But let me ask you this, Senator.
Here's an arcane detail about your job.
What is it?
What is it?
And it's like,
they couldn't answer it either.
And they're in the jobs already.
No one can answer every single aspect about their jobs.
You know, I think he did a good job.
This is where he should shine, too.
I mean, he's a good community.
I think he knows what he's doing.
I thought he did well.
I think he did well.
Certainly, I don't think he did anything that would make Republicans not vote for him.
And that's really the standard he needed to clear.
No,
he's going to be our Secretary of Defense.
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Pat Gray joins us from Pat Gray Unleashed, a man who still will not answer the question about how many times he beats his wife a week.
Welcome to the program.
Zero.
Yeah.
That's zero.
I just answered the question.
No, you didn't answer either.
Where did you stop?
That's the better question, isn't it?
So
you know what's amazing is
the
outrageous behavior of Tim Kaine.
I mean, I thought everybody looked stupid, but Tim Kaine just looked like an ass.
Yeah, he did.
He did.
And since when did Democrats start caring about that?
I mean,
this is a guy who was Hillary Clinton's running mate.
Are you kidding me?
Here's Tim Kaine, a play cut one of Tim Kaine.
Man, I have failed in things in my life, and thankfully I'm redeemed by my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
In finalizing divorces from your first and second wives, were there non-disclosure agreements in connection with those divorces?
Senator, not that I'm aware of.
If there were, would you agree to release those first and second wives from any confidentiality agreement?
Senator, it's not something I'm aware of.
But if there were, you would agree to release them from a confidentiality agreement.
No, I would.
Senator, that's not my responsibility.
Did you ever engage in any acts of physical violence against any of your wives?
Senator, absolutely not.
But you would agree with me that if someone had committed physical violence against the spouse, that would be disqualifying to serve as Secretary of Defense, correct?
Senator, absolutely not.
Have I ever done that?
You would agree that that would be a disqualifying offense, would you not?
Senator, you're talking about a hypothetical.
I don't think it's a hypothetical.
Violence against spouses occurs every day.
Yes, but you're not.
And if you as a leader,
stop, just god.
But your question
was not, does it happen every day?
Your question was hypothetical.
Well, yes, it was a hypothetical question.
These people do not understand the English language.
It's true.
That's true.
I mean, and he was, you know, Hagseth was saying it was like,
this didn't occur with me, so therefore
it's a nonsensical question.
Correct.
And he's trying to broaden it into, well, theoretically, if...
So if somebody ever accuses you of it, you should have to step down immediately.
I mean, that's the implication there.
They're trying to set that up.
And we will, by the way, if you say yes to this, we will find that person, whoever it is.
Exactly right.
And that's why Hag Seth wouldn't go go there.
He shouldn't.
Did you?
I don't remember Tim Kaine
talking about.
You could finish your sentence right there.
I don't remember Tim Kaine.
Did he actually run for vice president of the United States?
Which is strange.
He ran with Hillary Clinton, who was married to a serial abuser.
He didn't really have a problem with that.
Did he ask Hillary those questions in the interview process?
No, he didn't.
No, he didn't.
You would agree that if someone raped someone credibly,
they shouldn't be president of the United States.
Right.
Right?
Right.
Right.
And
I think he was also the guy on stage with M Hoff, you know, calling him just a great dude.
Oh, right.
And somebody that, you know, you got
a great first husband.
Excuse me.
Credible allegations that he slapped his girlfriend
in public.
Seems like abuse.
Yeah, I don't think he even denied that at the time, did he?
Not that I remember.
He just wouldn't talk about it, right?
Right.
Well, I was saying he would talk about it, but no one asked him about it, right?
So that was kind of actually right.
I also thought that Tim Kaine would be our most forgettable vice presidential candidate ever, but then Tim Walls came around.
So honestly, I feel like, I mean, I feel like he's not a good person.
It's the name Tim.
Yeah, I think it's a good idea.
I think it is.
If you polled the American people and said,
who was the vice presidential candidate with Hillary Clinton in 2016?
Or yeah, 20, yeah, that was 2016, right um gosh they're all running together now um what percentage of people would know it's outside of let's say virginia 20
i you think it's that high maybe not i don't even think
i don't think it's that high now if you'd asked about walls right now it would be above 20 but in 10 years
i wonder though yeah i wonder yeah i'm not sure tim walls i mean he
doesn't even take office yet yeah they didn't even know tim walls when you know when it was the heat of the campaign.
I think those who went to vote might not have known who Tim Walz vote for her.
We know people who run surveys.
And every once in a while, we'll get an email like, hey, like, any questions you want to ask in a scientific survey of the American people?
Like, you know, they're just looking for additional perspectives on what they might ask.
I want the next time we get one of those, we have to ask that question.
Can you remember who was the presidential VP candidate with Hillary Clinton and who was it with Kamala Harris?
I think think because it's so recent, the Walls one would still be relatively high.
It would be low.
What would your guess be?
What, 25%?
It would be higher than that.
It's pretty low.
Oh, no.
Half of these people voted for it.
It's no higher than 30.
No,
it's definitely higher than 30.
Really?
You think so?
I don't know.
I think so because you think they got, what, 45% of the vote?
Yeah, but that was for Kamala.
Yeah.
They don't know his name.
Right.
They weren't thinking about it.
They were like, you know, that Tim Walls guy, I think he could step into the role.
That'd be fair.
You might be right.
You're convincing me.
Especially it was unprompted.
Like it was like Phil in the Blake.
You got to write that right in the name.
No way.
No way.
That's incredible.
You want to talk about a person with zero impact.
I mean, both Kane and Walls.
I mean, giant zilches.
Yeah.
These people have risen to power.
They failed up over and over again.
And they have become
people who have all sorts of power, who have all sorts of money and all the things, all the perks that they get from their jobs, but have really done nothing with it.
They're giant zilches.
That is really incredible.
It is.
That's quite an accomplishment.
I still can't believe they picked Tim Walls.
I can't believe it.
And I dislike him far more than Tim Kaine.
Oh, Tim Kaine became very, very unlikable.
He was unlikable yesterday, but he was.
He was basically unlikely.
But
he still didn't sink to the level.
I'm totally with me.
I'm with Pat on this.
Walls is special.
I don't know what it is about him.
Yeah.
I can't stand him.
Can you hear what he's doing now in Minnesota?
In Minnesota.
This is the defender of democracy, right?
The defender of democracy.
He is not telling the Democrats to go to work next week.
They had a secret swearing in.
Why was it secret?
If it was so good, why was it so secret?
And why did you have to go someplace at night and swear all of the Democrats in?
And then not bring a quorum together on day one that the assembly is supposed to meet.
So
that way, the Republicans, which have a majority, slim, I think it's by one, majority in the assembly, they can't go to work because they won't have a quorum because nobody's showing up.
And that's deep in the democracy playbook.
Oh, yeah, it's in the back pages.
No, it is.
It's after all the references.
You'll find it.
You know, it's so funny.
I mean, when we started the country, we couldn't get a quorum.
You know, for the first like, I think, week and a half, two weeks, every day the founders would show up and they'd be like, okay,
we only got 10 people.
Can't do it.
And
so they couldn't start Congress.
Nobody was showing up.
But that's because nobody thought the government was important.
You know what I mean?
They were all like, yeah, so we start late.
Big deal.
What are we going to do?
Spend money?
You know what I mean?
These guys, they love government.
And just
to shut the Republicans out,
they'll go against the will of the people.
What's the difference between this and what people are protesting in Romania?
Honestly, all they did was the judges said, you know what?
That candidate can't win.
Isn't that really what the Democrats and Tim Walls are saying?
Well, nope, they can't win.
They can't have that majority.
Yeah.
It also shows their hypocrisy of the whole democratic process thing they supposedly love so deeply and were
trying to protect against Donald J.
Trump.
And now they completely ignore it.
It's interesting.
It's fascinating.
And it's typical.
I mean, this is what they do every single time.
Every time.
I couldn't take yesterday.
It was just so full of hypocrisy.
It was like, honestly, listening to Gavin Newsom lecture Ron DeSantis about state preparedness.
Oh, man.
You know what I mean?
I mean,
it was that, you know, somebody sets your house on fire and then they lecture you about fire safety while they're holding a flamethrower.
That's what we saw yesterday.
Really?
Really?
You care about these things.
You know, we care about women.
Do you?
Because
you've just been torpedoing.
You couldn't even define a woman.
You couldn't define what a woman is, and you're now suddenly the defender of women?
Come on.
I'm sure they'll look like a defender of women when Pam Bondi sits there today.
Oh, yeah.
You know, I'm sure they will.
We're going to be covering that live as it goes on today.
Did you see the other thing Gavin Newsom did yesterday?
No.
Which can't possibly be legal.
It can't possibly be legal.
If he did it in California, it's not.
It can't get you.
We could just end it there.
He is making it illegal for,
let's say you're in the Palisades and your house is now a bunch of rocks and rubble.
He's making it illegal for people to offer to buy your home
because he, in his view, at least this is the stated view, these are greedy developers who are going to come in and try to rip off these homeowners.
So it's illegal.
If you're one of those greedy people, you can't make an offer on one of their homes.
First of all,
what?
Those houses, the minimum buy-in in the Palisades is like 3.5.
Yeah, isn't it?
That's the minimum.
There are 80 million dollar homes there.
Those people aren't going to be duped.
And the ones that are 3.5 million probably are the ones that have been sitting there and cannot afford to move.
Because of the taxes and everything else.
They can't afford to rebuild.
So what are they going to do?
You can't sell that property?
Yeah.
Like, what if you want an offer on your big pile of rubble?
What if you want to sell it?
What if you realize that Gavin Newsom is so terrible, you want to exit the state?
So, now you're not going to get offers from people who might give you offers that you like.
Let the person themselves judge their own situation as to whether it's a rip-off.
So, did you hear also about the
ceiling on rentals, on the gouging?
Oh, God.
The price gouging.
Price gouging.
They're putting a cap on this, so it's like $6,500 a month that
you could charge.
Well, some of these houses have $20,000 a month mortgages.
Who's going to lease their house at a $14,000 loss every month?
It never, ever, ever works this price gouging
these laws.
But again, like...
Just from a First Amendment perspective, isn't it illegal to say you can't make an offer on something?
You can't say you want to buy something?
Like, it's speech.
At its core, that's all it is.
I will tell you, I mean, buying something and free speech, when I was 18 years old, I went to the Vatican and I was looking at the Sistine Chapel.
And at the time, I was living in Texas when Texas was Texas.
And I looked at it and I just thought to myself, I know some Texan has come in here and go, all right, how much for the painting people up there?
How much you want for that?
Now, really, come on.
Everybody's got to prize how much for that.
I mean, you don't have a right to say that?
Of course you do.
And then what happens?
The person will say no.
Accepts it or rejects it, right?
And you know what?
The person who owns that home that was a home, which is now not a home.
I mean, think about this.
Let's say you're 72 years old.
You've lived there for your entire life.
You've been thinking about leaving for a while.
Now your entire town's burned to the ground.
You want to wait for a 12-year rebuild of your society?
No.
No.
You might want to leave and go to a nice retirement community, but now you won't get offers to sell your home because Gavin Newsom is terrible.
Gosh, he's good job, guys.
He's incredible.
California, learn the lesson.
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Stu and I are just so gun-shy.
We don't want to say, you know, this looks like it's going to be good.
But I mean, it looks like it's going to be good.
But once you say that, you're like, oh, no, don't, don't say that.
It'll jinx it.
It does.
You do get that sense.
You know, you're like, gosh, the things are going well.
And then you realize, wait, whenever I say that, things just go, they fall apart.
They fall apart.
And
so I don't know.
I think Trump's put together a good group of people generally that I think can handle these jobs.
Pam Bondi is a great example of this.
Hang on just a second.
Can we bring up Dick Durbin?
Oh, gosh.
Must we?
Loretta Lynch to be President Obama's Attorney General.
He's a Republican member.
He is sitting here just
saying all these things about Pam Bondi.
And Pam is just sitting there smiling.
She has that look of,
you know,
I remember from back in my dating days when I tried to approach a woman, very unimpressed.
That's what she looks like.
She's exactly right.
Yeah.
This isn't going to end well for you.
I can't wait for your sentence to end so I can leave.
That's what it is.
It really does look like that.
It's interesting, too, with Bondi, as opposed to Hegseth.
Hegseth, there is a projection here, right?
Hexeth is a smart guy.
He was in the military.
He has a lot of experience that is interesting for the job to give him a different perspective.
But he doesn't have the traditional trappings of a Secretary of Defense.
So you're making a little bit of a projection.
You're saying, I think he can do the job.
Pam Bondi's done this job already.
She was already an attorney general in a large state.
She's already done the gig.
You can look at her record.
This is, I don't even think the Democrats, they'll put up their little fight today, but I don't even think they have hope for stopping this one.
Oh, no, they've got to stop it.
Dick Durbin just said Donald Trump has said he can do whatever he wants with the justice system.
Are you going to stop it?
Oh, no.
And bonding?
Oh, no.
You're going to stop it?
And she looked very unimpressed with the question.
Yeah.
I'm not dating right now.
At least I have a boyfriend.
Thanks.
People like you.
But thanks.
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Well,
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What a surprise.
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So,
you know who's going to be sitting up on the, you know, on the steps of the Capitol?
Not me, not me.
Not you, no.
No, we'll be actually covering it for Blaze TV, right?
This is going to be really cool.
We're going to be overlooking the
happenings and covering every minute of it as it happens.
Yeah.
I can't wait.
Both here and on Blaze TV, by the way.
I cannot wait to hear his speech.
This is one I'm actually really excited about.
I haven't been excited about any president getting in for a very long time.
I had not thought about that yet.
That's interesting because what
it's a totally different tone, I think, than the first one.
Remember, the first one was American Carnage.
Yeah.
That was the American Carnage speech.
And it was kind of like known as that sort of a little bit of a downer.
You know, it was a little bit of a downer.
And for a good reason, there's a lot of problems he was talking about.
And I'm sure he'll hit some of that stuff here.
But this feels actually more optimistic.
I feel like we're going into
a period of vision rather than one of like, gosh, the last thing sucked.
Exactly right.
A period of vision.
What the country has needed for a very long time, vision.
You know, the vision that they were selling, you know, under the Biden administration, they had to force people into that vision.
Nobody saw that as inspiring.
You're like, no, no, no, I don't want to do that.
Then you shut up.
And sit down.
We're going to silence your voice because you're going to do it and you're going to like it.
This vision is inspiring.
And that's exactly what we're getting.
Now, we're also going to see Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.
They're on the guest list, but they donated a million dollars to the Trump inaugural fund.
You know, so they're like,
we're with you.
They're going to.
you know, sit next to Elon Musk.
John Roberts is going to minister the oath of office to Trump at noon on Monday.
The riskiest invitation, now you don't usually invite other heads of state,
but he did.
But only ones that he thought were really important.
Malay is coming.
The prime minister of Italy, Maloney, apparently is coming.
Brazilian president is coming.
If
he could retrieve his passport, this is
Bolsonaro.
If he can get his passport from Brazil, he's coming.
And,
oh, the prime minister or the president of Ukraine, not coming.
I wasn't invited.
What about Vladimir Putin?
I bet he'll be there.
No, he's not.
How about Kim Jong-un?
He's not going to be there.
He'll be there.
You know who he did invite?
Who?
Xi Jinping.
Really?
Yeah.
I don't think he's going to come.
No, he's not coming.
No.
Darn it.
He's just sending a high-level representative
in his place.
I mean, look, you want,
I would love a good relationship with China.
I would too.
It would be great.
I mean, we're never going to have a perfect relationship because of all the terrible things they do.
But I would love to not be on the verge of war with them.
It would be great.
Me too.
And I think the president is exactly like that.
You know, the difference, though, is
the last president didn't have to invite him
because
the last president was, I mean, really really already in the pocket of china so you know this one this time the china relationship i think is going to be open and we'll know about it and it'll be pro-american instead of like i'm just doing what the xi zingping
is telling me to do when we were at the side of the mount kilimajero
i'm just doing that you know it's it's going to be different with donald trump yeah when biden was thinking about inviting him he just walked in the room and was like i think i want to invite uh Xi Jinping.
And Hunter was just like, oh, I'm on WhatsApp with him right now.
What do you want me to tell him?
It's funny.
He just said that he should invite you to your inauguration.
The inaugural parade also is going to have the MAGA garbage truck.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
And he's got Carrie Underwood.
He has
fireworks.
She's thinking of beating over this, by the way.
Which is weird.
I mean, you know, look, I don't think she's in a big, this is an endorsement of Trump.
I think she's just, first of all, a performer, second of all, thinks the country should come together, doesn't think Republicans are all evil, which I guess is the standard you're supposed to have.
Right.
You know, but I mean, like, I remember going to a Republican national convention with you back in the day, Glenn, and, you know, The Rock came out.
Yeah.
Dwayne Johnson came out and he and he spoke at it.
And it's like,
well, he, again, this is a long time ago, but he's, you know, obviously a massive star.
And it wasn't like, hey, I endorse all Republican tax cuts.
That wasn't, it was just like someone who was saying like, hey, like, you know,
I love America was basically all he said.
And that's exactly what Kerry Underwood is saying.
Yeah.
I just, I love my country, and this is an important moment.
Maybe we can all come together.
And I think that's important.
Maybe, maybe America, we're returning to that place to where we don't have to hate each other if we vote differently.
Wouldn't that be nice?
Wouldn't that be nice?
By the way, YMCA, the village people are coming.
I don't know when they're.
Going to be interesting to see when they're actually going to perform.
I mean, it might be weird to have the cowboy construction worker, the police officer, and
the Indian on stage there in front of the Capitol.
I mean, I don't think that's what's going to happen, but I don't know.
It's Donald Trump.
He's got the garbage truck in the parade.
Who knows?
Anything could happen.
Just about anything.
And of course, Michelle Obama is not going to be there.
Barack Obama is going to be there.
Yeah, that's interesting.
Michelle, that is a notable one, right?
Barack's going.
The Bushes, the Bushes don't like Trump.
They're going.
Oh, they hate.
They're going because they, you know, they respect what's going on here.
It's a different message from Michelle.
She doesn't respect it.
No, she hates it.
She doesn't.
She hates it.
She hates it.
By the way, Mike Johnson has said that the flags are going up to full staff just for the inauguration.
Then they'll be lowered after.
He said he thinks it's appropriate that we honor Jimmy Carter the way it should be, but we also honor the incoming president during the inauguration.
So I think that's a reasonable compromise.
It's obvious.
Obvious, right?
I mean, you wonder, I don't know, is it standard, Glenn?
You know this stuff better than I do, but like, is it standard for 30 days of flag lowering?
So that's a
normal thing for a president.
So I'm sure it wasn't a message being sent by the Biden administration.
You could lower the flags for Jimmy Carter based on what he did for about 10 minutes, and I would think that's being very generous.
Very generous.
However,
he was the president of the United States.
Everybody should be treated exactly the same, no matter how they performed in office.
He should have
30 days of the flag lowered.
So I stand for that.
But I also believe the president of the United States on Inauguration Day, that is a visionary day.
That is a day that we are not looking to the past.
We're looking to the future.
So during the inauguration, those should be raised
in honor of the incoming president and then brought back down after the inauguration.
And frankly, it looks like we're mourning.
the new president coming into office exactly right now.
It looks terrible.
Exactly right.
I would say that for anybody.
I would also say 30 days is just excessive
for any president.
I don't care who it is.
I don't like the pomp and circumstance around this.
I don't like the state funerals.
I don't like the parades.
I don't like any of it.
This is not
Great Britain.
This is not...
We don't have it.
No, no, no.
When Reagan died,
I went to the funeral and I, you know, I stood in line to, I guess, view the casket.
which was a little weird, but I didn't have a problem with that.
I know.
I know you didn't.
But you still did i i
it's not like my biggest complaint about the country right but i don't i think it would be meaningful for a country like the united states that broke away from all of that that was founded in a in a revolution against countries like that to just say you know what we respect what that guy did but he's just another guy He's just a freaking other guy.
A president is not king.
He's not a dictator.
He's another guy.
He's a person who of note.
Here's a day, but then that's it.
I think, and, you know, who is going to do this, because they all love it, but that would require first the president of the United States, when he leaves office to say, no, please call me Mr.
Trump, Mr.
Beck, you know, whoever it is, because I'm no longer the president.
And that's important.
What George Washington wanted was you return back right in.
You know, you served, but you're not senator for life.
I mean, well, they are now.
But I mean, you know, you are supposed to not come home in a box.
Yeah.
You know, you're supposed to return back into the workforce.
I mean, it was the George Washington vibe, right?
That's what he wanted.
He wanted it to be, he wanted you to be, you go, you take this position.
It is a position with all sorts of checks and balances on it, with limited power.
That is,
it's not co-equal branches of government.
Congress actually has more power than the president of the United States in our system.
The president can't eject congressmen.
Congressman can eject the president.
Correct.
So it is, it's supposed to be a system that doesn't look at that position as a god.
And I do think when you're talking state funeral, I'm thinking of like Lenin.
You know, that's what comes to mind.
It's like that.
I just, it's too much.
It's not the biggest thing in the world, but it's too much for me.
I mean, you have to say.
Did you have a problem with the train bringing Lincoln's body home and everybody standing by the train tracks?
I mean, I think a
lot of people want to.
Yeah, people want a little bit of mourning.
But again,
what we're just discussing is a month,
a month, a month of the flag,
of all the flags in America at half-staff for a guy who's 100 years old and, by the way, a horrible president.
Right.
Well, you got to give it the same for everybody.
But I think you're right on that.
And I also think, I also,
I mean, I think we spend more time today than I ever remember as a kid with our flags at half-staff.
You're like, who the hell died?
I know.
You know what I mean?
A lot of times I don't know.
Yeah, it's like lucky the cat, you know, the last president's cat that you didn't even know died.
We have to have it down for three days.
I mean, I don't even,
they seem to always be at half-staff.
And it's like, can we not do that?
Let's, because that way, when you say,
who died?
When you ask that question, people will have an answer.
But the answer I constantly get back is, I have no idea.
I don't know.
Honestly, honestly, I saw it the other day at half-staff, and it took me a second.
I was like, what?
Why is that at half-staff today?
And I was like, oh, is it Carter still?
Yeah.
And it was.
Yeah.
And I eventually, you know, thought about it and figured it out, but it wasn't like instant, like, oh my gosh, the national tragedy of the 100-year-old man, who, by the way, has looked dead for about seven years, is now dead.
And look, congratulations.
The kai made to 100 years old.
No knock on him.
Apparently he got out and voted even in this past election.
That was a good time.
Did you see him?
He was spry.
He looked spry.
He looked like
I'm going to mark that box.
Which means
I want to check the box for Joe Biden.
No help whatsoever on that, Glenn.
But again, I just, it's not a knock on.
I have a lot of knocks on Carter's presidency.
I don't think he was a good one.
But I'm with you.
You know, a lot of people probably did appreciate him.
He was a nice guy.
He wasn't like this evil figure in my head.
So I get it that you're going to have a mourning.
And, you know, you could choose, I assume, as president to say, I don't want a state funeral
if he wanted it.
And he wants to put millions and millions of dollars of
our money to celebrate his presidency after he's dead.
That's, I guess, up to him.
I just don't think it's a wonderful idea.
By the way, just think how many times the amount,
how, think about it for just a moment this way, as I like to do from time to time.
All the taxes you will ever pay in your entire life, combine them all, and you've paid for like one 18th of a mile of the parade of his casket.
Like, it's, it's so, and I don't know exactly,
but it's like all the money, all the security, all the things that went into that.
So, that's another thing.
I could
look at these funerals as a celebration, not of life, the end of secret service protection.
So you're saving money.
You're like a celebration.
The burden is finally off our shoulders.
That's true.
Yeah.
That's true.
I can't imagine he would be a, I mean, you wouldn't have to be very fast to be able to defend him.
He's not moving around all that.
No, those were the ones.
Those were the fat, you know,
DEI hires that were, you know,
they can't run, they can't jump,
they can't do anything.
Once he's in in a secure location, there's not much is going to happen.
Right.
No, and he's not real active.
Well, that hasn't changed in the last year from
right now
for about the last 12 or 48 months.
Quick question.
Yeah.
Better president.
Joe Biden
or Jimmy Carter?
Jimmy Carter.
Currently.
If you could pick one to be currently the president of the United States, which one would you pick?
I'd pick up.
Jimmy Carter.
But
is it any different than what we have right now?
I think so because Biden is currently doing harm to the country.
No, no, the Carter people are around him are doing harm.
Those people would still be around Jimmy Carter.
He voted today.
He can sign things, and Carter couldn't sign anything.
Now they could forge his signature, but I don't think it would be believable.
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There is a great, great article written by Christopher Knight.
He writes for the Western Journal and American Thinker, and he wrote one
for the Federalist.
No one wants a Biden Presidential Library.
And he writes a really good case on what would be in the Biden presidential library.
Just a bunch of shredded documents.
He said, you know, everything is just blacked out.
He said that, you know, I've been to the Nixon Library, and he said they confront Watergate straight on.
They give you all the details,
everything about Watergate.
Do you think that Biden would have anything about
Huntergate, China Gate,
Gategate,
any of the gates that we just went through?
No.
I honestly think that era is over.
I wouldn't expect that out of the Trump Museum either, that he would address his scandals in some
journalistic way.
He's going to give his side of the story, maybe.
But I don't think Trump's going to be like, actually,
he had a good point on this.
I don't think that's happening.
And I don't think you'd go to
Bush's administration or bush's library and see an awful lot of that though you might see some but it does feel like that's fading doesn't it i don't think that's a good thing you know i don't think that's a good thing i think you have to put it into context now it's going to be hard for a hundred years you know it'll take you have to disconnect from current policies it's easy for us to talk about taft now You know, but when Taft
waddling the bathtub, is it?
Yeah.
Because that's the only thing we know about the guy.
Yeah.
But when he was waddling around, you didn't want to talk about the bathtub.
Now we can talk about the bathtub, we could talk about it, couldn't fit in the right, right?
Couldn't fit in it, and that's why they have a tub in the White House.
Apparently, I've never seen the tub, but apparently, it's still there, which is so darn exciting.
Anyway,
you know, you have to wait for history before everybody's dead to be able to say to judge it fairly.
Trump's library's going to be awesome.
Yeah, it will be fun.
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May I just give you a blast from the past, which can be uttered again today.
We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
When Barack Obama said that, we didn't know what that meant.
But I think everybody in America knows what it means with Donald Trump.
It means an end to all of this DEI nonsense, a return to common sense, a return to
policing of our streets, of secure borders, of a military that actually knows how to fight,
a government justice department that is not going after parents,
not claiming that they're terrorists who actually recognize terrorists and will get them off the streets, put them in jail, or ship them back home.
That's the fundamental transformation that you're going to see on beginning on Monday.
Now, Stu, I thought of you when I first saw this article.
The birth date of
this department is going to be Monday, according to Donald Trump.
He announced the creation of a new government department to seek tariff payments from foreign governments.
He called the new department the External Revenue Service.
I love that.
I love the branding.
Yes.
External, because it makes you remember internal in IRS.
You don't think about it.
You always think of just revenue.
In other words, they're taking your money.
But internal, it is just focused on taking our money
on the owner citizens.
He said, we're going to begin charging those that make money off of all of us with trade, and they're going to start paying finally their fair share.
For far too long, we've relied on taxing our great people using the internal revenue service.
Through soft and pathetically weak trade agreements, the American economy has delivered growth and prosperity to the world while taxing ourselves.
It's time for that to change.
I'm announcing that I will create the external revenue service to collect our tariffs, duties, and all revenue that come from foreign sources.
We will begin charging those that make money off of us with trade, and they will start paying finally their fair share.
Okay,
so
I actually really
like this,
but is this
more than just another name for tariffs?
I like the name of it.
I like the idea that all of the quote-unquote revenue for the united states does not just come from us yes so i like i like that idea i mean i'm not a big tariff guy as you know um but uh i i think it's a
it would be smart to look at this uh not just as tariffs but as you know there are ways to get revenue like you know people were talking about um
uh over uh cross-border payments for example where you like you know let's say an immigrant comes across the border starts sending all their money back to Mexico, or, you know, certainly businesses doing this,
try to target that revenue, right?
Like, you know, again,
you can argue whether that's good policy or not, but like, that's, I, there's more to it than just tariffs.
But I do think that obviously that's Trump's priority.
It is his favorite word in the English language.
Oh, yeah, by his own description.
Oh, he loves it.
He loves it.
By the way, Canada
suddenly says they're going to buy more U.S.
products
because Trump said, you know, Canada is not a really good neighbor to us.
We buy more from them than they buy from us.
And he started talking about a 51st state.
And
now all of a sudden, Canada is like, you know what?
I think we should buy more American products.
This is the way a good negotiator works.
You know, there's a story today, Germany,
Trump is saying 5%.
Everybody needs to pay at least 5%
into NATO.
And nobody wants to do that.
We're paying the lion's share of protecting Europe.
And, you know, he said, look, I have to tell you, 2%
is not reasonable.
You have real issues.
You have to spend at least 5% of your GDP on defense because we're not going to do it anymore.
We're not going to be holding the bag anymore.
Amen.
Well, Germany said,
I don't think so.
It's 2%.
Oh, okay.
Well, then defend yourself because you're going to pay a lot more than 5%.
Go ahead, defend yourself.
We have to stop being
the daddy warbucks of everybody.
We have to stop being the stupid rich guy that just comes in and goes, oh, I want to be your friend.
Here, have some more money.
Well, I can afford it more than because we're poor now.
I don't know if you know that.
We have the biggest house on the street, the most cars.
It's luxurious.
It's got the
greatest gold faucets in the bathroom, but we can't make the mortgage payments.
So, we're not the richest.
We appear to be the richest.
That has to end.
So, Germany says no to NATO.
Poland says, yeah, we should be paying more.
You know what?
Those former communist countries, they get it.
They get it.
You know, I think all you have to do is just live under a Stalin,
you know, for almost 100 years.
And that lesson doesn't seem to leave you.
You know, it seems like, yeah,
I seem to remember my grandparents being thrown into a gulag
and
it keeps you uh vigilant.
Unfortunately, that's where I thought we were going to have to go, uh, but we didn't, thank goodness, at least so far.
Although, California, do you think California is going to learn its lesson?
I would love to say yes to that.
So would I
love it?
I
let me give you, let me give you this.
Let me give you this.
Okay.
Los Angeles County fire chief, Anthony Marone,
said,
anybody who is a person experiencing homelessness should be seeking shelter.
I ask all
Los Angeles County residents in wildfire-prone areas to understand
that
this is necessary for public safety to have power shutoffs, and they're going to prevent our next fire from starting if we have down paralyzed
power lines.
I also ask our unhoused neighbors not to have warming fires.
Anybody who is a person experiencing homelessness should be seeking shelter and please don't light any fires.
That leads me to believe, especially the unhoused neighbors, leads me to believe, nope.
Like the homeless, first of all, they don't have TV.
How are they hearing that?
How is that?
You know, you think they're up?
They got their cable television.
They're listening.
And the homeless, I mean, do you, I mean, if you're on meth,
I mean,
I don't think I need to know your story.
I think I got your story.
And I don't think you're the one that really cares about what the fire chief is saying.
If you're going to be ingesting meth, you probably don't have too much worry about anything.
If you're already taking some risks in life.
And I don't think you're saying, what was on the Neil Cavuto
podcast today?
What was he talking about?
Minor point of distinction, I would say.
I was in New York City over vacation, and they might not have televisions.
A lot of them have iPhones, though.
Yeah, they do.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
We're $1,000 phone.
I know you're how it works.
So that's a right.
It's a right.
That's true.
I forgot about.
That's in the Constitution in the Apple Clause.
Right.
Right.
It is.
Well, George Washington.
I don't remember that exactly.
What did he do with an Apple?
He did something with an Apple in one one of those stories.
You know, I would have a lot more hope.
I can't remember exactly.
It was a cherry.
Cherry.
You lie about it?
You didn't lie.
None of that.
No, that was a lie.
None of it was true.
We decided to make up a lie about somebody telling the truth.
That's insane.
Is there a story about George Washington putting an apple on his head and being hit with an arrow?
No.
That's not a story.
No, that's not a story.
Not for George Washington.
For somebody.
That's.
Gosh, getting hit in the head with Isaac Newton.
I'm trying to to remember the Apple on the.
Okay, okay.
But there is.
Which one's the one with the flux capacitor?
Which president is that?
That's Indiana Jones.
Okay.
Indiana Jones.
That makes sense.
So, yeah.
So we have that.
I mean, if
the fire department was coming out and saying, hey, hobos,
you light fires, you're going to jail.
I think I would have more hope of them learning their lesson.
So encouraging.
What if you just encouraged them to light fires?
Then would they maybe not do it?
No, I think they're already doing that.
Yeah, they're doing that.
I think they're already.
Okay.
Yeah.
So
you think some sort of criminal punishment for committing for setting fires in California would be approaching.
I know that's that's crazy talk to say that anyone could commit a crime.
Because we all know crimes are a social construct.
Right.
Especially if you're unhoused.
Yes, yes.
Now, do the people of the Palisades count as unhoused?
Are they unhoused, Gavin?
I'd like to know that.
You seem to have unhoused an entire city because of your stupid policies and then told those people they can't sell their unhouses.
You know,
the amazing thing is they didn't, the reason why they didn't pre-position firemen in all these areas after the, remember we told you yesterday or the day before that the weather service said, here it comes.
We got three or four days to prepare.
Here comes the most vicious weather cycle that we could have.
If a forest fire starts or a brush fire starts, it'll burn down the whole city.
Usually, you preposition everything.
You know why they didn't?
They didn't want to pay overtime.
So instead, we're paying this.
We're paying for all of this.
As a country, we're paying for all of this.
By the way, did you see the owner of the LA Times?
I mean, this gives me a little bit of hope.
It's not the, hey, hobo, you're going to the, you know,
to the clank.
You know, what this, what this is, is at least a step forward.
He said, yeah,
we endorsed Karen Bass,
and that was a mistake.
Was it?
You think?
You think?
Right now, that was a mistake, and we admit that.
That's interesting.
Good for you.
Again, he's rich, so you can't trust him.
That's because he's a bad person because he has money.
That's what that means immediately.
So that is how they will dismiss this.
But it is, first of all, this is the the way newspapers should operate.
They should not be endorsing candidates.
I think it's, I understand it.
There's a good history to it.
It went back to our founding.
That's the way it did happen at the beginning.
But I still don't think it's good.
The papers were called the Republican and the Democrat.
And the Democrat.
That's how it was.
And so I understand why it occurs.
I don't think it's
a good thing for a paper to do these days.
I think both the Washington Post and the L.A.
Times, because of their evil billionaire owners, have it right on that.
And I think this is a good example of it.
Because, number one, you're wrong a lot.
And number two, nobody believes, no one takes anything out of it anyway.
No.
And
here's what they said about Karen Bass.
She's the most experienced public official in the race, and she's an outsider willing to challenge the status quo.
Oh, yeah, she did.
Los Angeles needs a leader who can bring Angelinos together and who has a holistic vision for a better city.
And Karen Bass is that person.
Really?
You stopped at that was wrong?
I think we could throw a few more adjectives into that sentence for the Los Angeles Times.
Sometimes I think about
a lot of things as we get older.
A lot of things that we miss is trust.
Go to old days.
Who are the people you actually trust?
What are the businesses that you trust?
This used to be kind of easy.
There were companies that you could say, I trust, and a handshake was a deal.
Can we still be those people?
I'd like to think so.
That's what I was going for when we started my company, Real Estate Agents I Trust.
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They do everything it takes to make your home buying and selling experience the best it can be.
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name this song.
Oh yeah, this is um
No, you're thinking of um Titanic.
Oh yeah, no, this is not it.
Titanic's the movie about the
the uh the Greek mythology
going back to thinking Jason Bourne when he's in Switzerland.
Switzerland.
Oh, okay.
No, I don't think so.
Because Jason Bourne.
Okay,
enough.
What is that song?
No.
It is the answer to our apple and the arrow through the head.
Or the arrow through the apple sitting on the top of the head.
William Tell.
That's the William Tell overture.
Okay.
Was it also The Lone Ranger?
It was the theme from The Lone Ranger.
But it was written.
What do you mean?
No, it was written a lot.
That's not the title of it.
The theme to The Lone Ranger is the title to it.
No.
In my opinion.
You're thinking Zorro.
Anyway.
Wait, so, okay, so the apple in the head was William Tell.
Yeah.
On the head.
I don't even remember that story.
The arrow?
Do you remember the story?
Can anyone tell, Sarah, do you know the story?
Just Sarah knows all she stories that are on the back of Jack Daniels bottles.
I know those stories.
They're great.
They're great for a lot of wealthy stories.
And then they get blurry and you never get to the end.
Yeah.
Look up William Tell.
I don't even know the story.
Was he the kid with the apple or was he the insane adult with the arrow?
It's like, hey, don't stand over there with an apple on your head.
It's a good question.
Yeah.
You have the answer?
No, I don't have the answer.
Okay.
Yeah,
he was forced by a tyrant to to shoot an apple off his son's head ah he succeeded and kept a second row a second arrow to kill the tyrant if he missed
wow that's a good story that's fantastic there you go you should write an overture about him
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Pam Bondi is right now being grilled by Congress and the Senate.
And Mike Lee is questioning her right now, which gives us a second to talk to Anna Paulina Luna.
She is a congresswoman from Florida.
She also was, I believe, in the Air Force, wasn't she?
And
so, how does she feel about Pete Hegseth?
He doesn't like women.
He doesn't want women in the military at all.
Women should be abolished.
Well, except for like sex toys, maybe, or to beat on, if you're a senator questioning him yesterday.
How did Anna think this went yesterday?
And where does she stand on women in the military?
Representative from Florida, Ana Paulina Luna, in 60 seconds.
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Congresswoman Ana-Paulina Luna from Florida.
Welcome to the program.
How are you?
Hey, Glenn.
Very happy to be back on.
Yeah, it's good to talk to you.
So you were in the Air Force, right?
I was.
And what did you do in the Air Force?
I did airfield management, worked with, actually, my first installation was the B-2 stealth bomber.
So did flight plans, a lot of inspections, a lot of reading.
Did not serve in combat.
However, I definitely have an opinion or two on women in combat.
I'd like to hear it.
Okay, so first of all, you know, yesterday during the confirmation hearings, you know, Pete did incredible.
They were trying to lock him into their sound clips, our sound bites.
But, you know, the one thing that I kept hearing from the Democrats was they were taking his comments out of contacts in regards to women in the military.
So Pete never said that he didn't want women to serve in the military.
In fact, it's quite the opposite.
But I have the same agreement and that there are certain roles that women should not be subjected to in the military, right?
So in a lot of foreign countries, you'll see that there will be women-only sniper teams and or women-only teams that will see certain combat.
Now, I preface this by saying that there has been a study that was done and it showed that when women were placed in harm's way, that the natural instinct for men was to protect that woman.
And that's the right thing to do.
That's that quote-unquote toxic masculinity that the left tries to attack us with all the time.
That is human nature.
We're born with that.
But go ahead.
Men are born with that,
right?
And so when you have though a woman that's, let's say, placed on a special forces team, they come under fire, hypothetically that woman gets hurt.
Instead of focusing on the mission as if it would be if there were just other men present, the men would then in turn go to protect that woman.
And it could ultimately result in, A, more casualties, more people getting hurt, and then also jeopardize the success of the mission.
And so I think when we're looking at military policy as a whole, we need to take these things into account and consideration.
And that's what Pete was saying.
But you know, it's very easy because Pete is a white male for them to try to demonize him and paint him as this anti-woman, you know, alcoholic womanizer, which is simply not the case.
The other thing and the reason why I wanted to show my support for him was, look, Pete is a Christian.
He has the Jerusalem cross tattooed on him.
That doesn't mean that he's a Nazi, and that does not mean that he's a white nationalist.
And so what I've been telling reporters is if Pete was so anti,
you know, anti-minority, anti,
you know, anything to do with what we stand for and values in this country, why would Jimmy Carter then have that same spot?
They don't really have much of a response to that.
Yeah.
All right.
So, do you agree with him?
Because I took from him yesterday something else about the military.
I have no problem
with women in the military, with an exception of the natural order of things where I think men,
I have to tell you,
if one of the guys was captured by, you know, al-Qaeda, I would do everything I can to make sure that one of the members of my team, you know, were safe and I do everything that we should do.
However, it's different if I know that the woman member of our team has just been captured.
It takes on a different meaning to me because I know what's going to happen to her in compared to, you know, Tom or Tim.
And
I think that is a natural instinct that you cannot get rid of and you don't want to.
The second thing that I think Pete was talking about is, and we saw this in the
fire chief
in
Los Angeles, where she said, you know,
I'll talk to people and they'll say, well, you can't lift my husband out of our burning house.
And her response was, well, you know, he got himself into a place he shouldn't be.
So why should I?
Okay, that's ridiculous.
As long as a woman can physically do exactly what is required of the male, then I don't have a problem with that.
Do you agree with that?
I would say that there still is, though, this aspect of psychology and certain situations where I don't think women should be placed, right?
So
right now, what we're seeing is, you know, and those are all great points, one, right?
So the military standards currently is that there are different standards for women and for men.
That's just a fact.
But there are also different requirements for different jobs, right?
So like if you go in, for example, to be a fighter fighter, you're required to lift X amount, whether or not you're a man or a woman in the military.
But in that sense, I would say that when you're talking about conditions where you're living in the field, when you're talking about conditions when you know that there is going to be a psychological aspect and component, it doesn't mean that women aren't as good as men.
I think that there's been cases where men can be, or women can be better snipers than men are, you know, depending on what you're looking for job-wise.
But what I will say is, you know, as far as my perspective is concerned, I don't think women should be required to register for the draft.
I know that Senate Democrats were pushing that in the NDIA.
And I also think that women should not be placed in certain combat roles in the military for those reasons.
I agree.
Let me switch topics with you.
You were one of the the biggest advocates for the UAP UFO disclosure.
Any updates on
that hearing,
the updates on the New Jersey drones, and were you able to get David Grush into a SCIF and get a classified briefing?
And if so, what was your takeaway?
So I was not able to get Grush into a SCIF.
In fact, they were blocking that Vienna reactivating his security clearance.
And so I'm hopeful with the new incoming administration, especially because as of right now, you know, Mark Aruby is going through his confirmation for Secretary of State.
And Mark has been in the Senate one of the big advocates and supporters of looking into UAPs, AKA, UFOs, and then everything else associated with that.
Now, what I will say is that I've been grossly disappointed and disgusted by how the Biden administration handles what happened with the Chinese spy balloon, which to be clear is different than a UAP.
But the fact is, is that some of these drones are likely tied to not just hobbyists, but also to probably more nefarious actors.
And that even if we had that information available to share to the public, I don't believe that the Biden administration would have done that because of how I saw how they handled the
drone,
yeah, the balloon traversing the United States and collecting intelligence nonetheless.
It was a Chinese intelligence operation.
You know, I had one of my colleagues, Van Drew, who actually made an omission on television that it was adversarial drones.
and then you saw the Intel community come out and poo-poo it but Van Drew would not just make something like that up.
So you're seeing kind of this rift occur with the intelligence community and then people that do want the American people to simply know the case.
Now, I think that this is probably a topic of longer discussion in regards to what a UAP is, but what's interesting, Glenn, and I know that you look at these things through a lens, as do I, as a Christian, first and foremost.
But what was interesting is when I was questioning Grush, I actually asked him, well, what would you consider in so many words?
Is it like a physical entity?
And he kept calling these things intra-dimensional beings, if we're specifically referencing UAPs.
And so I think that that's just a lens and perspective to think about this from.
I think that there's a lot.
You know, if you would have talked about this even 10 years ago, your political career would have been over.
People would have said you were a conspiracy.
I can tell you that this is probably the number one question I get.
No matter where I'm at in the country, people come up, they've seen the hearing, they appreciate it because everyone's curious.
So I'll leave you with that.
So
let me just follow that here just a little bit.
The
interdimensional beings, that could be spiritual,
that could be a quantum being.
Any idea what he meant by that?
You know, I actually tried to pull on that string and he did not want to go there.
And then I can also tell you that when I was talking to him with a group of other legislators on the phone prior to the hearing, that he did make the omission that he was actually in fear of his life and that something had happened where they tried to kill him.
So
I don't know if that was associated, but he did not want to go into that any further.
And so based on my investigation, based on what we were told in the hearing, I would say that it does not seem like it would be a good thing that he gave me the impression that this was nefarious.
And so take that for what it's worth.
If injured dimensional, I think quantum could be, you know,
We're on the same page there.
So it is so bizarre that this kind of stuff is happening and we're not being told.
Donald Trump said that he would talk about the drones on Tuesday.
He said, give me a day to get settled in office.
And he said, I'll find out the drones and I'll tell the American people.
Should we know, if that's China, should we know?
The American people?
I think that it would be well within his wheelhouse.
And I think that he wants the the American people to start to trust their elected officials.
This goes so much deeper than just having someone in the White House that's on your side, right?
Because we know that, and from what I've gathered, remember, has been bipartisan and bicameral, meaning the Senate, the House, and Democrats and Republicans have all been working on this together to get some answers and information.
And there is a certain level of stovepiping that we've seen with information.
And then also to the aspect of I, as a sitting member of Congress who sit on oversight and foreign affairs, was denied access by a general at Eglin Air Force Base to whom I responded, who gives you the right and authority to tell a duly elected member and group of congressmen that they don't have access to a program that we write the damn checks for?
You have no authority to deny us access.
And so that conversation probably was not comfortable for that general.
And I was
default.
He left.
He actually got up in the middle of our meeting and went on TDY, which any military member will tell you never happens.
He left the meeting.
He left the state.
He got up and left.
Wow.
Did you ever get an answer?
No.
Representative Gates and Representative Burchett were also there to witness this.
I've never seen that happen.
And remember, I was in the military.
He literally got up and left in the middle of the meeting, said he had orders to go TDY to the state of Georgia, and he never came back.
Are you concerned at all about some of the conversations?
We just saw another
video from James O'Keefe
where he's talking to somebody who is, I think he claimed to be in the FBI, said he and others were meeting with generals to make sure that they had a control on Donald Trump.
Are you confident at all this time around
Donald Trump's going to be able to route that?
Oh, most certainly.
And I say that has to do a lot with the confirmation of the Secretary of Defense.
You know, top down,
last time when President Trump was in office, I think that there was a lot of trust in people to do the right thing.
And then he realized that the deep state was real and there were people that were just running, regardless of whether or not he was a Republican and whether they were Republicans or not, that they were working against his agenda because they didn't like what he stood for.
But now what we're finding is there is going to be a group set up to go through these generals that A, discharge military members based on vaccinations and boards.
But the fact is, is that if you are a general and you're pushing wokeness ideologies or you're trying to undermine the objective of the commander-in-chief, you have no place in the Department of Defense, period.
And so those people fired.
And I look forward to that because I can just tell you from a congressional perspective, Glenn, I actually had an amendment in the National Defense Authorization Act to remove DEI from military training.
And I have friends still in the military.
And so someone at Ramstein Air Base actually sent me an email of a officer there that was directly undermining what we did at the congressional level saying, Congress has removed DEI, so we're renaming it.
Please still proceed with the training.
So guess what?
That person is also going to be fired.
And that's really how you're going to stop at the DOD.
Good.
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Back in just a second with Anna Polina Luna, representative from Florida.
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You know, we were just talking about the deep state and being able to navigate through all of this.
And it seems like the Biden administration has done nothing
but just set little brush fires all throughout the government here in the last couple of weeks.
One of which is
Biden has just taken off the terror status and opened up relations again with Cuba, which Trump is going to undo.
I don't know why they're they're doing this.
Anna?
Yeah, I'm here.
You know, what I will tell you, Glenn, is I think that there are a lot of people now that Biden is out and that they have lost the House and the Senate that are trying to do anything last ditch to prevent and obstruct a incoming Trump admin.
And I actually had spoken to Mike Lee about this months ago.
And he was saying that they were even trying to, in the Senate, put in little nuggets of legislation in some of the bills that they were passing that would really prevent President Trump from doing anything to stop the spending in Ukraine as well.
So in my opinion, yes, incoming Trump admin, especially with his foreign policy, is going to be extremely aggressive.
And I know that I'm going to be aggressive.
Remember, I also sit on foreign policy with our new chair, Brian Mask, who's extremely pro-Trump.
And so we back the President's agenda, at least from a congressional perspective.
But yeah, these people
to be honest with you, I've met with Biden, I've talked to Biden, but he knows that it's over for his legacy and his political career.
So I just don't think he cares anymore.
I will tell you, I hope that we clean out the State Department, at least the sixth and seventh floor.
A lot of people in the State Department have to go.
The last question is on Tulsi Gabbard.
I was surprised to see her go to DNI.
She doesn't have a lot of experience with
the deep state and intelligence.
How do you feel about her preparedness for that, to be able to clean it it out?
I think that because of the fact that she's been in the House and she understands how these agencies work, that gives her a leg up and a perspective as opposed to other individuals.
But I think what's really interesting about her appointment is, remember, not only did you have the Democrat machine go after her, right?
I mean, Clinton called
smeared her.
The legacy media hated her when she ran for president.
And then she was placed on a watch list.
So I think in part of the reason why she was appointed is because she had that, those agencies weaponized against her.
And if you
those positions, you're more at a personal level inclined to fix the problem because you know firsthand what it's like to be subject to their prosecution and persecution.
And so I think she is going to obviously have a lot of opposition when she goes through composite
confirmation, but the one thing that she has is she used to be a Democrat.
So I hope that she throws it right back into their faces.
I love that.
Anna, thank you so much.
God bless.
Keep up the good work.
And maybe we'll see each other this coming weekend in Washington, D.C.
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Glenn, we mentioned the, was it American Airlines?
They can no longer use ESG in their investment portfolio according to a court ruling.
There's still some unraveling in the courts that's going to need to.
happen.
I think people are going to run from it with this, just this simple court ruling.
Yeah, I think a lot of companies, too didn't really want to be involved in this.
I feel like there's multiple different kinds of companies, right?
Think of a company like the Blaze, for example, a conservative company making conservative choices whether you like it or not.
You think of a company like
Patagonia or something, right?
Like here's a company that's their
policy stated is like, what we're doing here is, sure, we're selling you coats, but what we do is care about the earth.
Yeah.
Right.
And they say
they claim.
And they're certainly a left-wing leaning company, a Ben and Jerry's.
Socialists who happen to make ice cream, right?
And so they don't care.
And then there's a bunch of companies in the middle.
And those companies, you're never going to change to left-wing companies.
The companies in the middle, however, like McDonald's, Walmart, right?
These are companies that
might have some
view on some of these things, but generally speaking, want to sell you stuff.
They want to sell you french fries.
They want to sell you stuff at their store.
And if they feel like their business will be helped by giving ESG options of everything, they'll probably do it.
If they think their lobbying in Washington will be helped by, say, checking off boxes for LGBTQ equity, they'll probably do it.
And they think the opposite is true, they'll probably avoid it.
And I think most companies fall into that category.
And it's interesting to see so many like McDonald's and Walmart moving our way,
if you will.
I don't believe any of it only because
if in four years it goes the other way, they'd go right back to it.
I think that's true, right?
There is a worry there for sure.
And I think there's a little bit of a difference of whether they fear, like, let's say President Trump.
You know, Trump came out and basically threatened Meta and said they had committed crimes, right?
Now Meta's coming to their side.
Is that legitimate for Mark Zuckerberg?
He's just having a change of heart.
Is it he's just scared of Donald Trump?
Or I think, which is actually true in a lot of cases, they're scared of the American people, right?
The American people are saying, you know what?
No, we don't want this anymore.
We've had enough.
You better change or we're going to stop dealing with you.
So we saw that Apple yesterday came out and basically doubled down on DEI.
Like they came out and said, you know what?
We believe in it.
We believe in it.
We're going to do it anyway.
Don't vote to take down our ESG, DEI type stuff.
I will say they also have the
strength of seeing every single person in the society addicted to their products.
So they don't have, they have
to do what they want.
I think
people will not give up
their Apple products.
Just won't.
Twitter is a great example of this, right?
The left hates Elon Musk now.
And they all say, oh, we're leaving for Blue Sky.
Are they?
Yeah, I'm sure four of them have.
Yes, that's true.
But generally speaking, they're all staying there because they all love it.
They all are addicted to X.
And I'm glad he changed it to the name of a drug because it does make a lot of sense.
When you look at it, I want to go back, though.
Think of the history of the DEI ESG crap we've been in the middle of for a while.
I mean, obviously, things have been moving this way for a long time leading up to this.
But when you think back, you go back before Donald Trump was elected, back before
Joe Biden was elected, you have that huge moment with the George Floyd situation, right?
The Floyd situation happens.
The obvious response to that is to go to burn down your local city.
Of course.
Obviously
you burn down Flagstaff, Arizona.
That makes a lot of sense for what happened in Minnesota.
So none of that makes any sense.
But companies respond to that.
And they don't respond to that by
just saying, gosh, that was really awful.
The person who committed that crime was imprisoned for it.
That's how the justice system is supposed to work.
But these companies said, you know what?
We're going to invest billions of dollars in basically anything that will give us a check mark as a good guy in this storyline.
Right.
If we can say, but we gave $100 million to Black Lives Matter, of course we're awesome.
Billions of dollars went to these causes.
Right.
And people like Ibram Kendi got giant
checks for speeches, universities, book sales,
all these things.
All that happened.
And it feels to me like that was the real start of a year or two of unadulterated craziness.
Yes.
Right?
Like that was completely insane.
But let me bring you back a little bit before that.
Back to 2018, April 2018.
So we're not quite at the peak of this yet.
It's before that.
And an incident happens in Philadelphia where two African-American gentlemen walk into a Starbucks
and they don't buy anything.
They don't go to the bathroom, right?
They decide they want to go, they need to go to the bathroom.
One of them needs to go to the bathroom.
And they want to use the bathroom and they're not buying anything and they're just hanging out in the store.
After a while, manager comes to them and says, hey, guys, like
you want to use the bathroom, you want to hang out here, you got to buy something.
So they say no.
They cause a big stink.
They say, you're just targeting me because I'm black, which, of course, is nonsensical, as anyone could recognize.
And the police come.
The police are like, okay, they asked you to leave.
You're not buying anything.
You're just now trespassing.
Eventually, it escalates to the point where they arrest them for trespassing.
Now, you might remember that, of course, Starbucks then goes to apologize and blame their own manager for following their own stated policy for this.
This is a policy that was in place beforehand.
She didn't make it up.
She did the right thing.
They fired her over it.
Then they apologized to them.
They wound up settling a lawsuit with them, paying them some amount of money.
We don't know how much.
The city
also
then has some arrangement with them where they donate hundreds of thousands of dollars.
They, you know, they do all these things.
But the part that I had forgotten about it is Starbucks then closes all of its stores for a day
for racial bias training for their employees.
Yes.
Thousands of Starbucks close so that they can teach
their employees not to be racist.
Question mark?
I don't know what.
There's no evidence.
It wasn't a situation where, hey, we've heard this manager say questionable things before.
It wasn't like,
you know, this is the problem with all these black customers.
They're always doing this.
None of this has been even alleged.
It was just, they asked a couple of customers to leave because they weren't doing anything.
Go ahead.
sorry so not only do they close all their stores they uh then in institute uh racial bias treating for all their employees and they changed their policy their stated policy to now you can come in without buying anything and just stay in the store as long as you want the entire nationwide policy changes after this this is crazy
And one thing as I was going back and going through this story, because there's an update to it, that I couldn't believe was
I actually felt like it seemed insane for any of these things to happen.
It felt, it feels like we are totally out of an era where a company would close 3,000 national stores to implement a day of racial bias training.
It feels like we've passed the peak.
And we are on the other side of this.
And that seems now completely insane.
To the point of, I don't think a normal company, you might find one here or there, Ben and Jerry's might do it, but a normal company would not react that way anymore.
I don't know if that's 100% true, but it now feels nuts that that occurred.
And to, as an added piece of evidence to this, Starbucks is now changing that policy that they changed back in 2018.
They are now saying, no, you can't just come camp out in her store without buying things anymore.
So, why did all that happen?
I think I have the answer of why that happened and also why it's no longer happening, why all these companies are getting out.
And it doesn't just have anything to do, everything to do with Donald Trump.
That's good, by the way, because if it's just a reaction to Trump, as you point out in four years, that can change.
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So Stu is just talking about Starbucks and how in 2018,
Starbucks.
in, I think it was Philadelphia, had two black guys walk into their store.
They were hanging out.
The store didn't allow that.
Also wouldn't let them use the restroom because it was for customers.
They called the police
and Starbucks turned on a dime.
They crucified their
employee, closed down shop, had a big, huge
DEI session for every Starbucks in the country.
Cost them a fortune to do it.
Now
they are
revoking all of those
policies and promises.
They're going back to common common sense.
So why?
Listen to this, Stu.
You know, my theory on where all of this started is Occupy Wall Street.
Right, yeah.
I have no evidence of it, but I think this is my working theory, that Occupy Wall Street just didn't just fade out.
I mean, they were very popular with
the media and everything else.
And then it just kind of faded away and just went away.
We thought we won.
Did we?
Or did the big banks and all the investment firms and all of the big companies that had their headquarters in New York, were they,
did they realize this is killing us?
This is killing us.
And I don't want them on the street.
And so they said, we'll help you if you just leave us alone.
Okay.
We'll give you money and everything else.
Just leave us alone.
They did.
But they got in bed with the devil.
And by 2018, as people are burning cities down and getting rid of police officers and everything else, Starbucks, who was part of that, we're on your side.
It gets so bad that they're called racist because they wouldn't let people use the bathroom.
All of this stuff happens.
They have no support because they know the mob will crucify them.
The media will crucify them.
The government
will crucify them if given a chance.
So where do they go?
Put that black box up.
Make sure you have that on your social media, right?
Okay.
Because you have no protection.
People,
they're going to be called terrorists soon.
And you see that your side is burning down cities and there's no repercussions.
So who's going to stand up for me as being Starbucks?
Nobody.
Now, however, the right has the megaphone.
The people, even in your own party, have had enough.
And you're starting to see daybreak and go, wait a minute.
Donald Trump is popular again.
We might be able to back out all of it, get out of all this stuff that we've been living, you know, we've been living like a hostage to terrorists.
Let's back out of this while we can because others are doing it and they're getting praised for doing it.
I don't think it's as,
if I may quote myself, higgledy-piggledy
as it seems.
I think this is these giant corporations who went into it, you know,
thinking, oh, this is going to be great.
And now it's backfiring, but they want to get out because they've been hostages to these crazy people for a decade plus.
I think this is quite possibly very real, Them pulling out and reversing all of these policies.
They'll never tell you, but I think they all know we got into bed with the devil at Occupy Wall Street.
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