Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm
Speaker 1: Strong and Greg and Key Arms Wrong.
Speaker 2: I had to say hello to my unhoused street person
Speaker 2: friend who hangs out behind the trash can right where.
Speaker 1: I walk in the door of the building every day.
Speaker 2: You know, kind of watch him out of the corner
Speaker 2: of my eye, make.
Speaker 1: Sure he's not gonna attack me or anything like that.
Speaker 1: We're just sneak in the building. Jamake's ball talk. How's
Speaker 1: the meth these days? The good good crank. What I
Speaker 1: like is how. What I like is how I how
Speaker 1: fearing for my life? First thing?
Speaker 2: Walking in gets my heart rate up and gets me
Speaker 2: prepared for the show in case I'm feeling kind.
Speaker 1: Of logie or whatever.
Speaker 2: The whole this equivalent of ten pushups, the whole. This
Speaker 2: guy might kill me. Yeah, it gets me ready for
Speaker 2: the show. So it really has a benefit.
Speaker 3: Why don't we call them alertness ambassadors instead of junkies.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm Gavin Newsome. Let's call them alertness ambassadors.
Speaker 2: Thank you once again, sir, for alerning to be my
Speaker 2: core human feelings of terror and excitement. Uh, live from
Speaker 2: Studio c C signor blah blah blah. Today we're under
Speaker 2: the tutelage of our general manager. Pete Hagseth, Secretary of
Speaker 2: Defense MPR said it looks like he's going to go through.
Speaker 2: So if they are even saying that looks like it,
Speaker 2: they also just said as an NPR that Pam Boondi
Speaker 2: is probably going to go through as attorney General. So
Speaker 2: so much for the controversy around those nominees.
Speaker 1: I guess I have.
Speaker 3: Dialed up the NPR lately. I've been a little stressed,
Speaker 3: and I know that might drive me right over the edge.
Speaker 1: I can do sixty.
Speaker 2: Minutes because you know it's short, it's only an hour.
Speaker 2: But so you know, as often happens in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: A whole bunch of this could happen. That could happen, and.
Speaker 1: Then whatever, I actually love our lives.
Speaker 3: Indeed, Yeah, I have a couple of examples of the
Speaker 3: incredible divide between the progressive left and the seine in
Speaker 3: terms of, for instance, men in women's prison where they're
Speaker 3: raping and sexually assaulting and impregnating women. And if you
Speaker 3: bring it up to a progressive person who believes that
Speaker 3: you can just wish yourself to be the other sex
Speaker 3: and therefore have become the other sex. I want to
Speaker 3: be a unit card anyway that that excuses all of
Speaker 3: that sexual assault. I don't even know where to begin
Speaker 3: forming an argument with them.
Speaker 2: Oh I heard I was watching Fox this morning and
Speaker 2: who's the hot blonde chick? We shared a stage one
Speaker 2: at one time for something on Fox. That's a hard
Speaker 2: thing to nail down, Tommy Lara, Yes, it was her.
Speaker 2: She said something that I thought was good was all
Speaker 2: these senators who are so worried about women being mistreated
Speaker 2: in the military or not getting their fair shot. I
Speaker 2: wish they would stand up for women in sports and
Speaker 2: having not having to compete against dudes. You wish they'd
Speaker 2: be quite as interested in that as they are, whether
Speaker 2: or not they're combat soldiers who are women, or at
Speaker 2: least not let a person with schwantz which a person
Speaker 2: with shunshtuka, which I believe is the preferred term into
Speaker 2: the locker room. Use that into women and protecting women.
Speaker 2: Keep dudes out of the locker rooms, your pervs, your sickos,
Speaker 2: your dreamers.
Speaker 1: Your nuts jobs.
Speaker 2: Probably probably we have the saying in charge that doesn't
Speaker 2: why is that not in the constitution?
Speaker 1: Tack it on the ENDPS.
Speaker 2: Anybody who's completely freaking nuts should not be in charge. Uh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say something. Oh, probably the headline out of
Speaker 2: the like if you're just kind of doing a barely
Speaker 2: paying attention to whether or not this guy Trump picked
Speaker 2: to be Secretary Defense is going to get through or not.
Speaker 2: Jony earnstuff Iowa female combat veteran who's really worried about
Speaker 2: some of his stances, grilled him on some of that stuff.
Speaker 2: We'll play it later, and came away thinking I'm fine
Speaker 2: with it on a yes vote.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty much the end of the deal.
Speaker 3: Then here's the behind the scenes information that you really need.
Speaker 3: And some might quibble with this, but it's close enough
Speaker 3: to being true you might as well accept it. The
Speaker 3: Republicans feel like they can boot out one of Trump's
Speaker 3: cabinet nominees, maybe two.
Speaker 1: The Democrats are the Republicans.
Speaker 3: The Republicans okay, without really whipping up magnation, Oh, I see,
Speaker 3: they can pick out one and say, hey, look, mister President,
Speaker 3: we're putting in all your folks.
Speaker 1: We just get to one guy or gal. Maybe you
Speaker 1: could pick somebody else. And everybody went, big hugs, it'll
Speaker 1: be great. But two is pushing it.
Speaker 3: Two is standing up against Trump, inviting primaries, the rest
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 1: So and Matt Gates was the one.
Speaker 3: Um, No, I think one now, because Matt Gates was
Speaker 3: practically I mean, he was injured in the pregame warmups.
Speaker 2: I don't think he counts twisted his ankle before the
Speaker 2: national anthem.
Speaker 3: Exactly twisted his ankle putting his uniform on. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I think there could be one more, uh, you know, deer.
Speaker 1: Head on the wall as it were.
Speaker 2: But I was thinking about an only one. I was
Speaker 2: thinking about old Matt Gates today when they're talking about
Speaker 2: Pam Bondi's going to get through, you know, all of
Speaker 2: the chatter in DC and people who like to talk
Speaker 2: about this sort of stuff even hardly even remember Matt
Speaker 2: Gates's Attorney General thing.
Speaker 1: I mean that was like two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Nobody will remember it at all, and you know, a
Speaker 2: year from now, it's just it's right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Who's in, who's out, who's got power, who's got the
Speaker 3: big desk?
Speaker 1: In Washington?
Speaker 3: D C is an obsession. You can't even picture it,
Speaker 3: you can't relate to it. Unless you've you been close
Speaker 3: to it and felt it that it is. It's feverish it.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's like sexual desired times three.
Speaker 2: I must say, though I was kind of neutral on
Speaker 2: Pete Hagsath, I just wasn't right super fired up either direction.
Speaker 2: If that's Trump's choice, fine put him in. Until I
Speaker 2: heard a montage on I Think Fox Today that we'll
Speaker 2: play for you later of some of his answers and
Speaker 2: some of the q and as. That got me a
Speaker 2: little fired up, thinking he could be a a breath
Speaker 2: of fresh air for the whole thing, So we'll play
Speaker 2: that later.
Speaker 1: Have the same effect on me. Absolutely.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he will be like the greatest
Speaker 3: Secretary of Defense for the next twelve years under multiple presidents,
Speaker 3: but he absolutely brings something that needs to be brought
Speaker 3: to the Pentagon, and that is an acute sense of
Speaker 3: the fighting men and what they need.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: And there's a chance, and I hope this doesn't happen,
Speaker 2: but there's a chance that Peaked Hegzeth as sect Deaf
Speaker 2: and Mark Rubio as Secretary of State are in history
Speaker 2: books for dealing with some major freaking world event. The
Speaker 2: way we talk about second deaths and Secretary's of State
Speaker 2: from you know, major conflicts in the past. I hope not,
Speaker 2: but man, there's a decent chance of it.
Speaker 3: I would say, combine that with my possibility, and you've
Speaker 3: got an excellent chance and my possibilities between the two
Speaker 3: of them and some of the other foreign policy team
Speaker 3: players Mike Waltz, who I absolutely loves national security or
Speaker 3: as what is he the National Security Director? It's a
Speaker 3: Jake Sullivan's position, and there's too many jobs. Yeah, council,
Speaker 3: that's it. Are Between the three of them, they change
Speaker 3: America's war readiness and posture significantly enough that it prevents
Speaker 3: the sort of terrible conflict you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Right, which is a harder thing to write in the
Speaker 2: history books. It's hard to write things that didn't happen.
Speaker 3: But you could argue it's a better thing if you
Speaker 3: can pull it off absolutely, frecolutely.
Speaker 2: If China thinks, oh, we got some real real kick ass,
Speaker 2: hard ass grown ups in charge over there now, maybe
Speaker 2: now is not the time to take time.
Speaker 1: W Let's give it a few years and see what happens.
Speaker 2: Maybe we can get another dementia riddled old man who's
Speaker 2: unwilling to do anything. Wait, for him to come back.
Speaker 1: Let's start the show officially.
Speaker 2: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is
Speaker 2: how did it already get to be Wednesday, January the fifteenth,
Speaker 2: the year twenty twenty five or Armstrong and getting what
Speaker 2: we approve of this program?
Speaker 3: All right, let's begin officially according to sc rules of regulations.
Speaker 3: Here we go at Mark.
Speaker 4: How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?
Speaker 4: Have any of you guys asked him to step down
Speaker 4: and resign for their job? And then how many senators
Speaker 4: do you know have got a divorce before cheating on
Speaker 4: their Why wives? Did you ask them to step down?
Speaker 1: Fax? Was pretty good?
Speaker 3: Bring it Mark Wayne, the fabulous Mark Wayne Mullet of Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: That was pretty good.
Speaker 2: And is the camera panned across some of the Democrats
Speaker 2: there blasting exits for drinking and cheating on his wife.
Speaker 1: You can see on the faces.
Speaker 2: Oh he's got a decent point there.
Speaker 1: Many many collars were simultate. How dare you.
Speaker 2: Drink on the job? And I have you ever showed
Speaker 2: up at night to after a couple of drinks to yeah?
Speaker 1: All of you often?
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, that's different because we're senators on the whole
Speaker 2: cheating on your wife thing. Come on, remember when we
Speaker 2: found out a couple of years ago that giant slush
Speaker 2: fund that exists in DC that is tax payer money
Speaker 2: or yeah, tax payer money to help.
Speaker 1: Was at the time anyway pay off.
Speaker 2: NDAs and things like that for people in government who
Speaker 2: get accused of things.
Speaker 3: Right, Yes, giant slush fund for gropins and harassments and
Speaker 3: the rest of it to keep it out of.
Speaker 1: The news, and then you taxpayers, you pay for it.
Speaker 1: Isn't that lovely? Nice? Wow? So how does mailbag look today? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's very strong, full of insight. Cool. I got a
Speaker 1: lot of news to catch you beyond.
Speaker 2: The fires continue, the wind continues, the politics of the
Speaker 2: whole thing continues.
Speaker 1: So we'll have the latest on that. Our text line
Speaker 1: is four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 2: I was just reading my favorite political newsletter from Mark Halpern,
Speaker 2: and he thought Heads's performance was baffo yesterday. But in
Speaker 2: his newsletter he points out all the stuff that goes
Speaker 2: into these things besides just the lead guy, the prep
Speaker 2: team and the nuts of bolts and the details that
Speaker 2: he said that Trump people really killed it with yesterday
Speaker 2: things I hadn't thought of. Maybe I can explain that
Speaker 2: to you a little bit later. It was news to me.
Speaker 3: It's interesting, yeah, yeah, indeed, And we have a number
Speaker 3: of really interesting clips from that hearing to sprinkle in
Speaker 3: throughout the day today commentary on it.
Speaker 1: Pete's looking pretty good.
Speaker 2: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 3: Let me, I usually look up if I don't recognize
Speaker 3: the name of the person who said it, I look
Speaker 3: it up to make sure they weren't like, you know,
Speaker 3: the best known torture of the Paul pot regime or
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, this guy definitely was not.
Speaker 3: Eckhardfeiffer was the CEO of Compac in the nineties when
Speaker 3: that company was growing like crazy.
Speaker 1: The computer company.
Speaker 3: Today is either the beginning of the end or the
Speaker 3: end of the beginning. Today we are making history. It's
Speaker 3: kind of a carpe DM sees the day idea that
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: Whatever you want to do, today's part of that.
Speaker 2: What was the one you had last week that I
Speaker 2: was going to remember the rest of my life, but
Speaker 2: I've already forgot it was so.
Speaker 1: Forget a great saying because you'll use it later.
Speaker 2: I believe that was It was something along those lines of,
Speaker 2: you know, it would have been great if you got
Speaker 2: your act together years ago, but how about you since
Speaker 2: you didn't start today.
Speaker 1: It was one of those kind of things. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I'll bet I could find it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then less seriously, two more Galileo the Great Scientist.
Speaker 3: He says, if ire, this is the end of our
Speaker 3: series of quotes on beginnings, because it's January fifteenth.
Speaker 1: It were in the meat of the year now.
Speaker 3: Anyway, he says, if I were again beginning my studies,
Speaker 3: I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Speaker 1: I thought that was mildly interesting. Is a guy who's
Speaker 1: bad math?
Speaker 3: And finally this Douglas Adams, who of course wrote The
Speaker 3: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the beginning the universe
Speaker 3: was created. This has made a lot of people very
Speaker 3: angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. I
Speaker 3: love Douglas Adams. Mail bag WHOA WHOA. You can communicate
Speaker 3: with us through a variety of means, the text line,
Speaker 3: or drop us an email mail bag at Armstrong Getti
Speaker 3: dot com. Matt and Honolulu writes Mazie Herono is an
Speaker 3: effing idiot. Oh Matt, that's Matt, Senator. Do you have
Speaker 3: a clip of the esteemed woman from Hawaii?
Speaker 2: Michael?
Speaker 1: Would you carry out an order protest sy in the legs?
Speaker 5: I saw service agents to get injured, bias riders trying
Speaker 5: to jump over the fence, send church on fire, and descry.
Speaker 1: That sounds to me that you will comply with such
Speaker 1: an order, you will shoot protesters in the leg.
Speaker 3: And later she said, would you invade Greenland?
Speaker 1: If the president or it? Would you invade Greenland?
Speaker 2: It sounds like you would invade Greenland.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Matt writes, embarrassed from my state and my fellow Hawaiians,
Speaker 3: I apologize on behalf of my state. Tucker once said
Speaker 3: she's the stupidest member of Congress, and he's right.
Speaker 1: This isn't partisan.
Speaker 3: Our other Senator, Brian Schatz, far left progressive, is very bright.
Speaker 3: I'm interested in his ideas, though I often disagree with
Speaker 3: him strenuously. Uh, Mazie is a full fledged moron. I
Speaker 3: don't know why we keep all thatting here. And then
Speaker 3: he says, I know you can't say this on the radio,
Speaker 3: then says something we cannot say on the radio.
Speaker 1: Thank you Matt moving along, I.
Speaker 2: Wonder how many people if you if you divorced the
Speaker 2: the you know politics from it your your you agree
Speaker 2: with their views or not. If you divorce that if
Speaker 2: you sat down with them, you'd come around thinking, man,
Speaker 2: that person's really sharp, or you'd come across sick and
Speaker 2: that person is definitely not sharper than me.
Speaker 1: All right, what would you guess?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: My, more just.
Speaker 2: In general of Congress? Yeah, you think it'd be more
Speaker 2: of the former or the latter. You think most of
Speaker 2: the time you think, wow, they are really sharp, or
Speaker 2: you'd think anybody could be in that job.
Speaker 3: Apparently, I'm thinking it would be one third impressive, two thirds.
Speaker 1: Mah, maybe that's best you can do, wild guess.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, uh, of course it depends on with all
Speaker 3: due modesty, I mean if I had IQ of seventy seven,
Speaker 3: my number would be different. It varies by person, obviously,
Speaker 3: but in general, yeah, I think probably two thirds math
Speaker 3: one third.
Speaker 1: Wow. You know.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite things to remember is it's so
Speaker 2: obvious and so simple. But I was as dealing with
Speaker 2: customer service problems over the Christmas break the old saying
Speaker 2: that half of people are of below average intelligence class
Speaker 2: are is very helpful sometimes to think about right right,
Speaker 2: and it's also helpful to remember nobody chooses that as
Speaker 2: long as somebody is reasonably pleasant. I have a great
Speaker 2: deal of patience for those not not terribly blessed anyway,
Speaker 2: JT and Livermore for frequent correspondent. Rights people on the
Speaker 2: left are trying to blame the LA fire disaster on
Speaker 2: climate change, but that only proves what idiots they are.
Speaker 2: Let me ask it this way, which is worse. A
Speaker 2: to be skeptical.
Speaker 3: Skeptical about climate change is an excuse for why you
Speaker 3: don't prepare for hotter, dryer fire seasons. Or B to
Speaker 3: be certain that climate change is real and be certain
Speaker 3: that it will result in hotter and try your fire seasons,
Speaker 3: but doing nothing to prepare for said climate change related fires,
Speaker 3: a point that's been made over and over again. Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 3: Karen Bass and their ilk are obsessive. They blame everything
Speaker 3: on climate change.
Speaker 2: They give out billions of dollars to their cronies in
Speaker 2: the name of green energy and climate change, and yet well,
Speaker 2: we couldn't do anything about it climate change well, and also,
Speaker 2: as I said last week, I think even with their
Speaker 2: projections if we did the things they wanted to do,
Speaker 2: it would be tiny adjustments over decades. So oh, that
Speaker 2: ain't gonna make any difference for like a long time.
Speaker 2: So how about we only talk about you know, the
Speaker 2: reality of now.
Speaker 3: And preparedness would be your ninety seven percent emphasis if
Speaker 3: you were serious.
Speaker 1: But they're not. It's a scam.
Speaker 3: JT also writes, you guys were wondering whether the fire
Speaker 3: disaster lack of preparedness is enough to convince California voters
Speaker 3: to vote Republican going forward? No is the answer?
Speaker 1: Well, or a reasonable Democrat? Sure?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, a good point. A lot more good emails.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll sprinkle them in throughout the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Republican takeover is a fantasy, but maybe
Speaker 2: normal Democrats taking back over could happen in California.
Speaker 1: We got a lot to talk about. I hope you
Speaker 1: can stay.
Speaker 2: Here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: The thing that excites me about his background is the
Speaker 6: overwhelming support I've heard from veterans groups across the board
Speaker 6: that our soldiers, sailors, airman, marine, the veterans, especially from
Speaker 6: our generation's war, the War on Terror, not only support him,
Speaker 6: they're excited for him. They're excited to have him there,
Speaker 6: and they identify with him.
Speaker 3: That's Congressman Mike Walls, friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show,
Speaker 3: and friend of patriots everywhere.
Speaker 1: I think that's interesting.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk a little bit about the hearing
Speaker 2: yesterday for Trump's nominee for Secretary Defense. Pretty big job,
Speaker 2: this guy, Pete hegg Zeff, who's known by people who
Speaker 2: watch Fox as a morning guy and Fox and Friends.
Speaker 2: Other people know him more as the military guy that
Speaker 2: he is, and was a couple of things that Mark
Speaker 2: Alprin pointed out in his newsletter, Anti woke is a
Speaker 2: far greater source of adhesive for any Trump project that
Speaker 2: requires center right support than the dominant media and Democrats
Speaker 2: understand slash realize. I think that's true. I think as
Speaker 2: long as you're anti woke, which exeit went to a lot,
Speaker 2: I think that really brings a lot of people into
Speaker 2: your tent.
Speaker 1: Right well.
Speaker 3: And it's no surprise to hear me say I think
Speaker 3: that's appropriate in large measure, because again, the woke thing
Speaker 3: is not just a harmless, we want more diversity thing.
Speaker 3: It's an effort to overthrow Western civilization in the name
Speaker 3: of neo Marxism. So if you're on that page, we
Speaker 3: can talk about our differences.
Speaker 1: I think we'll get along.
Speaker 2: Mark Alprin also wrote in his newsletter, and he knows
Speaker 2: about this sort of stuff in a way that I don't.
Speaker 2: The squad of sherpas and deputy Shirt is around hexif
Speaker 2: did a first rate job doing all the things such
Speaker 2: crews need to do to have him completely prepared for
Speaker 2: this thing, the way they handled the interviews with the
Speaker 2: various senators before the confirmation hearing, for the confirmation hearing yesterday,
Speaker 2: and his point being that during the election shortly after
Speaker 2: the election, there was a lot of question whether or
Speaker 2: not the second Trump term could draw high level talent
Speaker 2: and helping rights for at least for now, the answer
Speaker 2: is yes. Apparently you can get top talent to be
Speaker 2: involved with your various people. And then he got to this,
Speaker 2: which is something I'd never thought of. Team Trump knows
Speaker 2: how to win battles that are fought in the world
Speaker 2: of pr politics, press and policy, technology, the media landscape,
Speaker 2: the level of nature of partisanship are all things that
Speaker 2: the Trump team knows how to handle, and they get
Speaker 2: to details right packing the hearing with supporters who laughed
Speaker 2: at Hegz's jokes, cheered him on, and basically he created
Speaker 2: the soundtrack for his gladiatorial moments. Something the grasping and
Speaker 2: stuttering Democrat senators lacked was a brilliant move by the
Speaker 2: Trump team.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I wouldn't even have known that that was
Speaker 2: a thing to be able to get enough people in
Speaker 2: there that you know, people laugh at your jokes and
Speaker 2: applaud and gas but your brilliant comments.
Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, how interesting behind the scenes there. I want
Speaker 3: to hear one more from Congressman Mike Waltz here.
Speaker 6: Sixty Michael, I think Pete sech Hegseth is going to
Speaker 6: be a great Defense secretary.
Speaker 1: It is time for change. When you have a.
Speaker 6: Situation where we've had the worst recruiting crisis since Vietnam.
Speaker 6: When you have our major defense systems like the Joint
Speaker 6: Strike Fighter have a readiness rate in the thirties despite
Speaker 6: being the most expensive system ever, when we have a
Speaker 6: shipbuilding crisis, our navy is going backwards and getting smaller
Speaker 6: while China's is now the largest in the world. And
Speaker 6: this committee, the Armed Services Committee in the Senate, has
Speaker 6: had hearing after hearing for years, if not decades decrying
Speaker 6: all of these problems, and yet we have someone with
Speaker 6: an unconventional background who's not a defense industry executive, who's
Speaker 6: not a former general.
Speaker 1: I say, good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And the good news and the bad news is
Speaker 3: because I'm intrigued by Pete Hegseith. He's a surprising choice
Speaker 3: and unconventional choice, and I can't guarantee you he's going
Speaker 3: to do a good job. But the good news and
Speaker 3: bad news simultaneously is that the Pentagon is so enormous
Speaker 3: and so stubborn and so difficult to reform. If he
Speaker 3: turns out to be not great at it, he's not
Speaker 3: going to be able to do much damage. And if
Speaker 3: he is a godsend to the Pentagon, it's going to
Speaker 3: be herculean task to accomplish much. That's you know, like
Speaker 3: I say, the good news and the bad news.
Speaker 2: I have breaking news, and Katie, I'm gonna need your
Speaker 2: input because I'm about to go perhaps misogynists in a
Speaker 2: way that I don't intend to, but I don't know
Speaker 2: how else to reporting this story. Here's the problem, here's
Speaker 2: the problem with the Attorney General hearing that is kicked
Speaker 2: off the day with Pam BONDI she's too hot. I
Speaker 2: just don't think I don't know why. I don't think
Speaker 2: that's okay. But she's too hot, she's too stylish. That
Speaker 2: outfit she's wearing's too stylish. She's too hot. You need
Speaker 2: a gray haired guy or a frumpy woman who looks
Speaker 2: like she spent her whole life studying. You can't have
Speaker 2: a woman that hot the Attorney General. I just think
Speaker 2: it's you, responds Katie.
Speaker 1: Misogynistic meter shattered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, really, you probably ought to suspend yourself.
Speaker 1: Is that misogynistic? It just yese, get past it, adolescent.
Speaker 1: This is sick.
Speaker 2: But if I'm a misogynist, i'd be wouldn't I be
Speaker 2: anti female attorney general?
Speaker 1: Which I'm not.
Speaker 2: I just, for some reason don't think you should be
Speaker 2: super hot and stylish.
Speaker 1: And I don't know why. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: to do with that. It's hard. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess it makes maybe this is that this is
Speaker 2: definitely misogynistic. I find it hard to take her seriously
Speaker 2: because she's hot and stylish.
Speaker 3: There you go, Jar just exploded.
Speaker 1: Okay, right, yeah, this is disgusting. I tell you what.
Speaker 3: Among women well into their fifties, she is a honey
Speaker 3: holy cat. Anyway, well let's talk about her legal qualification.
Speaker 2: Now we're talking about Pete Hegsith. Oh sorry, who's a
Speaker 2: handsome bloke himself. Yeah, and then that's funny. See that's
Speaker 2: where it's misogyny, because he's as for a dude, as
Speaker 2: hot as you can get. And that didn't bother me, Right,
Speaker 2: I take him seriously, Katie, you got.
Speaker 3: To give him points for self diagnosis any yeah, right, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: back to Pete Hegsith. Let's see whereas Oh, there it is, Okay,
Speaker 3: I wanted to make a couple of points. Mike Waltz
Speaker 3: just just mentioned that he wasn't a former general. This
Speaker 3: is from Pete's testimony, clipped number seventy.
Speaker 1: This is interesting.
Speaker 5: We won World War Two with seven four star generals.
Speaker 5: Today we have forty four for star generals. There's an
Speaker 5: inverse relationship between the size of staffs and victory on
Speaker 5: the battlefield.
Speaker 1: We don't need more.
Speaker 5: Bureaucracy at the top, we need more warfighters and powered
Speaker 5: at the bottom.
Speaker 1: That scratches me or right, h yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely. This is viewed by some as the definitive statement
Speaker 3: he made. The clip that will be played for ages
Speaker 3: seventy two, Michael.
Speaker 1: President Trump also told me.
Speaker 5: We've repeatedly placed people atop the Pentagon with supposedly the
Speaker 5: right credentials, he believes, and I humbly agree that it's
Speaker 5: time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm.
Speaker 3: Like the spirit of that. And again, if it doesn't
Speaker 3: work out, it will be fine. If it does work out,
Speaker 3: we'll be much stronger for it. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: tip our cap to the criticism he took, the hard
Speaker 3: questioning he took from several of the congress people or
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, senators, including senatorettes, some of the the woman senators,
Speaker 3: but were pressed for time, so to to save that time,
Speaker 3: this is a montage of Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten gillibrand uh,
Speaker 3: some other gal whose name I don't recognize in Tammy
Speaker 3: Duckworth all yelling at Hexath at the same time, Clip
Speaker 3: number sixty six.
Speaker 1: Michael, it's.
Speaker 2: Right, that's enough of that before everybody goes completely insane.
Speaker 2: I wanted to this drove me crazy yes days watch
Speaker 2: the CBS Evening News and their tone on the Hexath
Speaker 2: hearing was just so clearly this is a very questionable choice.
Speaker 2: And uh and man, he really was up against it today,
Speaker 2: which is not the way most fair commentators took it.
Speaker 2: And he's gone to get confirmed. So interestingly, it set
Speaker 2: that tone on CBS. But here's part of the CBS
Speaker 2: Evening News report.
Speaker 7: The former Army major was quickly bombarded by rapid fire
Speaker 7: grilled about his views of women serving in combat. The
Speaker 7: Xbox News host was also pressed about accusations of sexual
Speaker 7: assault at a Monterey, California hotel in twenty seventeen. Heg
Speaker 7: Seth underwent an FBI background check, but Democrats claimed it
Speaker 7: did not include interviews with.
Speaker 1: Heg Seth's accuser or ex wives.
Speaker 7: The Trump team is pleased with Hegseeth's performance, with one
Speaker 7: advisor telling CBS News it sets the tone for the
Speaker 7: rest of their nominees.
Speaker 2: Democrats claim that the FBI background check wasn't thorough. That's
Speaker 2: what you went with CBS News, was it or wasn't it?
Speaker 2: They get to claim and you just put that on
Speaker 2: as the news. You don't do that when Republicans claim crap.
Speaker 2: And what was it with that gal?
Speaker 3: Why was she so obviously trying to force her voice
Speaker 3: lower and speak in an inflection that no normal human
Speaker 3: Beings speaks it.
Speaker 2: I'm glad this story never really democrats alleged scandal.
Speaker 1: Nobody talks like that.
Speaker 2: I mentioned this yesterday and you wouldn't know it unless
Speaker 2: you watch Msnbcerior some left wing media.
Speaker 1: But that was their narrative all day long, the phony FBI.
Speaker 2: Background check based on an anonymous source in the New
Speaker 2: York Times. Luckily it didn't grab hold and it didn't
Speaker 2: seem to like make normal.
Speaker 1: News for the most part.
Speaker 2: But what is that kind of a news story? Democrats claim? Well,
Speaker 2: they can claim whatever they help they want, is it
Speaker 2: real or not? If you don't have any way to
Speaker 2: substantiate that it's true, leave it out of your freaking
Speaker 2: news story.
Speaker 1: I know they're absolutely shameless.
Speaker 3: So one of the allegations was that on one or
Speaker 3: two occasions, like at evening functions, mister Hegseith had been drinking.
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Speaker 3: Wayne Mullen. I thought he was an interesting and good dude.
Speaker 3: He was a guy who built a plumbing contractor's business
Speaker 3: in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: He was a mixed martial art fighter.
Speaker 3: He's a father and a husband and a normal human being,
Speaker 3: and he's I hope he lives to a ripe old
Speaker 3: agent is.
Speaker 1: A force in the Senate for a long time. But
Speaker 1: some of the uh, you know, I wish we don't
Speaker 1: really have time for the whole sequence.
Speaker 3: Mark Kelly went big on these instances of drunkenness?
Speaker 2: Are they tru or falls? And hexaths went with us.
Speaker 2: These are anonymous smears. Why am I even answering these questions?
Speaker 2: Which is a good question in itself. Senator Mark Wayne
Speaker 2: Mullen got his chance up clip number seventy six.
Speaker 4: Senator Kane or I guess I better use the senator
Speaker 4: for Virginia starts bringing up the fact that what if
Speaker 4: you showed up.
Speaker 1: Drunk to your job?
Speaker 4: How many Senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?
Speaker 4: Have any of you guys asked him to step down
Speaker 4: and resign for their job? And don't tell me you
Speaker 4: haven't seen it, because I know you have. And then
Speaker 4: how many senators do you no have got a divorce
Speaker 4: before cheating on their wives? Did you ask them to
Speaker 4: step down. No, but it's for show. You guys, make
Speaker 4: sure you make a big show and point out the
Speaker 4: hypocrisy because a man's made a mistake and you want
Speaker 4: to sit there and say that he's not qualified.
Speaker 1: Give me a joke.
Speaker 4: It is so ridiculous that you guys hold yourself as
Speaker 4: this higher standard. Do you forget you got a big
Speaker 4: plank in your eye?
Speaker 3: Yeah, to quote the Bible, And then you got Senator Blumenthal,
Speaker 3: king of stolen valor, grilling an actual combat veteran on
Speaker 3: his character.
Speaker 1: It was too much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why doesn't it happen more often that people point
Speaker 2: out things like like he just did there? You gotta
Speaker 2: tell me you guys don't show up drunk the vote sometimes.
Speaker 2: How many friends of yours cheated on their wives? Give
Speaker 2: me a break? Is it because it's the Quaubman, you're
Speaker 2: not supposed to say that about your fellow senators?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. That's why nobody hammer's Blumenthal. They figure he's
Speaker 3: already gotten outed and humiliated over it. But it would
Speaker 3: have been tough for me to take watching that yesterday
Speaker 3: without saying that.
Speaker 2: I assume if Pete Hegseeth shows up drunk at the Pentagon.
Speaker 2: It will make the news and become you know, it
Speaker 2: will be a self correcting problem.
Speaker 3: Well right, and the idea that no human being has
Speaker 3: any agency or ability to change. If I am like
Speaker 3: the night clerk at an all night car.
Speaker 1: Wash, I might come in with a buzzer twenty years later.
Speaker 2: Twenty years later, when I've straightened up and I've got
Speaker 2: my own car washing company and I'm at the meeting
Speaker 2: with the accountants, I'm probably gonna be sober. I like
Speaker 2: somebody who's grilling him on did you or did you
Speaker 2: not take your staff to a strip club when you
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, and like really, so none of these
Speaker 2: people in government they are ever going to script clubs
Speaker 2: or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Who are you trying to kid?
Speaker 2: I mean, that's hilarious. We've got k these headlines on
Speaker 2: the way and a bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 1: Stay here, strong and getty. Oh, you're going to talk about, uh.
Speaker 2: What it costs to be a Trump's inauguration on the
Speaker 2: three richest top three richest men in the world are
Speaker 2: going to be there sitting together, which is kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll talk about that an hour or two. If
Speaker 2: I raise a million dollars.
Speaker 3: I'm calling saying I would like to sit at table
Speaker 3: four please, and I will get a you're joking, right,
Speaker 3: million dollars might not get you in the door. More
Speaker 3: on that to come. Let's get the headlines now, who's
Speaker 3: reporting what?
Speaker 1: It's the lead story with Katie Green? Katie starting with
Speaker 1: kt LA.
Speaker 8: Increasing winds bring extreme fire danger to southern California Wednesday.
Speaker 1: How Wendy's is supposed to be? You know, they're still
Speaker 1: in the red flag warning.
Speaker 8: They've been seeing fifty fifty to eighty wow, miles power.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the gusts, Yeah, yeah, it's still plenty dangerous.
Speaker 8: From Katie Grimes at the cow Globe. Will California's wildfire
Speaker 8: failures usher in a common sense political era?
Speaker 1: God one hopes from Breitbart dot com. Trump did more
Speaker 1: to free.
Speaker 8: Hostages and reach a ceasefire agreement than Biden.
Speaker 1: Did all year. Well, there's a couple of reasons for that.
Speaker 2: I think I think Hamas leadership believes that Trump would
Speaker 2: let be be neet Yahoo do what he's got to
Speaker 2: do because it's true and they knew that Biden Harris,
Speaker 2: specifically when Harris was running for president. Every time Israel
Speaker 2: did anything they got a scolding from the presidential candidate.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna do for a ceasefire. Exactly.
Speaker 3: To whatever extent Israel's had success made progress, it has
Speaker 3: been in spite of Biden, not with his health.
Speaker 8: From a Wall Street Journal, Zuckerberg debuts quote real Mark
Speaker 8: in push to wu Trump.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I saw that He's trying to make the point. Look,
Speaker 3: this is the real me. I compete in jiu jitsu.
Speaker 3: I'm a real guy. I'm in favor of free speech.
Speaker 3: This is the real Mark. I wear T shirts, I have.
Speaker 2: Long hair, i wear million dollar watches. I'm a regular guy.
Speaker 1: From the Washington Post.
Speaker 8: Surge in Americans getting sterilizations due to abortion laws.
Speaker 2: Oh, for goodness, men are women? Are both? How do
Speaker 2: you get a sterilization?
Speaker 1: What do I do to you? Your tubes tied? In
Speaker 1: the cases?
Speaker 3: What they mean best secony in the case of women. Okay,
Speaker 3: they call that a sterilization.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, a strong term, but it's accurate.
Speaker 2: I saw a congresswoman I think it was, saying the
Speaker 2: other day, the day Row versus Wade was overturned was
Speaker 2: the darkest day in American history. It's resulted in more abortions,
Speaker 2: You numb skull, what do you talk?
Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: The truths and politics occasionally brush up against each other
Speaker 3: while passing, but they're not regular companions.
Speaker 8: From Radar Online, Leonardo DiCaprio branded a hypocrite after escaping
Speaker 8: La wildfires on a private jet despite his climate warrior image.
Speaker 1: Wow what fine? Oh my god? So what is he
Speaker 1: supposed to do? He was supposed to go to uh
Speaker 1: Burbank Airport and get on Southwest. It's let's take the butt.
Speaker 1: Hope he's an A or B so you can get
Speaker 1: a decent seats. Well, they're all phonies and hipochris. I
Speaker 1: don't need more evidence.
Speaker 8: From the New York Post, disgruntled customer begging door Dash
Speaker 8: and Instacart to allow an option for female shoppers after
Speaker 8: male employee gets eighty percent of her order.
Speaker 1: Wrong. Wow, you really enjoyed that one? I did. I
Speaker 1: did a lot.
Speaker 8: And finally the Babylon be Biden comforts fire victims by
Speaker 8: telling them about how he once ordered a steak medium
Speaker 8: but it was served to him.
Speaker 1: Well done. Oh wow, I just came across this. This
Speaker 1: is a good one.
Speaker 2: Megan Kelly blames DEI obsessed fire department leaders for cent
Speaker 2: unfit obese Lesbians into Wildfires.
Speaker 1: Megan does not have much of a filter these days.
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