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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 officially turned around.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We are back, baby, We are back. We are back, Plastic,
We are back. Look at America, Love.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Guests, where we just take a look at at at
old the federal agencies and say, do we really need
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whatever it is four hundred and twenty eight federal agencies,
because there's so many that people will never know.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
And that half overlapping areas of responsibility. We should I
don't know, 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.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
That's a lot, so we should have that seems crazy.
I think we should be able to get away with
ninety nine agencies.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
That seems to a lot, like a lot of agencies
a lot.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
I got a message to the mains of illegal as
that Joe Biden's releasing our country in violation of federal law.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You better start back and now you're damn right because
you're going home.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
I got another message, another message to the criminal cartels
in Mexico. You're smuggling a fan 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 Trunk gets back in office,
he's going to designate to a terrorist organization. He's gonna
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wipe you off the face of your You're done.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
You're done.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
There's a chance to course correct it, but it would
take the new Trump administration going after it really hard.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
How would they correct it? Well, first of all, you
gotta fire, you know, you gotta fire the chairman, Joint chiefs,
and you gotta fire this.
Speaker 8 (02:57):
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 for war fighting that and that's it.
That's the only litmus tests we care about. You got
to get DEI and Cercata 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
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the combat standards were saying, I don't know nineteen ninety five.
Let's just make those 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 2 (03:41):
Trump is back, and I am thrilled.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
About it, My goodness, and I 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. I'm not
a breaking news team. We like to have a moment
and press and process the news. We figure you can
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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 3 (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's
a complete sellout. McConnell staged this thing right after the election,
so there wouldn't be time for the grass roots to
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coalesce behind a candidate. So in very short order, the
grassroots came together behind Rick Scott. There were two establishment
candidates running, and that was John Cornan, who was mcconnel's choice,
and John Thune from South Dakota.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Cornan, of course from Texas well. At the last.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
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 and me, I
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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 Cornyn didn't win a
majority of the fifty three votes, remember their fifty three Republicans.
We're talking about being the leader of the Republicans, which
of course makes you the leader of the Senate since
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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 3 (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. Thun 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 3 (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 3 (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? Gosh, oh, I got so
much to get to. The new Majority leader will be
John Thune of South Dakota, Assistant Majority Leader John Barosso
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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, 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 3 (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 an evening show, the morning show tends to focus
more on Texas and.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Even some Houston focus.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
The evening show is syndicated, so I tend to focus
more on 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
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Elon and the Department of Government Efficiency which with a
good sense 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
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know the whole story behind that.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And Elon is loving this.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
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 ond 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 and say,
all right, guys, we're gonna work harder and we normally do.
It can be fun. But what I love here that
Trump is doing is he is being fearless and he's
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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. And it
feels like he's doing doing what he wants to do
in such a way that he's committed to fixing the
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problems and he's willing to try some new things. Now,
some of these guys are gonna be mistakes, some 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 3 (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 3 (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 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You get the point. And then we've got our institutions.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
So within the military, you've got your enlisted, which is
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.
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And I will tell you that guys who rise to
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 3 (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, then it doesn't matter. But within organizations
like the military, like the police department, you can move
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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, to a man,
they want wars because warriors are how they bring glory
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to themselves. It ain't them getting shot, it ain't their son.
Servant Pete Hegseth a twenty year veteran, multiple Ivy League degrees.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
This guy is the real deal.
Speaker 3 (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 wants 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. Though you've got dumb Michael
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Berry show. 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
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the Tea Party efforts in twenty ten, most of whom
are folks who are creatures of the swamp. These guys
are very, very devious. They will smile in your face
and stab you in the back. What you must understand
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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 the government
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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 go to work
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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 the members of Congress.
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The reason the tax code is a labyrinth thing beast
that makes a Dostoevsky novel look like a short story
is because the more complicated it is, the more opportunities
you have.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
When a special interest says, hey, can you.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
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 your left foot.
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Well that's the weirdest thing. Why would somebody write that.
Turns out that guy's got six toes on.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
His left foot. So what they are doing.
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
People.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
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.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
The con It's not just any efficiency.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
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 the way, we're going to talk about RFK
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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 3 (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 Texas is Ted Cruz, and he
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was very clear against cornn Cornyn had no grassroots support
and a little birdie tells me Trump does not like
nor trust Cornyn one bit.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
So the vote.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Today was 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,
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he's still you know, you might kick him out of
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 Cornying, 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 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And I'm going to.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Tell you are a major part of the 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 3 (23:17):
I had been told from very, very very.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Well placed sources that Cornyn had this.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
It was his, it was locked, it 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.
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We don't get a Trump winning 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 3 (24:11):
Elected to the school board, all MAGA Republicans.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Of a school district just outside of Houston, an urban school,
I mean, a big city school.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
It's exactly we are winning things for We got to
keep the momentum.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
But take Hark, we are winning. Michael Berry the Michael
Berry Show. So there is a.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
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 should be our
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nominee effective immediately. Now that does not sit well with
Trump supporters, as you might imagine.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
That is.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
That is not being well received. I am not 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
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time today talking through in communications with people. Why wouldn't
he just do what Trump asked him to do? Trump
just won in a big way. And the answer is this,
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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 Thune is
out for what's best for this country, and you keep thinking.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
That John Thune sees.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
The power in this country to be based in your consent,
in your votes.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Neither of those is true.
Speaker 3 (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 3 (26:41):
Until you can understand that, then you're never going to
understand why they do what they do. Remember, they're not
like you, and you're not like them. 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
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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 constant nuisance. They love
being senators. You have no idea what a great life
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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 be fitted, you know,
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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 allsoy, no,
we can't do it, then we can do it.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Will come there.
Speaker 3 (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. It is us.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
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 their
way out, they'll say it, but what ends up happening
is once they're out the door, then they're free to
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say and do. Paul Ryan, Oh, people thought I never
liked Paul Ryan, never trusted him. Paul Ryan leadership positioned
Republican Party in the House. The minute he got out,
he starts cashing in and doing everything he could to
keep the corporate media and government from having to listen
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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 all out there just Dan Crenshaw says
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this all the time. You're all just idiots. You're listening
to those talk show hosts and these people firing you up.
But none of it is true. That's what they believe.
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
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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.
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 3 (30:39):
That is absolutely how these people look at this. All right,
That's all I 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 at sixteen
that now hate him, Michael Cohen, for instance. And there
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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. So one thing about Trump is he will
turn on someone who was a friend if he feels
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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 tell you whether
to like or not like the John Thune choice. I'm
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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 is the case,
he will do it. And that's all you can expect.
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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.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
That's not how these people work. They will work behind
the scenes.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
And you're still gonna have John Cornon in there, wezling around,
knifing people in the back and out to get you
because now he's got a vendetta. 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 3 (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 officially turned around.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We are back, baby, We are back. We are back, Plastic,
We are back. Look at America, Love.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Guests, where we just take a look at at at
old the federal agencies and say, do we really need
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whatever it is four hundred and twenty eight federal agencies,
because there's so many that people will never know.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
And that half overlapping areas of responsibility. We should I
don't know, 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.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
That's a lot, so we should have that seems crazy.
I think we should be able to get away with
ninety nine agencies.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
That seems to a lot, like a lot of agencies
a lot.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
I got a message to the mains of illegal as
that Joe Biden's releasing our country in violation of federal law.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You better start back and now you're damn right because
you're going home.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
I got another message, another message to the criminal cartels
in Mexico. You're smuggling a fan 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 Trunk gets back in office,
he's going to designate to a terrorist organization. He's gonna
(02:25):
wipe you off the face of your You're done.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
You're done.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
There's a chance to course correct it, but it would
take the new Trump administration going after it really hard.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
How would they correct it? Well, first of all, you
gotta fire, you know, you gotta fire the chairman, Joint chiefs,
and you gotta fire this.
Speaker 8 (02:57):
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 for war fighting that and that's it.
That's the only litmus tests we care about. You got
to get DEI and Cercata 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
(03:21):
the combat standards were saying, I don't know nineteen ninety five.
Let's just make those 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 2 (03:41):
Trump is back, and I am thrilled.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
About it, My goodness, and I 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. I'm not
a breaking news team. We like to have a moment
and press and process the news. We figure you can
(04:06):
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 3 (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.
(04:43):
And the fix was in, and the fix was McConnell
wanted John Cornyn, who is a Senator from Texas who's
a complete sellout. McConnell staged this thing right after the election,
so there wouldn't be time for the grass roots to
(05:03):
coalesce behind a candidate. So in very short order, the
grassroots came together behind Rick Scott. There were two establishment
candidates running, and that was John Cornan, who was mcconnel's choice,
and John Thune from South Dakota.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Cornan, of course from Texas well. At the last.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
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 and me, I
(05:51):
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 Cornyn didn't win a
majority of the fifty three votes, remember their fifty three Republicans.
We're talking about being the leader of the Republicans, which
of course makes you the leader of the Senate since
(06:11):
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 3 (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. Thun 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 3 (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 3 (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? Gosh, oh, I got so
much to get to. The new Majority leader will be
John Thune of South Dakota, Assistant Majority Leader John Barosso
(07:57):
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, 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 3 (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 an evening show, the morning show tends to focus
more on Texas and.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Even some Houston focus.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
The evening show is syndicated, so I tend to focus
more on 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
(09:11):
Elon and the Department of Government Efficiency which with a
good sense 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
(09:32):
know the whole story behind that.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And Elon is loving this.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
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 ond 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 and say,
all right, guys, we're gonna work harder and we normally do.
It can be fun. But what I love here that
Trump is doing is he is being fearless and he's
(10:45):
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. And it
feels like he's doing doing what he wants to do
in such a way that he's committed to fixing the
(11:10):
problems and he's willing to try some new things. Now,
some of these guys are gonna be mistakes, some 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 3 (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 3 (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 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You get the point. And then we've got our institutions.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
So within the military, you've got your enlisted, which is
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.
(14:06):
And I will tell you that guys who rise to
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 3 (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, then it doesn't matter. But within organizations
like the military, like the police department, you can move
(14:50):
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, to a man,
they want wars because warriors are how they bring glory
(15:11):
to themselves. It ain't them getting shot, it ain't their son.
Servant Pete Hegseth a twenty year veteran, multiple Ivy League degrees.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
This guy is the real deal.
Speaker 3 (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 wants 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. Though you've got dumb Michael
(16:30):
Berry show. 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
(16:53):
the Tea Party efforts in twenty ten, most of whom
are folks who are creatures of the swamp. These guys
are very, very devious. They will smile in your face
and stab you in the back. What you must understand
(17:15):
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 the government
(17:36):
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 go to work
(17:56):
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 the members of Congress.
(18:20):
The reason the tax code is a labyrinth thing beast
that makes a Dostoevsky novel look like a short story
is because the more complicated it is, the more opportunities
you have.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
When a special interest says, hey, can you.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
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 your left foot.
(19:06):
Well that's the weirdest thing. Why would somebody write that.
Turns out that guy's got six toes on.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
His left foot. So what they are doing.
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
People.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
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.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
The con It's not just any efficiency.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
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 the way, we're going to talk about RFK
(20:26):
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 3 (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 Texas is Ted Cruz, and he
(21:03):
was very clear against cornn Cornyn had no grassroots support
and a little birdie tells me Trump does not like
nor trust Cornyn one bit.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
So the vote.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Today was 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,
(21:37):
he's still you know, you might kick him out of
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 Cornying, 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 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And I'm going to.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Tell you are a major part of the 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 3 (23:17):
I had been told from very, very very.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Well placed sources that Cornyn had this.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
It was his, it was locked, it 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.
(23:50):
We don't get a Trump winning 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 3 (24:11):
Elected to the school board, all MAGA Republicans.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Of a school district just outside of Houston, an urban school,
I mean, a big city school.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
It's exactly we are winning things for We got to
keep the momentum.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
But take Hark, we are winning. Michael Berry the Michael
Berry Show. So there is a.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
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 should be our
(24:57):
nominee effective immediately. Now that does not sit well with
Trump supporters, as you might imagine.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
That is.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
That is not being well received. I am not 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
(25:39):
time today talking through in communications with people. Why wouldn't
he just do what Trump asked him to do? Trump
just won in a big way. And the answer is this,
(26:01):
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 Thune is
out for what's best for this country, and you keep thinking.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
That John Thune sees.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
The power in this country to be based in your consent,
in your votes.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Neither of those is true.
Speaker 3 (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 3 (26:41):
Until you can understand that, then you're never going to
understand why they do what they do. Remember, they're not
like you, and you're not like them. 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
(27:01):
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 constant nuisance. They love
being senators. You have no idea what a great life
(27:23):
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 be fitted, you know,
(27:45):
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 allsoy, no,
we can't do it, then we can do it.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Will come there.
Speaker 3 (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. It is us.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
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 their
way out, they'll say it, but what ends up happening
is once they're out the door, then they're free to
(29:08):
say and do. Paul Ryan, Oh, people thought I never
liked Paul Ryan, never trusted him. Paul Ryan leadership positioned
Republican Party in the House. The minute he got out,
he starts cashing in and doing everything he could to
keep the corporate media and government from having to listen
(29:29):
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 all out there just Dan Crenshaw says
(29:49):
this all the time. You're all just idiots. You're listening
to those talk show hosts and these people firing you up.
But none of it is true. That's what they believe.
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
(30:12):
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.
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 3 (30:39):
That is absolutely how these people look at this. All right,
That's all I 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 at sixteen
that now hate him, Michael Cohen, for instance. And there
(31:02):
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. So one thing about Trump is he will
turn on someone who was a friend if he feels
(31:23):
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 tell you whether
to like or not like the John Thune choice. I'm
(31:46):
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 is the case,
he will do it. And that's all you can expect.
(32:07):
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.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
That's not how these people work. They will work behind
the scenes.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
And you're still gonna have John Cornon in there, wezling around,
knifing people in the back and out to get you
because now he's got a vendetta. 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 3 (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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