Biden Admin told "DO NOT DESTROY!" Docs as Trump makes his First Cabinet Picks

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, it's time for Democrats to be held accountable for
their lawfare and for their attacks on so many conservatives.
Speaker of the House Johnson has now ordered the entire
Biden administration to preserve and retain all records and documents.
This as many were expecting it to be a dumpster

(00:23):
fire anywhere that the now corrupt government had been doing
shady things. Now House Speaker Johnson ordered the entire administration
of President Joe Biden to preserve all records and communications
in the winning days of the outgoing Democratic administration as
former President Donald Trump's team is preparing to take over.

(00:43):
Johnson has sent letters to all eighteen federal departments ordering
them to retain and preserve documents.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
This could become an explosive.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Storyline if outgoing Biden administration officials attempt to delete or
destroy documents that would shed light on some of the
radical policies they pursued, or the scandals with regard to censorship,
or other major storylines over the past four years, such
as a deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan or the wide open

(01:14):
southern border, or what has happened between Ukraine and Russia
and US policy.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
If anyone is caught destroying any.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Records that could lead to serious federal criminal penalties. And
now with the House and the Senate and the White
House there, they could actually impose those criminal penalties. With
President Elect Trump's legal team coming in to take over
on January the twentieth, the new incoming administration will find
all evidence on this front, and they want to look
at everything now. This effort from Johnson is a sign

(01:45):
that Republicans are far more prepared during this transition to
a Trump administration than they were the first time when
Trump won back in sixteen, and it also suggests they
mean business when it comes to rooting out corruption across
the federal government. As Trump is assembling his cabinet and
Republicans on Capitol Hill are preparing for next year. Now,

(02:05):
the cabinet issue, I'm going to deal with a little
bit later, because there's some big cabinet positions that have
been filled, including one extremely important ambassadorship position, and that
is the US Ambassador to Israel that has now been
filled by a dear friend of mine, Mike Huckabee, former
governor of Arkansas and former presidential candidate. Mike Huckaby is

(02:27):
an incredible ally and friend of Israel and an incredible
godly man.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
I absolutely love this.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Pick, and I'm going to dive into that also a
little bit later. Now, these letters that have gone out,
one such letter that was sent to the Acting Labor
Secretary Sue is making it clear that Congress per Johnson
intends to pursue quote such documents and evidence as the
administration changes hands during and after the quote transition.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
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It makes it very clear that per Congress, Johnson is

(04:47):
going to look at the corruption of the Biden administration
and the Harrison administration and see if they actually broke laws.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Quote as we re.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
As we begin preparations for a new Trump administration and
new Congress, we fully expect Johnson says in his letter,
your cooperation in a smooth transition of power. To that
end is imperative that during the transition you comply with
all statutory retention requirements, including but not limited to, the

(05:18):
Federal Records Act. In addition to compliance with federal record
retention laws, we are also expressly directing that all necessary
steps be taken to preserve relevant Department documents and communications.
Eighteen versions of this letter which I just read from

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which many other House Republicans, including House Majority Leader Steve Scalise,
the Majority Tom Emmer, among others, also signed, have per
a Senior Johnson a have been sent across the federal
government to every major cabinet secretary in the Biden administration.
This is amazing. This is what we didn't do right
in sixteen. You want to talk about learning from your mistakes.

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That's exactly what they're saying right now now. In the
next paragraph of the letter, Johnson also zones in on
specific things he has focused on oversight wise during this process.
He highlights the border, he highlights Afghanistan, he highlights government censorship,
he highlights weaponization of the government against conservatives, and he

(06:26):
highlights anti Semitism as key examples, saying this quote. During
the one hundred and eighteenth Congress, House committees conducted robust
oversight concerning the Biden Heirs administration's disastrous border policies, the
tragic Afghanistan withdrawal, collusion with social media comings to suppress
free speech, and weaponization of federal agencies against its political opponents,

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as well as the anti semitism at our nation's universities
enabled by leading Demmocrats. Johnson also noted in the letter
that the Biden administration refused to comply with many lawfully
issued subpoenas during this Congress, and that in the end

(07:13):
of this Congress and in the next one, Republicans have
held their House majority and picked up the US Senate majority,
saying now Congress will be enforcing these thus far blown
off subpoenas. So if you think that they're going to
get away with it, or they thought they were going
to get away with it, they are wrong. Finally, in

(07:35):
the letter, it says this, in the waitning days of
this Congress, House committees will continue to seek compliance with
many of the subpoenas with which you largely decline to
cooperate Johnson Wrights. Likewise, as the one hundred nineteenth Congress begins,
the committees may determine that it is necessary to reissue

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certain subpoenas as they continue with their oversight efforts. Quote unquote,
this letter signed by Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House,
Steve Scalie, Senate Majority Leader, Tom Immerman, Majority Whip, Elis Sephonic,
Chairwoman of the Republican Conference, Glenn GT. Thompson, Chairman Committee

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on Agriculture, Tom Cole, Chairman Committee on Appropriations, Mike Rogers,
Chairman Committee on Armed Services, Jody Arrington, Chairman Committee on
the Budget. Virginia Fox Chairwoman Education and the Workforce Committee,
Kathy mc morris Rogers Chairman, Chairwoman, Committee on Energy and Commerce.

(08:41):
Michael Guests, Chairman Committee on Ethics, Patrick Henry, Chairman on
Committee of Financial Services, Michael McCall, Chairman Committee on Foreign Affairs,
Mark Green, Chairman Committee on Homeland Security, Brian Steele, Chairman
Committee on Health Administration, and Jim Jordan, Chairman of the
Committee of the Judiciary. There's other names below that, but

(09:02):
this was a very robust letter to all of these
departments making it clear that the Republican Party.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Is not going to sit on the sidelines.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
They are not going to sit on the sidelines and
allow all of this to.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Be swept under the rug.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
There is also big news coming out outside of these
letters being sent out by Congress to preserve records, and
that is dealing with Donald Trump's picks, his most important
picks for the cabinet and major positions in the government.
Mike Huckabee has been named as Trump's ambassador to Israel.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
He is the first Evangelical in this role.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Mike Huckabee, a dear friend of mine, a former governor
of Arkansas, twice presidential candidate, and television host, has been
named as president like Donald Trump's ambassador to Israel. Huckabee
will become the first evangelical Christian ever in this role.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
In a state.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Trump said, I am pleased to announce that the highly
respected former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, has been nominated
to be the United States Ambassador to Israel. Mike has
been a great public servant, governor, and leader in the
faith in faith for many years. He loves Israel and
the people of Israel, and likewise the people of Israel
love him. Mike will work tirelessly to bring peace in

(10:21):
the Middle East.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Now.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
The selection of Huckabee, a.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Christian who has long supported the Jewish state, will delight
many pro Israel advocates in both the Jewish and Christian communities.
Huckabee was considered for the role in sixteen before it
was ultimately given to David Friedman, a Trump attorney who
helped move the US Embassy to Jerusalem and ultimately helped
forge the Abraham Accords between Israel and several Arab states.

(10:47):
Huckabee is known for his Jewish communities and Judea and Samara,
also known as the West Bank. Advocates for some of
these communities have been targeted with sanctions by the biden
Aris administration. The land of the region is central to
Jewish history in the region, but was occupied by Jordan
from nineteen forty eight until nineteen sixty seven, when Jordan

(11:12):
unwisely joined Arab States and attacking Israel. That's when Israel
fought back and conquered the land which pales Indians now
claim as theirs. Now, let me just put this in
perspective real quick for you. Governor Huckabee actually said this
seven years ago. And the liberal media is going to

(11:33):
lose their mind over this all right, like they're just
going to This is about settlements and kumbai Aism, And
I want you to hear what Hockeyby had to say.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Listen carefully.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
I think Israel has titled eat to Judea and Samaria.
There are certain words I refuse to use. There is
no such thing as a West Bank as Judea and Samaria.
There's no such thing as a settlement, their communities, their neighborhoods,
their cities. There's no such thing as an occupant.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Wow, that is your new ambassador to Israel, which is
just huge.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Now, how could be? Currently?

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Many of you may know him because he hosts the
show Howckuby on TBN, an evangelical station, is the largest
Christian network in the world. As a presidential candidate. Hockelby
won the Iowa caucuses and eight before fading later in
the Republican primary. He endorsed Trump before the Iowa caucuses
back in sixteen. You know Mike Cockaby's daughter Sarah Huckabee Sanders,
current governor of Arkansas and former White House Press cretary

(12:33):
in the first Trump administration. This is a huge name
that is needed here and a great leader for the
Trump administration.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
It shows they're not screwing around.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
By the way, while this is all happening, we also
got some interesting dirt that has just come out about
the spending habits and the lies that were told to
the American voters by the Harris campaign. You know how
Harris was obsessed with trendy and pop culture people endorsing her.

(13:05):
We found out she paid a million dollars to Oprah
for example, for that interview. They of course they said, oh,
it was just production costs. Working in TV and radio,
I can tell you there's no million dollar production costs
for a sit down interview.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
That's a payday.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
But we also now know that Kamala Harris's campaign paid
Beyonce ten million dollars. Megan thee Stallion five million dollars,
Lizzo three million dollars, and Eminem one point eight million dollars.
This was the biggest political presidential loss and modern history.

(13:39):
And if you gave money to her campaign, just know
that Beyonce got another ten million, Meghan the Stallion got
five million, Lizzo three million, Eminem one point eight million.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
And that's the ones that we know of right now.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
So I'm waiting for the media to tell this story
because they're not going to write. But like, can you
imagine if you're a donor and you find out you
worked your tail off and you gave a million dollars
and they're like, yeah, we just sent that over to Oprah.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Do you think Oprah needs another million?

Speaker 5 (14:07):
Right?

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Though I thought that the left hated rich people, right, billionaires?
You think Beyonce need another ten million? You think Megan
is Sign needed a five million, or liz On need
another three million, or Eminem needs another one point eight million.
Like I would be furious if I was a donor
to a campaign I found out that's how my money
was being spent. Now, you're not going to hear the
story from the left. That's why I wanted to bring

(14:29):
it up number one. But you're also not going to
hear about this story because the media is on fire
right now with exits after the election and people getting
let go after the election because no one's watching many
of these liberal networks. I'll give you a great example
of this, the disgrace Chris Wallace. You may remember him

(14:49):
from Fox News Sunday. He left went over to CNN,
and that didn't work out for him. We now know
that Chris Wallace quote chose to CNN. Yeah, because CNN
has never lied to us before, and Wallace has never
lied to us before. So apparently Chris Wallace went over
there to do this big thing and then after three years,

(15:12):
I'm gonna call it quit. The seventy seven year olds
reported seven figure contract came to an end and rather
than renew, he decided to join all the other young
folks online with a Nido podcast. You just gotta love
how everybody now just is like, oh, I'm going to
do a podcast. Like it's a little insulting when you
work your tail off to do a great podcast every day.

(15:34):
When these guys are like, if you leave a job,
you lose a job, whatever.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
You get fired.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Everybody's like I'm gonna become a podcaster now, just overnight,
and everybody's now a podcaster, Like everybody, Oh yeah, I'm
a podcaster, me too, me too.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
It just it makes me laugh.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
Now.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
A lot of people are calling this the death of
cable TV, and I do believe that there's a lot
of people now that just don't spend their time watching
cable TV. I think a lot of it is because
they know that it's all propaganda and bias. And so
when you look at the demise of CNN, and I
spent seven years of my career as a conservative fighting

(16:09):
the good fight there, and there are still fights to
be had, but the audience now is just become so irrelevant.
And I also think you can see that even at
NBC and ABC and CBS. You know, you look at
the numbers, and Gutfeld, for example, on Fox is beating
the Big three in late night. Now there is true

(16:31):
talent at Fox, but you look outside of that and
there's a lot of people like, why the hell would
I ever watch CNN because I know it's propaganda.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
I know they're lying to me.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
These are the same people that said a week and
a half ago or two weeks ago, that Donald Trump
said that you know that everybody should kill Liz Cheney,
right that, you know that Donald Trump is saying she
should be executed, Actually was never said. I'll remind you
of how corrupt the media was just a few weeks ago,
and you wonder why no one's watching breaking news.

Speaker 6 (17:04):
Donald Trump took his violent rhetoric to a new extreme,
suggesting the former Republican congresswoman should be fired Upon.

Speaker 7 (17:12):
Breaking news, Trump under investigation for saying warhawk Liz Cheney
should be fired upon right now.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
In ABC News Live, he suggested.

Speaker 7 (17:20):
Nine barrels of a firing squad aimed right at her.
Donald Trump declaring before a crowd that Cheney should be
put before a firing line.

Speaker 6 (17:28):
With the battle over women voters raging, Donald Trump suggests
putting Liz Cheney in the firing line.

Speaker 7 (17:34):
Now you have this threat against Liz Cheney, that Trump
is talking about.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
A firing squads.

Speaker 5 (17:40):
Pointed at Liz Cheney is the latest escalation.

Speaker 7 (17:43):
Using the military to kill a political rival.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
We've graduated the firing squads, and that seclution.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
He really wants to kill with a firing squad his political.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Opponents sounded like to me, he just thought she needed
to die.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
Trump was suggesting a fireing squad, evoking images of a
firing squad of an assassination. What's your response to Donald
Trump saying she should be fired, that Liz Cheney should
be fired upon.

Speaker 7 (18:10):
Donald Trump's closing argument has been Puerto Rico's an island
of trash. I'm not a Nazi.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Liz Cheney should be in front of a firing squad.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
He's talking about a firing squad for his political enemies.

Speaker 7 (18:22):
A firing squad, a military tribunal.

Speaker 4 (18:24):
Talking about sending a prominent Republican to the firing squad.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Now I could keep playing this for another three minutes
in the montage, I think we all know Donald Trump
didn't say that. In fact, what did Donald Trump actually say?
Let's just end it with that. What did Donald Trump
actually say? Here's Donald Trump, in his own words, not
saying what they just told you that he said.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Echo warhawk.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Let's put her with a rifle, standy there with nine
barrel shooting at her. Okay, let's see how she feels
about it. You know, when the guns are trained in
her face. You know there are warhawks when they're sitting
in Washington in a nice building, saying, oh you will,
let's send let's send ten thousand troops right into the
mouth of the enemy.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
There it is.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
He didn't say she should be killed. He didn't call
for her to be executed. He said, see how much
of a warhawk she is? Like, see how much of
a warhawk she is? If she's actually over there in
Iraq and Afghanistan where she's starting wanting to start all
of these wars.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
That's the difference. That's the difference.

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I want to get into, and I mentioned this earlier,
is the cabinet positions that have been named by Donald Trump.
Center Cruz, who you know, I co host a podcast
with him. We were talking about this as we were
doing our podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz, and if you
don't listen, you totally should. But I'm going to play
for you now our conversation about all of the different
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(22:00):
between Cenaer Cruse and I we know these people personally.
Some of them are good friends of ours, like, we
know them very well. And so I want you to
hear what Senator Cruz and I had to say about
these appointments, how important they are, and what you can
expect from them. Take a listen, So, Cenater, this is
an interesting list of all these different positions that have

(22:22):
been filled by Trump. Early on, you and I were
talking before the show. We actually know these people. I
know several of them very well. You know them well
as also, And I actually want to start with a
really important post, and that is the ambassador to Israel
and former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee is getting that position.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
That one made me grin from ear to ear.

Speaker 6 (22:49):
Well, Mike Cuckabye will do a terrific job in that regard.
Huckabee obviously was governor of Arkansas, but also was a
Baptist pastor for many years. And Mike loves Israel. He
loves the people of Israel, he loves the Jewish people.
He has been an outspoken advocate for Israel, and I
think it will be an appointment that he will enjoy profoundly.

(23:12):
It will be markedly different from how things have been
under the last four years. And I think it shows
just how important changing the page on the Biden Harris
abandonment of Israel will be because Mike Huckabee will stand
unshakably with the state of Israel. And that's going to
be also President Trump's view is to stand unshakably with Israel.

(23:34):
It's why under the Trump administration in the first term,
we saw peace flower in the Middle East. It's why
we saw peace a war break out in the Middle
East because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris undermined Israel and
sent billions of dollars to our enemies. It's a great appointment.
And you know, as you're looking at the appointments that
have come out, let's start with the White House. So

(23:55):
the White House are the kind of core team right
around the president. First appointment that was announced as the
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

Speaker 5 (24:03):
Now, who is Susie Wiles. Susie Wiles is.

Speaker 6 (24:05):
President Trump's campaign manager. She's been a political operative forever.
She's going to become the first woman to serve as
a White House Chief of staff.

Speaker 5 (24:16):
And Susie.

Speaker 6 (24:21):
Is someone who has worked for She ran Rick Scott's campaign,
we ran for governor, she ran Ronda santisus campaign, and
in fact, if you go way back, she was deputy
director during Reagan's nineteen eighty campaign. So she's a longtime
political operative. I'll tell you I know Susie a little bit.
I don't know her very well, but her reputation is

(24:45):
someone who's very effective, who doesn't like the limelight, is
not out seeking to be in front, is not looking
for a bunch of glowing media profiles, but its.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Intern election night when Donald Trump tried to get her
to talk, and she would she went. She went to
the back of the of the of the stage, is like,
she walked up to it low and then left.

Speaker 6 (25:04):
I mean, that's have you ever seen that in all
of politics? Have you ever seen that?

Speaker 1 (25:07):
No, everybody's usually clamoring to get in front of a
microphone and talk and have their moment in the sunshine.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
And it was very clear there. I think her body
language at.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Night was We've got work to do, Like, yeah, we
just won, but now the work begins, and that is
her type of focus and also really her mo for
her entire career.

Speaker 6 (25:28):
Look Susie's reputation is as a serious person who gets
things done. That's a good thing, I will tell you.
Objectively speaking, Trump's twenty twenty four campaign was by far
his best run campaign. It wasn't even close. It was
much much better than how the twenty sixteen campaign was run.
And it was much much better than how the twenty
twenty campaign was run. There was greater organization, there was

(25:51):
greater discipline, there was better execution. It just they played
at a different level. So that's a strong opening appointment.
Now right behind it is the deputy chief of staff,
the Deputy chief of staff for policy, and that's Steven Miller. Now,
Steven is someone I know very very well. Steven used
to be a White Hill staffer. He was Jeff sessions

(26:12):
top person on immigration policy when Sessions was a senator,
was a colleague mine. Sessions was one of the leading
immigration hawks in the Senate. And Steven is smart as hell.
He knows the substance of immigration law exceedingly well. And

(26:32):
I'm confident there's not going to be literally a single
person in the administration more committed to securing the border
than Steven Miller. He wakes up focused on that. That
is his priority. He is someone who he was in
the first Trump white House. He was helping drive those policies,
but from a lower profile position. Deputy chief of staff

(26:53):
for policy is a big deal. I'm glad Steven is
in that job. I think he'll do a very good job.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Talk about that when you expand out from there to
some of the other positions Donald Trump is putting together.
I think a team of people that he trusts, that
he feels like is ready to go to work. Another
example of that is the deep state. We know what
the deep state has done to conservatives, We know what
the deep state has done to Donald Trump and the

(27:20):
people around him. And someone that we both know well,
a Texan, has been named CIA director and John Ratcliffe
former congressman from Texas in the Dallas area. This is
a big appointment, obviously an important one, but also someone
that saw from within in those last administration just how

(27:43):
corrupt the deep state could be.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Yeah, I'm very glad with this pick. John Ratcliffe is
a good friend of mine. He's someone I know very well.
He's someone who candidly I urged the Trump administration to
appoint to this position. I think John is a good choice.
You know, John was in the first Trumpet administration. He
was he was a member of Congress, and then he
was the Director of National Intelligence. And he really did

(28:07):
an effective job taking on the deep state, and at
a level that is exceptionally rare. It's hard to do,
and John showed a seriousness. He'd been a US attorney
before the Department of Justice. He has demonstrated a courage
to take on embedded bureaucrats who were fighting against the president,

(28:29):
fighting against the agenda of the president, and I think
really fighting against the national interest. And sadly, after years
of Obama and now Biden, you have hardcore leftists who
have burrowed into two senior positions, and they don't view
their roles in those positions as carrying out the policy
priorities of the elected president. They don't view the role

(28:53):
of those positions as following the instructions that they're given. Rather,
they view their role as fighting against presidents they hate
and policies they hate. And I think John is a
serious guy who is going to be well positioned to
try to turn that around. Look, turning CIA around is

(29:15):
not easy, but I think John is a very very
good choice. As I said, he was one of the
people that I've already leaned in and I urged the
transition team to make exactly this appointment.

Speaker 5 (29:25):
So I think it's the next excellent one.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Let's talk about DoD Traditionally it's been someone that's been
a little bit older at the Department of Defense. It's
so funny how quick these things happen and how things
can change. You and I were at at the Republican
Convention and the night of Trump's acceptance speech, that final night.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Afterwards, I went on to.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Host Fox Nation with the guy who's now been appointed
Pete Hedgseth as a Secretary of Defense, Jesse Waters and
Fi tonight. They were just talking about how much they
love this guy, how much, how well they know him,
how he's an individual that has not only serve as
country in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he's also Ivy League educated,

(30:12):
very smart guy, family man, actually lives in Tennessee and
would go up to New York on the weekends to
host Fox and Friends Weekend. And all of a sudden,
I think he shocked the world Trump did when he said, hey,
I'm appointing Pete as Secretary of Defense, saying no one
loves America more than Pete does.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
And he understands war.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
He understands how powerful it can be, how hard it
can be, how disruptive it can be, and how it
can hurt people's families and American soldiers as well.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
And this is a guy that says, I don't want
to start wars, I want to end wars.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Referring to Trump, Pete's been to war in both of
these countries in our lifetime and seen a lot.

Speaker 6 (30:50):
Well, that's right, and Pete's someone who's a friend to
both of us. I like Pete personally, I consider him
a friend. I think he does a great job. You
know Pete's background. He was an infantry captain in the
Army National Guard and he did tours in both Iraq
and Afghanistan, and he ended up earning two Bronze Stars.

(31:11):
He is currently one of the co hosts for Fox
and Friends Weekend, and he has been since his military service.
He has been in the media world more than anything else,
including writing an important book on taking on the woke
DoD culture. Look, this is a nomination that is going

(31:31):
to get some pushback. The Democrats are going to fight
against this one. I'm predicting a real battle because typically
defense secretaries are people who spent thirty forty fifty years
either in they running major military operations or running major

(31:52):
logistical corporations, running big institutions, and Pete does not have
that background, So I expect Democrats to attack him for that.
That being said, I assume that Trump has nominated Pete
because he is in particular focused on taking on the
generals who were involved in the twenty twenty one Afghanistan withdrawal.

(32:14):
That was utterly disastrous. He has also been really courageous
and outspoken fighting to eliminate the woke initiatives that have
taken over the military. And so I think Pete at
DoD will do something very similar to what Ratcliffe is
going to do at CIA, which is he's going to

(32:35):
come in with a real mission of clearing out the
hardcore partisans who burrowed into senior career positions. I think
that's a good thing. But I would also anticipate at
his confirmation hearings, I think we'll see some fireworks. I
think we'll see some Democrats going after Pete, and so
that'll be a fight I expect in the Senate.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Let's talk about arming this audience. This is one of
the reasons why I love this show is because we
get to give people some of the talking points that
they may not hear anywhere else. And you look at
Pete in his nomination. You said there's gonna be fireworks.
We've already seen a lot of this happen on social
media over the last I don't know, six seven hours
since this broke and they're like, he's unqualified. You look

(33:20):
at Pete, he graduated from Princeton and then he has
a graduate degree from Harvard.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
He's an Army.

Speaker 6 (33:29):
Comma, wait, let me stop you, Ben, So you're saying,
I just want to understand, as an old misgrad you're
saying it is a good thing to have a degree
from Princeton and Harvard. I just want to specify exactly
the meets and bounds of what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
All right, I feel like I'm auditioning now for a
job in the administration. What I'm let me clarify to
my remarks. So what I'm saying is it's not necessarily
a bad thing to go to an ivy school, but
obviously common sense and going to by the Way and
that then is phenomenal as well.

Speaker 6 (34:00):
Ben, I didn't get a chance to compliment you on
the record for the ass kicking that ole miss unleashed
on Georgia.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Thank you. I was waiting for the text, I really was.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
I thought for sure I was going to get a
text from you about that game, because it was unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
Like, holy col you got reason to be pretty proud.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
I knew you were in that moment thinking, man, that
would have been fun to go to that school.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
When you rush the field. At the end, you pulled
out a goals post. Have you'all ever done a goalpost
of the Ivy League school before? I'm serious?

Speaker 6 (34:30):
See, we don't actually score goals, so we don't have goalposts.
That fair fair enough. So we go to the fifty
yard line and we play chess. It's a very different game.
We do it in pads, so but it's chest Nonetheless,
you know, they.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Say the biggest day at a football stadium in at
IV league school is graduation day, when you guys are
actually getting graduated. Graduating, you know that, right, Like that's
the most attended day there is.

Speaker 6 (34:52):
All right, So I will tell you when I was
in college, George Schultz was the Secretary of State under
Ronald Reagan, and he's a Princeton grad. And the rumor
which everyone acknowledges is that George Schultz had on his
rear end a tattoo of a Princeton tiger. And so

(35:14):
Schultz would come to Princeton football games, and if you
went to the stadium, you would see the band would
line up in the shape of Schultz's.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Ass, Are you serious?

Speaker 6 (35:27):
And the mascot would go and lay down on one cheek.
And I remember thinking as a nineteen year old, all right,
you have really made it in life when your rear
end is on the fifty yard line of your alma mater.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
At an Ivy League alma mater at that that's a
valid point, valid valid point.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
But you would get Pete.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
He graduated Princeton and then graduate graduate degree from Harvard.
The guy's an Army combat veteran who did tours. And
again this is where I armed this audience with the facts.
Guantanamo Bay, check that mark that box, Iraq and Afghanistan.
And as you mentioned earlier, for his actions on the battlefield,
he was decorated with not one but two Bronze Stars

(36:10):
as well as a combat Infantryman's badge to boot now.
I tonight had an interesting text message from a warrior,
a Sealed Team six member, who said, it's about blanking
time that America has someone that went to war, understands
modern warfare, understands PTSD, and advocates for those that are

(36:35):
mentally wounded in our armed forces, like Pete has done
for years. I don't care what anybody says. I'll re
enlist and I will go back, and I would stand
under this man. I think there's a lot of military
veterans that have that mentality as well well.

Speaker 6 (36:53):
And I'll say this, Pete does not have the traditional
criterion that many DoD secretaries have of twenty thirty forty
years experience running massive, multi thousand, hundred thousand person organizations
and being dooda secretary is incredibly complicated, because talk about

(37:17):
like turning a battleship doesn't even begin that that analogy
is not even close to out complicated.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
It is.

Speaker 6 (37:23):
That being said, what Pete brings in addition to being
a combat veteran himself is he brings experience calling out
the ideological rot that that Barack Obama and Joe Biden
put into our military. And so I think Pete there's
a reason I drew the analogy between Pete and John Radcliffe,

(37:46):
which is I think both of them, the latter has
shown and I think the former will show a willingness
to take on the corruption that is damaging the institution
they've been sent to. That that courage, that clarity, that
is rare, and it's one of the reasons why I
think the Left is going to attack him and attack

(38:06):
him really hard.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Let me ask on another question about this, does this
mean that there's a real chance, and we haven't talked
about this in a few months, so I think it's
the perfect time to go back and really talk about this.
Is the reinstatement of men and women in our military
that were kicked out because they refuse to get vaccinated
with the Republican singer of the House, and that's official.

(38:30):
We haven't actually gotten to mention that on the show.
So let's just have that little moment of victory that
Republicans retain the House, we have, the Senate, we have
the presidency. Is there a chance that those men and
women that were kicked out of our military could actually
come back in Is that an issue you think will
come up in January?

Speaker 6 (38:49):
I hope and pray that it does. As you know, Ben,
I am the author of the legislation that ended the maxine,
the vaccine mandate in the military. The Biden administration had
thrown out thousands, if not tens of thousands of active
duty military members, and I drafted the legislation that Congress

(39:10):
passed into law that ended that COVID vaccine mandate. It
made sense, we got it done. I tried very very
hard to make the end of the vaccine mandate retroactive.
In other words, there were some ten thousand servicemen and
women who'd been thrown out. To say, look, if you're
no longer requiring it, you ought to let back in

(39:31):
the people you threw out, particularly when we've got a
shortage of servicemen and women.

Speaker 5 (39:36):
These are very experienced.

Speaker 6 (39:37):
In some cases, you're talking about seal team members, army rangers,
very experienced, highly trained military men and women who were
thrown out unceremoniously, in many instances, thrown out with a
less than honorable discharge, so they received less in terms
of pension and benefits. And I'll tell you when I've

(39:58):
fought for that, we have not been able to get
that legislation to pass. Every single Democrat, all of them,
voted no. They voted no, we're not going to allow
those who were thrown out of the military for not
getting the COVID vaccine back into the military, even though
today the military doesn't required anymore. And sadly, we had

(40:18):
two Republicans who also voted no, which was really frustrating.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
What was the reason behind that? Did they give it
the time? Because I don't remember.

Speaker 6 (40:26):
So the two Republicans were mitt Romney mit will be gone,
and then Mike rounds and I'm frustrated. I don't know
why I disagreed with it. I really was arguing forcefully.
I do have some real optimism going forward. We'll get
this fixed. I think with the Republican House and Senate,
I'm going to fight very hard to get that in

(40:47):
the next iteration of the NDAA. The NDAA is the
National Defense Authorization Act. I also am going to press
the Department of Defense if they can just to do
it unilatterally, I'm pretty sure sure they can. Although I
say this, I have not studied the legal questions, so
that is an instinct rather than the result of a

(41:07):
studied analysis. But when Pete is confirmed as Defense Secretary,
I'm going to urge Pete that he at the outset says,
if you've been discharged for failure to get this vaccine,
you were invited to be readmitted and returned to your
old rank and your year old old position.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Senator.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
There's an interesting and I want to get your take
on this because it went viral when it happened. Donald
Trump has selected Elon Musk and the Vick Ramaswami to
lead the Department of Government Efficiency. Now, I was asked
the question right after this broke on social media, Wait,

(41:47):
is that even an actual department of the US government or.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Is this made up? I laughed.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Wait, there's a lot of people that actually want to
know what is this doesn't exist?

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Is this something new?

Speaker 1 (42:00):
And how big of a deal it is that Donald
Trump picked the Tesla CEO and AX owner Elon Musk,
and an entrepreneur and former Republican President of CANDIDATEA vic
Ramuswati to lead this Department of quote Government Efficiency.

Speaker 6 (42:14):
Well, it is not currently a government agency. I don't
think it's an accident that Department of Governmental Efficiency spells
out Doge, since Elon is a very vocal supporter of
the doge coin cryptocurrency.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
I think that was quite deliberate.

Speaker 6 (42:32):
Listen, I'm very glad that Elon is going to play
a critical role in the administration focusing on making government
work more effectively and more efficiently. I'm glad Viveks too.
He's a very smart guy. I know them both very well.
I'll tell you I spent thirty minutes on the phone
with Elon this week talking about precisely this mission, how

(42:53):
you make government operate more effectively and Elon is dealing
right now with their There is a major difference between
government agencies and the private sector.

Speaker 5 (43:05):
There are lots of differences.

Speaker 6 (43:07):
And you know, one of the things I pointed out,
there's a fantastic economist man named Ludig von Misis, who
was one of the founding fathers of the Austrian School
of economics. Brilliant man wrote a lot of different things,
but he wrote a book called on Bureaucracy and von
Mesis and on Bureaucracy, what he argued is that inevitably

(43:30):
you have people who come from the private sector who
come into government and they say, we're going to make
government more efficient, We're going to make it operate like
a business. And von Mesis argued that is always, always,
always doomed to failure.

Speaker 5 (43:43):
And he explained why.

Speaker 6 (43:45):
He said, Listen, government lacks the essential element of any
private enterprise, and that is the profit motive and the
analogy he uses. He says, Okay, look, Ben, let's say
you have a private company. You have, say a barbecue
restaurant in Memphis. If you're running your barbecue restaurant in Memphis,

(44:08):
every single employee at the restaurant is motivated by the
profit incentive. If the janitor, the guy who is sweeping
up the spilled barbecue sauce in the restaurant, if he
comes to you and says, mister Ferguson, I've got an
idea that can reduce our costs by ten percent and

(44:31):
that can increase revenues by five percent. So my guess
is a ben you'd listen to him. You'd be like, okay,
I want to hear that idea. Yeah, my guess is
number two. If his idea was right, that guy ain't
going to be sweeping floors any longer. He is immediately
going to get a promotion because for him and everyone

(44:53):
else at the restaurant, the incentive is the profit motive
that that unifies the incentives of everyone in the private sector.
In contrast, and this is what von Misis argues in
on bureaucracy. In government, there is no profit motive, and
in fact, the incentives are precisely the obverse. Let's say
you're running a particular office and a government agency, and

(45:16):
you've got a million people who are receiving ten billion
dollars in benefits. Your incentives are not to reduce the
number of people receiving those benefits. Your incentives are not
to reduce the amount of benefits they're receiving. Instead, what

(45:37):
are your incentives in government? Your incentives and government are
to increase the one million people to a million, five
or two million. Your incentives are to increase the ten
million dollars in benefits to fifteen billion or twenty billion.
Your incentives are to take your say, thousand people that

(45:57):
work for you and increase it to two thousand, three thousand.
All of your incentives not only are they not aligned
on the profit motive, they are exactly the opposite of
the profit motive. So actually I recommended to Elon he
read the book. He did not know the book, and
we spent about thirty minutes talking about how do you
change this beast that is government. You're never going to

(46:19):
make it quickened in. But I also talked about the
fact that a huge problem with government is that you
cannot fire government employees. Generally speaking, there are civil service
protections in place that if you try to fire someone,
you have litigation. It's very difficult. And I pointed out
to Elon, look, when you went into Twitter, you fired

(46:40):
what sixty percent of the employees that is a flexibility
that you have and what it means. And I tried
to lay this out to him as well, So I said,
listen at Tesla's SpaceX. My guess is, you have very
very few employees who wake up every day with their
mission and life being too stop you to frustrate the

(47:02):
objectives of the company and to try to make them fail.
And if you did have any employees that were doing that,
you'd fire them because they work for you, and that'd
be it. In government, particularly with the deep state, there
are literally thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of deep
state employees who wake up every day with their objective,

(47:23):
their mission being to stop everything Donald Trump is trying
to accomplish. And so I'm really glad that Elon is
doing this, and I think Vivek is very smart.

Speaker 5 (47:34):
I think Vivek will add to that.

Speaker 6 (47:38):
We will get some good results out of it, but
it is going to be an incredibly important and incredibly
challenging endeavor. And I'll say Elon is as smart a
person as I have ever encountered.

Speaker 5 (47:51):
And look, I've been blessed.

Speaker 6 (47:53):
I've actually run in some circles where I've known some
freakishly smart people in including people like Chief Justice William
Renquist and Anton Scalia and and Elon is just another
level in terms of brilliant. So I'm excited to see
what he can do in this role. But it is
going to be I think his instinct is going to

(48:14):
be to break some China and and we'll see how
that plays out in the government world.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Yeah, in the government world is a key point there.
Let's talk about one of the most important appointments, and
that is Tom Homan. And there are so many conservatives
that voted for Donald Trump, some of the Americans that
voted for Donald Trump because they want to secure border.
He's the former Immigration and Custom Enforcement Director. He has
now been named Trump's Borders are tasked with cracking down

(48:43):
on immigration and overseeing the southern border the northern border
as well. And he said this on Fox yesterday.

Speaker 8 (48:52):
Look, I've seen I've seen some of these democratic governors.
So they're going to stand in the way, They're going
they're going to make a hard force. Well, you know
a suggestion, if you're not going to help us get
the hell on the way, when we're going to do it.
So if we can't get assistance from New York City,
and we may have to double the number raises we
send in New York.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
City because we're going to do the job. We're going
to do the job without here.

Speaker 8 (49:15):
Or with you.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
It's very clear Democrats are already gearing up to fight
against the government and deportations. He has said their number
one goal is what you and I mentioned on the show.
I think it was even before election day. They're going
to go after the criminals first. They're going to go
after the people that have already had due process and
have been told that they are to be deported from

(49:37):
this country. And again, this is where I love doing
the show. Let's remind listeners and arm you guys with
the facts. When you hear the left say it's inhumane
to deport people, do not forget Barack Obama deported more
than three million illegal immigrants while he was president. So
this idea that we are doing a million plus at

(49:59):
or allens that have been convicted of crimes that have
already had due process, don't fall for this, because remind
all of the people that say otherwise, Barack Obama deported
more than three million illegal immigrants when he was president.

Speaker 6 (50:14):
So Tom Homan is a serious guy. He cares passionately
about defending this nation, securing our borders. I am very
very happy that Trump has named him borders are.

Speaker 5 (50:24):
He also named.

Speaker 6 (50:25):
Christy Nome, the governor South Dakota, to be the Secretary
of the Department Homeland Security. Homan and Nome will work
hand in hand. I think that's going to be very effective.
Tom Homan understands the border, he understands what is what
it takes to secure the border, and I think he
is going to be the point person driving the agenda,

(50:45):
as I've predicted before. But I want people to hear this.
It's November. We are still facing an invasion at our
southern border. We are going to secure the border, and
it is not going to take a year. It's not
even going to take six months. It will be done
by January and February of next year. And in February, Ben,

(51:06):
I want you to play this clip back and either
we're going to say the results are in Cruz was right,
or hold me to account and say, Okay, it didn't happen.

Speaker 5 (51:16):
What went wrong? But either way, that's.

Speaker 6 (51:19):
My prediction, and I think Tom Homan is going to
be driving the effort to get that done. And I
also think Stephen Miller, is Deputy chief of Staff, will
be driving it alongside him. I'm very optimistic about what
we're going to get done on that front.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
And finally, when we're talking and there's more names are
going to come out, and we will continue to let
you know what we think about them and how exciting
this moment is. But there's one of your colleagues in
the Senate, someone you know very well. There was a
lot of people that were on the short list. I
say a lot, a lot that you and I knew
that were floated for the shortlist for Secretary of State.

(51:55):
I was paying very close attention to this one, as
I know you were. And the nominee is going to
be your colleague, the Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio.

Speaker 5 (52:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (52:06):
I think this is terrific. I think Marco is going
to do a good job. He has focused on foreign
policy quite a bit his entire time in the Senate.
Marco is smart, He cares about foreign policy. He cares
about standing up to communists, especially in Cuba. He cares
about standing up to communist in China. Marco is more
interventionist on foreign policy than I am. But that being said,

(52:31):
he cares deeply about it, and and and so I
think he is more interventionist on foreign policy than Trump is.
And at the end of the day, Trump is going
to make the decisions. But I think Marco is someone
who is diplomatic, He is articulate, he will be he
will be a very effective diplomat for America. I think
it's a great choice. I think it's a natural fit.

(52:51):
I will tell you so. So I sent Marco a
text tonight which I'll go ahead and and and and
read to you what I send him. I sent Mark
of the following text, Congrats, sir, a big damn deal.
You join an historic roster including John Jay Thomas, Jefferson,

(53:12):
John Marshall, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay,
Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, William Jennings, Bryan Charles Evans, Hughes,
Henry Stimpson, George Marshall, Dean Atchison, John Foster, Dulles, Dean Rusk,

(53:33):
Henry Kissinger, George Schultz, and James Baker. Truly rarefied air.
Every Cuban is deeply proud. And then I finished it
with and I'm confident at least that you'll kick the
ass of Hillary and John Kerry.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
Yeah, that low bar. But I couldn't agree with you
more on that one. Right, it's I have no idea,
I have no doubt. I should say that Marco was
gonna laugh when he reads that last part of the text.

Speaker 6 (54:04):
So he did laugh, and he responded, I will almost
never out my colleagues text, but I think Marco would
forgive me for this. His response was, he said, there
is hope for the Cuban Caucus and then he sends
me a story from Latin Times. Social media users launch
campaign to get Pitbull appointed to Marco Rubio's Senate seat.

(54:26):
Ron de Santas has only one choice, and I could
only respond to that senator.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
One other story is Donald Trump is getting his cabinet
together and making appointments. That has not gotten a lot
of attention.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Is the.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Take out the trash, everybody throwing everybody under the bus
in the Biden camp, the Harris camp. We find out
she blew through a billion dollars, she's upside down in debt.
They're begging for money with text messages to liberals saying
we need your help with accounting of the votes and
give money.

Speaker 3 (54:59):
Now.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
I wish I was joking, but I'm not, and I
don't know. Someone said eighteen twenty million upside down. And
then we found out where a lot of the donations
actually went. The donations were going to celebrities. Oprah's had
to come out after there was a million dollar check
given to her Quote production company for production of a

(55:20):
one day sit down interview that we many people saw
on TV with Oprah. It doesn't cost a million dollars
to produce that, but that was the price tag.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
And then we found out that there were a lot.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Of celebrities that were being paid to act like they
loved Kamala Harris. And there are some Democratic donors that
are livid right now over the price tag on this.

Speaker 6 (55:44):
You know, there's a terrific article in the Spectator World
entitled Kamala Harris ran the Fry Festival of Campaigns, and
it points out that Trump's campaign spent roughly four hundred
and eighty eight million dollars and Kamala spent more than
a billion, so she outspent Trump more than two to one.
And Kamala's campaign ended up twenty million dollars in debt. Well,

(56:09):
it turns out where did that money go. Well, one
of the things that went to is they paid many
of the quote unquote celebrities who supported her were getting
paid and getting paid significant sums. So for example, remember
the Call Me Daddy podcast. Yeah, Well, apparently the campaign

(56:30):
spent upwards of six figures to build a custom set
for her appearance on the podcast, and the podcast netted
only eight hundred thousand downloads, less than a million downloads. Look, Ben,
you and I we have roughly a million unique listeners.
If she wanted eight hundred thousand downloads, I'll tell you,
Kamala right now, even though you've lost Ben and I

(56:53):
will invite you on Verdict right now. We will welcome you.
We will not charge you to build a set, so
you can save all your money. And you paid Oprah
a million dollars for production costs, we will charge you
for production costs on Verdict. What do you think fifty bucks?

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Sure, I think that's a fair price.

Speaker 5 (57:11):
Fifty bucks.

Speaker 6 (57:12):
Fifty bucks will get you a very nice coffee cup
with some Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee. That's what we'll spend
the fifty bucks on. And you can reach the same
number of people, all right, By the way. She also
turned down Joe Rogan. So call me Daddy, got eight
hundred thousand downloads. How how many do you think Joe
Rogan's interview of Donald Trump got?

Speaker 2 (57:33):
Ah a lot more than that?

Speaker 5 (57:35):
Forty seven million?

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Wow, that's a lot.

Speaker 5 (57:39):
Okay, that's a lot.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
So there were also seven Swing state concerts with expensive performers,
and it turns out every one of them they got
a price. It is the world's oldest profession and they
are charging for it. So who are the performers that
got paid millions of dollars? Katie Perry, Lady Yaga, John

(58:01):
bon Jovi, Ricky Martin.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
Hold on, you're.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Telling me none of these people were like doing it
for free because they were all in for Kama.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
They wanted to get paid.

Speaker 6 (58:10):
Show me the money. They ended up spending more than
twenty million dollars on event production alone. Oprah, as you noted,
charged a million dollars, and they went so far into
debt that the campaign allegedly had to scrap Alnas Morisset.

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They were planning to do a lot of Moris set
and they said, no, okay, we can't afford her anymore.

Speaker 5 (58:34):
Nevermind.

Speaker 6 (58:35):
I mean it is truly stunning, and you've got to wonder, like,
I gotta say, I don't get paying millions of dollars
for celebrities to fake endorse someone she spent paid money to.

Speaker 5 (58:49):
What Beyonce.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
Let's go over the big ones.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
This is coming from Fox and I'm gonna play this
this audio.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Take a listen.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
This is again from Fox as they were going through
how much cash was spent.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
I can't get over these numbers.

Speaker 7 (59:05):
Ten million dollars for Beyonce to step up and back
Kamala Harris publicly, five million for Megan thee Stallion, three
million for Lizzo, one point eight million.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
For M and M mean is that those numbers are
unbelievable if you just look at them. And I was like,
hold on a second, And I went back and watched
that clip a couple of different times because you look
at them.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Ten million for Beyonce.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
If you're a donor and you wrote a big check
Meghan the Stallion five million, Lizzo three million and one
point eight million, I called on, I just raised all
this money for you, and this is how you spent it.

Speaker 6 (59:44):
Look, I gotta say I've run a bunch of campaigns.
I ran my first campaign for Senate in twenty twelve.
I ran my next campaign for president in twenty sixteen.
We won twelve states all over the country. I ran
my next campaign for Senate again in twenty eighteen, and
I just finished running my most recent campaign for Senate
reelect a third term in twenty twenty four. I can

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tell you, in the whole time, I've never paid any
one a million dollars for anything. I don't think we
paid any entertainers. I don't know of any entertainers we paid.
Maybe at some point we paid five or ten grand
for someone performing at some party. I'm not aware of it.
But I can tell you this. Look our stars now,
to be clear, the stars we have at our events

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are our international, supermodeled, global talents like Ben Ferguson.

Speaker 5 (01:00:37):
And I gotta tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
What that ten million dollar payday Once in my career,
I oh, yeah, beyond say yeah, yeah, I'm all in
for the cause, but I just need ten million to.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Make it happen.

Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
Okay, Ben, To be clear, we don't pay you ten dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
No, that's.

Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
Look.

Speaker 6 (01:00:52):
I'm a fiscal conservative, dammit. If you want to be
there and you believe in saving the country, stand up
and save the country, and if not, get the hell out.
But like, what what is it with these lefties who
ironically they want to put socialists in office, who make
it impossible for people to earn a living, and yet
they're such capitalists that they're like, show me the money

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to do it. I mean, there is an intense hypocrisy
on this.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
I believe this.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
And I'm not just saying this because this moment in
this headline, but I'm being dead serious. This could be
a huge problem for Democratic candidates moving forward, because when
you see this type of abuse of campaign finance money
from donors, those same donors, somebody's going to be asking
them for money.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
And four years or less than four years from now, and.

Speaker 6 (01:01:38):
I'm the next time Beto O'Rourke, Collin all Red jumps
on a stage with Willie Nelson, Everyone's going to ask
how much you pay him?

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
How much of my money that I gave you? Did
you just give him for that thirteen minutes of him singing?
It's a question.

Speaker 6 (01:01:58):
And it under the entire credibility that I'm here because
I love America so much and you've got to vote
for this candidate. Look, I'll give you an example in
the presidential race. So one of the cooler people that
I got to meet and spend time with was Phil Robertson,
you know from Duck Dynasty.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
Oh yeah, and he was a I mean massive back
in the day, like unbelievable star.

Speaker 5 (01:02:20):
Huge star.

Speaker 6 (01:02:21):
And so he invited me to Monroe, Louisiana to come
stay at his place. And I went out duck hunting
with Phil, which, by the way, ranks among the coolest
things I've ever gotten to do. And we went to
the duck blind. We're there at four in the morning. Look,
I like to hunt in Texas. I gotta be careful
about what I say because there's so many really serious
hunters that I can't overstate. I go hunting a couple

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times a year. I enjoy it, but I'm not someone
who like lives and breathes it. Phil in that duck blind,
I have never seen a person who is a better
shot with a shotgun. He would drop birds at a
distance that I wouldn't pick up my gun. They were
too far away. I'm like, yeah, the duck flies over here,
I'll shoot it, but I can't shoot it way over there.
And he would just boom and then the dogs would

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swim out and grab the duck and bring it back.
And Phil, I'll tell you so. So I went there
and spent the day when hunting with him. He recorded
an ad for our campaign that we put out. It
remains one of my favorite ads we've ever done. I'm
all like wearing camo grease pain and I'm in the
duck blind with Phil.

Speaker 5 (01:03:24):
It was really cool.

Speaker 6 (01:03:25):
But Phil, it was during the Iowa Caucuses and we asked, Phil,
will you come to Iowa on campaign with me? And Phil,
for something like forty years, had not missed a single
day of duck season. He'd been out there every single
day for four decades, and we'd invited him to come.

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And that morning he went to the blind at four
in the morning and he's sitting there in the blind,
and I guess you know, it weighed on his heart.
I can't do this today. I need to go fight
to save America. And Phil left the blind and he
went and hopped on a plane and he flew to
Iowa and he did a big rally with me in Iowa.
And I told him then, I'm like, Phil, I am
beyond humboldt that you missed the first day of duck

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season in forty years to be here in campaign alongside me. Now,
I didn't write them a damn check to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
I just said, if you gave him Beyonce money, you
know you're like, oh, and by the way, here's ten
million dollars.

Speaker 6 (01:04:26):
No. No, I just said, come help save America. And
it meant a lot like for him to miss it.
And that day we were literally touch and go. We
didn't know who's gonna come, but it meant a big
deal when he came. If you're paying Beyonce ten million dollars,
I mean, my good I mean goodness. Who would she
not endorse for ten million dollars? Don't forget this show.

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