Speaker 1: This is the US Reward.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the program. I'm Caroline Marcus
Speaker 2: filling in for James Morrow this week. Well, I may
Speaker 2: not have the cute New York accent, but don't worry.
Speaker 2: I'll still bring you all the latest stories out of
Speaker 2: the US you won't want to miss coming up tonight.
Speaker 2: Lefty's forced to eat their words as old clips resurfers
Speaker 2: hailing Joe Biden as a hero for not partnering his
Speaker 2: son Class Trump takes the lead on Israel, warning they'll
Speaker 2: be all hell to pay if hostages aren't released by
Speaker 2: the time he.
Speaker 3: Takes offers book first.
Speaker 2: There's been more drama over Donald Trump's cabinet picks, with
Speaker 2: his nominee to run the Pentagon Army veteran Peter Hegseth
Speaker 2: the latest in the firing line.
Speaker 3: Excuse the pun.
Speaker 2: Hegseth is a former Army National Guard who served in
Speaker 2: Iraq and Afghanistan. After retiring, he worked at two veterans
Speaker 2: related nonprofits before becoming a Fox News host. He's a
Speaker 2: father of seven. This week, he's come under immense pressure
Speaker 2: over everything from a historical rape accusation to claims of
Speaker 2: financial mismanagement at charities, to accusations of alcohol abuse and
Speaker 2: turning up to his TV gig reeking of booze.
Speaker 3: He denies all.
Speaker 2: Of it, and it's all come from unnamed sources, published
Speaker 2: and media outlets notoriously hostile to the right. So heg
Speaker 2: Seth has come out swinging in an exclusive interview with
Speaker 2: former Fox colleague and Paul Murray Live regular Megan Kelly,
Speaker 2: and he claims he still has the confidence of Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: I spoke to the President this morning. He said, I'm
Speaker 4: his guy, and I won't I'm not going to give
Speaker 4: any other information from my conversations with the President. I
Speaker 4: believe that what he shares with me needs to stay
Speaker 4: in confidence. But things were addressed and he said, you're
Speaker 4: my guy.
Speaker 2: Whether that remains the case or continues to remain the case, well,
Speaker 2: who knows. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is now reportedly being
Speaker 2: considered for the Defense secretary role as doubts grow over
Speaker 2: whether Hegseth will be confirmed by the Senate. Trump wasted
Speaker 2: no time, You'll remember, subbing in pab a Pam Bondi
Speaker 2: as his peak for attorney general. Following Matt Gates's withdrawal
Speaker 2: after concerns over FBI investigations into alleged criminal activity, including
Speaker 2: sexual activity with a seventeen.
Speaker 3: Year old girl.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't sound like Hegseeth plans to go quietly,
Speaker 2: writing in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 2: He's not backing down and dumping on the media show trial.
Speaker 4: So what NBC is going to do is make up
Speaker 4: anonymous sources, none of which are close to me, none
Speaker 4: of which know me, claiming that I had a drinking
Speaker 4: problem at Fox or was drunk on here. I tell
Speaker 4: everybody out there, check the tape, Yeah, check.
Speaker 3: The area tea, hey, Pete.
Speaker 2: If the confirmation doesn't pan out, you could always try
Speaker 2: your luck here. In Australia, we pay our TV hosts
Speaker 2: two million a year for drunken performances like this one.
Speaker 5: That's any sign of her.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was to say, can't believe how good you
Speaker 6: look at this woman?
Speaker 7: How good does Lisa Wilkinson look?
Speaker 3: Zero sleep?
Speaker 2: I applaud you and I salute.
Speaker 3: You classic here.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Trump has announced he'ler point a new special envoy
Speaker 2: for hostage affairs. Adam Bohler was a lead negotiator on
Speaker 2: the team that broke the Abraham Accords, the deals that
Speaker 2: saw a handful of Arab countries normalized relations with Israel
Speaker 2: during Trump's last presidency. Now this appointment, along with Trump's
Speaker 2: online comments earlier this week promising they'll be all hell
Speaker 2: to pay if her else doesn't release the remaining hostages
Speaker 2: before he takes office, Gosh, it's refreshing. The week leadership
Speaker 2: on Israel has only enabled and incentiviied incentivize terrorists, and
Speaker 2: they're sympathizers around the world, not least here in Australia.
Speaker 2: The hundred hostages still being held in Gaza deserve nothing
Speaker 2: less than a strong president who will finally truly.
Speaker 3: Fight for them.
Speaker 2: Too much of the world has shamefully forgotten all about them.
Speaker 2: But trust they'll always be some crazy lefty MSNBC who
Speaker 2: feels sorry for the poor little terrorists in this situation
Speaker 2: because they're the ones being bullied by Trump.
Speaker 8: To our local gangster, Donald Trump, he's not even president
Speaker 8: yet and he's already spending his time sitting in his
Speaker 8: golden palace mar A Lago, muscling other countries like he's
Speaker 8: Tony soprano with a social media say.
Speaker 2: If only we could write off those comments as drunken
Speaker 2: on a rambling sadly they're sober, just characteristically delusional. Well,
Speaker 2: joining us now is former White House Chief of Staff
Speaker 2: and senior advisor at Bondi Partners, Mick Mulvaaney, Mick, thanks
Speaker 2: for your time. Let's go back to the Pete Hegseth story. So,
Speaker 2: according to a piece in The Wall Street Journal earlier
Speaker 2: this week, Trump is considering DeSantis as a replacement. Now,
Speaker 2: controversy around heg Seth includes allegations of sexual assaults and
Speaker 2: aggressive drunkenness. Do you think he can survive this?
Speaker 9: I do, unless additional information comes out. Keep in mind, yes,
Speaker 9: the Wall Street Journal did report about a story that
Speaker 9: put Ron DeSantis as a possible replacement if heg Seth
Speaker 9: is not able to get confirmed. But I've also seen
Speaker 9: several stories here Caroline of other names, as well as
Speaker 9: a couple of other Senators, a couple of other former
Speaker 9: Trump administration members. So it's very speculative at this point
Speaker 9: in time. If nothing else changes, I think Pete Heggseth
Speaker 9: probably can get confirmed if anything additional comes out. Well,
Speaker 9: with every additional piece of information that comes out about
Speaker 9: his alleged drinking alleged social life and so forth. It
Speaker 9: makes it simply more difficult for him to get confirmed MC.
Speaker 3: When does the Senate confirm the nominees.
Speaker 9: They can start now if they want to, so keep
Speaker 9: in mind now the Senate is controlled by Democrats. After January,
Speaker 9: I think it's third or fourth. I lose track of
Speaker 9: the day because it's different for the Senate than it
Speaker 9: is for the president. The new Senate will take over.
Speaker 9: That will be the majority Republican Senate, and that obviously
Speaker 9: would make it easier for Pete hegseeth to get confirmed.
Speaker 9: He could get confirmed now if they really wanted to,
Speaker 9: but they won't. Traditionally, some of the bigger names, including
Speaker 9: the Secretary of Defense, are confirmed there on January third, fourth, fifth,
Speaker 9: in the early days of the next Congress, before the
Speaker 9: president has sworn in.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll keep an eye on that one for now.
Speaker 2: He is certainly fighting to hang on now. I mentioned
Speaker 2: at the start of the show, proposed it on his
Speaker 2: site truth Social this week, wanning they'll be hell to
Speaker 2: pay if remaining Israeli hostages and some American ones aren't
Speaker 2: released before his first day back in the White House
Speaker 2: next month. Tough words, do you think they'll have any effect.
Speaker 9: I do because I think people believe them. I think
Speaker 9: Trump has cultivated this sort of reputation for being unpredictable.
Speaker 9: He's used it to his advantage in foreign affairs, and
Speaker 9: I think when he comes out and says, look, there
Speaker 9: be hell to pay, people actually pay attention. It doesn't
Speaker 9: surprise me, for example, that Iran has sent sort of
Speaker 9: olive branches out through the ether in the last couple
Speaker 9: of days saying they're willing to discuss what's going on
Speaker 9: in the Middle East. Separately, in Ukraine, it doesn't just
Speaker 9: surprise me that Zelenski is now talking about possibly giving
Speaker 9: up some land in eastern Ukraine or to end the
Speaker 9: hostilities there. People take Trump seriously when he says he's
Speaker 9: going to do things, and I do believe that he
Speaker 9: wants to resolve the hostage situation in Gaza. Look, you
Speaker 9: can't solve the entire situation in Gaza between now and
Speaker 9: the inauguration, but there's a very distinct possibility that the
Speaker 9: hostages couldn't come back. And don't lose track of this, Caroline,
Speaker 9: Trump is just he knows from his younger days. We
Speaker 9: all remember I was a child in nineteen seventy nine
Speaker 9: with the American hostages under Jimmy Carter. They were taken
Speaker 9: under Jimmy Carter by the Iranian radicals in Tehran. They
Speaker 9: came home on inauguration Day at nineteen eighty one. And
Speaker 9: Trump has that in the back of the head, back
Speaker 9: of his head, and he'd love to see the same
Speaker 9: thing with the hostages in Gaza.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm sure many of us would as well.
Speaker 2: Let's hope for their sake that that's what happens here.
Speaker 2: And wouldn't that be a great win for Trump? On
Speaker 2: his first day in office, well, look, Trump posted an
Speaker 2: amusing AI image of himself with the Canadian flag presiding
Speaker 2: over a rocky mountain range in Canada. This was just
Speaker 2: days after Trudeau met with Trump at Mara Lago, where
Speaker 2: Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocey detailed this
Speaker 2: funny exchange.
Speaker 6: And tonight we're getting some new details about that Trump
Speaker 6: Trudeau dinner from two people who were at the table.
Speaker 6: We are told that when Trudeau told President like Trump
Speaker 6: that new tariffs would kill the Canadian economy, Trump joked
Speaker 6: to him that if Canada can't survive without ripping off
Speaker 6: the US to the tune of one hundred billion dollars
Speaker 6: a year, then maybe Canada should become the fifty first
Speaker 6: state and Trudeau could become its governor.
Speaker 2: There's been a lot of speculation over what that image
Speaker 2: Trump posted really means.
Speaker 3: What's your take?
Speaker 9: This is a negotiation. Look, I heard the same story.
Speaker 9: It made me smile. I've heard those exact sort of
Speaker 9: words come out of his mouth so many times. He's
Speaker 9: sort of jesting, he's sort of not believe me, he
Speaker 9: doesn't want Canada as the fifty first state, but he's
Speaker 9: making a point, which is, Look, if you really are
Speaker 9: telling me, as Justin Trudeau, if you're really telling me
Speaker 9: that your nation's existence depends upon you taking advantage of
Speaker 9: US to the tunes of one hundred billion dollars a
Speaker 9: year in a trade and balance, then you shouldn't be
Speaker 9: a country. Now, that's a harsh message to deliver, and
Speaker 9: it's delivered in sort of a joking fashion. But that's
Speaker 9: Donald Trump being Donald Trump, and I'm certain that it
Speaker 9: got Justin Trudeau's attention. Trump is deadly serious about fixing
Speaker 9: the trade and balances between US and Canada, US and Mexico,
Speaker 9: fixing the immigration difficulty they would have along our northern border,
Speaker 9: which doesn't get nearly as much attention as the southern border.
Speaker 9: But yeah, that's just Trump using a little bit of
Speaker 9: humor with a little nod and a wink to sort
Speaker 9: of get people's attention. And I'm certain that it got
Speaker 9: the Prime minister's attention up in Ottawa.
Speaker 2: Well certainly got our attention here in Australia too. Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris has become the first presidential candidate since nineteen thirty
Speaker 2: two to fail to flip a single county in the
Speaker 2: general election. Nick the Democrats must be driving themselves crazy
Speaker 2: dissecting how the campaign went so wrong.
Speaker 9: They are. Listen, part of me drives a little bit
Speaker 9: of pleasure from it. It's always nice to see the
Speaker 9: other side, you know, killing themselves over this. My party
Speaker 9: went through the same thing in two thousand and eight,
Speaker 9: to a lesser extent again in twenty eighteen. Every time
Speaker 9: you lose a big election, you lose an election you
Speaker 9: didn't expect to lose. They thought they might lose the
Speaker 9: White House. They didn't expect to lose like this. They
Speaker 9: thought they would win control of the House of Representatives.
Speaker 9: They did not so across the board. It's a major
Speaker 9: disappointment for the Democrat Party here in the United States
Speaker 9: of America in sort of the days after the November election.
Speaker 9: I don't think Caroline, that they yet figured out that
Speaker 9: it's their message that's the problem. What I'm hearing from
Speaker 9: my Democrat friends, and I do have them, is our
Speaker 9: message was wrong. We just can't convince people that what
Speaker 9: we're doing is right. They really believe that their policies
Speaker 9: are correct when I think it's their policies that people
Speaker 9: are rejecting. We'll figure it out. Look, the Democrats went
Speaker 9: through this after Ronald Reagan and again George Bush in
Speaker 9: the first years, first term, and they came up with
Speaker 9: Bill Clinton. You know, we went through this with Barack Obama.
Speaker 9: We came up with Donald Trump. You'd never know who
Speaker 9: the Democrats will find. They might not find anybody, but
Speaker 9: it remains to be seen. Right now. They are struggling
Speaker 9: like all parties do when they lose badly.
Speaker 2: Yes, probably not the best losers look just quickly. Trump
Speaker 2: will travel to Paris this weekend after accepting Emmanuel mccron's
Speaker 2: invite to attend the reopening of the newly restored Notre
Speaker 2: Dame Cathedral five years after a destructive fire. Nick, what's
Speaker 2: the significance of this troop.
Speaker 9: Yeah, this is not getting nearly enough coverage, or it's
Speaker 9: getting cover from the wrong angle, so very quickly. I
Speaker 9: was on Air Force one with President Trump and I
Speaker 9: believe twenty nineteen win that cathedral burned, and we watched
Speaker 9: it together on live television on the airplane, and he
Speaker 9: was visibly moved by the history that was gone, by
Speaker 9: the culture that was being destroyed. I'm not going to
Speaker 9: say he was moved to tears, because that's not who
Speaker 9: he is, and I didn't see him do that, but
Speaker 9: he was emotionally moved by the experience, and it doesn't
Speaker 9: surprise me that he's going back. This doesn't have anything,
Speaker 9: I think, to do with Matt Crone, what was happening
Speaker 9: in France, anything with Europe. I think he was just
Speaker 9: touched by the experience and wants to see the reopening
Speaker 9: of that iconic cathedral. So I'm glad to see him go.
Speaker 9: I'm glad he gets a chance to go as the
Speaker 9: president elect of the United States to represent the country.
Speaker 2: Yeah, full circle moment for him. Thank you for that insight,
Speaker 2: and thanks for your time, Mick Malvanie, Thank you.
Speaker 3: Carolin Well.
Speaker 2: Joining us now is former Trump White House Press secretary
Speaker 2: Sewn Spice and Sean always great to see you. This week,
Speaker 2: Biden pardoned his son Hunter a fortnite before he faced
Speaker 2: sentencing on two charges. Now, this comes after consistently promising
Speaker 2: he wouldn't.
Speaker 1: But let me ask you.
Speaker 7: Will you accept the jury's outcome.
Speaker 1: They're verdict no matter what it is.
Speaker 4: Yes, And have you ruled out a part for your son?
Speaker 10: Yes, I said, I admired by the jury decision. I
Speaker 10: will do that and I will not partner him.
Speaker 6: From a presidential perspective, is there any possibility that the
Speaker 6: president would end up pardoning his son, Well, I just
Speaker 6: said no, I just answer it, go ahead, go.
Speaker 2: Ahead, Just to let this sink in a bit more
Speaker 2: this year, he repeated that vowt on November seven, September five,
Speaker 2: July twenty sixth June thirteen, June twelve, June eleven, June
Speaker 2: six sean, Americans surely must have zero faith in the
Speaker 2: Democrats right now.
Speaker 11: Absolutely, And think about how many of the Democrats additionally
Speaker 11: went out and praised him for this. This is a
Speaker 11: man who stands on integrity and the rule of law.
Speaker 11: I mean, Joe Biden literally tweeted out, no one is
Speaker 11: above the law. I guess there should have been more
Speaker 11: to that tweet except my son Hunter.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 11: The thing that's so significant about that pardon isn't just
Speaker 11: for the two crimes that he's been found guilt. You
Speaker 11: have a tax charge and a gun charge, which set
Speaker 11: that aside for just a second. He gave him an
Speaker 11: eleven year blanket pardon, meaning any crime known or unknown
Speaker 11: for eleven years that he could have committed is now
Speaker 11: fully exonerated. But if I can just pick up on
Speaker 11: the two issues Democrats aside from abortion, the two biggest
Speaker 11: issues for them are gun background checks here in the
Speaker 11: US and the rich paying their fair share. They were
Speaker 11: absolutely silent on Hunter Biden on both of those issues,
Speaker 11: and you have to ask your question, why, why suddenly
Speaker 11: does they remain silent. They've always talked about strict background checks,
Speaker 11: and here's Hunter Biden lying on a form to purchase
Speaker 11: a firearm, which is he's been now convicted of millions
Speaker 11: of dollars that he didn't pay taxes. Of all of
Speaker 11: the Democrats complicit and silent, and then once Joe Biden
Speaker 11: flipped on this pardon thing again, almost entire silence from
Speaker 11: the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3: The hypocrisy is daggering, but pretty typical. Look.
Speaker 2: Trump announced over the weak and that Cash Ptel would
Speaker 2: be his pick to lead the FBI. Like many of
Speaker 2: his other picks, Cash's pasted is resurfacing and many are concerned.
Speaker 2: Do you think he will get confirmed?
Speaker 11: Oh? One hundred percent? Yeah, I mean look, also, Cash
Speaker 11: got some great timing on this. You were just covering
Speaker 11: with I think earlier some of the other picks and
Speaker 11: the troubles that they're having in Cash, I think is
Speaker 11: somebody who might have divergent views in some people, but
Speaker 11: he is a commitment to shaking up the FBI and
Speaker 11: restoring justice and fairness to an institution that needs it
Speaker 11: right now. And there's widespread support. Remember, Republicans enjoy a
Speaker 11: fifty three seat majority in the new Senate. They'll be
Speaker 11: able to get him done. And so far there hasn't
Speaker 11: been a single Republican senator that has expressed concerned. The
Speaker 11: Democrats won't vote for him, but the Republicans will.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe he's lucky if you point out that some
Speaker 2: other people are taking more heat. Look, Trump becomes the
Speaker 2: President to the United States in forty five days and counting.
Speaker 2: What do you make of his progress so far, even
Speaker 2: before taking office, Because he's already made a few waves he.
Speaker 11: Has and I think you know that's who he is.
Speaker 11: I've told people before you should never use the word
Speaker 11: norms or tradition and Donald Trump in the same sentence.
Speaker 11: He's going to continue, whether it's the tariff talk and
Speaker 11: trying to get a better deal for America some of
Speaker 11: the other trade issues that he sees as being unfair.
Speaker 11: He's going to continue to get things straight, trying to
Speaker 11: end these wars both in Ukraine and in Gaza before
Speaker 11: he takes office. But I have a feeling, and mark
Speaker 11: my word, on January twentieth, at twelve oh one, there
Speaker 11: is going to be an unprecedented flurry of activity the
Speaker 11: likes of which not just our country but the world
Speaker 11: has ever seen. He will have executive action and executive
Speaker 11: orders lined up to implement change right away. And I
Speaker 11: just I don't think anyone should sit back and relax
Speaker 11: on that afternoon, because there's going to be a lot
Speaker 11: of activity.
Speaker 2: Well, we will be watching very closely all the way
Speaker 2: from here too. Now Trump is set to sit down
Speaker 2: for his first network interview since winning the election, and
Speaker 2: it's with NBC News's Meet the Press this weekend. Sean,
Speaker 2: did it surprise you that he's doing that with NBC?
Speaker 11: It disappointed me more than it surprised me. I think
Speaker 11: that Donald Trump can do any interview with any person
Speaker 11: and crush it. But we should not be rewarding our enemies.
Speaker 11: Meet the Press is the worst show on American television
Speaker 11: right now, and that's beating out a lot of bad
Speaker 11: shows right week after week. They have shown an anti
Speaker 11: Trump bias in how they cover President Trump and his
Speaker 11: allies and supporters and policies. We should not be rewarding them.
Speaker 11: There's a lot of media outlets right now that could
Speaker 11: provide insight into President Trump, his agenda, his policies, his personnel,
Speaker 11: and to reward Meet the Press after the despicable coverage
Speaker 11: is to me something that should be reconsidered. This is
Speaker 11: the only thing so far that I can take issue with.
Speaker 11: I know why he's doing it. It's a it's you know,
Speaker 11: it's a legacy outlet and a legacy show, the longest
Speaker 11: running television program. But we should not be rewarding bad
Speaker 11: behavior and I'm disappointed that Meet the Press is getting it.
Speaker 11: There are so many other outlets that could have done
Speaker 11: a better job informing the American people and frankly the
Speaker 11: world about Donald Trump's agenda for the next four years,
Speaker 11: and I wish it hadn't been Meet the Press.
Speaker 2: What are you expecting odd about interview? Do you think
Speaker 2: they're going to give him a fair go at all?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 11: No, no, no, no, no, It's gonna be unbelievably contentious.
Speaker 9: He'll do well, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 11: It's not a question of you know, so this is
Speaker 11: gonna this is going to be extremely contentious. The host
Speaker 11: is tries to audition for the far left every time
Speaker 11: she goes on air, so she's going to come with
Speaker 11: this very very combative Donald Trump will do very well
Speaker 11: as he does, but I expect a very combative interview.
Speaker 11: It's going to get taped tomorrow Friday here in the States,
Speaker 11: and it won't air till Sunday, so I'm sure we'll
Speaker 11: see some clips, but I just don't expect much from
Speaker 11: it at all.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll see what happens. Shawn Spice said, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for your time. Now before we go to
Speaker 2: a break, Chuck Schumer was re elected to the very
Speaker 2: serious role of Senate Democratic Leader. What wasn't so serious
Speaker 2: was this question, and it didn't go down too well.
Speaker 3: With his colleagues.
Speaker 2: Just get in a view, ouch, tough crowd, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2: After the break, we'll speak to Adam B. Coleman about
Speaker 2: some key court cases in deliberations right now and what
Speaker 2: they may mean for America. Welcome back to the program,
Speaker 2: Adam Coleman in a tick. But first let's return to
Speaker 2: a favorite theme on the show, your weekly reminder of
Speaker 2: the massive bullet dodged in not getting this guy for
Speaker 2: another four years. Ah Sleepy Joe, Yes, that's him, truly
Speaker 2: living up to the nickname.
Speaker 3: While on the last.
Speaker 2: Foreign trip of his presidency, what a legacy he leaves.
Speaker 2: And when not snoozing in Angola, he was being led
Speaker 2: around like a lost child. Remember this is the guy
Speaker 2: that the Democrats insisted for months was fine, totally fine,
Speaker 2: nothing to see here, and just like a small child,
Speaker 2: the leader of the Free world couldn't stop telling his
Speaker 2: African hosts how much he just loves trains.
Speaker 10: Mister President, I'm coming back to ride on the train
Speaker 10: all the way from and to end. I like trains
Speaker 10: a lot. I must tell you upfront with American press here,
Speaker 10: I'm probably the most pro reial guy in America. I've
Speaker 10: ridden over a million, three hundred thousand miles on a
Speaker 10: daily basis.
Speaker 2: To my work, a million, three hundred thousand miles daily.
Speaker 2: You say, I mean, we use a metric system here
Speaker 2: in Australia, but that math still isn't mathing, even some
Speaker 2: seven thousand miles away from washingt DC in Southern Africa. Though,
Speaker 2: Biden couldn't escape the scrutiny over his extraordinary pardon of
Speaker 2: Sun Hunter and the colossal broken promise he'd made voters.
Speaker 2: But it's no job for many Americans, not least the
Speaker 2: federal judge who oversaw Hunter Biden's felony tax case, who
Speaker 2: issued a sharp rebuke of the pardon and the President's
Speaker 2: claim his son.
Speaker 3: Was unfairly treated.
Speaker 2: In a scathing five page order, US District Judge Mark
Speaker 2: Scazi accused President Biden of rewriting history and suggested the
Speaker 2: breadth of the pardon is unconstitutional. Even lefty talk show
Speaker 2: hosts have to agree. An eleven year pardon raises more
Speaker 2: than a few questions over what other skeletons exist.
Speaker 12: The pardon sweeping covering offenses that Hunter Biden quote has
Speaker 12: committed or may have committed or taken part in over
Speaker 12: the past eleven years.
Speaker 3: Eleven years is very specific.
Speaker 13: And not rounded amount of time, So honor, I'll give
Speaker 13: you a pardon a few years, five years, ten years.
Speaker 7: It needs to be eleven.
Speaker 2: In saving his son from a sentence of up to
Speaker 2: seventeen years. Biden sure has peed off a lot of Democrats,
Speaker 2: but when they annoyed at the injustice of it, the
Speaker 2: fact so many, including most of the American mainstream media,
Speaker 2: were involved in a wholesale cover up of Hunter's crimes,
Speaker 2: only for them to be swept right back under the rug. No,
Speaker 2: their main worry is Biden's move shreds any semblance that
Speaker 2: remains of their purported moral high ground.
Speaker 1: Everyone looks stupid, everyone looks like they're full of and
Speaker 1: Republicans are going to use this to argue that it
Speaker 1: was politics as usual when Democrats warned about Trump's corruption
Speaker 1: or threat to the rule of law, or you know,
Speaker 1: the threats of democracy. And I think that's the piece
Speaker 1: of I am most frustrated with, which is Joe Biden
Speaker 1: looking like a typical lying politician.
Speaker 2: Well, if it looks like a duck, it definitely is
Speaker 2: one in this case. And this lame duck president couldn't
Speaker 2: waddle or at least very slowly shuffle out of office
Speaker 2: any sooner. Joining me now is wrong speak publishing founder
Speaker 2: Adam B. Coleman Adam welcome. The Supreme Court is currently
Speaker 2: deliberating the legality of state bans on gender transition treatments
Speaker 2: for minors as it rules on a challenge to Tennessee's
Speaker 2: state law, a case that sparked crowds of protesters outside
Speaker 2: the court. What kind of implications could the verdict in
Speaker 2: this case be could have?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, obviously this case is going to be
Speaker 13: fell all across the country. There's multiple states that want
Speaker 13: to ban any sort of medical transition when it comes
Speaker 13: to minors who consider themselves trans or or maybe their
Speaker 13: parents want to do it for whatever particular reason. And
Speaker 13: in using trands as the reasoning, I think this is
Speaker 13: this is going to be kind of I don't think
Speaker 13: this is going to be as simple A lot of
Speaker 13: people think, because it's a more conservative leaning judiciary that
Speaker 13: it's going to just go in the way of what
Speaker 13: most Republicans or conservatives want, But I think from a
Speaker 13: legality standpoint, there may be some some true trying to
Speaker 13: measure if this is something that is constitutionally sound. They're
Speaker 13: trying to attack this from an equal access situation. But
Speaker 13: it also comes down to is transgenderism or being a
Speaker 13: transgender person another classification, just like a man is or
Speaker 13: a woman is. And I think this is part of
Speaker 13: the confusion of the entire thing. In some ways it
Speaker 13: is seen as binary when they try to argue it.
Speaker 13: In other ways they try to make it sound fluid,
Speaker 13: which if it's fluid, then it's not something that is
Speaker 13: absolutely certain, and it comes back to just being utterly confusing.
Speaker 13: So I think this is going to be a very
Speaker 13: interesting outcome when they're when it's all said and done, Well.
Speaker 2: That's another really interesting case playing out over there at
Speaker 2: this time as well. Daniel Penny's trial, the jury continues
Speaker 2: to hear and see evidence. Now this is a form
Speaker 2: of marine who killed a thirty year old homeless man
Speaker 2: by putting him in a chokehold after he allegedly shouted
Speaker 2: death threats on the subway. Penny's trial has divided the nation.
Speaker 2: I think it's fair to say, and he's either been
Speaker 2: branded a hero or a villain. New York City Mayor
Speaker 2: Eric Adams has come out in his defense.
Speaker 3: Take a look those passages were afraid.
Speaker 14: I've been on the subway system. I know what it
Speaker 14: is as a police officer to wrestle of fate with someone.
Speaker 14: We're on a subway where we're hearing someone talking about
Speaker 14: hurting people, killing people. You have someone on that subway
Speaker 14: who was responding.
Speaker 2: Now, what do you think the implications of this verdict
Speaker 2: could be.
Speaker 13: Well, if he's found guilty, without sense to every New
Speaker 13: Yorker and honestly many of people who live in big cities,
Speaker 13: is that defending yourself is a problem. And on top
Speaker 13: of that, being someone who is trying to sacrifice themselves
Speaker 13: for other people who are scared or in danger, king
Speaker 13: put you in legal trouble. And I think in a
Speaker 13: situation like this, where it's not like Daniel Penny was
Speaker 13: holding on to him and he was by himself, and
Speaker 13: people who were outraged that he climbed on top of
Speaker 13: this man and held him down, he was helped and
Speaker 13: people were thankful. And when you have the mayor of
Speaker 13: New York City saying yeah, it's dangerous out there. I
Speaker 13: have no problem with what he did and other people
Speaker 13: from New York, you know, I'm just outside of New
Speaker 13: York City. I know plenty of New Yorkers who take
Speaker 13: the subway, and I know plenty of New Yorkers who
Speaker 13: stopped taking the subway for a reason. The place is dangerous.
Speaker 13: They not just dangerous because of criminals, but because of
Speaker 13: mentally unstable people just like this man, you know. And
Speaker 13: I'm empathetic to his death. I don't think anybody deserves
Speaker 13: to die by also don't think that anybody, anyone should
Speaker 13: be set on the streets and just allowed to fester
Speaker 13: in their own downfall, just like this man was. But
Speaker 13: I also don't think that he should have just been
Speaker 13: you know, locked up and sent back out, locked up
Speaker 13: to sit back out for other people to deal with,
Speaker 13: you know. So I think this is an unfortunate situation
Speaker 13: all the way around. But if he's found guilty over
Speaker 13: something like this, I think the sense a terrible signal.
Speaker 13: We should be allowed to defend ourselves. And I think
Speaker 13: the radical Democrats and leftists who have been infected the
Speaker 13: judiciary and within New York City, the DA's office, all
Speaker 13: these people. What they're telling us is that they really
Speaker 13: don't care about the safety of New Yorkers, really don't
Speaker 13: care about the safety of Americans.
Speaker 12: We should be.
Speaker 13: Able to protect ourselves from someone who's dangerous, and every
Speaker 13: person on that train agreed that that man was dangerous.
Speaker 2: Will be really interesting to see what happens out of
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is reportedly furious with him warning
Speaker 2: Joe colleagues but meeting with Donald Trump at Mara Lago
Speaker 2: after he won the president presidential election. Do you think
Speaker 2: there's much truth to these reports?
Speaker 13: I mean, it wouldn't shock me. I mean, you're when
Speaker 13: the basis of your career has been to make Donald
Speaker 13: Trump appear like Hitler, to make Donald Trump seem like
Speaker 13: the worst man in human history, and then you see
Speaker 13: your colleagues who changed tune and at least sit down
Speaker 13: with the man. Doesn't mean that they support him, at least,
Speaker 13: I don't know, treat him like a typical politician. Yeah,
Speaker 13: I could see someone having a problem with that. So honestly,
Speaker 13: it could be true. I know these are, you know, speculations,
Speaker 13: but it would not shock me whatsoever. This woman has
Speaker 13: spread every false narrative, every bit of propaganda, especially anything
Speaker 13: revolving around Russia, that has never come to fruition that
Speaker 13: she never apologizes for acts like she didn't even say
Speaker 13: the very thing that she said. So yeah, I truly
Speaker 13: believe this woman has propagandized herself to the point for
Speaker 13: she thinks anyone who even mentions the man's name like
Speaker 13: he's Valdemore or something, you know, she'll treat them with
Speaker 13: a huge amount of disdain.
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of MSNBC, it's primetime audience has dipped fifty
Speaker 2: three percent and CNN's forty seven percent since the week
Speaker 2: before the election, while Fox News has largely held on
Speaker 2: to its audience. Adam, do you see this as the
Speaker 2: anti Trump moved meant losing some of its momentum?
Speaker 13: Well, yes, for one, they they were really telling people
Speaker 13: that she's got it in the bag. They were, And
Speaker 13: this honestly goes back to the disconnect of the mainstream
Speaker 13: media in the United States and this reason why Donald
Speaker 13: Trump won and won so heavily. They're completely disconnected from
Speaker 13: the average American and what they're experiencing. These are people
Speaker 13: who are millionaires. You mentioned Rachel Mattow's a millionaire on
Speaker 13: television tell you to be scared and you know, white supremacy.
Speaker 13: This and the biggest issue in America is fascism. When
Speaker 13: most people that I run into, fascism isn't even like
Speaker 13: in their top ten or top twenty.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 13: The issues that they care about is can they afford food,
Speaker 13: can they afford gas? You know, the state of the economy,
Speaker 13: are they safe in their neighborhoods, the common sense political
Speaker 13: political things, and even more so when it comes to
Speaker 13: safety and the economy that wraps up into the border.
Speaker 13: A lot of Americans care about it, especially people in
Speaker 13: the Northeast and in New York City, because the problems
Speaker 13: of the border have made it to their front door.
Speaker 13: So these are things that regular Americans care about. But
Speaker 13: all they want to talk about is Trump is bad
Speaker 13: and they want to give a false narrative about this man.
Speaker 13: And I think a lot of people have come to
Speaker 13: the conclusion that, hey, if majority of Americans are supporting
Speaker 13: this man, is it really that the country is bad
Speaker 13: or we're disconnected from the country. And I think when
Speaker 13: you follow these false prophets, you end up in strange territories.
Speaker 13: So I think it's just a lot of Americans realizing
Speaker 13: that the propaganda that they're being fed is exactly that,
Speaker 13: and that they're ultimately lying. And they've been fear mother
Speaker 13: excuse me, fear mongering them or for years about this man.
Speaker 13: And I'm including myself as a former Democrat, believe many
Speaker 13: of these lies. And I think maybe this is a
Speaker 13: time for people to disconnect and reevaluate the information that
Speaker 13: they've taken in.
Speaker 2: Well, let's see if these media companies actually take that
Speaker 2: in and make some changes, or whether the lack of
Speaker 2: self awareness continues.
Speaker 3: Adam B.
Speaker 2: Coleman, thank you for your time. Now, before we go
Speaker 2: to a break, let's circle back to Joe Biden pardoning
Speaker 2: his son. There are loads of lefties who are now
Speaker 2: eating their words after previously heralding Biden as one of
Speaker 2: the history's most honorable men for refusing to pardon his son.
Speaker 3: Here's just one.
Speaker 1: He is not pardoning his son, which he could do.
Speaker 7: These are federal charges.
Speaker 1: He is not doing that.
Speaker 7: He is not doing it because he is living what
Speaker 7: it means.
Speaker 3: To have a rule of law in this country. It
Speaker 3: speaks for itself, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: After the break, I'll show you new research exposing the
Speaker 2: US government spending millions of taxpayer money on misinformation research
Speaker 2: during COVID Don't Go Anywhere.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to the program.
Speaker 2: Joining me now is political commentator and media analyst Stephanie Hammel. Stephanie,
Speaker 2: thanks for your time this week. Whoopie Goldberg lashed out
Speaker 2: at criticism mounted against Joe Biden for partnering his son.
Speaker 3: Have a listen.
Speaker 11: What is hurtful is denying that if it's good for
Speaker 11: the goose, is good for the gander.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he is the.
Speaker 11: President of the United States and it is his right,
Speaker 11: and he doesn't have to explain to anybody.
Speaker 7: This is his right as president. He can pardon if
Speaker 7: he wants to put Bozo the clown, he can.
Speaker 3: Pardon Boson clown.
Speaker 2: What do you think would she have said the same
Speaker 2: thing if it was Donald Trump in his place?
Speaker 15: Absolutely not And we all know that, and you know
Speaker 15: she's talking about what's hurtful. What's hurtful is that President
Speaker 15: Joe Biden, with a straight face, lied to the America.
Speaker 15: Can people repeatedly on record so many times on video
Speaker 15: before an election, and so you know, people have the
Speaker 15: right to be angry today. Many of us, including me,
Speaker 15: predicted that Biden would pardon his son, but everyone else
Speaker 15: tried to convince us otherwise. All the people in the
Speaker 15: mainstream media were repeating the same exact lie we heard
Speaker 15: from the Press secretary at the White House that this
Speaker 15: would never happen, and it did. And all of these
Speaker 15: people have egg on their face today. And now many
Speaker 15: of them are defending of Biden's actions, saying that it's
Speaker 15: necessary because the incoming president's going to target his political opponents,
Speaker 15: which we know that President Donald Trump never even did
Speaker 15: that in his first term, and that he's not going
Speaker 15: to target people that are his rivals. He's made that
Speaker 15: very clear. So it's just very dishonest for them to
Speaker 15: continue to push this narrative. Ultimately, Hunter Biden has shown
Speaker 15: that there is a two tier justice system in this
Speaker 15: and that's what infuriates so many of us, because a
Speaker 15: lot of us didn't think that Hunter Biden would ever
Speaker 15: face any sort of punishment for this gun ownership crime
Speaker 15: or for the tax fraud case that he pled guilty to,
Speaker 15: and so it just again goes to prove the point that,
Speaker 15: you know, there's a serious issue in this country. It
Speaker 15: seems like Democrats, the elite seemed to get the upper
Speaker 15: hand when it comes to the justice system.
Speaker 2: Well, the mental gymnastics in trying to defend it when
Speaker 2: they once heralded as some kind of hero for not
Speaker 2: partnering him is quite staggering. Now, Stephanie, Customers of an
Speaker 2: Idaho beauty salon are dropping like flies after its owner
Speaker 2: went in on Trump supporters on TikTok to, which she
Speaker 2: has now doubled down on with a follow up video.
Speaker 7: If I lose my business because I posted this.
Speaker 3: And this.
Speaker 7: And this, an ant video said if you suffer a racist, misogynist,
Speaker 7: homophobic rapist and you're okay with it, then you are
Speaker 7: those things. I guess I lose my business.
Speaker 2: I understand this salon is in your home city. What
Speaker 2: do you think of this?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I saw this when it was first going viral
Speaker 15: via libs of TikTok on X, and it definitely stood
Speaker 15: out to me because the salon's just a few minutes
Speaker 15: from where I live. Now, I never heard of the salon.
Speaker 15: I don't go to the salon, and apparently I never
Speaker 15: will go to this salon. But you know, it's just
Speaker 15: truly offensive and I almost feel bad for this woman.
Speaker 15: She's clearly suffering Stage four TDS. And she's regurgita hating
Speaker 15: the talking points for the mainstream media and the things
Speaker 15: that you see on social media from the left. So
Speaker 15: she's like a victim of misinformation because we know that
Speaker 15: President Donald Trump isn't all of those things that she said,
Speaker 15: and that his supporters aren't all of those things.
Speaker 3: That she said.
Speaker 15: And it's really tragic because she talked about how she
Speaker 15: was getting rid of a customer or she didn't care
Speaker 15: to lose a customer of fifteen years who had actually
Speaker 15: been a great customer, who'd brought her gifts, who had
Speaker 15: invited her to family functions, but she just couldn't work
Speaker 15: on a Donald Trump supporter anymore because of all those
Speaker 15: reasons that she stated. And it looks like the salon
Speaker 15: is under a lot of trouble because she came out
Speaker 15: with this video doubling down that she would rather work
Speaker 15: at Chipotlet than apologize or have to work on Trump supporters.
Speaker 15: So you know, if you look at the pictures, I'm
Speaker 15: kind of surprised that the Trump supporters are even going
Speaker 15: to her salon. It looks like her specialty is like
Speaker 15: rainbow hair. So unless you want to look like Bozo
Speaker 15: the Cloud, then you might want to go see her.
Speaker 15: You can go look at the page and decide for yourself,
Speaker 15: but I certainly wouldn't go there, especially after all of
Speaker 15: these despicable things.
Speaker 3: That she said.
Speaker 15: Why would you want to spend money on somebody who
Speaker 15: despises you and depicts you in this manner? I mean,
Speaker 15: it's really truly offensive. So I don't feel for her.
Speaker 15: Don't spend money on people who hate you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, code advice, I mean, Rainbow heir. It sounds like
Speaker 2: she's catering to the far left anyway. Look, a nonprofit
Speaker 2: organization called Open the Books has revealed after in depth
Speaker 2: research that since twenty twenty one, the US government has
Speaker 2: spent one hundred and twenty seven million dollars of tax
Speaker 2: paying money investigating the spread of COVID misinformation. That is
Speaker 2: just an astonishing figure, Stephanie.
Speaker 15: It is, And the figure is actually even bigger than that,
Speaker 15: if you read fully throughout the report, they actually say
Speaker 15: it's actually closer to two hundred and sixty seven million
Speaker 15: dollars that were spent in total on a groups that
Speaker 15: are supposedly researching misinformation. And a lot of us have
Speaker 15: an issue with misinformation, right, We want people to know
Speaker 15: the truth. Here the truth, see the truth. But unfortunately,
Speaker 15: we know how the Biden administration is and how people
Speaker 15: on the left are when it comes to misinformation. Really
Speaker 15: what there are doing as targeting Conservatives and Republicans in
Speaker 15: their speech and the misinformation that they speak about, especially
Speaker 15: in regards to COVID nineteen, all of that stuff that
Speaker 15: was labeled misinformation ended up being correct for the most part.
Speaker 15: So again it's just an egregious waste of taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 15: And this is something that Elon Musk if the vik
Speaker 15: Ramaswami are going to have to look into when they
Speaker 15: have Doge going in the government, when when it officially starts.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: Democratic Senator Catherine Cortes Masto has called on President Biden
Speaker 2: to extend deportation protections and work permits for illegal immigrants
Speaker 2: in the US before Trump takes office, writing on X
Speaker 2: President Biden has the power to protect immigrant families and
Speaker 2: I'm calling on him to use it.
Speaker 3: What did he make of that?
Speaker 15: You know, this is again the fear mongering, scare mongering
Speaker 15: that the left likes to do. Now, if you listen
Speaker 15: carefully to what the incoming borders are, Tom Holman actually
Speaker 15: said was that they're going to do targeted enforcements and
Speaker 15: that they were going to target criminal illegal immigrants who
Speaker 15: are in this country. So everyone should be behind that
Speaker 15: and applauding it. And if you look at what happened
Speaker 15: in the twenty four election, immigration was a top issue,
Speaker 15: which is why Republicans won in a landslide. The American
Speaker 15: people want our immigration laws to be followed, and they
Speaker 15: especially want the criminal illegal immigrants sent back to their
Speaker 15: home countries or out of this country and part of it,
Speaker 15: like many of us, would love to see this outrage
Speaker 15: that the left has over with the scare mangery and
Speaker 15: this type of stuff that they talk about, you know,
Speaker 15: like the the deportations, the mass deportations, how they're going
Speaker 15: to play out. I wish they would have like this
Speaker 15: much anger towards the criminal legals that have taken the
Speaker 15: lives of innocent American people and women especially, and the
Speaker 15: harm that they've done to children. So again, very misleading,
Speaker 15: very dishonest, but it's just typical.
Speaker 3: Yeah it is.
Speaker 2: Stephanie hammil thank you so much for your time. Now
Speaker 2: before we go to a break, I want to now
Speaker 2: show you and even bet video of Democrats eating their
Speaker 2: words on the hunt of Biden Poddon.
Speaker 16: Take a look in July of twenty twenty three, just
Speaker 16: after that plea deal fell through. This is what you said,
Speaker 16: I want to watch.
Speaker 9: Do you think a pardon for his son would be
Speaker 9: a mistake?
Speaker 5: Yes, And I don't think there's any chance that President
Speaker 5: Biden is going to do that, unlike his predecessor, who
Speaker 5: pardoned all of his friends and anyone who had any
Speaker 5: access to him. And I think you see that in
Speaker 5: this case where he kept on and Merrick Garland kept
Speaker 5: on a Trump appointed US attorney to investigate the president's son.
Speaker 5: If there is not an indication of the independence of
Speaker 5: the Department of Justice beyond that, I don't know what
Speaker 5: we could look for.
Speaker 16: What does that feel like watching yourself back then, reassuring
Speaker 16: people that Biden was not going to issue a pardon
Speaker 16: for his son.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And I think that if that plea agreement and that
Speaker 5: plea deal had gone through, there would be no pardon
Speaker 5: that was a satisfactory outcome.
Speaker 16: Had already fallen.
Speaker 5: That.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: It's so cruel that they made him watch himself while
Speaker 2: he delivered that very wrong prediction and then have to
Speaker 2: try and get out of that hole afterwards, Look, don't
Speaker 2: go anywhere. Only in America is after the break. Welcome
Speaker 2: back to the program, and now it's time for a
Speaker 2: little part of the show we like to call Only
Speaker 2: in America.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: You may recall the adorable video of a young Baron
Speaker 2: Trump talking about his suitcase while speaking in Mum Millenia's accent.
Speaker 2: After that clip went viral, it sparked its own series
Speaker 2: of viral offshoots on TikTok after someone remixed it into
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