Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Michael Cohen Show on our continued
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over the course of the next sixty eight days before
the inauguration. And I want to begin today's segment by
talking about yesterday where Trump announced some of the cabinet
picks that he intends for his administration. Show that So,
for example, obviously we know chief of Staff will be
Susie Wilds, but the interesting ones that are new is
the White House National Security Advisor is going to be
from Florida Representative Mike Waltz. We have Lee Zelden with
the EPA Stephen Miller. And this one I find just
so so odd white House Deputy chief of Staff for Policy.
I mean, this to me is just wild. On top
of that, we know about Tom Homan, the borders are
at least fan not a bad pick. By the way,
UN Ambassador Marco Rubio, this is one that you've heard
me turn around and say, there's no way he was
going to bring him in on the cabinet and we'll
discuss that coming up very very soon. And DHS secretary
is going to be Christy No. I mean talk about
an interesting first set of picks. And I want to
go through a few of these right and show you
some clips of these people, because much of what you're
hearing today is very, very different than things that we
have heard from them in the past. So let's start
with Florida Representative Mike Walls, who will serve as the
White House National Security Advisor. And I want to show
you a clip from twenty seventeen where he spoke about
the Afghanistan War being multi generational.
Speaker 2: Play that clip.
Speaker 3: He said, until you're prepared to commit your grandchildren, not
your children, but your grandchildren to stand shoulder to shoulder
with my grandchildren and fight Islamic extremism, then you will
never be successful here. So are we fifteen years in? Yes?
Are we in for a lot more fighting? And we do.
We need a long term strategy to undermine the ideology
of Islamic extremism, just like we did fascism and just
like we did communism. Yes, we do.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And you know, Gordon, I think we're in for a
long haul, and I think our nation's leadership needs to
begin telling the American people, I'm sorry, we don't have
a choice. We are fifteen years in what is going
to be a multi generational war. Because we're talking about
defeating an idea. It's easy to bomb a tank, very
difficult to defeat an idea, and that's exactly what we
have to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, again, what do we know? We know that Donald
Trump made the determination to get the hell out of
that Afghanistan. In fact, he bound the Biden administration into
an extrication date. You may remember that semi debacle over there,
not in terms of getting the people out, just the
method and the manner to which it was done. Now,
I want to turn around and say this, I understand
Mike Walls's beliefs. Mike Walls is a dedicated and a
decorated former Green Beret. So this is not a guy
who doesn't have military experience, and he's not wrong about
trying to destroy an ideology. You may destroy the body,
but unless you destroy the ideology, the theocracy behind it,
this extremism, this Islamic extremism, will always exist. I just
find it odd that a guy who's going to become
the National Security advisor is somebody whose position was fundamentally opposite.
I mean, it's just an exact opposite of what Trump's
was in twenty seventeen, which, by the way, gives me
some pause here in a good way, in the fact
that maybe Donald is expanding on some of the things
that he said that he intends in terms of loyalists,
because certainly Mike Walls and Donald Trump are not aligned
on at least that idea, even though it's already over.
So next, I want to take a quick look at
Lee Zelden, congress member from here in New York, who
is the new EPA administrator, And here's a clip of
him discussing what he will do with the EPA, the
Environmental Protection Agency.
Speaker 2: Play that clip.
Speaker 4: One of the things that's been a big focus of
the Trump campaign is to get through the bureaucracy that
exists in in Washington and to deregulate. You know, the
EPA has been in some ways an enemy to a
lot of these businesses across America because they've had a
long arm. Now, post Chevron decision from Skotis, you see
a different environment in terms of how much a regulatory
agency can get away with what do you plan to
do at APA.
Speaker 5: One of the biggest issues for so many Americans was
the economy, and the President was talking about unleashing economic prosperity.
Through the EPA. We have the ability to pursue energy dominance,
to be able to make the United States the artificial
intelligence capital of the world, to bring back American jobs
to the auto industry, and so much more. President Trump
cares about conservating the conserving the environment, as you just
mentioned in that statement from him, his desire to ensure
clean access to clean air, clean water. It was a
top priority. So I'm excited to get in a work
to implement President Trump's economic agenda. And I think the
American people are so hungry for it is one of
the big reasons why they're sending him back to the
White House.
Speaker 1: So okay, let's go back to the question that was asked,
what do you intend to do as the new head
of the EPA. Instead, he goes right to talking about
Trump's economic agenda, which, by the way, I don't think
that any of us don't somewhat agree with that agenda.
I absolutely want to see America as energy independent. Oh wait,
hold on, we are, in fact, not only are we
energy independent for the first time, we're actually exporting our remainder.
Speaker 2: Could we do more? Sure? So when he says drill,
baby drill, and so on, okay, drill, baby drill.
Speaker 1: That just means more for export. But right now the
United States is fully energy independent. So again, how about
answer the very simple question, what do you intend to do?
Are you going to dismantle the EPA? And if you
do that, how do you force businesses, who of course
are only profit motivated, from going ahead and not destroying
our clean air and our clean water. Don't you think
that our children have a right to be able to
breathe without masks, to be able to drink water without
paying five dollars a bottle for it? Really, Lee, come on,
nobody needs you as the economic advisor because there's already
one that's that. Howard Lutnik is looking for that position,
all right. I also now want to turn to Mark Rubio.
Speaker 2: This is one that.
Speaker 1: I was dead ass wrong on on this program, maybe
a few days ago I.
Speaker 2: Talked to it. I never thought in my I would
have bet the.
Speaker 1: House on this that Marco Rubio would never end up
in the administration because of the manner to which that
the two of them have sparred back and forth going
back to twenty fifteen twenty sixteen, Marco Rubio has never
been in Donald Trump's camp. In fact, remember when we
put Mark Rubio in a pool with a whole bunch
of naked guys talking about a cocaine binge party on
the front page of the of the National Inquiry.
Speaker 2: Remember that, I never, in my wildest.
Speaker 1: Imagination thought Marco Rubio would be part of the administration,
but he appointed him as Secretary of State. And here's
an ad. I want to show it to you, the
ad that the Trunk campaign ran against Marco Rubio in
twenty sixteen. Play that clip.
Speaker 6: Corrupt. Marco Rubio has spent years to frauding the people
of Florida. As a legislator, he flipped on a key
vote after making a quick two hundred thousand from selling
his house to the mother of the bills lobbyist. He
used the Republican Party's credit card to pave his driveway
and live it up in Las Vegas. When he got caught,
he said he had used the wrong credit card, but
he had used the same Republican Party card for six
flights between Miami and Tallahasse, then build the state for
the same airline tickets and pocket at the cash until
once again he got caught on top of it all.
Rubyo has been a total no show in the US
Senate with the worst voting record of all Marco Ruby
home another corrupt, all talk, no action politician.
Speaker 2: I'm Donald Trump and I approved this message.
Speaker 1: And I'm not Donald Trump, and I certainly wouldn't have
him as Secretary of State, not certainly off of that clip.
But then here he is talking about the Russia Ukraine war.
Speaker 7: Play that clip, but now, really our focus should be
on doing everything we can to help Ukraine defeat Russia,
whether it's a strategic defeat or an operational one. Putin
needs to take an L here, and I believe he will.
Certainly on the strategic front, he's going to take an
L and I think he might even take it on
operationally and it could ultimately to his downfall.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Sound a little bit sketchy, especially considering some of
the things that Donald Trump has said. How is he
going to be Secretary of State under those sort of
If he's going to follow that ideology, this is going
to be a very short lived Secretary of state, almost
shorter than Chief of Staff Ryan's previous Now, I wanted
to show you then another clip of him critiquing the
January six riots.
Speaker 7: We had police officers, the men and women that we
walk by every single day to guard the doors, and
we say hello to out there with ria gear getting
spit on and attacked today, not ten weeks ago, just
a few hours ago. And I think it's important to
think about all those things on a night like tonight
and everything that's happened. You know, I wouldn't even be
here today. I doubt very much where I would even
have been interested in politics had it not been for
my grandfather when I was fourteen. But I grew up
at his knee. He would sit on the porch, he
would smoke three cigars a day, and he loved history.
He was born in eighteen ninety nine in rural Cuba.
It was still governed by the United States. It was
a protector. Three years later gained its independence and became
a republic.
Speaker 6: During my grandfather's.
Speaker 7: First sixty years of life, he saw his country have
an armed insurrection after a contested election, multiple presidents go
into exile, two military coups, and the rise of a
Marxist dictator, a tyranny that stands to the state.
Speaker 2: My entire life.
Speaker 7: My entire life, I have lived with and next two
people who came to America because their country was chaotic
and their country was unsafe. What I saw today, what
we have seen, looks more like those countries than the
extraordinary nation that I am privileged to call home.
Speaker 1: And so I bring up the same point. I do
believe that this will be a very short relationship between
the two. So lastly, I want to talk about puppy
killer Christin Nong who will there is another one that
I never would have picked, Department of Homeland Security Secretary.
I mean, here's the clip of her talking about Texas
and the Constitution, And an important fact is that Texas
was not one of the original thirteen colonies when the
Constitution was even signed.
Speaker 8: Played the clip, Texas and those thirteen original colonies would
have never signed the treaty that formed the first Constitution
of the United States if they didn't think that they're
right to protect themselves and defend their own people was protected.
So what Joe Biden is doing.
Speaker 1: Is yeah, history, it's one of those things that predicated
on facts easily checked too. Let me say this to you,
my friends again, this is not the time to unsubscribe.
We have a lot to go through and on this program,
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be an anti presidency. No.
Speaker 2: For the stuff that's good, I will call it out.
Speaker 1: I'd be the first one to say I hope that
Trump is successful in his presidency because it benefits all
of us. It benefits the entire country, not just those
select few the magas, but for all Americans. And that
is my hope. But as things go wrong, as I
suspect that there will be, because during every presidency things
go wrong, but this one again, especially based upon some
of these cabinet picks, I think we're going to have
a lot to talk about and at this program, nothing
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