Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and he Armstrong and Yeddy or any possibility
Speaker 2: that the president would end up hardening his son. No,
Speaker 2: I just said no. I just answered, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict no matter
Speaker 3: what it is.
Speaker 2: Yes? And have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes,
Speaker 2: I'm extremely proud of my son Hunter.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 2: I said, I buy by the jury decision. I will
Speaker 2: do that. I'll not put Does the President have any
Speaker 2: intention of pardoning him?
Speaker 4: We've been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands,
Speaker 4: which is now.
Speaker 2: President Biden says that he's not partner's son Hunter. Is
Speaker 2: he going to ask Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: To do that. I don't have anything else to share
Speaker 4: about that. I'm not going to get and go down
Speaker 4: a rabbit hole on this. I've been very clear. The
Speaker 4: present has been very clear when we've been asked this question.
Speaker 2: Well, and then Hunter Biden had December, which it now
Speaker 2: is circled on his calendar for quite some time, because
Speaker 2: in the next couple of weeks he had two different
Speaker 2: cases in which he was going to be sentenced for
Speaker 2: things he was already found guilty of, and then he
Speaker 2: had been shuffled off to jail for one to however
Speaker 2: many years as a wealthy guy in his mid fifties
Speaker 2: who's not used to that sort of lifestyle. And his
Speaker 2: dad came through yesterday with a blanket pardon of the
Speaker 2: last ten years, which he'll keep him out of jail
Speaker 2: in any trouble from here on out. I was just
Speaker 2: looking at a Hunter up on the TV. First of all,
Speaker 2: it's interesting that every news channel I've got leading with
Speaker 2: the Hunter Biden pardon story since getting a lot of attention.
Speaker 2: And Hunter, a really good looking guy with good genetics
Speaker 2: in his background, has meth mouth full meth mouth. Now, kids,
Speaker 2: don't do the drugs. No matter what you look like,
Speaker 2: you're gonna look like a meth head after you do it.
Speaker 2: For a while, I learned from the Bob Woodward book
Speaker 2: that I almost finished over vacation, that I either would
Speaker 2: reminded or never knew that Hunter was actually making crack.
Speaker 2: He learned how to make crack and was making.
Speaker 3: Crack and resourceful, and he had accomplished what is known
Speaker 3: as a bell ringer, cracks holy grail, which is the
Speaker 3: ultimate feeling you can get from doing crack.
Speaker 2: And and he had and then he chased that for years.
Speaker 2: Once you have a bell ringer, it's like your only
Speaker 2: thing you want is to get another bell ringer. But
Speaker 2: so that it's like when that that the first time
Speaker 2: you brew up a batch of home brewed beer, and
Speaker 2: it's just perfect. The way to go Hunter, way to
Speaker 2: hang in there and tell you like you're like breaking
Speaker 2: bad burn down your RV. You get you get to
Speaker 2: exploded in the desert, but you hung in there, got
Speaker 2: to go, but got himself a bell ringer. But it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter whatever he did wrong around not pay any
Speaker 2: eight taxes is a rich guy. The rich need to
Speaker 2: pay their fresh share unless their names under Biden taxes, guns,
Speaker 2: whatever else. Not registering is abort all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Don't have to worry about it anymore. Your dad pardoned you.
Speaker 2: Now the Bidens are above the law. Just suck it up, America.
Speaker 2: So the President has issued to pardon. I'm going to
Speaker 2: read part of the official bit of it for reasons
Speaker 2: that shall become obvious. A full and unconditional pardon for
Speaker 2: Robert Hunter. Biden for those offenses against the United States
Speaker 2: which he has committed or may have committed or taken
Speaker 2: pardon during the period from January one, twenty fourteen, through
Speaker 2: December one, twenty twenty four Why that was yesterday. So
Speaker 2: presumably if he commits another crime today, they can go
Speaker 2: ahead and prosecute him. But yes, that is a.
Speaker 1: Decade long pardon for anything that ever comes up.
Speaker 2: I don't know about, y'all.
Speaker 1: I haven't committed that many felonies that I would need
Speaker 1: that sort of blanket everything I did, pardon for it decade,
Speaker 1: which dates from almost the week right that he took
Speaker 1: the gig as a director at Barisma in Ukraine and
Speaker 1: laundered millions of millions of dollars for the Biden family
Speaker 1: in ten percent of course for the big guy.
Speaker 2: Wow. So pardon for things he is convicted of and
Speaker 2: anything he could be convicted of, that's ending.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So the statement from the President today, I
Speaker 1: assigned a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day
Speaker 1: I took office, I said I would not interfere with
Speaker 1: the Justice Department's decision making, and I kept my word
Speaker 1: even as I've watched my son being selectively and unfairly
Speaker 1: prosecuted if you're if you're like a comedian or you're
Speaker 1: doing a live show or something like that, you got
Speaker 1: to pause for a second. It's called a laugh break, right,
Speaker 1: isn't that what it's called? Uh, you got to pause
Speaker 1: for the laugh. And then I go on the idea
Speaker 1: that he was selectively and unfairly prosecuted without aggravating factors
Speaker 1: like used in a crime. Oh, this is about the
Speaker 1: gun charge. Multiple purchases or buying weapon as a straw purchaser.
Speaker 1: People are almost never brought to trial on felony charges
Speaker 1: solely for how they filled out a gun for him.
Speaker 1: The gun charge is actually interesting from a Second Amendment
Speaker 1: point of view. We've discussed this a little bit, the
Speaker 1: idea that I can't buy a gun if I have
Speaker 1: used illegal drugs or end quote unquote an addict who
Speaker 1: besides that, it's a fundamental right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have to start quartering troops because you
Speaker 2: were a drug addict at one point, right, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, somebody could absolutely make the argument that I'm a
Speaker 1: Scotch addict. I don't think I am, but and therefore
Speaker 1: I give up my Second Amendment rights. Right, So we
Speaker 1: we'll table that motion put it aside those who were
Speaker 1: late paying their.
Speaker 2: Titles because with that, but I am the problem with
Speaker 2: that is he's not out there making some argument for
Speaker 2: a change in the federal law.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. I
Speaker 1: just I choose to focus on the other stuff because
Speaker 1: it is unimpeachable part of the expression from any direction
Speaker 1: on any level. The tax stuff is as solid as Gibraltar. Anyway,
Speaker 1: here's a back to the mummified president's statement. Those who
Speaker 1: are late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but
Speaker 1: paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties. If a
Speaker 1: weird o rich guy you meeted a party donor decides
Speaker 1: to pay off your bills psuge Democrat asked kisser and donor, Yes,
Speaker 1: she paid off Hunter's penalties. Anyway, they're typically given non
Speaker 1: criminal resolutions. It was clear that Hunter was treated differently.
Speaker 1: The charges in this case came about only after several
Speaker 1: of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack
Speaker 1: me and oppose my election. That was your own Justice
Speaker 1: department who prosecuted the guy that a carefully negotiated plea
Speaker 1: deal agreed to by the Department of Justice unraveled in
Speaker 1: the courtroom, with a number of political opponents in Congress
Speaker 1: taking credit.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I would love to depart for a moment and talk
Speaker 1: about that unholy sweetheart Plea deal that the judge said, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, am I reading this correctly?
Speaker 1: And then ask the prosecutors have you ever cut a
Speaker 1: deal like this before?
Speaker 2: No, have you ever even heard of a deal like
Speaker 2: this before?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I guess not, your honor.
Speaker 1: So Joe Biden is now claiming that that Plea deal
Speaker 1: was quote careful and negotiated, agreed to by the Department
Speaker 1: of Justice.
Speaker 2: Oh, my god, had the Plea deal healthy?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: So it would have been a fair reasonable resolution of
Speaker 1: Hunter's cases. No reasonable person who looks at the facts
Speaker 1: of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion that that
Speaker 1: Hunter was singled out because he is my son.
Speaker 2: And that is wrong.
Speaker 1: There's been an effort to break Hunter, who's been five
Speaker 1: and a half years sober, even in the face of
Speaker 1: unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution and trying to break Hunter.
Speaker 2: They've tried to break me. There's no reason to believe
Speaker 2: it will stop here. Enough is enough for my entire career.
Speaker 1: I followed a simple, simple principle, just tell the American
Speaker 1: people the truth. Excuse me for a moment. Full academic
Speaker 1: law school scholarship. Only one to get the scholarship, graduated
Speaker 1: top of his class, won the International Moot Court competition.
Speaker 1: Graduated with three degrees. His son Bo died in a rock.
Speaker 1: He was a civil rights warrior, been to a rock
Speaker 1: forty times, appointed to the Naval Academy, Arrested with Nelson Mandela.
Speaker 2: I'm a truck driver. Spoke to the inventor of his insulin.
Speaker 1: His house burned down, raised in a Puerto Rican community,
Speaker 1: visited the Tree of Life Synagogue, and track travels. Full
Speaker 1: Professor at U Penn. Great grandpa was coal miner. Uncle
Speaker 1: was eaten by cannibals. Stat's at creational baseball game. He's
Speaker 1: a football start. He was shot at overseas. First to
Speaker 1: graduate college in his family, Arrested to civil rights process,
Speaker 1: number of tristed, a number of meetings, recision.
Speaker 2: Paying trunk driver killed his family.
Speaker 1: That is not even the full list of all the
Speaker 1: times Joe Biden has been caught lying like a rug
Speaker 1: to the American people, but back to uncle.
Speaker 2: Was eaten by cannibals and still get the laugh out
Speaker 2: of me. Now I will tell you this list.
Speaker 1: This list also includes the battle with corn Pop. I
Speaker 1: choose to believe that the story of corn Pop was
Speaker 1: true because I enjoy it.
Speaker 2: It's like believing in Santa. You don't want it to
Speaker 2: not be true. Was a bad dude.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I've always told the American people the truth.
Speaker 2: Then they'll be fair minded. Here's the truth.
Speaker 1: I believe in the justice system, but as I've wrestled
Speaker 1: with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this
Speaker 1: process and it led to a miscarriage of justice. And
Speaker 1: once I made the decision this weekend.
Speaker 2: You've made that.
Speaker 1: Decision the second your son was convicted, you lion mummy.
Speaker 2: There's no sense in delaying it further.
Speaker 1: I hope Americans will understand why a father and a
Speaker 1: president would come to this decision.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's because your kids a hecke Well yeah, and
Speaker 2: again people I suppose would do that. But that's a
Speaker 2: heck of a phrase. The whole I believe in the
Speaker 2: justice system, but it was corrupted by politics and came
Speaker 2: to an unfair verdict. Okay, then you don't believe in
Speaker 2: the justice system. Right, So go ahead.
Speaker 1: I was just going to say, Mike, the lawyer from
Speaker 1: Chicago says, here's the thought. The Justice Department challenges the
Speaker 1: validity on the pardon on the grounds that the president
Speaker 1: lacks the mental capacity to understand the meaning of the war.
Speaker 2: He's a kindly old man with a bad memory, right exactly.
Speaker 2: I love it The New York Times, Rights of all people.
Speaker 2: Mister Biden's pardon will make it harder for Democrats to
Speaker 2: defend the integrity of the Justice Department, of course, because
Speaker 2: he just said they bend to political will sometimes and
Speaker 2: stand against mister Trump's unapologetic plans to use it for
Speaker 2: political purposes, even as he seeks to install cash betel
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. We all know that story, or we're
Speaker 2: going to get to it later. It would also be
Speaker 2: harder for Democrats to criticize mister Trump for his prolific
Speaker 2: use of the pardon power to absolve friends and ally,
Speaker 2: some of whom could have been witnesses against him in
Speaker 2: previous investigations. Right, this does make it easier for Trump
Speaker 2: to get away with a if he pardon. Obviously, even
Speaker 2: some supporters of mister Biden, writes The New York Times
Speaker 2: said his decision opened the door for mister Trump to
Speaker 2: further warp the system by pointing to his predeces sister's
Speaker 2: own words and actions. Right, so, yeah, that's obviously true.
Speaker 1: Prosecutors said Hunter Biden invaded taxes by claiming hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in false deductions, including the infamous writing
Speaker 1: off payments to horrors and dancers, sex club membership, his
Speaker 1: daughter's law school tuition, his business expenses.
Speaker 2: And again, the president's.
Speaker 1: Son filed these tax papers after he had become sober.
Speaker 2: And the party of the rich don't pay their fair share.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just too rich for me. I mean,
Speaker 2: I yeah, like I'd have to scrape the frosting off
Speaker 2: of this cake. It's too rich. I mean a cup
Speaker 2: of coffee to cut it. You're the part of the
Speaker 2: rich don't pay their fair share. But in this case,
Speaker 2: the rich was paying nothing. He was paying zero on
Speaker 2: his millions of dollars coming in, and his dad pardons
Speaker 2: him when he gets caught, right, right. Final note.
Speaker 1: Noahrothman National Review points out that when it comes to
Speaker 1: what he calls Hunter's sordid conduct, the voting public never
Speaker 1: believed the president, despite the administration's protests and its defense
Speaker 1: and Hunters, staggeringly large majorities believe the president's son was
Speaker 1: guilty of the charges against him. A majority said they
Speaker 1: thought the government had provided Hunter with more favorable treatment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: than a less well connected figure would receive when a
Speaker 1: jerry convicted Hunter of the charges against him. Most voters,
Speaker 1: in spite of the attempt at the backdoor sweetheart deal,
Speaker 1: most voters approved of that outcome. They told polsters they
Speaker 1: believed that the president had benefited from his son's indiscretions
Speaker 1: and that his interventions on his son's behalf were inappropriate. Wow,
Speaker 1: majorities of all voters on all of those side issues.
Speaker 2: Trump has got to be thinking, this is just awesome.
Speaker 2: This is awesome. So you just made it clear to
Speaker 2: everybody that this is a game of the Justice Department
Speaker 2: goes after people they want to bring down, and then
Speaker 2: the president can pardon whoever they want. Man, you just
Speaker 2: played right into his whole bang. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: I am comforted by the notion that Hunter will be
Speaker 1: alive when all of the Biden money laundering family truths
Speaker 1: come out eventually.
Speaker 2: As I suspect you think the oil boy I think
Speaker 2: it's dead and gone. I hope you're right. No, I
Speaker 2: think it'll come out.
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm very very confident in that how much
Speaker 1: attention it will get, given our fixation on the politics
Speaker 1: of the moment, maybe not that much.
Speaker 2: Happy Cyber Monday, everybody. We've got some interesting economic news
Speaker 2: coming out of Black Friday and a bunch of other
Speaker 2: stuff on the waistay here.
Speaker 5: Experts tell us that the steepest deals will likely be
Speaker 5: on Cyber Monday, for things electronics and apparel, and because
Speaker 5: the online sales for Black Friday were so strong, that
Speaker 5: boats well for what could be another record breaking day
Speaker 5: on Cyber Monday as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes, as we know through the years, sometimes money
Speaker 2: just gets moved around. You're going to spend a certain amount,
Speaker 2: and you spend it on these days as opposed to
Speaker 2: closer to Christmas or whatever. So you gotta wait and
Speaker 2: see how it turns out. What percentage of.
Speaker 1: The population do you believe still thinks the best deals
Speaker 1: are like Black Friday to today.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I've never thought that. It doesn't make
Speaker 2: any sense, so I don't know. I never ever thought
Speaker 2: about it in my lived experience. No, I've just never
Speaker 2: thought about the so called sales unless it's a doorbuster
Speaker 2: to just get people in the door, in which you
Speaker 2: have to roll around on the floor at the Walmart
Speaker 2: and fight somebody for and there's usually some piece of
Speaker 2: Chinese crap that you don't need anyway. But did you
Speaker 2: see some of the fight videos from around America. That's
Speaker 2: a good time all we in American tradition. People rolling
Speaker 2: on on the floor of their Walmart beating on each other.
Speaker 2: It is silly me. I was spending time with family
Speaker 2: and good friends. Oh so, I don't know if there
Speaker 2: are more of the manius, but everybody's got a phone now,
Speaker 2: so there's you know one that many years ago, you
Speaker 2: could have one of those and it would disappear. Nobody
Speaker 2: would hear about it. Now, one fight one Walmart anywhere
Speaker 2: in the country, there's gonna be twenty different angles of
Speaker 2: it right as people screaming ye and bash their heads
Speaker 2: against the floor. It's just absolutely amazing. People are animals
Speaker 2: given the right circumstances. Speaking of Thanksgiving and sales and
Speaker 2: all that sort of stuff. I just saw this. I'm
Speaker 2: a doctor. This is the headline in the New York Post.
Speaker 2: I'm a doctor. What to do if you haven't pooped
Speaker 2: since Thanksgiving? That holy that's in the paper today is
Speaker 2: that there's a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday four days later.
Speaker 1: You gotta go for the big e. I mean, you
Speaker 1: gotta get things moving. That's wait, what you would since Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2: What did you eat? I guess and you're pretty well
Speaker 2: maybe you ate. I don't know. Did you bring us this?
Speaker 2: Last week? I saw the headline and over kale, there's
Speaker 2: a new nutrient in town. Beans. So I saw the
Speaker 2: headline and thought, oh yeah, Joe told us about the beans.
Speaker 2: So that's all your hit friends are gonna be talking about.
Speaker 2: Oh you don't eat beans, you gotta eat beans. They
Speaker 2: do this and that whatever.
Speaker 1: As Yeah, I brought this story and completely forgot about it.
Speaker 1: Every couple of years, Oh yeah, beans. Every couple of
Speaker 1: years they come up with a new one. That's just
Speaker 1: the Here's here's my tip as a guy who gained
Speaker 1: three and a half pounds over the last week. Don't
Speaker 1: eat so much pie and milkshakes and you'll be less
Speaker 1: likely to gain weight.
Speaker 2: Then that's what I've learned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my house is piloss for the first time since
Speaker 1: last week, and we I finished off the pumpkin pie
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 2: Dang it, that's it. See, that's it. That's it's the
Speaker 2: advantage or maybe you're dying. That's the advantage of hosting.
Speaker 2: As I went to my parents' house and it was
Speaker 2: fabulous with the kids and my brother was there and
Speaker 2: stuff like that, but you know, no leftovers to bring home,
Speaker 2: So disappointing.
Speaker 1: Coming up, the Oxford University Press is named It's phrase
Speaker 1: or word of the Year.
Speaker 2: And I actually think it's a pretty good one.
Speaker 1: Plus, let's take a look at some of Trump's recent
Speaker 1: nominations or would be appointees in an unbiased, non mainstream
Speaker 1: media hysterical way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the new FBI director getting the most attention, so
Speaker 2: we'll talk about that, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: President elect Donald Trump announcing he plans to nominate Cash
Speaker 6: Patel as the next director of the FBI, A longtime
Speaker 6: Trump ally, Patel rising to prominence as a congressional aid
Speaker 6: pushing back against the Russia investigation during Trump's first term.
Speaker 6: But Patel's nomination still needs to be approved by the Senate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess you start with naming a new FBI
Speaker 2: director is not a thing, really like it is having
Speaker 2: an attorney general or a Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Speaker 2: The FBI director has a ten year term, and if
Speaker 2: it's up, you pick somebody, but if it's not, you
Speaker 2: usually let it run its course, which is part of
Speaker 2: the whole wanting the FBI to be separate from politics thing.
Speaker 1: Right worth noting that the president of letting the guy
Speaker 1: you know run out his term was broken by Trump
Speaker 1: the last time when he fired Comy who needed to
Speaker 1: be fired that one in favor of Chris Ray, he
Speaker 1: was currently in the gig. Yeah, firing Comy perfectly justifiable.
Speaker 1: Ray is somebody Trump picked and is respected and liked.
Speaker 2: By a fair number of people. But having bounced around
Speaker 2: a lot of social media over the last forty eight hours,
Speaker 2: a lot of you, if you're a maga Trump person,
Speaker 2: are really excited about Cash Pattel taking on the FBI
Speaker 2: and doing his thing. A couple of let me hit
Speaker 2: you with a positive thing before I get into some
Speaker 2: of the negatives that the mainstream media are putting out
Speaker 2: about Patel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if I might just jump in and say
Speaker 1: we are I am speaking for myself just in a
Speaker 1: finding out, appraising and weighing mode. A lot of the media,
Speaker 1: and a lot of humanity immediately leaps to because Trump
Speaker 1: appointed him, and here's why. Or he's the hero that
Speaker 1: America needs because Trump appointed him, and here's why. And
Speaker 1: we're just going to take a look at Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know if i'd ever heard the guy's name before,
Speaker 2: so I went in with no opinion. I still have
Speaker 2: no opinion at this point. I think Mars Halpern writes
Speaker 2: in his newsletter today, there are definitely and we'll get
Speaker 2: to some of the troubling stuff. There are definitely some troubling,
Speaker 2: questionable aspects of Patel's background that must get scrutiny and explanation.
Speaker 2: But approximately seventy five percent of what Ruth Marcus and
Speaker 2: the New York Times reporters have seized on appears to
Speaker 2: be just nitpicky. Mccarthuried establishment opposition thought that was interesting.
Speaker 2: That's shock. No, Patel might not make it through the confirmation,
Speaker 2: but the rallying around him by both MAGA and most
Speaker 2: Republicans on the Hill is quite a bit different than
Speaker 2: it was with Matt Gates when he was named for
Speaker 2: Attorney General. So there's much more rallying going on already. Now.
Speaker 2: Some of the things that Patel. Well, first we'll play
Speaker 2: this clip. This was a Patel on Steve Bannon's radio
Speaker 2: show whenever it was back in the day. He said this,
Speaker 2: we will go out and.
Speaker 6: Find the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media. Yes,
Speaker 6: we're going to come after the people in the media
Speaker 6: who lied about American citizens who.
Speaker 2: Helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We're going to come
Speaker 2: after you.
Speaker 1: Whether it's criminal or civilly, we'll figure that out.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we're putting you all on noticing. So he's
Speaker 2: going to go after people in the media who said
Speaker 2: things that were true untrue according to him about the
Speaker 2: whole rush oaks and there was a lot, but that's
Speaker 2: not really a thing we do where we.
Speaker 1: You know, put ingregious examples of deliver it to slander
Speaker 1: and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one more of these before I, uh, what do
Speaker 2: I what's that when you a caveat to this, I
Speaker 2: guess Patel, I'm reading from the Wall Street Journal here. Patel,
Speaker 2: one of the FBI's sharpest attackers, said in a September
Speaker 2: interview on a conservative podcast or show. So this was
Speaker 2: just a couple of months ago that if he were
Speaker 2: FBI director, he would shut down the FBI Hoover Building
Speaker 2: on day one and reopen it the next day as
Speaker 2: a museum of the deep State. He suggested that the
Speaker 2: bureau had become too powerful and that he would strip
Speaker 2: out of its intelligence gathering role and purge of it employees.
Speaker 2: We refuse to go along with Trump's agenda. My caveat
Speaker 2: would be that in the modern world, politicians and certainly
Speaker 2: just regular guests say all kinds of crazys that they
Speaker 2: don't mean or plan to follow through on whatsoever. But
Speaker 2: he had definitely got to ask the guy about that
Speaker 2: in a confirmation hearing. Obviously, is your plan if your
Speaker 2: FBI director in day one to close the building, lock
Speaker 2: the doors, and turn it into a museum of the
Speaker 2: deep state the next day?
Speaker 1: Just confirming right, and again the reason my hair isn't
Speaker 1: on fire in either direction for a lot of these nominees,
Speaker 1: and Patel reminds me a little bit of Tulsey Gabbard
Speaker 1: in some ways, which I'll explain a minute, but to
Speaker 1: your point, because I was thinking the same thing in.
Speaker 2: The modern world of.
Speaker 1: Media, and I just don't mean mainstream media here, but
Speaker 1: the alternative media podcasts and the rest of it as
Speaker 1: you move from one role to another to another. From
Speaker 1: he was a top eight on the House, which one
Speaker 1: of the investigative committees looking into the Russia collusion hoax.
Speaker 1: He had a very specific role and he measured his
Speaker 1: speech in specific ways. And then he was a private
Speaker 1: citizen and Trump campaign advisor and surrogate and went on
Speaker 1: these talk shows and he couched his phrases in his
Speaker 1: speaking as a guy in that role. If he became
Speaker 1: FBI director, and you know, I'm sure you're tracking with me, fine,
Speaker 1: but what I mean is he said stuff in a
Speaker 1: really entertaining it'll cut through the clutter way.
Speaker 2: Then if he's.
Speaker 1: Sitting in the big chair, I'm sure, as a very
Speaker 1: bright guy, he will readjust again. But I'm glad there's
Speaker 1: going to be hearing. But you know, somebody said something
Speaker 1: wild on a podcast. Therefore dot dot no sorry, Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll have the opportunity there in the hearing in
Speaker 2: front of a bunch of senators to come off as
Speaker 2: a know, a different sort of guy or not, and
Speaker 2: we'll get the chance to see that. Patel, who worked
Speaker 2: in Trump's first administration, according to the Washington Post, has
Speaker 2: publicly mused about targeting journalists and government officials, as we
Speaker 2: just heard, and he published a list of deep state
Speaker 2: names in a book last year called Government Gangsters. Promotional
Speaker 2: materials for the book included a quote from Trump who
Speaker 2: called it a roadmap highlighting every corrupt actor and a
Speaker 2: blueprint to help us take back the White House and
Speaker 2: remove these gangsters from all of government. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2: Appearing last night last year in the war Room, that's
Speaker 2: the clip we just played where he was on Steve
Speaker 2: Bannon's show and vowed to go and find the conspiracies,
Speaker 2: not just in government, but in the media. We're going
Speaker 2: to come after these people. We're going to come after you,
Speaker 2: either criminally or civilly. And we'll see if he stands
Speaker 2: by that. He has very little management or law enforcement experience.
Speaker 2: Getting back to what we were saying about hegxeth and
Speaker 2: Department of Fence. I don't know defense. I don't know
Speaker 2: what I think about that either.
Speaker 1: Well, the fact that administrative or law enforcement, to me,
Speaker 1: that's that's a troubling, you know, aspect of this, because
Speaker 1: the FBI, for all of its sins, does incredibly important
Speaker 1: work protecting all of us from organized crime, from Chinese
Speaker 1: intelligence agents, from drug traffickers, from just all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I was trying to find I've got
Speaker 2: it here somewhere. The quote from Bill Barr, the former
Speaker 2: Attorney at General, who people on the left think was
Speaker 2: a you know, a toady of trumps. When Cash Patel
Speaker 2: was put up to be the second in command at
Speaker 2: the FBI, Barr said, over my dead body, this guy
Speaker 2: is not going to be involved in the FBI. So
Speaker 2: that was Barr's feeling about Patel.
Speaker 1: Is he a reformer or is he there to lay
Speaker 1: waste to it out of sheer meanness and retribution?
Speaker 2: Let's ask him. Ah, you know that whole struck and
Speaker 2: his girlfriend and you know, we've got a backup plan
Speaker 2: and all that stuff that came out that was all
Speaker 2: bad stuff. There's a lot of people that seem pretty
Speaker 2: politically motivated the lying about information, so you could get
Speaker 2: a warrant to spy on people and stuff. There are
Speaker 2: some bad stuff that happened there over several years. Is
Speaker 2: that common? Is our way to root that out? I
Speaker 2: would like to know that.
Speaker 1: And I could certainly defend the idea, and I'm not
Speaker 1: defending Patel in particular because I'm not sold on him,
Speaker 1: but the idea that somebody might come in for a
Speaker 1: limited period of time and see as his brief his
Speaker 1: mandate to fix what's wrong, to really go after what
Speaker 1: had gotten twisted within the FBI.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's not long term leader. Maybe as it turns out,
Speaker 2: he will just.
Speaker 1: Be the the angel of change and reform and and
Speaker 1: you know, opening the window and letting the sunshine disinfect.
Speaker 1: And then he gives way to somebody who's a more
Speaker 1: you know, a conventional leader that might actually be useful.
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Speaker 1: I think, is there anything else important about the mixed response?
Speaker 1: You got a couple of senators saying, yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: sold on this guy, in a couple of saying now
Speaker 1: it seems like a good guy to me.
Speaker 2: I say, just we hold earrings. Yeah. Well, as Halpin wrote,
Speaker 2: the entire audience for all of this is the Republican senators.
Speaker 2: Because you just you need fifty Republican senators to say,
Speaker 2: he's okay with me, and so you can you lose
Speaker 2: four and you're done. So that's the whole ballgame right there.
Speaker 2: How many Republican senators are going to say, nah, I
Speaker 2: don't want this guy to be the FBI director. Does
Speaker 2: Trump fire Ray, which again is unprecedented except for Trump
Speaker 2: doing it one time to fire the FBI director because
Speaker 2: the way it looks, Does Trump fire Ray before the hearing?
Speaker 2: And then so you've got an opening you got to
Speaker 2: get somebody? Is that the way it works? Hmm? Interesting question.
Speaker 1: One more note for me from the quoting the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal editorial board, we'll paraphrasing anyway. They pointed out
Speaker 1: that and this, I mean this flows directly from Joe
Speaker 1: Biden absolutely perverting the Justice Department or clouding its reputation
Speaker 1: by his own Justice Department, convicts his own lawless, tax
Speaker 1: evating money laundering son, and then he pardons the boy
Speaker 1: for all sins real and imagined over a ten year period,
Speaker 1: including money laundering and failing to register as a foreign
Speaker 1: agent and the rest of it, and then claims in
Speaker 1: the pardon notice as we were discussing that I had
Speaker 1: to do this because the Justice apartment is so corrupt
Speaker 1: and perverted.
Speaker 2: I mean, so come on.
Speaker 1: But the idea that the Wall Street Journal is putting
Speaker 1: forth is the country doesn't need a GOP version of
Speaker 1: the worst of the excesses of the Democrat run Justice
Speaker 1: Department because it's bad for the country. And I know
Speaker 1: that the temptation among a lot of people is they
Speaker 1: hit us in the mouth.
Speaker 2: We got to hit them out of the mouth. That's
Speaker 2: Chicago way.
Speaker 1: But I think a better idea is let's do it right,
Speaker 1: show America how this is better, and then win elections.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so a number of things. I followed the news
Speaker 2: a lot more than I probably should over vacation. I
Speaker 2: got a whole bunch of different, tiny little things. I'd
Speaker 2: like to get to ging the what is it the
Speaker 2: word or phrase of the year? Yeah, definitely want to
Speaker 2: hear that. I love End of the Year lists. I
Speaker 2: don't know why I've loved him since I was a kid.
Speaker 2: I also give my son a speech that you gave
Speaker 2: your son one time years ago and probably used the
Speaker 2: same words over the break, which was handy. I never
Speaker 2: had to really go already have it in my pocket
Speaker 2: since you'd given it. I'm intrigued among other things on
Speaker 2: the way stay here. I was straight across from Taylor
Speaker 2: Swift at Arrowhead Stadium on Friday. I waved to her.
Speaker 2: I don't know if she saw me or not.
Speaker 1: She's probably trying to play it coold, you know, the
Speaker 1: way celebrities do.
Speaker 2: She's like, hey, there's Jack. Yeah, it's cool about it.
Speaker 2: I don't want Travis. Oh, it's coolest, freezing. I'm not
Speaker 2: used to cold weather. I don't think that would have
Speaker 2: bothered me back in the day. But it was like
Speaker 2: thirty degrees and then when the sun went down behind
Speaker 2: it and it got cloudy, I mean when it was
Speaker 2: getting dark, it was cold in there. There's no question.
Speaker 2: As a former Chicago boy, you acclimate to cold weather. Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The other locals seem to be fine, but I was
Speaker 2: dying my sons yeah oof ah.
Speaker 1: So the good folks at Oxford University Press have as
Speaker 1: is their wont declared their phrase or word of the Year.
Speaker 1: It is a term that captures concerns. Well, that's you're
Speaker 1: giving away the punchline. The phrase that won this year
Speaker 1: is brain rot. Brain rot. It is a term that
Speaker 1: captures concerns about the impact of consuming excessive amounts of
Speaker 1: low quality online content, especially on social media.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if I've heard anybody use that,
Speaker 2: but that is a good phrase slash term that we
Speaker 2: should all be aware of because I know people who
Speaker 2: suffer from it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, granted this is Oxford, they're in England, they don't
Speaker 1: even speak our language, corners, but they apparently usage of
Speaker 1: the term saw an increase of two hundred from twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three to twenty twenty four. The praise I tell
Speaker 1: you who doesn't have brain rot is my daughter, who
Speaker 1: is home with us all Thanksgiving week. But she was
Speaker 1: studying for nine ten hours a day for her law
Speaker 1: school finals, her first law school finals. And we told her, look,
Speaker 1: we're on team Delaney. We're gonna do nothing to distract you.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna guilt you into coming down to do
Speaker 1: this that you tell us.
Speaker 2: How we can help and what did? She work? Like crazy?
Speaker 1: But anyway, turns out actually going to law school is
Speaker 1: a lot more work.
Speaker 2: Than thinking about it, which is what I did.
Speaker 1: Anyway, brain rot beat five beat out five other phrases
Speaker 1: on the short list, which included demure. I have no
Speaker 1: idea why that would be on the list's you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of restrained in appearance or behavior, not showy.
Speaker 7: Yes, Katie, this this trans guy made me your takeoff
Speaker 7: on TikTok about a month ago.
Speaker 2: Oka's why that's back? And what did he do now?
Speaker 7: He was sitting in his car and said, of course, yeah,
Speaker 7: right where all videos are shot apparently, so I'm mindful
Speaker 7: and demure, and was talking about how he puts his
Speaker 7: makeup on, and for whatever ungodly reason, it took.
Speaker 2: Off, right, gotcha, all right, sir.
Speaker 1: Dynamic Pricing also made the short list.
Speaker 2: Which a right, that's a good one. Yeah. I found
Speaker 2: that out when I got the uh bacon eator at
Speaker 2: Wendy's and it was twelve bucks because we bought it
Speaker 2: during dinner time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I still don't know what I think about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know what I think about it intellectually, but.
Speaker 2: Your story or whatever you want, all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if I don't like it, I won't come anymore.
Speaker 1: But in my gut, pun intended. If I get there
Speaker 1: and they've jacked up the sandwich because this is the
Speaker 1: time of day when people are hungry, I'm like dudes.
Speaker 2: Lore was on the list.
Speaker 1: Romantic a genre of fiction combining elements of romantic fiction
Speaker 1: and fantasy, typically featuring themes of magic, the supernatural, or
Speaker 1: adventure alongside the central romantics.
Speaker 2: Or something I would hate and run from as if
Speaker 2: I were on fire. You're not very well rounded.
Speaker 1: And finally, slop, which is art, writing or other content
Speaker 1: generated using AI, shared and distributed online in an indiscriminate
Speaker 1: or intrusive way, and characterized as being of low quality, inauthentic,
Speaker 1: or inaccurate.
Speaker 2: Okay, slop, Huh? How much time I got, Michael depends
Speaker 2: on you keep eating like that about two minutes. Okay.
Speaker 2: So I mentioned I gave my son a speech that
Speaker 2: you gave your son once. I'm trying to remember if
Speaker 2: you said this on the air, and I hope you did.
Speaker 2: Was it the same.
Speaker 1: Speech Pete Hegseth's mother gave him. Oh, we have to
Speaker 1: do that in our speaking of nominees. I still want
Speaker 1: to talk about him and Telsea Gabbard and a couple others.
Speaker 2: We have to do that in our three. So I
Speaker 2: think you said thus in the air, but your your
Speaker 2: son had a certain hairstyle once and then you talk
Speaker 2: to him about You are fine with that, but you
Speaker 2: know you're portraying a certain sort of person and you're
Speaker 2: gonna get treated that way, and you just need to
Speaker 2: understand that. And I had that conversation with my son
Speaker 2: as he always gets pulled out of line at the
Speaker 2: airport and the full frisk down, which I've never happened.
Speaker 2: He's had it happen like ten times in his life.
Speaker 2: And he also talks about people follow him around the stores.
Speaker 2: When he goes in the store, they follow him around.
Speaker 2: I said, well, dude, if you're gonna I won't explain
Speaker 2: his look, but he has a certain look because he
Speaker 2: thinks it looks cool, the Kim Jong yell look. If
Speaker 2: you're gonna go with that look, people are gonna keep
Speaker 2: an eye on you. They're gonna think you might be
Speaker 2: there to steal or maybe you're a terrorist. And it's
Speaker 2: just I mean, you say, you can do it if
Speaker 2: you want, but you're projecting a certain look. And so
Speaker 2: when people react to that look, the way you're projecting,
Speaker 2: you can't blame them.
Speaker 1: Is the juice or the squeeze is worth the trouble
Speaker 1: whatever you're expressing. That that changes through a person's life.
Speaker 2: Right right, right, right right, So I'll see how that
Speaker 2: lands suggests to be more demure. Exactly exactly, Yeah, Hexet's
Speaker 2: mom weighed in on his uh whether or not he
Speaker 2: ought to be Secretary of Defense. That's odd speak tuned
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