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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold, how are you?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I mean Gates is of all the mad appointments,

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Speaker 2: Gates would be you know, mega mad, wouldn't he? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: this is the one that's causing the most backlash. Gates

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Speaker 2: for Attorney General, top law enforcement officer, although that is

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Speaker 2: far from the only ruckers. But Gates has been tapped

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Speaker 2: to lead the very Justice Department he said should be abolished,

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Speaker 2: and which investigated Gates for the alleged sex trafficking of

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Speaker 2: a seventeen year old girl that probe ended without charges,

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Speaker 2: but the House Ethics Panel pressed on with other inquiries

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Speaker 2: about Gates and alleged sexual misconduct and elicited drug use,

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Speaker 2: and for allegedly accepting improper gifts and so on and on,

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Speaker 2: said Gates before Trump named him for the top Justice

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Speaker 2: Department post.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I should serve as Attorney General of the United States.

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Speaker 3: If necessary, I'd fire every little kicker at the j.

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Speaker 2: Edgar Hoover Building, Gates has said, overtime, all kinds of stuff.

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Speaker 3: I don't care if it takes every second of our

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Speaker 3: time and every ounce of our energy. We either get

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Speaker 3: this government back on our side, or we defund and

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Speaker 3: get rid of abolish the FBI, CDC, atf DOT, every

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Speaker 3: last one of them.

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Speaker 2: If they do not come to heal Pick shut down

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Speaker 2: the entire government. When he heard of the Gates Pick,

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Speaker 2: Republican Mike Simpson said, are you bleeping me? Won't use

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Speaker 2: his exact language. Multiple Republicans are scathing about their colleague.

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Speaker 2: Many a teed off the Gates led the Bush to

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Speaker 2: remove Kevin McCarthy as Republican Speaker. McCarthy, well, he's still

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Speaker 2: seething about that, suggesting Gates should be locked away.

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Speaker 4: At end of the day, he probably shouldn't be on

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Speaker 4: the streets.

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Speaker 2: Another Republican calls Gates Pick insane. Yet another describes this

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Speaker 2: choice as unbelievable. One defense industry official top politico that

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Speaker 2: he had concerns about to other people. Former National Security

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Speaker 2: Advisor John Bolton, who in his time was I guess,

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Speaker 2: slammed as being out on the free of his party's

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Speaker 2: right wings of Gates.

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Speaker 5: It must be the worst nomination for a cabinet position

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Speaker 5: in American history. I think this is something that falls

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Speaker 5: well outside the scope of deference that should be given

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Speaker 5: to a president in nominating members of his senior team.

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Speaker 5: Gates is not only totally incompetent for this job. He

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Speaker 5: doesn't have the character. He is a person of moral turpitude,

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Speaker 5: and notwithstanding how difficult it may be politically, this is

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Speaker 5: a nomination the Republican Party should oppose.

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Speaker 2: Gates also has just quit the House of Reps. Because

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Speaker 2: the ethics panels report on this and his activities was

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Speaker 2: due for voting a couple of days, so that inquiring

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Speaker 2: now is done since he's no longer in the Congress,

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Speaker 2: so getting out by the skin of his teeth. There

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Speaker 2: is a push to make that inquiry public during his

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Speaker 2: confirmation hearings in the Senate, if those hearings actually happen.

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Speaker 2: As we've been saying, Trump wants the Senate to adjourn

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Speaker 2: for ten days at least at the Saturday next year,

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Speaker 2: so he Trump and Jews, Gates and anyone else that

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Speaker 2: he wants to as a virtual dictator without any Senate

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Speaker 2: approval on these nominations. The new Senate leader John Soon

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Speaker 2: says today, we'll look into those procedures, but yeah, this

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Speaker 2: has head on fight with the Republican dominated Senate. This

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Speaker 2: is Republicans also just one control of the House of Reps.

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Speaker 2: But with nine seats still underside that they have the

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Speaker 2: slimmest majority. Meantime, some other picks causing a feuer include

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Speaker 2: Tulsey Gabbart as head of National Intelligence. This is a

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Speaker 2: person who gets to see all of America's secrets, but

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Speaker 2: Gabbart is a well known conspiracy theory individual. She went

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Speaker 2: to visit serious dictator Assad without any US government approval,

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Speaker 2: and also declared that the US could have stopped the

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Speaker 2: Russian war in Ukraine if only if only Washington was

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Speaker 2: nice at the putin about NATO. There have been accusations

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Speaker 2: that she is not loyal to the United States, so

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Speaker 2: will American allies continue to share intel with an operation

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Speaker 2: she is heading. There are a number of pro putin

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Speaker 2: people in the Trump ranks, including Pete Hegseeth, who has

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Speaker 2: been named as Trump's pick for Defense Secretary, running the Pentagon,

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Speaker 2: perhaps the biggest enterprise in the world. He's been on

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Speaker 2: Fox News weekends as a second or third stringer, doing

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Speaker 2: all all of the silly things that morning TV honchos

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Speaker 2: on the weekends do, like throwing a sharpened axe at

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Speaker 2: a board on Fifth Avenue one time, missing that board

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Speaker 2: and nearly cutting off the arm of a drummer who

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Speaker 2: was standing behind the thing.

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Speaker 5: They're testing their skills with the acts.

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Speaker 3: Who's going to win this battle in the I'm putting

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Speaker 3: my money on Clayton.

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Speaker 2: Oh, sorry for nearly killing the guy on live TV.

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Speaker 2: Let's put that bloke in charge of the entire US

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Speaker 2: military and all its weapons when he's never run well anything,

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Speaker 2: says Democrat and Smith who's been on the US Arms

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Speaker 2: Services Committee.

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Speaker 4: President comes to you and says, hey, we've got a

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Speaker 4: situation in the Middle East. What are our options? If

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Speaker 4: you've never actually been in a situation room or in

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Speaker 4: the DoD and analyzed what those options are, making it

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Speaker 4: up off the top of your head.

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Speaker 2: Well, Haigsaith was in the Army National Guard and he

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Speaker 2: knows about soap. Soap, yees soap. Here is his ad

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Speaker 2: force soap in the shape of hand grenade.

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Speaker 6: She see one man Army loves the country and makes

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Speaker 6: damn good soap. I've used them all, and I love

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Speaker 6: these new brands like gun Smoke smells like American firepower,

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Speaker 6: or Girka refined Bourbon and tobacco Leaf, or how about

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Speaker 6: Patriot and the Pine tar Bar. There's more of them too.

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Speaker 6: You can get him in a variety pack. Each of

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Speaker 6: them shaped like a grenade soap on a rope.

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Speaker 2: Now they run the Pentagon here gunpowder fragrance soap.

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Speaker 1: See Richard Donold State Side. Jack Smith, by the way,

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Speaker 1: special counsel. He's been busy. He's trying to he's been

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Speaker 1: in court asking the Florida case to be wound up.

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Speaker 1: That's the bits and pieces of classified documents. He wants

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Speaker 1: that wound up. And he's also been in DC for

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Speaker 1: the Gen six case. He wants that wound up as well,

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Speaker 1: and that'll be presumably before he gets fired.

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