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December 20, 2025 42 mins

Republicans may be in line for a brutal midterm loss that could snowball into future elections. Jesse Kelly catches up with a GOP strategist about this, as well as a GOP Senator.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
All right, before we get to the new information, honestly
amazing information about the January sixth pipe bomber that just
came out, let's do a little background and kind of
build up to it, shall we. Stuff we've talked about before.
So a couple of things, A couple of things we
have to understand first. In the Soviet Union, they had

(00:31):
a secret police apparatus and it took various names. You
would probably know it as the KGB, but when Stalin
was using it, it was the NKVD. Before that, it
was the Checkout whatever. They had had a secret police apparatus,
and this apparatus was not used to chase down drug
dealers and murderers and rapists. It was used to chase

(00:55):
down any political opposition or potential political opposition to the
communists in power. In China, Mao had a cultural revolution.
He mobilized millions of young people in the country. He
didn't mobilize them to hunt down and beat up and
murder rapists and murderers and thieves. He mobilized them to

(01:18):
hunt down his political opposition. I could talk to you
about Polepot, I could talk to you about the Stazi
in East Germany. I could go on and on and
on and on and on. But you understand, the Communist
has always and will always desired to use the power
of the state against his domestic political opposition. He thinks

(01:42):
about it all the time. When you think about things
like the military or the FBI, which we're going to
get to in a moment, you probably think about the
military defending America, defeating our foreign adversaries, things like that.
The communist doesn't think about that at all. It doesn't
consider that at all. He sees all those tanks, all
those guns, all those bombs, and he thinks, ooh, how

(02:04):
could I use that against Republicans? He does. I know
that's hard to hear, but he does. And the FBI specifically,
which we're gonna get to here. The Communists doesn't look
at the FBI and what it should do the way
you do. When you look at the FBI, and I
know you don't need any more help to hate the FBI,
I'm sure you probably want them to hunt down drug

(02:26):
dealers and murders and serial killers and take down the
mob and things like that. The Communists doesn't care about
any of those things. Thirty five thousand FBI agents, all
that power all those badges, all those guns. What does
he want them to do. He wants them to hunt
down the political opponents of the communists, arrest them, destroy

(02:49):
their lives. That's what he wants. That's why Democrats have
spent years, the past couple decades filling the FBI with
committed communists. They wanted the FBI to go a new direction.
Now that brings us to the Biden administration. You are
well aware of January sixth, at least you're well aware

(03:10):
of the basic facts of it. Now, let's pause on
that for a moment. You've heard of the Right Stag fire.
We've talked about this before. The Right Stag was the
Congress in Hitler's Germany Congress. You see, Hitler had taken power,
but he didn't have complete power, and there were still
opposing parties chirping at him, opposing things he wanted to do.

(03:34):
Congress burnt down. One night. German citizens woke up and
picked up the newspaper and Congress burnt down. Oh WHOA?
What to do? What to do? Immediately Hitler pounced on it.
Whether they did it or not, knowing, we'll ever really know.
Immediately Hitler pounced on it and used it to send

(03:56):
the secret police of the state against his domestic political opposition,
hunted them down, arrested them, killed them, and just like that,
he had total power. Whatever you believe about January sixth democrats,
Democrats thought about it like their Reichstag fire. I know

(04:17):
you think they're upset about it, and I know your
stupid liberal and pegy is upset about it. But I
promise you this, every communist in Washington, d C. Was
thrilled about it. When they saw the tear gas, when
they saw the anarchy that day, the busted out windows,
they stood back and cheered because they knew it would
give them the opportunity to do what they lay in

(04:37):
bed dreaming about, sending the state after you. Here was
Meyrick Garland and Christopher Ray.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
That attack, that siege was criminal behavior, plain and simple,
and his behavior that we the FBI view as domestic terrorism.
It's got no place in our democracy, and tolerating it
would make a mockery of our nation's rule of law.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
The Justice Department will hold all January six perpetrators at
any level accountable under the law, whether they were present
that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault
on our democracy.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Did you know that the Federal Bureau of Investigation did
this cell phone go locating thing and the FBI was
knocking on the doors of anybody who was even there
that day. Did you think you had to hit a
police officer or kick in the door. Oh no, no, no,
no no. The FBI came and paid you a visit

(05:38):
if you were even present that day. Over a thousand arrests,
and if Biden had been reelected, the DC attorney promised
there would be over a thousand more hunting down innocent,
crime free people, sometimes for nothing, sometimes for misdemeanors, and

(05:58):
slapping terrorists charges on them, and the FBI did it.
And speaking of the FBI, it is weird how well
January sixth worked out for Democrats, isn't it weird? Isn't
it weird? How convenient that was? Which begs the question
how involved was the FBI that day. I'm not sure

(06:22):
that I can give you that number.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
As I said here, I'm not sure there were undercover
agents on scene.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
I find that kind of a remarkable statement.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Director.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
At this point, you don't know whether they were undercover
federal agents, FBI agents in the crowd, or in the
Capitol on January sixth.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
I say that because I want to be very careful.
There have been a number of court filings related to
some of these topics, and I want to make sure
that I stick with him what's in.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
I understand that. But I just I thought I heard
you say you didn't know whether there were FBI agents
or in performance or human sources in the capital or
in the vicinity on January sixth? Did I misunderstand you?
I thought that's what you said.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
I referred very specifically to undercover agents.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, and so are you acknowledging then there were undercover agents?

Speaker 2 (07:16):
As I said here right now, I do not believe
there were undercover agents on sea.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Oh the lawyers speak, it's all in an effort to
avoid perjury. Well, I don't believe. I'm not sure, but
you know what that means, they were already there. Now
we'll set aside what I believe about that day. As
you know, I believe the federal government did that day.
I believe they had Feds all over the crowd instigating

(07:44):
that thing, trying to make it happen. So of course
they could arrest you and arrest me if they wanted.
But you know what a huge part of that day
was huge part of the narrative, the pipe bombs. Don't
you remember it? It added an extra level of spice
to the whole story, didn't it. See It's one thing
for things to get a little rowdy on the steps

(08:05):
of the Capitol. It's another thing entirely to have bombs.
Thank god they didn't go off. Where were the bombs?
I heard Kamala Harris was close to one. Oh my gosh.
They were at the DNC, at the R and C.
There was a bomber. And then we had that video
the picture you're looking at right now, we've actually seen him.
He's in a mask. Here's a bomber out there. It

(08:26):
added spice to it, didn't it. Well, we now have
the guy in our hands, and the communists are lying
about who he is in their line really really hard
about that. Here was CNN.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
And what we've learned is that among the statements that
he has made is that he believed the twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Election was stolen. And so that.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
Appears to be the first statement that has been made
in this case that might give an indication of a
motive of why he may have placed these bombs in
those locations.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
It comes from a family of Democrats, bail bonds, things
like that. Why are they trying so hard? Why are
they trying so hard to lie? Oh, it's not just
one show either, show after show after show. They're all
out there creating the world of make believe for your
liberal and Peggy telling her this, you believe what he says.

Speaker 6 (09:26):
Maybe he put a bomb at the DNC because he
was he believed the Democrats stole the election because Republicans
and conspiracies, theorists pushed that, and he put the bomb
at the RNC because the vice president was about to
be sworn in was going to ride by.

Speaker 7 (09:43):
That area.

Speaker 6 (09:43):
There are many scenarios that the prosecution will have to
play out this case.

Speaker 8 (09:47):
I'm just gonna I'm gonna say.

Speaker 6 (09:49):
The thing out loud that I think everyone is not
saying and is actually surprised, and why I think Juannainne
Piero is actually saying it. I think the fact that
this man is a black man was surprising to people.
I think people thought this going to be a white
man that did this. They were going to be able
to say he was a part of the progressive left,
and the fact that there's a black man that is
saying I too, was susceptible to conspiracy theorists that the
president and conservative podcasts were pushing that this election was stolen.

(10:14):
Is a fact that they were not expecting. And now
everyone is on their heels and they're trying to spin it.
And I think that might be also why you think,
let's not believe his actual story right.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Now, he's trying to get more impossible. I mean, setting
aside all the gross stuff, why are they working so
hard to maintain the narrative that this guy was a
Trump supporter putting bombs out there. Well, now for the
new Information Court filings reveal that Biden, Christopher Ray's FBI

(10:46):
knew who this guy was in April of twenty twenty one,
and let's just skip past all the obvious. Of course
they knew who this guy was. This moron had his
cell phone in his pocket while he was played the
pipe bombs. As soon as you walk around with your
cell phone, whatever you do with it, they can just
go back and track where you were and what you

(11:06):
were doing. Of course they knew who he was. Now
that's weird when you combine that with this twenty twenty
three statement from Christopher Ray about, hey, we got no clue.

Speaker 9 (11:19):
Okay, so you were able to arrest hundreds of individuals
who are allowed into the capital, walked around, took selfies,
but we can't find the individual who committed the most
dangerous crime and attempted to cause multiple mash casualty events
at the Capitol or around.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
The Capitol conntion.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
We have an entire dedicated team focused specifically on this investigation.
We've done thousands of interviews, visited that again, just in
the pipe bomb investigation, got thousands of interviews, visited thousands
of residents and businesses, reviewed millions of pieces of data.
There's something like thirty nine thousand video files. We've assessed
like five hundred or something tips. We've done extensive public publicity,

(12:00):
We've increased in the reward money. We've got our lab
working on it. We've got our WMD Directorate working on it.
We've got our Office of Technology Division, our Sellar Analysis team.
So the folks that we have working on this investigation
are working very aggressively on it, and I as much
as anybody would like to see, it's all.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Even has the cellular analysis team thousands of interviews. We've
turned over every rock. Nothing we can do. Let's just
skip right past it. All the kid gets here. They
knew exactly who we was, and the FBI chose to
cover it up and ignore it because the discovery that

(12:46):
the pipe bomber was a Leftist would have destroyed the narrative,
the narrative the communists were using to throw your grandmother
in prison. The FBI is an evil organization that cannot
possibly be reformed. And by the way, as I say that,
all the credit in the world to Dan Bongino, who

(13:07):
walked in, opened up the files and said, well, obviously
we know who the freaking guy is, and they went
and arrested him. Nevertheless, the FBI can no longer exist
in any form, or they will. As I've told you
before many times under the Biden administration, I believe the
FBI will cause a civil war in this country. They will.
They will destroy so many lives and so many lives.

(13:29):
Eventually you'll see states join against them, rise up. It's
going to be a disaster. This organization has to go away,
and I distinctly remember being promised before the election that
it would go away. I was told it would be
broken up sent out of DC, and all that seems
to have gone away. All that may have made you uncomfortable,

(13:50):
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Speaker 4 (15:01):
Well, the president does have the proverbial bully pulpit being
the president.

Speaker 10 (15:05):
And he can continue to say and accuse you of
attaining US citizenship illegally. How do you respond to that.
I mean, everybody knows I came to the United States
at the age of twelve, gained my citizenship at the
age of seventeen, and I am an elected representative in
the House of Congress, and so the House of Representatives

(15:28):
in Congress, and so for me, you know, I look
at it as a display of his ignorance, and I
see it as a national embarrassment that he continues to
say those kind of things even though he does know
what the truth is.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
I didn't hear it, Denial. Maybe the coach did. Joining me. Now,
Coach Tommy Tuberville's senator from the state of Alabama. But
apparently he's moving on and moving up and he's going
to be the governor soon. All right, Senator, I heard
a lat of thing. Sorry, coach, please don't chew me out.
It's right before Christmas. I heard when she got here.
I heard that she's elected to the House. But I
did not hear the nile coach.

Speaker 11 (16:08):
Now she's not going to deny. She knows she was wrong.
And with all the things that are stirred up now
back in her state, with all the somalions, with all
the fraud and stealing taxpayers money. We're talking billions, somebody
needs to pay the price and it needs to go
down to her because she knew something was going on.
She might not have been behind it, but she was

(16:31):
either neglecting the problem or for years promoting it. So
at the end of the day, you know, we got
huge problems with the Muslim community now Jesse. There are
some good ones here, but I will say this, if
we have good people in this country that are Muslim
that are going by our laws and constitution, not going
by sher real law, they need to help us with

(16:52):
people like Eleanne Omar. Help get them out of this
country because they're a cancer.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Coach. From what I understand, you're working on that problem
from the Senate, not that I'm hopeful the other dorks
in the Senate will help you with it. But what
are you trying to do.

Speaker 11 (17:09):
Well, We're just trying to bring out and speak out
about something that, as you just said, not very popular
up here to talk about publicly. But you know, look
at Europe, it was not very popular to talk about
public there. Now Europe, most of the countries there are gone,
and they've lost their streets, they've lost their neighborhoods, and

(17:29):
they're gonna have to fight in the streets to get
their country back. And that doesn't need to happen here.
So I'm going to speak out. I'm gonna try to
encourage other people to speak out. Let's talk the truth.
Let's tell people what's going on. If we don't do it,
you know, we're gonna pay the price. And next year, Jesse,
we got three hundred and sixty five days of celebration
all over the country for two hundred and fiftieth birthday.

(17:51):
We have the Olympics coming, we have the World Cup coming,
we have college football, pro football people everywhere, and just
look what happened in Australia is coming to a theater
near you. We had better prepared. I don't know whether
we have enough security because Joe Biden, Barack Obama allowed
all these people to come here and it is a

(18:12):
absolute mess.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Coach, can you help me understand something? I really help
everybody understand something. What you just said about Europe is
obvious to anybody who even half pays attention, and it
saddens me. I don't cheer for that. It's awful now
that the Islamist have taken over Europe, they're basically screwed
without the civil war conditions, which is the worst thing
in the world, and we're watching it happen here, and
yet most Republicans are at least enough Republicans in DC

(18:40):
don't feel the need to get on board with your
efforts to help. Why what am I missing? What are
they afraid of? I don't understand? Can you help me understand?

Speaker 11 (18:51):
Well, again, it goes back to people afraid to lose
a vote. I guess I don't get involved in people's business.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
I just speak.

Speaker 11 (18:59):
How I leave that senators and leaders of our country
should speak, speak out against the evils that are coming
across our borders. Our number one job up here, Jesse
is to make sure that the people in this country
are safe, and we're doing a very poor job of it.
I accolades out to Pete Hexith and Marco Rubio. They're

(19:21):
doing a great job taking it to the cartel and
the Narco terrorists. But that's about it. I mean, at
the end of the day, President Trump has put out
a pretty much a memo saying, Hey, we have got
to save this country, and they ran on it for
this election, and we need to get behind him, and

(19:41):
we need to support him and quit worrying about your
own damn election.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Speaking of President Trump and narco terrorists, here's what he
said about fentanyl today.

Speaker 12 (19:52):
I'm taking one more step to protect Americans from the
scourge of deadly fentandol flooding into our country with this
historic executive order I will sign today. We're formerly classifying
fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which is what
it is. No bomb does what this is doing. Two

(20:12):
hundred to three hundred thousand people die every year that
we know. So we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon
of mass destruction.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, coach, that has to mean something. Meaning that almost
sounds like a set up to me, called me suspicious.
President announces there's a press conference tomorrow night at nine
pm Eastern time. About forty eight hours before that, he
classifieds ventanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. Should I
be reading something into that? I did go to community college.

Speaker 11 (20:46):
Well, I think you're going to start seeing a bigger
push even from the White House. President Trump is trying
to solve all these problems around the world, and sometimes
you didn't want to step on the toes of people
that might have some lunch. But I think he's about
had it. Also, if you go back and look what
happened at Australia last week, the two young people that

(21:06):
got killed up in Brown University, uh, the two people
from Iowa that will come back to Dover Air Force
Base tomorrow. The National Guard people two National Guard people
killed in in in Washington, d C. It is out
of control and politicians are responsible for it. Not President Trump.
The politicians in DC are responsible for this, and we

(21:27):
better start talking about it. But we're more worried more
about healthcare, which we should be. But we can we
can uh do uh. We can uh play play ball
at the same time and do other things, but for
some reason, we don't do that up here.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Coach, I have to ask before you go. You're running
for governor in the state of Alabama. Obviously the state
of Alabama's pretty pleased with you. They keep sending you
to the Senate, but it's got to be uncomfortable for
you in Tuscaloosa, right, You've got to get heckled. You're
the Auburn football coach.

Speaker 11 (21:59):
Well, I've been to some games over there. It's been
quite a while since I was at Auburn, what about
fifteen years, so a lot of people have forgotten about it.
But I just love football.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
I love sports.

Speaker 11 (22:09):
And you know we Alabama's playing in the playoffs this
week and it's not Auburn, but it's Alabama, so it's
it's we're represented, I put it that way. But a
big week for college sports this week, but this on Ao,
you know, we need to get on that one day, Jesse.
It is killing killing our sports, college sports right and left.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
It's unfortunate. How do you rate it in coach? Because
it's everyone knows why it happened, right, we got too
far one way, but now it's so far the other way.
It's worse than the NFL. Now you can't keep a
player more than a year. It's freaking terrible.

Speaker 11 (22:41):
Yeah, well, you know this is supposed to be about education,
so you shouldn't be able to sell your talents to
another team every year. There's some players that have transferred
four or five times and have gotten up to seven
years of eligibility.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
I mean, you can't.

Speaker 11 (22:54):
You can't even come close to get an education. We've
got to put some restrictions on the transfer portal. I'm
all for them making money. Cats out of the bag,
so be it. Go and make all the money you
want to make. But we can't let allow them just
to jump up and run for another fifteen twenty thousand dollars,
whether they liked the coach or didn't like the school,
or I think they can get a little bit more
money at another school. It's way out of control.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
That is, coach. I appreciate you having Merry Christmas here.
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(24:28):
All right, so in a few minutes, we're gonna interview
Katie Zachariah, and I'll tell you right now, she's pretty
somber on how we're looking for the midterms and potentially
twenty twenty eight. So whether or not that happens, we
have to assume we're approaching a time where we might
lose power power in Washington, DC. We know how evil

(24:51):
the communists are. We remember it was an ancient history.
We remember how they operated under Joe Biden, arresting, murdering
their political opponents. Everything had to be gay. It was
the worst friggin thing in the world. And we know,
you know, I know they'll do worse next time. They're
not sorry, they're not regretful. They think they didn't bring

(25:11):
in enough illegals last time. So that's what we're facing
if the Communists come back to power. So what I'm
about to say, I want you to know that's that's
where I'm coming from when I say what I'm about
to say. We have to operate with a level of seriousness,
am viciousness. We have to be intelligent with how we're

(25:33):
fighting right now. We can't afford mistakes. It was a
story yesterday. I'm just gonna touch on it just for
a minute. Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair communist magazine. Vanity Fair
puts out a nasty hit piece on Susie Wiles' White

(25:55):
House chief of staff. It's not just a hit piece
on Susie Wiles. They stooped so low as to find
the worst picture of Caroline Levitt ever and published it.
I mean, they just did everybody dirty in the whole thing. Okay,
they're communists, that's what they do. Susie Wils sat down

(26:18):
with Vanity Fair for eleven straight days. Eleven days. We
gave eleven days to Vanity Fair, giving them all the
ammunition they need to create a twenty four hour news cycle,
of course taking words out of context, and of course

(26:40):
they did. Of course they would lieing about everything. This
is unacceptable. We don't have time for this. The urgency
needs to be there. We don't have time for Washington
people to fall in love with the lot of maybe

(27:01):
getting a lovely article in the New York Times or
Vanity Fair about themselves. And that's exactly what happens. They
get out on the campaign trio and they talk to you,
and they talk to me, and they're gonna fight the system,
and they're gonna drain the swamp, and they're gonna do
all these things. And then they get to Washington, DC
and they just can't help themselves. The sirens song of

(27:22):
maybe getting a nice piece and Vanity Fair, you can
show your mother. It's too much, and soon we're getting
blasted for it. It's not the end of the world,
yesterday's news. It's not the end of the world, but
it is indicative that maybe we're not operating with the
level of seriousness and urgency we should. When the Communists

(27:44):
come back to power, they're going to do everything they
can to make sure we never have another shot at it.
That's how nasty and demonic these people are you think
they arrested a lot of Republicans last time. I think
they destroyed a lot of people in the Trump administration time,
including attempts to destroy Trump himself. Last time was the appetizer.

(28:06):
Last time was the cheddar Bay biscuits before Red Lobster
brings you the main course. We have to be better,
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Speaker 13 (29:31):
As for the Vanity Fair article, Michael, take your question directly.
This is, unfortunately another example of disingenuous reporting where you
have a reporter who took the chief of staff's words
wildly out of context, did not include the context those
conversations were had within. And then further, I think the
most egregious part of this article was the bias of

(29:53):
omission that was clearly present. And we see a lot
of this when dealing with the media every day. You
will leave out important context, leave out comments in facts.
You know many people in this building spoke with that
reporter in those comments were never included in the story,
probably because it didn't push this false narrative of chaos

(30:13):
and confusion that the reporter was clearly trying to push.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Joining me now, Katie Zachariah, legal and political strategist Katie,
I think very highly of Caroline Levitt. I think she's
super sharp, thinks she's excellent at her job. She deals
with the media every day. Susy Wilds deals with the
media every single day. How can you be so dumb
to sit down with them for eleven days and think
you're gonna get any other result than the one you got.
That's my problem with the whole thing.

Speaker 7 (30:41):
I agree with you. I love President Trump. On the
campaign trail, he used this poem called the Snake, and
it was used in the context of immigration and illegal immigration,
where this woman lets in this snake from the cold,
and she warms it up and eventually the snake bites.

Speaker 8 (31:01):
Her and kills her. But why is this the biggest.

Speaker 7 (31:05):
Analogy in my mind to an interview eleven interviews with
Vanity Fair. They have basically decided to deny what a
snake is and invite the snake into their home, the
White House, and expect the snake to not have snake
like traits, to not turn around and bite them when

(31:25):
it is beneficial.

Speaker 8 (31:26):
So I'm completely with you.

Speaker 7 (31:28):
I think they might have set out with the right
intent that they wanted to present a nicer, more beautiful
look of the White House, but they're dealing with a
snake that's always going to be a snake. And eventually,
what does the snake say At the end of President
Trump's poem, Oh, shut up, silly woman, said the reptile
with a grin. You knew damn well, I was a
snake before you took me in. And in my mind,

(31:52):
this is the exact equivalent of Vanity Fair.

Speaker 8 (31:55):
Vanity Fair for the last.

Speaker 7 (31:56):
Ten or eleven or twelve years has done nothing but
hit pieces and been vile to President Trump. Why in
twenty twenty five are we thinking that this is any different, Jesse,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
By the way, my wife would one hundred percent take
a snake in. I know she would. She'd be like,
it's sick, use something. I know she would do that,
all right. It's part of the problem, Katie, that even
if you have the right intention you get to DC,
whether you're a senator in the White House, you still
want that puff piece in the New York Times. You
can't help yourself. You want CBS to give you a
glowing profile. You want Vanity Fair to make your eyes

(32:34):
look pretty. It's just it's like they can't. It's like
the sirens. They can't stay away from them.

Speaker 8 (32:40):
Right.

Speaker 7 (32:40):
I think it's exactly what you're saying. People are drawn
to this, except when you're outside of DC. It's so
easy to look at Vanity Fair, Vogue, all these different
journals in different newspapers and see for what it is.
But then you get there and they lure this bright,
shiny object in front of you. We want to do
a nice puff piece.

Speaker 8 (32:59):
We want to look at me. You look good.

Speaker 7 (33:00):
But they're never gonna change. They're never gonna change. And
this is part of the problem. It's is it the
chicken or the egg? Are they feeding off of people's
egos to continue making them look good and bolster them
in the media. What if all this went away, What
if we just focused on it doesn't even have to
be all right wing media, but fair and balanced media

(33:20):
that's somewhat center taking, taking kind of this.

Speaker 8 (33:23):
Middle of the road.

Speaker 7 (33:24):
No, they still go to the far left, the Washington Post,
the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and they want.

Speaker 8 (33:29):
This nice article. It's never gonna happen.

Speaker 7 (33:32):
It's never gonna happen until you get rid of the
leadership at these different journals Washington Post, for instance.

Speaker 8 (33:37):
These types of these types of hit pieces.

Speaker 7 (33:39):
Are forever more going to occur until they decide to
get rid of all of the people running it.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Jesse, Katie, the steaks are obviously high. Everyone remembers how
the Communists operated under Joe Biden for four years, and
for them, that was just wetting their whistle. That was
just an appetizer. What's going to happen if we lose
the House of Representatives at the midterms.

Speaker 7 (34:03):
Have been so so clear on this, Jesse. We will
lose first. I'll go on the long game. We will
lose the twenty eight presidential the Republicans. It is my
opinion that if we do not keep the House, President
Trump will be suffering under all of the Hakeeen Jeffreys
impeachment inquiries and we will be on the complete defense
for the final two years of President Trump's term. We

(34:26):
won't get nothing done, nothing accomplished. We're already not getting
anything accomplished. In my mind, there is so much the
House and Senate could be doing. There's so much that
they could be implementing, and they are just slow rolling
every single thing. So what happens when the Democrats regain majority.
Nancy Pelosi was just on an interview with USA today

(34:46):
and she was asked, are you confident that we're going
that the Democrats will be able to take the majority,
and she said, I'm not confident, I am sure of it.
I am sure we're going to take it. It's only
three seats that's necessary. And while she's a little bit
island these days, I actually agree unless the Republicans really
change the trajectory and what they're doing. The Miami mayoral

(35:08):
race was a bellweather for me that the Republican we
lost a stronghold, a Republican strongholder, a Republican was mayor
for thirty years, while it's a nonpartisan office we all
know it is, and we lost to a Democrat. And
I think this is a key indication that this was
the one that the Republican that lost was Trump backed
and we.

Speaker 8 (35:28):
Still lost it in Florida of all places.

Speaker 7 (35:30):
And so if the Republicans don't get serious and I
mean extremely serious about healthcare overhaul, Speaker Johnson just said
he was going to implement all of the presidents or
many of the President's executive orders.

Speaker 8 (35:45):
Why are we waiting so long to do all of this, Jesse.

Speaker 7 (35:48):
We have a very short amount of time to start
accomplishing all this, and it just seems like they're dragging
their feet and resisting the president at every step of
the way. So what happens in twenty six I don't
I think it's looking good for the Republicans right now.
I really don't. And then long long game, it doesn't
look good for twenty eight presidential.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Katie. I know it seems nonsensical, but do Republicans want
to be in the minority, then you don't have to
actually do anything. You don't have to have any courage
at all. You could just sit there and whine and
complain and send out fundraising texts to you and me
send me twenty dollars. But I feel like they want
to be in the minority.

Speaker 8 (36:29):
It feels that way.

Speaker 7 (36:30):
It feels they we have this golden opportunity, right we
work so hard, I work so hard, and they work
so hard, allegedly to get President Trump back in office
after four years of the disaster of Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris, and we beat Kamala and we beat her
really well. However, we're not taking advantage of this time
that we have in office. So do Republicans want to

(36:52):
be in the minority? You make a great point. They're
not fighting like they want to be in the majority.
What does that look like. I know that nuking the
filibuster can be controversial. It has its downsides, it has
its upsides. If the Democrats were in power and they
knew that twenty six midterms were looming and they were
going to likely lose, and then that then had an

(37:14):
indication that they would likely lose the presidency, they would
be doing everything in their power to be ramming through
their agenda. And yet Republicans want to talk about blue
slip courtesy and not nuking the filibuster because it could
come back and honesus Jesse. If they don't pass voter
ID proof of citizenship under the Save Act, Republicans will

(37:36):
likely not win for a very long time if we
don't have a regulation on our election. So I don't
know why they want to be so weak in the need.
I honestly, it don't.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Handy. What is this blue slip blue slip stuff? Can
you explain it to stupid people like me? Because Trump
is super hot on it and he's angry with Republicans
about it. What does this mean?

Speaker 8 (37:58):
So?

Speaker 7 (37:59):
The Energy d Ishary Committee, which is led by Chuck Grassley,
right now. Is the blue slip existed about since nineteen seventeen,
and what it is is it gives the home state senator.
So let's use let's use Alena Habba's case for example.
So President Trump nominated his former attorney, Alena Habba to

(38:20):
be the US Attorney in New Jersey.

Speaker 8 (38:23):
And what is the blue slip? So the blue slip gives.

Speaker 7 (38:25):
Andy Kim and Corey Booker, the two Home senators from
New Jersey, the ability to basically say, eh, we don't
want Alena to be in office and submit that to
Chuck Grassley. And then Aleena Habba does not get an
opportunity to even go through a full Senate hearing, a
full Senate committee hearing and nomination process. She just gets

(38:47):
overridden by the two Home state senators. And again this
is not codified in any Senatorial rules. There is no
there is no framework for this except tradition and policy.
And it existed at a time when you could where
or partisan politics even twenty years ago, we're not so

(39:08):
so hell bent on blocking anything against President Trump did, or.

Speaker 8 (39:12):
A Republican or Democrat did.

Speaker 7 (39:14):
They could actually maybe get through some Republicans in a
blue state or Democrats in a red state. But we
don't live in that time anymore, Jesse. Where where in
California you're going to have these Adam Schiff override a
US attorney appointment by President Trump or or Corey Booker
for Alena Haba. And so it's outdated.

Speaker 8 (39:34):
In my mind.

Speaker 7 (39:35):
It really look you look at two different processes. You
look at US attorneys which kind of fall under the
DOJ and the president's executive authority and his Article two powers,
and then you look at the judges the deed that
right now it's just specifically district court judges actually grassly
kind of moved it over to circuit court judges where

(39:56):
you could go through a full confirmation process and not
the blue slips, but district court judges still go under
the blue slit process. And I look at the infringement
on his ability to actually execute criminal justice proceedings, which
is under his Article two powers and under the DOJ.
And we have two active grand jury indictments for Coomi

(40:20):
and Letitia James sitting in Virginia, and a US attorney.

Speaker 8 (40:25):
That they will not approve that.

Speaker 7 (40:27):
The two Home senators in Virginia have said, we're not
going to approve Lindsay Halligan, and so we can't actually
execute on these two standing grand jury indictments because we
don't have a prosecutor. So they're using this tradition to
block the president's ability to execute on criminal justice reform,
criminal justice and prosecutorial duties, which is an extension of

(40:50):
his executive power. So whether it can build to this,
does he have a viable case or a viable lawsuit.
All I will say is it infringes on him his
Article I powers for appointments and then execution powers on prosecutions.
And that is a dangerous place when we have people
like Comy and James that need to be held accountable.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Jesse, gosh, we are so freaking screwed. Katie. You have
a merry Christmas, all right, jeez, all right, it is

(41:32):
time to lighten the mood in It's Christmas time. It's
a wonderful, wonderful time of year. And I'll tell you
something that I at least attempt to teach my sons
that remember Christmas is about giving things, not getting things.
My son said the other day was last week something
like that. It's a dad I pay I think I
figure out what I want for Christmas, And I said,

(41:53):
have you figured out what you want to give for Christmas?
Christmas is about giving things, give wonderful things to people.
And you're sitting here watching. I'm right, you have options.
I feel obligated to give to give you a wonderful
Christmas present. So from us here and I'm right in

(42:13):
the first, we're Christmas. That's wonderful. Let's see them all
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