Speaker 1: All right, thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks to all
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Speaker 1: want to be a part of the program. Later on,
Speaker 1: there were a bunch of Navy seals that were out
Speaker 1: in the freezing cold early in the morning to get
Speaker 1: into the hearings for Pete Hegsat today. I thought he
Speaker 1: did phenomenal and everything I predicted yesterday came to fruition.
Speaker 1: Democrats revert to form. They can't control themselves, and you know, petty,
Speaker 1: nonsensical personal attacks, but they've got only a limited period
Speaker 1: of time, and Pete was able to parry away pretty
Speaker 1: much every attack that they made against him and refused
Speaker 1: to fall into their traps. I'll go into specificity in
Speaker 1: details here in a second. It's funny I did read
Speaker 1: Kerry Pickets column in the Washington Times today. Many many
Speaker 1: congressional Democrats do not plan to attend Donald Trump's inauguration
Speaker 1: on Monday, but they're not calling it a boycott. Well, then,
Speaker 1: what would you call it? Sounds like a boycott, It
Speaker 1: looks like a boycott sounds like a boycott. Guess what,
Speaker 1: it's a boycott anyway. At Trump's first inauguration, more than
Speaker 1: sixty Democratic lawmakers boycott of the event because they said
Speaker 1: Trump was an illegitimate, dangerous president. Eight years later, plenty
Speaker 1: of House Democrats skipping Donald Trump swearing in at the
Speaker 1: US Capitol. Many blame a scheduling conflict. They must be
Speaker 1: having tea time somewhere anyway. I think it's kind of
Speaker 1: just general conflict of logistics aos, he said to The
Speaker 1: Washington Times about her plan no show. Emmanuel Cleaver Missouri
Speaker 1: doesn't know if he can make the inauguration, saying the
Speaker 1: day conflicts with MLK Day events at his church. He
Speaker 1: told the Times that if he decides he can't make it,
Speaker 1: it would not be part of a boycott. Some Democratic
Speaker 1: lawmaker said they were participating. They're using the MLK holiday
Speaker 1: that's also a National Championship Day. Squad member Presley of
Speaker 1: Massachusetts said that she would spend the weekend of Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King Junior in her district at community events. Who
Speaker 1: cares if they come or not. It doesn't really matter
Speaker 1: if they come or not. It was you know everything
Speaker 1: that you you would expect. I thought, Pete himself stay
Speaker 1: dialed in and focus will play some of his responses
Speaker 1: as the show goes on. Now, I'm really not going
Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time on Democrats because I
Speaker 1: don't even think they're worthy of our time. But you know,
Speaker 1: they're just not serious people, and these are serious times
Speaker 1: and national security, national defense is critical in my mind,
Speaker 1: and what the focus of today should have been about,
Speaker 1: you know, And they didn't spend a lot of time about.
Speaker 1: They spend a lot of time on social issues, women
Speaker 1: in combat, Pete's personal life.
Speaker 2: You know, things that have nothing to do with the job.
Speaker 1: And I just sit there and I'm like, Okay, it's
Speaker 1: the same old Democratic party. They didn't learn a thing
Speaker 1: from this past election. And they're focused on you know, DEI.
Speaker 1: They're focused on, you know, the type of politics that
Speaker 1: you would expect from Democrats. And in the end, they
Speaker 1: really didn't lay a hand on him. Identity politics just
Speaker 1: rules the day for them. And I think what made
Speaker 1: it impressive is when Pete did get an opportunity to speak,
Speaker 1: he talked about the need to rebuild on military and
Speaker 1: re establish de terrence and responsibly in these wars, which
Speaker 1: Donald Trump ran his whole campaign on and he talked
Speaker 1: about how the Department of Defense standards will achieve peace
Speaker 1: through strength, and how these standards will not be equal,
Speaker 1: will will be equal, not equitable, which is very different.
Speaker 1: Now he's a change agent. His special interest is the
Speaker 1: war fighter, and there was a coordinated effort to smear
Speaker 1: him by the left wing media, which was all true,
Speaker 1: and that came out during the course of the hearing stage.
Speaker 1: If you didn't get a chance to watch it all,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure most of you did not because you
Speaker 1: were busy, and I'll give you a quick summary because
Speaker 1: I have taken notes for the entire hearings. Roger Whitker
Speaker 1: of Mississippi gave him a warm welcome as an experienced
Speaker 1: nominee well positioned to help meet the challenges of today's
Speaker 1: Department of Defense, and describing his background as a warrior
Speaker 1: fighter himself as an asset, not a shortfall, and how
Speaker 1: he will inject a new warrior ethos into the pentagon
Speaker 1: of spirit that can cascade from the top down. Now,
Speaker 1: when I look at our military today, this is me speaking,
Speaker 1: I see a military that has what exactly what Reagan inherited,
Speaker 1: and that is a gap of vulnerability. We have fallen behind.
Speaker 1: It has not been the priority. At one point, I
Speaker 1: don't remember who it was, they talked about five billion
Speaker 1: dollars being spent in the first year alone and on
Speaker 1: DEI programs within the military, which is insanity. It came
Speaker 1: up a number of times the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan
Speaker 1: and how that could ever happen that, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of Democrats just openly said right from the get
Speaker 1: go that Pete Hegseth is not qualified, and then they
Speaker 1: went on to lecture him. Norm Coleman gave an impassioned
Speaker 1: speech in favor of Pete, which I thought was very good.
Speaker 1: The incoming National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz introduced and endorsed
Speaker 1: Pete for Defense Secretary. Like Pete, I served in the
Speaker 1: US Army. Like Pete, I'm a veteran. We deployed to
Speaker 1: Afghanistan all over the world at the height of the
Speaker 1: War on Terror, which is the war of our generation.
Speaker 1: Like thousands of other war fighters, we witnessed the hardships
Speaker 1: of war. We experienced the loss of friends in combat.
Speaker 1: We've had to endure too much time away from family
Speaker 1: and from friends, and then he opened his remarks, you know,
Speaker 1: about going to work for President Trump and this committee,
Speaker 1: you know, is to restore that warrior ethic to the
Speaker 1: Pentagon and throughout our fighting force and re established trust
Speaker 1: in our military and addressing the recruiting crisis, the retention crisis,
Speaker 1: the readiness crisis. What they did to some members of
Speaker 1: our military during COVID, people that were choosing to take
Speaker 1: control of their own bodies, and you know, they wanted
Speaker 1: to give him at the time dishonorable discharges. It was insane.
Speaker 1: And how the Department of Defense under Trump will achieve
Speaker 1: peace through strength and pursuing these America first national security
Speaker 1: goals and remained patriotically a political and strive towards constitutionality.
Speaker 1: And as it relates to the orchestrated smear on him,
Speaker 1: well that was clear from day one, and he dealt
Speaker 1: with all of it.
Speaker 2: He dealt with it head on. Talked about Yeah.
Speaker 1: He's he and through rough periods in his life and
Speaker 1: he changed his life around. Gave credit to to his
Speaker 1: conversion and commitment to Christianity in Jesus and his wife
Speaker 1: for changing his life around during a tough period in
Speaker 1: his life. We're going back a decade now, so we're
Speaker 1: not talking about anything that was really current in any way.
Speaker 1: And then, you know, then the questioning comes in, you know,
Speaker 1: and here we go, rather than talking about the gap
Speaker 1: of vulnerability, why does China rush off hypersonic technology with
Speaker 1: maneuverability and we don't, you know, why is it that
Speaker 1: we've got to rely on the many delivery systems for
Speaker 1: nuclear weapons as our greatest deterrence. That should not be
Speaker 1: our greatest deterrence, you know. But they didn't spend any
Speaker 1: time talking about Donald Trump's proposal for an iron dome
Speaker 1: that would protect the entire country, something I would love
Speaker 1: to see President Trump accomplish, because I am very convinced
Speaker 1: that future wars will not be fought on battlefields, although
Speaker 1: you will always people on the ground and intelligence on
Speaker 1: the ground, but for the most part, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: have kids going door to door like they were in
Speaker 1: Iraq and stepping on IEDs and not having up armored
Speaker 1: hum v's. We can't be fighting wars like that ever
Speaker 1: again in the future. If we're gonna liberate other countries, yeah,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's right, they should pay for their liberation. We
Speaker 1: should not have to pay for it with a thirty
Speaker 1: seven trillion dollar debt, and I think that that is
Speaker 1: the future. But developing the next generation of warfare is
Speaker 1: going to cost this country an enormous amount of money.
Speaker 1: China has been spending, you know, drastic amounts of money
Speaker 1: on building up their war machine. They have shown open
Speaker 1: hostility even against American and ships in international waterways, and
Speaker 1: against our air force and international airwaves. They've shown nothing
Speaker 1: but hostility flying over our ally Taiwan. They've talked about
Speaker 1: their territorial ambitions. Then of course we want to get it.
Speaker 1: We would like to see an end to what's going
Speaker 1: on with Ukraine and Vladimir Putin. That has to be
Speaker 1: dealt with, the Iranian's desire for nuclear weapons, that has
Speaker 1: to be dealt with. That's that's not what most of
Speaker 1: these democrats wanted to talk about. And heg Seth was
Speaker 1: very clear criticizing, you know, DEI policies of today and
Speaker 1: how they're dividing troops inside formations, causing commanders to walk
Speaker 1: on eggshells, not putting meritocracy at the top anyway, Senator
Speaker 1: Reid fired back, all of your public comments don't talk
Speaker 1: about meritocracy. They talk about liberal democratic efforts that are
Speaker 1: destroying the military, that those people are enemies. I don't
Speaker 1: recall them ever saying enemies, but you know, Senator Shaheen
Speaker 1: questioned heg seth regarding women in the military, and he's
Speaker 1: been clear and he clarified this long before these hearings,
Speaker 1: and they wasted so much time on this. He said
Speaker 1: he'd be honored to serve among all men, women, black, white,
Speaker 1: all background. Says he's not talking about capabilities of men
Speaker 1: versus women, but standards for men and women, and that
Speaker 1: the standards must be high, and the standards have got
Speaker 1: to be the same for men and women, and if
Speaker 1: you meet those standards to serve in the military, then
Speaker 1: you're in the military, period and a sentence and that
Speaker 1: wasn't enough. Then Senator Jilibrand continues the questioning about women
Speaker 1: in the military, and Hegsas says he'd never criticized women
Speaker 1: in the military, but calling out, you know how he
Speaker 1: has seen standards lowered for women and commanders and they
Speaker 1: have quotas which have lowered and disparages women in the military.
Speaker 1: And Jilibrand wouldn't back off. I have many concerns about
Speaker 1: your record, particularly your public statements because they're hurtful to
Speaker 1: the men and women who currently serve in the US
Speaker 1: military and their morale. This guy has been He's devoted
Speaker 1: as entire adult life life to serving the military. This
Speaker 1: is what he cares about. And then attack Senator Cotton, Well,
Speaker 1: he was giving you layups to differentiate between the different
Speaker 1: types of combat. Specifically, as secretary, would you take any
Speaker 1: action to reinstitute the combat arms exclusion for female service members?
Speaker 1: Knowing full well you have hundreds of women doing that
Speaker 1: job right now, and the standards that you run a
Speaker 1: two minute, you run, your two mile run is about
Speaker 1: the Army combat fitness test. And heg set said, I
Speaker 1: respect every single female service member that has put on
Speaker 1: the uniform, past and present. My critique, Senator, recently and
Speaker 1: in the past, and from personal experience, have been instances
Speaker 1: where I see standards lowered. And then he talked about
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump wants to prevent war, that the best
Speaker 1: way to prevent war is to have the greatest, meanest, toughest,
Speaker 1: most advanced military on the face of this earth. Right
Speaker 1: now now, I would make the argument we don't have
Speaker 1: that they have dropped the ball, and we saw that
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, and you know, giving away our strategic petroleum
Speaker 1: reserves and all these missiles and escalating the conflict in
Speaker 1: Ukraine the way Joe Biden is. It's just been ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But the chief job would be to deter war, prevent war.
Speaker 1: And it was funny you watch Blumenthal, who lied about
Speaker 1: his service in Vietnam, trying to attack Pete over the
Speaker 1: money management while he was leading a veterans group. I
Speaker 1: was kind of laughing at that somewhat Tim Kaine spent
Speaker 1: almost all of his time. Now this is a bit
Speaker 1: of an irony here that kind of made me chuckle
Speaker 1: to myself anyway, because wasn't it the same Tim Kaine
Speaker 1: that ran with Hillary Clinton? And he's Grilla and Pete
Speaker 1: hegseth over allegations about his personal life and an allegation
Speaker 1: that went away after a criminal investigation that never came
Speaker 1: for a whey based on the evidence in the case
Speaker 1: that didn't exist in that case. And I can only
Speaker 1: guess they picked Caine to pursue that line of questioning
Speaker 1: because of the familiarity he must have acquired about, you know,
Speaker 1: people being accused of rape and cheating husbands when he
Speaker 1: was Bill Clinton's vice presidential running mate in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: but he didn't seem particularly offended that his running mate's
Speaker 1: husband had been credibly accused of all of these things,
Speaker 1: including exposing himself, rape, sexual assault, serial cheating, and all
Speaker 1: the above. He seemed to be very good friends with
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton. So I found that a little bit a
Speaker 1: little bit of irony there. And so that came up,
Speaker 1: and you know, then the issue of whether or not
Speaker 1: you believe in waterboarding and the Geneva conventions came up
Speaker 1: with Angus King. Let's see, one person, a Democrat from Michigan,
Speaker 1: Gary Peters, was upset they didn't have a one on
Speaker 1: one meeting. I'm like, really, that's what's That's all you
Speaker 1: have to say. I thought that Senator Mullen of Oklahoma
Speaker 1: was particularly powerful. He went right out as fellow senators
Speaker 1: and he goes, yeah, how many of you have shown
Speaker 1: up having drunk at night to vote? And how many
Speaker 1: of you here in this chamber have have have been
Speaker 1: involved in cheating scandals? He was like, he went right there.
Speaker 1: I was like wow. Then he called out the hypocrisy
Speaker 1: of senators and then he pointed out, yes, everyone has
Speaker 1: send and fall in short, he didn't use those words.
Speaker 1: They're my words. And we've all, well the Bible's words. Uh,
Speaker 1: we've all made mistakes. And Petez, you know, changed his
Speaker 1: life and he's done it for a number of years now.
Speaker 1: But they want to go back and dredge up the
Speaker 1: passes pasted as much as they can. This is why
Speaker 1: good people don't want to run for public office. They
Speaker 1: don't want to be a part of serving in the government.
Speaker 1: It's a high price that you pay, I'll tell you. Uh, listen,
Speaker 1: you might think that, Okay, I'll use my gun in
Speaker 1: self defense that obviously, if you have to protect. I
Speaker 1: can't announce everything yet, but we have a lot planned
Speaker 1: for next week.
Speaker 2: Excited about all of it. Let's put it this way.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be spending more time in the DC
Speaker 1: swamp than I had originally planned. But we have a
Speaker 1: lot of really good stuff that we're going to do
Speaker 1: that I think hopefully we'll get things started off on
Speaker 1: the right foot and be productive in a lot of
Speaker 1: different ways. I'm kind of getting excited about Linda, you
Speaker 1: get excited about Monday. It can't come soon enough as
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned. Of course, could you just just
Speaker 1: Just imagine what it would be like if Kamala won
Speaker 1: for a second.
Speaker 2: Just imagine that. What do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I try not to have bad dreams while wide awake,
Speaker 3: and I'll do that. That's not a thing.
Speaker 1: It would be pretty bad. They announced that, Oh I
Speaker 1: know that Rascal Plats is going to be playing there.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool be playing. Oh guess who else is
Speaker 1: playing there? Who the village people are playing there?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I did see that.
Speaker 3: I did see that, y MC.
Speaker 2: Did you see at the park? Are you going to
Speaker 2: do it?
Speaker 3: Sean? You're going to get up there and dance with them?
Speaker 2: No? I'm not, No, I will not be. I'm working.
Speaker 3: That might be the one thing that you could do.
Speaker 3: You don't have to move the bottom board of your body.
Speaker 3: You just have to move your arms.
Speaker 1: All you gotta do is you put the big y
Speaker 1: up right and then you do the M and then
Speaker 1: you kind of slant over A and then the A
Speaker 1: at the top when you put your hands together.
Speaker 2: Is that it?
Speaker 3: And the third letter is C. But we'll give you
Speaker 3: a pass. Not everybody gets it right the first time.
Speaker 1: It's fine, Okay, I sound like Joe Biden or who
Speaker 1: was it that said the three letter word, jobs, j obs,
Speaker 1: jobs anyway, So the village people, Rascal Flats carry Underwood
Speaker 1: is going to be performing, and you know, and by
Speaker 1: the way, to her, she doesn't care at all about
Speaker 1: any backlash good for her that she may face, according
Speaker 1: to sources who say that the singer is very proud
Speaker 1: to have the chance to have that experience during her career.
Speaker 1: She's got such an amazing voice, by the way, she's incredible.
Speaker 1: And I really don't care what performers political points of
Speaker 1: view are. I mean, if I chose my music, and
Speaker 1: if I chose what I watched, which I don't watch
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. I've been obsessed with the chosen
Speaker 1: now forever. But if I chose it based on their politics,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't watch any of it.
Speaker 2: Anyway. They're gonna do Macho man ymca. I just I don't.
Speaker 1: I have so much that I have to do work wise,
Speaker 1: and we're doing a show Sunday night that I really
Speaker 1: won't have time to do anything else but get my
Speaker 1: work done. And you are aware of my schedule, so
Speaker 1: you know how tight things are going to be. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty pretty tight, indeed, And it's just you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's going to be such shock and awe. If
Speaker 1: you want to know what the schedule is on, when
Speaker 1: is it. On Saturday, there's a reception of fireworks will
Speaker 1: be held at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia.
Speaker 1: Is a reception for Cabinet nominees and a dinner hosted
Speaker 1: by Vice President elect JD.
Speaker 2: Vans.
Speaker 1: On the nineteenth, Trump is going to lay a route
Speaker 1: that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery,
Speaker 1: where members of the military are buried. A victory rally
Speaker 1: at Capital One Arena, which is the home of the
Speaker 1: Washington Wizard and the Washington Capitals. That's the Candlelight dinner.
Speaker 1: I had a couple of close friends of mine that
Speaker 1: are going to that and tried to talk me into going.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I'm doing a show on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: I have no choice, but I'll have to work. I'll
Speaker 1: be working on Inauguration Day. The day begins with services
Speaker 1: at Saint John's Church. After the church service, Trump will
Speaker 1: have tea at the White House with Joe and Jill Biden.
Speaker 1: At noon, Trump will take the oath of office at
Speaker 1: the US Capital. I do solemnly swear affirm that I
Speaker 1: will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States,
Speaker 1: and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect,
Speaker 1: defend the Constitution of the United States. After saying then
Speaker 1: goodbye to Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the President
Speaker 1: will hold a signing ceremony near the Senate Chamber, where
Speaker 1: he will likely sign nominations so that his cabinets elections
Speaker 1: can be confirmed expeditiously. A lunch will be hosted by
Speaker 1: the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, which organizes the
Speaker 1: inauguration events, including the swearing in ceremony. Prior to the
Speaker 1: parade from the Capital to the White House, the President
Speaker 1: will review the troops. The parade will be down Pennsylvania Avenue.
Speaker 1: I'm sure security is going to be I pray security
Speaker 1: is going to be insane. It should be, it must be.
Speaker 1: It has to be. At the White House, Trump all
Speaker 1: whole day signing ceremony, where he will sign what is
Speaker 1: expected to be shock and awe a flurry of executive orders.
Speaker 1: He will attend and address three inaugural balls, the Commander
Speaker 1: in Chiefs Ball, the Liberty Inaugural Ball, and the Starlight Ball.
Speaker 1: I will be at one of the three. Wherever he
Speaker 1: will be in the nine pm hour is the one
Speaker 1: I will be at. And it looks like it was
Speaker 1: up until yesterday, the Liberty Ball. It looks like the
Speaker 1: Starlight Ball now. So we'll have to wait and see
Speaker 1: how that plays out. I have to put on a
Speaker 1: tuxedo again. Can you believe it? You know how I
Speaker 1: love my tuxedo.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, listen, I would wear just about anything.
Speaker 3: I'd wear a tuxedo to go to the ball and
Speaker 3: see President Trump.
Speaker 2: Oh, would you like to do? You do? You never
Speaker 2: mention that you want? Would you like to go to
Speaker 2: the ball?
Speaker 3: No? I'm washing my hair that night. I can't make it.
Speaker 1: My hair that night, you can't make it. I get
Speaker 1: you a picture. I thought this was going to buy
Speaker 1: me goodwill with Donald Trump when we were in Harrisburg,
Speaker 1: and and that lasted about two weeks, as I predicted, left.
Speaker 1: It lasted longer than I thought. Actually, Alabama and Texas
Speaker 1: and Mike Johnson have all ordered the capital their state
Speaker 1: flags and capital flags.
Speaker 2: Uh uh.
Speaker 1: They were refusing to keep it at half staff during
Speaker 1: Trump's inauguration. This is something Joe Biden had decided, and
Speaker 1: I hope when Trump gets in there he just puts
Speaker 1: the flag up. I think you should. But the petty look,
Speaker 1: the pettiness was on display. It's gonna be on display
Speaker 1: for Cash, It's gonna be on this display for Tulsi.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be on display for Pam, who's on I
Speaker 1: think she's up tomorrow. It's gonna be on display for Marco.
Speaker 1: It's going to be on display for RFK Junior. It's
Speaker 1: it's pretty much gonna be everybody. And this is just Democrats, bitter, angry, petty.
Speaker 1: We saw all the petty news of Joe Biden on
Speaker 1: the way out the door. None of us should be
Speaker 1: a surprise to anybody, and you know we saw it
Speaker 1: on display today. I mean, I mean the fact that
Speaker 1: they designate Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's running mate, to go
Speaker 1: after Pete on issues from his past is a little ironic.
Speaker 1: Did that not make you laugh? It kind of made
Speaker 1: me laugh, and like, this is your best shot? And
Speaker 1: then the best shot that they took at Pete. You know,
Speaker 1: they obsessed for like an hour and a half over
Speaker 1: women and their role in combat. Am I old fashioned
Speaker 1: in thinking that? In my way?
Speaker 2: Of thinking I'm not against women in combat. I'm not
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 1: I just think the standards, as Pete was pointing out,
Speaker 1: need to be exactly the same, and that which would
Speaker 1: go for police departments, some fire departments. As long as
Speaker 1: as long as you're capable of doing the job, nothing
Speaker 1: should prevent you from being a job. Your section prevent
Speaker 1: you from being you know, from doing the job. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, if you're a firefighter
Speaker 1: and you can't carry somebody out of a burning building,
Speaker 1: when if for whatever reason, man or woman, then that's
Speaker 1: not the job for you. It's just simply not. And
Speaker 1: maybe I'm very old fashioned, but if somebody breaks into
Speaker 1: my house and there's anybody in my house, which usually
Speaker 1: there's not, if somebody breaks into my house, I think
Speaker 1: it's my job to get up and to deal with
Speaker 1: whatever situation is unfolding.
Speaker 2: At my house. Do you do you think that?
Speaker 1: Do you feel the same way, Lindaree?
Speaker 3: With you?
Speaker 1: How many times did I use the analogy about you
Speaker 1: and being out with somebody and if somebody starts choking
Speaker 1: and you're with a guy, I think that guy's choking.
Speaker 1: Don't you think that was a good example because I
Speaker 1: know you would knock over the table, you would dive
Speaker 1: into the next table, you would race over yet behind
Speaker 1: the guy put your fingers down his throat to the
Speaker 1: Heimlich maneuver all at once.
Speaker 3: Is that action not the best analogy. I think the
Speaker 3: better analogy is to look at like this LA firefighter
Speaker 3: who was like, you know, if I have to carry
Speaker 3: your husband out of a fire, then your husband got
Speaker 3: in the wrong spot. And I think to your point,
Speaker 3: into Pete Hegsett's point is that you know, again, it's
Speaker 3: on an equal basis, not equity.
Speaker 1: Charlemaine the God says that the prosecution of Trump is
Speaker 1: pure political theater. And you know what what happens if
Speaker 1: a forest falls in the tree. If a tree falls
Speaker 1: in the forest and nobody hears it, that's sort of
Speaker 1: like Jack Smith who resigned and is releasing a vindictive
Speaker 1: report to justify what was nothing but a political witch hunt.
Speaker 1: And of course, you know, dump it in just days
Speaker 1: before Donald Trump takes the oath of office, and with
Speaker 1: no opportunity for Donald Trump and his team to even
Speaker 1: rebutt it. It's nothing but a cheap shot, and nobody
Speaker 1: really cares. Nobody cares, not even the people at MSDNC
Speaker 1: or fake New CNN care about any of this nonsense.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what people do care about.
Speaker 1: You know, the more we learn about these LA wildfires,
Speaker 1: the angrier that everybody I think should get. I think
Speaker 1: everybody should be very angry, because this is what radical
Speaker 1: environmentalism is all about. It's also rooted and deeply tied
Speaker 1: into the socialist, Marxist statist agenda. Hence the Green New
Speaker 1: Deal guarantees government healthy food, daycare, I guaranteed government job,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, everything's guaranteed. Creator to grave wound to
Speaker 1: the two. Now, at the end of the day, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you where the money is going to come from, you,
Speaker 1: the taxpayers. And Speaker Mike Johnson said he believes that
Speaker 1: aid sent to California with all the devastation could probably
Speaker 1: have conditions. I think he's right. In other words, unless
Speaker 1: they practice the science of forestry, unless they fill their reservoirs,
Speaker 1: unless they have hydrants and a plan to take care
Speaker 1: of any area that might be subject to a wildfire,
Speaker 1: unless they have the general practice of clearing out brush,
Speaker 1: unless they implement controlled burns, then why are we bothering
Speaker 1: to pour good money after bad. I mean, for example,
Speaker 1: years ago, they didn't have Category five storm impact windows
Speaker 1: in Florida.
Speaker 2: Now it's now.
Speaker 1: It's as far as I'm concerned, it's mandatory, and I
Speaker 1: think for most people it's pretty much mandatory. And if
Speaker 1: you're anywhere near the coast, it absolutely is mandatory. Harris
Speaker 1: is refusing to invite the JD vance as is traditional,
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Speaker 1: The more that we're learning about this fire, the more
Speaker 1: we're learning how California eco bureaucrats halted a Pacific Palisades
Speaker 1: fire safety project to save an endangered shrub. This was
Speaker 1: in the New York Post today, But in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: the LA Department of Water and Power again replacing nearly
Speaker 1: one hundred year old power line poles cutting through some
Speaker 1: state park. When the project was halted within days by
Speaker 1: conservationist outrage. That federally endangered I don't even know what
Speaker 1: this is. That federally endangered Braunton's milkviitch plants had been
Speaker 1: trampled during the process. You know what that plant is.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of that plant. The goal of The
Speaker 1: project was to improve fire safety for the Pacific Palisades
Speaker 1: area by replacing the wood poles with steel, widening the
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Speaker 1: having an elevated fire risk. The project would have ensured
Speaker 1: power reliability and safety while helping reduce wildfire threats. The
Speaker 1: wooden poles were installed between nineteen thirty three and nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty five, well passed their useful service life. But this
Speaker 1: is how insane the environmental movement is. And then if
Speaker 1: you look at the New York Post today, they have
Speaker 1: a long expos about how Governor Newsom has plans to
Speaker 1: spend one hundred billion dollars on electric vehicles. We told
Speaker 1: you about LA They have those green one of those
Speaker 1: green street sweepers. They're eight hundred grand apiece. They got
Speaker 1: one hundred billion million dollars on electric vehicles. Meanwhile they're
Speaker 1: cutting back and by the way, I'm proposed cutting two
Speaker 1: point six billion in fire prevention budget. By their two
Speaker 1: point six billion fire prevention budget by one hundred and
Speaker 1: one million. I mean, what part of this you're not getting?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Now they're going to ask taxpayers to bail them out. Sorry, no,
Speaker 1: thank you. There is a recall effort now against Newsom
Speaker 1: again underweigh in California. Follow In this La Times owner
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Speaker 1: nine charge for looting that's now becoming a big issue.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris has a word salad telling fired wildfire victims
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