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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Revenge of the Rhinos. I mean, you can't make this up.
So that's exactly now. What is taking place tomorrow is
going to be the vote, the first ballot to choose
the next Senate Republican Leader, who will also be the
Senate Majority leader. And there are only three candidates in
the race. I know many of you are texting Jeff,
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I like Senator Mike Lee. I like Senator rand Paul,
you know, I like Senator Josh Holly. I'm like, I
like them too, but they're not running, you know what
I mean. So it's three that are running. It's all
you know. You know, you don't go to war with
the army you wish you have. You go to war
with the army you have. And so these are the
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three that have decided to throw their hat in the ring.
It is Senator John Thune who is now the presumptive
front runner, clearly a disciple of Mitch McConnell, has been
his right hand man forever, tell you the truth, a
neo Khon, a warmonger, very pro Ukraine, very anti Trump,
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has been for a long time. Cornyn who is also
extremely pro Ukraine, also anti Trump. And again I'm not
trying to be insulting. He's just he's not the sharpest
tool in the toolshit. You know, he's just not that bright. So,
by the way, very much pro gun control. Just to
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show you the kind of guy Cornyn is. When Trump
won in twenty sixteen and then was trying to get
his wall built, cornn publicly came out and said that
even though the voters voted for a wall, I swear
to you, they don't really want a wall. That people
like him, senators like him know the issue of the
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border better than the vote than the voters do. And
so according to Cornin, he said, no, they may have
voted for a wall, they may want a wall, but
you don't need a wall. We know it's best. So
this is the kind of guy Cornyn is. He is
bought and paid for by the Chamber of Commerce. When
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I say that big business and the globalists own him,
they own him like a ten dollars street walker. And
he's another one, a real brown noser who has been
beside McConnell. Now I don't know how many years. So
these are the two that and I got to say this.
McConnell played this very smart, He did it very quick.
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He did it as quick as possible when people were
not paying attention in secret. It's going to be a
closed session ballot. The vote's going to be behind closed doors.
And he got his two people to run, so all
he's got to do now is knock Rick Scott off tomorrow.
Who finishes third is taken out of the race, and
then it's either Cornyn or Thune. Either way, McConnell wins.
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So these are the two people that he wants to
be his successor. Basically there is clones. Thune is smarter,
which is why I think he's got more votes than Cornyn,
and it looks to me like he's out promising and
out maneuvering Cornin.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But we shall see.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Rick Scott is the Trump loyalist, and right now he's
got eleven votes. You need twenty seven to get a
majority to be the Senate Republican leader. Jerry on the Cape,
Thanks for holding Jerry, and welcome Jeff.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Good morning, and thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Comrade, how are you.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I haven't spoken to you since the election. I'm thrilled,
but I'm worried because I'm concerned about some of the
people that are being bandied above. For I like all
the pixies made so far for his cabinet. But I'm
nervous about Secretary of State. Maco Rubio is a swamp creature.
There's no way he should be anywhere near that christin Nome.
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She I think, you know, Department of the Interior, but
not that. The POM A homeland security that needs to
be dismantled. That's I mean, they really does. It needs
to be dismantled. I mean we can still have customs
and border patrol and ice and I n S and
all of that, but there's no need. The Department at
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homes Lends Security should never have been contracted in the
beginning and created. George W. Bush had Marcus Wolf and
of any primakoff put that together. They paid them millions
of dollars to put that program together for the United States,
two communists. But Jeff beyond that also there was another
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pick that he was thinking to make. Oh, Mike Rodgers,
the congressman from Alabama's secretary.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, the one who almost assaulted Matt Gates on the
floor over the vote for the speaker, remember that out
they restrain him.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, he was good because he was standing up for
Kevin McCarty, and he was threatening people beyond beyond gates.
He threatened a bunch of congressmen. He told them that
they didn't vote for McCarthy, he was going to come
for them. I mean, this guy's a nut Trump. President
Trump has to be careful who he surrounds himself with.
I'm really worried about that. It'd be like internal sabotage again,
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like the first term. Everybody's sabotaged just about everything he did. Jeff,
That's what's got me really concerned.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Well, Jerry, look, I agree with you on Homeland Security.
That department was created under George W. Bush along with
the Patriot Act. It needs to completely go. We don't
need it. It's at best, it's the slum of Washington, DC.
It's got anybody that needs to be kicked upstairs or
given a job they throw into Homeland Security at best.
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At worst, it's become part of the deep state. So
I completely agree with you, Jerry. Jerry, I want to
ask you about Marco Rubio because that is the one
pick that I saw yesterday that I'm like, my wife
likes the pick. I am very ambivalent about the pick.
On the one hand, he did campaign very hard for Trump.
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I got to give Rubio his due, and he's a
hawk when it comes to China. He's been sounding better
on NATO and Ukraine over the last couple of months,
but I know his position on Ukraine before. He's a
neo conservative. So it's pretty much official now. Jerry touched
on it just before we went to break. Christy Nome,
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South Dakota Governor, big Trump's supporter in all, is now
going to be given Department of Homeland Security secretary. So
it looks like she will now be named the Secretary
of Homeland Security. Marco Rubio, now it appears, this is
what all the papers are reporting, will be named Secretary
of State. What do you think of these two appointments?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
No, Like, let's go back to Jerry on Cape Cod.
Jerry to be fair to Rubio, and this is for example,
Grace likes the pick. My wife likes the pick. She
says he's very articulate, very telligenic. He was a really
good surrogate for Trump during the campaign. He's very knowledgeable
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on foreign affairs. She thinks that he would make a
very good secretary of State.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
What do you say to the.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Argument, Jerry that Rubio went out of his way to
back Trump on some issues like China. He's completely on
the President's wavelength, and that in the end, you need
someone like Rubio who can run the State Department and
really be an ambassador for America around the world.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
What say you, Jerry yeaf.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I told you before. He's a swamp creature. He was
in with McCain in Lindsey Graham back in two thousand
and eight, two thousand and nine. I saw the pictures
of him in the Ukraine. I saw the pictures of
him in the Middle East, the people he was cavorting with.
You can't be a politician and cavot with gangsters and terrorists. Okay,
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that's just the reality of it. You kill gangsters and terrorists.
You don't covort with them, You kill them. But here
he was back. You know the pictures don't lie.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Well, I mean, right, Jerry, tell me, tell me if
you agree or disagree. I wanted Grinnell. I heard that
there was a short list. It was between Rubio and
Rick Grennell, and I said, go with Grennell. Grannell is
America first all the way. He's not a neo conservative,
he's not a globalist, he was against the war in
Ukraine from the beginning, unlike Rubio, who is very much
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a warhawk, a military interventionist, big supporter of Zelenski, at
least he was until the last couple of weeks or whatever,
the last couple of months. But I said, with Grenell,
you got someone who philosophically is one thousand percent on
the Trump team and on the America First Agenda.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
What say you, Jerry?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
If I agree with you wholeheartedly about rock Grennell and
beyond that too, the State Department is a rats nest
that needs to be cleaned out too. They're all they're
having crying sessions right now. It was reported Anthony Blinken
sat down with the staff and sent off this big
email about people's feelings and wanting to know how they
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felt after the election. Give me a.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Break, Comrade Jerry.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
As always, thank you very much for that call. Okay, now,
just very quickly quick reset. John Thune did an interview.
I believe it was on CNBC. Please don't quote me
on where he did the interview, but I believe was
either CNBC or Bloomberg. Anyway, Basically, what he said was
he fired a warning shot to Trump. Saying that, quote unquote,
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if Trump knows what's good for him, he will not
directly interfere in the race to replace and succeed Mitch McConnell. Now,
you know, in other words, like the Senate has it
he's talking about the Senate has its independence, and we
believe in separation of powers. And you start getting involved
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with this, it's going to lead to a backlash and
create a lot of bad blood. And you know, the
President is not going to tell us who should be
the leader of the Republicans in the Senate. Look to
be honest, I think Thune is a thug, a political thug.
I think he's petrified that Trump is going to weigh
in back Rick Scott. And by backing Rick Scott, he
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could take away the majority leadership from Thune. And I
don't like the fact that he's publicly threatening Trump. If
he's publicly threatening Trump now one week after Trump won,
how the hell is this guy going to behave in
six months or a year. So to me, I look
at thun or Cornyn, and I see Mitch McConnell two
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point zero nothing but problems Rick Scott. I see a
very successful Senate and a real MAGA leadership, running the
Senate Republicans and being Senate Majority leader. But that's me
six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Okay,
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Rubio is going to be top the Secretary of State.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Do you like it? Christy Nome Homeland Security?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Do you like it? What do you think of Trump's
picks so far? Phil in Missouri, Thanks for holding Phil,
and welcome.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Stage, Jeff, Thanks for taking my call, ye pleasure. You know,
this vote against Rick Scott, it's a vote against Trump,
It's a vote against Maga. It's a vote against you know,
all his supporters. You know, it was just a week
ago that the taxpayers and all the new people that
Trump brought into the party gave him this mandate to
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carry out the Maga agenda. And you know these Rhinos
without Trump, you wouldn't have Ohio, West, Virginia, Montana, Pennsylvania.
There is no majority without Trump. And this is how
they repay us back. It's it's starting all over again.
And I understand that the fight didn't end on election
day and it kind of just begun. So I would
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encourage everybody, Jeff, give that number out hall call your friends,
tell them the call it's an election all over again.
It is, and we have to we have to stay
on top of this, so make sure that Trump gets
what he needs.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I agree with you, not one hundred a thousand percent,
but I do want to ask you this, because you're
from Missouri. Can you explain Josh Hawley. Now, I don't
want to, I don't want to tant anyone's reputation. But
William messaged me on message and he's quite good. Hey,
William is a big listener of the show, and his
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stuff is usually very good.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He says.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
The rumor in DC is that one of the two candidates,
I don't know all he's backing. It's either Thoon or Cornyn,
but it's not Rick Scott. What they shoveled a lot
of money to help Holly win his election, something like
a six hundred thousand dollars or whatever, so that in
a sense politically he owes McConnell or whatever it is,
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Thoon or Cornyn or whoever. So and that explains why
he's not backing Rick Scott. Have you heard what's the
word on the street in Missouri?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Phil Everybody loves Josh Holly, And honestly, I'm a little
blindsided by this. You know, I didn't know that he
was this deep in the in in debt. I guess
to McConnell and the rhinos, and I kind of feel
like he saw he's selling out a little bit in
order to make the jump national I guess to be,
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you know, a viable presidential candidate. But I know one
thing about Missouri that Kansas City, Saint Louis and Jefferson
City and Springfield, that where all the rhinos are. The
rest of Missouri is deep red, deep, deep red. I
can tell you that.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Interesting, Phil As always, thank you very very much for
that call. Six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight. Dan in New Hampshire, Thanks for holding Dan
and welcome.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Yes, Jeff, if I was voting, it would be d
none of the above, and I'll tell you why. And
Jerry from the Cape, I love the caller, great caller,
my favorite caller. Listen. He's absolutely right about Marco Ruvio
AI pac money. Okay, this guy's no good. You get
a seventy five.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
For voting record.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
He's not America first.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Okay, It's as simple as that, now, John Coryn Okay,
he's got a sixty three for a voting record, okay.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
And he's tied to.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
The Ukraine money laundering list. Okay, he's on it, so
he's no good. All right, Soon he's got a sixty Okay.
These guys got F Jeff F voting records. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
These guys are not leaders. Okay.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
And then when you look at Rick Scott, he's got
a seventy. I've talked about this, he's got AI Pac money,
and he's on the Ukraine money laundering list. He's tied
to the list with the Bushes, the cheneye, the McCain's.
These are McCain Bush Republicans. They're not America first, And
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we got to stay away from this.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Mean well, Dan, I mean Dan, here's but here's. I
hear where you're coming from. But the McCain family, the Bushes,
the Cheneys, they don't want Rick Scott. So I understand
you're saying Rick Scott has problems. Yes, I agree with you.
He's not my number one pick, far from it. But
if you know he's say, well, Jeff, none of the three, well,
none of the three means you're gonna get John Thune, Okay,
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or God help us a Cornyn, who I think is
maybe even worse. I mean, Thune is bad, but Cornyn
ay ya yay. I mean, Dan, just listen to this
guy talk. He's another Kamala Harris. I mean, you're like, whoa,
I mean, where were you when God was handing out brains?
So what I'm saying Dan is, look, Rick Scott at
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least has made a deal with Trump. He campaigned for Trump.
He has said he's going to do everything in his
power to implement Trump's agenda. To me, you never let
the perfect be the enemy of the good. Now, if
I had my way, there are ten other senators that
a real America first senators I would put ahead of
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Rick Scott. But Rick Scott is a lot better than
John Thune and a hell of a lot better than
Cornyn and a none of the above. I'll tell you
what's going to happen. You go none of the above tomorrow.
John Thune is winning on the first ballot, and then
we're up a creek without a paddle. So I mean, Dan,
sometimes in life, you know it's the politics is the
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art of the possible, and Rick Scott, for us is
the only game in town. You can text us by
the way, seven zero four seven zero seven zero four
seven zero, saying Jeff, can you please give.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Out that number on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It is the switchboard number, and you can then reach
any Republican senator you want, any and it doesn't matter. Jeff, Well,
I'm calling from New Hampshire. I'm just gonna make an example.
Or Massachusetts or California. We have a lot of listeners
in California. Well, we don't have Republican senators. It doesn't matter.
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You believe me, you're gonna be voting in twenty twenty six,
you're gonna be voting in twenty twenty eight. Many of
these senators have national ambitions, so they're gonna want to
hear what Republicans have to say. Whoever, which what ever
senator you want to call, You just call two zero
two two two four three one two one. That's two
zero two two two four thirty one twenty one. You
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call that number, ask for any Senate office you want,
and often it's I mean it's they're not open at
least until nine. But leave a voicemail, let them know
that you want Rick Scott to be the next Senate
Majority leader. And really, look, I get it. Many of
you are texting the Kooner Man and I hear you. Look,
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you know, I'm not saying Rick Scott is perfect.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Far from it. I know there's baggage with him. I
get it.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But look, he's good enough for Tucker Carlson, he's good
enough for Elon Musk and the Maga. Conservatives frankly, in
the House and in the Senate are saying, of the three,
it's no contest. He's the only one who is committed,
publicly edged and committed a to get Trump's appointments, even
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through recess appointments, which means now you're not gonna be
able to block his people for months and months, if
not years, and that he's going to get every aspect
of Trump's agenda through the Senate and hopefully with the
House and get into law. You're gonna get it, John
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Thune or Cornyn. You're going to get Mitch McConnell all
over again. There's just no question. And it's going to
be constant hijacking of Trump's agenda, in fighting, sabotage, backstabbing.
It's gonna be like it was in the first term.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So you know, you go again.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I keep saying this you go to war with the
army you have, not the army you wish you have. Now,
if other people through their hat in the ring, it
would be a different story, no question. But there's only
three possible choices. Now, some of you are texting me saying, well,
then don't vote for any of them. Jeff I, I
don't want anything to do with this, okay, but just understand. Fine,
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it's a reasonable position. But what that means is you're
going to get John Thune because he's the front runner
and the only way we can stop him is if
we can get Rick Scott in there. So remember, you're
going to get John Thune. And if you get John Thune,
let me tell you what you're getting. You're getting a
neo conservative. You're getting a globalist. You're getting an acolyte,
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a follower of Mitch McConnell. You're going to get someone
who publicly called publicly called for Donald Trump to step
down in twenty sixteen after the excess Hollywood tape and
said we need to have Mike Pence be the presidential
candidate against Hillary Clinton. You're talking about a man who,
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behind the scenes, along with Mitch McConnell, did everything in
his power to get Trump impeached and did every thing
in his power to try to prevent Trump from coming
back to power. Now, you can say whatever you want
about Rick Scott, He's not that. So what I'm just
saying is it's you know, it's three people in the race.
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Two I know are gonna knife Trump all day, all night.
Rick Scott we can do business with, and honestly, I
just think he's better than the other two.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Just leave a side.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yes, he's a Trump loyalist, but just beyond that, he's smarter,
he's more capable, he's got actual private sector experience.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
The guy's actually cut checks and hired people.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Again, he wouldn't even be my top ten in terms
of people I want in the Senate or who I
want to be Senate majority leader. I'm just telling you again,
it's a race. You know again, it's the art of
the possible. It's not a dream candidate. It's not you know,
I'm one, you know, my perfect person. It's here are
the people that are willing to do the job.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It's a B and C. I'm going with Rick Scott again.
That's me. Six one seven.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Two, six, six, sixty eight sixty eight is the number
very quickly. This is from Eric, who is very smart
obviously and uh always gives me great information. Well, this
is what Eric said to me on messenger ooh about
ten minutes ago. Jeff, I don't think you'll see Rick
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Scott win for the one reason. They don't want term limits,
and that is part of Trump's agenda. Bingo, bingo. Rick
Scott supports term limits. Trump supports term limits. John Thune
and Cornyn and McConnell. Obviously, the guy's been there forever.
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He's been there longer than I've been alive, and I'm
I'm a fifty five year old man. I'm a middle
aged man, and he's been there longer than i've been alive.
So no, Cornyn doesn't want term limits, McConnell doesn't want
term limits, and Thune certainly doesn't want term limits because
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he wants to be like McConnell. Thune wants to be
there until he's, you know, ninety years old. So Scott
has said we've got to have term limits. Trump says
he wants term limits for that reason alone. The UNI
Party swamp wants to bury Rick Scott Frank in Malden.
Thanks for holding Frank and welcome.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Good morning, Jeff Frank. Yes, can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I can hear you? Go ahead, my friend.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Certainly, this is very disappointing with the people that are
publicly stated they're not going to support Rick Scott. And
the other thing is, of course, the secret ball at
Bologney is just terrible. It appears that, in addition to
melting the phones in Washington, if there's something we could
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do to try to get these senators to reveal who
they're supporting, or at least to get the ones that
are going to resupport Rick Scott to reveal that they are.
And I think it would take one brave senator to
stand up and say I will be supporting Rick Scott.
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And the only brave senator I can think of at
the moment is Mark Rubio. If he's destined to become
Secretary of State, then I'm almost feeling what does he
have to lose if he publicly states his support for
Rick Scott and urges all of the other senators who
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will be supporting Rick Scott to state it publicly, And
what will that do? Well, maybe he'll give us an
idea of how many are really supporting Rick Scott and
how many are not?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Do you know, Frank, I like it? No, I like it.
I like it a lot. And look, number one, I
think it is going to be leaked. You don't want
to depend on leaks, I understand, but I think it's
going to come out. It's already been leaked once. Rick
Scott has only eleven senators eleven, and you know people
that you think would be voting for him, Holly Cruz,
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Marshall Blackburn, they're apparently on this secret list. They're not
backing Scott. So what I'd like, this is what I
think what we need to say, no matter what, when
the race is over, because this is the only way
you can enforce this. We're going to demand and ask
every senator who did you vote for? And when they say,
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well it was a secret ballot, no, I'm sorry. We
don't find that acceptable. That's the old way. We want
the new way of doing politics. No, that's the swamp way.
We're here to drain the swamp. You never should have
had a closed door session. Ever, this wasn't national security,
This wasn't the highly classified intelligence. You know, we're not
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talking about American spies deep in communists China or deep
in Iran and they've given us, you know, the inside
information on Iran's nuclear weapons program. I'm not going to
put people's lives in jeopardy. I get that some things
have to be done behind closed doors.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I get it. But we're not talking that.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
We're just talking about, very simply, who's going to be
the next Republican leader in the Senate.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
But sir, I don't know. It's just we have a
right to weigh in.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
We're the voters, for God's sake, So tell them, no,
that's not good enough.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
McConnell was the one who made it a secret ballot.
There's no rule saying it has to be a secret ballot.
That was a condition imposed by McConnell. That's the way
the Rhinos work. Again, remember they always work in secrecy,
always in the shadows, always, that's their modus operandi, that's
their remo. So no, who did you vote for? And
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then we want to see their public proclamations versus the
actual vote count. And Frank, I will bet you the
best steak at the best steakhouse of your choice that
if we do that, it's going to be well.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Rick Scott should be the Senate majority leader.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Almost everybody voted for the guy, but it's gonna end
up either being through in or corning. In other words,
they're going to tell us publicly one thing, but they're
going to vote the exact opposite in secret because they
were promised something, because that's how the swamp works. I
scratch your back, you scratch my back. Final word to you, Frank.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Yeah, I agree. It's uh, it's really now being revealed
what the power of the swamp is, and it is
going to be a monumental effort to try and overcome it.
But right now, this is the best chance we have
and we all have to do our best to support
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the people that are trying to make Mega successful.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Amen, Look, you're right, that's all we can do. We
have to just do our best and you know, keep going.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
What can you do?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Frank, thank you very much, And you're absolutely dead on.
This is the swamp. This is how they operate, and
they're not going to give up power. Look at them,
They just you know, like seriously, McConnell has had a
very long, very lucrative, very successful career. And I don't
mean success as in good for the country. I mean
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success as in for himself and his family. Now we
wanted him out of Senate Majority leader. He's one of
the most unpopular politician in the entire country. DSB wouldn't
step down before the election. Remember that he said no, no, no,
after the election. After the election. Now look at this.
He's trying to orchestrate his own successor to screw Trump.
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Now ask yourself this. You're now pushing ninety years old.
You're getting brain freezes in public, like it's happened multiple times.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
He's talking.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
And he just starts. They're like, Mitch, Mitch, Mitch, Mitch, Mitch,
and they're shaking him, and he's just staring at that
deep outer space and they're like, oh my god. You
put your hands in front of his eyes. There's Mitch.
There's nothing there, Mitch Mitch. Okay, you're worth north of
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one hundred million dollars. Through your wife's family business and
connections to communists China. You have lined your pockets to
the point that you're now well, not a wealthy man.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
You're an oligarch.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
And you still are so consumed with power and hubris
and control that you've got to rig the Senate Majority leadership.
I know it's Senate Republican, but whoever is the Republican
leader becomes the majority leader.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I mean, these people are sick. They're twisted, man, did
they really are?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
And so you just like they're just like it's like
you know, your prior hands, like let go of power,
like just rip his head.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Like you know what I mean, Like just.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You know, it's it's gonna be every inch, every step
of the way with these people. So look, you do
what you can when you can. This is our chance.
Let's ring that phone off the hook, and who knows,
who knows, maybe self preservation will push them to do
the right thing again. The number on Capitol Hill two
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oh two two two four thirty one twenty one two
o two two two four three one two one. Call
any Republican senator you want a lot of you're saying, well, Jeff,
I want to call Susan Collins because you know we're
New England and she's one of the few senators Republicans
from New England. Give her a call, Give anybody a call, Frankly,
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give Ted Cruz a call, Give Holly a call, give
Blackburn a call, give them all a call. I said,
I'm sorry, why aren't you supporting Rick Scott. Well, if
you're thinking of running in twenty twenty eight, you just
lost my vote, you'd be amazed suddenly.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
On second thought, So let's just keep the pressure on
Mike in Beverly.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Thanks for holding Mike, and welcome.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Hey, Jeff. So it kind of looks like it's a
given that we're going to get poon or corner. And
what's this I've been hearing about JD Vance being the
Senate President and he can overrule anything. Do you know
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anything about any of that?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Well, the only power he has is if it's a
fifty to fifty tie as the Senate president, he would
have the cast you know, he'd cast a deciding vote.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
But that's it.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I mean, that's that's the only influence he can wield, Mike,
I think, honestly the strategy now, I don't want to
throw in the towel yet on Scott because a lot
of people on the Hill are saying, look, we have
all day today. There are numerous Republican senators who are
still on the fence, and that leak scared them because
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that the leak from that podcaster, and the reason why
it scared them is a lot of these senators say,
we don't want to we don't want the wrath of MAGA,
and we don't want this to haunt us if we
run for reelection, and if it gets out that we
voted against Trump and voted against Maga by voting against
Rick Scott, it could cost them their reelection. So they
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may sway enough of them to vote for Scott. Forgive
me Rick Scott that he becomes number two, and then
whoever finishes third is automatically taken out of the race. Right,
So a three person race, so then it'll go to
the second ballot, probably on Thursday. Now people are saying,
if it's a two person race between Thune and Scott,
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then Thune.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Could be in trouble.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
So McConnell's strategy is a quick, decisive victory, a blitzkreak.
That's why he put up two of his people. Go
in hard, go in heavy, knock Scott out right away,
and then McConnell is on easy street because it doesn't
matter if it's corn In or Thune. He wins, so
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we can just get Scott. I know, Maga, we like
to think, you know, let's win, right, I get it.
We want to touchdown on every pass. But if we
can just get Scott from third to second, then we're
playing in the second half, to use a football analogy,
and we can win this in the second half. So
we've got to get Scott into second place. Then it's
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going to be toe to toe Thune versus Scott, and
then the pressure is going to really grow against Thune
because I'm telling you, if it's a two person race,
MAGA will rally around Scott and the establishment now is
going to be under siege, under tremendous.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Withering pressure to not go with John Thune.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
So that's why the globalists are That's why McConnell did
this vote so early, deliberately and basically in the dark,
because if you look at the media, Fox is touching
on it, but the rest of the media, it's all.
Rubio was picked, Christy Noman was picked, Tom Homan his
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borders are was picked. Steven Miller is going to be
his deputy chief of staff. Susie Wilds is going to
be his chief of staff. So everything is focused on
key picks in his cabinet or around his team. Nobody
is watching this race, and this race is very important,
I would argue even more important outside of the Attorney
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General than any other pick that Trump makes, because Senate
Majority leader has immense power over every piece of legislation,
and we're going to really change this country through legislation.
Executive orders are great, but as Biden showed, you can
repeal executive orders on day one, but once you pass
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it in Congress, it's very hard to get rid of it.
So that's why we've call and let's not give up
the fight.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Final word to you, Mike.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Well, that's uh my, My big worry is that doing
everything in darkness, and and uh uh I don't like that.
It's I.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Mean, I mean, honestly, I look, Mike, really, you know
where I stand on every issue. I know where you
stand on every issue. Everything is open, it's transparent. It's
you know, Mike believes x Y and Z. Jeff Cooner
believes x Y and Z. You like, you know, like
it's a free country. When you do stuff like this,
as you put it in darkness, then I know sleazy
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stuff is going on. It's obvious. That's corruption works in secrecy.
Corruption never works. You know, they say sunlight is the
best disinfectant. Corruption never succeeds in the open. Only in
the in the shadows. So that's why they have to
do it in the shadows. That's why it has to
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be a secret vote. And honestly, Mike, think about it.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
What are you hiding?
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Like?
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Why does this have to be secret? Look?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
If John fun is the best man for the job,
just hypothetically, okay, then defend him. What's the problem. I mean,
I forget voting in public. You should have the debates
in public, the caucus where they meet. We should be
able to on Sea Span. I'm not saying it's got
to be on you know, channel four, but on c
SPAN or whatever we can as the voters say, well, yeah, okay,
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I'm just using an example. Ted Cruz thinks corn is
the best?
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Why?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Well, is it because I needed money? I was going
to lose my race and Cornyn made sure I got
enough money to win the election. So honestly, is Corning
a gun control guy?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Is he an open borders guy yes? Is he a
globalist yes? Is he a trumper?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Do I disagree with him on practically everything else?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Yes? But I owe him.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Okay, Well, at least have the guts and the honesty
to say it. Instead of all of this, you say
one thing in public and then do the exact opposite
in private or whatever. So to me, if they're the
best candidates, tell us why they can't because they know
they're not the best candidates. You know what it is.
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He got my wife a job. He steered me enough
campaign cash for my reelection. He promised me if I
run for president in twenty twenty eight, I'll have, you
know whatever, twenty five million dollars waiting for me. I
needed that bridge in my state, you know whatever. My
nephew needed that job. He promised my nephew that job.
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I'm telling you, that's what this is.
Revenge of the Rhinos. I mean, you can't make this up.
So that's exactly now. What is taking place tomorrow is
going to be the vote, the first ballot to choose
the next Senate Republican Leader, who will also be the
Senate Majority leader. And there are only three candidates in
the race. I know many of you are texting Jeff,
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I like Senator Mike Lee. I like Senator rand Paul,
you know, I like Senator Josh Holly. I'm like, I
like them too, but they're not running, you know what
I mean. So it's three that are running. It's all
you know. You know, you don't go to war with
the army you wish you have. You go to war
with the army you have. And so these are the
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three that have decided to throw their hat in the ring.
It is Senator John Thune who is now the presumptive
front runner, clearly a disciple of Mitch McConnell, has been
his right hand man forever, tell you the truth, a
neo Khon, a warmonger, very pro Ukraine, very anti Trump,
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has been for a long time. Cornyn who is also
extremely pro Ukraine, also anti Trump. And again I'm not
trying to be insulting. He's just he's not the sharpest
tool in the toolshit. You know, he's just not that bright. So,
by the way, very much pro gun control. Just to
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show you the kind of guy Cornyn is. When Trump
won in twenty sixteen and then was trying to get
his wall built, cornn publicly came out and said that
even though the voters voted for a wall, I swear
to you, they don't really want a wall. That people
like him, senators like him know the issue of the
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border better than the vote than the voters do. And
so according to Cornin, he said, no, they may have
voted for a wall, they may want a wall, but
you don't need a wall. We know it's best. So
this is the kind of guy Cornyn is. He is
bought and paid for by the Chamber of Commerce. When
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I say that big business and the globalists own him,
they own him like a ten dollars street walker. And
he's another one, a real brown noser who has been
beside McConnell. Now I don't know how many years. So
these are the two that and I got to say this.
McConnell played this very smart, He did it very quick.
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He did it as quick as possible when people were
not paying attention in secret. It's going to be a
closed session ballot. The vote's going to be behind closed doors.
And he got his two people to run, so all
he's got to do now is knock Rick Scott off tomorrow.
Who finishes third is taken out of the race, and
then it's either Cornyn or Thune. Either way, McConnell wins.
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So these are the two people that he wants to
be his successor. Basically there is clones. Thune is smarter,
which is why I think he's got more votes than Cornyn,
and it looks to me like he's out promising and
out maneuvering Cornin.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But we shall see.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Rick Scott is the Trump loyalist, and right now he's
got eleven votes. You need twenty seven to get a
majority to be the Senate Republican leader. Jerry on the Cape,
Thanks for holding Jerry, and welcome Jeff.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Good morning, and thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Comrade, how are you.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I haven't spoken to you since the election. I'm thrilled,
but I'm worried because I'm concerned about some of the
people that are being bandied above. For I like all
the pixies made so far for his cabinet. But I'm
nervous about Secretary of State. Maco Rubio is a swamp creature.
There's no way he should be anywhere near that christin Nome.
(03:56):
She I think, you know, Department of the Interior, but
not that. The POM A homeland security that needs to
be dismantled. That's I mean, they really does. It needs
to be dismantled. I mean we can still have customs
and border patrol and ice and I n S and
all of that, but there's no need. The Department at
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homes Lends Security should never have been contracted in the
beginning and created. George W. Bush had Marcus Wolf and
of any primakoff put that together. They paid them millions
of dollars to put that program together for the United States,
two communists. But Jeff beyond that also there was another
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pick that he was thinking to make. Oh, Mike Rodgers,
the congressman from Alabama's secretary.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, the one who almost assaulted Matt Gates on the
floor over the vote for the speaker, remember that out
they restrain him.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, he was good because he was standing up for
Kevin McCarty, and he was threatening people beyond beyond gates.
He threatened a bunch of congressmen. He told them that
they didn't vote for McCarthy, he was going to come
for them. I mean, this guy's a nut Trump. President
Trump has to be careful who he surrounds himself with.
I'm really worried about that. It'd be like internal sabotage again,
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like the first term. Everybody's sabotaged just about everything he did. Jeff,
That's what's got me really concerned.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Well, Jerry, look, I agree with you on Homeland Security.
That department was created under George W. Bush along with
the Patriot Act. It needs to completely go. We don't
need it. It's at best, it's the slum of Washington, DC.
It's got anybody that needs to be kicked upstairs or
given a job they throw into Homeland Security at best.
(05:47):
At worst, it's become part of the deep state. So
I completely agree with you, Jerry. Jerry, I want to
ask you about Marco Rubio because that is the one
pick that I saw yesterday that I'm like, my wife
likes the pick. I am very ambivalent about the pick.
On the one hand, he did campaign very hard for Trump.
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I got to give Rubio his due, and he's a
hawk when it comes to China. He's been sounding better
on NATO and Ukraine over the last couple of months,
but I know his position on Ukraine before. He's a
neo conservative. So it's pretty much official now. Jerry touched
on it just before we went to break. Christy Nome,
(06:33):
South Dakota Governor, big Trump's supporter in all, is now
going to be given Department of Homeland Security secretary. So
it looks like she will now be named the Secretary
of Homeland Security. Marco Rubio, now it appears, this is
what all the papers are reporting, will be named Secretary
of State. What do you think of these two appointments?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
No, Like, let's go back to Jerry on Cape Cod.
Jerry to be fair to Rubio, and this is for example,
Grace likes the pick. My wife likes the pick. She
says he's very articulate, very telligenic. He was a really
good surrogate for Trump during the campaign. He's very knowledgeable
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on foreign affairs. She thinks that he would make a
very good secretary of State.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
What do you say to the.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Argument, Jerry that Rubio went out of his way to
back Trump on some issues like China. He's completely on
the President's wavelength, and that in the end, you need
someone like Rubio who can run the State Department and
really be an ambassador for America around the world.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
What say you, Jerry yeaf.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I told you before. He's a swamp creature. He was
in with McCain in Lindsey Graham back in two thousand
and eight, two thousand and nine. I saw the pictures
of him in the Ukraine. I saw the pictures of
him in the Middle East, the people he was cavorting with.
You can't be a politician and cavot with gangsters and terrorists. Okay,
(08:11):
that's just the reality of it. You kill gangsters and terrorists.
You don't covort with them, You kill them. But here
he was back. You know the pictures don't lie.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Well, I mean, right, Jerry, tell me, tell me if
you agree or disagree. I wanted Grinnell. I heard that
there was a short list. It was between Rubio and
Rick Grennell, and I said, go with Grennell. Grannell is
America first all the way. He's not a neo conservative,
he's not a globalist, he was against the war in
Ukraine from the beginning, unlike Rubio, who is very much
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a warhawk, a military interventionist, big supporter of Zelenski, at
least he was until the last couple of weeks or whatever,
the last couple of months. But I said, with Grenell,
you got someone who philosophically is one thousand percent on
the Trump team and on the America First Agenda.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
What say you, Jerry?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
If I agree with you wholeheartedly about rock Grennell and
beyond that too, the State Department is a rats nest
that needs to be cleaned out too. They're all they're
having crying sessions right now. It was reported Anthony Blinken
sat down with the staff and sent off this big
email about people's feelings and wanting to know how they
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felt after the election. Give me a.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Break, Comrade Jerry.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
As always, thank you very much for that call. Okay, now,
just very quickly quick reset. John Thune did an interview.
I believe it was on CNBC. Please don't quote me
on where he did the interview, but I believe was
either CNBC or Bloomberg. Anyway, Basically, what he said was
he fired a warning shot to Trump. Saying that, quote unquote,
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if Trump knows what's good for him, he will not
directly interfere in the race to replace and succeed Mitch McConnell. Now,
you know, in other words, like the Senate has it
he's talking about the Senate has its independence, and we
believe in separation of powers. And you start getting involved
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with this, it's going to lead to a backlash and
create a lot of bad blood. And you know, the
President is not going to tell us who should be
the leader of the Republicans in the Senate. Look to
be honest, I think Thune is a thug, a political thug.
I think he's petrified that Trump is going to weigh
in back Rick Scott. And by backing Rick Scott, he
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could take away the majority leadership from Thune. And I
don't like the fact that he's publicly threatening Trump. If
he's publicly threatening Trump now one week after Trump won,
how the hell is this guy going to behave in
six months or a year. So to me, I look
at thun or Cornyn, and I see Mitch McConnell two
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point zero nothing but problems Rick Scott. I see a
very successful Senate and a real MAGA leadership, running the
Senate Republicans and being Senate Majority leader. But that's me
six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Okay,
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Rubio is going to be top the Secretary of State.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Do you like it? Christy Nome Homeland Security?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Do you like it? What do you think of Trump's
picks so far? Phil in Missouri, Thanks for holding Phil,
and welcome.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Stage, Jeff, Thanks for taking my call, ye pleasure. You know,
this vote against Rick Scott, it's a vote against Trump,
It's a vote against Maga. It's a vote against you know,
all his supporters. You know, it was just a week
ago that the taxpayers and all the new people that
Trump brought into the party gave him this mandate to
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carry out the Maga agenda. And you know these Rhinos
without Trump, you wouldn't have Ohio, West, Virginia, Montana, Pennsylvania.
There is no majority without Trump. And this is how
they repay us back. It's it's starting all over again.
And I understand that the fight didn't end on election
day and it kind of just begun. So I would
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encourage everybody, Jeff, give that number out hall call your friends,
tell them the call it's an election all over again.
It is, and we have to we have to stay
on top of this, so make sure that Trump gets
what he needs.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I agree with you, not one hundred a thousand percent,
but I do want to ask you this, because you're
from Missouri. Can you explain Josh Hawley. Now, I don't
want to, I don't want to tant anyone's reputation. But
William messaged me on message and he's quite good. Hey,
William is a big listener of the show, and his
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stuff is usually very good.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He says.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
The rumor in DC is that one of the two candidates,
I don't know all he's backing. It's either Thoon or Cornyn,
but it's not Rick Scott. What they shoveled a lot
of money to help Holly win his election, something like
a six hundred thousand dollars or whatever, so that in
a sense politically he owes McConnell or whatever it is,
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Thoon or Cornyn or whoever. So and that explains why
he's not backing Rick Scott. Have you heard what's the
word on the street in Missouri?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Phil Everybody loves Josh Holly, And honestly, I'm a little
blindsided by this. You know, I didn't know that he
was this deep in the in in debt. I guess
to McConnell and the rhinos, and I kind of feel
like he saw he's selling out a little bit in
order to make the jump national I guess to be,
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you know, a viable presidential candidate. But I know one
thing about Missouri that Kansas City, Saint Louis and Jefferson
City and Springfield, that where all the rhinos are. The
rest of Missouri is deep red, deep, deep red. I
can tell you that.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Interesting, Phil As always, thank you very very much for
that call. Six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight. Dan in New Hampshire, Thanks for holding Dan
and welcome.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Yes, Jeff, if I was voting, it would be d
none of the above, and I'll tell you why. And
Jerry from the Cape, I love the caller, great caller,
my favorite caller. Listen. He's absolutely right about Marco Ruvio
AI pac money. Okay, this guy's no good. You get
a seventy five.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
For voting record.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
He's not America first.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Okay, It's as simple as that, now, John Coryn Okay,
he's got a sixty three for a voting record, okay.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
And he's tied to.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
The Ukraine money laundering list. Okay, he's on it, so
he's no good. All right, Soon he's got a sixty Okay.
These guys got F Jeff F voting records. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
These guys are not leaders. Okay.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
And then when you look at Rick Scott, he's got
a seventy. I've talked about this, he's got AI Pac money,
and he's on the Ukraine money laundering list. He's tied
to the list with the Bushes, the cheneye, the McCain's.
These are McCain Bush Republicans. They're not America first, And
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we got to stay away from this.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Mean well, Dan, I mean Dan, here's but here's. I
hear where you're coming from. But the McCain family, the Bushes,
the Cheneys, they don't want Rick Scott. So I understand
you're saying Rick Scott has problems. Yes, I agree with you.
He's not my number one pick, far from it. But
if you know he's say, well, Jeff, none of the three, well,
none of the three means you're gonna get John Thune, Okay,
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or God help us a Cornyn, who I think is
maybe even worse. I mean, Thune is bad, but Cornyn
ay ya yay. I mean, Dan, just listen to this
guy talk. He's another Kamala Harris. I mean, you're like, whoa,
I mean, where were you when God was handing out brains?
So what I'm saying Dan is, look, Rick Scott at
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least has made a deal with Trump. He campaigned for Trump.
He has said he's going to do everything in his
power to implement Trump's agenda. To me, you never let
the perfect be the enemy of the good. Now, if
I had my way, there are ten other senators that
a real America first senators I would put ahead of
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Rick Scott. But Rick Scott is a lot better than
John Thune and a hell of a lot better than
Cornyn and a none of the above. I'll tell you
what's going to happen. You go none of the above tomorrow.
John Thune is winning on the first ballot, and then
we're up a creek without a paddle. So I mean, Dan,
sometimes in life, you know it's the politics is the
(17:09):
art of the possible, and Rick Scott, for us is
the only game in town. You can text us by
the way, seven zero four seven zero seven zero four
seven zero, saying Jeff, can you please give.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Out that number on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It is the switchboard number, and you can then reach
any Republican senator you want, any and it doesn't matter. Jeff, Well,
I'm calling from New Hampshire. I'm just gonna make an example.
Or Massachusetts or California. We have a lot of listeners
in California. Well, we don't have Republican senators. It doesn't matter.
(17:48):
You believe me, you're gonna be voting in twenty twenty six,
you're gonna be voting in twenty twenty eight. Many of
these senators have national ambitions, so they're gonna want to
hear what Republicans have to say. Whoever, which what ever
senator you want to call, You just call two zero
two two two four three one two one. That's two
zero two two two four thirty one twenty one. You
(18:12):
call that number, ask for any Senate office you want,
and often it's I mean it's they're not open at
least until nine. But leave a voicemail, let them know
that you want Rick Scott to be the next Senate
Majority leader. And really, look, I get it. Many of
you are texting the Kooner Man and I hear you. Look,
(18:33):
you know, I'm not saying Rick Scott is perfect.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Far from it. I know there's baggage with him. I
get it.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But look, he's good enough for Tucker Carlson, he's good
enough for Elon Musk and the Maga. Conservatives frankly, in
the House and in the Senate are saying, of the three,
it's no contest. He's the only one who is committed,
publicly edged and committed a to get Trump's appointments, even
(19:03):
through recess appointments, which means now you're not gonna be
able to block his people for months and months, if
not years, and that he's going to get every aspect
of Trump's agenda through the Senate and hopefully with the
House and get into law. You're gonna get it, John
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Thune or Cornyn. You're going to get Mitch McConnell all
over again. There's just no question. And it's going to
be constant hijacking of Trump's agenda, in fighting, sabotage, backstabbing.
It's gonna be like it was in the first term.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So you know, you go again.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I keep saying this you go to war with the
army you have, not the army you wish you have. Now,
if other people through their hat in the ring, it
would be a different story, no question. But there's only
three possible choices. Now, some of you are texting me saying, well,
then don't vote for any of them. Jeff I, I
don't want anything to do with this, okay, but just understand. Fine,
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it's a reasonable position. But what that means is you're
going to get John Thune because he's the front runner
and the only way we can stop him is if
we can get Rick Scott in there. So remember, you're
going to get John Thune. And if you get John Thune,
let me tell you what you're getting. You're getting a
neo conservative. You're getting a globalist. You're getting an acolyte,
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a follower of Mitch McConnell. You're going to get someone
who publicly called publicly called for Donald Trump to step
down in twenty sixteen after the excess Hollywood tape and
said we need to have Mike Pence be the presidential
candidate against Hillary Clinton. You're talking about a man who,
(20:53):
behind the scenes, along with Mitch McConnell, did everything in
his power to get Trump impeached and did every thing
in his power to try to prevent Trump from coming
back to power. Now, you can say whatever you want
about Rick Scott, He's not that. So what I'm just
saying is it's you know, it's three people in the race.
(21:16):
Two I know are gonna knife Trump all day, all night.
Rick Scott we can do business with, and honestly, I
just think he's better than the other two.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Just leave a side.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yes, he's a Trump loyalist, but just beyond that, he's smarter,
he's more capable, he's got actual private sector experience.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
The guy's actually cut checks and hired people.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Again, he wouldn't even be my top ten in terms
of people I want in the Senate or who I
want to be Senate majority leader. I'm just telling you again,
it's a race. You know again, it's the art of
the possible. It's not a dream candidate. It's not you know,
I'm one, you know, my perfect person. It's here are
the people that are willing to do the job.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It's a B and C. I'm going with Rick Scott again.
That's me. Six one seven.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Two, six, six, sixty eight sixty eight is the number
very quickly. This is from Eric, who is very smart
obviously and uh always gives me great information. Well, this
is what Eric said to me on messenger ooh about
ten minutes ago. Jeff, I don't think you'll see Rick
(22:33):
Scott win for the one reason. They don't want term limits,
and that is part of Trump's agenda. Bingo, bingo. Rick
Scott supports term limits. Trump supports term limits. John Thune
and Cornyn and McConnell. Obviously, the guy's been there forever.
(22:55):
He's been there longer than I've been alive, and I'm
I'm a fifty five year old man. I'm a middle
aged man, and he's been there longer than i've been alive.
So no, Cornyn doesn't want term limits, McConnell doesn't want
term limits, and Thune certainly doesn't want term limits because
(23:15):
he wants to be like McConnell. Thune wants to be
there until he's, you know, ninety years old. So Scott
has said we've got to have term limits. Trump says
he wants term limits for that reason alone. The UNI
Party swamp wants to bury Rick Scott Frank in Malden.
Thanks for holding Frank and welcome.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Good morning, Jeff Frank. Yes, can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I can hear you? Go ahead, my friend.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Certainly, this is very disappointing with the people that are
publicly stated they're not going to support Rick Scott. And
the other thing is, of course, the secret ball at
Bologney is just terrible. It appears that, in addition to
melting the phones in Washington, if there's something we could
(24:09):
do to try to get these senators to reveal who
they're supporting, or at least to get the ones that
are going to resupport Rick Scott to reveal that they are.
And I think it would take one brave senator to
stand up and say I will be supporting Rick Scott.
(24:30):
And the only brave senator I can think of at
the moment is Mark Rubio. If he's destined to become
Secretary of State, then I'm almost feeling what does he
have to lose if he publicly states his support for
Rick Scott and urges all of the other senators who
(24:51):
will be supporting Rick Scott to state it publicly, And
what will that do? Well, maybe he'll give us an
idea of how many are really supporting Rick Scott and
how many are not?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Do you know, Frank, I like it? No, I like it.
I like it a lot. And look, number one, I
think it is going to be leaked. You don't want
to depend on leaks, I understand, but I think it's
going to come out. It's already been leaked once. Rick
Scott has only eleven senators eleven, and you know people
that you think would be voting for him, Holly Cruz,
(25:30):
Marshall Blackburn, they're apparently on this secret list. They're not
backing Scott. So what I'd like, this is what I
think what we need to say, no matter what, when
the race is over, because this is the only way
you can enforce this. We're going to demand and ask
every senator who did you vote for? And when they say,
(25:53):
well it was a secret ballot, no, I'm sorry. We
don't find that acceptable. That's the old way. We want
the new way of doing politics. No, that's the swamp way.
We're here to drain the swamp. You never should have
had a closed door session. Ever, this wasn't national security,
This wasn't the highly classified intelligence. You know, we're not
(26:15):
talking about American spies deep in communists China or deep
in Iran and they've given us, you know, the inside
information on Iran's nuclear weapons program. I'm not going to
put people's lives in jeopardy. I get that some things
have to be done behind closed doors.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I get it. But we're not talking that.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
We're just talking about, very simply, who's going to be
the next Republican leader in the Senate.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
But sir, I don't know. It's just we have a
right to weigh in.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
We're the voters, for God's sake, So tell them, no,
that's not good enough.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
McConnell was the one who made it a secret ballot.
There's no rule saying it has to be a secret ballot.
That was a condition imposed by McConnell. That's the way
the Rhinos work. Again, remember they always work in secrecy,
always in the shadows, always, that's their modus operandi, that's
their remo. So no, who did you vote for? And
(27:10):
then we want to see their public proclamations versus the
actual vote count. And Frank, I will bet you the
best steak at the best steakhouse of your choice that
if we do that, it's going to be well.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Rick Scott should be the Senate majority leader.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Almost everybody voted for the guy, but it's gonna end
up either being through in or corning. In other words,
they're going to tell us publicly one thing, but they're
going to vote the exact opposite in secret because they
were promised something, because that's how the swamp works. I
scratch your back, you scratch my back. Final word to you, Frank.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Yeah, I agree. It's uh, it's really now being revealed
what the power of the swamp is, and it is
going to be a monumental effort to try and overcome it.
But right now, this is the best chance we have
and we all have to do our best to support
(28:19):
the people that are trying to make Mega successful.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Amen, Look, you're right, that's all we can do. We
have to just do our best and you know, keep going.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
What can you do?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Frank, thank you very much, And you're absolutely dead on.
This is the swamp. This is how they operate, and
they're not going to give up power. Look at them,
They just you know, like seriously, McConnell has had a
very long, very lucrative, very successful career. And I don't
mean success as in good for the country. I mean
(28:50):
success as in for himself and his family. Now we
wanted him out of Senate Majority leader. He's one of
the most unpopular politician in the entire country. DSB wouldn't
step down before the election. Remember that he said no, no, no,
after the election. After the election. Now look at this.
He's trying to orchestrate his own successor to screw Trump.
(29:16):
Now ask yourself this. You're now pushing ninety years old.
You're getting brain freezes in public, like it's happened multiple times.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
He's talking.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
And he just starts. They're like, Mitch, Mitch, Mitch, Mitch, Mitch,
and they're shaking him, and he's just staring at that
deep outer space and they're like, oh my god. You
put your hands in front of his eyes. There's Mitch.
There's nothing there, Mitch Mitch. Okay, you're worth north of
(29:49):
one hundred million dollars. Through your wife's family business and
connections to communists China. You have lined your pockets to
the point that you're now well, not a wealthy man.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
You're an oligarch.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
And you still are so consumed with power and hubris
and control that you've got to rig the Senate Majority leadership.
I know it's Senate Republican, but whoever is the Republican
leader becomes the majority leader.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I mean, these people are sick. They're twisted, man, did
they really are?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
And so you just like they're just like it's like
you know, your prior hands, like let go of power,
like just rip his head.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Like you know what I mean, Like just.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You know, it's it's gonna be every inch, every step
of the way with these people. So look, you do
what you can when you can. This is our chance.
Let's ring that phone off the hook, and who knows,
who knows, maybe self preservation will push them to do
the right thing again. The number on Capitol Hill two
(31:04):
oh two two two four thirty one twenty one two
o two two two four three one two one. Call
any Republican senator you want a lot of you're saying, well, Jeff,
I want to call Susan Collins because you know we're
New England and she's one of the few senators Republicans
from New England. Give her a call, Give anybody a call, Frankly,
(31:24):
give Ted Cruz a call, Give Holly a call, give
Blackburn a call, give them all a call. I said,
I'm sorry, why aren't you supporting Rick Scott. Well, if
you're thinking of running in twenty twenty eight, you just
lost my vote, you'd be amazed suddenly.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
On second thought, So let's just keep the pressure on
Mike in Beverly.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Thanks for holding Mike, and welcome.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Hey, Jeff. So it kind of looks like it's a
given that we're going to get poon or corner. And
what's this I've been hearing about JD Vance being the
Senate President and he can overrule anything. Do you know
(32:12):
anything about any of that?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Well, the only power he has is if it's a
fifty to fifty tie as the Senate president, he would
have the cast you know, he'd cast a deciding vote.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
But that's it.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I mean, that's that's the only influence he can wield, Mike,
I think, honestly the strategy now, I don't want to
throw in the towel yet on Scott because a lot
of people on the Hill are saying, look, we have
all day today. There are numerous Republican senators who are
still on the fence, and that leak scared them because
(32:47):
that the leak from that podcaster, and the reason why
it scared them is a lot of these senators say,
we don't want to we don't want the wrath of MAGA,
and we don't want this to haunt us if we
run for reelection, and if it gets out that we
voted against Trump and voted against Maga by voting against
Rick Scott, it could cost them their reelection. So they
(33:12):
may sway enough of them to vote for Scott. Forgive
me Rick Scott that he becomes number two, and then
whoever finishes third is automatically taken out of the race. Right,
So a three person race, so then it'll go to
the second ballot, probably on Thursday. Now people are saying,
if it's a two person race between Thune and Scott,
(33:36):
then Thune.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Could be in trouble.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
So McConnell's strategy is a quick, decisive victory, a blitzkreak.
That's why he put up two of his people. Go
in hard, go in heavy, knock Scott out right away,
and then McConnell is on easy street because it doesn't
matter if it's corn In or Thune. He wins, so
(33:59):
we can just get Scott. I know, Maga, we like
to think, you know, let's win, right, I get it.
We want to touchdown on every pass. But if we
can just get Scott from third to second, then we're
playing in the second half, to use a football analogy,
and we can win this in the second half. So
we've got to get Scott into second place. Then it's
(34:22):
going to be toe to toe Thune versus Scott, and
then the pressure is going to really grow against Thune
because I'm telling you, if it's a two person race,
MAGA will rally around Scott and the establishment now is
going to be under siege, under tremendous.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Withering pressure to not go with John Thune.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
So that's why the globalists are That's why McConnell did
this vote so early, deliberately and basically in the dark,
because if you look at the media, Fox is touching
on it, but the rest of the media, it's all.
Rubio was picked, Christy Noman was picked, Tom Homan his
(35:04):
borders are was picked. Steven Miller is going to be
his deputy chief of staff. Susie Wilds is going to
be his chief of staff. So everything is focused on
key picks in his cabinet or around his team. Nobody
is watching this race, and this race is very important,
I would argue even more important outside of the Attorney
(35:28):
General than any other pick that Trump makes, because Senate
Majority leader has immense power over every piece of legislation,
and we're going to really change this country through legislation.
Executive orders are great, but as Biden showed, you can
repeal executive orders on day one, but once you pass
(35:50):
it in Congress, it's very hard to get rid of it.
So that's why we've call and let's not give up
the fight.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Final word to you, Mike.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Well, that's uh my, My big worry is that doing
everything in darkness, and and uh uh I don't like that.
It's I.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Mean, I mean, honestly, I look, Mike, really, you know
where I stand on every issue. I know where you
stand on every issue. Everything is open, it's transparent. It's
you know, Mike believes x Y and Z. Jeff Cooner
believes x Y and Z. You like, you know, like
it's a free country. When you do stuff like this,
as you put it in darkness, then I know sleazy
(36:44):
stuff is going on. It's obvious. That's corruption works in secrecy.
Corruption never works. You know, they say sunlight is the
best disinfectant. Corruption never succeeds in the open. Only in
the in the shadows. So that's why they have to
do it in the shadows. That's why it has to
(37:04):
be a secret vote. And honestly, Mike, think about it.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
What are you hiding?
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Like?
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Why does this have to be secret? Look?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
If John fun is the best man for the job,
just hypothetically, okay, then defend him. What's the problem. I mean,
I forget voting in public. You should have the debates
in public, the caucus where they meet. We should be
able to on Sea Span. I'm not saying it's got
to be on you know, channel four, but on c
SPAN or whatever we can as the voters say, well, yeah, okay,
(37:36):
I'm just using an example. Ted Cruz thinks corn is
the best?
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Why?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Well, is it because I needed money? I was going
to lose my race and Cornyn made sure I got
enough money to win the election. So honestly, is Corning
a gun control guy?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Is he an open borders guy yes? Is he a
globalist yes? Is he a trumper?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Do I disagree with him on practically everything else?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Yes? But I owe him.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Okay, Well, at least have the guts and the honesty
to say it. Instead of all of this, you say
one thing in public and then do the exact opposite
in private or whatever. So to me, if they're the
best candidates, tell us why they can't because they know
they're not the best candidates. You know what it is.
(38:28):
He got my wife a job. He steered me enough
campaign cash for my reelection. He promised me if I
run for president in twenty twenty eight, I'll have, you
know whatever, twenty five million dollars waiting for me. I
needed that bridge in my state, you know whatever. My
nephew needed that job. He promised my nephew that job.
(38:50):
I'm telling you, that's what this is.
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