1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,640 Speaker 1: Stateside. Richard Arld the morning to you what he mind? 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: Kate's out bonding in I think We're done, aren't we. 3 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 2: Yeah? There were a couple of others in the mix 4 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 2: of the weekend, but the President elect has now rolled 5 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 2: out the last of his florry of cabinet picks with 6 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 2: casting that looks well a lot like Fox News doesn't. 7 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 2: The two of his pic Sawn Duffy for Transportation and 8 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 2: Pete heg Seth chosen to run the Pentagon of Fox 9 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 2: News presenters straight off the airwaves. Mike Huckabee chosen for 10 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 2: Ambassador to Israel, had a six year contract hosting a 11 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 2: Fox News show. Tulsey Gabbard filled in for former Fox 12 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 2: host Tucker Culson From elsewhere in the entertainment world, Doctor 13 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 2: Oz hosted his TV Doctor Show for many years. Now 14 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 2: is chosen to oversee Medicare for Seniors and Medicaid for 15 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 2: the poor on TV. He was often accused of promoting 16 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 2: quack medical treatments. When COVID hit. He espouse the use 17 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 2: of hydroxy chloroquin at a time when he had shares 18 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 2: in a couple of companies that makes the anti malaria drogue. Anyway, 19 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 2: there is uh. Linda McMahon as well, who with her 20 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 2: husband helped to run the professional wrestling empire. They had 21 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 2: now chosen as Education Secretary, so a lot of cable 22 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,559 Speaker 2: news regulars and entertainment folks. Pam Bondi was chosen quickly 23 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 2: for attorney General after the Matt Gates nomination dissolved amid 24 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 2: that slew of sexual abuse claims. This means that if 25 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 2: they are all confirmed, the top three officials at the 26 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 2: Justice Department will all be people who work for Trump's 27 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 2: legal defense in the many criminal cases he was facing 28 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,839 Speaker 2: until he was re elected. Pambondi was Florida's Attorney general 29 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 2: and also defended Trump during his first impeachment trial. During 30 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 2: the first Trump convention, when the crowd chanted lock her up, 31 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 2: referring to Hillary Clinton, she said, yeah, lock her up. 32 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 2: I love that quote unquote. And now she says of 33 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 2: the Justice Department, prosecutors will be prosecuted the bad ones. 34 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: The investigators will be investigators. 35 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 2: So she is speaking there of the retiring januartor sixth 36 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 2: prosecutor Jack Smith, I guess and his aides. While Trump 37 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 2: nominee John Sour is the lawyer who argued the immunity 38 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 2: case for Trump before the U. S. Supreme Court. Another 39 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 2: recent pick is Sebastian Gorka, another Fox News regular, who 40 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 2: has chosen to be Deputy assistant to the President. His 41 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 2: advice on the Justice Department is this part. 42 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 3: Of my department. You identify the two worst criminals, you 43 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 3: arrest them, and you purp walk them out of the 44 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 3: building in facles like they did to Peter Navarro in 45 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 3: front of the CNN cameras, and they stand trial. 46 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 2: So an enemy's list. Also during the election campaign, Trump 47 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 2: said he had no connection with what is known as 48 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 2: Project twenty twenty five, which calls for entire federal bureaucracy 49 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 2: to be placed under the president's control. It says many 50 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 2: government workers should be exchanged for political appointees. Trump said 51 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 2: during the campaign relation to this, I don't know what 52 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 2: the hell it is. 53 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 3: It's Project twenty five. 54 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 2: He's involved in project and then they read some of 55 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 2: the things that they are extreme, seriously extreme. I have 56 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 2: no idea what Project twenty twenty five is. I've never 57 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 2: read it, and then never will. But now Trump has 58 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 2: chosen the co author of the nine hundred page Project 59 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five plan, Russell Votte, to lead the Office 60 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 2: of Management and Budget. Trump also is running his transition 61 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 2: team on secret money. We find, in a sharp break 62 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 2: from tradition, he refused to sign an agreement to limit 63 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 2: fundraising in return for federal funds. Trump is the first 64 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 2: American president to do that. Meantime, the richest man on Earth, 65 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 2: Elon Musk, still is hanging about Trump and Mara Lago, 66 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 2: and he just posted a meme on his ex or 67 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 2: Twitter platform, joking about buying the left leaning cable news 68 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 2: network MSNBC, which is about to be spun off by Comcast. 69 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 2: Here the Musk meme shows a caricature of a priest 70 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 2: looking luridly at at a woman with a caption lead 71 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 2: us not into temptation as the priest looks at a 72 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 2: woman's rear with a caption Elon Musk trying not to 73 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 2: buy and MSNBC is tattooed on who rear? 74 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: Right house? 75 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 3: Where are we at? 76 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 2: Yeah? This is ongoing man, pretty interesting. We've heard all 77 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 2: of the talk about the Trump mandate, of course and 78 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 2: so called landslides. Let us tally show is the Magat 79 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 2: team winning about forty nine point nine percent, so under 80 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 2: fifty percent. That means his margin over Harris was about 81 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 2: one point six percentage points, which is the third smaller 82 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 2: since eighteen eighty eight. Also, the final count still is 83 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 2: ongoing for the House of Reps, and Matt Gates demiers 84 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 2: could cut into the Magat team's House numbers. The present 85 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 2: tally shows Republicans with two hundred nineteen seats in the 86 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 2: DAMS two hundred and thirteen, but those numbers do not 87 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 2: take into account the Matt Gates departure. It will take 88 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 2: at least three months for replacement election for Gates. Also, 89 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 2: there are three outstanding House races yet to be called, 90 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 2: so that as well will eat into the size of 91 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 2: the Republican majority, which makes things pretty interesting politically. 92 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: I reckon see Wednesday, Richindalds sit side Gates by the way, 93 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: could had taken a seat back once he pinged himself 94 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 1: out of contention seeing in clearly had something. It all 95 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: unfollowed really rapidly on Friday afternoon, seeing and clearly had 96 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 1: something about another person making a series of claims. He 97 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: could have gone back to a seat. He's chosen not to. 98 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: I suspect for reasons that we will become clear in time. 99 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: So as Richard said, they've got they're got to have 100 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: a boat to sort that one out. 101 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 3: For more from the My Asking Breakfast listen live to 102 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 3: News Talks at B from six am weekdays, or follow 103 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 3: the podcast on iHeartRadio.