Speaker 1: This is the US Report with James Morrow.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the program. Here's what's coming
Speaker 2: up tonight. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wilds gives
Speaker 2: a bizarre interview to a left wing Hollywood scandal rag
Speaker 2: tell me why, plus a bizarre murder of Brown University
Speaker 2: was in a political hit job against a rising young
Speaker 2: Republican star. And it turns out we're not the only
Speaker 2: ones who are big fans. And yes I am being
Speaker 2: sarcastic of the view you will not want to miss
Speaker 2: only in America this week. But first terror comes to
Speaker 2: Australia with last Sunday's horrific terrorist attack at Bondai Beach,
Speaker 2: the worst terrorist attack on Australian soil, claiming fifteen lives,
Speaker 2: tearing great risks into the fabric of Australian society and
Speaker 2: putting Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albinizi very much on the spot.
Speaker 2: And while this is not a show about Australian politics,
Speaker 2: I mean this is the US Report after all, I
Speaker 2: thought it would be worthwhile after what has just happened
Speaker 2: to look not just at Anthony Albanesi's shockingly poor leadership
Speaker 2: since the attack, and essentially going to ground to avoid
Speaker 2: the anger of the community. But the way he and
Speaker 2: his labor government have handled everything from anti Semitism to
Speaker 2: international relations since October seventh, and look at that. Let's
Speaker 2: examine that in comparison to how another leader, Donald Trump
Speaker 2: has managed these issues. Now, and I know many people
Speaker 2: pick this up in the US, so I think I
Speaker 2: will start with Albanesi, the Australian Prime Minister and his
Speaker 2: government so that Americans know just what is going on
Speaker 2: down under. I'll give you a few examples. Back in
Speaker 2: October twenty twenty three, when Hamas terrorists busted through the
Speaker 2: security defense separating Israel from Gaza and went on the
Speaker 2: rampage of rape and murder and arsenin kidnapping. Anthony Albanizi well,
Speaker 2: he was up in the deserts of the Northern Territory
Speaker 2: campaigning for his Aboriginal Voice to Parliament referendum. As the
Speaker 2: news came in from overseas, Albanzi stayed in the desert
Speaker 2: and it wasn't until the following Wednesday when Albanzi was
Speaker 2: shamed by the Jewish community and members of the media,
Speaker 2: including myself, into visiting a Melbourne synagogue which he popped
Speaker 2: into on the way to a fundraiser. Meanwhile, at the
Speaker 2: same time, as Foreign Minister Petty Wong urged Israel to
Speaker 2: exercise restraint. Compare this to Donald Trump, Well, he was
Speaker 2: not president at all at the time. He wasn't even
Speaker 2: the Republican nominee when the October seventh attacks happened. But
Speaker 2: still he didn't miss He issued a blistering statement that said,
Speaker 2: among other things, that Israel quote has every right to
Speaker 2: defend itself with overwhelming force, and once an offs, Trump
Speaker 2: did everything he could do help Israel and combat anti
Speaker 2: Semitism at home in the US. When Kafia klad idiots
Speaker 2: occupied campuses and vandalized buildings and threatened Jewish students and
Speaker 2: American universities, Trump threatened to cut off the school's funding
Speaker 2: if they didn't deal with the problem. By contrast, Albanesi's
Speaker 2: labor government stood by universities in Australia as they were
Speaker 2: forced to set up safe rooms to hide Jewish students
Speaker 2: in twenty first century Australia, not nineteen thirty nine Berlin. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: when it comes to foreign policy, the two administrations, the
Speaker 2: two governments could not be more different. Let's compare Albanesi
Speaker 2: and Trump when it comes to Israel and Palestine. Here's
Speaker 2: what Anthony Albanizi did.
Speaker 3: Australia will recognize the stite of Palestine. Australia will recognize
Speaker 3: the rode up the Palestinian people to a stite of
Speaker 3: their own, predic heide it on the commitments Australia has
Speaker 3: received from the Palestinian authority.
Speaker 2: That's right. Albanese made the decision to recognize Palestine. In
Speaker 2: an interview with my sky lead Sky News colleague sharing
Speaker 2: Markson that went to air Friday morning, Israeli Prime Minister
Speaker 2: Benjamin Netna, who called out the predictably dangerous consequences.
Speaker 4: Do you think Australia the Albanesi government's premature recognition of
Speaker 4: a Palestinian state, it's anti Israel rhetoric, often criticizing Israel
Speaker 4: more than Hamas. Also, as you just said, refusal to
Speaker 4: act on hate chance. Did all of this fuel the
Speaker 4: anti Semitism that we've seen and indirectly lead to the
Speaker 4: attack in Bondai?
Speaker 5: Look, I think that after October seventh, governments that recognized
Speaker 5: and called for a Palestinian state basically rewarded Hamas and
Speaker 5: rewarded the savage murder of Jews. That's how it was
Speaker 5: interpreted in the Islamic the radical Islamic quarters. The message
Speaker 5: that was heard by this action was kill Jews, you'll
Speaker 5: get rewarded.
Speaker 2: And as for Trump, well, he went the other way
Speaker 2: and decided to bring peace and get the hostages home.
Speaker 6: And after so many years of unceasing war and endless danger,
Speaker 6: today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the
Speaker 6: sirens are still, and the sun rises on a holy
Speaker 6: land that is finally at peace, a land and a
Speaker 6: region that will live God willing in peace for all eternity.
Speaker 2: And who can ever forget that remarkable trip that Donald
Speaker 2: Trump made to address the kanesseant in Israel. By the way,
Speaker 2: remember Penny Wong, who I mentioned before, when she went
Speaker 2: to Israel herself, guess what, she wouldn't even visit the
Speaker 2: kibbutzs in southern Israel that were shot up and burned
Speaker 2: to hell by hamas I did myself last year. And
Speaker 2: it was an eye opener. Oh and as far as
Speaker 2: last Sunday's terror attack in Sydney, Trump was right out
Speaker 2: there on the front foot.
Speaker 7: Likewise, in Australia, as you know, that was a terrible attack.
Speaker 7: Eleven dead, twenty nine badly wounded, and that was an
Speaker 7: anti Semitic attack, obviously, and I just want to pay
Speaker 7: my respects to everybody.
Speaker 2: And he called out the jew hatred in no uncertain terms.
Speaker 8: People of Australia and especially all those affected by the
Speaker 8: horrific and anti Semitic terrorist attack.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 8: Antisemitic that took place on a Hanka celebration in Sydney.
Speaker 2: What a terrible, terrible thing we don't learn.
Speaker 8: We joined in mourning all of those who were killed
Speaker 8: and were praying for the swift recovery of the wounded.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Alban Easy, well, he has been all but m
Speaker 2: i A assiduously avoiding the Jewish community after more than
Speaker 2: two years of growing anti semitism, marches, vandalism, arson and worse.
Speaker 2: He has avoided the funerals of victims and as far
Speaker 2: as I know, has not gone to see any of
Speaker 2: the Jews who were wounded in the attack in hospital.
Speaker 2: But he couldn't hide forever because he did get an
Speaker 2: earful not at a synagogue, but at an interfaith service
Speaker 2: at Sydney's Saint Mary's Cathedral. Quite the compare and contrast,
Speaker 2: Albanizi won reelection at last year's Australian federal election by
Speaker 2: playing on fears of Trump and painting himself as the
Speaker 2: guy who would stand up to the terrible Orange Man. Well,
Speaker 2: when it comes to the Middle East, to Israel and
Speaker 2: to keeping anti Semitism from spiraling out of control, it's
Speaker 2: hard to say who would take Albanese's approach over Trump's. Now,
Speaker 2: this is our last show for twenty twenty five. Don't worry,
Speaker 2: We're coming back big in the new year. So I
Speaker 2: thought we should have a quick look back at the
Speaker 2: last year, year one, term two of the Donald Trump presidency.
Speaker 2: And I mean there is a lot to look back on,
Speaker 2: a lot we may have even forgotten. Remember Trump coming
Speaker 2: in hot into the White House promising a new golden age.
Speaker 9: The golden Age of America begins right now. From this
Speaker 9: day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again
Speaker 9: all over the world. We will be the envy of
Speaker 9: every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be
Speaker 9: taken advantage of any longer.
Speaker 2: And who else remembers what a big star Trump got
Speaker 2: off to issuing directives and orders and sometimes holding stadium
Speaker 2: rallies to sign executive orders in front of cheering crowds,
Speaker 2: even getting up to toss ceremonial signing pens into the audience.
Speaker 2: Right away, Donald Trump set about fixing the border mess
Speaker 2: that was a big success, and cleaning up government with
Speaker 2: Elon Musk, which turned into a slightly bizarre partnership that
Speaker 2: produced mixed results but also exposed the utter corruption of
Speaker 2: the Washington Aid establishment. Now there were, of course the
Speaker 2: Liberation Day tariffs that confused much of the world, but
Speaker 2: which did not bring about ruin or depression, and which
Speaker 2: actually do seem to be bringing manufacturing back to America.
Speaker 2: More than that, Trump exposed the green energy scam for
Speaker 2: what it was, hit the brakes on the force transition
Speaker 2: to electric cars, and yes, restored an American confidence that
Speaker 2: had taken a terrible battering under Biden. And in the
Speaker 2: last twenty four hours, Donald Trump gave a speech reeling
Speaker 2: off some of his achievements. It was a sometimes combative address,
Speaker 2: selling the last year's achievements.
Speaker 10: Soon, we will host the World Cup and the Olympics,
Speaker 10: both of which I got. But most importantly, we will
Speaker 10: celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration
Speaker 10: of Independence. There could be no more fitting tribute this
Speaker 10: epic milestone than to complete the comeback of America that began.
Speaker 2: Just one year ago.
Speaker 10: When the world looks at us next year, let them
Speaker 10: see a nation that is loyal to its citizens, faithful
Speaker 10: to its work, is confident to its identity, certain to
Speaker 10: its destiny, and the envy of the entire globe.
Speaker 2: Trump also had a bit to say on the economy.
Speaker 10: Have a look the night after eleven months, our border
Speaker 10: is secure, inflation has stopped, wages are up, prices are down.
Speaker 10: Our nation is strong, America is respected, and our country
Speaker 10: is back stronger than ever before. We're poised for an
Speaker 10: economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen.
Speaker 2: And at least as far as inflation is concerned, that's
Speaker 2: not bluster. Even CNN has conceded that inflation is coming down.
Speaker 11: You can see the annual rate of inflation down a
Speaker 11: little bit. In November. It was at three percent the
Speaker 11: last time we got a reading. Now it is ticked down,
Speaker 11: cooling slightly to two point seven percent.
Speaker 2: Indeed, this Harvard professor was shocked, though he had some
Speaker 2: trouble just be careful here containing his excitement.
Speaker 12: I mean, I was surprised there was a better number
Speaker 12: than anyone was expecting. Look, inflation has been very high.
Speaker 12: It stayed high, it has not been coming down. But
Speaker 12: you know, people were expecting it to be above three percent.
Speaker 12: It was well below three percent. I mean, I think
Speaker 12: the President will take this as good news.
Speaker 2: Could you believe his excitement? But this Wisconsin driver, well
Speaker 2: he was a good deal more abiliate about petrol prices.
Speaker 2: I snuck on me a little bit.
Speaker 13: I didn't recognize, and then when I did, I was like,
Speaker 13: oh wow, the gas quastions are going down.
Speaker 14: I can't say I remember being this low.
Speaker 2: There were a huge number of other announcements in the speech,
Speaker 2: including what Trump says are going to be massive tax
Speaker 2: cuts coming for middle class Americans next year, and American
Speaker 2: soldiers are getting well, let me let him tell you.
Speaker 10: Because of tariffs. Along with the just passed one big
Speaker 10: beautiful bill tonight, I am also proud to announce that
Speaker 10: more than one thousand, four hundred fifty thousand, think of this,
Speaker 10: one million, four hundred and fifty thousand military service members
Speaker 10: will receive a special we call Warrior Dividend before Christmas
Speaker 10: so Warrior Dividend in honor of our nations founding in
Speaker 10: seventeen seventy six, we are sending every soldier one thousand,
Speaker 10: seven hundred and seventy six dollars.
Speaker 2: Seventeen seventy six. Get it. Meanwhile, while Trump's approval is
Speaker 2: net negative by nine points according to the Real Clear
Speaker 2: Politics Average polls, the Democrats, for their part, well, they're
Speaker 2: in the toilet, and let's check it again on CNN
Speaker 2: to see what they're saying, because yeah, you know, we
Speaker 2: got to go to all this, right.
Speaker 15: How are voters feeling about Democrats right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 16: I mean Democrats and the minds of the American public
Speaker 16: are lower than the dead sea. What are we talking
Speaker 16: about here, Well, let's take a look the net approval
Speaker 16: rating for Democrats in Congress. You said to Kate Balwin,
Speaker 16: the lowest ever look at us overall, they are fifty
Speaker 16: five points underwater. They're approval rating at south of twenty percent.
Speaker 2: Lower than the dead sea. You gotta love that guy.
Speaker 2: But hey, it's not bad for Republicans. But next year
Speaker 2: there is going to be a massive hill to climb
Speaker 2: for the GOP to hold onto Congress. My prediction is this.
Speaker 2: The Democrats are going to throw everything they've got at Trump. Law,
Speaker 2: fair impeachment, government shutdowns, you name it, anything to distract
Speaker 2: from the left's own messaging, which time and again is
Speaker 2: a loser with the American people. Well, joining me now
Speaker 2: is former White House Chief of Staff and senior advisor
Speaker 2: of Bondi Partners, Mulvany Mitck. Thanks so much for coming
Speaker 2: on the program, Welcome to the US support, and a
Speaker 2: very merry Christmas to you. It's kind of start out
Speaker 2: though this week talking about a little bit of grim news.
Speaker 2: Of course, I just spoke in my editorial length about
Speaker 2: the difference in the approaches between Donald Trump and our
Speaker 2: own Prime Minister here, Anthony Albanizi, on the issue of
Speaker 2: Israel and anti Semitism and so on. We've just had
Speaker 2: this horrific shooting in Bondai this past week, but also
Speaker 2: a couple of very disturbing anti Semitic attacks in New
Speaker 2: York and California, where somebody was stabbed in New York,
Speaker 2: a house with Hanika decorations was shot up in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: I'd love to ask you about this. I wish I
Speaker 2: didn't have to, but with this rise in anti Semitism.
Speaker 2: Can you talk about the difference between how Trump approaches
Speaker 2: these things and maybe what you know about how we
Speaker 2: do things in Australia and whether or not that Trump
Speaker 2: approach is a stronger, better way to deal with things,
Speaker 2: and especially to make sure that the Jews of America
Speaker 2: don't feel like they're being left out on their own,
Speaker 2: as so many of them feel right now in Australia.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think it's a really good question, James, and
Speaker 17: is how I approach the answer. The one thing about
Speaker 17: Donald Trump is he's not afraid to just talk about stuff.
Speaker 17: He's not He's not going to hide behind issues. He's
Speaker 17: not going to hide behind political correctness. If he believes
Speaker 17: that there's an anti semitism problem in the United States,
Speaker 17: he's going to talk about He's going to say that
Speaker 17: and say and we're going to have to fix it.
Speaker 17: It's in stark contrast what we're seeing out of the
Speaker 17: alban Easy government since the since the shooting on Bandai Beach,
Speaker 17: where you know, effectively what we're hearing over here at
Speaker 17: least is that the Australian government is taking the position
Speaker 17: that the gun control laws are really the problem, and
Speaker 17: that's really not an anti Semitism thing. So it's just
Speaker 17: that that's one of the big differences here. Say what
Speaker 17: you want to about Donald Trump, and I've heard all
Speaker 17: the criticisms, but he's not afraid to to sort of
Speaker 17: be black and white when when issues are black and white,
Speaker 17: anti Semitism is real and it's wrong. It'd be nice
Speaker 17: if more leaders around the world would be as definitive
Speaker 17: and speak with such moral clarity.
Speaker 2: Absolutely right, Mick, that it's very correct too. It's the
Speaker 2: gun control, that's what they're trying to do. Fake it
Speaker 2: all out as that make that the big number one issue.
Speaker 2: But moving back to more sort of just American American
Speaker 2: politics too. We've just finishing up a year of the
Speaker 2: Trump two point zero presidency. You know, I spoke at
Speaker 2: length about this before. I would love though, and also
Speaker 2: the big speech he gave just you know, stem Winder
Speaker 2: at the end of the year here, but I love
Speaker 2: you to give it to a straight as somebody used
Speaker 2: to work for Trump. How do you think Donald Trump
Speaker 2: has done this past year? Better than you expected? Worse?
Speaker 2: And what do you reckon some of the challenges are
Speaker 2: coming up four and twenty twenty six.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think it's been a real good year. I
Speaker 17: don't think it's been as good a year as they
Speaker 17: think it has been. Trump got asked the other day
Speaker 17: how the economy is doing, and he said it was
Speaker 17: a plus plus plus plus plus, it was five pluses.
Speaker 17: That's just Donald Trump being Donald Trump. But it's not accurate.
Speaker 17: They've had a good year. The economy is in decent shape,
Speaker 17: but there are issues to deal with. The affordability crisis
Speaker 17: is real. Inflation, while it's down again today, is still
Speaker 17: well above the two percent target. So things are trending
Speaker 17: in the right direction. But Trump is you know, the
Speaker 17: Trump team is running around like they've already won the game.
Speaker 17: And that's a real dangerous sort of attitude to have
Speaker 17: going into twenty twenty six, because they have some real
Speaker 17: severe headwinds just institutionally going into the midterms next November.
Speaker 17: Keep in mind that usually the party in power in
Speaker 17: the White House loses seats in the first off by election,
Speaker 17: So that's what they're facing it and they're going to
Speaker 17: have to do better in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 7: Or else.
Speaker 17: They do stand the chance of significant losses next November.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that means they've really only got nine or
Speaker 2: ten months to get that agenda out there and bedded
Speaker 2: down next year. But Rick also another topic this week,
Speaker 2: and I was so glad you were coming on this
Speaker 2: week because you're a former chief of staff and the
Speaker 2: current chief of staff to Donald Trump. Susie Wiles, she's
Speaker 2: just done this wild interview with Andy Fair. Now, you
Speaker 2: were the chiefs staff at the end of the forty
Speaker 2: five presidency. What did you make of this interview where
Speaker 2: Wiles said Trump had the personality of an alcoholic called JD.
Speaker 2: Van's a conspiracy theorist talked about all sorts of other
Speaker 2: issues like deportation. Did she think she was going to
Speaker 2: get a fair hearing or was there some forty chess
Speaker 2: involved in her doing this series of interviews.
Speaker 17: I still think we're going to hear a lot about
Speaker 17: this story before it's over, and it's gotten a lot
Speaker 17: of international attention. You can imagine people calling me in
Speaker 17: the last couple of days wanting to talk about it.
Speaker 17: Here's a couple of different insights on it. Number One,
Speaker 17: it's not really making news to say that Donald Trump
Speaker 17: has an alcoholic personality. He uses that same language about himself,
Speaker 17: just in private, not in public.
Speaker 2: JD.
Speaker 17: Vance Will will laugh and call himself a conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 17: So when Susie said those things to the reporter, it's
Speaker 17: highly likely that he simply took them out of context.
Speaker 17: I could say five or six really nice things about
Speaker 17: you and at the end and go, yeah, but you know,
Speaker 17: sometimes he's hard to deal with, and if that's the
Speaker 17: only thing they print, it makes it look like it's
Speaker 17: much worse than it is. All of that being said,
Speaker 17: I still don't understand why the interview took place at all.
Speaker 2: Plains it.
Speaker 17: Arrogance would explain it, but she's not an arrogant person.
Speaker 17: Naivete would explain it, but she's not a naive person.
Speaker 17: The only thing that I can come back with, James
Speaker 17: is that I think the President probably wanted her to
Speaker 17: do it. Chris Whipple, the reporter, is famous for writing
Speaker 17: books about chiefs of staff, and Susie Wiles is the
Speaker 17: first female chief chief of staff, and my guess is
Speaker 17: Trump probably encouraged her to talk about this as a
Speaker 17: way to sort of lay the foundation for her historic
Speaker 17: role in the federal government. I'm not sure it was
Speaker 17: a great idea, but it's certainly not the end of
Speaker 17: the world. It's not going to cost her her job.
Speaker 17: The media is blowing it way out of proportion. My
Speaker 17: guess is it'll be gone by the time this time
Speaker 17: next week.
Speaker 2: I cannot believe you, Vick so cynical saying that the
Speaker 2: media is blowing something out of proportion about the Trump
Speaker 2: Whitehouse paris the thought and rue of the day. Hey,
Speaker 2: we can't talking every week when we get together about Venezuela.
Speaker 2: And this week there was a further escalation year, a
Speaker 2: blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and exiting Venezuela.
Speaker 2: This follows, of course, the caizeuar of that oil tanker,
Speaker 2: a bunch of hits on those drug boats. When is
Speaker 2: this going to come to some sort of head one
Speaker 2: way or the other, Because I feel like we're in
Speaker 2: this kind of phony war at the moment, but where
Speaker 2: it goes next still feels very odd. Can you give
Speaker 2: us any insight as to the potential strategy here, because
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are waiting for this
Speaker 2: to actually either turn into something or just go away.
Speaker 17: Yeah, you and I are start on the same page.
Speaker 17: I don't think it's going away. One of the things
Speaker 17: that Susie wils did see in the interview, by the way,
Speaker 17: was that the plan was to continue to bomb the
Speaker 17: drug boats until Maduro just said uncle, and I guess
Speaker 17: that means leave office. I think that's how it's being interpreted.
Speaker 17: I think now that Trump is in, he can't just leave.
Speaker 17: He has to do something. I don't know how he
Speaker 17: claims victory and pulls all the military out. I think
Speaker 17: it's being reported now is the largest naval armada in
Speaker 17: history in the Caribbean. You don't bring that kind of
Speaker 17: firepower down there and not use it. So something has
Speaker 17: to give. If it's really regime change, then they're going
Speaker 17: to have to stay down there until they get their
Speaker 17: regime change. But I have no idea what the administration
Speaker 17: is doing. The same circumstances that exist today existed when
Speaker 17: I was the chief of staff, and we never would
Speaker 17: have contemplated military action Venezuela because Trump never would have
Speaker 17: wanted it. So if you're confused about it about this,
Speaker 17: don't feel bad because a lot of people, including his
Speaker 17: former chief of staff, are as well.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, and you know, personally, just sitting down here
Speaker 2: in Australia, I'd rather see some of those ships in
Speaker 2: the Pacific. But hey, I've no, Admiral Nimitz. Another story
Speaker 2: which caught my eye just before we went to air here,
Speaker 2: and just to go back to this whole question of
Speaker 2: what's going to happen next year, the Democrats now say
Speaker 2: that they are going to run candidates at every state
Speaker 2: and congressional seat in the state of Texas. Now. I
Speaker 2: think this is very interesting strategy here because it suggests
Speaker 2: to me that they feel a confident but be that
Speaker 2: they are looking to do something where they force the
Speaker 2: Republicans to stretch and resources and tie up manpower in
Speaker 2: dollars across this entire huge state. Does this suggest that
Speaker 2: there's a confidence among the Democrats despite the Democrats polling,
Speaker 2: as I mentioned at the start of the show, really
Speaker 2: appallingly and far worse than Donald Trump as a party.
Speaker 17: Look, the Democrats been looking at Texas now for twenty
Speaker 17: years as a prize they think they can get, and
Speaker 17: they don't get close. They've got a really, really weak
Speaker 17: candidate for the Senate race, a House member who is
Speaker 17: polling extraordinarily poorly. She's going to win the Democrat primary
Speaker 17: because she's a progressive leftist, but she's going to get
Speaker 17: waxed in the Senate race. So, look, it's the smart
Speaker 17: thing to do. If I'm running the Democrat Party, I'm
Speaker 17: going to try and get candidates in all the races.
Speaker 17: That just the smart thing to do. Make people spend money.
Speaker 17: But just because you put a name on a ballot
Speaker 17: doesn't mean you're viable. So I'll worry about this more
Speaker 17: when I see the quality of the can that it's
Speaker 17: ceasemearly polling. Do I think there'll be some tail winds
Speaker 17: behind Democrat candidates in twenty twenty six in the midterms, Yes,
Speaker 17: I do. In fact, with the election work today that
Speaker 17: Republicans would lose control of the House, I think almost
Speaker 17: for sure. But there's a long way between that set
Speaker 17: of circumstances and the Democrats being really, really viable in
Speaker 17: one of the reddest states in the nation.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, look, that's fair enough, Mick Hey. Also, just finally,
Speaker 2: before I elect you go, really interesting story here that
Speaker 2: Ford is moving to basically acts electric vehicle production, shifting
Speaker 2: resources back to petrol gasoline powered cars. How much of
Speaker 2: this here is due to the Trump administration's policies around
Speaker 2: changing fuel standards and not forcing people into evs And
Speaker 2: does this suggest then that the US auto market is
Speaker 2: making market is going to start to be able to
Speaker 2: once again fight back against all of those very heavily
Speaker 2: subsidized Chinese evs, which we are seeing flooding America and
Speaker 2: well not America now but also Australia.
Speaker 17: I think you're letting the Trump You're seeing the Trump
Speaker 17: team do what a good conservative Republican would want them
Speaker 17: to do, which is to get out of the business
Speaker 17: of manipulating the markets. If Americans want electric vehicles, American
Speaker 17: companies and foreign companies are going to make them. What
Speaker 17: we had was a giant perversion or distortion of the
Speaker 17: market over the course of the last ten years, with
Speaker 17: the government essentially used tax policy to social engineers said look,
Speaker 17: we know you don't really want an electric car, but
Speaker 17: here we're going to make you buy them by changing
Speaker 17: the rules that makes it harder and more expensive to
Speaker 17: have but petrol cars gas powered cars, and then give
Speaker 17: the subsidies for the EV's like Eve's makes sense. I
Speaker 17: own one of them on an island that's only three
Speaker 17: miles long down in Florida. That makes sense there. If
Speaker 17: you live in Montana, they make zero sense at all.
Speaker 17: So I'm glad to see the Trump administration getting back
Speaker 17: to some free market forces here. I wish they would
Speaker 17: do it in other places as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like to see Australia take a page out
Speaker 2: of that book when it comes to evs versus petrol
Speaker 2: cars as well. But you know, you live and learn anyway.
Speaker 2: Mick Malvannie, thanks so much for joining me at a
Speaker 2: very merry Christmas to you and all the Malvenny's.
Speaker 17: To you as well, James, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: Thanks Nick. Now stick around because after the break, Joe
Speaker 2: Kanca is here to talk about the latest FBI follies.
Speaker 2: But remember those dividends the president was going to pay
Speaker 2: the soldiers I talked about a moment ago, seventeen hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy six American dollars apiece. Well, apparently well off
Speaker 2: lefty commentators are dissing the move because, well, according to them,
Speaker 2: what could you buy for seventeen hundred.
Speaker 18: Dollars and he can promote seventeen seventy six costs all
Speaker 18: he want and giving out a check that worked for
Speaker 18: him the first time, seventeen seventy six. That's less than
Speaker 18: a rent check in DC. I don't even know what
Speaker 18: the impact of that is going.
Speaker 2: To be, less than a rent check in DC. How
Speaker 2: out of touch can you be? You know what? I
Speaker 2: think that lady is just miserable because she lives in DC.
Speaker 2: Stick around Joe Kancha after the break and discuss Dan
Speaker 2: bon Gino stepping down from the FBI in a tick.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the program, and I'm thrilled now to
Speaker 2: be joined by I'm a good friend Fox News contributor
Speaker 2: Joe Koncha. Joe, welcome to the program. Thanks so much
Speaker 2: for joining me, and a very merry Christmas to you
Speaker 2: and the Concha clan. I want to ask you, first
Speaker 2: of all about this story about Dan Bongino. He has
Speaker 2: resigned from his role in the FBI. At the FBI
Speaker 2: after just nine months, seems a bit odd looking at
Speaker 2: it from the outside. What can you tell us?
Speaker 19: Well, I've known Dan for years, having worked with him
Speaker 19: at Fox. He's a guy who's very principal, a man
Speaker 19: of his word, and he probably just saw something internally.
Speaker 19: And I can't unfortunately break any news for you here
Speaker 19: at this point, James, or really give you anything to
Speaker 19: go with tangibly. But I think in the end he
Speaker 19: was frustrated, probably with the bureaucracy as far as the
Speaker 19: government in general, the FBI in general, and said, you
Speaker 19: know what, I'm not here to do what I thought
Speaker 19: I could do. I'll go back to podcasting, thank you
Speaker 19: very much, and try to make an influence there. But
Speaker 19: I mean, if he left, it was probably for a
Speaker 19: very good reason.
Speaker 2: Well I'll tell you what, Joe, he wouldn't be the
Speaker 2: first person to leave the private sector, find government work
Speaker 2: isn't for him and decide to take a walk. But
Speaker 2: I want to talk also about some of the stuff
Speaker 2: that happened in this crazy year, because it has been
Speaker 2: an absolutely nuts twenty twenty five. I was looking back
Speaker 2: over everything that happened. You wrote a great piece though,
Speaker 2: for the Washington Examiner. I urged everybody to check this out,
Speaker 2: where you outlined some of the most uncovered and misreported stories,
Speaker 2: basically big lies that got pushed out there this year.
Speaker 2: He named the slaughter of Nigerian Christians and dogs, decline
Speaker 2: of gas prices, and I RAN's nuclear capability as just
Speaker 2: a few of these tell us about how we have
Speaker 2: been gas lit by so much of the media and
Speaker 2: the narrative this year. As we start to look at
Speaker 2: all of these twenty twenty five retrospectives.
Speaker 19: Oh well, well thanks for the kind words. Yeah, look,
Speaker 19: there's gaslighting and then there's no even putting any gas
Speaker 19: or any light on the story. And that was the
Speaker 19: point of my column, where five stories that absolutely should
Speaker 19: have been covered a heck of a lot more were
Speaker 19: not intentionally not because we missed it, like we missed
Speaker 19: Biden's cognitive decline, whe he's shaking hands with the air
Speaker 19: and having conversations with world leaders who have been dead
Speaker 19: for literally decades, or forgetting the name of his cabinet members.
Speaker 19: You know, this was something where, for instance, in Nigeria,
Speaker 19: I would think that there would be more coverage of
Speaker 19: a situation where up to one hundred thousand Christians have
Speaker 19: been slaughtered since twenty twenty nine, so two thousand and
Speaker 19: nine seventy five hundred this year alone. That's an average
Speaker 19: of thirty five Nigerian Christians per day of being murdered,
Speaker 19: executed in essence, and the world barely hears about it
Speaker 19: until Donald Trump talks about it. So that was one
Speaker 19: big story. Gas prices here in the United States are
Speaker 19: at a five year low. I mean, that is something
Speaker 19: that is pretty remarkable considering that Trump comes in drill,
Speaker 19: baby drill, and suddenly prices go down. Go figure, that's
Speaker 19: how these things work. And I could go down the
Speaker 19: line as far as other stories, including the US taking
Speaker 19: out Iran's nuclear capabilities at four dah in that country,
Speaker 19: flying that mission, not losing one US life, as far
Speaker 19: as carrying it out, and now Iran can't threaten the West,
Speaker 19: blackmail the West in that capacity. And then obviously the
Speaker 19: US southern border being closed by Donald Trump without one
Speaker 19: piece of legislation, just by rhetoric and a new president
Speaker 19: being in we went from twelve to fifteen million coming
Speaker 19: into this country to essentially zero. I think that's the
Speaker 19: story of the year and possibly the decade, James.
Speaker 2: And maybe the lesson from all of that is, hey,
Speaker 2: you know what, you can just do things now. On
Speaker 2: an unhappier note, though, I want to talk Joe about
Speaker 2: this story I have been following myself the last week.
Speaker 2: This shooting at the Brown University campus in Providence, Rhode Island.
Speaker 2: It's a crazy story because the shooter is still on
Speaker 2: the run. Apparently they've issued a warrant for somebody's arrest,
Speaker 2: but they haven't given us the name. There were cameras
Speaker 2: on campus, but they were disabled because they didn't want
Speaker 2: ice ages to use them. This all seems very suspicious,
Speaker 2: especially when you consider that one of the victims was
Speaker 2: a rising star head of the College Republicans. What can
Speaker 2: you tell us about this very strange case.
Speaker 19: Oh yeah, I was on the air for seven hours
Speaker 19: on Fox News when this broke over the weekend, co
Speaker 19: hosting what's called the Big Weekend Show, and I just
Speaker 19: kept thinking over and over again that, oh man, the
Speaker 19: fact that this could be a shooter in a mask.
Speaker 19: And then there are eight hundred cameras at Brown University,
Speaker 19: apparently not many in this part of the building where
Speaker 19: he carried out this shooting, where he appeared to be
Speaker 19: targeting somebody, because again, on a Saturday, at four o'clock
Speaker 19: in the afternoon, the last thing you expect is that
Speaker 19: there is a review session for a final exam going
Speaker 19: on in one of the buildings. Saturday is usually a
Speaker 19: day where either you're a student, you're studying your dorm,
Speaker 19: a library, or doing other you know, fun things. So
Speaker 19: the fact that the shooter knew this went to that
Speaker 19: building somehow got access because you've got to swipe your
Speaker 19: way in, so may have had some help in capacity
Speaker 19: and then in the cover.
Speaker 16: Of night was able to get away.
Speaker 19: Yeah, they appear to have found somebody now. But again
Speaker 19: it's the non transparency that's really a big issue here.
Speaker 19: This appears to be so political now at this point
Speaker 19: in terms of protecting the identity of the shooter and
Speaker 19: not talking about the fact that a girl who was
Speaker 19: the head of the Republican club at Brown was gunned
Speaker 19: down as one of the two victims that died. This
Speaker 19: appears to be targeted, and it appears to be that
Speaker 19: person that was the target.
Speaker 2: And it's just appalling to me that the authorities have
Speaker 2: just been, you know, running so much cover on this.
Speaker 2: It's just bizarre. And I hope that they catch this
Speaker 2: guy and we find out more about this soon. Hey,
Speaker 2: now we got to look forward into the new year
Speaker 2: twenty five. It has been reported, and I don't see
Speaker 2: the reason not to think so there's gonna be another
Speaker 2: government shutdown as early as next month due to the
Speaker 2: ongoing stalemate over this time health insurance subsidies. Tell me,
Speaker 2: are we likely to see another the US government shutdown
Speaker 2: in January? And more to the point, is this part
Speaker 2: of a calculating strategy buy the Democrats to throw as
Speaker 2: many roadblocks and logs across the tracks and everything else
Speaker 2: for Trump to make him and the Republicans look bad
Speaker 2: and chaotic before the midterms.
Speaker 19: James, I'll answer your second question first. Yes, obviously Democrats
Speaker 19: don't care about the people that they are supposed to represent,
Speaker 19: whether that be military members not getting paid, federal workers
Speaker 19: not being paid, snap benefits not being given out to
Speaker 19: those who need it most, as far as will they
Speaker 19: eat tonight or will they not? So they figured it
Speaker 19: worked for them, I guess during the last government shutdown,
Speaker 19: this will be part of the strategy once again. And
Speaker 19: the irony is that Republicans will vote to reopen the
Speaker 19: government over and over again, Democrats will reject it, and
Speaker 19: then the media will say that it's actually Republicans that
Speaker 19: are at fault. So Democrats know in the United States
Speaker 19: that the media will work with them hand in glove
Speaker 19: as far as pushing a narrative that is absolutely false,
Speaker 19: and it's all in an effort to get back power
Speaker 19: in November twenty twenty six during those midterms, and if
Speaker 19: you could try to sideline the Trump economy, and it's
Speaker 19: going to explode next year with the big beautiful bill
Speaker 19: coming into play, Trump tax cuts being permanent, no tax
Speaker 19: on tips. More drill, baby drill. The only way they
Speaker 19: could win is by basically trying to trip up the
Speaker 19: government and its progress and to root against Trump and
Speaker 19: to root against America's success. That's how Democrats get back
Speaker 19: into power. And that's the party that says they're protecting democracy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 19: No, not based on their actions, that does not appear
Speaker 19: to be the case.
Speaker 5: James.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not democracy, it's our democracy. You remember that show.
Speaker 2: That's what they always talk about. But do you think
Speaker 2: they might even go so far as to trying to
Speaker 2: launch another impeachment effort against the president next year?
Speaker 19: Yes, if they gain back power and we have House
Speaker 19: Speaker Jakim Jeffries, it will be impeachment and perpetuity for
Speaker 19: Donald Trump during his final two years in office. That
Speaker 19: creates chaos. Chaos is a ladder, and then they hope
Speaker 19: they could use that ladder to get either Kamala Harris,
Speaker 19: who's now the pole leader as far as getting the
Speaker 19: Democratic nomination, getting her into power finally, or Gavin Newsom
Speaker 19: or even AOC. Yeah, that's the thing. Create chaos and
Speaker 19: then hope that within that chaos, you can gain back
Speaker 19: power instead again doing what's right for the country, and
Speaker 19: that doesn't appear to be the Democrats playbook right.
Speaker 2: Now, doesn't look to have been that for quite a
Speaker 2: long time. Joe Koshah, thanks so much as always for
Speaker 2: joining me at the US support and have a great
Speaker 2: Christmas in New Year. Merry Christmas happening here, sir.
Speaker 19: We'll see in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Hey, is it time for a break already? That's okay.
Speaker 2: We'll be doing the jingle bell rock with Alex style
Speaker 2: when we come back. But first. There's been a lot
Speaker 2: of controversy over the Trump administration's plan to make America
Speaker 2: healthy again by making it so you can't buy junk
Speaker 2: food with food stamps. Amazingly, not everyone thinks this is
Speaker 2: a great idea. Check out this, lady.
Speaker 5: It's not even cool, Like, why do I do this?
Speaker 18: What's the point of foot stamps if it's just for
Speaker 18: real food.
Speaker 20: Hannimore believes she and other Snap recipients should be able
Speaker 20: to go into the grocery store and buy whatever they like,
Speaker 20: Doda candy, prepackaged se It's prepared desserts, and juice with
Speaker 20: less than half of natural fruit or vegetable juice in
Speaker 20: it will not be allowed to be purchased on snap carts.
Speaker 2: I don't know what Trump is doing. I don't know
Speaker 2: what's going on. Yeah, I don't think she does. But
Speaker 2: that Trump, I guess, is such a meeting. He's not
Speaker 2: even letting them eat cake stick around. Alex Stein will
Speaker 2: join us to discuss more revelations about the Biden administration's
Speaker 2: war on Trump after the break Well. Joining me now
Speaker 2: is a great friend of the program and comedian Alex Stein. Alex,
Speaker 2: thanks so much for joining me on the US Report.
Speaker 2: A very merry Christmas, Happy New Year to you and everybody.
Speaker 2: Are you in Texas today?
Speaker 21: I am in Texas. It's a beautiful winter. It's not
Speaker 21: too cold, but it's very nice. No, no snow. We
Speaker 21: don't really get a lot of snow here, but the
Speaker 21: weather is. It's beautiful because at least I'm not burning
Speaker 21: up in the Texas sun right now, So I love it.
Speaker 2: That's fantastic. Hey, there's so much news to talk about
Speaker 2: this week, and it was fascinated by this little story
Speaker 2: in the New York Post that found that back in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, it turned out that the Biden White
Speaker 2: House was coordinating with the Department of Justice over that
Speaker 2: raid on mar A Lago. Now I find this absolutely
Speaker 2: fascinating because I also just played a little while ago
Speaker 2: a clip of Kamala Harris saying, oh, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: there was no coordination between the White House and the
Speaker 2: Department of Justice when it came to the Epstein files,
Speaker 2: and that's why we didn't release them. Feels to me
Speaker 2: like they're being caught out as being actually a very
Speaker 2: politicized Justice Department, as we suspected.
Speaker 21: Yes, James, this is where I'm a little worried we
Speaker 21: have them dead to rights that basically this whole entire
Speaker 21: rate of mar Lago is just a dog and pony show,
Speaker 21: and now we have evidence. We even have left this
Speaker 21: congressman and senator saying that this search was not official,
Speaker 21: unauthorized and using all the typical dictionary words that we know.
Speaker 21: We hear these politicians say these, you know, big words.
Speaker 21: But I want to see somebody go to jail. I
Speaker 21: want to see somebody arrested in handcuffed for doing an
Speaker 21: illegal rate on our president. Like I'm happy that they
Speaker 21: tell us all this after the fact, but I want
Speaker 21: to see I don't want to see anybody get hurt,
Speaker 21: but I want to see some people go down for
Speaker 21: their crimes against America.
Speaker 2: Well where is all that up to? Because I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, every time the Trump administration starts to push
Speaker 2: back against the people who did all these sorts of things,
Speaker 2: you know, the press starts screaming, oh, you know, it's
Speaker 2: retribution against his enemies. There's a bunch of other sort
Speaker 2: of cases on foot around this, but I haven't actually
Speaker 2: seen any kind of results on any of them. And
Speaker 2: tells me that if the Democrats get back into power
Speaker 2: at some point, they're just gonna do the same thing again.
Speaker 14: And for Donald Trump.
Speaker 21: One thing of Donald Trump, I think this is probably
Speaker 21: one of his few weaknesses, is that even though Donald
Speaker 21: Trump is a conservative is right landing, Donald Trump wants
Speaker 21: to be liked by everybody.
Speaker 14: He wants to be liked by the left.
Speaker 21: So I think that's why sometimes he actually, you know,
Speaker 21: he lays off the gas, he pumps the brakes, when
Speaker 21: he has the metaphorical kill shot, or he has you know,
Speaker 21: the nuclear weapon that could end all of this, he
Speaker 21: doesn't drop it because he likes to have mercy on
Speaker 21: his opponent. So I think that makes him admirable, but sometimes,
Speaker 21: you know, I want to see a guy get in
Speaker 21: there and really kind of destroy the enemy that is
Speaker 21: trying to attack us every single day.
Speaker 14: Metaphorically.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, Absolutely, go in there and salt
Speaker 2: the earth. But what are you going to do? We
Speaker 2: get what we get. Hey, also about this, there's another
Speaker 2: story here. A crazy lefty has gone viral after a
Speaker 2: tirade against a Target employee or targe, as I like
Speaker 2: to say, simply for wearing one of those Charlie Kirk
Speaker 2: freedom pie shirts. Let's have a little bit of a
Speaker 2: look at this.
Speaker 18: Stupid No, why the do you wear that?
Speaker 12: You're at work at Target.
Speaker 20: That's not a Target shirt, it's not a plain red shirt.
Speaker 12: You support a racist.
Speaker 18: The opinion is he's the facist and you support him.
Speaker 4: Yes, you're a pinion and you shouldn't a You should
Speaker 4: not be allowed to wear that.
Speaker 1: This is going to be taken above your That's insane, Alex.
Speaker 2: It amazes me how much the word freedom can trigger people.
Speaker 14: Or just Charlie in general.
Speaker 21: You know, I'm in Texas right now, but I'll be
Speaker 21: going to Amfest this weekend where we'll be celebrating you know,
Speaker 21: turning point and obviously celebrating Charlie's life.
Speaker 14: But when you see these people.
Speaker 21: That actually get pleasure out of making an elderly woman
Speaker 21: that's working at Target trying to pay her bills and
Speaker 21: she likes to represent America.
Speaker 14: She loved Charlie.
Speaker 21: It gave her joy, just like that girl probably likes
Speaker 21: Taylor Swift or you know, this person likes Bad Bunny.
Speaker 21: I don't like their politics, but I don't dislike somebody
Speaker 21: because they like them, And so that's what these people do.
Speaker 21: It's like she literally attacks an innocent elderly woman because
Speaker 21: this woman likes Charlie Kirk. But these people are disgusting
Speaker 21: and they make you pass these fake purity tests and
Speaker 21: if you fail them by liking Charlie Kirk, they will
Speaker 21: go and post you online and try to embarrass you.
Speaker 14: But it always works. The good guys always win in
Speaker 14: the end.
Speaker 21: Because now the Target employee has one hundred and fifty
Speaker 21: thousand dollars gifts and go, I right check. So she's
Speaker 21: gonna be able to go on a great vacation. So
Speaker 21: it all worked out of the end thankfully in this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well look that's good. But I love these people
Speaker 2: who accuse the right of spreading division of sprading division themselves.
Speaker 2: But hey, let's also have a go over to New
Speaker 2: York City, of my old hometown, where Mayor elect zorad
Speaker 2: Mam Donnie seems to have some interesting explanations for his
Speaker 2: policy where he wants to introduce free.
Speaker 1: Bus rides across the city. Have a look, he made
Speaker 1: five bus routes free in New York City. When we
Speaker 1: made those bus routes free, after a year, assaults on
Speaker 1: bus drivers dropped by thirty eight point nine percent on
Speaker 1: the bus driver the bus drivers because unlike the train,
Speaker 1: the act of fare collection on the bus happens on
Speaker 1: the bus, and bus drivers and unions have shared anecdotally
Speaker 1: that about fifty percent of assaults happen around the fair box.
Speaker 1: So when you eliminate the farebox, you make for a
Speaker 1: safer experience for the bus driver for everyone on the bus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Alex cleared this up for me. Did he just
Speaker 2: say that the great thing under his policy will be
Speaker 2: that when you take the bus in New York City,
Speaker 2: you are much more likely now to be sitting next
Speaker 2: to somebody who is so violent and unhinged in deranged
Speaker 2: that they would punch a bus driver over the fair.
Speaker 14: Yeah. No, seriously, his math wasn't that great.
Speaker 21: So he said if they give free bus fare, that
Speaker 21: the bus drivers only have a thirty nine percent chance
Speaker 21: of getting assaulted.
Speaker 14: She'l tell me even if they pay, they have a
Speaker 14: sixty percent chance. I don't understand this math.
Speaker 21: It seems like these bus drivers are going to get
Speaker 21: assaulted either way, whether the bus is free or not,
Speaker 21: because it looks like the break is a fifty to fifty.
Speaker 21: So all I'm saying is New York City is America's
Speaker 21: greatest city. I think Mom Donnie is probably going to,
Speaker 21: you know, obviously make the city worse. But I do
Speaker 21: not think that he can actually break a city like
Speaker 21: New York because New York's bigger than me. It's bigger
Speaker 21: than you, bigger than Mom Donnie. So he's definitely gonna
Speaker 21: make it worse for New York. Just like the earth,
Speaker 21: as much as we damage it, it'll come back bigger
Speaker 21: and stronger.
Speaker 14: I truly believe you know.
Speaker 2: That's been my experience with New York my entire life, Alex.
Speaker 2: But finally, before I let you go to maybe head
Speaker 2: up to grape Vine and look at all the Christmas
Speaker 2: decorations there. I want to get your reaction to this.
Speaker 2: Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was asked what the biggest
Speaker 2: threat was to America, Islamophobia or Trump, have a look
Speaker 2: at this.
Speaker 15: I think we have to focus, quite frankly, on if
Speaker 15: we're worried about the threats of American values, on the
Speaker 15: person who's in the White House.
Speaker 2: I mean, we have a come on, really, we're going
Speaker 2: come on.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I'm going there because we have a president who
Speaker 15: has completely undermined our democracy, who has has So you don't.
Speaker 1: See is you don't see jiha, you don't see is
Speaker 1: it a problem?
Speaker 15: What I don't see is it as a single lens problem.
Speaker 2: So Jihad or Trump, She'll go with jihab, Is that right?
Speaker 21: I mean, absolutely ridiculous in Islamophobia. Obviously, you guys had
Speaker 21: a terrible attack of Bondie Beach. You know, those are
Speaker 21: two people that father and son went and killed a
Speaker 21: bunch of Vinis at people celebrating Hanukkah. And here in America,
Speaker 21: you know, I'm in Dallas, Texas, and Plano, a suburb
Speaker 21: of Dallas, has one of the biggest Muslim communities in America.
Speaker 21: Building right in my backyard. So there is an Islamification
Speaker 21: of America. We do have freedom of religion, but we
Speaker 21: don't have freedom of other countries coming in here and
Speaker 21: taking over cities like the Somalians are doing.
Speaker 14: So I'll just tell you this, a lot of Islamic people.
Speaker 21: Are great, a lot of them are nonviolent, but when
Speaker 21: it comes to threatening America's values or our way of life,
Speaker 21: you're much more likely to be affected by a Islamic
Speaker 21: terrorist and you are Donald Trump. And she's just being
Speaker 21: she's just being naive, or she's just trying to do
Speaker 21: that to actually just she's lying, that's what she's doing.
Speaker 21: She knows that Donald Trump is not a bigger threat
Speaker 21: than is the Islamification of America.
Speaker 14: So she's just plowing blank lying about Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's right, Alex, And I reckon that she's
Speaker 2: going for a headline. But yes, thank you for conn
Speaker 2: words about the alleged attackers there on Bontai Beach last Sunday.
Speaker 2: It was a terrible event. But thank you so much,
Speaker 2: Alex for your time, and we'll see you in the
Speaker 2: new year. Can it be that time already only in
Speaker 2: America is coming up? After the break But first, I know,
Speaker 2: if you were like me, you're wondering what side dishes
Speaker 2: you're gonna serve at your big holiday feast. Well, here's
Speaker 2: an idea. A Kamala word salad is always a great
Speaker 2: palate cleanser. Here the would have been president is explaining
Speaker 2: why if the Epstein files were so bad for Trump,
Speaker 2: the Biden administration never released them, why didn't they come
Speaker 2: out during your administration?
Speaker 13: To give you an answer that will not satisfy your curiosity,
Speaker 13: I will tell you we perhaps to our damage, but
Speaker 13: we strongly and rightly believed that there should be an
Speaker 13: absolute separation between what we wanted as an administration in
Speaker 13: what the Department of Justice did. We absolutely adhere to that,
Speaker 13: and it was right to do that. The Justice Department
Speaker 13: would make its decisions independent of any political or personal
Speaker 13: vendetta or concern that we may have, and that's the
Speaker 13: way it worked.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, I'm just laughing at the
Speaker 2: idea of the Biden White House being at arm's length
Speaker 2: through the Justice Department. Hilarious. Now stick around, because Only
Speaker 2: in America is next. Welcome back to the program, and
Speaker 2: now it's time for a little segment. We like to
Speaker 2: call only in America. Well, let's see out the year
Speaker 2: with a little fun spot about our favorite chat show.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about. It's The View, and
Speaker 2: it seems like we're not the only fans of the program.
Speaker 2: It is also a hit with whoever is writing the
Speaker 2: popular TV drama The Landman, which is all about the
Speaker 2: West Texas oil game. Have a look at this.
Speaker 5: What do you need? I don't know what to do?
Speaker 16: Whatever you want to read a book?
Speaker 2: Talk shows?
Speaker 21: You don't like The View or something?
Speaker 5: What's the View?
Speaker 14: A bunch of pissed.
Speaker 10: Off millionaires about how much they hate millionaires and Trump
Speaker 10: and Man and you and.
Speaker 5: Me and everybody else. They got to be up their
Speaker 5: ass about.
Speaker 2: It's pretty funny, will sound funny? I ain't joke fin
Speaker 2: It's like a part in charge by you know.
Speaker 18: What I mean?
Speaker 5: That don't sound funny either. It depends on your proximity
Speaker 5: to the fart.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's even as funny as that. But
Speaker 2: love to see everybody having fun with that show. And hey,
Speaker 2: that's all from me for this week and this year.
Speaker 2: But don't worry. The US Report will be back in
Speaker 2: January for what is going to be a massive one
Speaker 2: in US politics. Until then, a huge thank you to
Speaker 2: my producer Tom and the whole Sky News team, and
Speaker 2: we wish you a merry Christmas, a happy New Year,
Speaker 2: and for our Jewish friends is Hanukkah. Remember light always
Speaker 2: wins out over darkness. Bye bye,