1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: All right, thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks to all 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: of you for being with us. Write down our toll 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: free telephone number. We have a busy news day today. 4 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: It's eight hundred and ninety four one Sean if you 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: want to be a part of the program. Later on, 6 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: there were a bunch of Navy seals that were out 7 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: in the freezing cold early in the morning to get 8 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: into the hearings for Pete Hegsat today. I thought he 9 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 1: did phenomenal and everything I predicted yesterday came to fruition. 10 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: Democrats revert to form. They can't control themselves, and you know, petty, 11 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: nonsensical personal attacks, but they've got only a limited period 12 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: of time, and Pete was able to parry away pretty 13 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: much every attack that they made against him and refused 14 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,239 Speaker 1: to fall into their traps. I'll go into specificity in 15 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: details here in a second. It's funny I did read 16 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: Kerry Pickets column in the Washington Times today. Many many 17 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: congressional Democrats do not plan to attend Donald Trump's inauguration 18 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: on Monday, but they're not calling it a boycott. Well, then, 19 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 1: what would you call it? Sounds like a boycott, It 20 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: looks like a boycott sounds like a boycott. Guess what, 21 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,680 Speaker 1: it's a boycott anyway. At Trump's first inauguration, more than 22 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: sixty Democratic lawmakers boycott of the event because they said 23 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: Trump was an illegitimate, dangerous president. Eight years later, plenty 24 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: of House Democrats skipping Donald Trump swearing in at the 25 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: US Capitol. Many blame a scheduling conflict. They must be 26 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: having tea time somewhere anyway. I think it's kind of 27 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: just general conflict of logistics aos, he said to The 28 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 1: Washington Times about her plan no show. Emmanuel Cleaver Missouri 29 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: doesn't know if he can make the inauguration, saying the 30 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: day conflicts with MLK Day events at his church. He 31 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: told the Times that if he decides he can't make it, 32 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: it would not be part of a boycott. Some Democratic 33 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: lawmaker said they were participating. They're using the MLK holiday 34 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: that's also a National Championship Day. Squad member Presley of 35 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: Massachusetts said that she would spend the weekend of Martin 36 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: Luther King Junior in her district at community events. Who 37 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,519 Speaker 1: cares if they come or not. It doesn't really matter 38 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: if they come or not. It was you know everything 39 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: that you you would expect. I thought, Pete himself stay 40 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: dialed in and focus will play some of his responses 41 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: as the show goes on. Now, I'm really not going 42 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time on Democrats because I 43 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: don't even think they're worthy of our time. But you know, 44 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 1: they're just not serious people, and these are serious times 45 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: and national security, national defense is critical in my mind, 46 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: and what the focus of today should have been about, 47 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 1: you know, And they didn't spend a lot of time about. 48 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: They spend a lot of time on social issues, women 49 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,079 Speaker 1: in combat, Pete's personal life. 50 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 2: You know, things that have nothing to do with the job. 51 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,519 Speaker 1: And I just sit there and I'm like, Okay, it's 52 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 1: the same old Democratic party. They didn't learn a thing 53 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: from this past election. And they're focused on you know, DEI. 54 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: They're focused on, you know, the type of politics that 55 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: you would expect from Democrats. And in the end, they 56 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: really didn't lay a hand on him. Identity politics just 57 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,799 Speaker 1: rules the day for them. And I think what made 58 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: it impressive is when Pete did get an opportunity to speak, 59 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: he talked about the need to rebuild on military and 60 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: re establish de terrence and responsibly in these wars, which 61 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: Donald Trump ran his whole campaign on and he talked 62 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: about how the Department of Defense standards will achieve peace 63 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: through strength, and how these standards will not be equal, 64 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: will will be equal, not equitable, which is very different. 65 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: Now he's a change agent. His special interest is the 66 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: war fighter, and there was a coordinated effort to smear 67 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: him by the left wing media, which was all true, 68 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: and that came out during the course of the hearing stage. 69 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: If you didn't get a chance to watch it all, 70 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: which I'm sure most of you did not because you 71 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: were busy, and I'll give you a quick summary because 72 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: I have taken notes for the entire hearings. Roger Whitker 73 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: of Mississippi gave him a warm welcome as an experienced 74 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: nominee well positioned to help meet the challenges of today's 75 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: Department of Defense, and describing his background as a warrior 76 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: fighter himself as an asset, not a shortfall, and how 77 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: he will inject a new warrior ethos into the pentagon 78 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: of spirit that can cascade from the top down. Now, 79 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 1: when I look at our military today, this is me speaking, 80 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: I see a military that has what exactly what Reagan inherited, 81 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: and that is a gap of vulnerability. We have fallen behind. 82 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: It has not been the priority. At one point, I 83 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: don't remember who it was, they talked about five billion 84 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: dollars being spent in the first year alone and on 85 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 1: DEI programs within the military, which is insanity. It came 86 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: up a number of times the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan 87 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: and how that could ever happen that, you know, a 88 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 1: lot of Democrats just openly said right from the get 89 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: go that Pete Hegseth is not qualified, and then they 90 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: went on to lecture him. Norm Coleman gave an impassioned 91 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: speech in favor of Pete, which I thought was very good. 92 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:36,919 Speaker 1: The incoming National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz introduced and endorsed 93 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: Pete for Defense Secretary. Like Pete, I served in the 94 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: US Army. Like Pete, I'm a veteran. We deployed to 95 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: Afghanistan all over the world at the height of the 96 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: War on Terror, which is the war of our generation. 97 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 1: Like thousands of other war fighters, we witnessed the hardships 98 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: of war. We experienced the loss of friends in combat. 99 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: We've had to endure too much time away from family 100 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: and from friends, and then he opened his remarks, you know, 101 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,840 Speaker 1: about going to work for President Trump and this committee, 102 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: you know, is to restore that warrior ethic to the 103 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:14,239 Speaker 1: Pentagon and throughout our fighting force and re established trust 104 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: in our military and addressing the recruiting crisis, the retention crisis, 105 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: the readiness crisis. What they did to some members of 106 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:27,559 Speaker 1: our military during COVID, people that were choosing to take 107 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 1: control of their own bodies, and you know, they wanted 108 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: to give him at the time dishonorable discharges. It was insane. 109 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: And how the Department of Defense under Trump will achieve 110 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: peace through strength and pursuing these America first national security 111 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:47,840 Speaker 1: goals and remained patriotically a political and strive towards constitutionality. 112 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: And as it relates to the orchestrated smear on him, 113 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: well that was clear from day one, and he dealt 114 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: with all of it. 115 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 2: He dealt with it head on. Talked about Yeah. 116 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: He's he and through rough periods in his life and 117 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: he changed his life around. Gave credit to to his 118 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:10,679 Speaker 1: conversion and commitment to Christianity in Jesus and his wife 119 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: for changing his life around during a tough period in 120 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: his life. We're going back a decade now, so we're 121 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: not talking about anything that was really current in any way. 122 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: And then, you know, then the questioning comes in, you know, 123 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: and here we go, rather than talking about the gap 124 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: of vulnerability, why does China rush off hypersonic technology with 125 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: maneuverability and we don't, you know, why is it that 126 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: we've got to rely on the many delivery systems for 127 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: nuclear weapons as our greatest deterrence. That should not be 128 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: our greatest deterrence, you know. But they didn't spend any 129 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,559 Speaker 1: time talking about Donald Trump's proposal for an iron dome 130 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: that would protect the entire country, something I would love 131 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: to see President Trump accomplish, because I am very convinced 132 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: that future wars will not be fought on battlefields, although 133 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: you will always people on the ground and intelligence on 134 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: the ground, but for the most part, you're not gonna 135 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: have kids going door to door like they were in 136 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: Iraq and stepping on IEDs and not having up armored 137 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: hum v's. We can't be fighting wars like that ever 138 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: again in the future. If we're gonna liberate other countries, yeah, 139 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's right, they should pay for their liberation. We 140 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:22,559 Speaker 1: should not have to pay for it with a thirty 141 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: seven trillion dollar debt, and I think that that is 142 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: the future. But developing the next generation of warfare is 143 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 1: going to cost this country an enormous amount of money. 144 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: China has been spending, you know, drastic amounts of money 145 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: on building up their war machine. They have shown open 146 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 1: hostility even against American and ships in international waterways, and 147 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: against our air force and international airwaves. They've shown nothing 148 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 1: but hostility flying over our ally Taiwan. They've talked about 149 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: their territorial ambitions. Then of course we want to get it. 150 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 1: We would like to see an end to what's going 151 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: on with Ukraine and Vladimir Putin. That has to be 152 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: dealt with, the Iranian's desire for nuclear weapons, that has 153 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: to be dealt with. That's that's not what most of 154 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: these democrats wanted to talk about. And heg Seth was 155 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: very clear criticizing, you know, DEI policies of today and 156 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: how they're dividing troops inside formations, causing commanders to walk 157 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 1: on eggshells, not putting meritocracy at the top anyway, Senator 158 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 1: Reid fired back, all of your public comments don't talk 159 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: about meritocracy. They talk about liberal democratic efforts that are 160 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: destroying the military, that those people are enemies. I don't 161 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: recall them ever saying enemies, but you know, Senator Shaheen 162 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: questioned heg seth regarding women in the military, and he's 163 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: been clear and he clarified this long before these hearings, 164 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: and they wasted so much time on this. He said 165 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,439 Speaker 1: he'd be honored to serve among all men, women, black, white, 166 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: all background. Says he's not talking about capabilities of men 167 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: versus women, but standards for men and women, and that 168 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 1: the standards must be high, and the standards have got 169 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: to be the same for men and women, and if 170 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 1: you meet those standards to serve in the military, then 171 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: you're in the military, period and a sentence and that 172 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: wasn't enough. Then Senator Jilibrand continues the questioning about women 173 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: in the military, and Hegsas says he'd never criticized women 174 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: in the military, but calling out, you know how he 175 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: has seen standards lowered for women and commanders and they 176 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: have quotas which have lowered and disparages women in the military. 177 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 1: And Jilibrand wouldn't back off. I have many concerns about 178 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: your record, particularly your public statements because they're hurtful to 179 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: the men and women who currently serve in the US 180 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: military and their morale. This guy has been He's devoted 181 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: as entire adult life life to serving the military. This 182 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 1: is what he cares about. And then attack Senator Cotton, Well, 183 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: he was giving you layups to differentiate between the different 184 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: types of combat. Specifically, as secretary, would you take any 185 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: action to reinstitute the combat arms exclusion for female service members? 186 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: Knowing full well you have hundreds of women doing that 187 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: job right now, and the standards that you run a 188 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: two minute, you run, your two mile run is about 189 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: the Army combat fitness test. And heg set said, I 190 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: respect every single female service member that has put on 191 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 1: the uniform, past and present. My critique, Senator, recently and 192 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: in the past, and from personal experience, have been instances 193 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: where I see standards lowered. And then he talked about 194 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump wants to prevent war, that the best 195 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: way to prevent war is to have the greatest, meanest, toughest, 196 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: most advanced military on the face of this earth. Right 197 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 1: now now, I would make the argument we don't have 198 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: that they have dropped the ball, and we saw that 199 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, and you know, giving away our strategic petroleum 200 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: reserves and all these missiles and escalating the conflict in 201 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: Ukraine the way Joe Biden is. It's just been ridiculous. 202 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: But the chief job would be to deter war, prevent war. 203 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: And it was funny you watch Blumenthal, who lied about 204 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: his service in Vietnam, trying to attack Pete over the 205 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 1: money management while he was leading a veterans group. I 206 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: was kind of laughing at that somewhat Tim Kaine spent 207 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: almost all of his time. Now this is a bit 208 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: of an irony here that kind of made me chuckle 209 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:46,959 Speaker 1: to myself anyway, because wasn't it the same Tim Kaine 210 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: that ran with Hillary Clinton? And he's Grilla and Pete 211 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: hegseth over allegations about his personal life and an allegation 212 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: that went away after a criminal investigation that never came 213 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:01,839 Speaker 1: for a whey based on the evidence in the case 214 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: that didn't exist in that case. And I can only 215 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: guess they picked Caine to pursue that line of questioning 216 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,960 Speaker 1: because of the familiarity he must have acquired about, you know, 217 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: people being accused of rape and cheating husbands when he 218 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: was Bill Clinton's vice presidential running mate in twenty sixteen, 219 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: but he didn't seem particularly offended that his running mate's 220 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: husband had been credibly accused of all of these things, 221 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:31,559 Speaker 1: including exposing himself, rape, sexual assault, serial cheating, and all 222 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: the above. He seemed to be very good friends with 223 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton. So I found that a little bit a 224 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:40,959 Speaker 1: little bit of irony there. And so that came up, 225 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: and you know, then the issue of whether or not 226 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 1: you believe in waterboarding and the Geneva conventions came up 227 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:54,319 Speaker 1: with Angus King. Let's see, one person, a Democrat from Michigan, 228 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 1: Gary Peters, was upset they didn't have a one on 229 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 1: one meeting. I'm like, really, that's what's That's all you 230 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:05,959 Speaker 1: have to say. I thought that Senator Mullen of Oklahoma 231 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: was particularly powerful. He went right out as fellow senators 232 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: and he goes, yeah, how many of you have shown 233 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 1: up having drunk at night to vote? And how many 234 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 1: of you here in this chamber have have have been 235 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: involved in cheating scandals? He was like, he went right there. 236 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: I was like wow. Then he called out the hypocrisy 237 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: of senators and then he pointed out, yes, everyone has 238 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: send and fall in short, he didn't use those words. 239 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: They're my words. And we've all, well the Bible's words. Uh, 240 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: we've all made mistakes. And Petez, you know, changed his 241 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: life and he's done it for a number of years now. 242 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: But they want to go back and dredge up the 243 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 1: passes pasted as much as they can. This is why 244 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: good people don't want to run for public office. They 245 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: don't want to be a part of serving in the government. 246 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: It's a high price that you pay, I'll tell you. Uh, listen, 247 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: you might think that, Okay, I'll use my gun in 248 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: self defense that obviously, if you have to protect. I 249 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: can't announce everything yet, but we have a lot planned 250 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: for next week. 251 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 2: Excited about all of it. Let's put it this way. 252 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: I'm going to be spending more time in the DC 253 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: swamp than I had originally planned. But we have a 254 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 1: lot of really good stuff that we're going to do 255 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 1: that I think hopefully we'll get things started off on 256 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: the right foot and be productive in a lot of 257 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: different ways. I'm kind of getting excited about Linda, you 258 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: get excited about Monday. It can't come soon enough as 259 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned. Of course, could you just just 260 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: Just imagine what it would be like if Kamala won 261 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: for a second. 262 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 2: Just imagine that. What do you think? 263 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, I try not to have bad dreams while wide awake, 264 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 3: and I'll do that. That's not a thing. 265 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 1: It would be pretty bad. They announced that, Oh I 266 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: know that Rascal Plats is going to be playing there. 267 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: That's pretty cool be playing. Oh guess who else is 268 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: playing there? Who the village people are playing there? 269 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 3: Oh? 270 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 2: I did see that. 271 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 3: I did see that, y MC. 272 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 2: Did you see at the park? Are you going to 273 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 2: do it? 274 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 3: Sean? You're going to get up there and dance with them? 275 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 2: No? I'm not, No, I will not be. I'm working. 276 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 3: That might be the one thing that you could do. 277 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 3: You don't have to move the bottom board of your body. 278 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 3: You just have to move your arms. 279 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: All you gotta do is you put the big y 280 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: up right and then you do the M and then 281 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 1: you kind of slant over A and then the A 282 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: at the top when you put your hands together. 283 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 2: Is that it? 284 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 3: And the third letter is C. But we'll give you 285 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 3: a pass. Not everybody gets it right the first time. 286 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: It's fine, Okay, I sound like Joe Biden or who 287 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 1: was it that said the three letter word, jobs, j obs, 288 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: jobs anyway, So the village people, Rascal Flats carry Underwood 289 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 1: is going to be performing, and you know, and by 290 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: the way, to her, she doesn't care at all about 291 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: any backlash good for her that she may face, according 292 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 1: to sources who say that the singer is very proud 293 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 1: to have the chance to have that experience during her career. 294 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:11,959 Speaker 1: She's got such an amazing voice, by the way, she's incredible. 295 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: And I really don't care what performers political points of 296 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: view are. I mean, if I chose my music, and 297 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: if I chose what I watched, which I don't watch 298 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. I've been obsessed with the chosen 299 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 1: now forever. But if I chose it based on their politics, 300 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: I wouldn't watch any of it. 301 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:37,639 Speaker 2: Anyway. They're gonna do Macho man ymca. I just I don't. 302 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: I have so much that I have to do work wise, 303 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 1: and we're doing a show Sunday night that I really 304 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: won't have time to do anything else but get my 305 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:50,479 Speaker 1: work done. And you are aware of my schedule, so 306 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: you know how tight things are going to be. It's 307 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: gonna be pretty pretty tight, indeed, And it's just you know, 308 00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 1: it's it's going to be such shock and awe. If 309 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: you want to know what the schedule is on, when 310 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: is it. On Saturday, there's a reception of fireworks will 311 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:14,880 Speaker 1: be held at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. 312 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: Is a reception for Cabinet nominees and a dinner hosted 313 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 1: by Vice President elect JD. 314 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:20,719 Speaker 2: Vans. 315 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: On the nineteenth, Trump is going to lay a route 316 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, 317 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: where members of the military are buried. A victory rally 318 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,360 Speaker 1: at Capital One Arena, which is the home of the 319 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:39,919 Speaker 1: Washington Wizard and the Washington Capitals. That's the Candlelight dinner. 320 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 1: I had a couple of close friends of mine that 321 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: are going to that and tried to talk me into going. 322 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I'm doing a show on Sunday night. 323 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 1: I have no choice, but I'll have to work. I'll 324 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: be working on Inauguration Day. The day begins with services 325 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 1: at Saint John's Church. After the church service, Trump will 326 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: have tea at the White House with Joe and Jill Biden. 327 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: At noon, Trump will take the oath of office at 328 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: the US Capital. I do solemnly swear affirm that I 329 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, 330 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, 331 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: defend the Constitution of the United States. After saying then 332 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: goodbye to Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the President 333 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: will hold a signing ceremony near the Senate Chamber, where 334 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:29,120 Speaker 1: he will likely sign nominations so that his cabinets elections 335 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:33,119 Speaker 1: can be confirmed expeditiously. A lunch will be hosted by 336 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, which organizes the 337 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:44,360 Speaker 1: inauguration events, including the swearing in ceremony. Prior to the 338 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: parade from the Capital to the White House, the President 339 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:51,160 Speaker 1: will review the troops. The parade will be down Pennsylvania Avenue. 340 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: I'm sure security is going to be I pray security 341 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:57,919 Speaker 1: is going to be insane. It should be, it must be. 342 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,959 Speaker 1: It has to be. At the White House, Trump all 343 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 1: whole day signing ceremony, where he will sign what is 344 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:07,919 Speaker 1: expected to be shock and awe a flurry of executive orders. 345 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:13,120 Speaker 1: He will attend and address three inaugural balls, the Commander 346 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: in Chiefs Ball, the Liberty Inaugural Ball, and the Starlight Ball. 347 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 1: I will be at one of the three. Wherever he 348 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 1: will be in the nine pm hour is the one 349 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 1: I will be at. And it looks like it was 350 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 1: up until yesterday, the Liberty Ball. It looks like the 351 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 1: Starlight Ball now. So we'll have to wait and see 352 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: how that plays out. I have to put on a 353 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: tuxedo again. Can you believe it? You know how I 354 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 1: love my tuxedo. 355 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 3: I mean, you know, listen, I would wear just about anything. 356 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 3: I'd wear a tuxedo to go to the ball and 357 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 3: see President Trump. 358 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 2: Oh, would you like to do? You do? You never 359 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 2: mention that you want? Would you like to go to 360 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 2: the ball? 361 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 3: No? I'm washing my hair that night. I can't make it. 362 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:00,400 Speaker 1: My hair that night, you can't make it. I get 363 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 1: you a picture. I thought this was going to buy 364 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: me goodwill with Donald Trump when we were in Harrisburg, 365 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: and and that lasted about two weeks, as I predicted, left. 366 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 1: It lasted longer than I thought. Actually, Alabama and Texas 367 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:20,200 Speaker 1: and Mike Johnson have all ordered the capital their state 368 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: flags and capital flags. 369 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 2: Uh uh. 370 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 1: They were refusing to keep it at half staff during 371 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 1: Trump's inauguration. This is something Joe Biden had decided, and 372 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: I hope when Trump gets in there he just puts 373 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,640 Speaker 1: the flag up. I think you should. But the petty look, 374 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 1: the pettiness was on display. It's gonna be on display 375 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 1: for Cash, It's gonna be on this display for Tulsi. 376 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,679 Speaker 1: It's gonna be on display for Pam, who's on I 377 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 1: think she's up tomorrow. It's gonna be on display for Marco. 378 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 1: It's going to be on display for RFK Junior. It's 379 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:57,959 Speaker 1: it's pretty much gonna be everybody. And this is just Democrats, bitter, angry, petty. 380 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: We saw all the petty news of Joe Biden on 381 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 1: the way out the door. None of us should be 382 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,719 Speaker 1: a surprise to anybody, and you know we saw it 383 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: on display today. I mean, I mean the fact that 384 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 1: they designate Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's running mate, to go 385 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: after Pete on issues from his past is a little ironic. 386 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 1: Did that not make you laugh? It kind of made 387 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 1: me laugh, and like, this is your best shot? And 388 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 1: then the best shot that they took at Pete. You know, 389 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: they obsessed for like an hour and a half over 390 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:40,359 Speaker 1: women and their role in combat. Am I old fashioned 391 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: in thinking that? In my way? 392 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 2: Of thinking I'm not against women in combat. I'm not 393 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 2: at all. 394 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 1: I just think the standards, as Pete was pointing out, 395 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: need to be exactly the same, and that which would 396 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 1: go for police departments, some fire departments. As long as 397 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 1: as long as you're capable of doing the job, nothing 398 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 1: should prevent you from being a job. Your section prevent 399 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,639 Speaker 1: you from being you know, from doing the job. But 400 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, if you're a firefighter 401 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 1: and you can't carry somebody out of a burning building, 402 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:15,680 Speaker 1: when if for whatever reason, man or woman, then that's 403 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,879 Speaker 1: not the job for you. It's just simply not. And 404 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 1: maybe I'm very old fashioned, but if somebody breaks into 405 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: my house and there's anybody in my house, which usually 406 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,400 Speaker 1: there's not, if somebody breaks into my house, I think 407 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 1: it's my job to get up and to deal with 408 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: whatever situation is unfolding. 409 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,159 Speaker 2: At my house. Do you do you think that? 410 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: Do you feel the same way, Lindaree? 411 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 3: With you? 412 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,400 Speaker 1: How many times did I use the analogy about you 413 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 1: and being out with somebody and if somebody starts choking 414 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: and you're with a guy, I think that guy's choking. 415 00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 1: Don't you think that was a good example because I 416 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: know you would knock over the table, you would dive 417 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: into the next table, you would race over yet behind 418 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: the guy put your fingers down his throat to the 419 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 1: Heimlich maneuver all at once. 420 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 3: Is that action not the best analogy. I think the 421 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 3: better analogy is to look at like this LA firefighter 422 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 3: who was like, you know, if I have to carry 423 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 3: your husband out of a fire, then your husband got 424 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,399 Speaker 3: in the wrong spot. And I think to your point, 425 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 3: into Pete Hegsett's point is that you know, again, it's 426 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 3: on an equal basis, not equity. 427 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:36,439 Speaker 1: Charlemaine the God says that the prosecution of Trump is 428 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 1: pure political theater. And you know what what happens if 429 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 1: a forest falls in the tree. If a tree falls 430 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 1: in the forest and nobody hears it, that's sort of 431 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:52,120 Speaker 1: like Jack Smith who resigned and is releasing a vindictive 432 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 1: report to justify what was nothing but a political witch hunt. 433 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,160 Speaker 1: And of course, you know, dump it in just days 434 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 1: before Donald Trump takes the oath of office, and with 435 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: no opportunity for Donald Trump and his team to even 436 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: rebutt it. It's nothing but a cheap shot, and nobody 437 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: really cares. Nobody cares, not even the people at MSDNC 438 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 1: or fake New CNN care about any of this nonsense. 439 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what people do care about. 440 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: You know, the more we learn about these LA wildfires, 441 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 1: the angrier that everybody I think should get. I think 442 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:34,360 Speaker 1: everybody should be very angry, because this is what radical 443 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:39,159 Speaker 1: environmentalism is all about. It's also rooted and deeply tied 444 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:44,360 Speaker 1: into the socialist, Marxist statist agenda. Hence the Green New 445 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 1: Deal guarantees government healthy food, daycare, I guaranteed government job, 446 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 1: blah blah blah, everything's guaranteed. Creator to grave wound to 447 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 1: the two. Now, at the end of the day, I'm 448 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: telling you where the money is going to come from, you, 449 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,679 Speaker 1: the taxpayers. And Speaker Mike Johnson said he believes that 450 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: aid sent to California with all the devastation could probably 451 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 1: have conditions. I think he's right. In other words, unless 452 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 1: they practice the science of forestry, unless they fill their reservoirs, 453 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: unless they have hydrants and a plan to take care 454 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 1: of any area that might be subject to a wildfire, 455 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,440 Speaker 1: unless they have the general practice of clearing out brush, 456 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:38,639 Speaker 1: unless they implement controlled burns, then why are we bothering 457 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 1: to pour good money after bad. I mean, for example, 458 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 1: years ago, they didn't have Category five storm impact windows 459 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 1: in Florida. 460 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 2: Now it's now. 461 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,399 Speaker 1: It's as far as I'm concerned, it's mandatory, and I 462 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,159 Speaker 1: think for most people it's pretty much mandatory. And if 463 00:26:54,160 --> 00:27:00,680 Speaker 1: you're anywhere near the coast, it absolutely is mandatory. Harris 464 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:06,439 Speaker 1: is refusing to invite the JD vance as is traditional, 465 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,959 Speaker 1: over to where he will be living when he becomes 466 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: vice president. But does anybody really care? I don't think so. 467 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 1: The more that we're learning about this fire, the more 468 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: we're learning how California eco bureaucrats halted a Pacific Palisades 469 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 1: fire safety project to save an endangered shrub. This was 470 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: in the New York Post today, But in twenty nineteen, 471 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: the LA Department of Water and Power again replacing nearly 472 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: one hundred year old power line poles cutting through some 473 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: state park. When the project was halted within days by 474 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 1: conservationist outrage. That federally endangered I don't even know what 475 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: this is. That federally endangered Braunton's milkviitch plants had been 476 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: trampled during the process. You know what that plant is. 477 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: I've never heard of that plant. The goal of The 478 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 1: project was to improve fire safety for the Pacific Palisades 479 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:11,439 Speaker 1: area by replacing the wood poles with steel, widening the 480 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 1: fire access lanes in the area, installing wind and fire 481 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:20,120 Speaker 1: resistant power lines, all after the area was identified as 482 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: having an elevated fire risk. The project would have ensured 483 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:30,159 Speaker 1: power reliability and safety while helping reduce wildfire threats. The 484 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 1: wooden poles were installed between nineteen thirty three and nineteen 485 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: fifty five, well passed their useful service life. But this 486 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: is how insane the environmental movement is. And then if 487 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: you look at the New York Post today, they have 488 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: a long expos about how Governor Newsom has plans to 489 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: spend one hundred billion dollars on electric vehicles. We told 490 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 1: you about LA They have those green one of those 491 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: green street sweepers. They're eight hundred grand apiece. They got 492 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 1: one hundred billion million dollars on electric vehicles. Meanwhile they're 493 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: cutting back and by the way, I'm proposed cutting two 494 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: point six billion in fire prevention budget. By their two 495 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: point six billion fire prevention budget by one hundred and 496 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: one million. I mean, what part of this you're not getting? 497 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 2: You know? 498 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: Now they're going to ask taxpayers to bail them out. Sorry, no, 499 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: thank you. There is a recall effort now against Newsom 500 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 1: again underweigh in California. 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