WEBVTT - Pick A Better Wrecking Ball 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:15.280 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:18.400 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.360 And Joe Katty Armstrong and get. 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:21.639 Katie and he. 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:34.640 Arms angy who the wrong studio? See say I'll on 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:35.559 little Friday. 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.000 We're in a dimly lit roong deeper than the bowels 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:42.120 of the Armstrong Eddy Communications Compound. And hey y'all, today 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.040 we're under the tutelage of our general. 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:52.680 Manager, Matt Gates. Matt Gates that cakes got it the hair, that's. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:01:00.480 Him and that's a useful girlfriend. Allegedly, they dropped those charges. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:07.120 According to multiple news sources. We were gonna hear a 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.039 whole bout more about those charges on Friday, and still 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.480 might any who. 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:13.399 Here's why. 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:17.360 I hope nobody leaks it. Here's my question. I was 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.240 just talking to Hanson about this. I talked about it 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.200 with my son yesterday afternoon and I picked him up 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.400 from school as the news was breaking. The question is why? 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.200 The why is the question? Why does Trump do this? 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:33.000 And I think I and it seemed this way his. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:34.199 Whole life, I guess. 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:41.080 But he feels comfortable when things are going crazy. That's 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.800 his that's his happy place. Most of us like me. 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.040 I hate drama. God, I hate drama. I do anything 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.680 to have a placid life without drama. But some people 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.480 thrive on it, and he is like the all time 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:58.320 king of I think when he flipped on all the 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.280 TV stations over the last week and it was all 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.560 kind of moderate, he won and kind of quiet and 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.120 another reasonable choice for Donald Trump boring. 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.760 I feel like I'm dying inside. 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.280 But when he flipped on all the channels yesterday and 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:16.920 everybody's heads are exploding, Oh, a sense of relief, a 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:23.119 practically orgasmic level of happiness overcomes him. I think, right, 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.560 you know, I think that that's not wrong. I would 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:29.760 take another look or look at the other side of 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.600 the coin. He's also a guy who in the in 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.799 you know, developing many many interesting real estate projects through 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.880 the years, has a number of bankruptcies, and that people 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:41.840 made a big deal of that. 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:43.360 Although that's not that crazy. 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.080 If you're a developer, you start corporations to develop a 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.920 certain project, and then some of them were like shots 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:55.600 for the moon, big big plays, bold plays, and some 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.600 of them didn't work out and went bankrupt. 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:02.000 And Trump's used to that. So the idea of I'm 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.200 in I'm gonna go with one. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:07.280 Of the more defensible plays here, the Hegsith Department of Defense. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.919 He thought, you know what, with all the instability in 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.600 the world, our pentagon is incredibly hide bound and bloated 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.840 and slow moving and unresponsive, Let's make a big play 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.880 and if it goes to hell, we'll pick up the pieces. 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.360 There's somebody else will. I think he's comfortable with that 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:27.680 sort of chaos for sure. 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:30.960 Uh. 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:35.160 Fox News has been handling this since it broke yesterday afternoon, 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.000 including this morning on Fox and Friends with It's kind 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.960 of the third story of the day. The biggest story 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:42.800 of the day is Trump and Biden met in the 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:44.640 Oval office. Here they are in front of the fire, 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.520 and they said nice things about it. In other news, 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:50.480 he named Matt Gaetz's attorney general. Also, Donald Trump is 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.520 planning to uh speak with the leader of Taiwan this afternoon. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.920 I mean, are you freaking kidding me? Are you freaking kidding? 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:57.640 Who are you? 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:01.440 Try playing it, doll, I guess because they don't know 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:02.119 what else to say. 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.840 So there. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:10.800 I haven't heard a single positive comment out of a Republican. 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.480 The best you can do is kind of a neutral 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:17.760 ish like Lindsey Graham, who hates Matt Gates, saying, well, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.080 we'll go through the process and we'll see how it 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.080 plays out. That's the best result you can get from 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.800 a Republican. Other Republicans are are you effing kidding me? 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.479 Or not a chance in hell? I vote for him? 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.400 Or a orful a variety of both kinds of comments, 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:38.080 right right, Yeah, from his own party. Yeah, I've been 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.520 thinking about this a lot, and I don't know how 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.600 in depth we want to get during this segment, but 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.480 I get the pick. And I'm not saying I think 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.760 it's an awful pick. I think it's a ridiculous pick, 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:51.360 but I get it given. And here's the short version. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:59.080 Given the way the FBI especially, but the intelligence community, Hello, 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:06.719 Ga treated Trump the Russia Gate of hoax page in Strock. 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:12.080 Call me, please call me leaking like I don't have 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.120 a good metaphor what leaks a lot like a hundred 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:20.960 year old robot leaky things in short, anyway, Yeah, Trump 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.960 wants to go in there with somebody who just does 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:29.160 not give a single poop about tradition and the agency 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.200 and blah blah blah. He just he wants a wrecking 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.680 ball well, fine, pick a better wrecking ball. I have 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.560 no time for any of the people in our government 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.960 who are only there to get attention. The AOC's, the 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.320 Adams Shifts, the Marjorie Taylor Greens, or the Matt Gateses, 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.640 none of them who are just all they do is 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.760 try to get on television. They have no interest in 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.120 actually governing or doing anything. I have no time for 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:56.120 those people. The Instagram caucus. Yeah, Matt Gates is a 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.960 famous I guess he understands the modern world. They understand 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.080 the modern world better than I do and are taking 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.400 advantage of it. That Hey, that's that's how you raise 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:05.760 lots of money, and that's how you stay in power, 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:06.240 and that's how. 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:06.960 You become well mowned. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.400 And he actually said one time, if you're not on TV, 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.520 you're not If you're not getting on TV every day, 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:13.239 you're not governing. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.279 That's what he actually said. And that's their their belief. 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.720 And if you say crazy stuff, you get on uh, 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:20.239 you get on the cable news a lot. 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.919 And everyone knows it. And like, have you noticed, over the. 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.320 Next couple of weeks, it's striking to me, like they'll 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.440 have some senator on I've never heard the name before. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.320 I've never seen their face before. They're a US flipp 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.360 and senator, but they're the kind of people that are 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.320 like in a room with the door closed, studying policy, 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:38.320 writing legislation. 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:44.239 They're not figuring out how to get on television, right, right, whatever. 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.600 I guess that's where we are. Many many reasons empires die. Okay, 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:49.719 so it's just one of them. 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:50.360 So is there? 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.440 I mean, because all that stuff is true about the 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.600 Justice Department and h law fair and using it as 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.000 a weapon, but you can pick different people to go 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.320 after it and try to clean it up. What do 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.280 you think he has any chance of getting confirmed? All 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.400 the Democrats will vote against him. I assume Matt Gates 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.680 is attorney general and you can only lose what three Republicans? 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.520 There are already two or three on the record saying no, 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.120 and probably a dozen more that would like to say no. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:23.760 Here's your wacky but unlikely scenario. A dozen Democrats conspire 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.760 and across the island vote yes, thinking this will be 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.080 a poop show that's pretty good, and you force them 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.840 a whole bunch of Republicans to vote no if they 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.200 want to keep him from being Attorney general and making 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.840 that the only story anybody talks about for the first 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:42.880 until it. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.440 All blows up. Yeah. 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.480 Yeah, very little or none of which has anything to 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.920 do with the well being of the American people. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:51.920 Of course, I don't know. 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:53.880 Do you think he did the stuff he was accused 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:55.640 of with the girl, the underage girl and all that 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.640 sort of stuff, because they did they do you think 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.240 he did it? So they stopped the investigation, but they 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:04.640 were still investigating on some level, I guess. And that 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.920 report was supposed to come out Friday, according to Republicans 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.080 who ran to news sources yesterday, The New York Times 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.520 and multiple other news organizations reported that because the Republicans 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.960 who hate Matt Gates, who which are practically everybody by 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.320 the way, in the House and the Senate, almost all 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.680 the Republicans hate him, So they all ran the new 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.200 sources and say, hey, there's a big report coming out Friday, 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.720 and that was going to doom him. Yeah, and like 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.400 you said, do you think it will leak? That's what 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.400 they're saying, Fox and Friends. Some Republican who hates him 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:33.480 on that committee is going to. 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.760 Leak that out. So we'll hear all that stuff. 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.160 Yeah, a couple of things There are a number of 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:43.240 reasons an investigative agency decides not to prosecute something. Often 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.760 it's uncooperative witnesses or wishy washy evidence or that sort 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:47.040 of thing. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.080 And that's fine. That's the way justice system works. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.079 You shouldn't feel the pain of punishment unless the government 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:53.760 could prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:54.160 I love that. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.360 On the other hand, you got Mark Wayne Mullen, Senator Oklahoma, 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.480 who we really hit it off with at the RNC, 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.000 who came out and said, look, this guy is showing 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.280 videos of the girls he's having sex with on the 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:11.080 house for and everybody's like, stop that, get that out 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.200 of here. Mark Wayne, I think we have the audio 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:17.480 he's on the record stage. It was just completely wildly inappropriate. 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.720 And Mark Queen's a former MMA guy. I mean, he's 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.920 not like, you know, some sort of Oxford and Harvard 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.679 grad with a degree in holding your pinky out? 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.240 Will you sip tea? Or dude's a real man and 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.400 he was like, wow, that is way out of line. 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.160 Or Chuck Grassley one hundred years old from another generation. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:43.640 Back where the woman now to wear pity coats. We 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.080 will play that later for you. 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:46.760 We got to start the show officially, and we got 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.280 lots of stuff to get to today. But eh, Trump 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.480 enjoys when people are having these conversations. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.480 He just freaking loves it. Oh yeah or whatever. He's 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:55.880 tweaking them, and. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.840 He knew exactly what he's doing. He rolled out all 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.440 those reasonable choices. And then and then Marco Rubio, super 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:06.239 reasonable Secretary. And then we and lots of other people yesterday, 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.120 like the last Armor show, we're having the conversations about 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.560 this might be a completely different Trump term I said 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.000 this than last time around. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.480 He's a honey, what hilarious? 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:22.040 And then you get Pete Hexeth surprising but intriguing. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.040 Yeah, Toxi Gabbard. 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:29.840 Surprising but surprising, and then Matt Gates surprising. But come on, 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.880 let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:38.800 On this Thursday, November fourteenth, year, twenty twenty four. We're 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.640 Armstrong and getting we approve of this program. Let's begin then, 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.440 officially according to FCC rules and regulations. So much to 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:45.960 dig into, let's dig into it. 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:49.960 At mark, the nomination of Gates rocked Capitol Hill. There 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.480 were verbal gasps during a meeting of House Republicans when 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:57.160 mister Trump announced Gates, how. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:58.040 About that. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:10.880 Wha to the Republicans? And then you go, what, oh 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:18.240 my got verbal audible gasps. That's hilarious. Wow, he loves 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.120 that sort of thing. Oh golly, here we go. 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.120 Somebody secure that canon, troyd. It's loose. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.320 I think I said this yesterday about the Defence secretary. 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.360 It's going to be even more true about Tulsa Gabbard 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:30.040 and Matt Gates. 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.000 You really want to spend all that. 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.920 Goodwill political capital with the media and and and all 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.240 the people in government and everything like that on this fight, 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:45.280 not something else. All right, all right again, hag Seth 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:51.600 long shot gathered silly Gates grenade. 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.199 How does mailbag look? That's quite good, very good. Let's 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:57.560 get to it. 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.199 That's on the way and you can test this your thoughts. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.800 I'm sure many of you are thrilled with the choice. 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:03.720 Based on reading texts. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:03.959 Over the years. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.120 Text line is four one, five two nine five k FTC. 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.600 I'm sending a clique to Hanson, our executive producer. But 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:19.200 I watched Mark Alprin's sort of emergency video cast yesterday 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:23.520 with a bunch of uh political strategists, but he called 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.800 it one of the most jaw dropping days in the 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.400 ten year political history. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.240 Of Donald Trump. And that is saying something, but it's 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.000 a true degree. Yeah, I would agree on both points. Yeah. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.360 Yeah, here's your Freedom Moving Quota Day in honor of 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.199 Vett Gates and the Department of Justice. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:40.800 Our theme being the law. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:44.080 Maybe we'll go with this into next week either So, 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:45.360 I like some of these John. 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.800 Locke, the end of. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:51.320 Law is not to abolish a restrain, meaning the end 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.560 that the purpose, the purpose of law is not to 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:57.680 abolish a restrain, but to preserve an enlarged freedom. For 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.520 in all states of created being capable of law. Where 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.719 there is no law, there is no freedom. Yeah, it 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.160 should be, isn't always right? What's the purpose of government? 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.480 What's the purpose of the constitution? Quick to preserve your liverty. 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.400 I can think of plenty of laws in California their 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:18.000 only mentory strain. Yeah, exactly, And that's where laws become 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.920 unjust and undesirable. Absolutely, that's your litmus test mail bag 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:24.959 rob us a old mail bag at Armstrong and get 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:26.960 it dot com, will lead off with Jared and Missouri's 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:32.000 commenting on our rage rooms discussion, guys rage against the machine. 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.319 Never specified what kind of machine they were angry at, 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:35.760 but I reckon it was probably a printer. 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:41.600 Absolutely, they're arranging against the printer. That's funny. All right, 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:42.079 here we go. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.439 There's no piece of machinery or equipment that more people 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:50.840 have been angrier at than the printer, other than you know. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.480 The computer in general, I think. 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.400 But all right, here we go, taking deep breath, we're 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:59.480 diving in JT and livermore. Wait what Democrats are criticizing 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.439 Trump's choices for leadership positions. They're claiming that some of 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.719 his choices don't have relevant experience. Dems, does the name 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.760 Kamala Harris ring a bell? How about mayor Pete for 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:12.040 that matter, how about the name Joe Biden? You know 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:18.160 that's pretty good that we, including me, would say this. 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:19.080 Hegxef guy. 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:20.440 I mean, he's going to be running one of the 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.080 biggest bureaucracies in the world and does hea amity experience? 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.640 And we have hired a number of people that really 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:30.800 run the biggest bureaucracy in the world, the US freaking government, 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:36.359 that have no experience running anything at all large or complicated. 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.440 Moving along, because it's a lot guys. Did Marjorie Taylor 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.360 Green take herself out of contention? There's no other way 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.120 that this boneheaded denomination could have happened. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:47.720 How about this? 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.640 Trump is loyal to loyalists, but most of all, he 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.200 believes that gates legal problems were just like his political 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:57.240 law fair battles, unlike any AG appointments. Since JFK named 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.880 his brother RFK, and for the same reasons as a 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:04.160 bulwark against the FBI and the Justice Department. The typical 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.760 AG is an establishment type with Ivy League credentials. 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.880 In years of this Town connections, Trump's. 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.720 First term was one long battle with the Justice Department 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.720 enemies before election today to today. And of course Trump 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.920 has always had a sleazy lawyer as a fixer, Henry. 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.280 That's the best analysis I have heard anywhere. He's the 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:23.360 new Michael Cohen. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:24.360 That is good. 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.480 I think about that all the time. With JFK naming 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.960 his brother RFK is the Attorney General. When a Republican 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:35.040 picks somebody, they know, well, it's a sycophant, acolyte toady. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.880 But people on the left love that picture of JFK 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.080 and RFK, you know, in a room thinking together, why 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.560 is that like super cool that he named his brother 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.760 attorney general. But Trump picking somebody that's loyal to him 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.280 is just obviously rotten. 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.040 I don't guess. It's almost like they're. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.800 Lying hypocrites who have no actual principles. They just pretend 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.240 to You don't get that. I just think that's it. 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.640 You get it. They have no principles. J. T. Wrights. 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:03.720 The Trump Show is truly a comedy. 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.360 Now we're watching the worst cabinet picks ever, sex with 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:10.880 underage girls, no problem, part time TV talk show host awesome. 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.320 Trump is an idiot who will destroy the economy with 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.280 his gross incombidence and senility. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:20.920 Okay, different, that's just like your opinion, man Kevin. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.520 Gents, While at first I was wholly skeptical of mister 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.520 hegg Seth running the Pentagon, I've since changed my mind generally, 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.600 As you guys mentioned yesterday, the Pentagon chief is a 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.480 political player, someone who's far, far removed from the actual 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.080 conditions on the ground. Having someone who's seen the issues 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.440 plaguing troops in modern times and up close could certainly 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.600 lead to some good changes. When was the last time 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.040 Lloyd Austin had to lace up his boots? And grab 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.360 or rock this century. I think this is how you 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:46.400 break the cycle. And I'm on board for Hegseeth. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.000 Oh, I'm way more. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.560 Susceptible to being argued into a Hegzeth choice as being 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:53.840 good as a Matt Gates. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:55.479 I mean, they're not even in the same category. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.920 And finally, this Elon Musk right Stan the first white 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.920 African American mail appointed to the new Department of Government Efficiency. 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:10.640 This is truly historic. Well played, and my boy, that's 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.080 really good. Love it. Drop us a note mail bag 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:14.160 at Armstrong In Geddi dot. 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.800 Com, we got some more reactions to one of the 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.679 bigger political days in a long time, and that's saying 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.600 something coming up if you miss it, gets podcast Armstrong 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:27.359 in Getty on the Man Armstrong and Getty, Well, Katie, 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.560 I've gotten two different texts from different people at the 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.520 Justice Department who just use the word insane. 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.560 To respond and react to this potential appointment. 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:41.160 Heads are also exploding at the Justice Department because this 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:48.600 goes against the kind of candidate Republican or Democrat the 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:52.040 DOJ sees as an appropriate candidate. And this is making 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:53.480 everyone's head explode right now. 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:55.480 We're all watching it on the models in real time, 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:56.440 and I'm sure I'll have. 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.600 A lot more opinions on that President Trump is going 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:02.080 to hit the Justice Department the blowtorch, and Matt Gates 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:02.760 is that torch. 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.840 So that's from Sean Hannity, a montage of people on 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:11.280 the mainstream media and on the avowed left shocked and 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:16.120 appalled at Matt Gates being nominated as the attorney general 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:17.280 pick from Donald Trump. 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.320 But to be they woke up shocked and appalled. 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.479 As far as I'm to be fair, there are as many, 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.879 maybe more shocked than appalled, people that are Republicans in 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:31.400 government feeling exactly the same way, some of them saying 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:34.200 out loud, a lot of them not yet. So it's 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.400 not just a lefty thing. It's not just a thumb 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.480 on the eye of the Libs. It's the thumb of 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.399 the eye of everyone, which I'm about to get to 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.520 in a second. I had another point on that Ben 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:48.400 Gates and name him and I'm just people going crazy. 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.640 And then while this, while all this stuff was being 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.399 said on MSNBC and CNN and ABC and CBS and 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.119 NBC on Fox, they were like making it like the 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.640 fourth story of the day, because I think they weren't 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:03.320 sure to handle it. Oh yeah, I'm sure the brass 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.400 was having what the effort we was supposed to say 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.880 about this meeting to you know, issue the orders down 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:12.119 to their their hosts. Maybe I'll do this first and 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:16.800 then we'll hear from Senator Mullins with some comment last 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:21.440 year about Matt Gates. This is from Mark Hauprin's newsletter. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.159 H you know, because this is me talking before I 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:26.200 read from his newsletter. 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:27.480 Trump is. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.440 Crazy like a fox and crazy. He's both. So he's 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.680 crazy like a fox and crazy. And I was thinking 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.560 it was his first crazy, just crazy, his second crazy 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:40.879 just crazy, But could be the crazy like a fox, 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:44.920 because Mark Alprin writes that you wouldn't have to visit 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.760 any more than three booths at the Capitol Grill to 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.040 hear it be said that team Trump has no intention 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.320 of actually getting Gates confirmed. That he has thrown Gates 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.719 out there to be the sacrificial lamb of the confirmation 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.840 gods so he can go down in flames, and so 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.320 that others might garner fifty votes and take up their 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:06.400 cabinet positions. Because there's usually only like enough momentum attention 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:10.080 everything else to like really battle one person and then 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:13.399 the other people get through, and that Gates might beat. Okay, 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.239 you know, blow up your capital on this and all 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:18.159 your ink or however you want to look at it 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.840 to tweet and then get my other people through. 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:23.480 Possible. Right. 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.800 I have heard that described through the years as a strategy, and. 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:32.119 It could be. 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:36.520 If that is the idea, then you've got to approach 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.800 it completely differently. You got to think, Okay, never, he 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:43.600 wasn't serious about Gates being the ag So I'm not 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:47.040 going to criticize the pick. Taking it seriously, I'm not 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.040 going to waste your time or mine. If I'm convinced 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.480 that that was the strategy. I'm not entirely convinced yet. 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:56.159 I'm not convinced yet either. Possible though that you know, 0:20:56.200 --> 0:21:00.919 he's doing a solid for Gates, who you know, forced 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:05.439 McCarthy out as speaker, which Trump wanted, and Trump's doing him, 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:10.320 you know, a favor back. Gates resigned immediately from the House, 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:14.679 stopping this ethics report that comes out tomorrow because you 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.119 can't release You're not supposed to release a report on 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:18.800