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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Arry Show is on the air, especially turned around. Guys.
We are back, baby, we are back. We are back, plastic,
we are back.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yes, Look America.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Loved where we just take a look at at at
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old the federal agencies and say, do we really need
whatever it is? Four hundred and twenty eight federal agencies, Like,
there's so many that people will never know that half
of overlapping areas of responsibility.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
We should I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We should get I mean there are more federal agencies
than there are years since the established in the United States,
which means that we've created more than one federal agency
per year on average.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
That seems a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot.
So we should that seems crazy. I think we should
ailed to get away with ninety nine agencies. I don't know.
That seems a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Like a lot of agencies a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
I got a message to the mains of illegal as
that Joe Biden's released in our country in violation of
federal law.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You better start back and now.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
You damn right because you're going home. I got another message,
another message.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
To the criminal cartels in Mexico. You're smuggling of Fenton
Off across this country to kill one hundred and forty
eight thousand young Americans. You have killed more Americans and
every terrorist organization in the world combined. And math. When
President trumpet is back in office, he's going to designate
to a terrorist organization. He's going to wipe you off
the face of your You're done.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You're done.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
There's a chance to course correct it, but it would
take the new Trump administration going after it really hard.
How would they correct it? Well, first of all, you
got a fire. You know, you gotta fire the chairman,
Joint Chiefs, and you gotta fire this. I mean obviously
gonna bring in any Secretary Defense, but any general that
was involved, general, admiral, whatever, that was involved in any
of the DEI WOP, it's gotta go. Either you're in
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for war fighting that and that's it. That's the only
litmus tests we care about. You got to get deis
crtat of military academy so you're not training young officers
and to be baptized in this type of thinking. And
then you know, whatever the standards, whatever the combat standards
were saying.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I don't know nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Let's just make those the standards. And as far as
recruiting to hire the guy that you know did top
gun Maverick and create some real ads that motivate people
that want to serve.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
Trump is back, and I am thrilled about it, my goodness,
and mind thrilled about it. There are a lot of developments.
As you may have learned already about our show. I
do not typically talk about things as they happen because
I don't like to get it wrong. I'm not a
breaking news show, not a breaking news team. We like
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to have a moment and press and process the news.
We figure you can get the news sent to you
news updates from the Washington Post and the New York
Times and CBS, ABC, Fox and all the rest of them,
and then a day or two later you find out
that what you learned is not true.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It is how they massage the truth.
Speaker 8 (04:19):
So for us, we like to process that information and
add value to it with opinion and perspective. Today the
vote was held for the Senate Majority leader. This is
a very important position. This is to replace Mitch McConnell.
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And the fix was in, and the fix was McConnell
wanted John Cornyn, who is a Senator from Texas who
is a complete sellout. McConnell staged this thing right after
the election, so the wouldn't be time for the grass
roots to coalesce behind a candidate. So in very short order,
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the grassroots came together behind Rick Scott. There were two
establishment candidates running, and that was John Cornan, who was
mcconne's choice, and John Thune from South Dakota.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Cornyan, of course from Texas well.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
At the last minute there was this huge hue and
cry an attempt to organize for Rick Scott, but it
was too little, too late. The writing was already on
the wall. So these are the names of the Senators
who voted for Rick Scott of Florida. Now, between you
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and me, I don't think they really wanted Rick Scott
to I don't think all of them wanted Rick Scott
to win. Some of them flipped their vote at the
last minute to Rick Scott because as long as Cornin
didn't win a majority of the fifty three votes, remember
their fifty three Republicans. We're talking about being the leader
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of the Republicans, which of course makes you the leader
of the Senate since they're in the majority. So what
you needed was twenty seven votes. So as long as
neither Thun nor Cornyn could get to twenty seven votes,
you could vote on the first ballot because it's a
private ballot.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Remember, for Rick Scott, you could even come out and
endorse him. I really like Rick Scott.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
I want him to win, knowing good and well, he
wouldn't make it to the second round, so you get
all the credit with the bass. I'm for Rick Scott.
He's my kind of grassroots solid. And then he loses.
You go into the next round and you vote for
who you want to vote for, and that would of
course be John Thuhn. Thuon is better than Cornyn, but
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Rick Scott was the best of the three in the
grassroots wanted Rick Scott. So here is who is on
record for voting for Rick Scott, and you can do
with this what you want. Marshall Blackburn, Ted Cruz, Bill
Haggerty Ron Johnson, Mike Lee, Cynthia Loomis, Rand, Paul liul Marco,
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Eric Schmidt, Rick Scott, Cindy Hyde Smith, Tommy Tupperville, and JD.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Vance.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Trump was sending in treaties in a back channel, which
is why jd Vance was very clearly upfront with us
that they wanted Rick Scott.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
They could work better with Rick Scott.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
These senators do not want grassroots activists involved. Politico reported
earlier today that the Senate was very upset. Are we
already up against the break?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Gosh, dog, I got so much to get to.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
The new Majority leader will be John Thune of South Dakota,
Assistant Majority Leader John Barosso of Wyoming, Republican Conference Chair
Tom Cotton, who cut a deal from Arkansas, Republican Policy
Committee Chair Shelley Moore from West Virginia, Shelley Moore COPEDO
from West Virginia, Republican Conference Vice Chair James Lankford from Oklahoma,
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and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Tim Scott from South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Do with that what you will. The Michael Verie Show
continues to use to use. You know, it's crazy.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
I left out of here yesterday and I'm sitting at
home last night going over my notes to prepare for
this morning show. If you're new to the show, I
do a morning show and then an evening show. You're
getting the evening show, the morning show tends to focus
more on Texas and even some Houston focus. The evening
show is syndicated, so I tend to focus more on
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issues affecting the country, but with a little touch of
Texas flavor thrown in for good measure. So I realized
I didn't talk at all about Vivek and Elon and
the Department of Government Efficiency which with a good sense
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of humor, which Elon does. That was the push he
wanted for it, so that it would be d OGE,
which is doge, and you Bitcoin folks will know the
whole story behind that.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And Elon is loving this.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
He's already he's already announced that the merchandise for the
DOGE Department is going to be lit. They're having fun,
and the point is you can bring great change and
have fun. I saw a documentary on Mike Leach, one
of my heroes and wife, and said, you know, Leech
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not only succeeded, but he had fun. And it was
pointing out that Nick Saban didn't seem to have fun.
You know, Bill Belichick never seemed to be having fun.
And there's a time and place for everything. You know,
there's playing grab ass, there's not being serious when he
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needs to be serious, but you can be pleasant and
enjoyable while getting the job done. You know, you can
bring donuts and coffee into the whole office.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
And say, all right, guys are gonna work harder we
normally do. It can be fun. But what I love.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Here that Trump is doing is he is being fearless
and he's doing what he wants to do. You know,
it's like you've left home, you've graduated high school, you
left home, and you can stay up all night that
first night because nobody can make you go to bed.
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And it feels like he's doing doing what he wants
to do in such a way that he's committed to
fixing the problems and he's willing to try some new things.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Now, some of these guys are gonna be mistakes, some.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Of them are going to screw up, and the media
is going to be digging right now to find every
word they ever said.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Well, let me tell you something.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
Kamala Harris had Eminem at her events speaking on her behalf,
and that guy has said and done some of the
most awful things, so y'all, and they never had a
problem with that same thing with Megan the Stallion and
Cardi B and.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So whatever they say, just remember this.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
We can't stop them from saying it, but we can
control whether we care about it. Laugh in their faces.
Let's talk about some of these some of these appointments.
The Pete Hegseth for a Secretary of Defense is the
most excited I've ever been about a cabinet secretary appointment.
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Nomination has to be approved, ratified by the Senate.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
This is the most excited I've ever been.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
This is the most out of the box, fearless, brave,
visionary move. This guy was a major What's going to
be amazing here is he's going to be firing guys
who outranked him. He's going to be ruining the careers
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of guys that trample on our service members. And that
delights me. You know, what we're witnessing here is this country.
We have established that there are people and they are
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the establishment, and they're the people who are to be
trusted and respected and admired, and everyone is clamoring to
get into their ranks. First of all, the college educated.
If you have a college degree, you're college educated. You're
better than the peasants who don't have one. All Right,
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that's the first thing. Then we do graduate degrees, professional degrees, doctors, lawyers, architects, pharmacists.
You get the point. And then we've got our institutions.
So within the military, you've got your enlisted, which is
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again the peasant class, and then you've got your officers.
And amongst the officers you've got those who rise through
the ranks, and they're better than everyone else, and they
are your generals. And the more stars they have, the
more important they are. And most of them are blowhards.
And I will tell you that guys who rise to
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the top as generals are much like police chiefs of
major urban police departments. It's not that they were a
great police officer, it's that they're an ass kisser and
a game player. Everybody knows the type, the type who
weaseles their way to the top.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
See, you can't do that on the football team.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
If you're a quarterback who can't read defenses, elude defenders
trying to sack you, and put the ball where it
needs to be.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Then it doesn't matter.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
But within organizations like the military, like the police department,
you can move through the ranks when you're not actually
any good at the core activity of the organization. So
you get these generals with multiple stars, and by the way,
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to a man, they want wars because warriors are how
they bring glory to themselves.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It ain't them getting shot, it ain't their son.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Servant Pete Hegseeth a twenty year veteran, multiple Ivy League degrees.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
This guy is the real deal.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
And I believe he walks in on day one to
the Department of Defense as an advocate for the service member,
as an advocate for those who want war the uniform
are veterans and those who are currently wearing the uniform,
and not as part of the boys club of multi
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star generals who want to be driven around and betray us.
And the fact that Trump would do this, it's the
most populist move. It's the efficient see move. It's the gosh.
I sound like such a fanboy, and I realize it.
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The Senate in me says, hold your fire. Maybe I'm
setting the expectations too high, but for now, the Pete
Hagsath choice is the best choice of this entire administration
that Donald Trump has made, and the best choice of
any president in my life.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Though you've got dumb Michael Berry show.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
One thing you must understand is the Senate is as
corrupt and much as much a problem as the federal bureaucracy,
and in many ways more dangerous. The Republican senators, most
of whom were elected before we started the Tea Party
efforts in twenty ten, most of whom are folks who
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are creatures of the swamp. These guys are very, very devious.
They will smile in your face and stab you in
the back.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
What you must.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Understand is they do not share your values. The America
you foresee, the America you work toward, is not what
they want. They want a big, bloated government. Now why
would that be a US Senate in an America with
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the government half the size that it is would be
much less powerful. The bigger the government, the more money
that's spent, the more regulations, the more wars, The more
powerful they are. The more powerful they are, the bigger
the pay they get when they leave the Senate to
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go to work for the special interests. The more money
they can raise for their campaigns and for their packs,
the more jobs they can get in the private sector
with the special interests of the people who do business
with the government. You see the reason Obama carries over
two thousand pages. Is it does not apply equally, including
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to members of Congress. The reason the tax code is
a labyrinthing beast that makes a Dostoevsky novel look like
a short story is because the more complicated it is,
the more opportunities you have. When a special interest says, hey,
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can you just put in a little bitty subheading right
there that would say that this part of the task
Code does not apply if you have three employees from
South Dakota and eight from Oklahoma. And so you end
up seeing bills that are written and you go, you're
exempted from this law if you have six toes on
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your left foot. Well that's the weirdest thing. Why would
somebody write that. Turns out that guy's got six toes
on his left foot.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
So what they are doing.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
When people will say we just need to simplify things, well, yeah,
you and I know that. But if you get rich
off things being complicated, then you keep things complicated. That's
like saying to the drug cartels, hey, guys, we need
to not bring fentanyl in here and kill the American people,
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and they go, yeah, that's nice, Now get out because
we're going to kill you if you don't, because we're
getting rich off the fennol and we're getting rich off
the sex trafficking. People do not willingly consent to the
America we want, which is a small government, a lean government,
an official government, because they we are in on the
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con It's not just any efficiency. That is the reason
our government is bloated and overly powerful. Understand this, it's
not accidental. There are some things that they just dropped
the ball, sure, but most of it is an accumulation
of power. You look at what Fauci did. And by
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the way, we're going to talk about RFK in a minute.
I'm very, very excited about the opportunities for RFK. I've
told you who the Senate leadership team is.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Excited, if that's your question. I'm not even a little
bit excited. We did better than we could have done.
Thank god it's not John Cornyn. Texans united against John Cornyn.
The other senator from texass Ted Cruz, and he was
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very clear against cornn Cornyn had no grassroots support and
a little bird he tells me Trump does not like
nor trust Cornyn one bit.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
So the vote today was.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Not really not in any way, a ringing endorsement of
John Thune. It was an ABC anybody but Cornyn, and
it really was anybody but Cornyn. Today was a loss
for Mitch McConnell. But as always happens with the turtle,
he's still you know, you might kick him out of
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the apartment. He hadn't paid rent on in ten years,
but he's still going to steal the fixtures off the
wall as he's walking out the door. He wanted to
make sure it was Thuon instead of Scott. We wanted
Scott McConnell, and the Swamp wanted Cornyon. Is somewhere in
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the middle as a compromise candidate to Corning, but not
what we wanted. Now there's a lot of tweets out
there and things that he said about Donald Trump in
twenty sixteen. That doesn't necessarily mean he's going to be
terrible because I wasn't for Trump in twenty sixteen either.
I was a Ted Cruz guy, and I didn't think
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that Trump would be that would turn out to be
the leader he's turned out to be. I did not
believe that, and I don't deny that. I'm not ashamed
of it. It is possible that Thune has seen the
riding on the wall for what's good for this country
and that he will do the right thing.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
It's possible.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
It's possible I might walk outside and start flapping my
arms and all of a sudden take flight, but not likely,
not likely. The question will be how hard Thune will
work behind the scenes to undercut Trump. And I'm going
to tell you you are a major part of the
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extent to which he does that. Your efforts, I feel
certain your efforts kept.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
John Cornyn from being the Senate majority leader.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
I had been told from very, very, very well placed
sources that Corning had this.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
It was his, it was locked, it.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Was snatched away from him, and it was snatched away
from what Mitch McConnell wanted to happen. And that's a win,
you know, folks, I want to say this and I
want you to hear me on this. I know it
feels like we never win, because sometimes our win is
just defeating the Democrats. We don't get a Trump win
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in the national popular vote. We don't get that very often.
That's why it felt so good, That's why we're so giddy.
But I want you to understand, we do have wins.
I spoke to these mommies that have taken over the
Conroe ISD Conroe's a community about an hour north of Houston.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Seven women have all been.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Elected to the school board, all MAGA Republicans of a
school district just outside of Houston, an urban school, I mean,
a big city school. It's exactly we are winning things
for We've got to keep the momential. But take heart,
we are winning.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Michael Berry the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
So there is a there's a tweet that John Thune
from Sandy, from South Dakota posted November eighth of twenty sixteen,
and he said Donald Trump should withdraw and Mike Pence
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should be our nominee effective immediately. Now that does not
sit well with Trump supporters, as you might imagine that
is that is not being well received. I am not
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going to endorse John Thune and tell you that he's
going to be a good partner for Donald Trump, because
I don't know that to be true, and I think
his temptations will be two grand I spent a lot
of time today talking through in communications with people. Why
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wouldn't he just do what Trump asked him to do.
Trump just won in a big way, And the answer
is this, It's not as simple as it looks. Remember
when I told you again and again that naivete is
what is our biggest problem. You keep thinking that John
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Thune is out for what's best for this country, and
you keep thinking that John Thune sees the power in
this country to be based in your consent, in your votes.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Neither of those is true.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
Almost every person in government would allow this country to
burn to the ground if it benefited them personally.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
And you've got to understand that.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Until you can understand that, then you're never going to
understand why they do what they do.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Remember, they're not like you, and you're not like them.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
This is like you're studying a whole different species from
your own. So, first of all, they're not out to
do what's best for the country. And number two, they
do not perceive you as their boss. Our constitution does,
but they do not. They perceive that you are a
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constant nuisance. They love being senators. You have no idea
what a great life it is. You have no idea.
They are daily told by staffers of their own choosing
how smart they are, how clever they are. They're daily
being honored in their home state. They're being begged to
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be fitted. You know, please come back to whatever state
and come to this little town and bestow your glory
on us by being here. And they have a whole
staff of people, schedulers and allso no, we can't do it,
then we can do it.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Will come there.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
They're introduced as if they're the greatest person in the
history of mankind. Truth is, for ninety of them, nobody
in the country knows who they are. I could read
you some of the names and you'd go and if
I gave you the name of them or a professional
baseball player, you wouldn't know which was, well, the professor,
you'd know because if it was, if it sounded Dominican,
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you know, as a professional baseball player. But nobody knows
whose people are but within their own little club. And
you will often hear the Senate referred to as a
as a clubby atmosphere. One thing you need to know,
it's not Republicans versus Democrats.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Throw that out.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
It is us versus them, and they view it as
them versus us. You are the enemy. They don't want
you to know that, and they typically won't say it
unless you catch them. When they get mad. Arlen Spector
said it on.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Their way out.
Speaker 8 (29:01):
They'll say it, but what ends up happening is once
they're out the door, then they're free to say and do.
Paul Ryan, Oh, people thought I never liked Paul Ryan,
never trusted him. Paul Ryan leadership position Republican Party in
the House. The minute he got out, he starts cashing
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in and doing everything he could to keep the corporate
media and government from having to listen to you. You
annoy them. You don't know as much as they do.
You're you're you're simple minded. You are full of biases
and cravings and opinions, and none of it matters. You're
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all out there just Dan Crenshaw says this all the time.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
You're all just idiots.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
You're listening to those talk show hosts and these people
firing you up.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
But none of it is true. That's what they believe.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
They believe that only they who are meeting with the
heads of the companies that are writing in the checks,
only they understand why the big businesses need to be
bailed out. Only they need to Only they understand why
they have to take your money and send it to
Hamas and send it to Ukraine only that you don't understand.
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You can't understand how the real world works. You're just
down there pulling a paycheck. You don't grasp the important
things that they are doing.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
That's how these people look at this.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
That is absolutely how these people look at this. All right,
That's all I have to say about the Senate. Time
will tell a lot of people have come around on Trump.
There are people that were very close to Trump in
sixteen that now hate him, Michael Cohen, for instance. And
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there are people like me who did not like him
or worked against him and are now big supporters. Kelly
and Conway is another one of those. She was on
the cruise team.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
So one thing about Trump.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
Is he will turn on someone who was a friend
if he feels that person is no longer loyal. But
the flip side of that, he will make friends with
former enemies if he feels some good can be done.
It's very transactional. He's very mission focused. So I can't
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tell you whether to like or not like the John
Thune choice. I'm certainly not going to put my credibility
behind him because I know what really drives him to
the extent that it is in his own personal best
interests to go along with Trump. If and when that
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is the case, he will do it. And that's all
you can expect. But do not be naive. Do not
believe that he in any way is a public servant
out to do not believe that he respects the results
of the Trump election. That's not how these people work.
They will work behind the scenes. And you're still gonna
have John Corning in there, wezling around, knifing people in
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the back and out to get you because.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Now he's got a vendetta.
Speaker 8 (32:30):
You kept him from having his powerful position which he's
so desperately wanted to wield his power, because that's what
these people do.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
That's what these people do.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
I don't like the Marco Rubio choice at State, but hey,
the President chose him there again, somebody he was very
much at odds with. I'll tell you why coming up
and we'll talk about well, just boy, this is a
heavy newsday.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Arry Show is on the air, especially turned around. Guys.
We are back, baby, we are back. We are back, plastic,
we are back.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yes, Look America.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Loved where we just take a look at at at
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old the federal agencies and say, do we really need
whatever it is? Four hundred and twenty eight federal agencies, Like,
there's so many that people will never know that half
of overlapping areas of responsibility.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
We should I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We should get I mean there are more federal agencies
than there are years since the established in the United States,
which means that we've created more than one federal agency
per year on average.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
That seems a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot.
So we should that seems crazy. I think we should
ailed to get away with ninety nine agencies. I don't know.
That seems a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Like a lot of agencies a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
I got a message to the mains of illegal as
that Joe Biden's released in our country in violation of
federal law.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You better start back and now.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
You damn right because you're going home. I got another message,
another message.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
To the criminal cartels in Mexico. You're smuggling of Fenton
Off across this country to kill one hundred and forty
eight thousand young Americans. You have killed more Americans and
every terrorist organization in the world combined. And math. When
President trumpet is back in office, he's going to designate
to a terrorist organization. He's going to wipe you off
the face of your You're done.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You're done.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
There's a chance to course correct it, but it would
take the new Trump administration going after it really hard.
How would they correct it? Well, first of all, you
got a fire. You know, you gotta fire the chairman,
Joint Chiefs, and you gotta fire this. I mean obviously
gonna bring in any Secretary Defense, but any general that
was involved, general, admiral, whatever, that was involved in any
of the DEI WOP, it's gotta go. Either you're in
(03:07):
for war fighting that and that's it. That's the only
litmus tests we care about. You got to get deis
crtat of military academy so you're not training young officers
and to be baptized in this type of thinking. And
then you know, whatever the standards, whatever the combat standards
were saying.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I don't know nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Let's just make those the standards. And as far as
recruiting to hire the guy that you know did top
gun Maverick and create some real ads that motivate people
that want to serve.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
Trump is back, and I am thrilled about it, my goodness,
and mind thrilled about it. There are a lot of developments.
As you may have learned already about our show. I
do not typically talk about things as they happen because
I don't like to get it wrong. I'm not a
breaking news show, not a breaking news team. We like
(04:02):
to have a moment and press and process the news.
We figure you can get the news sent to you
news updates from the Washington Post and the New York
Times and CBS, ABC, Fox and all the rest of them,
and then a day or two later you find out
that what you learned is not true.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It is how they massage the truth.
Speaker 8 (04:19):
So for us, we like to process that information and
add value to it with opinion and perspective. Today the
vote was held for the Senate Majority leader. This is
a very important position. This is to replace Mitch McConnell.
(04:42):
And the fix was in, and the fix was McConnell
wanted John Cornyn, who is a Senator from Texas who
is a complete sellout. McConnell staged this thing right after
the election, so the wouldn't be time for the grass
roots to coalesce behind a candidate. So in very short order,
(05:07):
the grassroots came together behind Rick Scott. There were two
establishment candidates running, and that was John Cornan, who was
mcconne's choice, and John Thune from South Dakota.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Cornyan, of course from Texas well.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
At the last minute there was this huge hue and
cry an attempt to organize for Rick Scott, but it
was too little, too late. The writing was already on
the wall. So these are the names of the Senators
who voted for Rick Scott of Florida. Now, between you
(05:47):
and me, I don't think they really wanted Rick Scott
to I don't think all of them wanted Rick Scott
to win. Some of them flipped their vote at the
last minute to Rick Scott because as long as Cornin
didn't win a majority of the fifty three votes, remember
their fifty three Republicans. We're talking about being the leader
(06:09):
of the Republicans, which of course makes you the leader
of the Senate since they're in the majority. So what
you needed was twenty seven votes. So as long as
neither Thun nor Cornyn could get to twenty seven votes,
you could vote on the first ballot because it's a
private ballot.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Remember, for Rick Scott, you could even come out and
endorse him. I really like Rick Scott.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
I want him to win, knowing good and well, he
wouldn't make it to the second round, so you get
all the credit with the bass. I'm for Rick Scott.
He's my kind of grassroots solid. And then he loses.
You go into the next round and you vote for
who you want to vote for, and that would of
course be John Thuhn. Thuon is better than Cornyn, but
(06:52):
Rick Scott was the best of the three in the
grassroots wanted Rick Scott. So here is who is on
record for voting for Rick Scott, and you can do
with this what you want. Marshall Blackburn, Ted Cruz, Bill
Haggerty Ron Johnson, Mike Lee, Cynthia Loomis, Rand, Paul liul Marco,
(07:12):
Eric Schmidt, Rick Scott, Cindy Hyde Smith, Tommy Tupperville, and JD.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Vance.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Trump was sending in treaties in a back channel, which
is why jd Vance was very clearly upfront with us
that they wanted Rick Scott.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
They could work better with Rick Scott.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
These senators do not want grassroots activists involved. Politico reported
earlier today that the Senate was very upset. Are we
already up against the break?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Gosh, dog, I got so much to get to.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
The new Majority leader will be John Thune of South Dakota,
Assistant Majority Leader John Barosso of Wyoming, Republican Conference Chair
Tom Cotton, who cut a deal from Arkansas, Republican Policy
Committee Chair Shelley Moore from West Virginia, Shelley Moore COPEDO
from West Virginia, Republican Conference Vice Chair James Lankford from Oklahoma,
(08:13):
and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Tim Scott from South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Do with that what you will. The Michael Verie Show
continues to use to use. You know, it's crazy.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
I left out of here yesterday and I'm sitting at
home last night going over my notes to prepare for
this morning show. If you're new to the show, I
do a morning show and then an evening show. You're
getting the evening show, the morning show tends to focus
more on Texas and even some Houston focus. The evening
show is syndicated, so I tend to focus more on
(08:55):
issues affecting the country, but with a little touch of
Texas flavor thrown in for good measure. So I realized
I didn't talk at all about Vivek and Elon and
the Department of Government Efficiency which with a good sense
(09:22):
of humor, which Elon does. That was the push he
wanted for it, so that it would be d OGE,
which is doge, and you Bitcoin folks will know the
whole story behind that.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And Elon is loving this.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
He's already he's already announced that the merchandise for the
DOGE Department is going to be lit. They're having fun,
and the point is you can bring great change and
have fun. I saw a documentary on Mike Leach, one
of my heroes and wife, and said, you know, Leech
(09:57):
not only succeeded, but he had fun. And it was
pointing out that Nick Saban didn't seem to have fun.
You know, Bill Belichick never seemed to be having fun.
And there's a time and place for everything. You know,
there's playing grab ass, there's not being serious when he
(10:20):
needs to be serious, but you can be pleasant and
enjoyable while getting the job done. You know, you can
bring donuts and coffee into the whole office.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
And say, all right, guys are gonna work harder we
normally do. It can be fun. But what I love.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Here that Trump is doing is he is being fearless
and he's doing what he wants to do. You know,
it's like you've left home, you've graduated high school, you
left home, and you can stay up all night that
first night because nobody can make you go to bed.
(10:58):
And it feels like he's doing doing what he wants
to do in such a way that he's committed to
fixing the problems and he's willing to try some new things.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Now, some of these guys are gonna be mistakes, some.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Of them are going to screw up, and the media
is going to be digging right now to find every
word they ever said.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Well, let me tell you something.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
Kamala Harris had Eminem at her events speaking on her behalf,
and that guy has said and done some of the
most awful things, so y'all, and they never had a
problem with that same thing with Megan the Stallion and
Cardi B and.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So whatever they say, just remember this.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
We can't stop them from saying it, but we can
control whether we care about it. Laugh in their faces.
Let's talk about some of these some of these appointments.
The Pete Hegseth for a Secretary of Defense is the
most excited I've ever been about a cabinet secretary appointment.
(12:13):
Nomination has to be approved, ratified by the Senate.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
This is the most excited I've ever been.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
This is the most out of the box, fearless, brave,
visionary move. This guy was a major What's going to
be amazing here is he's going to be firing guys
who outranked him. He's going to be ruining the careers
(12:43):
of guys that trample on our service members. And that
delights me. You know, what we're witnessing here is this country.
We have established that there are people and they are
(13:05):
the establishment, and they're the people who are to be
trusted and respected and admired, and everyone is clamoring to
get into their ranks. First of all, the college educated.
If you have a college degree, you're college educated. You're
better than the peasants who don't have one. All Right,
(13:26):
that's the first thing. Then we do graduate degrees, professional degrees, doctors, lawyers, architects, pharmacists.
You get the point. And then we've got our institutions.
So within the military, you've got your enlisted, which is
(13:46):
again the peasant class, and then you've got your officers.
And amongst the officers you've got those who rise through
the ranks, and they're better than everyone else, and they
are your generals. And the more stars they have, the
more important they are. And most of them are blowhards.
And I will tell you that guys who rise to
(14:09):
the top as generals are much like police chiefs of
major urban police departments. It's not that they were a
great police officer, it's that they're an ass kisser and
a game player. Everybody knows the type, the type who
weaseles their way to the top.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
See, you can't do that on the football team.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
If you're a quarterback who can't read defenses, elude defenders
trying to sack you, and put the ball where it
needs to be.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Then it doesn't matter.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
But within organizations like the military, like the police department,
you can move through the ranks when you're not actually
any good at the core activity of the organization. So
you get these generals with multiple stars, and by the way,
(15:06):
to a man, they want wars because warriors are how
they bring glory to themselves.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It ain't them getting shot, it ain't their son.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Servant Pete Hegseeth a twenty year veteran, multiple Ivy League degrees.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
This guy is the real deal.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
And I believe he walks in on day one to
the Department of Defense as an advocate for the service member,
as an advocate for those who want war the uniform
are veterans and those who are currently wearing the uniform,
and not as part of the boys club of multi
(15:48):
star generals who want to be driven around and betray us.
And the fact that Trump would do this, it's the
most populist move. It's the efficient see move. It's the gosh.
I sound like such a fanboy, and I realize it.
(16:09):
The Senate in me says, hold your fire. Maybe I'm
setting the expectations too high, but for now, the Pete
Hagsath choice is the best choice of this entire administration
that Donald Trump has made, and the best choice of
any president in my life.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Though you've got dumb Michael Berry show.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
One thing you must understand is the Senate is as
corrupt and much as much a problem as the federal bureaucracy,
and in many ways more dangerous. The Republican senators, most
of whom were elected before we started the Tea Party
efforts in twenty ten, most of whom are folks who
(17:00):
are creatures of the swamp. These guys are very, very devious.
They will smile in your face and stab you in
the back.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
What you must.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Understand is they do not share your values. The America
you foresee, the America you work toward, is not what
they want. They want a big, bloated government. Now why
would that be a US Senate in an America with
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the government half the size that it is would be
much less powerful. The bigger the government, the more money
that's spent, the more regulations, the more wars, The more
powerful they are. The more powerful they are, the bigger
the pay they get when they leave the Senate to
(17:56):
go to work for the special interests. The more money
they can raise for their campaigns and for their packs,
the more jobs they can get in the private sector
with the special interests of the people who do business
with the government. You see the reason Obama carries over
two thousand pages. Is it does not apply equally, including
(18:17):
to members of Congress. The reason the tax code is
a labyrinthing beast that makes a Dostoevsky novel look like
a short story is because the more complicated it is,
the more opportunities you have. When a special interest says, hey,
(18:40):
can you just put in a little bitty subheading right
there that would say that this part of the task
Code does not apply if you have three employees from
South Dakota and eight from Oklahoma. And so you end
up seeing bills that are written and you go, you're
exempted from this law if you have six toes on
(19:04):
your left foot. Well that's the weirdest thing. Why would
somebody write that. Turns out that guy's got six toes
on his left foot.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
So what they are doing.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
When people will say we just need to simplify things, well, yeah,
you and I know that. But if you get rich
off things being complicated, then you keep things complicated. That's
like saying to the drug cartels, hey, guys, we need
to not bring fentanyl in here and kill the American people,
(19:39):
and they go, yeah, that's nice, Now get out because
we're going to kill you if you don't, because we're
getting rich off the fennol and we're getting rich off
the sex trafficking. People do not willingly consent to the
America we want, which is a small government, a lean government,
an official government, because they we are in on the
(20:01):
con It's not just any efficiency. That is the reason
our government is bloated and overly powerful. Understand this, it's
not accidental. There are some things that they just dropped
the ball, sure, but most of it is an accumulation
of power. You look at what Fauci did. And by
(20:25):
the way, we're going to talk about RFK in a minute.
I'm very, very excited about the opportunities for RFK. I've
told you who the Senate leadership team is.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Excited, if that's your question. I'm not even a little
bit excited. We did better than we could have done.
Thank god it's not John Cornyn. Texans united against John Cornyn.
The other senator from texass Ted Cruz, and he was
(21:03):
very clear against cornn Cornyn had no grassroots support and
a little bird he tells me Trump does not like
nor trust Cornyn one bit.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
So the vote today was.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Not really not in any way, a ringing endorsement of
John Thune. It was an ABC anybody but Cornyn, and
it really was anybody but Cornyn. Today was a loss
for Mitch McConnell. But as always happens with the turtle,
he's still you know, you might kick him out of
(21:39):
the apartment. He hadn't paid rent on in ten years,
but he's still going to steal the fixtures off the
wall as he's walking out the door. He wanted to
make sure it was Thuon instead of Scott. We wanted
Scott McConnell, and the Swamp wanted Cornyon. Is somewhere in
(22:00):
the middle as a compromise candidate to Corning, but not
what we wanted. Now there's a lot of tweets out
there and things that he said about Donald Trump in
twenty sixteen. That doesn't necessarily mean he's going to be
terrible because I wasn't for Trump in twenty sixteen either.
I was a Ted Cruz guy, and I didn't think
(22:22):
that Trump would be that would turn out to be
the leader he's turned out to be. I did not
believe that, and I don't deny that. I'm not ashamed
of it. It is possible that Thune has seen the
riding on the wall for what's good for this country
and that he will do the right thing.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
It's possible.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
It's possible I might walk outside and start flapping my
arms and all of a sudden take flight, but not likely,
not likely. The question will be how hard Thune will
work behind the scenes to undercut Trump. And I'm going
to tell you you are a major part of the
(23:04):
extent to which he does that. Your efforts, I feel
certain your efforts kept.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
John Cornyn from being the Senate majority leader.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
I had been told from very, very, very well placed
sources that Corning had this.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
It was his, it was locked, it.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Was snatched away from him, and it was snatched away
from what Mitch McConnell wanted to happen. And that's a win,
you know, folks, I want to say this and I
want you to hear me on this. I know it
feels like we never win, because sometimes our win is
just defeating the Democrats. We don't get a Trump win
(23:51):
in the national popular vote. We don't get that very often.
That's why it felt so good, That's why we're so giddy.
But I want you to understand, we do have wins.
I spoke to these mommies that have taken over the
Conroe ISD Conroe's a community about an hour north of Houston.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Seven women have all been.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Elected to the school board, all MAGA Republicans of a
school district just outside of Houston, an urban school, I mean,
a big city school. It's exactly we are winning things
for We've got to keep the momential. But take heart,
we are winning.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Michael Berry the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
So there is a there's a tweet that John Thune
from Sandy, from South Dakota posted November eighth of twenty sixteen,
and he said Donald Trump should withdraw and Mike Pence
(24:56):
should be our nominee effective immediately. Now that does not
sit well with Trump supporters, as you might imagine that
is that is not being well received. I am not
(25:19):
going to endorse John Thune and tell you that he's
going to be a good partner for Donald Trump, because
I don't know that to be true, and I think
his temptations will be two grand I spent a lot
of time today talking through in communications with people. Why
(25:48):
wouldn't he just do what Trump asked him to do.
Trump just won in a big way, And the answer
is this, It's not as simple as it looks. Remember
when I told you again and again that naivete is
what is our biggest problem. You keep thinking that John
(26:13):
Thune is out for what's best for this country, and
you keep thinking that John Thune sees the power in
this country to be based in your consent, in your votes.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Neither of those is true.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
Almost every person in government would allow this country to
burn to the ground if it benefited them personally.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
And you've got to understand that.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Until you can understand that, then you're never going to
understand why they do what they do.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Remember, they're not like you, and you're not like them.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
This is like you're studying a whole different species from
your own. So, first of all, they're not out to
do what's best for the country. And number two, they
do not perceive you as their boss. Our constitution does,
but they do not. They perceive that you are a
(27:18):
constant nuisance. They love being senators. You have no idea
what a great life it is. You have no idea.
They are daily told by staffers of their own choosing
how smart they are, how clever they are. They're daily
being honored in their home state. They're being begged to
(27:43):
be fitted. You know, please come back to whatever state
and come to this little town and bestow your glory
on us by being here. And they have a whole
staff of people, schedulers and allso no, we can't do it,
then we can do it.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Will come there.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
They're introduced as if they're the greatest person in the
history of mankind. Truth is, for ninety of them, nobody
in the country knows who they are. I could read
you some of the names and you'd go and if
I gave you the name of them or a professional
baseball player, you wouldn't know which was, well, the professor,
you'd know because if it was, if it sounded Dominican,
(28:22):
you know, as a professional baseball player. But nobody knows
whose people are but within their own little club. And
you will often hear the Senate referred to as a
as a clubby atmosphere. One thing you need to know,
it's not Republicans versus Democrats.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Throw that out.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
It is us versus them, and they view it as
them versus us. You are the enemy. They don't want
you to know that, and they typically won't say it
unless you catch them. When they get mad. Arlen Spector
said it on.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Their way out.
Speaker 8 (29:01):
They'll say it, but what ends up happening is once
they're out the door, then they're free to say and do.
Paul Ryan, Oh, people thought I never liked Paul Ryan,
never trusted him. Paul Ryan leadership position Republican Party in
the House. The minute he got out, he starts cashing
(29:21):
in and doing everything he could to keep the corporate
media and government from having to listen to you. You
annoy them. You don't know as much as they do.
You're you're you're simple minded. You are full of biases
and cravings and opinions, and none of it matters. You're
(29:47):
all out there just Dan Crenshaw says this all the time.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
You're all just idiots.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
You're listening to those talk show hosts and these people
firing you up.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
But none of it is true. That's what they believe.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
They believe that only they who are meeting with the
heads of the companies that are writing in the checks,
only they understand why the big businesses need to be
bailed out. Only they need to Only they understand why
they have to take your money and send it to
Hamas and send it to Ukraine only that you don't understand.
(30:24):
You can't understand how the real world works. You're just
down there pulling a paycheck. You don't grasp the important
things that they are doing.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
That's how these people look at this.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
That is absolutely how these people look at this. All right,
That's all I have to say about the Senate. Time
will tell a lot of people have come around on Trump.
There are people that were very close to Trump in
sixteen that now hate him, Michael Cohen, for instance. And
(31:02):
there are people like me who did not like him
or worked against him and are now big supporters. Kelly
and Conway is another one of those. She was on
the cruise team.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
So one thing about Trump.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
Is he will turn on someone who was a friend
if he feels that person is no longer loyal. But
the flip side of that, he will make friends with
former enemies if he feels some good can be done.
It's very transactional. He's very mission focused. So I can't
(31:41):
tell you whether to like or not like the John
Thune choice. I'm certainly not going to put my credibility
behind him because I know what really drives him to
the extent that it is in his own personal best
interests to go along with Trump. If and when that
(32:03):
is the case, he will do it. And that's all
you can expect. But do not be naive. Do not
believe that he in any way is a public servant
out to do not believe that he respects the results
of the Trump election. That's not how these people work.
They will work behind the scenes. And you're still gonna
have John Corning in there, wezling around, knifing people in
(32:26):
the back and out to get you because.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Now he's got a vendetta.
Speaker 8 (32:30):
You kept him from having his powerful position which he's
so desperately wanted to wield his power, because that's what
these people do.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
That's what these people do.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
I don't like the Marco Rubio choice at State, but hey,
the President chose him there again, somebody he was very
much at odds with. I'll tell you why coming up
and we'll talk about well, just boy, this is a
heavy newsday.
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