1-4-25 The Weekend Hour 1: The Hall of Fame of Transgenderism Crime

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To night. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA
director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie,
You're doing a heck of a job The Weekend with
Michael Brown. Well, I'm back, I'm back. It's the Weekend
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in almost twenty years of radio anybody's ever said anything
good about a best of or a guest host, and
so I appreciate it. Anyways, it's good to be back
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let's get started. Those of you who have listened to

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me over the years know that I'm I'm kind of
a grammar Nazi, and I'm also kind of a word nazi,
and it really bugs me to being a word nazi
because there are some words and there are some some
things that when you're when you're talking as much as
I do, twenty three hours a week, just non stop,
going on about everything, sometimes I'll mispronounce a word, or

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sometimes I will stumble one hundred and seventy thousand words
in the English language, whatever the number is. I'll run
across a word that huh, Welsh Sam, I've never heard
that word before. And then there are these words that
I have to stop and think every single time because

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they're not natural, just not real. Transsexual. You have you
ever thought about just the word transsexual? You're you're transitioning
to what? Uh sex, You're transitioning your gender, You're transitioning what.
And then when you get into the details a transman

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or a trans woman, my brain just locks up and
I have to stop for a minute and think, Okay,
if someone claims to be a trans man, that means
they're transitioning to a man. Now, let's don't get into
the weed yet about what transitioning in the real world means.
Let's just go with the flow for a moment. So

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a transman is someone that is transitioning to become a
you know. I use the word someone someone because I think,
I guess anybody could transman. I mean I I think,
let me check, yep, I'm a male. I could. I
guess I could trans I could be a transman. I could.
I want to be more of a man. I want
to be a real man. I want to be a

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man's man. I want to be whatever kind of man.
So maybe I'm a transman too. But anyway, trans man,
I have to stop and think to myself, Oh, that's
someone who is transitioning to become a man. And a
trans woman I have to stop and think, Oh, that's
someone transitioning to become a woman. Think about how a
natural that is, think about how science fiction that is,

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think about just how weird that is. And then, with
all due respect to it, you know, because let me
make something clear, I don't if you're at the age
of eighteen, I really don't give a rad sass if
you do it. I don't care if you want to
go mutilate your body and if you want to go,
you know, screw up yourself even more psychologically, Uh, have
at it. It's not it's not my it's not my

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position to uh or not my role to tell you
that it's wrong or anything else. I think, I think
you're nuts. I think you need help. But I say
that knowing. Yeah, I cannot speak for about this program
on the weekend, although I know it's true on the
weekday program, which has obviously a smaller audience because it's

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not on you know, three hundred and fifty four hundred
stations around the country. But on the weekday program Monday
through Friday, in Denver, Colorado, I have a couple of
trans people that are conservative, one that is liberal, and
that listen to the program and they send me text
messages and you know, we've had text conversations before and

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they listen to the program. So I'm quite aware of
there are trans people, and so if there are some
in Denver that I'm going to assume there are some
international audience too. But nonetheless, that's not going to change
how I feel or how I speak about transsexuals. I

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used to have a primary care physician, a PCP, and
I he had a and see, I have to stop
and think for a moment. He's now deceased, but he
had either a son or a daughter that transitioned. And
you know he's and he used to listen to me
on the radio all the time, and we talked about
it a lot. But I would go in and see

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him and he would talk about the psychiatric problems they
had with that child as they were growing up. But
when the child became an adult, the child decided to
go on and transition. And I forget whether it's transman
or trans woman, I don't remember. But nonetheless, even with
my doctor in the privacy, I mean I always, I

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just I speak my mind about what I think about it.
And that's why I tell you that when these stories
pop up, I naturally have a problem trying to figure
out what the words are, and then I have to
stop and think about, oh it's transman, so that's a
woman who is trying to become a man, or vice versa.

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Now I want you to think about the cabal, and
in particular, I want to I want you to think
about the media. How bad is the media. Oftentimes I'll
bring you stories that I have read in the New
York Post. Now why do I use the New York
Post Because the New York Post is regarded as somewhat
of a refuge from the leftism, from the Marxism, from

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the stupidity, from the wokism that prevails at almost every
other major newspaper across the country, and then consider that
out of obeisance to transactualism, the New York Post will
start lining with the first word of a headline, the

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very first word of a headline. Let me tell you
when we get next, a story about a postal worker. Yes,
a postal worker. It's the Weekend with Michael. It's the
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back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have
you with me. I appreciate you tuning in. We're talking
about the New York Post and a headline that ran
in the New York Post that when I read it,
it just I didn't catch the mistake until I read
the story, Which is why people that are, you know,
drive by consumers of the news, and all they do

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is read maybe the headline and the first sentence or
two of a story. We're going to miss probably the
most important point in by the story. Here's the headline,
woman accused of stabbing a postal worker over spot in
New York City. DELHI line has a history of knife violence.
And let me repeat it for you, for those of

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you in the back of the room, pay attention, all right,
woman accused of stabbing postal worker over spot in New
York City, New York City DELI line has a history
of knife violence. Well, the woman's name is Alvin J. Cruz,
Alvin Alvin Cruz, also known as Jia Cruise, who happens

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to be a man. Yet the story starts off with
the same lie. Now, remember the headline is woman is
accused of stabbing a postal worker, and the very first
paragraph in the story says this, The woman accused of
stabbing a postal worker to death over a spot in
line at a Harlem. Delhi has a history of knife
violence and once threatened to cut one of her previous victim.

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You know, when you think about the cabal, you know
you're supposed to you know, if you send me an email,
maybe just warn you right now. You send me an email,
Michael Brand, I'm just trying to be passive aggressive. Now
you send me an email Michael Brown adeheartmedia dot com.
And in your signature line you have your pronouns. I'll

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probably just delete you. Yeah, I'll probably just delete you
because nothing drives me crazier than somebody trying to tell
me what their pronouns are, because, guess what, I don't
give a flying flip. I just don't care. I'd rather
know what your name is. And I quite frankly don't
care what's between now unless we were dating, Let's be clear,

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unless we were dating, I really don't care what's between
your legs, and it doesn't make any difference to me
we meet on the street. I really don't care. But
when the mainstream media, when the cabal is rep I
guess not even pronouns are accurate anymore. It's only toward
the end of the story that we discover that the

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New York Post knew all along that Cruz was a man.
Deep into the story is this paragraph. The repeat offender,
who has been described by cops as a transgendered woman,
now faces murder charges for the brutal knifing of Ray Hodges.

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Now they lie, knowing we will know that they are lying.
Why believe anything that they tell us. I'm so, you know,
I shouldn't be. People have called me out on my
own program for doing exactly what The New York Post
has done here. Now I don't intentionally do it, but

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when you're talking one hundred miles an hour and you
are trying to cover you know, as many things as
you can in three hours or four hours, then at
there's some point where you're gonna talk about this woman
killed a man, and it's just gonna come out, you know,
this woman killed a man because your brain. You know,
there was some story or I saw over the holidays

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about how fast your brain can compute versus how fast
computers can compute. And let's just say that the computers
that have us beat by you know, twenty miles and
so during the weekday program. I have oftentimes talked about
some of these mass shooters and other people that turn
out to be transactuals, And in the course of telling

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the story, if it's actually a man trying to be
a woman, I'll talk about the man, and oh man,
do I get called in the carpet for it? Listeners
will just boom come down on me. So I want
to I want to give the New York Post the
benefit of the doubt. But should I? Should we? Or

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is this another New Orwellian world and another New Orwellian
standard that we have to live by? So that when
the headline says woman accused of stabbing postal worker, you
have to stop and think to yourself, well, I really
wonder was it a woman or was it a man?
Is it live or is it memoris? You really have
to stop and think about it. Alvin Cruz, I would

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play you a little uh snippet from her on see
her right there, see her, because because I'm looking at
a snippet on TikTok of this transman. But I can't
play it because it's got a bunch of f bombs
and it it's just it's just her trying to be sexy.

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See there, I said her again is the every time
I look at her, she looks like a her not
necessarily a very pretty herb, but nothing less of her.
But I do think we can come to one conclusion.
Mister Cruse now belongs to the transsexual Hall of Violence?
Have you ever thought about these? How many of these

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names do you recognize? Let'sten? First of all, Jaya Cruz,
we just talked about her, Robert William Perry the second,
Mohammed al Blouse, Hannah or Hannah Vera Montes, Corey Burke,
Adam Lobcan, Paul Genevannason, Barbie Kardashian, John Jacobson, Junior, Alex Ray, Scott, Colte,
Gray William, John Milligan, Julia, Grace Eggler, an unnamed Spanish guy, Miles,

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Margot g Lewis, Miguel Tapia, Colin Bailey, Rosa Montoya, Cameron Downing,
Louise Thomas. Any of these names sounds sound familiar to you?
Any of them? They probably that Dylan Butler. Does that
sound familiar to you? Jason Lee, Willie, Audrey Hale? What
about Audrey Hales? That's does Does Audrey Hale sound familiar

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to you? All of these names that I just gave
you are all people who have engaged in mass murder,
mass violence, and they're all transgenders. The one that I
just ask you about, do you remember the name Audrey Hale? Again,

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Audrey Hale? Stop and thinking about it for a moment here.
Nashville police revealed that the twenty eight year old who
shot and killed six people at the Covenant School, including
three children, identified as transgender and had a detailed manifesto
to attack the Christian academy. The killer was identified as

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Audrey Hale. And they're not always female, but that list
goes on. Kim Brady character, Maya McKinney, Snochia Moseley, and
Anderson Lee, Aldrich, Moses Lopez, William Whitworth, Shawna Varna, a
guy calling himself Laura, Zion, William T's, Jason Michael han,

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Kyllie Anderson, Dana Rivers, Vivian ginger, Raine Schimansky, Linnia Pugmier,
Mark Campbell, and Paul s Let mean do I list
here one, two, three, four, five, sixty seven, eight, nine, ten,
probably about forty fifty maybe more, all part of the
transsexual violence of Hall of Horrors, And yet we get

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chewed out, or at least I do. Maybe you don't.
I get chewed out because I slip and what miss
gender them. Screw that, absolutely screw that. It's not my responsibility. No,
and I frankly don't care. I just don't. So begin

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over while I was off for I don't know ten
twelve days, was I spent way too much time. I'm
on Facebook. I find Facebook fascinating, and not for any
intellectual reason, but because it's kind of become this place
where and maybe it depends on how many followers you

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have or how many so called friends. I like the
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When it comes to there, I check in there probably
a few times a week just to make sure that

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that you haven't posted something that I think is inappropriate,
because I'm a little dictator and if I think, if
I think it's inappropriate, then I'll delete it. But I
find it fascinating when I see in my news feed
people that are so called friends, and I'll think, I

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don't know what's who's Who's that? So I'll click on
and then I'll read about you. Now, don't don't be
offended by this, because you know it's true for you too,
because Facebook has gone from being a place, you know,
when when Zuckerberg first started it at Harvard or wherever
the hell he was, it really was just about friends
being able to identify each other and and it was

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kind of this small group of people on campus. But
now it's grown into you know, there's there's you know,
billions of users all over the world and people can
and and I and I do this since I'm considered
a public figure. Uh, I just you know, unless you
happen to be what is obvious is to me a
female or a male bot. Uh, I'll usually just accept

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friend requests primarily because I'm assuming that you want to
You want to be friends with me because you love me. Now,
I assume you want to be friends with me because
you listen to me on the on the radio somewhere,
or you've seen me on television or something. So you know,
I just accepted. But I just find it funny that
we call everybody friends. Why do I even talk about that? Well,

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because as I'm going through Facebook and looking at some
of the things that people post, I realize it's kind
of a gossipy little place. I realize also that I
understand why, uh, particularly during COVID, particularly during the during
the Trump years, which we're about to enter into again,
or for that matter, we already have entered into the
Trump years because Biden's out of it is their history

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of silencing descent. Now, if the idea was that they
were going to be protected by Section two thirty of
the Federal Statutes, and they were going to be a platform,
a platform where all they did was just provide a

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podium a microphone so that you could say what you
wanted to say, and people could disagree with you, and
you could have debates and arguments and you could, you know,
maybe be persuaded that I'm right and you're wrong, or
you're right, you're right and I'm wrong. But Meta and
Facebook kind of dived into this dissent. You know, let's

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let's cooperate with the government. Let's let the government do
what it cannot do constitutionally by having us do it
for them, which, by the way, that's a lesson you
really do need to learn. The government cannot do what
it is constitutionally or statutorily prohibited from doing. They cannot
do that by having a third party do it for them. So,

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in other words, the federal government, or for that matter,
government in general, cannot restrict your First Amendment rights by
having Meta or Facebook do it for them. And that's
exactly what they were doing during COVID, and that's exactly
what they were doing during the first Trump administration. And

(23:27):
we're now learning how bad those efforts, how deep and
strong those efforts were. There's good news, at least I
think it's good news. Meta is about to restructure its
global policy team. The liberal former Deputy Prime Minister of

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the United Kingdom, Sir Nick Clegg, is stepping down. I
think he's being fired, and I think he's being fired
because Zuk, who's already made his little you know, trip
down Tomorrow logo to see President Trump, has hired a
friend of mine, someone that I worked with, Joel Caplan,

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who is currently Clegg's deputy, is going to take over
the global policy team for Facebook. Now, how do I
know Joel Caplan? He was the deputy chief of staff
in the Bush administration. But here's what you need to
know about Joel. Joel has been very public in his
opposition to aggressively limiting political speech on Facebook and Instagram

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because he does believe that they are platforms and that
it should be a place kind of like he's got
some sum it up this way. Joel Caplin pretty much
has the same attitude about speech that Elon Musk does.
An ex he argues that measures to stifled descent, those

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measures disproportionately affect conservative voices. Now, after the twenty sixteen
presidential election, Caplain worked to create an internal Facebook white
list of Republicans and conservative aligned accounts and pages on
Facebook that would allegedly protect them from censorship. And despite

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the white list, Facebook continued to censor actual posts, you know,
pages that were you know that we're contrarian, let's say,
or accounts that belonged to conservative activists and lawmakers. Now,
it's been reported last year that Facebook was directed by
the meta platform's oversight board to reinstate a post that

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parodied Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate
Tim Wallas, comparing them to the characters in the film
Dumb and Dummer. I think I've actually referred to Harrison
Waltz during the campaign as dumb and dumber. So this
is good news. This shows what I believe is the

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Trump effect. This shows what I believe is whether the
whether the cabal wants you to believe it or not.
Even if the majority of the popular vote was two
percent or even less, nonetheless it was a majority the
popular vote that Trump won. He swept the swing states,

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the battleground states. And when you look at the map
of the counties across the country, almost all counties, with
very few exceptions. Maybe they didn't go majority blue, but
they went from you know, a certain percentage of blue
to a greater percentage of red. Still in the minority,

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but a greater percentage. So the country has made a
distinctive turn to the right and I think that Zuckerberg. Now,
don't don't get me wrong, I'm not sitting here saying
that everything's gonna be hunky dory, But I think moving moving,

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Sir clegg out, I'm putting Joel Kaplan in is one
of those kind of unintended consequences, one of those things
that happens in the background that you don't normally hear
about on the news or the radio. I mean, I
doubt you're going to read about this anywhere. But for me,

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and maybe it's personal because I know Joel Kaplan and
I know Joel's position on free speech. I see this
as a significant indication that this gigantic ship of state
that the country said by an overwhelming majority, is on
the wrong direction, moving in the wrong draw or wrong

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you know, right track, wrong track, that we're on the
wrong track. This is an indication that even Mark Zuckerberg
believes the pres Yeah, you know what, it's a new day,
it's a new era. I think, well, I'm gonna kick
sir clegg out or he's going to resign or whatever,
and I'm gonna put Joel in, and Kap is going
to come in. And he has a philosophy, he has
a belief in free speech. It may not be a

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big thing to you. I think it's bigger than you realize.
And I think it's an indication that this Trump effect
is having And I think all of that goes back
to the way he campaigned, the assassination attempts, and I
think it goes back to listen closely, the overreach of

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the Democrats, the overreach of the Marxist wing of the
Democrat Party. But that's redundant. I think in trying to
push all of these progressive Marxist policies, they went too far,
and we and the majority of Americans recoiled at it
and said, no, that's not what we want. And in

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a little corner of social media world on Facebook, I
think it's bearing fruit. So what does that mean that
we should think in terms of expectations going forward. It's
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have you with me. Don't forget it. Go follow me
on X it's at Michael Brown USA. So Joe Kaplan's
promotion to be the policy global policy director at Facebook

(29:51):
ret Meta that comes about just as Metta's political strategy
gears up for a rep Publican led government. So now Joe,
this former deputy chief of staff in the White House
when I was there, has extensive ties to lawmakers in

(30:13):
Capitol Hill, and I think he's going to oversee Zuckerberg's
efforts to try to mend fences with Trump. Meanwhile, they've
hired a Republican lobbyist and a fundraiser Brian Baker hired
in September to aid the political public relations campaign as well.
So it shows that elections have consequences, policies matter, and

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that when you and I turn out and vote in
droves like we did, we can affect change. Now. I
watched with bated breath yesterday as the Republicans, who are
not always very good at governing, elected as Speaker of

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the House, and they re elected Mike Johnson, and as
I watched it on before they before they closed off
the first ballot, before the clerk closed it off, Mike
Johnson was losing. He could not get the majority that
he needed. He could not get to sixteen or two eighteen,

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whatever the number was. But what happened was they held
the vote open. Trump left the golf course, went in
to a conference room and sat down and called the
Republican Caucus and said, look, I got elected. We have

(31:41):
two years to get as much done as we can
before we might lose the majority, which the party in
power tends to lose seats in the House during the midterms.
That's why I say we have two years. Hopefully we'll
get four years, but we've got two years. And then

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Trump said, you got to do this for me, and
they kept the vote open, and the three holdouts went
back in and other than Thomas Massey of Kentucky, and
I understand why he did it. I disagree, but I
understand why, they switched their votes to Mike Johnson. And

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then they closed the balloting, and so Mike Johnson became
speaker on the first ballot. That is a significant move
for Republicans. And it's the significant move for Republicans for
several reasons. First and foremost, it shows that Trump has influence.
It shows that Trump is able to put aside whether

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he really likes somebody or doesn't like somebody, and he's
able to say, you need to do this for me,
you need to do this for the American people, you
need to do this for the agenda that we all
ran on, for the American First Agenda, and all of
that entails. Now that's a good start. But that's all
it is, is a good start, because here's my cautionary tale.

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I've told the story before, but I think it bears repeating.
When I became the Undersecretary of Homeland Security, when I
first went to Washington, d C. Well, actually when I
first went to Washington, d C, I wasn't yet the
under Secretary, I was the General Council at FEMA. And
I walked into that General Council's office, and I quickly

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learned that while I had twenty things that I wanted
to accomplish, now, we didn't know that nine to eleven
was going to happen. We didn't know that we were
going to enter wars that we hadn't planned on. But
I walked in with an agenda of and I don't
remember what the specific number was, but I knew I

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had at least twenty things I wanted to get done.
Twenty things that I had learned during the transition that
I wanted to change, and I quickly realized that I
would be lucky if I got half of those done.
I'd be lucky if I got a third of them done.
So then you have to prioritize one of the most

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important things you want to get done, because if all
you're going to be able to get done is three,
four or five things out of twenty, you want to
make sure you can get the most important three or
four five things done. And then once you get once,
so you get those done, then you start working on
the next five and the next five. That's how long
it takes to get things done in DC. So my

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cautionary tale is while our expectations, including me, who's been
in the belly of that beast, my expectations are through
the roof, and I have to temper them every single
day and realize that some things will be easy. Trump
will be able to walk in on day one, on
the afternoon of the twentieth and there is well, there's

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no question in my mind, because we did the same
thing back in two thousand. The transition team already starts
working on executive voters. They start working on the agenda,
they start putting together legislation, they start putting everything together
so that once that Trump is sworn in. In the
case of Bush, once Bush was sworn in, you can

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start moving those items. You can start signing the executive orders.
You can start you know, you can stop catching release
at the border. You can stop the the temporary protected
status that's given to Venezuelans and Haitians and Cubans. You
can stop that immediately. Now, some of that's going to

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be contested in litigation, but nonetheless you can start immediately.
But not everything's going to happen on a die. Not
everything's going to turn on a dime. And so you
and I, just like those Republicans who decided that I
really don't want, you know, Mike Johnson a speaker, I

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really do want, you know, Jim Jordan's say, I'm going
to have to work as a team to get a
little bit by little bit by a little bit done.
And that's the path we have now embarked upon. And
so I caution all of us to push, but recognize
that we're not always going to get everything we want,

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either everything we want or all at once. So take
a deep breath, it's gonna be a great ride, it's
gonna be a wild ride. I'll be right back.