1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Michael Cohen Show on our continued 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:06,960 journey to two hundred and fifty thousand subscribers. Again, this 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:09,839 is not the time to unsubscribe. It's the time to 4 00:00:09,919 --> 00:00:13,800 subscribe and share with friends because there's so much uncertainty 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,800 over the course of the next sixty eight days before 6 00:00:16,839 --> 00:00:20,120 the inauguration. And I want to begin today's segment by 7 00:00:20,199 --> 00:00:25,679 talking about yesterday where Trump announced some of the cabinet 8 00:00:25,719 --> 00:00:32,119 picks that he intends for his administration. Show that So, 9 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:35,079 for example, obviously we know chief of Staff will be 10 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,679 Susie Wilds, but the interesting ones that are new is 11 00:00:38,719 --> 00:00:41,880 the White House National Security Advisor is going to be 12 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:46,359 from Florida Representative Mike Waltz. We have Lee Zelden with 13 00:00:46,439 --> 00:00:49,920 the EPA Stephen Miller. And this one I find just 14 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:54,679 so so odd white House Deputy chief of Staff for Policy. 15 00:00:55,039 --> 00:00:57,880 I mean, this to me is just wild. On top 16 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,799 of that, we know about Tom Homan, the borders are 17 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,320 at least fan not a bad pick. By the way, 18 00:01:03,439 --> 00:01:06,640 UN Ambassador Marco Rubio, this is one that you've heard 19 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,359 me turn around and say, there's no way he was 20 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,040 going to bring him in on the cabinet and we'll 21 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:16,000 discuss that coming up very very soon. And DHS secretary 22 00:01:16,359 --> 00:01:20,239 is going to be Christy No. I mean talk about 23 00:01:20,439 --> 00:01:24,599 an interesting first set of picks. And I want to 24 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:27,359 go through a few of these right and show you 25 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:31,920 some clips of these people, because much of what you're 26 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:35,879 hearing today is very, very different than things that we 27 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,640 have heard from them in the past. So let's start 28 00:01:39,799 --> 00:01:44,920 with Florida Representative Mike Walls, who will serve as the 29 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:49,480 White House National Security Advisor. And I want to show 30 00:01:49,519 --> 00:01:54,680 you a clip from twenty seventeen where he spoke about 31 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,159 the Afghanistan War being multi generational. 32 00:01:59,519 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 2: Play that clip. 33 00:02:00,959 --> 00:02:04,879 Speaker 3: He said, until you're prepared to commit your grandchildren, not 34 00:02:04,959 --> 00:02:08,560 your children, but your grandchildren to stand shoulder to shoulder 35 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:12,879 with my grandchildren and fight Islamic extremism, then you will 36 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,800 never be successful here. So are we fifteen years in? Yes? 37 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,960 Are we in for a lot more fighting? And we do. 38 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,719 We need a long term strategy to undermine the ideology 39 00:02:26,719 --> 00:02:29,840 of Islamic extremism, just like we did fascism and just 40 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,560 like we did communism. Yes, we do. 41 00:02:33,199 --> 00:02:33,319 Speaker 1: Uh. 42 00:02:33,719 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 3: And you know, Gordon, I think we're in for a 43 00:02:36,159 --> 00:02:39,280 long haul, and I think our nation's leadership needs to 44 00:02:39,319 --> 00:02:42,520 begin telling the American people, I'm sorry, we don't have 45 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,560 a choice. We are fifteen years in what is going 46 00:02:45,599 --> 00:02:49,039 to be a multi generational war. Because we're talking about 47 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,319 defeating an idea. It's easy to bomb a tank, very 48 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:54,680 difficult to defeat an idea, and that's exactly what we 49 00:02:54,719 --> 00:02:55,080 have to do. 50 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, again, what do we know? We know that Donald 51 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:08,719 Trump made the determination to get the hell out of 52 00:03:08,719 --> 00:03:12,919 that Afghanistan. In fact, he bound the Biden administration into 53 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:17,639 an extrication date. You may remember that semi debacle over there, 54 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,280 not in terms of getting the people out, just the 55 00:03:20,319 --> 00:03:23,039 method and the manner to which it was done. Now, 56 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,719 I want to turn around and say this, I understand 57 00:03:26,199 --> 00:03:30,960 Mike Walls's beliefs. Mike Walls is a dedicated and a 58 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:35,919 decorated former Green Beret. So this is not a guy 59 00:03:36,039 --> 00:03:42,039 who doesn't have military experience, and he's not wrong about 60 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:46,560 trying to destroy an ideology. You may destroy the body, 61 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,280 but unless you destroy the ideology, the theocracy behind it, 62 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,680 this extremism, this Islamic extremism, will always exist. I just 63 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,919 find it odd that a guy who's going to become 64 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:08,719 the National Security advisor is somebody whose position was fundamentally opposite. 65 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,680 I mean, it's just an exact opposite of what Trump's 66 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,040 was in twenty seventeen, which, by the way, gives me 67 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,560 some pause here in a good way, in the fact 68 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,800 that maybe Donald is expanding on some of the things 69 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,759 that he said that he intends in terms of loyalists, 70 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,959 because certainly Mike Walls and Donald Trump are not aligned 71 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,360 on at least that idea, even though it's already over. 72 00:04:33,879 --> 00:04:35,959 So next, I want to take a quick look at 73 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,600 Lee Zelden, congress member from here in New York, who 74 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:44,800 is the new EPA administrator, And here's a clip of 75 00:04:44,879 --> 00:04:48,519 him discussing what he will do with the EPA, the 76 00:04:48,639 --> 00:04:50,519 Environmental Protection Agency. 77 00:04:50,759 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 2: Play that clip. 78 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 4: One of the things that's been a big focus of 79 00:04:53,879 --> 00:04:58,800 the Trump campaign is to get through the bureaucracy that 80 00:04:58,879 --> 00:05:03,319 exists in in Washington and to deregulate. You know, the 81 00:05:03,399 --> 00:05:06,399 EPA has been in some ways an enemy to a 82 00:05:06,439 --> 00:05:09,519 lot of these businesses across America because they've had a 83 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:13,040 long arm. Now, post Chevron decision from Skotis, you see 84 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,319 a different environment in terms of how much a regulatory 85 00:05:16,319 --> 00:05:18,439 agency can get away with what do you plan to 86 00:05:18,439 --> 00:05:22,519 do at APA. 87 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 5: One of the biggest issues for so many Americans was 88 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:30,240 the economy, and the President was talking about unleashing economic prosperity. 89 00:05:30,759 --> 00:05:34,839 Through the EPA. We have the ability to pursue energy dominance, 90 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,160 to be able to make the United States the artificial 91 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:42,600 intelligence capital of the world, to bring back American jobs 92 00:05:42,639 --> 00:05:45,759 to the auto industry, and so much more. President Trump 93 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,800 cares about conservating the conserving the environment, as you just 94 00:05:49,879 --> 00:05:53,160 mentioned in that statement from him, his desire to ensure 95 00:05:53,199 --> 00:05:56,680 clean access to clean air, clean water. It was a 96 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,560 top priority. So I'm excited to get in a work 97 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,160 to implement President Trump's economic agenda. And I think the 98 00:06:02,199 --> 00:06:05,079 American people are so hungry for it is one of 99 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:06,920 the big reasons why they're sending him back to the 100 00:06:06,959 --> 00:06:07,439 White House. 101 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: So okay, let's go back to the question that was asked, 102 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:14,800 what do you intend to do as the new head 103 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,079 of the EPA. Instead, he goes right to talking about 104 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:22,160 Trump's economic agenda, which, by the way, I don't think 105 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:27,040 that any of us don't somewhat agree with that agenda. 106 00:06:27,519 --> 00:06:32,759 I absolutely want to see America as energy independent. Oh wait, 107 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,959 hold on, we are, in fact, not only are we 108 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:41,480 energy independent for the first time, we're actually exporting our remainder. 109 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,079 Speaker 2: Could we do more? Sure? So when he says drill, 110 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,600 baby drill, and so on, okay, drill, baby drill. 111 00:06:48,519 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: That just means more for export. But right now the 112 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:57,240 United States is fully energy independent. So again, how about 113 00:06:57,319 --> 00:06:59,920 answer the very simple question, what do you intend to do? 114 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,959 Are you going to dismantle the EPA? And if you 115 00:07:03,079 --> 00:07:06,360 do that, how do you force businesses, who of course 116 00:07:06,399 --> 00:07:10,759 are only profit motivated, from going ahead and not destroying 117 00:07:10,959 --> 00:07:13,839 our clean air and our clean water. Don't you think 118 00:07:13,879 --> 00:07:16,319 that our children have a right to be able to 119 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,600 breathe without masks, to be able to drink water without 120 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,839 paying five dollars a bottle for it? Really, Lee, come on, 121 00:07:24,199 --> 00:07:28,199 nobody needs you as the economic advisor because there's already 122 00:07:28,199 --> 00:07:31,040 one that's that. Howard Lutnik is looking for that position, 123 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,879 all right. I also now want to turn to Mark Rubio. 124 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 2: This is one that. 125 00:07:34,759 --> 00:07:38,199 Speaker 1: I was dead ass wrong on on this program, maybe 126 00:07:38,199 --> 00:07:39,439 a few days ago I. 127 00:07:39,399 --> 00:07:41,759 Speaker 2: Talked to it. I never thought in my I would 128 00:07:41,759 --> 00:07:42,199 have bet the. 129 00:07:42,639 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: House on this that Marco Rubio would never end up 130 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,040 in the administration because of the manner to which that 131 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,680 the two of them have sparred back and forth going 132 00:07:51,759 --> 00:07:56,079 back to twenty fifteen twenty sixteen, Marco Rubio has never 133 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,319 been in Donald Trump's camp. In fact, remember when we 134 00:07:59,439 --> 00:08:02,480 put Mark Rubio in a pool with a whole bunch 135 00:08:02,519 --> 00:08:06,240 of naked guys talking about a cocaine binge party on 136 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:10,079 the front page of the of the National Inquiry. 137 00:08:10,399 --> 00:08:13,199 Speaker 2: Remember that, I never, in my wildest. 138 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,319 Speaker 1: Imagination thought Marco Rubio would be part of the administration, 139 00:08:16,439 --> 00:08:21,480 but he appointed him as Secretary of State. And here's 140 00:08:21,519 --> 00:08:23,120 an ad. I want to show it to you, the 141 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,639 ad that the Trunk campaign ran against Marco Rubio in 142 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,680 twenty sixteen. Play that clip. 143 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 6: Corrupt. Marco Rubio has spent years to frauding the people 144 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,000 of Florida. As a legislator, he flipped on a key 145 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,480 vote after making a quick two hundred thousand from selling 146 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:44,799 his house to the mother of the bills lobbyist. He 147 00:08:44,919 --> 00:08:48,919 used the Republican Party's credit card to pave his driveway 148 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,720 and live it up in Las Vegas. When he got caught, 149 00:08:52,799 --> 00:08:55,840 he said he had used the wrong credit card, but 150 00:08:55,919 --> 00:08:59,159 he had used the same Republican Party card for six 151 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:03,600 flights between Miami and Tallahasse, then build the state for 152 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,559 the same airline tickets and pocket at the cash until 153 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,360 once again he got caught on top of it all. 154 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,440 Rubyo has been a total no show in the US 155 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:19,720 Senate with the worst voting record of all Marco Ruby 156 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:25,360 home another corrupt, all talk, no action politician. 157 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,519 Speaker 2: I'm Donald Trump and I approved this message. 158 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: And I'm not Donald Trump, and I certainly wouldn't have 159 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:37,200 him as Secretary of State, not certainly off of that clip. 160 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:41,080 But then here he is talking about the Russia Ukraine war. 161 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:45,559 Speaker 7: Play that clip, but now, really our focus should be 162 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,759 on doing everything we can to help Ukraine defeat Russia, 163 00:09:48,799 --> 00:09:51,679 whether it's a strategic defeat or an operational one. Putin 164 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:53,360 needs to take an L here, and I believe he will. 165 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,360 Certainly on the strategic front, he's going to take an 166 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:57,879 L and I think he might even take it on 167 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,759 operationally and it could ultimately to his downfall. 168 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:06,879 Speaker 1: Yeah. Sound a little bit sketchy, especially considering some of 169 00:10:06,919 --> 00:10:09,440 the things that Donald Trump has said. How is he 170 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,759 going to be Secretary of State under those sort of 171 00:10:12,799 --> 00:10:15,919 If he's going to follow that ideology, this is going 172 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,480 to be a very short lived Secretary of state, almost 173 00:10:19,519 --> 00:10:23,440 shorter than Chief of Staff Ryan's previous Now, I wanted 174 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:27,840 to show you then another clip of him critiquing the 175 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:29,639 January six riots. 176 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 7: We had police officers, the men and women that we 177 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,759 walk by every single day to guard the doors, and 178 00:10:34,799 --> 00:10:37,440 we say hello to out there with ria gear getting 179 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,559 spit on and attacked today, not ten weeks ago, just 180 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:47,279 a few hours ago. And I think it's important to 181 00:10:47,279 --> 00:10:50,600 think about all those things on a night like tonight 182 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:54,399 and everything that's happened. You know, I wouldn't even be 183 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:56,519 here today. I doubt very much where I would even 184 00:10:56,519 --> 00:10:58,200 have been interested in politics had it not been for 185 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,679 my grandfather when I was fourteen. But I grew up 186 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:03,679 at his knee. He would sit on the porch, he 187 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,240 would smoke three cigars a day, and he loved history. 188 00:11:06,919 --> 00:11:09,080 He was born in eighteen ninety nine in rural Cuba. 189 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:11,360 It was still governed by the United States. It was 190 00:11:11,399 --> 00:11:15,240 a protector. Three years later gained its independence and became 191 00:11:15,279 --> 00:11:15,879 a republic. 192 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:18,639 Speaker 6: During my grandfather's. 193 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 7: First sixty years of life, he saw his country have 194 00:11:22,399 --> 00:11:27,279 an armed insurrection after a contested election, multiple presidents go 195 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:31,000 into exile, two military coups, and the rise of a 196 00:11:31,039 --> 00:11:35,440 Marxist dictator, a tyranny that stands to the state. 197 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 2: My entire life. 198 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 7: My entire life, I have lived with and next two 199 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:45,279 people who came to America because their country was chaotic 200 00:11:46,159 --> 00:11:50,559 and their country was unsafe. What I saw today, what 201 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:55,600 we have seen, looks more like those countries than the 202 00:11:55,639 --> 00:11:58,559 extraordinary nation that I am privileged to call home. 203 00:12:00,159 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 1: And so I bring up the same point. I do 204 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:07,000 believe that this will be a very short relationship between 205 00:12:07,039 --> 00:12:10,320 the two. So lastly, I want to talk about puppy 206 00:12:10,399 --> 00:12:14,120 killer Christin Nong who will there is another one that 207 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:18,840 I never would have picked, Department of Homeland Security Secretary. 208 00:12:19,159 --> 00:12:22,679 I mean, here's the clip of her talking about Texas 209 00:12:23,159 --> 00:12:27,240 and the Constitution, And an important fact is that Texas 210 00:12:27,879 --> 00:12:31,480 was not one of the original thirteen colonies when the 211 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:33,720 Constitution was even signed. 212 00:12:33,919 --> 00:12:37,679 Speaker 8: Played the clip, Texas and those thirteen original colonies would 213 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,720 have never signed the treaty that formed the first Constitution 214 00:12:40,799 --> 00:12:42,720 of the United States if they didn't think that they're 215 00:12:42,759 --> 00:12:46,200 right to protect themselves and defend their own people was protected. 216 00:12:46,799 --> 00:12:48,320 So what Joe Biden is doing. 217 00:12:48,159 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 1: Is yeah, history, it's one of those things that predicated 218 00:12:53,159 --> 00:12:56,879 on facts easily checked too. Let me say this to you, 219 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,919 my friends again, this is not the time to unsubscribe. 220 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,120 We have a lot to go through and on this program, 221 00:13:04,159 --> 00:13:06,879 on the Michael Cohen Show, this is not going to 222 00:13:06,919 --> 00:13:09,320 be an anti presidency. No. 223 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,159 Speaker 2: For the stuff that's good, I will call it out. 224 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: I'd be the first one to say I hope that 225 00:13:15,399 --> 00:13:19,399 Trump is successful in his presidency because it benefits all 226 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:23,360 of us. It benefits the entire country, not just those 227 00:13:23,399 --> 00:13:28,240 select few the magas, but for all Americans. And that 228 00:13:28,399 --> 00:13:32,000 is my hope. But as things go wrong, as I 229 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:36,320 suspect that there will be, because during every presidency things 230 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,759 go wrong, but this one again, especially based upon some 231 00:13:39,879 --> 00:13:41,960 of these cabinet picks, I think we're going to have 232 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,279 a lot to talk about and at this program, nothing 233 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:48,919 but the truth and thanks for listening. Hey everyone, first 234 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:51,080 of all, thanks for watching. I mean we're going to 235 00:13:51,159 --> 00:13:55,200 be posting daily episodes with reactions. 236 00:13:54,519 --> 00:13:58,039 Speaker 2: And talking about politics. We'll be talking about everything in 237 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 1: Fact, So please liken subscribe, join us on this journey