WEBVTT - Pete Hegseth Hearing Overview - January 14th, Hour 1 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:03.040 All right, thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks to all 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.320 of you for being with us. Write down our toll 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:08.440 free telephone number. We have a busy news day today. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:10.680 It's eight hundred and ninety four one Sean if you 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.000 want to be a part of the program. Later on, 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:15.440 there were a bunch of Navy seals that were out 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:17.880 in the freezing cold early in the morning to get 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:21.279 into the hearings for Pete Hegsat today. I thought he 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:26.440 did phenomenal and everything I predicted yesterday came to fruition. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:32.760 Democrats revert to form. They can't control themselves, and you know, petty, 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:38.800 nonsensical personal attacks, but they've got only a limited period 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.000 of time, and Pete was able to parry away pretty 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:44.640 much every attack that they made against him and refused 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:48.239 to fall into their traps. I'll go into specificity in 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.880 details here in a second. It's funny I did read 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.240 Kerry Pickets column in the Washington Times today. Many many 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.040 congressional Democrats do not plan to attend Donald Trump's inauguration 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:02.040 on Monday, but they're not calling it a boycott. Well, then, 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.320 what would you call it? Sounds like a boycott, It 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.000 looks like a boycott sounds like a boycott. Guess what, 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:11.680 it's a boycott anyway. At Trump's first inauguration, more than 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.800 sixty Democratic lawmakers boycott of the event because they said 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:19.080 Trump was an illegitimate, dangerous president. Eight years later, plenty 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.720 of House Democrats skipping Donald Trump swearing in at the 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:26.240 US Capitol. Many blame a scheduling conflict. They must be 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.480 having tea time somewhere anyway. I think it's kind of 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.200 just general conflict of logistics aos, he said to The 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:39.039 Washington Times about her plan no show. Emmanuel Cleaver Missouri 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.640 doesn't know if he can make the inauguration, saying the 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:46.240 day conflicts with MLK Day events at his church. He 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.440 told the Times that if he decides he can't make it, 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.800 it would not be part of a boycott. Some Democratic 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:56.520 lawmaker said they were participating. They're using the MLK holiday 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:01.720 that's also a National Championship Day. Squad member Presley of 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.560 Massachusetts said that she would spend the weekend of Martin 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:08.600 Luther King Junior in her district at community events. Who 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.519 cares if they come or not. It doesn't really matter 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:16.480 if they come or not. It was you know everything 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:21.160 that you you would expect. I thought, Pete himself stay 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.880 dialed in and focus will play some of his responses 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.120 as the show goes on. Now, I'm really not going 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:28.919 to spend a lot of time on Democrats because I 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.520 don't even think they're worthy of our time. But you know, 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.920 they're just not serious people, and these are serious times 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:43.280 and national security, national defense is critical in my mind, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.800 and what the focus of today should have been about, 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.359 you know, And they didn't spend a lot of time about. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.680 They spend a lot of time on social issues, women 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.079 in combat, Pete's personal life. 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.760 You know, things that have nothing to do with the job. 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.519 And I just sit there and I'm like, Okay, it's 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.360 the same old Democratic party. They didn't learn a thing 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:10.040 from this past election. And they're focused on you know, DEI. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:15.280 They're focused on, you know, the type of politics that 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:20.400 you would expect from Democrats. And in the end, they 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:24.280 really didn't lay a hand on him. Identity politics just 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.799 rules the day for them. And I think what made 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.840 it impressive is when Pete did get an opportunity to speak, 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.400 he talked about the need to rebuild on military and 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:36.720 re establish de terrence and responsibly in these wars, which 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.400 Donald Trump ran his whole campaign on and he talked 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.840 about how the Department of Defense standards will achieve peace 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.600 through strength, and how these standards will not be equal, 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.960 will will be equal, not equitable, which is very different. 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.960 Now he's a change agent. His special interest is the 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.960 war fighter, and there was a coordinated effort to smear 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.520 him by the left wing media, which was all true, 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.280 and that came out during the course of the hearing stage. 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.040 If you didn't get a chance to watch it all, 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.000 which I'm sure most of you did not because you 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.760 were busy, and I'll give you a quick summary because 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:18.000 I have taken notes for the entire hearings. Roger Whitker 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:23.640 of Mississippi gave him a warm welcome as an experienced 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.080 nominee well positioned to help meet the challenges of today's 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:32.920 Department of Defense, and describing his background as a warrior 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:37.920 fighter himself as an asset, not a shortfall, and how 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.120 he will inject a new warrior ethos into the pentagon 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.680 of spirit that can cascade from the top down. Now, 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.600 when I look at our military today, this is me speaking, 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:53.560 I see a military that has what exactly what Reagan inherited, 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.520 and that is a gap of vulnerability. We have fallen behind. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.159 It has not been the priority. At one point, I 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.760 don't remember who it was, they talked about five billion 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:07.080 dollars being spent in the first year alone and on 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:11.840 DEI programs within the military, which is insanity. It came 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.560 up a number of times the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.880 and how that could ever happen that, you know, a 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.800 lot of Democrats just openly said right from the get 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.520 go that Pete Hegseth is not qualified, and then they 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.120 went on to lecture him. Norm Coleman gave an impassioned 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.520 speech in favor of Pete, which I thought was very good. 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:36.919 The incoming National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz introduced and endorsed 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.640 Pete for Defense Secretary. Like Pete, I served in the 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.400 US Army. Like Pete, I'm a veteran. We deployed to 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.680 Afghanistan all over the world at the height of the 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.640 War on Terror, which is the war of our generation. 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.120 Like thousands of other war fighters, we witnessed the hardships 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.880 of war. We experienced the loss of friends in combat. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.880 We've had to endure too much time away from family 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:02.480 and from friends, and then he opened his remarks, you know, 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.840 about going to work for President Trump and this committee, 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.680 you know, is to restore that warrior ethic to the 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:14.239 Pentagon and throughout our fighting force and re established trust 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:19.080 in our military and addressing the recruiting crisis, the retention crisis, 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.400 the readiness crisis. What they did to some members of 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:27.559 our military during COVID, people that were choosing to take 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.599 control of their own bodies, and you know, they wanted 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.680 to give him at the time dishonorable discharges. It was insane. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.800 And how the Department of Defense under Trump will achieve 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:42.760 peace through strength and pursuing these America first national security 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:47.840 goals and remained patriotically a political and strive towards constitutionality. 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:52.080 And as it relates to the orchestrated smear on him, 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.360 well that was clear from day one, and he dealt 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:55.960 with all of it. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.120 He dealt with it head on. Talked about Yeah. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.560 He's he and through rough periods in his life and 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:05.640 he changed his life around. Gave credit to to his 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:10.679 conversion and commitment to Christianity in Jesus and his wife 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.360 for changing his life around during a tough period in 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.040 his life. We're going back a decade now, so we're 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:20.720 not talking about anything that was really current in any way. 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.760 And then, you know, then the questioning comes in, you know, 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.280 and here we go, rather than talking about the gap 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:32.000 of vulnerability, why does China rush off hypersonic technology with 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.560 maneuverability and we don't, you know, why is it that 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.600 we've got to rely on the many delivery systems for 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.160 nuclear weapons as our greatest deterrence. That should not be 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:46.200 our greatest deterrence, you know. But they didn't spend any 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.559 time talking about Donald Trump's proposal for an iron dome 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.200 that would protect the entire country, something I would love 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:56.040 to see President Trump accomplish, because I am very convinced 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.320 that future wars will not be fought on battlefields, although 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.960 you will always people on the ground and intelligence on 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.400 the ground, but for the most part, you're not gonna 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.320 have kids going door to door like they were in 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:10.400 Iraq and stepping on IEDs and not having up armored 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.760 hum v's. We can't be fighting wars like that ever 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.560 again in the future. If we're gonna liberate other countries, yeah, 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.760 Donald Trump's right, they should pay for their liberation. We 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:22.559 should not have to pay for it with a thirty 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.880 seven trillion dollar debt, and I think that that is 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.880 the future. But developing the next generation of warfare is 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.840 going to cost this country an enormous amount of money. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:37.480 China has been spending, you know, drastic amounts of money 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.760 on building up their war machine. They have shown open 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:47.679 hostility even against American and ships in international waterways, and 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:53.360 against our air force and international airwaves. They've shown nothing 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.960 but hostility flying over our ally Taiwan. They've talked about 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.520 their territorial ambitions. Then of course we want to get it. 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:02.520 We would like to see an end to what's going 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.920 on with Ukraine and Vladimir Putin. That has to be 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.600 dealt with, the Iranian's desire for nuclear weapons, that has 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.240 to be dealt with. That's that's not what most of 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:16.560 these democrats wanted to talk about. And heg Seth was 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:22.920 very clear criticizing, you know, DEI policies of today and 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:27.640 how they're dividing troops inside formations, causing commanders to walk 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:33.840 on eggshells, not putting meritocracy at the top anyway, Senator 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.199 Reid fired back, all of your public comments don't talk 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.360 about meritocracy. They talk about liberal democratic efforts that are 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:43.480 destroying the military, that those people are enemies. I don't 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:48.040 recall them ever saying enemies, but you know, Senator Shaheen 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:52.720 questioned heg seth regarding women in the military, and he's 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.120 been clear and he clarified this long before these hearings, 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.280 and they wasted so much time on this. He said 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:03.439 he'd be honored to serve among all men, women, black, white, 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:08.720 all background. Says he's not talking about capabilities of men 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:12.560 versus women, but standards for men and women, and that 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.840 the standards must be high, and the standards have got 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.120 to be the same for men and women, and if 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.360 you meet those standards to serve in the military, then 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:25.000 you're in the military, period and a sentence and that 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:29.200 wasn't enough. Then Senator Jilibrand continues the questioning about women 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.600 in the military, and Hegsas says he'd never criticized women 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.520 in the military, but calling out, you know how he 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:41.600 has seen standards lowered for women and commanders and they 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.760 have quotas which have lowered and disparages women in the military. 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.439 And Jilibrand wouldn't back off. I have many concerns about 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.480 your record, particularly your public statements because they're hurtful to 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.600 the men and women who currently serve in the US 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:59.040 military and their morale. This guy has been He's devoted 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.360 as entire adult life life to serving the military. This 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.880 is what he cares about. And then attack Senator Cotton, Well, 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.640 he was giving you layups to differentiate between the different 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.640 types of combat. Specifically, as secretary, would you take any 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:17.400 action to reinstitute the combat arms exclusion for female service members? 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.600 Knowing full well you have hundreds of women doing that 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:24.160 job right now, and the standards that you run a 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:28.920 two minute, you run, your two mile run is about 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:32.080 the Army combat fitness test. And heg set said, I 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.760 respect every single female service member that has put on 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.040 the uniform, past and present. My critique, Senator, recently and 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.920 in the past, and from personal experience, have been instances 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:47.280 where I see standards lowered. And then he talked about 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.480 that Donald Trump wants to prevent war, that the best 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:55.720 way to prevent war is to have the greatest, meanest, toughest, 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:59.840 most advanced military on the face of this earth. Right 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.440 now now, I would make the argument we don't have 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.840 that they have dropped the ball, and we saw that 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:11.760 in Afghanistan, and you know, giving away our strategic petroleum 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.959 reserves and all these missiles and escalating the conflict in 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.960 Ukraine the way Joe Biden is. It's just been ridiculous. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:24.680 But the chief job would be to deter war, prevent war. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.800 And it was funny you watch Blumenthal, who lied about 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.280 his service in Vietnam, trying to attack Pete over the 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.200 money management while he was leading a veterans group. I 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.280 was kind of laughing at that somewhat Tim Kaine spent 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.000 almost all of his time. Now this is a bit 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.880 of an irony here that kind of made me chuckle 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.959 to myself anyway, because wasn't it the same Tim Kaine 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:50.000 that ran with Hillary Clinton? And he's Grilla and Pete 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:55.040 hegseth over allegations about his personal life and an allegation 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.480 that went away after a criminal investigation that never came 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.839 for a whey based on the evidence in the case 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.280 that didn't exist in that case. And I can only 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.160 guess they picked Caine to pursue that line of questioning 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.960 because of the familiarity he must have acquired about, you know, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.120 people being accused of rape and cheating husbands when he 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:19.760 was Bill Clinton's vice presidential running mate in twenty sixteen, 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.040 but he didn't seem particularly offended that his running mate's 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.040 husband had been credibly accused of all of these things, 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:31.559 including exposing himself, rape, sexual assault, serial cheating, and all 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.440 the above. He seemed to be very good friends with 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.640 Bill Clinton. So I found that a little bit a 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:40.959 little bit of irony there. And so that came up, 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.640 and you know, then the issue of whether or not 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.080 you believe in waterboarding and the Geneva conventions came up 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:54.319 with Angus King. Let's see, one person, a Democrat from Michigan, 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.600 Gary Peters, was upset they didn't have a one on 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:00.320 one meeting. I'm like, really, that's what's That's all you 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:05.959 have to say. I thought that Senator Mullen of Oklahoma 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.920 was particularly powerful. He went right out as fellow senators 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.640 and he goes, yeah, how many of you have shown 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:16.600 up having drunk at night to vote? And how many 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.680 of you here in this chamber have have have been 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.880 involved in cheating scandals? He was like, he went right there. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.720 I was like wow. Then he called out the hypocrisy 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:29.440 of senators and then he pointed out, yes, everyone has 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.480 send and fall in short, he didn't use those words. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.760 They're my words. And we've all, well the Bible's words. Uh, 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:39.600 we've all made mistakes. And Petez, you know, changed his 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.200 life and he's done it for a number of years now. 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:44.240 But they want to go back and dredge up the 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.440 passes pasted as much as they can. This is why 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.760 good people don't want to run for public office. They 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.840 don't want to be a part of serving in the government. 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.760 It's a high price that you pay, I'll tell you. Uh, listen, 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.840 you might think that, Okay, I'll use my gun in 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.960 self defense that obviously, if you have to protect. I 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.040 can't announce everything yet, but we have a lot planned 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:05.040 for next week. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.200 Excited about all of it. Let's put it this way. 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.520 I'm going to be spending more time in the DC 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.360 swamp than I had originally planned. But we have a 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.200 lot of really good stuff that we're going to do 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.040 that I think hopefully we'll get things started off on 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.560 the right foot and be productive in a lot of 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:26.440 different ways. I'm kind of getting excited about Linda, you 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:30.080 get excited about Monday. It can't come soon enough as 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.720 far as I'm concerned. Of course, could you just just 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:38.280 Just imagine what it would be like if Kamala won 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:39.360 for a second. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.440 Just imagine that. What do you think? 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.320 Yeah, I try not to have bad dreams while wide awake, 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.960 and I'll do that. That's not a thing. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:52.280 It would be pretty bad. They announced that, Oh I 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.600 know that Rascal Plats is going to be playing there. 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:59.240 That's pretty cool be playing. Oh guess who else is 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.400 playing there? Who the village people are playing there? 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:03.200 Oh? 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:03.840 I did see that. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.520 I did see that, y MC. 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:09.720 Did you see at the park? Are you going to 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:09.920 do it? 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:11.960 Sean? You're going to get up there and dance with them? 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.040 No? I'm not, No, I will not be. I'm working. 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:16.600 That might be the one thing that you could do. 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:18.720 You don't have to move the bottom board of your body. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:20.040 You just have to move your arms. 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.040 All you gotta do is you put the big y 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:26.440 up right and then you do the M and then 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:30.520 you kind of slant over A and then the A 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.240 at the top when you put your hands together. 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:32.800 Is that it? 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.200 And the third letter is C. But we'll give you 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.200 a pass. Not everybody gets it right the first time. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:42.440 It's fine, Okay, I sound like Joe Biden or who 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.960 was it that said the three letter word, jobs, j obs, 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:52.800 jobs anyway, So the village people, Rascal Flats carry Underwood 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:57.080 is going to be performing, and you know, and by 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:58.760 the way, to her, she doesn't care at all about 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:02.560 any backlash good for her that she may face, according 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.359 to sources who say that the singer is very proud 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.280 to have the chance to have that experience during her career. 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.959 She's got such an amazing voice, by the way, she's incredible. 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:17.040 And I really don't care what performers political points of 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.840 view are. I mean, if I chose my music, and 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.080 if I chose what I watched, which I don't watch 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.080 a lot of stuff. I've been obsessed with the chosen 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:30.680 now forever. But if I chose it based on their politics, 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:31.800 I wouldn't watch any of it. 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:37.639 Anyway. They're gonna do Macho man ymca. I just I don't. 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.280 I have so much that I have to do work wise, 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.920 and we're doing a show Sunday night that I really 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.960 won't have time to do anything else but get my 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.479 work done. And you are aware of my schedule, so 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:51.960 you know how tight things are going to be. It's 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:56.960 gonna be pretty pretty tight, indeed, And it's just you know, 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:01.920 it's it's going to be such shock and awe. If 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:06.560 you want to know what the schedule is on, when 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:10.960 is it. On Saturday, there's a reception of fireworks will 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.880 be held at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.359 Is a reception for Cabinet nominees and a dinner hosted 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.200 by Vice President elect JD. 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:20.719 Vans. 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.800 On the nineteenth, Trump is going to lay a route 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.119 that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:31.280 where members of the military are buried. A victory rally 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.360 at Capital One Arena, which is the home of the 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:39.919 Washington Wizard and the Washington Capitals. That's the Candlelight dinner. 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:42.040 I had a couple of close friends of mine that 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.240 are going to that and tried to talk me into going. 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.040 I'm like, well, I'm doing a show on Sunday night. 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:47.720 I have no choice, but I'll have to work. I'll 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:51.560 be working on Inauguration Day. The day begins with services 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:55.480 at Saint John's Church. After the church service, Trump will 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.080 have tea at the White House with Joe and Jill Biden. 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.560 At noon, Trump will take the oath of office at 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:06.800 the US Capital. I do solemnly swear affirm that I 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:10.320 will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.960 and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:18.560 defend the Constitution of the United States. After saying then 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:22.040 goodbye to Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the President 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.720 will hold a signing ceremony near the Senate Chamber, where 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:29.120 he will likely sign nominations so that his cabinets elections 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:33.119 can be confirmed expeditiously. A lunch will be hosted by 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:38.560 the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, which organizes the 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:44.360 inauguration events, including the swearing in ceremony. Prior to the 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.240 parade from the Capital to the White House, the President 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:51.160 will review the troops. The parade will be down Pennsylvania Avenue. 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:55.520 I'm sure security is going to be I pray security 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:57.919 is going to be insane. It should be, it must be. 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.959 It has to be. At the White House, Trump all 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:03.960 whole day signing ceremony, where he will sign what is 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.919 expected to be shock and awe a flurry of executive orders. 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:13.120 He will attend and address three inaugural balls, the Commander 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:17.040 in Chiefs Ball, the Liberty Inaugural Ball, and the Starlight Ball. 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.680 I will be at one of the three. Wherever he 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:24.080 will be in the nine pm hour is the one 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:27.280 I will be at. And it looks like it was 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:30.359 up until yesterday, the Liberty Ball. It looks like the 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:32.680 Starlight Ball now. So we'll have to wait and see 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:35.520 how that plays out. I have to put on a 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:39.320 tuxedo again. Can you believe it? You know how I 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:40.240 love my tuxedo. 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:43.800 I mean, you know, listen, I would wear just about anything. 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:45.520 I'd wear a tuxedo to go to the ball and 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:46.520 see President Trump. 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:50.080 Oh, would you like to do? You do? You never 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:51.720 mention that you want? Would you like to go to 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:52.119 the ball? 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.520 No? I'm washing my hair that night. I can't make it. 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:00.400 My hair that night, you can't make it. I get 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:02.800 you a picture. I thought this was going to buy 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:06.000 me goodwill with Donald Trump when we were in Harrisburg, 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.280 and and that lasted about two weeks, as I predicted, left. 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:13.840 It lasted longer than I thought. Actually, Alabama and Texas 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:20.200 and Mike Johnson have all ordered the capital their state 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:21.840 flags and capital flags. 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:24.960 Uh uh. 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:27.600 They were refusing to keep it at half staff during 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:31.159 Trump's inauguration. This is something Joe Biden had decided, and 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:33.520 I hope when Trump gets in there he just puts 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.640 the flag up. I think you should. But the petty look, 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:38.960 the pettiness was on display. It's gonna be on display 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:41.639 for Cash, It's gonna be on this display for Tulsi. 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:44.679 It's gonna be on display for Pam, who's on I 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:47.359 think she's up tomorrow. It's gonna be on display for Marco. 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:51.560 It's going to be on display for RFK Junior. It's 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:57.959 it's pretty much gonna be everybody. And this is just Democrats, bitter, angry, petty. 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.840 We saw all the petty news of Joe Biden on 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:03.680 the way out the door. None of us should be 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:07.719 a surprise to anybody, and you know we saw it 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:11.080 on display today. I mean, I mean the fact that 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:16.440 they designate Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's running mate, to go 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:23.280 after Pete on issues from his past is a little ironic. 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:25.080 Did that not make you laugh? It kind of made 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:29.119 me laugh, and like, this is your best shot? And 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:31.639 then the best shot that they took at Pete. You know, 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:35.600 they obsessed for like an hour and a half over 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:40.359 women and their role in combat. Am I old fashioned 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:43.040 in thinking that? In my way? 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:45.840 Of thinking I'm not against women in combat. I'm not 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:46.240 at all. 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:49.120 I just think the standards, as Pete was pointing out, 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:52.320 need to be exactly the same, and that which would 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:55.720 go for police departments, some fire departments. As long as 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:58.879 as long as you're capable of doing the job, nothing 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:01.359 should prevent you from being a job. Your section prevent 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:04.639 you from being you know, from doing the job. But 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:07.720 at the end of the day, if you're a firefighter 0:23:07.840 --> 0:23:10.760