January 17, 2025 • 59 mins
Tonight, on Battleground LIVE I will talk about how the Democrats are a party in total disarray, then we’ve got the great Daniel Turner here to discuss the Trump cabinet confirmation hearings, and so much more!
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Speaker 5 (00:34):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
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the founder and executive director of Power the Future.
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Thank you. You all are the best. There's so many
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things that are happening right now, and we're going to
try to get to each and every one of them
with Daniel Turner tonight. But some really really great and
also appropriate and funny news right at the top, and
that's CNN was found liable for five million dollars in
damages at least five million dollars in damages for defaming
a navy veteran on what was Jake Tapper's show, And
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then Jim Acosta got on board. This couldn't happen. This
is just so, first of all, my heart breaks for
this Navy veteran. Give you just a quick synopsis of
what actually is going on. But this poor guy during
the Afghan collapse. Wow, the Afghan surrender, of course, happened
under the disastrous Biden administration, which three freaking days and
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President Trump is inaugurated and he's in office, and thank
God for that. I think Joe Biden is quite literally
the worst president in American history. He has just done
unbelievable and extraordinary damage to our country. But this, this
navy veteran, rises up seize the fall and collapse surrender
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of Afghanistan, says I'm going to do something about it,
and he worked really hard to find American sponsors who
were willing to throw money behind evacuating Afghan allies. Very noble,
altruistic cause. CNN completely smeared this guy, destroyed his reputation,
saying that he was demanding I'm paraphrasing the lawsuit here,
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but you can read it.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
It's out there.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
The news broke today, but they basically said this guy
was asking for exorbitant sums of money from Afghans in
order to be evacuated, when actually that wasn't true at all,
But I'm going to play this sound here just to
give you a gist of what the accusation looked like
in the moment and then CNN's subsequent apology.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Check this out.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
After the fall of Afghanistan, many Afghans are still desperate
to leave.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
CNN's Alex bark Word found a black market ready to
take advantage.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
We skyped with a father of three in kabl who
had just met with a man offering to get them
on an event vacuation flight list. What is the US
doing that you know of to try to get you
and your family out?
Speaker 9 (04:05):
Unfortunately they are not doing now anything up to thirty first,
they said everything is closed and it's finish. We need
not receive anything back from the USMS or from any
other organization.
Speaker 8 (04:18):
So he went online where he found a man named
Zachary Young, who is one of many advertising evacuations from Afghanistan,
posting just this week we can deliver One LinkedIn user
posted messages with Young, where Young said it would be
seventy five thousand dollars for a car to Pakistan. He
told another it would be fourteen and a half thousand
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per person to get to the United Arab Emirates or
Albania for another four thousand prices, well beyond the reach
of most Afghans. We got Young's number and called, but
he didn't pick up. In a text message, he told
CNN that Afghans trying to leave are expected to have
sponsors pay for them. If someone reaches out, we need
to understand if they have a sponsor behind them to
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be able to pay evacuation costs, which Young says are
highly volatile and based on environmental realities. Young repeatedly declined
to break down the costs or say if he's making money.
Speaker 10 (05:12):
And thanks to Alex Mark Word for that eye opening
report and before we go a correction. In November, we
ran a story about Afghans desperate to flee the country
who faced pain high sums beyond the reach of average Afghans.
The story included a lead in and banner throughout the
story that referenced a black market. The use of the
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term black market in the story was an error. The
story included reporting on Zachary Jung, a private operator who
had been contacted by family members of Afghans trying to
flee the country. We did not intend to suggest that
Master mister Young participated in a black market. We regret
the air and to mister Young, we apologize.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Well, listen, first of all, that's not true, and I
really encourage you to go read about this case because
as part of the evidence that the jury used to
evaluate whether or not CNN should be held liable CNN's
emails between Jake Tapper and this guy named Marquette. I
guess was a reporter. I guess it was the guy
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who saw there about the phone, Well, we called him,
but he didn't answer.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Well apparently.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I believe, as after reading the evidence and the trial
itself earlier today, that that call never actually happened.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
It was just completely faked.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
But you would not believe the emails between Jake Tapper
and other people behind the scenes at CNN and how
they were talking about this navy veteran. They were completely
out to get this guy. They were saying, Oh, the
guy has a punchable face, We're gonna nail this MF
or just some of the worst stuff that you could
possibly say about somebody, and the guy who was just
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trying to help people. Gives you a sense of who
CNN and the people that work at CNN really are now,
if you'll remember.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
The reason why.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
This is significant is because I think set to precedent
here for Trump to go after the at least some
of the lying, discussing fake news members of the media
and actually hold them accountable for the lying and damage
they'd done to this country since the guy came down
the golden escalator. Now, ABC earlier this year, if you remember,
settled with Trump for fifteen million dollars after George Stefanopp
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and Appanopolis to fame Trump on air. They also apologized
to him. So if you remember what CNN said after that,
I think they were clearly worried because they knew that
they were being sued for defamation as well, and that
bad things might happen to them too. This was Jake
Tapper in the wake of that ABC lawsuit, looking all glum.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Note, Kristen, I don't want to overstate Trump's friendliness and
genial attitude at this press conference, because this weekend, ABC
News agreed to pay sixteen million dollars including legal fees,
to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Trump against the
network on their anchor, George Stefanopolis, and that obviously will
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not be the end of this campaign against the media,
legal campaign against the media. We heard him go after
many other news outlets today.
Speaker 11 (08:09):
Take a listen, Well, I'm.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Going to be bringing one against.
Speaker 12 (08:15):
The people in Iowa. Their newspaper were filing one on
sixty minutes. We're involved in one which has been going
on for a while and very successfully against Bob Woodward.
We have one very interestingly on Bulletser, because reporters at
the New York Times Washington Post got Bulletser prizes for
the Yeah, wonderful, accurate and highly professional reporting on the
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Russia Russia Russia hoax.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
We don't have time to go all that, but just
a touch base on a couple there. One of them
is the people of Iowa at the one register. That's
because there was a poll that was that was inaccurate.
The one on sixty minutes is because they didn't like
the editing that had been done to the Yeah, I
mean this is this is wildly ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
It's actually not wildly ridiculous. Trump issuing CBS for election interference.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
And he should.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
What these media outlets have done to President Trump and
his family is nothing short of criminal. You should not
be like I get it. Free speech is everything in
this country. It's freedom of speech. It's just it's just everything.
But they have these these media types have gone out
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of their way to push hoaxes that have actually not
just hurt President Trump who's running for office, but his
children and his grandchildren.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
It's it's sickening what they've done. But what CBS did
was also election interference. At the height of a presidential campaign.
They they significantly edited what was supposed to be a
live interview, a real time interview with Kamala Harris to
make her look better and more palatable to the American people.
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They did this to sway an election. That is election interference,
and Trump is suing them for I think between ten
to fifteen million dollars. And word on the street is
that CBS is thinking of settling that lawsuit. But if
you don't remember that, what I'm talking about the interview
with CBS and Kamala Harris Harris, it's this. See if
you can detect the difference in the way that Kamala
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Harris answered this question, in the way that CBS clearly
edited the answer to make her look better.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It seems that Prime Minister Netanyah, who is not listening.
Speaker 13 (10:36):
Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
For those listening this is this is the actual answer.
Listen to this word salad.
Speaker 13 (10:46):
And a number of movements in that region by Israel
that were very much prompted by or a result of
many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen
in the region.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But it seems that Prime Minister Netanya who is not.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Listening this is the edited answer.
Speaker 13 (11:09):
They're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for
the United States to be clear about where we stand
on the need for this war to end.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I mean, they are clearly these media outlets are clearly
propaganda through and through. They edited that answer to make
Kamala Harris look better because she was running for president
and they didn't want Donald Trump to win. So I
think Donald Trump is right to put some of these
media outlets on notice for their lying and their election interference. Again,
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think back to the Hunter Biden laptop and how if
I think if the American people and polls have reflected this,
If the American people knew about the Hunter Biden laptop,
and then they knew the truth behind what was on
the laptop between seven and fifteen percent of Americans would
have likely changed their vote. I mean, now, listen, it's
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just a poll. But the reality is is that the media,
along with our intelligence community, went out of their way
to cover for Joe Biden to help him win an
election back then. This is not okay. This is election
interference and it shouldn't be allowed to happen. Also, lots
of breaking news right at the top of the show,
but Bill Cassidy, Senator of Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, just
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before we went live on the show, said he is
in fact voting for Pete Hegseeth. It's the first time
he's actually confirmed that he was going to do it.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Folks.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
That makes fifty as of right now. If nothing changes
between now and January twenty first, and you know, three
four days in politics is an eternity. But if nothing changes,
it looks like Secretary heg Seth is going to be
a reality and this country is going to have a
new and also its youngest Secretary of Defense in Pete,
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which I think is a very very good thing. Something
else happening that was all This is happening all at
the same time, which is strange for a Friday which
is usually a news dump day where people they drop
stories late on Friday night that they don't want you
to have situational awareness of. But Trump's swearing in ceremony
was for his inauguration was supposed to be outside. They've
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moved it in. Ronald Reagan was also inaugurated inside the
Capitol rotunda in nineteen eighty five. But I mean the
Trump administer, I mean the incoming Trump administration is citing
the weather. But what's interesting to me is that Chin
I mean most of the drones here in this country.
And obviously the drone threat during the inauguration was something
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that was that I was very, very worried about. It's
these drones. We just simply don't have control of that situation.
We don't control our own airspace, and these drones, I believe,
now after they've been weaponized, posed a significant threat to
this country, not just a president that's out in the
open or a government official who's out in the open,
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but all of us. And so what's curious to me
is that China, and many of our jones are manufactured
in China, which again this is part of the problem
with a free trade relationship with China. When everything is
made in China, they control, They control a lot about
our lives and how we live our lives here in America,
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and that's a dangerous thing. But they removed the geo
fencing on their drones that were made there. Normally drones
come with built in geo fencing that would prohibit them
from flying over locations like the White House. Well, four
days before the Trump inauguration, China removed that from their drones,
And so part of me wonders, is there some sort
of threat out there that the Trump administration is aware of,
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and that maybe that's the catalyst for the reason why
they brought the inaugurations, swearing in and the ceremony inside.
I mean, ultimately, I think it's a very very good thing.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Okay.
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Okay, without further ado.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
My friend Daniel Turner, he is the founder and executive
director of an awesome organization called Power the Future. And
I might add, my friend, I think have the new
record for number of f bombs dropped on Battleground Live.
Which is a true honor, my friend. I mean, this
is this is this is everyone. The thousands that are
listening and watching are very This is like a true honor.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
We should have a breaker, a very distinct honor. My
friend Thank you. How's it going good.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
It's great to be back on with you. It's great
to be back home. I was in DC all week.
I missed you at the hag Seth confirmation. But I
mean the people like you are the ones who should
have been in in the room. And I was at
a couple of different hearings. Busy week, a lot going on.
DC has this crazy nervous buzz with the inauguration coming
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up and cops every It's the safest it's probably ever been. Right,
there are cops everywhere.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Is the craziest.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
What do you make So Muriel Bowser, who's the mayor
of DC, met with Donald Trump about crime in the area,
about making DC better, safer, making DC great again? You
could say, would Muriel Bowser ever have met with Donald
Trump in his first term? And what the hell does
it say about how things have evolved from twenty sixteen
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to twenty twenty until now, Because when I saw her
release that statement, I'm like, hell has got to be
freezing over what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, it's pretty remarkable, and I think it comes from
the fact that that all these folks, they felt like
they were principled opposition, right, They were standing up for whatever,
speaking truth to power, one of those expressions I genuinely hate.
But they all thought they were speaking truth to power.
But but you look across the board nationwide, internationally, even
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and all the leftists are just failing remarkably right, New
York is a failed city and state, which makes breaks
my heart. DC's a failed city, Los Angeles, right, we
need to look no further. And I think even seeing
folks like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos come around, You've
got Senator Fetterman, your senator going tomorrow Lago. I think
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he was there today to sit down with the president to.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
The Pope of Greenland, Y.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I think people realize, right their principled opposition didn't get
them anything. It exacerbated unnecessary tensions, and even more so
if they've been proven that they're failures. Leftist governments worldwide
are failing nationwide.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
You're one hundred percent right.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
The left has lost so much power already, not just
here in America but worldwide since Trump won in November.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
But check this out.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I was going to show this before you came on,
but here this graphic. Who do you now see as
the leader of the Democrat Party look at the like,
I don't know, that's a twenty nine percent so the party.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
You'd think that after.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Kamala Harris ran for president, you think people would, for
God's sake, Daniel, she just ran a national campaign for president,
had a billion dollars. I mean what, she raised a
billion dollars, spent hundreds of millions in states, and I
don't know, like as a higher percentage than she does.
When asked about who's the leader of the Democrat Party, Yeah,
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so much.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
For DEI you know, not that I would ever give
advice to the hostile left, but here goes because I
think I'm really good at my job as you are
good at yours. I don't understand who in Kamala's circle
did not say we got a tragedy going on in
Los Angeles. It is your hometown. You have nothing to
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do as vice president. You are going to drop into
LA You're gonna say, I'm gonna I'm gonna coordinate federal operations.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Covered this on the show earlier in the week. It's
an opportunity to lead. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Her husbands think them, Yeah, what the hell she could
have done that?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
She could have absolutely rebuilt her brand. She could have
resurrected her image. She could have shown herself to be
a leader, even though it's all fake, right she we
know she's not really doing anything, but but photograph her
with charts and maps and phones and boards and and
you know what, how many Hollywood people went to her,
her town halls and her rallies. Get all of those
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idiots to tweet a gofund me link right, Get all
those idiots to pledge. Get she could have. You know,
where's the live aid concert somewhere at a local Get
get Bruce Springsteen. You know you wanted him to come
sing at your events. Get him to sing at a
rally to raise money for the fireman. She could have
had she has, not that I'm capitalizing on tragedy. What's
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happening in Los Angeles is awful, but but it is
a moment for people to shine. The New York Post
had an op ed not long ago saying, where's Los
Angeles's Rudy Giuliani? Right like, this is a moment where
leaders are born and they grab the situation and they
say we're gonna turn this boat around. And instead, she
sat in the White House, refusing to let the vances visit,
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the visit the vice president's residence and complained and whined
and was angry and missed opportunity, lady, And I got
to tell you, it shows you what type of president
you would have been as well, Sean. The bullet we dodged,
God almighty, it gets bigger every day, the bullet we dodged.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
And she is, you are so right, And you know
I saw a headline. I believe it was an axios
If I'm in correct, somebody in the live chat correct me.
But like right up at the top, oh, it's hard
to blame Republicans for this because Democrats supermajority in California.
You mean to tell me that as you write about this,
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as you process this disaster, top of top of line
for you in this article was it's impossible to blame
Republicans because Republicans aren't in a supermajority. Daniel. This is
why I say, I said, I've said this to you,
how these Democrats are an existential threat to America, Daniel.
I mean, they just I'm not trying to be hyperbolic.
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Their policies are extremely, extremely dangerous, and it's just I mean, look,
check this out. Did you see Governor Hokals State of
the State addressed like that?
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Did you see this?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
So this is this is the New York City taxpayer.
People are being burned alive on the subway. Crime has
never been higher in New York. I mean maybe outside
of the you know, the eighties leading up to Rudy
Giuliani being mayor.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
But like, look at look at this. This is insane.
I thought that this was fake, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Stuff stuff and.
Speaker 14 (23:15):
Show you, show you, Okay, how are these folks like
we're gonna have choreography class tonight, guys, No, we're not.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Like, what the hell is could you? So?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
So this is kind of like this is what you
get when you have Democrats control every level of power.
They instead of focusing you know, taxpayer dollars, every available
taxpayer dollar on combating crime and giving their citizens a
better quality of life and and especially people well within
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the city of New York, dealing with this insane illegal
immigration problem. I mean, this is the kind of stuff
that they're doing while they're city, you know, the greatest
city in the world, New York City is collapsing all
around them.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
It's it's insane.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I saw a lot of this this week when I
was at these these hearings, and even you know, watching
the HEGSIP one on on on TV and what you
see in Los Angeles reminds me of this, this awful
video you just showed. My takeaway was, and I've been
thinking about this for a lot. The Democrat Party is old.
And I don't mean in terms of age. I mean
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in terms of their ideas. There there their vision, they
have no vision, but they're so old they're still stuck
on do you think women have the right to? Not
that women's rights don't matter, of course they do. But
of course if you look at the grandiosity and the
vastness of D O D and that's all you're stuck on.
Is this one tiny little you know, the them hearing
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I was at yesterday. The vastness of the Department of Interior,
six hundred million acres over something observed like one point
two million acres of offshore national parks oil gask like
the vastness of this, and it's like, do you think
lesbians have the right to? And you want to say, Senator,
with all of this, your your ideas are so old.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Like oh yes, wait, let me show you.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Let me show you Senator Herono's questions to Doug Bergham,
all of the issues that we face with energy independence
and energy here in this country. Listen to this insanity.
Speaker 15 (25:35):
Thank you, missus Sherman welcome. As part of my responsibilities
to ensure the fitness of nominees before any of the committee,
so much, I said, I asked the following two initial questions. Firstus,
since you became a legal adult, have you ever made
a want to request for sexual favors or committed any
verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
No, Senator, I have not.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Have you ever faced this?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I mean, I can't even get I mean, of course,
nobody wants a cabinet nominee to have done any of
that stuff. But my god, you get seven minutes in
these hearings right as a sitting US senator, Democrat or Republican,
to ask questions, and to your point about whether it's
Pete's hearing or incoming Secretary Bergham's hearing, It's like these
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questions are unbecoming of the American people. They're just they're
not serious. Like the Department of Defense, all branches of
the military face very very serious problems and you know,
I thought, you know, just as as something of a
politico like the Dems could have made Pete's life a
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lot harder. It would have been tough for them to
do because Pete's he knows his stuff, and he's articulate,
he knows how to handle himself. But they could have
done a hell of a lot better than like Pete.
You know, he's a misogynist and you know women and
oh you're just so inexperienced. Those are dumb angles. And likewise,
this stuff with Bergham is the same shit. Man, It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, I was waiting for Pete to to say to
Senator Jillibrand, calm down.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
But but you know, it was a weird to have
a bunch of a bunch of old a bunch of
not old, but like a bunch of angry women just
yelling at Pete the whole time.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
I'm sorry, I know that's gonna but it's true.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
But even just in terms of optics, and if you
really wanted to defeat him, you could have made the
same points without the the histrionics, without the emotion, without
the screaming nature that that Instagram video that was trending
of the six boxes, of all the women yelling at him,
his face in the middle, like Alice and the Brady Bunch,
just just just stoneface listening to it. You could have
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made the point and it would have been more effective.
It would have been crueler and harder if you just
had some But they're incapable of it. There there are
questions their vision there. Everything is so old, it's so
it's so boring. There's no vision, there's no plan for tomorrow.
It's just you gonna get rid of the text credits
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on EV's like, that's the whole. The other thing that
struck me, which I'm hoping to write an op ed
about if I get time, was the senators. I don't
even think they know their job. There were so many
questions to the Interior Secretary about tax credits for wind
and solar EVS and I, from the back of the
room wanted to scream, that's your job, senator, right that
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the Secretary of Interior doesn't give out tax credits. The
communist does. And so if you want tax credits, pass
a bill that's called the Ron Wyden Bill for tax
credits for solar. But he doesn't want to do that.
Governor a Senator Widen. So he wants to sneak it
in somehow, and he wants to use the bureaucracy, which
is why we call the weaponization of government. So now
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he wants to know if the Department of Interior will
do something, which illegally they've been doing. And it's like,
well you do it, Senative, but I don't want to
pass a law with my name on it. So they
don't even know what their jobs are. They've advocated so
much authority to these bureaucracies. Governor Bergham was brilliant. I mean,
talk about a man crush. I mean, the guy was
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just exceptional and every answer was just flawless. I mean, really,
it's so exciting his vision for energy for the country.
I was thrilled. I was so happy when this hearing
was over.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
It was for folks who are listening and maybe watching
at home. Listen to a little bit of Burghum's Doug
Bergham's opening statement check us out.
Speaker 16 (29:41):
Today America produces energy cleaner, smarter, and safer than anywhere
in the world. And when energy production is restricted in America,
it doesn't reduce demand, it just shifts productions to countries
like Russia and Iran, who's autocratic leaders not only don't
care at all about the environ but they use their
revenues from energy sales to fund wars against US and
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our allies. President Trump's energy dominance vision will end those
wars abroad, will make life more affordable for every family
in America by driving down inflation. And President Trump will
achieve those goals while championing clean air, clean water, and
protecting our beautiful land.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
That's a solid opening statement.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
This is stuff. The power of the fure is the
reason why power of the future exists. Is this exact vision.
If his lovely wife had just tilted her head a
little bit, you would have seen me. I was in
the background, trying to be on like the camera hog
that I am. But it was just a brilliant opening statement.
One of the things he said which really stuck with
me was he said, we're constantly berating ourselves on our debt,
and our debt is real, thirty six trillion dollars in net,
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thirty six trillion dollars in debt, he says, but nobody
knows our assets. So Biden just gave away six hundred
million acres of offshore water from drilling. What's the value
of that, Well, we don't know because we don't know
how much oil there is offshore. We don't know how
much is subsurface mining and metals and minerals. We don't
know what our timber industry is worth. Because you look
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at some of these national forests and the environmental policies
are so insane you can't go in and you can't assess.
So he says, we talk about our debt and we
make it sound like our countries in bad shape. But
what if I told you our assets were four hundred trillion, Well,
then suddenly thirty six trillion in debt isn't quite so bad.
But we have no idea on a balance sheet what
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we are worth because we are prevented by bad policies
of doing this investigation. And it was like, that's something
a businessman would say, and he is a businessman. He's
a self made billionaire us for a reason, he's never
been in well, he was governor, but he literally went
from being a billionaire to saying I'm going to fix
the state and run for governor. So he's I guess
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a couple of years of politician, but he's a businessman
at heart. And that's what we need in this country
is someone to say, what are the assets of the Pentagon.
The Pentagon has failed. I did tweet that in real
time when Governor when when Senator Blumenthal was like, we
can't afford a mismanaged Pentagon. It was like, you've failed
an audit for eight straight years? You have you don't
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even know how many tanks you have in the Pentagon.
How dare you Vietnam veteran bloom and fall? Tell us
that's the joke for those who know. It was infuriating. So,
but Bergham had this vision, this direction that you say like, yes,
we need, we need I'm getting choked up, we need
that in this country. It was, it was.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
It was amazing, Yeah, it really was.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
And so I think I said, Burgham is and he's
Bergham is the income incoming Secretary of the Interior. And
then you have, right, Chris Wright is incoming Secretary of Energy, Right,
Chris Chris Wright is also gonna be fantastic in that role.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
He is.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
He is super intelligent. I've read a lot about this guy.
I've actually watched some of some of his speeches. He's
super intelligent and He's also very very articulate, which I
think is really important for some of these secretary nominees.
And I think the highlight of his I mean, there
are lots, I mean watching these hearings, but was his
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comments on China and are you going to commit to
a clean energy race with China? When I heard a
Democrat senator asked that, I was like, these people they
are I don't know if they really believe this stuff, Daniel,
or are they just that stupid. I'm not trying to
be rude, but a clean energy race with China. Somehow
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they think that China is committed to green energy. There's
no way they could possibly believe that. But Right's response
to this was fantastic.
Speaker 17 (33:44):
Check it out about the legislation that was written in
this room that was the biggest transformation on clean energy
in American history.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
That is our.
Speaker 17 (33:54):
Package that basically said the tax code as it relates
to energy is a broken down ness, and we basically
said we're gonna have a technology neutral system. The more
you reduce carbon, the bigger your tax savings. Now there
is a big effort in the Trump administration to reverse it.
I think that's gonna be bad for the economy, but
it is going to be damn good for China because
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we are in an arms race and clean energy with them.
Are you going to be on the side of people
who want to unravel this?
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (34:23):
Senator the senator widen, just so we can frame this
for everyone in the room. China will build one hundred
new coal plants this year. There is not a clean
energy race. There is an energy race China.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
So of course that's best. Not right. I'm all sorts
of food bar today.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
My god, it's Friday, so at least grabbed me some
grace there. But that, but the point remains, right, Daniel, like,
we're not in a clean energy race with China. China
doesn't give a shit about clean energy at all.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Another guy who's a self made billionaire who entered the
foray of politics because he and he said this in
his opening remarks, I was so sad to see the
state of our country are spending our debt when I
know our assets, I know how valuable our country, how
much potential we have. This is a guy who didn't
want to be in politics, and admittedly so, and now
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he's going to be the Treasury secretary. But what a
brilliant answer and so moderated. And here's Ron Wyden, and
you want to say, Senator again, why is China building
these coal plants. They're building these coal plants because they're
manufacturing the very solar panels that we're buying, because you
cannot manufacture solar panels without coal. Right, the actual solar
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panel itself, which is crystalline courtzite. To make it, you
have to heat it to around two thousand degrees and
the only thing that burns that hot, which a lot
of Western pa folks know, is that's why you need
coal for steel and coal for cement, because it burns
hot and it burns consistently. Well, it's expensive to do
that here, and we punish it in America, make it
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overseas because they don't burn coal responsibly as we do
in America, and they use nine year old girls to
do so. So here's Ron Wyden, the Senator from Oregon,
saying how great it is for the environment that we
shut down responsible coal electricity here in America to buy crappy,
slave made solar panels made with bad coal in China,
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to make expensive electricity here in America fifteen percent of
the time and we call this being environmental, we call
this being green, we call this a victory. And Ron
Wyden says, are you going to reverse this? Fuck? Yeah,
we're gonna reverse it because it's failure. And proof of
that is the fact that you're paying, you know, thirty
five percent more for your electricity than you were when
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the Biden administration began. It's just been an abject failure,
and yet we're trying to pretend that it's winning based
upon these fake numbers. Four hundred million, that's how Congress measures.
That's their metric of success. We've spent four hundred million airgo,
it must be good. It's like when you go to
a meal and you're like, well, this bottle of wine
is two hundred bucks, it must be good, must it?
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You know? Maybe it is, maybe it's not. All I
know is it's really damn expensive. And Congress measures their
their success by how much money they've We've spent four
trillion more on education. Our kids aren't any smarter, right,
Every congressman, every politician does this, and it's infuriating. So yes,
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Scott Bessent was just again calm, educated, rational, and he
makes these senators look, as I said, old stale, ideas stale.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
They're just dumb.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
I mean, so many of these Democrat senators are just dumb.
I'm sorry, they're just dumb. I just can't Maybe some
of them are politically shrewd and they think they have
gotcha questions. But I'll tell you, like Tammy Duckworth reading
the soldier Creed to Pete, Hegseth a guy that was
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in the army for twenty years. So you think that
Pete doesn't know and understand the soldier's creed, I's just
like insulting. It's ridiculous, it's grand standing. And meanwhile, you know,
back to the clean energy thing, this these solar panels.
What kills me is that why have we convinced ourselves?
You know, first of all, why are we handicapping ourselves?
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Why are the Democrats so hell bent on kneecapping America
when it comes to energy this and is actually from
a national security standpoint, it's actually very very dangerous. You know,
if there were an actual real life emergency or crisis
or god forbid, America was attacked and we're reliant on
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these stupid solar panels that get knocked out in a
bad hailstorm, or with high winds. It just doesn't make
any sense. And if clearly you hear me talking about
it just pisses me off.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Because I'm really passionate.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
It's just just it's ridiculous to me, and I just
don't understand. I don't understand how they can not get this.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, and you're a great center from Pennsylvania. Your new
one was at the Doug Burgham confirmation because he's on
the Energy Committee. Makes perfect sense. He represents the second
largest natural gas producing state in the nation, and he
mentioned that he and Doug Bergham in respond said, you know, Senator,
I don't know how many Americans realize that Pennsylvania produces
twenty percent of our natural gas. And I wanted to
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yell out from the back. No one more than Bob
Casey doesn't realize that, right, Like Dave McCormick realizes that, right,
American Pennsylvanians did, but Bob Casey shore as hell didn't.
And where's Bob Well, I mean, he's taking a nap.
So that's the only thing that he's gotten. A professorship
somewhere at this point, right, and That's what I'm looking for.
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Biden leaves in a couple of days. Is they'll all
get jobs at Yale and Harbor. He'll go to Penn, right,
he'll get a professorship of Polly sci like Biden did,
right million dollars a year, and he'll tell people I
taught college when I graduated, taught college like he's got
books under it here. So I'm curious to see where
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some of these idiots in the Biden administration land, because
academia is the only place, because again, they're ideas, then
they don't really work when you put them in practice,
like Marxism, but in ideas it sounds. It sounds fantastic.
And the damage they've done will take President Trump some
time to undo. I heard you say right before I
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was coming on that Pietez at the fifty vote, And
right before I came on that, I saw Senator Thune,
majority leader of the Senate, say that they hope to
have the new senator appointees from Ohio and Florida sworn
in right after the inaugural. So that's two more Republican votes.
I got to tell you, if you're newly sworn in
to the Senate and your first act is voting against
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the Secretary of defense.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Oh no, tell me, okay, break this down for me. So,
oh god, yeah, you're right. So the president would be
inaugurated on the twentieth hag Seth's vote, and I think, actually,
I think Rubio's vote is actually on the twentieth, shortly
after Yes, Trump's inauguration. The sec deaf is the schedule
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for the twenty first. Right now, he's at fifty, but
that does not count the incoming senator from Ohio.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
I don't believe. So no, because both of them have
officially resigned their positions. JD. Vance and Marco Rubio have resigned,
so that the fifty is probably now we have fifty
three Republicans, so minus those two and we're still at
fifty so, which is a great number to be at.
So normally what they've done in the past is as
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soon as the inaugural's done and everyone well, they're not
walking back up the stairs because they're not going to
be outside, They'll be in the rotunda literally within minutes.
They'll grab the Vice president as who's the president of
the Senate? JD. Vance and they will say swear in
these two and hand on the bike and if the
swearing ceremony will happen in forty five seconds, and it
will be immediate and then Thune will probably grab everyone,
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run to the Senate do a quick vote. And the
reason why is that Marco Rubio has asked for immediate
swearing in because of war, right, and same with Pete
hegseth Right, there's a lot of shit going on and
if we're secretary, that's not good. He probably wants to
go in and start firing some of these these morons too,
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which would be a glorious thing.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Did you see the video of the Secretary of Defense, well,
the outgoing Secretary of Defense Austin, he'd leaving his office
and everyone's clapping, and I'm thinking, like, you know what
Pete said during the hearing. And of course this is
very very much the case. You lose a rifle or
your night vision in the military, now not only are
they throwing the book at you, but they are docking
your pay for the full amount of that weapon system
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and that sensitive item. But if you're a military, if
you're a general, and you lose a war, they promote you.
That is a fact, Daniel, that that's one hundred percent
how it works. And things are just completely upside down
and I'm thinking, if you're in the Pentagon, you're clapping.
I mean, I understand, and I really do understand the
deference and respect that Secretary of Defense Austin has in
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that building. But how can you be proud of that
surrender in Afghanistan and what Austin has done to our military.
I'm sorry, but this is not the best version of
the military. And likewise, same with the Department of Transportation
under Brudagegg. He gave his farewell address today and who
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the hell Grand Holmes Secretary of Energy. What a disaster
she was. I mean, all of these people have done
extraordinary damage to the country. And by the way, none
of them are qualified. Pete buke Keg is like, oh yeah,
I want to be Secretary of Transportation because I like trains,
and like, meanwhile, you got some Republicans that are just like,
I'm vote vote for this man. So I just it
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just struck me as I was surprised. But here now
we have Heg Sath who is who's qualified to do
the job, and others where people.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
Are like oh ho ho hung, I don't harump, I don't.
Speaker 4 (44:09):
Know if we can vote for them. They're not qualified.
Look at what may Orcus has done. Look at what
Graham Home at Home is done, Look at what Buda
Gag has done. These people have done more damage to
the economy in four years than any Republican nominee, certainly
within my memory.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Yeah, and I think for General Austin and clearly you
know this world way better than I ever will, even
as as as awful as Afghanistan was, if people were like, well,
let's take that off the table, how else will we
measure successful? How's your recruitment going, right? And if you're
leaving a department that has fewer people because they don't
want to join, clearly something is wrong with your your
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your your your team right. It's why coaches get eventually
get get kicked off. You know, if if the high
school recruits are like you know what, I think Nick
Saban's great, but I want to go to Georgia. You know,
a Kirby Smart's got my attention. Uh uh, Lane Kiffin's
got my eye. I want to go play for Marcus
Freeman go Irish on Monday right that you can see it.
Speaker 5 (45:09):
If you're another Notre Dame fan.
Speaker 4 (45:11):
So like, we had a big conversation with Steve Friend,
who was on Steve Friend, who is a he's a
law enforcement officer.
Speaker 5 (45:17):
I don't know if you know.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
I'm the law enforcement guy, FBI guy turned whistleblower. He
left the organization because the FBI was prosecuting January sixth
prisoners and like they were violating all sorts of their
own protocol. So he became a whistleblower. Anyway, he went
to Notre Dame and is a big freeman guy. And
so now we've got I got two back to back
Notre Dame fans on the show.
Speaker 5 (45:38):
What this is? This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
That's why Monday is going to be probably the greatest
day in my life. I'm going to see President Well,
I'm not going to see it now. I had my
tickets and I wasn't gonna brave, but I don't think
I'm gonna make there. They were expecting around a million people,
and I think they're kidding me about a million hundred.
So I don't know if I'm going to be one
of those that gets moved from the millions to this man.
Speaker 5 (46:02):
Like Melanie and I have been.
Speaker 4 (46:03):
We've been down in DC like the last several times
over the last couple of weeks and you know, we're like,
what's that all? Yeah, yeah, So we're like looking at
hotel rooms there and like, you know, you can lay
out the entire month's calendar and like the day before
the inauguration or like two days before the day before
the day up. I mean, these hotel rooms are going
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for like two thousand and three thousand, five thousand dollars
a night for inauguration. That is insane, first of all,
But second of all, what is your take on them
moving inauguration inside? I mean they said it's gonna be
the weather in the wind chill, and you know, when
Barack Obama was inaugurated, I think it was in twenty twelve,
the weather was really bad. There was some cold weather
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injuries for that. But they don't cancel the Macy's Day parade.
I mean, they don't cancel other you know, outdoor events
at least I don't think. So that leads me to
believe that there might be something else to play here.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
What you say, five degree weather definitely hurts, There's no
doubt about it.
Speaker 5 (47:05):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
That's what it's expected to be right now as five
I know all of Alaska's laughing at us for an
event that starts at ten. You have to be there
by by eight thirty to get through security, so you're
just sitting there from eight thirty to ten. Then it's
about two hours long. So I can understand that. But
I will say this, not knowing any intel, I think
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there's probably a bit of a sigh of relief on
Secret Services part, and Secret Service has been clearly a
mess with President Trump, there's probably a sigh of relief
of like, it's, you know what, it's one less thing
to worry about in what is an early chaotic day. Right,
You've got for a couple of hours, you've got four
people you have to protect, you know, not equally. But
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but Biden is still the president, he still has his
whole detail. Trump is the president elect, and that switches
in a second, but the shift of personnel protective protective
personnel doesn't. So you've got the vice presidents, you've got
the presidents, you've got the spouses. Secret Service that day
is it's a logistical hell, and I'm sure they're like,
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you know what, this is just one thing to make
our job a little easier, and sadly it's kind of
a reflection of our time. I hope it ends. But
how many people are in our country?
Speaker 5 (48:21):
Right?
Speaker 1 (48:21):
I mean, five hundred and fifty terrorists were stopped at
the border, not to mention, you know, ten million who
we don't know who the fuck they are. They're here too,
So I heard surprised if Secret Service was like, yes,
it's really cold, but let's just make life a little
easier for us all. And I can't blame them. I'm
sad for the American people, no doubt. I'm sure President
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Trump is sad too, but he'll rally. We still get
them regardless.
Speaker 4 (48:47):
Yeah, I mean, so what do you make of actually,
let me see if I have it. What do you
make of this Biden saying today, I'm affirming what I
have long believed. What course of the States if I've
ratified the twenty eighth Amendment is the law of the
land guarantee? Yeah, I mean, like, here's this little graphic
or whatever, and doubt here he's.
Speaker 5 (49:08):
Getting community noted on X into oblivion. It just says
straight up.
Speaker 4 (49:13):
The Archives of the United States, charged with officially published
publishing ratified amendments, has confirmed the era was not ratified
and based that and based that analysis on binding legal precedent.
There is no twenty eighth amendment. But here's here's the
crazy thing, Daniel, is that the Democrats have gone.
Speaker 5 (49:32):
All in on this insanity.
Speaker 4 (49:34):
I mean, Kirsten Gillibrand put out a tweet saying President
Biden just declared that the Equal Rights Amendment is now
a valid part of the Constitution and should be considered
the law of the land. This is an incredible moment
for reproductive freedom and historic day for equality, especially with
Americans facing further degradation of reproductive freedom.
Speaker 5 (49:53):
Blah blah.
Speaker 4 (49:54):
But what the hell is going on here exactly that
you can amend the Constant via a post on x yeah,
three days before you leave office.
Speaker 1 (50:04):
Apparently, Again, it's just so old. If you if you
really wanted to talk about the Equal Rights Amendment, reproductive freedom, right,
they're they're so stuck on their little talking points that
it's not the you know when Equal Rights Amendment first
kind of came around, which was a thing from the sixties.
You know, we're a very different country than we were
in the sixties. And if you're still going to play
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this card that women don't have the same rights as men, again, old, right,
it's just so old, it's so boring. To it's you
know what, going back to the great Marcus Freeman after
they they they spanked Georgia in New Orleans, right when
they said and being the first African American coach, how
does that make you feel? And he was kind of like,
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I don't like he didn't, you know. And because it's old,
it's so old, like you're really going to get caught
up on. You know. No one has been talking about
how Scott Beissende is the first gay Treasury Secretary nomine
in history, because we don't play that card. And he
certainly hates that card. And Trump world hates that card
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because everyone hates that card. But boy, when it was
the Democrats in charge, this is the first Latino woman
ever to be making a ham sandwich on a Thursday, right,
it was NonStop of identity politics.
Speaker 4 (51:20):
And so listen, listen to Biden. Listen to Biden mumbles,
I mean he thinks that. What's crazy to me is
that these people call Trump a dictator. Imagine if Trump
seriously tried it. Declare just declared via a post on
his Twitter account. Yet he was amending the Constitution for
whatever reason, not going through the actual problem. But listen
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to how Biden just talks about it as if it's real,
when when the Democrats talk about conspiracy theorists, they're really
referring to themselves because they're all just insane.
Speaker 7 (51:53):
Listen, career, I've been clear, no one, no one, no
one should be discriminated against based on their six And
in order for the amendment to be ratified, it requires
three fourths to the states to ratify it. That Benchmar's
benchmark was passed when Virginia ratified.
Speaker 1 (52:13):
The ERA a few years ago.
Speaker 7 (52:15):
Today, I affirmed the Ecal Rights Amendment to have cleared
all the necessary hurdles.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
To be added to the US Constitution.
Speaker 5 (52:22):
Now what the law, It's the law of the land,
he just says it.
Speaker 4 (52:33):
Meanwhile, the amendment was not ratified by the requisite number
of states prior to that deadline, and some states ratified
the amendment post deadline.
Speaker 5 (52:40):
Other states have revoked her ratification altogether.
Speaker 4 (52:45):
I'm sorry, but like this to me, it's just it's
just another piece of evidence that these Democrats just they
don't care about the Constitution, clearly like they are willing
to just blow off the costag whenever it suits them.
Speaker 5 (53:02):
But just these they're crazy. These people are crazy.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
They live in a post constitutional world that exists only
in their own minds.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
Let's just remember the last couple of days of the
Biden administration where removing oil and gas drilling offshore, commuting
the sentences of child rapists and murderers, and declaring by
Fiat constitutional Amendment right. Those are the last couple of
days of the Biden administration. And it's a perfect example
of what lunacy we've been dealing with the last four years.
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And the tide is turning. We got two and a
half days. It's going to be remarkable, it really is.
Speaker 4 (53:39):
So what are you doing this weekend in the what
two and a half days until this country is really
liberated from Joe Biden?
Speaker 1 (53:48):
Well farm shores for a day and a half, but
then Sunday afternoon head back to d C. Staying in
a friend's house near the capitol because we were hoping
to walk over but while still well, you know, we'll
find something to do. There's the rally on Sunday night.
We'll go to that. I don't know if we'll get
into the there's gonna be a post rally.
Speaker 5 (54:09):
I think there's a rally. There's a rally's doing a rally.
Speaker 1 (54:12):
He was doing a rally Sunday night at at the
whether the Washington Wizards play. It changes names all the time.
I don't know what's new name. And then there. I
think they're gonna do now a post inaugural rally there,
but I'm not sure. And regardless, going to the inaugural ball,
everyone likes a chance to put on a tucks. So
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if you're going to the inaugural ball and you're with
your eight thousand closest friends, try to find me. I'll say, hello,
are you going? I hope to see you.
Speaker 4 (54:41):
No, I have not a pomp and circumstance type of
a guy. That's not not like there are other better
people like yourself that can send me a picture of
yourself and there in your top hat.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
Absolutely I will. I have sheep couplings, which I'm very
excited about because I have sheep farms, so I'm excited
to bust them out.
Speaker 4 (55:03):
Yeah, I had a picture of yourself and your cheap couplings. Daniel,
tell us all where we can find you.
Speaker 1 (55:09):
Powerthefuture dot com. Daniel at Power the Future. Every time
I throw out my email address, people shoot me notes
and I love to get questions and their questions like, hey,
what's the deal with blah blah blah? And I always respond,
So you got a question about energy, oil, gas coal,
the green agenda? Daniel Atpowerthefuture dot com. And next time
I talk to you, it will be a new world
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and I'm looking forward to it. Sean.
Speaker 4 (55:32):
Yeah, yeah, man, save here. The future is bright, is
it not?
Speaker 1 (55:37):
It is gonna be.
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It'll be bright with fossil fuels. All right, my friends,
see you later, bless all right. That is Daniel Turner.
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things that are happening right now, and we're going to
try to get to each and every one of them
with Daniel Turner tonight. But some really really great and
also appropriate and funny news right at the top, and
that's CNN was found liable for five million dollars in
damages at least five million dollars in damages for defaming
a navy veteran on what was Jake Tapper's show, And
(02:14):
then Jim Acosta got on board. This couldn't happen. This
is just so, first of all, my heart breaks for
this Navy veteran. Give you just a quick synopsis of
what actually is going on. But this poor guy during
the Afghan collapse. Wow, the Afghan surrender, of course, happened
under the disastrous Biden administration, which three freaking days and
(02:38):
President Trump is inaugurated and he's in office, and thank
God for that. I think Joe Biden is quite literally
the worst president in American history. He has just done
unbelievable and extraordinary damage to our country. But this, this
navy veteran, rises up seize the fall and collapse surrender
(03:02):
of Afghanistan, says I'm going to do something about it,
and he worked really hard to find American sponsors who
were willing to throw money behind evacuating Afghan allies. Very noble,
altruistic cause. CNN completely smeared this guy, destroyed his reputation,
saying that he was demanding I'm paraphrasing the lawsuit here,
(03:25):
but you can read it.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
It's out there.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
The news broke today, but they basically said this guy
was asking for exorbitant sums of money from Afghans in
order to be evacuated, when actually that wasn't true at all,
But I'm going to play this sound here just to
give you a gist of what the accusation looked like
in the moment and then CNN's subsequent apology.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Check this out.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
After the fall of Afghanistan, many Afghans are still desperate
to leave.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
CNN's Alex bark Word found a black market ready to
take advantage.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
We skyped with a father of three in kabl who
had just met with a man offering to get them
on an event vacuation flight list. What is the US
doing that you know of to try to get you
and your family out?
Speaker 9 (04:05):
Unfortunately they are not doing now anything up to thirty first,
they said everything is closed and it's finish. We need
not receive anything back from the USMS or from any
other organization.
Speaker 8 (04:18):
So he went online where he found a man named
Zachary Young, who is one of many advertising evacuations from Afghanistan,
posting just this week we can deliver One LinkedIn user
posted messages with Young, where Young said it would be
seventy five thousand dollars for a car to Pakistan. He
told another it would be fourteen and a half thousand
(04:39):
per person to get to the United Arab Emirates or
Albania for another four thousand prices, well beyond the reach
of most Afghans. We got Young's number and called, but
he didn't pick up. In a text message, he told
CNN that Afghans trying to leave are expected to have
sponsors pay for them. If someone reaches out, we need
to understand if they have a sponsor behind them to
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be able to pay evacuation costs, which Young says are
highly volatile and based on environmental realities. Young repeatedly declined
to break down the costs or say if he's making money.
Speaker 10 (05:12):
And thanks to Alex Mark Word for that eye opening
report and before we go a correction. In November, we
ran a story about Afghans desperate to flee the country
who faced pain high sums beyond the reach of average Afghans.
The story included a lead in and banner throughout the
story that referenced a black market. The use of the
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term black market in the story was an error. The
story included reporting on Zachary Jung, a private operator who
had been contacted by family members of Afghans trying to
flee the country. We did not intend to suggest that
Master mister Young participated in a black market. We regret
the air and to mister Young, we apologize.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Well, listen, first of all, that's not true, and I
really encourage you to go read about this case because
as part of the evidence that the jury used to
evaluate whether or not CNN should be held liable CNN's
emails between Jake Tapper and this guy named Marquette. I
guess was a reporter. I guess it was the guy
(06:15):
who saw there about the phone, Well, we called him,
but he didn't answer.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Well apparently.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I believe, as after reading the evidence and the trial
itself earlier today, that that call never actually happened.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
It was just completely faked.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
But you would not believe the emails between Jake Tapper
and other people behind the scenes at CNN and how
they were talking about this navy veteran. They were completely
out to get this guy. They were saying, Oh, the
guy has a punchable face, We're gonna nail this MF
or just some of the worst stuff that you could
possibly say about somebody, and the guy who was just
(06:50):
trying to help people. Gives you a sense of who
CNN and the people that work at CNN really are now,
if you'll remember.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
The reason why.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
This is significant is because I think set to precedent
here for Trump to go after the at least some
of the lying, discussing fake news members of the media
and actually hold them accountable for the lying and damage
they'd done to this country since the guy came down
the golden escalator. Now, ABC earlier this year, if you remember,
settled with Trump for fifteen million dollars after George Stefanopp
(07:18):
and Appanopolis to fame Trump on air. They also apologized
to him. So if you remember what CNN said after that,
I think they were clearly worried because they knew that
they were being sued for defamation as well, and that
bad things might happen to them too. This was Jake
Tapper in the wake of that ABC lawsuit, looking all glum.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Note, Kristen, I don't want to overstate Trump's friendliness and
genial attitude at this press conference, because this weekend, ABC
News agreed to pay sixteen million dollars including legal fees,
to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Trump against the
network on their anchor, George Stefanopolis, and that obviously will
(08:01):
not be the end of this campaign against the media,
legal campaign against the media. We heard him go after
many other news outlets today.
Speaker 11 (08:09):
Take a listen, Well, I'm.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Going to be bringing one against.
Speaker 12 (08:15):
The people in Iowa. Their newspaper were filing one on
sixty minutes. We're involved in one which has been going
on for a while and very successfully against Bob Woodward.
We have one very interestingly on Bulletser, because reporters at
the New York Times Washington Post got Bulletser prizes for
the Yeah, wonderful, accurate and highly professional reporting on the
(08:39):
Russia Russia Russia hoax.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
We don't have time to go all that, but just
a touch base on a couple there. One of them
is the people of Iowa at the one register. That's
because there was a poll that was that was inaccurate.
The one on sixty minutes is because they didn't like
the editing that had been done to the Yeah, I
mean this is this is wildly ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
It's actually not wildly ridiculous. Trump issuing CBS for election interference.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
And he should.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
What these media outlets have done to President Trump and
his family is nothing short of criminal. You should not
be like I get it. Free speech is everything in
this country. It's freedom of speech. It's just it's just everything.
But they have these these media types have gone out
(09:33):
of their way to push hoaxes that have actually not
just hurt President Trump who's running for office, but his
children and his grandchildren.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
It's it's sickening what they've done. But what CBS did
was also election interference. At the height of a presidential campaign.
They they significantly edited what was supposed to be a
live interview, a real time interview with Kamala Harris to
make her look better and more palatable to the American people.
(10:03):
They did this to sway an election. That is election interference,
and Trump is suing them for I think between ten
to fifteen million dollars. And word on the street is
that CBS is thinking of settling that lawsuit. But if
you don't remember that, what I'm talking about the interview
with CBS and Kamala Harris Harris, it's this. See if
you can detect the difference in the way that Kamala
(10:26):
Harris answered this question, in the way that CBS clearly
edited the answer to make her look better.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
It seems that Prime Minister Netanyah, who is not listening.
Speaker 13 (10:36):
Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
For those listening this is this is the actual answer.
Listen to this word salad.
Speaker 13 (10:46):
And a number of movements in that region by Israel
that were very much prompted by or a result of
many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen
in the region.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But it seems that Prime Minister Netanya who is not.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Listening this is the edited answer.
Speaker 13 (11:09):
They're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for
the United States to be clear about where we stand
on the need for this war to end.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I mean, they are clearly these media outlets are clearly
propaganda through and through. They edited that answer to make
Kamala Harris look better because she was running for president
and they didn't want Donald Trump to win. So I
think Donald Trump is right to put some of these
media outlets on notice for their lying and their election interference. Again,
(11:39):
think back to the Hunter Biden laptop and how if
I think if the American people and polls have reflected this,
If the American people knew about the Hunter Biden laptop,
and then they knew the truth behind what was on
the laptop between seven and fifteen percent of Americans would
have likely changed their vote. I mean, now, listen, it's
(12:02):
just a poll. But the reality is is that the media,
along with our intelligence community, went out of their way
to cover for Joe Biden to help him win an
election back then. This is not okay. This is election
interference and it shouldn't be allowed to happen. Also, lots
of breaking news right at the top of the show,
but Bill Cassidy, Senator of Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, just
(12:23):
before we went live on the show, said he is
in fact voting for Pete Hegseeth. It's the first time
he's actually confirmed that he was going to do it.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Folks.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
That makes fifty as of right now. If nothing changes
between now and January twenty first, and you know, three
four days in politics is an eternity. But if nothing changes,
it looks like Secretary heg Seth is going to be
a reality and this country is going to have a
new and also its youngest Secretary of Defense in Pete,
(12:52):
which I think is a very very good thing. Something
else happening that was all This is happening all at
the same time, which is strange for a Friday which
is usually a news dump day where people they drop
stories late on Friday night that they don't want you
to have situational awareness of. But Trump's swearing in ceremony
was for his inauguration was supposed to be outside. They've
(13:15):
moved it in. Ronald Reagan was also inaugurated inside the
Capitol rotunda in nineteen eighty five. But I mean the
Trump administer, I mean the incoming Trump administration is citing
the weather. But what's interesting to me is that Chin
I mean most of the drones here in this country.
And obviously the drone threat during the inauguration was something
(13:36):
that was that I was very, very worried about. It's
these drones. We just simply don't have control of that situation.
We don't control our own airspace, and these drones, I believe,
now after they've been weaponized, posed a significant threat to
this country, not just a president that's out in the
open or a government official who's out in the open,
(13:57):
but all of us. And so what's curious to me
is that China, and many of our jones are manufactured
in China, which again this is part of the problem
with a free trade relationship with China. When everything is
made in China, they control, They control a lot about
our lives and how we live our lives here in America,
(14:18):
and that's a dangerous thing. But they removed the geo
fencing on their drones that were made there. Normally drones
come with built in geo fencing that would prohibit them
from flying over locations like the White House. Well, four
days before the Trump inauguration, China removed that from their drones,
And so part of me wonders, is there some sort
of threat out there that the Trump administration is aware of,
(14:41):
and that maybe that's the catalyst for the reason why
they brought the inaugurations, swearing in and the ceremony inside.
I mean, ultimately, I think it's a very very good thing.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Okay.
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Okay, without further ado.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
My friend Daniel Turner, he is the founder and executive
director of an awesome organization called Power the Future. And
I might add, my friend, I think have the new
record for number of f bombs dropped on Battleground Live.
Which is a true honor, my friend. I mean, this
is this is this is everyone. The thousands that are
listening and watching are very This is like a true honor.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
We should have a breaker, a very distinct honor. My
friend Thank you. How's it going good.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
It's great to be back on with you. It's great
to be back home. I was in DC all week.
I missed you at the hag Seth confirmation. But I
mean the people like you are the ones who should
have been in in the room. And I was at
a couple of different hearings. Busy week, a lot going on.
DC has this crazy nervous buzz with the inauguration coming
(17:05):
up and cops every It's the safest it's probably ever been. Right,
there are cops everywhere.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Is the craziest.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
What do you make So Muriel Bowser, who's the mayor
of DC, met with Donald Trump about crime in the area,
about making DC better, safer, making DC great again? You
could say, would Muriel Bowser ever have met with Donald
Trump in his first term? And what the hell does
it say about how things have evolved from twenty sixteen
(17:34):
to twenty twenty until now, Because when I saw her
release that statement, I'm like, hell has got to be
freezing over what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, it's pretty remarkable, and I think it comes from
the fact that that all these folks, they felt like
they were principled opposition, right, They were standing up for whatever,
speaking truth to power, one of those expressions I genuinely hate.
But they all thought they were speaking truth to power.
But but you look across the board nationwide, internationally, even
(18:05):
and all the leftists are just failing remarkably right, New
York is a failed city and state, which makes breaks
my heart. DC's a failed city, Los Angeles, right, we
need to look no further. And I think even seeing
folks like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos come around, You've
got Senator Fetterman, your senator going tomorrow Lago. I think
(18:26):
he was there today to sit down with the president to.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
The Pope of Greenland, Y.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I think people realize, right their principled opposition didn't get
them anything. It exacerbated unnecessary tensions, and even more so
if they've been proven that they're failures. Leftist governments worldwide
are failing nationwide.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
You're one hundred percent right.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
The left has lost so much power already, not just
here in America but worldwide since Trump won in November.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
But check this out.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I was going to show this before you came on,
but here this graphic. Who do you now see as
the leader of the Democrat Party look at the like,
I don't know, that's a twenty nine percent so the party.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
You'd think that after.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Kamala Harris ran for president, you think people would, for
God's sake, Daniel, she just ran a national campaign for president,
had a billion dollars. I mean what, she raised a
billion dollars, spent hundreds of millions in states, and I
don't know, like as a higher percentage than she does.
When asked about who's the leader of the Democrat Party, Yeah,
(19:41):
so much.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
For DEI you know, not that I would ever give
advice to the hostile left, but here goes because I
think I'm really good at my job as you are
good at yours. I don't understand who in Kamala's circle
did not say we got a tragedy going on in
Los Angeles. It is your hometown. You have nothing to
(20:03):
do as vice president. You are going to drop into
LA You're gonna say, I'm gonna I'm gonna coordinate federal operations.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Covered this on the show earlier in the week. It's
an opportunity to lead. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Her husbands think them, Yeah, what the hell she could
have done that?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
She could have absolutely rebuilt her brand. She could have
resurrected her image. She could have shown herself to be
a leader, even though it's all fake, right she we
know she's not really doing anything, but but photograph her
with charts and maps and phones and boards and and
you know what, how many Hollywood people went to her,
her town halls and her rallies. Get all of those
(20:43):
idiots to tweet a gofund me link right, Get all
those idiots to pledge. Get she could have. You know,
where's the live aid concert somewhere at a local Get
get Bruce Springsteen. You know you wanted him to come
sing at your events. Get him to sing at a
rally to raise money for the fireman. She could have
had she has, not that I'm capitalizing on tragedy. What's
(21:03):
happening in Los Angeles is awful, but but it is
a moment for people to shine. The New York Post
had an op ed not long ago saying, where's Los
Angeles's Rudy Giuliani? Right like, this is a moment where
leaders are born and they grab the situation and they
say we're gonna turn this boat around. And instead, she
sat in the White House, refusing to let the vances visit,
(21:25):
the visit the vice president's residence and complained and whined
and was angry and missed opportunity, lady, And I got
to tell you, it shows you what type of president
you would have been as well, Sean. The bullet we dodged,
God almighty, it gets bigger every day, the bullet we dodged.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
And she is, you are so right, And you know
I saw a headline. I believe it was an axios
If I'm in correct, somebody in the live chat correct me.
But like right up at the top, oh, it's hard
to blame Republicans for this because Democrats supermajority in California.
You mean to tell me that as you write about this,
(22:04):
as you process this disaster, top of top of line
for you in this article was it's impossible to blame
Republicans because Republicans aren't in a supermajority. Daniel. This is
why I say, I said, I've said this to you,
how these Democrats are an existential threat to America, Daniel.
I mean, they just I'm not trying to be hyperbolic.
(22:27):
Their policies are extremely, extremely dangerous, and it's just I mean, look,
check this out. Did you see Governor Hokals State of
the State addressed like that?
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Did you see this?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
So this is this is the New York City taxpayer.
People are being burned alive on the subway. Crime has
never been higher in New York. I mean maybe outside
of the you know, the eighties leading up to Rudy
Giuliani being mayor.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
But like, look at look at this. This is insane.
I thought that this was fake, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Stuff stuff and.
Speaker 14 (23:15):
Show you, show you, Okay, how are these folks like
we're gonna have choreography class tonight, guys, No, we're not.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Like, what the hell is could you? So?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
So this is kind of like this is what you
get when you have Democrats control every level of power.
They instead of focusing you know, taxpayer dollars, every available
taxpayer dollar on combating crime and giving their citizens a
better quality of life and and especially people well within
(24:00):
the city of New York, dealing with this insane illegal
immigration problem. I mean, this is the kind of stuff
that they're doing while they're city, you know, the greatest
city in the world, New York City is collapsing all
around them.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
It's it's insane.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I saw a lot of this this week when I
was at these these hearings, and even you know, watching
the HEGSIP one on on on TV and what you
see in Los Angeles reminds me of this, this awful
video you just showed. My takeaway was, and I've been
thinking about this for a lot. The Democrat Party is old.
And I don't mean in terms of age. I mean
(24:38):
in terms of their ideas. There there their vision, they
have no vision, but they're so old they're still stuck
on do you think women have the right to? Not
that women's rights don't matter, of course they do. But
of course if you look at the grandiosity and the
vastness of D O D and that's all you're stuck on.
Is this one tiny little you know, the them hearing
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I was at yesterday. The vastness of the Department of Interior,
six hundred million acres over something observed like one point
two million acres of offshore national parks oil gask like
the vastness of this, and it's like, do you think
lesbians have the right to? And you want to say, Senator,
with all of this, your your ideas are so old.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Like oh yes, wait, let me show you.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Let me show you Senator Herono's questions to Doug Bergham,
all of the issues that we face with energy independence
and energy here in this country. Listen to this insanity.
Speaker 15 (25:35):
Thank you, missus Sherman welcome. As part of my responsibilities
to ensure the fitness of nominees before any of the committee,
so much, I said, I asked the following two initial questions. Firstus,
since you became a legal adult, have you ever made
a want to request for sexual favors or committed any
verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
No, Senator, I have not.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Have you ever faced this?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I mean, I can't even get I mean, of course,
nobody wants a cabinet nominee to have done any of
that stuff. But my god, you get seven minutes in
these hearings right as a sitting US senator, Democrat or Republican,
to ask questions, and to your point about whether it's
Pete's hearing or incoming Secretary Bergham's hearing, It's like these
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questions are unbecoming of the American people. They're just they're
not serious. Like the Department of Defense, all branches of
the military face very very serious problems and you know,
I thought, you know, just as as something of a
politico like the Dems could have made Pete's life a
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lot harder. It would have been tough for them to
do because Pete's he knows his stuff, and he's articulate,
he knows how to handle himself. But they could have
done a hell of a lot better than like Pete.
You know, he's a misogynist and you know women and
oh you're just so inexperienced. Those are dumb angles. And likewise,
this stuff with Bergham is the same shit. Man, It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, I was waiting for Pete to to say to
Senator Jillibrand, calm down.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
But but you know, it was a weird to have
a bunch of a bunch of old a bunch of
not old, but like a bunch of angry women just
yelling at Pete the whole time.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
I'm sorry, I know that's gonna but it's true.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
But even just in terms of optics, and if you
really wanted to defeat him, you could have made the
same points without the the histrionics, without the emotion, without
the screaming nature that that Instagram video that was trending
of the six boxes, of all the women yelling at him,
his face in the middle, like Alice and the Brady Bunch,
just just just stoneface listening to it. You could have
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made the point and it would have been more effective.
It would have been crueler and harder if you just
had some But they're incapable of it. There there are
questions their vision there. Everything is so old, it's so
it's so boring. There's no vision, there's no plan for tomorrow.
It's just you gonna get rid of the text credits
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on EV's like, that's the whole. The other thing that
struck me, which I'm hoping to write an op ed
about if I get time, was the senators. I don't
even think they know their job. There were so many
questions to the Interior Secretary about tax credits for wind
and solar EVS and I, from the back of the
room wanted to scream, that's your job, senator, right that
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the Secretary of Interior doesn't give out tax credits. The
communist does. And so if you want tax credits, pass
a bill that's called the Ron Wyden Bill for tax
credits for solar. But he doesn't want to do that.
Governor a Senator Widen. So he wants to sneak it
in somehow, and he wants to use the bureaucracy, which
is why we call the weaponization of government. So now
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he wants to know if the Department of Interior will
do something, which illegally they've been doing. And it's like,
well you do it, Senative, but I don't want to
pass a law with my name on it. So they
don't even know what their jobs are. They've advocated so
much authority to these bureaucracies. Governor Bergham was brilliant. I mean,
talk about a man crush. I mean, the guy was
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just exceptional and every answer was just flawless. I mean, really,
it's so exciting his vision for energy for the country.
I was thrilled. I was so happy when this hearing
was over.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
It was for folks who are listening and maybe watching
at home. Listen to a little bit of Burghum's Doug
Bergham's opening statement check us out.
Speaker 16 (29:41):
Today America produces energy cleaner, smarter, and safer than anywhere
in the world. And when energy production is restricted in America,
it doesn't reduce demand, it just shifts productions to countries
like Russia and Iran, who's autocratic leaders not only don't
care at all about the environ but they use their
revenues from energy sales to fund wars against US and
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our allies. President Trump's energy dominance vision will end those
wars abroad, will make life more affordable for every family
in America by driving down inflation. And President Trump will
achieve those goals while championing clean air, clean water, and
protecting our beautiful land.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
That's a solid opening statement.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
This is stuff. The power of the fure is the
reason why power of the future exists. Is this exact vision.
If his lovely wife had just tilted her head a
little bit, you would have seen me. I was in
the background, trying to be on like the camera hog
that I am. But it was just a brilliant opening statement.
One of the things he said which really stuck with
me was he said, we're constantly berating ourselves on our debt,
and our debt is real, thirty six trillion dollars in net,
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thirty six trillion dollars in debt, he says, but nobody
knows our assets. So Biden just gave away six hundred
million acres of offshore water from drilling. What's the value
of that, Well, we don't know because we don't know
how much oil there is offshore. We don't know how
much is subsurface mining and metals and minerals. We don't
know what our timber industry is worth. Because you look
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at some of these national forests and the environmental policies
are so insane you can't go in and you can't assess.
So he says, we talk about our debt and we
make it sound like our countries in bad shape. But
what if I told you our assets were four hundred trillion, Well,
then suddenly thirty six trillion in debt isn't quite so bad.
But we have no idea on a balance sheet what
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we are worth because we are prevented by bad policies
of doing this investigation. And it was like, that's something
a businessman would say, and he is a businessman. He's
a self made billionaire us for a reason, he's never
been in well, he was governor, but he literally went
from being a billionaire to saying I'm going to fix
the state and run for governor. So he's I guess
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a couple of years of politician, but he's a businessman
at heart. And that's what we need in this country
is someone to say, what are the assets of the Pentagon.
The Pentagon has failed. I did tweet that in real
time when Governor when when Senator Blumenthal was like, we
can't afford a mismanaged Pentagon. It was like, you've failed
an audit for eight straight years? You have you don't
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even know how many tanks you have in the Pentagon.
How dare you Vietnam veteran bloom and fall? Tell us
that's the joke for those who know. It was infuriating. So,
but Bergham had this vision, this direction that you say like, yes,
we need, we need I'm getting choked up, we need
that in this country. It was, it was.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
It was amazing, Yeah, it really was.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
And so I think I said, Burgham is and he's
Bergham is the income incoming Secretary of the Interior. And
then you have, right, Chris Wright is incoming Secretary of Energy, Right,
Chris Chris Wright is also gonna be fantastic in that role.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
He is.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
He is super intelligent. I've read a lot about this guy.
I've actually watched some of some of his speeches. He's
super intelligent and He's also very very articulate, which I
think is really important for some of these secretary nominees.
And I think the highlight of his I mean, there
are lots, I mean watching these hearings, but was his
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comments on China and are you going to commit to
a clean energy race with China? When I heard a
Democrat senator asked that, I was like, these people they
are I don't know if they really believe this stuff, Daniel,
or are they just that stupid. I'm not trying to
be rude, but a clean energy race with China. Somehow
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they think that China is committed to green energy. There's
no way they could possibly believe that. But Right's response
to this was fantastic.
Speaker 17 (33:44):
Check it out about the legislation that was written in
this room that was the biggest transformation on clean energy
in American history.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
That is our.
Speaker 17 (33:54):
Package that basically said the tax code as it relates
to energy is a broken down ness, and we basically
said we're gonna have a technology neutral system. The more
you reduce carbon, the bigger your tax savings. Now there
is a big effort in the Trump administration to reverse it.
I think that's gonna be bad for the economy, but
it is going to be damn good for China because
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we are in an arms race and clean energy with them.
Are you going to be on the side of people
who want to unravel this?
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (34:23):
Senator the senator widen, just so we can frame this
for everyone in the room. China will build one hundred
new coal plants this year. There is not a clean
energy race. There is an energy race China.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
So of course that's best. Not right. I'm all sorts
of food bar today.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
My god, it's Friday, so at least grabbed me some
grace there. But that, but the point remains, right, Daniel, like,
we're not in a clean energy race with China. China
doesn't give a shit about clean energy at all.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Another guy who's a self made billionaire who entered the
foray of politics because he and he said this in
his opening remarks, I was so sad to see the
state of our country are spending our debt when I
know our assets, I know how valuable our country, how
much potential we have. This is a guy who didn't
want to be in politics, and admittedly so, and now
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he's going to be the Treasury secretary. But what a
brilliant answer and so moderated. And here's Ron Wyden, and
you want to say, Senator again, why is China building
these coal plants. They're building these coal plants because they're
manufacturing the very solar panels that we're buying, because you
cannot manufacture solar panels without coal. Right, the actual solar
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panel itself, which is crystalline courtzite. To make it, you
have to heat it to around two thousand degrees and
the only thing that burns that hot, which a lot
of Western pa folks know, is that's why you need
coal for steel and coal for cement, because it burns
hot and it burns consistently. Well, it's expensive to do
that here, and we punish it in America, make it
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overseas because they don't burn coal responsibly as we do
in America, and they use nine year old girls to
do so. So here's Ron Wyden, the Senator from Oregon,
saying how great it is for the environment that we
shut down responsible coal electricity here in America to buy crappy,
slave made solar panels made with bad coal in China,
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to make expensive electricity here in America fifteen percent of
the time and we call this being environmental, we call
this being green, we call this a victory. And Ron
Wyden says, are you going to reverse this? Fuck? Yeah,
we're gonna reverse it because it's failure. And proof of
that is the fact that you're paying, you know, thirty
five percent more for your electricity than you were when
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the Biden administration began. It's just been an abject failure,
and yet we're trying to pretend that it's winning based
upon these fake numbers. Four hundred million, that's how Congress measures.
That's their metric of success. We've spent four hundred million airgo,
it must be good. It's like when you go to
a meal and you're like, well, this bottle of wine
is two hundred bucks, it must be good, must it?
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You know? Maybe it is, maybe it's not. All I
know is it's really damn expensive. And Congress measures their
their success by how much money they've We've spent four
trillion more on education. Our kids aren't any smarter, right,
Every congressman, every politician does this, and it's infuriating. So yes,
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Scott Bessent was just again calm, educated, rational, and he
makes these senators look, as I said, old stale, ideas stale.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
They're just dumb.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
I mean, so many of these Democrat senators are just dumb.
I'm sorry, they're just dumb. I just can't Maybe some
of them are politically shrewd and they think they have
gotcha questions. But I'll tell you, like Tammy Duckworth reading
the soldier Creed to Pete, Hegseth a guy that was
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in the army for twenty years. So you think that
Pete doesn't know and understand the soldier's creed, I's just
like insulting. It's ridiculous, it's grand standing. And meanwhile, you know,
back to the clean energy thing, this these solar panels.
What kills me is that why have we convinced ourselves?
You know, first of all, why are we handicapping ourselves?
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Why are the Democrats so hell bent on kneecapping America
when it comes to energy this and is actually from
a national security standpoint, it's actually very very dangerous. You know,
if there were an actual real life emergency or crisis
or god forbid, America was attacked and we're reliant on
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these stupid solar panels that get knocked out in a
bad hailstorm, or with high winds. It just doesn't make
any sense. And if clearly you hear me talking about
it just pisses me off.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Because I'm really passionate.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
It's just just it's ridiculous to me, and I just
don't understand. I don't understand how they can not get this.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, and you're a great center from Pennsylvania. Your new
one was at the Doug Burgham confirmation because he's on
the Energy Committee. Makes perfect sense. He represents the second
largest natural gas producing state in the nation, and he
mentioned that he and Doug Bergham in respond said, you know, Senator,
I don't know how many Americans realize that Pennsylvania produces
twenty percent of our natural gas. And I wanted to
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yell out from the back. No one more than Bob
Casey doesn't realize that, right, Like Dave McCormick realizes that, right,
American Pennsylvanians did, but Bob Casey shore as hell didn't.
And where's Bob Well, I mean, he's taking a nap.
So that's the only thing that he's gotten. A professorship
somewhere at this point, right, and That's what I'm looking for.
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Biden leaves in a couple of days. Is they'll all
get jobs at Yale and Harbor. He'll go to Penn, right,
he'll get a professorship of Polly sci like Biden did,
right million dollars a year, and he'll tell people I
taught college when I graduated, taught college like he's got
books under it here. So I'm curious to see where
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some of these idiots in the Biden administration land, because
academia is the only place, because again, they're ideas, then
they don't really work when you put them in practice,
like Marxism, but in ideas it sounds. It sounds fantastic.
And the damage they've done will take President Trump some
time to undo. I heard you say right before I
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was coming on that Pietez at the fifty vote, And
right before I came on that, I saw Senator Thune,
majority leader of the Senate, say that they hope to
have the new senator appointees from Ohio and Florida sworn
in right after the inaugural. So that's two more Republican votes.
I got to tell you, if you're newly sworn in
to the Senate and your first act is voting against
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the Secretary of defense.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Oh no, tell me, okay, break this down for me. So,
oh god, yeah, you're right. So the president would be
inaugurated on the twentieth hag Seth's vote, and I think, actually,
I think Rubio's vote is actually on the twentieth, shortly
after Yes, Trump's inauguration. The sec deaf is the schedule
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for the twenty first. Right now, he's at fifty, but
that does not count the incoming senator from Ohio.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
I don't believe. So no, because both of them have
officially resigned their positions. JD. Vance and Marco Rubio have resigned,
so that the fifty is probably now we have fifty
three Republicans, so minus those two and we're still at
fifty so, which is a great number to be at.
So normally what they've done in the past is as
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soon as the inaugural's done and everyone well, they're not
walking back up the stairs because they're not going to
be outside, They'll be in the rotunda literally within minutes.
They'll grab the Vice president as who's the president of
the Senate? JD. Vance and they will say swear in
these two and hand on the bike and if the
swearing ceremony will happen in forty five seconds, and it
will be immediate and then Thune will probably grab everyone,
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run to the Senate do a quick vote. And the
reason why is that Marco Rubio has asked for immediate
swearing in because of war, right, and same with Pete
hegseth Right, there's a lot of shit going on and
if we're secretary, that's not good. He probably wants to
go in and start firing some of these these morons too,
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which would be a glorious thing.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Did you see the video of the Secretary of Defense, well,
the outgoing Secretary of Defense Austin, he'd leaving his office
and everyone's clapping, and I'm thinking, like, you know what
Pete said during the hearing. And of course this is
very very much the case. You lose a rifle or
your night vision in the military, now not only are
they throwing the book at you, but they are docking
your pay for the full amount of that weapon system
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and that sensitive item. But if you're a military, if
you're a general, and you lose a war, they promote you.
That is a fact, Daniel, that that's one hundred percent
how it works. And things are just completely upside down
and I'm thinking, if you're in the Pentagon, you're clapping.
I mean, I understand, and I really do understand the
deference and respect that Secretary of Defense Austin has in
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that building. But how can you be proud of that
surrender in Afghanistan and what Austin has done to our military.
I'm sorry, but this is not the best version of
the military. And likewise, same with the Department of Transportation
under Brudagegg. He gave his farewell address today and who
(43:37):
the hell Grand Holmes Secretary of Energy. What a disaster
she was. I mean, all of these people have done
extraordinary damage to the country. And by the way, none
of them are qualified. Pete buke Keg is like, oh yeah,
I want to be Secretary of Transportation because I like trains,
and like, meanwhile, you got some Republicans that are just like,
I'm vote vote for this man. So I just it
(43:59):
just struck me as I was surprised. But here now
we have Heg Sath who is who's qualified to do
the job, and others where people.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
Are like oh ho ho hung, I don't harump, I don't.
Speaker 4 (44:09):
Know if we can vote for them. They're not qualified.
Look at what may Orcus has done. Look at what
Graham Home at Home is done, Look at what Buda
Gag has done. These people have done more damage to
the economy in four years than any Republican nominee, certainly
within my memory.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Yeah, and I think for General Austin and clearly you
know this world way better than I ever will, even
as as as awful as Afghanistan was, if people were like, well,
let's take that off the table, how else will we
measure successful? How's your recruitment going, right? And if you're
leaving a department that has fewer people because they don't
want to join, clearly something is wrong with your your
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your your your team right. It's why coaches get eventually
get get kicked off. You know, if if the high
school recruits are like you know what, I think Nick
Saban's great, but I want to go to Georgia. You know,
a Kirby Smart's got my attention. Uh uh, Lane Kiffin's
got my eye. I want to go play for Marcus
Freeman go Irish on Monday right that you can see it.
Speaker 5 (45:09):
If you're another Notre Dame fan.
Speaker 4 (45:11):
So like, we had a big conversation with Steve Friend,
who was on Steve Friend, who is a he's a
law enforcement officer.
Speaker 5 (45:17):
I don't know if you know.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
I'm the law enforcement guy, FBI guy turned whistleblower. He
left the organization because the FBI was prosecuting January sixth
prisoners and like they were violating all sorts of their
own protocol. So he became a whistleblower. Anyway, he went
to Notre Dame and is a big freeman guy. And
so now we've got I got two back to back
Notre Dame fans on the show.
Speaker 5 (45:38):
What this is? This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
That's why Monday is going to be probably the greatest
day in my life. I'm going to see President Well,
I'm not going to see it now. I had my
tickets and I wasn't gonna brave, but I don't think
I'm gonna make there. They were expecting around a million people,
and I think they're kidding me about a million hundred.
So I don't know if I'm going to be one
of those that gets moved from the millions to this man.
Speaker 5 (46:02):
Like Melanie and I have been.
Speaker 4 (46:03):
We've been down in DC like the last several times
over the last couple of weeks and you know, we're like,
what's that all? Yeah, yeah, So we're like looking at
hotel rooms there and like, you know, you can lay
out the entire month's calendar and like the day before
the inauguration or like two days before the day before
the day up. I mean, these hotel rooms are going
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for like two thousand and three thousand, five thousand dollars
a night for inauguration. That is insane, first of all,
But second of all, what is your take on them
moving inauguration inside? I mean they said it's gonna be
the weather in the wind chill, and you know, when
Barack Obama was inaugurated, I think it was in twenty twelve,
the weather was really bad. There was some cold weather
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injuries for that. But they don't cancel the Macy's Day parade.
I mean, they don't cancel other you know, outdoor events
at least I don't think. So that leads me to
believe that there might be something else to play here.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
What you say, five degree weather definitely hurts, There's no
doubt about it.
Speaker 5 (47:05):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
That's what it's expected to be right now as five
I know all of Alaska's laughing at us for an
event that starts at ten. You have to be there
by by eight thirty to get through security, so you're
just sitting there from eight thirty to ten. Then it's
about two hours long. So I can understand that. But
I will say this, not knowing any intel, I think
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there's probably a bit of a sigh of relief on
Secret Services part, and Secret Service has been clearly a
mess with President Trump, there's probably a sigh of relief
of like, it's, you know what, it's one less thing
to worry about in what is an early chaotic day. Right,
You've got for a couple of hours, you've got four
people you have to protect, you know, not equally. But
(47:51):
but Biden is still the president, he still has his
whole detail. Trump is the president elect, and that switches
in a second, but the shift of personnel protective protective
personnel doesn't. So you've got the vice presidents, you've got
the presidents, you've got the spouses. Secret Service that day
is it's a logistical hell, and I'm sure they're like,
(48:12):
you know what, this is just one thing to make
our job a little easier, and sadly it's kind of
a reflection of our time. I hope it ends. But
how many people are in our country?
Speaker 5 (48:21):
Right?
Speaker 1 (48:21):
I mean, five hundred and fifty terrorists were stopped at
the border, not to mention, you know, ten million who
we don't know who the fuck they are. They're here too,
So I heard surprised if Secret Service was like, yes,
it's really cold, but let's just make life a little
easier for us all. And I can't blame them. I'm
sad for the American people, no doubt. I'm sure President
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Trump is sad too, but he'll rally. We still get
them regardless.
Speaker 4 (48:47):
Yeah, I mean, so what do you make of actually,
let me see if I have it. What do you
make of this Biden saying today, I'm affirming what I
have long believed. What course of the States if I've
ratified the twenty eighth Amendment is the law of the
land guarantee? Yeah, I mean, like, here's this little graphic
or whatever, and doubt here he's.
Speaker 5 (49:08):
Getting community noted on X into oblivion. It just says
straight up.
Speaker 4 (49:13):
The Archives of the United States, charged with officially published
publishing ratified amendments, has confirmed the era was not ratified
and based that and based that analysis on binding legal precedent.
There is no twenty eighth amendment. But here's here's the
crazy thing, Daniel, is that the Democrats have gone.
Speaker 5 (49:32):
All in on this insanity.
Speaker 4 (49:34):
I mean, Kirsten Gillibrand put out a tweet saying President
Biden just declared that the Equal Rights Amendment is now
a valid part of the Constitution and should be considered
the law of the land. This is an incredible moment
for reproductive freedom and historic day for equality, especially with
Americans facing further degradation of reproductive freedom.
Speaker 5 (49:53):
Blah blah.
Speaker 4 (49:54):
But what the hell is going on here exactly that
you can amend the Constant via a post on x yeah,
three days before you leave office.
Speaker 1 (50:04):
Apparently, Again, it's just so old. If you if you
really wanted to talk about the Equal Rights Amendment, reproductive freedom, right,
they're they're so stuck on their little talking points that
it's not the you know when Equal Rights Amendment first
kind of came around, which was a thing from the sixties.
You know, we're a very different country than we were
in the sixties. And if you're still going to play
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this card that women don't have the same rights as men, again, old, right,
it's just so old, it's so boring. To it's you
know what, going back to the great Marcus Freeman after
they they they spanked Georgia in New Orleans, right when
they said and being the first African American coach, how
does that make you feel? And he was kind of like,
(50:46):
I don't like he didn't, you know. And because it's old,
it's so old, like you're really going to get caught
up on. You know. No one has been talking about
how Scott Beissende is the first gay Treasury Secretary nomine
in history, because we don't play that card. And he
certainly hates that card. And Trump world hates that card
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because everyone hates that card. But boy, when it was
the Democrats in charge, this is the first Latino woman
ever to be making a ham sandwich on a Thursday, right,
it was NonStop of identity politics.
Speaker 4 (51:20):
And so listen, listen to Biden. Listen to Biden mumbles,
I mean he thinks that. What's crazy to me is
that these people call Trump a dictator. Imagine if Trump
seriously tried it. Declare just declared via a post on
his Twitter account. Yet he was amending the Constitution for
whatever reason, not going through the actual problem. But listen
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to how Biden just talks about it as if it's real,
when when the Democrats talk about conspiracy theorists, they're really
referring to themselves because they're all just insane.
Speaker 7 (51:53):
Listen, career, I've been clear, no one, no one, no
one should be discriminated against based on their six And
in order for the amendment to be ratified, it requires
three fourths to the states to ratify it. That Benchmar's
benchmark was passed when Virginia ratified.
Speaker 1 (52:13):
The ERA a few years ago.
Speaker 7 (52:15):
Today, I affirmed the Ecal Rights Amendment to have cleared
all the necessary hurdles.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
To be added to the US Constitution.
Speaker 5 (52:22):
Now what the law, It's the law of the land,
he just says it.
Speaker 4 (52:33):
Meanwhile, the amendment was not ratified by the requisite number
of states prior to that deadline, and some states ratified
the amendment post deadline.
Speaker 5 (52:40):
Other states have revoked her ratification altogether.
Speaker 4 (52:45):
I'm sorry, but like this to me, it's just it's
just another piece of evidence that these Democrats just they
don't care about the Constitution, clearly like they are willing
to just blow off the costag whenever it suits them.
Speaker 5 (53:02):
But just these they're crazy. These people are crazy.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
They live in a post constitutional world that exists only
in their own minds.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
Let's just remember the last couple of days of the
Biden administration where removing oil and gas drilling offshore, commuting
the sentences of child rapists and murderers, and declaring by
Fiat constitutional Amendment right. Those are the last couple of
days of the Biden administration. And it's a perfect example
of what lunacy we've been dealing with the last four years.
(53:33):
And the tide is turning. We got two and a
half days. It's going to be remarkable, it really is.
Speaker 4 (53:39):
So what are you doing this weekend in the what
two and a half days until this country is really
liberated from Joe Biden?
Speaker 1 (53:48):
Well farm shores for a day and a half, but
then Sunday afternoon head back to d C. Staying in
a friend's house near the capitol because we were hoping
to walk over but while still well, you know, we'll
find something to do. There's the rally on Sunday night.
We'll go to that. I don't know if we'll get
into the there's gonna be a post rally.
Speaker 5 (54:09):
I think there's a rally. There's a rally's doing a rally.
Speaker 1 (54:12):
He was doing a rally Sunday night at at the
whether the Washington Wizards play. It changes names all the time.
I don't know what's new name. And then there. I
think they're gonna do now a post inaugural rally there,
but I'm not sure. And regardless, going to the inaugural ball,
everyone likes a chance to put on a tucks. So
(54:33):
if you're going to the inaugural ball and you're with
your eight thousand closest friends, try to find me. I'll say, hello,
are you going? I hope to see you.
Speaker 4 (54:41):
No, I have not a pomp and circumstance type of
a guy. That's not not like there are other better
people like yourself that can send me a picture of
yourself and there in your top hat.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
Absolutely I will. I have sheep couplings, which I'm very
excited about because I have sheep farms, so I'm excited
to bust them out.
Speaker 4 (55:03):
Yeah, I had a picture of yourself and your cheap couplings. Daniel,
tell us all where we can find you.
Speaker 1 (55:09):
Powerthefuture dot com. Daniel at Power the Future. Every time
I throw out my email address, people shoot me notes
and I love to get questions and their questions like, hey,
what's the deal with blah blah blah? And I always respond,
So you got a question about energy, oil, gas coal,
the green agenda? Daniel Atpowerthefuture dot com. And next time
I talk to you, it will be a new world
(55:31):
and I'm looking forward to it. Sean.
Speaker 4 (55:32):
Yeah, yeah, man, save here. The future is bright, is
it not?
Speaker 1 (55:37):
It is gonna be.
Speaker 4 (55:38):
It'll be bright with fossil fuels. All right, my friends,
see you later, bless all right. That is Daniel Turner.
He's the founder and executive director of Power the Future.
You should go follow him on X as well. He's
got an awesome X profile. He's got lots of great
takes on all these different things, energy and just everything else.
(55:58):
But go support Daniel Turner. Make sure that we do
the right thing for him battle Crew. He is just
an extraordinary guy all the way around, and we're really
really lucky to have him. Okay, now it's time to
recognize some members of the battle crew. Also got to
thank the NUN Report. If you're not following or subscribing
(56:20):
to the Nun Report, you should definitely do it. Thank
you to my buddy Dan, and also the Patriot Raiders
both rated this stream. We are lucky to have you.
Everyone go follow if you can the Patriot Raiders as well.
We love having them here. And all of these, you know,
all of you gifting five subscriptions to Battleground. I don't
even know what to say other than just thank you.
(56:42):
I mean, I just said in the live chat that
you're the best audience in the face of the planet,
and I mean it.
Speaker 5 (56:46):
And I'm looking at the battle Crew.
Speaker 4 (56:48):
Buck Guy, who I affectionately called Newlywed because she was
recently married this year, gifted five subscriptions to Battleground.
Speaker 5 (56:54):
Thank you, battle Crew, Buck Guy, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (56:57):
Doc sixty eight Whiskey also give did five subscriptions to
batle around. You guys are the best. Steel City Ken.
I think Steele City Ken has been with us every
single episode of Battleground line.
Speaker 5 (57:10):
I mean he is just an OG member through and through.
He also gifted five subscriptions to Battleground Live. All of you.
Thank you all so much from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (57:20):
This is about building a community and we've done that
for sure. And who can forget staying salt stay in
Salty money for fifteen seconds in a hotel room, if
you go to if you go to DC, thank you
staying salty. I really appreciate you all, folks. This is
(57:42):
an amazing weekend. Make sure you smash that like button,
that little gray button. If you haven't liked the show yet,
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We try to get to four hundred by the end
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(58:04):
you to enjoy your weekend. This weekend, this is we
have lived through one of the most historic election cycles
in our nation's history.
Speaker 5 (58:15):
Trump is persevered through.
Speaker 4 (58:18):
Just an unbelievable amount of things that come to this point,
and on Monday, he'll be sworn in as the forty
seventh President of the United States, elected with an historic mandate.
He has never been more powerful, not in sixteen, not
in twenty. He is far more powerful today than he's
ever been. So let's rejoice in that because I think
(58:40):
good and better days are coming. So enjoy your weekend, folks.
I hope it's warm where you are. It's cold here
in western Pennsylvania, lots of snow on the ground. But
as always, folks, I will see you Monday. You guys,
you all, guys, gals, members of the battle crew, have
a great, great weekend. God bless you all, and God
bless this amazing country that we call home.
Speaker 5 (59:03):
Take care, good night, have a great weekend, and I
will see you on Monday.
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