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the hot seat up on Capitol Hill at the Senate
confirmation hearing Democrats are against him, surprise, And I've been
playing a lot of the or some of the clips
here from the Democrat senators going after hag Seth. Now
I just saw this get posted. I have not watched it,
so I don't know. I'm not sure what all is
going to get covered here. But this is Senator Mark
Queene Mullen and his defense of Pete Hegseth. I feel
it's necessary because the whole first hour I just played
clips of people attacking Pete hag Seth, and so now
here is a clip in defense of Pete hag Seth.
Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of talk going about talking
about qualifications and then about us hiring him if we
are the board. But there's a lot of senators here
I wouldn't have on my board because there is no
qualifications except your age, and you've got to be living
in the state and you're a citizen of the United
States to be a senator. Other than in fact, we've
got to convince a lot of people to vote force.
And then when we start talking about qualifications for if
you're qualified for it, could the chairman tell me what
the qualifications are for the Secretary Defense? Mis chairman, could
you tell me what the qualifications are for the Secretary Defense?
Speaker 3: I'd be happy for it.
Speaker 2: I'll read it for you to let me read it, because.
Speaker 3: I was getting advice from second in command.
Speaker 1: But I'm just why I make it.
Speaker 2: A point because there's a lot about qualifications, and I
think it's so hypocritical of senators, especially on the other side.
I'll be talking about his qualifications not going to lead
the secretary or be the Secretary of Defense, And yet
your qualifications aren't any better. You guys aren't any more
qualified to be the senator than I'm qualified to be
the Center, except we're lucky enough to be here. But
let me read you what the qualifications of the Secretary
of Defense is, because I googled it, and I googled
it and went through a lot of different sites, and
really it's hard to see. But in general, the US
Secretary of Defense position is filled by a civilian.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: If you have served in the US Army Forces and
have been in the service for you have to be
retired for at least seven years, and Congress can can
weigh that. And then there's questions that the that the
senator from from Massachusetts brought up about serving on a
on a board inside the military industry, and yet your
own secretaries, you all voted for Secretary of Austin. We
had to vote on a waiver because he stepped out
the border raytheon. But I guess that's okay because that's
a Democrat secretary of Defense. But but so quickly forget
about that, and then Senator Kane or I guess I
better use the senator from Virginia starts bringing up the
fact that what if you showed up drunk to your job?
How many Senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? Oh,
have any of you guys asked them to step down
and resign for their job? And don't tell me you
haven't seen it, because I know you have. And then
how many senators do you know have got a divorce
before cheating on their wives? Did you ask them to
step down? No?
Speaker 1: No, But it's for show, you guys.
Speaker 2: Make sure you make a big show and point out
the hypocrisy because the man's made a mistake and you
want to sit there and say that he's not qualified.
Speaker 1: Give me a joke.
Speaker 2: It is so ridiculous that you guys hold yourself as
this higher standard and you forget you got a big
plank in your eye. We've all made mistakes. I've made mistakes,
and Jennifer, thank you for loving him through that mistake
because the only reason why I'm here and not in
prison is because my wife loved me too. I have changed,
but I'm not perfect, but I found somebody that thought
I was perfect. And for whatever reason, you love Pete
and I don't know why, but just like our Lord
and Savior forgave me, my wife's had to forgive me
more than once two and I'm sure you've had to
forgive him too, And so thank you. So before I
go down this rabbit hole again, tell me something about
your wife that you love.
Speaker 3: She's the smartest, most capable, loving, humble, honest person I've
ever met, in addition to being incredibly beautiful.
Speaker 1: All right, So there you go. That was Mark Wayne
Mullens and good for him. So I think in the
first hour we had a phone call from John if
I remember, who said, you know, where are the Republicans
standing up for this? Well, there you go, there's one
of them calling all these Democrats out and rightfully. So
that's what I have wanted to see for a very
very very long time. Kudos to Senator Mullen or Mullins Mullen, Mullins, Mullen,
Mark Wayne. His first name is Mark Wayne. It's all
one word, Mark Wayne, Mark Wayne Mullen. Do you think
he got that name because like his parents were trying
to play Kate two different like fathers or Grant was
soon to be grandfathers and like we can't choose Mark
or Wayne. So just all one name, but Mark Wayne Mullen.
Good for him and for calling out the hypocrisy. By
the way, Doug Collins, Department of the VA of Veterans Affairs.
He had his hearing at nine am. Hag Seth started
at nine point thirty. I think they're still going. I
can't tell who's questioning him now. I saw Ted Budd
just questioned him for a little bit. Doug Bergham for
Interior Department is on deck for today as well tomorrow.
Christy Noam for Homeland Security, Pam Bondy for DOJ, Sean
Duffy for the Transportation Department. I don't know if we'll
ever find anybody better than mayor Pete though, John Radcliffe
for the CIA, Marco Rubio for State, Chris Wright for
the Energy Department, Russell Vote for omb Office of Management
and Budget. That's tomorrow. Thursday, it'll be Scott Turner for HUDD,
Lee Zelden for the e p A. Pam Bondi goes
for Day two, Scott Bessent or Bessent for Treasury Departments.
Head those not yet scheduled, Tulci Gabbard for Director of
National Intelligence, RFK Junior for hh S, Howard Lutnick for Commerce,
Linda McMahon for Education, Brooke Rollins for Agriculture, and Deleased
Stephanic for the UN Ambassador. So all of those yeah,
all of those are still unscheduled. All right, we'll jump
on here and get a quick phone called. I got
to move on though, But Joey, welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: Hey, p ks real quick. What Senator Mullen said, which
is I like it, But the insinuation is that Pete
showed up drunk for work. So I got a problem
of that, right, Well, I.
Speaker 1: Know the allegations against hag sethits and so I think Mullen,
who also says give me a joke, you know, I
think he meant to say, give me a break. So
these guys, look, they're human, and they get up there
and they get nervous. I mean, what's her face, Duckworth was,
I mean, like her voice was cracking. She was so
flustered and nervous during her rant.
Speaker 4: So I suspect when you lie, you get nervous.
Speaker 1: Well, but I suspect, well, I suspect what Mullen was
talking about was the allegation of infidelity, which was true,
by the way, Like he did have affairs. That's what
he was and that's what he was talking about.
Speaker 4: Right now, I'm with it. I'm totally poor Pete.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not aware of any proven allegations on the
showing up to work drunk thing and the one video
clip that they were circulating that the left and the media,
But I repeat myself that they were circulating was he
was doing like some sort of like a Veteran's Day
special on Fox and Friends, and they were and around
and he poured them all like one finger or two
fingers of whiskey, all of his guests, he poured them
all some whiskey. And I don't even think he drank
anything at that set. So that's yeah, I'm not aware
of them. But here's the other thing too. The guy
was a combat vet coming back from his tours. Are
we to believe that the stuff that you see over
in the theater of operation, that that doesn't sometimes lead
to people drinking alcohol when they return in order to
forget the things that they saw over there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm saying with a smile on my face, I'm saying.
Muland is like, yeah, but no.
Speaker 1: I got you, No, I understood. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I
mean if he had, if he had say more artfully
scripted his comments, maybe he could have given some more
separation to the two things. Yes, I do what I
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I do have some messages I'll read here before we
shift gears and move on. Do the kids even know
what shift gears means anymore? Right, because it's all like,
there's so few stick shifts anymore. So it's just you
put your foot on the gas and it goes like,
do you understand, like you actually had to shift the gear,
so you shift gears up? You know, you upshift down
shift whatever do they call it upshift? I've never heard
that term. Actually, now that I say it out loud,
I'm patenting that that's mine. A little late, a couple
decades too late. By the way, that's a great anti
theft device. Manual transmission, Yeah, because nobody knows how to
drive them anymore. So you get yourself a stick shift,
and they used to be cheaper than the allmatic transmission,
although now I think it may have inverted I think
maybe now the sticks are more expensive, which is weird
because it feels like there's way less machinery necessary for that.
But whatever, I'm on a tangent. Let me get to
some messages before I shift gears. That's how I got there, Okay,
Russ says, the more I hear these people in various hearings,
the more I realize how worthless they all are, even
the ones on quote my side. I wouldn't trust any
of them to help move a couch must much less
make major legislative decisions. There's an extreme irony that they
are having a hearing to determine anybody else's fitness to serve.
And Keith says, because I said, I'm not rich. And
Keith says, but Pete, you are rich in knowledge, in wit,
in insight, So smile. After all, you are on the radio,
that's right, that's one of the things. Oh yeah, you
don't get hate a lot, but you get paid in limelight.
People in the biz have heard something similar to that
line before, like we're compensating you in a way that
we know you like that you're on the radio, that
maybe somewhere somebody might have heard something about your name
but don't know what it's about, like that kind of limelight,
you know, although I would point out I've never had
a landlord that has taken limelight for the rent check
for some reason. All right, I mean, all right, I'll
get Doug on here before the break. Hello Doug, Welcome
to the show.
Speaker 4: Hey man, Look, I'm glad these people don't want to
drive a stick ship anymore because they don't know how
got rig automatic. I don't need a mind hand a
stick shift.
Speaker 1: That's fair. Oh oh, that's fair. But although I would yeah,
because there would be a lot more people. Gosh, what
would happen at the the red lights if everybody were
still driving stick shifts? How would they be able to
text at all? The red lights? When the light, you know,
you're sitting at the red light, the light turns green,
and everybody is just stationary. Nobody is moving because they're
all on their phones. I guess it probably wouldn't have
an impact there, but I mean it could like a
whole bunch of cars start rolling backwards. I used to
love doing that. Somebody gets up too close to my
bumper and I would, you know, engage but not give
it any gas, and so I'd just start rolling backwards
a little bit, just, you know, just to give them
a little something to think about for the next time
they're at a stoplight and they want to get up
on somebody's bumper. You never know that car in front
of you might be a stick shift and they might
be slow to gas it, and then they bump into
your car. Granted, this technique really works only on nice cars,
so if there's a jelope behind you that's not it's
probably not gonna But also then they're too close, you know.
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of Trump. This time it's personal. For example, Florida's Governor
Ron DeSantis is calling the state legislature back into a
special session in order to help carry out President elect
Donald Trump's promises for a swift crackdown on immigration. This
is according to the Associated Press, but he's facing pushback
from the legislature's Republican leaders, who have pledged their support
for the incoming president but said a special session would
be premature and irresponsible. So obviously the AP is going
to make this into, you know, a civil war inside
the Republican Party, because that's what the Republican Party is
known for it's civil wars that don't occur inside the
Democrat Party. They just are in disarray all the time.
Democrats are very sensitive to that branding. By the way,
So Trump is preparing more than one hundred executive orders
starting day one of the new White House administration, and
what amounts to a shock and awe campaign. Say there again, war,
It's like war shock and all. We're gonna overwhelm you. Ah,
I'm so scared, you're gonna kill us. Okay, I'm gonna
focus on border security, deportations and a whole bunch of
other policy priorities. Yeah. So this is part of the
problem is when like you have somebody who serves four
years and then they're out, and then they have four
years to contemplate what they would do, what they might
have done differently. Although Trump would never admit that, I'm
sure because he did everything perfect the first time. But
this time he's coming in and if it's a shock
and awe campaign, that honestly makes sense. Right, just throw
so many things out there rather than do it one
or two or five at a time, because that then
gives your adversaries more time to coordinate responses, draft litigation,
all of that stuff. So just come at them with
a hundred just bury them in paperwork basically, so they
have to go through. It's like a really big omnibus bill,
if you will. You have so much stuff in there
that it takes a while to get through it to
see what all it says and how it would be applied,
and how can we challenge it, how can we stop it?
All of that. So just overwhelm them. So if this
is in fact a deliberate strategy, kudos to them, because
as a strategy it makes a good bit of sense. Well,
Trump and his advisors have pledged mass deportations, many questions
remain about how they would deport anywhere close to the
eleven million people estimated to be in the country illegally.
By the way, that's most likely an undercount eleven millions,
probably not the actual number. It's probably about double that.
So how would he deport anywhere close to the eleven million?
I'm not sure, just spitballing here, but I'm thinking that
Donald Trump's supporters are going to be okay with him
making progress towards that number, even if it doesn't happen
all at once. What do you think you think that's
a fair guess. I think it's a fair guess. I
think Trump supporters are going to be okay with movement
in the direction of lots and lots of particularly the
criminal element that has infiltrated our borders, to start deporting
a lot of those p people. First you start making
inroads there, and then you start clearing out some backlogs
and stuff, and I think people on the right are
going to be pretty happy with any movement in that direction.
DeSantis meanwhile announced that he is scheduling a special session
for the week of January twenty seventh, which will be
the week after Trump is sworn in, so that state
lawmakers will be poised to help implement whatever the president's
policies are immediately, which makes sense because otherwise I think
they're coming back into session right the regular legislative session
begins March fourth, So what DeSantis is doing is saying, no,
you're going to come back in special session immediately. And
if the shock and awe tactic is in fact a
deliberate tactic, then it makes sense to have states move
on this stuff immediately, to start doing this stuff immediately. However,
they can help whatever they need to do, they're going
to be ready to assist. That's what DeSantis is promising.
The Republican governor said he's prepared to suspend elected officials
from office if they are neglecting their duties under the
new immigration mandates. DeSantis has already removed multiple officials from office,
including two state attorneys, arguing that they were failing to
prosecute certain crimes. Desanta says he also anticipates allocating tens
of millions of dollars in new funding to help state
and local officials expand their enforcement and detention efforts, and
said he would even consider activating the Florida National Guard
and the Florida State Guard to carry out in state
enforcement measures. So how much of this is posturing that
I don't know, but let's say fifty percent of it?
Speaker 3: So what? Right?
Speaker 1: So what? Because the mess goes out, and that's a
very big part of any campaign to limit illegal immigration.
It's the messaging. Word gets out, and then people relay
that word back to their family and friends and cartel
members back in their home countries, and they say, hey,
Crackdown's happening in Florida. Don't come here in a strongly
worded joint statement released yesterday afternoon. Senate President Ben Alberton
and House Speaker Danny Perez, both Republicans, said that without
any specific guidance from the incoming administration and only fragments
of ideas from the governor, it's too soon for lawmakers
to hold a special session. Well you're going to get
that after Trump gives the executive orders, right, Isn't that
They're like, we should just wait in March fourth, and
so the AP is like, oh, look at this, this
is fantastic. Finally some independence from the legislature, which, by
the way, the legislature and the governor or right are
oftentimes you know they're gonna there's gonna be friction there
because they're different branches of government, and that's the design
of the system. It's supposed to be that way. So no,
I don't have any problem with their being disagreement in
the legislature versus the governor. But the governor has the
right to call the special session. So I'm not really
sure what the legislature is going to be able to
do except maybe show up and be like, all right,
we're here, we're not doing anything, and maybe they don't
do anything. Maybe it ends up not being necessary. We'll see,
but message sent Florida is ready to implement whatever Trump
signs into.
Speaker 4: Uh uh.
Speaker 1: I don't wanna say Law signs on an executive order, which, again,
just for the record, I'm not a fan of the
executive orders replacing law, but everybody else seems to be.
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more transparent. So the Associated Press concludes its peace about
desantists calling a special session to implement Trump's immigration policies.
In other states, democratic governors are mounting a resistance movement
against the incoming Trump administration, looking for ways to shield
their states from potential federal policies restricting abortion and transgender rights,
among other things. Like for example, Governor Gavin Newsom, having
successfully fought all the fires back personally himself and solved
all of the other problems in California, he is now
hammering out a deal with his fellow Democrats that have
so ruined that state for a fifty million dollars set
aside that they say will shore up state and local
legal defenses against the Trump administration. Half the money will
go to fending off any mass deportation plan the new
president might enact early in his administration. I am I
really sure what this means, whether this is like, are
you going to deploy troops against federal troops or something?
Are you like, are you going to resort to government
violence in order to prevent government from enforcing law? That
sounds kind of insurrection y, that's just me to my
untrained ear. The move, the first of its kind in
the nation, that positions California to lead a second term
resistance against Donald Trump, comes as Republicans bash state Democrat
leaders for focusing on a highly partisan issue even as
the southern part of the state suffers from historically devastating fires.
Oh those still going on. I'm sorry, because the shift
in focus by Newsome and the Democrats makes me wonder.
I just I thought they were already all put out.
The deal includes twenty five million dollars that Newsome wanted
for the state Department of Justice to fight the federal
government in court. Oh okay, so there in court. So
this is a this is a bailout for the lawyers,
as is most often the case with these things. Then
there's another twenty five million dollars proposed by state Senate
leaders to defend immigrants against deportation, detention, and wage theft.
The twenty five million dollars proposed by the Senate would
fund grants for nonprofits, but not just any nonprofit, legal nonprofits,
not like legal as an undocumented nonprofit, but legal as
in lawyers. So once again lawyers coming out ahead in
all of this. That's pretty surprising. Who could have seen
that coming? Yeah, the nonprofits the like this relationship. This
pipeline is just undefeated. Then the government to nonprofit pipeline
of funding. Floor votes on the so called Special Session
package could come as soon as this week. That would
give Newsom some time to sign the deal before Trump's
inauguration on January twentieth, and shift focus away from the
session's partisan feud to how Democrats are responding to the
unfolding disaster in Los Angeles. See, they don't really want
to talk about that because that's still ongoing and that
makes them look bad. So here's a shiny object for
the media to focus on when they're not focusing on
the Republican reaction to the Democrats scandal. Right, Newsom and
legislators representing Los Angeles have been in southern California, and this, however,
according to Politico, has not neutralized GOP critiques see once again,
the story is about the Republican reaction. So Republicans saying, hey,
you guys have really screwed up the fire mitigation and
response stuff down in southern California with these wildfires. Right,
that becomes the story, not the fact that the Democrats
have really screwed up the fire mitigation and response efforts
down in southern California wildcards, like that's the scandal, but
because it's a scandal involving Democrats, the focus is on
the Republican reaction. All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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