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	I have no doubt in my mind that the monster sitting in this room with us today is the same monster that encountered my precious sister on February 22nd, 2024, where he proceeded to attack, assault, beat, murder, and attempt to rape her.
	Jose Antonio Ibarra has completely and utterly ruined my life, and I can only hope and pray that he receives a sentence that ruins his.
	Thank you.
	Well, he did.
	That was about three hours ago, three hours and 15 minutes ago.
	That was what Lake and Riley's sister, one of the first impact statements in that Georgia court today, I was at home with a friend and I was meant to be doing an interview for Newsmax and my interview was overridden by that live coverage and I want to salute Chris Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax.
	I want to salute Elliot, the whole team, Bianca, the host.
	Because instead of our discussion on cabinet nominees, congratulations to Linda McMahon and Matt Whitaker today.
	Instead of that, Newsmax started the feed of the impact statements and didn't stop for the next 30-40 minutes.
	Nobody else did that.
	Fox didn't do that.
	CNN didn't do that.
	And that was truly the righteous thing to do.
	Lake and Riley was clearly a beautiful woman, inside and out.
	A 22-year-old nursing student who went for a jog one morning.
	And if you watch the court case, which has been televised...
	You can see Jose Ibarra in his hoodie, wearing his gloves, prowling around the campus looking for a woman to rape.
	A man who came into this country illegally as a gang member.
	An individual who was asked after he was arrested for child endangerment in New York and released where he would like to go.
	You won't believe this, but that's okay.
	You can look it up.
	Where he would like to go for humanitarian purposes.
	Yes, the word humanitarian is part of his federal DHS immigration file.
	And he said Atlanta, Georgia.
	And you, dear listener, paid for his ticket after he left the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.
	A classic icon, an architectural icon of that city that is now full of illegal immigrants.
	Yeah, you can't get a room in the Roosevelt Hotel.
	Because it's full of people who have no right to be here.
	People like Jose Barra, who had to leave New York after he got a slap on the wrist for child endangerment and said in Spanish, I presume, I want to go to Atlanta.
	And like a predator on the plains looking for an innocent victim, You can see him on the campus security cameras.
	You can read the last text Laken Riley sent her mother as she went for a jog that day before Jose Ibarra accosted her, tried to rape her for 18 minutes.
	Eighteen minutes before he caved in her skull and so took her life.
	A man who was just sentenced to life without parole, who in a fair world, we would allow his father to execute him.
	In a fairer world, he would suffer pain and misery before his life is extinguished.
	Maybe he'll see justice inside a federal prison.
	I know the child murderers and pedophiles often find justice at the hands of those incarcerated with them.
	Because Jose Ibarra His punishment isn't three square meals and a walk around the prison yard for the rest of his natural life.
	His punishment is to burn in hell for all eternity.
	Along with the two men, full-grown men, who followed and then raped And then strangled to death 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungere,
	a beautiful girl who'll never see adulthood, never fall in love, never be loved, never have a family, bear children.
	No.
	Extinguished by two men let into this country.
	By your party, if you're a Democrat.
	Yes.
	It's your fault.
	If you voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
	These girls' deaths, they're on your copybook as well.
	Because your party...
	Has no respect for human life.
	You celebrate the extermination of a million children in the womb every year.
	That's your Democrat Party.
	And you think, borders?
	Oh, that's so passe.
	Doesn't everyone have the right to come and live in America?
	How dare you talk about wars?
	That's racist!
	Tell that to Jason Riley, Lakin's father.
	Tell that to Alexis Nungere, Jocelyn's mother.
	If you vote for the Democrats, you're responsible for the death of Lakin Riley, Jocelyn Nungere, Rachel Marin.
	You're responsible for the 100,000 overdoses every year in America from the drugs smuggled across the open border.
	But those of us who believe in life, who believe in America, who believe in justice and the American way, in national sovereignty, in the truth, in God, in family, we spoke 15 days ago And now it's our turn.
	And we will extract justice with Matt Gaetz, with Pete Hegseth, with President Trump.
	Because we've had it with your hatred of that which we love.
	And we will stop you.
	Because the American people have spoken.
	And we will brook no compromise in protecting our children, our wives, our mothers, and our nation.
	So get ready.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
	God bless the soul of Lake and Riley, Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungere.
	Keep them in your prayers and their families as well.
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	It's on.
	Can you give that to Casio now?
	Okay.
	Yep.
	Published right away.
	I'm just in title for that if you voted put it in quotes if you voted Democrat you killed Lakin Riley Uh-huh.
	Okay.
	Who is that guy, Steve Danes?
	He's not in a leadership role, is he?
	He's the senator from Montana and he was head of the NRSC. Okay.
	Senate committee, yeah.
	He's a pretty good guy, I think.
	Better than most of the rest.
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	Let's go to Martin in Wisconsin, line one.
	Hi, Sebastian.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	Of course.
	Just a quick question on why are we granting illegal aliens the right to civilian trials?
	Wouldn't it be better to go back to the military trial, especially consider the possibility of Espionage?
	Well, they have to be combatants.
	They have to be members of an enemy force.
	They have to be part of an enemy force.
	You can't just take somebody who robbed a bank or a rapist and say that they go to a military tribunal.
	That's not how the law works.
	Right.
	I understand that.
	But there may be some.
	One trial, a military trial, one military trial, just one.
	That's not how the law works.
	You're not a subject.
	If you're not a subject to military law, if you don't fall under the UCMJ, you can't just have one trial that falls under the UCMJ. Okay, I'm just saying that if we had...
	I understand.
	A military tribunal is for enemy combatants or members of the US military who broke the law, Martin.
	Okay.
	Thank you, Martin.
	Don't go anywhere.
	Donald, David, Charlie.
	Do we have Ken Kuklowski?
	Is he up?
	Wonderful!
	Because we have had a burning question for days now.
	My former Trump administration colleague, former DOJ attorney, Ken Kuklowski, if nobody can answer this question, if you can't, then no!
	Nobody can.
	Stop caffeinating yourself with your 45 mug.
	You're going to need a 47 one.
	Ken, wonderful to see you.
	Hope to see you in person in the not-too-distant future to celebrate what happened 15 days ago.
	Recess appointments.
	I keep hearing yes.
	Yes, no, yes, no.
	You're the guy with the highfalutin law degree.
	What are the facts?
	You understand the Constitution.
	Doesn't a president have to have the agreements of both the lower and the upper house to recess Congress?
	Give us the scenarios, please, if you would, Ken.
	Great question, and it's great to be with you, Sam.
	The Constitution actually lays out in sufficient detail all that we need to understand this.
	First of all, whenever the Senate adjourns for 10 or more days, The president can use recess appointments power.
	That was established by the Supreme Court in NLRB versus Noel Canning.
	That was 10 years ago.
	But beyond that, also, in the event that both houses of Congress can't agree between themselves on how long to adjourn, The president then is able to adjourn them himself to whatever date he deems proper.
	Hang on, hang on.
	This is really interesting.
	Okay.
	This is what we haven't heard so far.
	So there has to be congruence on the adjournment.
	If the House doesn't agree with the Senate, then the president decides?
	Yes.
	That's correct.
	Now, it's never been used in this context before, but we've also, we're in an era where we have seen over the past several years unprecedented obstruction, you know, unprecedented pushing of the envelope on various constitutional safeguards that you and I had assumed for centuries were bedrock, and all of a sudden the other side has decided to play games with it to the detriment of the rule of law.
	And so as we look through what is permitted in that regard, yes, Article 1 of the Constitution says that neither House of Congress can adjourn for more than three days without the consent of the other.
	However, if the two chambers cannot agree on how long to adjourn, then the president can adjourn them and then can reconvene them At such date as he deems proper.
	And if the president were to set that date anything more than 10 days, like let's say 11 days, 10 days or more, then under the Noel Cannon decision, he has recess appointments power to grant commissions, to grant temporary appointments that would last until the end of the annual congressional session that follows Whatever session he's in when he makes them.
	So to give one concrete example, if the president were to make recess appointments in February of 2025, appointments would hold until Congress adjourns in December of 2026.
	Almost two years.
	Wow.
	Okay, hang on a second.
	Next question.
	So the president can do that, then he can get his political officers, his cabinet members...
	Is it a de facto appointment and confirmation by writ of the president, which then has to be started from zero two years later?
	Is there any limitation on the scope, the authorities of those recess appointments?
	A president can recess appoint any Senate-confirmed position, again, if there's an adjournment of 10 or more days.
	And that's a provision built into the Constitution to provide for the president to be able to temporarily fill vacancies.
	And this isn't like an acting or something.
	That cabinet member would have full authority for that period.
	Yes, they would.
	Right.
	They would have full authority.
	It's just not a full term appointment.
	But again, your typical political appointment lasts around 18 or 24 months anyways.
	Oh my gosh, such an important point.
	Very few people stay in that cabinet post or that ambassadorial post or that agency directorship for a full four years so they could get the job done they wish to do and then it could be normal order two years later for the replacement.
	That's exactly right.
	Okay, I got so many more questions.
	This is why it's Ken.
	You've got to follow him.
	Ken Krakowski right now on Twitter, former senior counsel for the Department of Justice right now, my former colleague from the Trump administration.
	I've got a couple of questions on acting powers as well for those who are just acting directors in a future Trump administration.
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	We'll be back with Ken in a moment, and then your calls here on America First.
	Was this created for conditions of emergency?
	What was the original understanding?
	Well, I'll tell you, the kicker is this, and I don't want to shine a spotlight on it because it gives the other side a roadmap.
	The Supreme Court originally, the original meaning of the Recess Appointments Clause is that it only applies to vacancies during the year-end recess, not during breaks that take place during the annual session.
	In the Constitution, that's an adjournment.
	The recess was only at the end of an annual session until the next January session started.
	Also, under the original meaning of the clause, it would only apply to vacancies that come into being during the recess.
	So it was actually a very short window.
	It's just, in the Noel Canning case, four justices made that point.
	But the liberals, plus Anthony Kennedy, said that they didn't feel overly bound by that, that they thought any break, any adjournment of at least 10 days could qualify as a recess, and that it could be any vacancy, not just one that happened.
	Hang on, hang on.
	The liberals said that.
	Yes.
	But that is the law right now.
	And when was that?
	When was the canon?
	Ten years ago.
	It was a 2014 case.
	It was the one going after Obama when he was putting in a bunch of recess appointments.
	But again, I'm trying not to put a spotlight on it because...
	It could get all the way back to the Supreme Court, but even that would take a year.
	Your broader point is so well taken that these people don't last in those positions for more than two years.
	So it's like, okay, fine.
	But what was the original justification for recess appointments?
	The original justification was that we didn't have airplanes, and that the Senate could be out of session for several months, and what would happen if we were at war, when like the Secretary of War were to die, and the Senate wasn't there to confirm a new one, the President needed to temporarily fill that spot.
	Excellent.
	Good.
	Good, good, good, good, good.
	All right.
	Oh my gosh, so many good cuts.
	We take the law the way the court gives it to us, right?
	Right.
	I thought I had this webcam sitting around, by the way.
	Oh, I know.
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	You don't think this is too much on the nose, do you?
	Oh, I love it.
	I like that mug.
	I like that.
	It's a big-sized mug.
	It's good.
	Yeah, that's from the Navy Mess gift shop on the bottom floor when we worked there.
	What?
	Yes.
	That's where I bought this.
	Wow.
	I used to go in there for the presidential coasters.
	That's what I used to get.
	All right.
	So come in with cut 10.
	And then let's talk about the expectations.
	And I want to talk about acting.
	What is an acting, right?
	Why we had so many actings in the end of the Trump administration.
	Yeah.
	Happy to lay that out, too.
	But this would not be acting.
	No, no, no.
	I understand.
	Stand by.
	Thank you.
	And their cabinet picks so far?
	I mean, these are like beyond insane.
	Someone who is credibly accused of having sex with an underage girl.
	Someone who sucks up to foreign dictators and has attracted major concern that they can't be trusted to protect America's secrets from our adversaries.
	Someone who paid hush money to cover up a sexual assault accusation to lead our military?
	He's picked because Donald Trump likes him on Fox News?
	Representative Jim McGovern.
	Never heard of him, but they just roll these people out you've never heard of when they need to attack, attack, attack.
	Absolutely pathetic.
	But it is going to be quite the fight unless the Senate realizes what happened 15 days ago in America.
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	Please follow him at Ken Keklowski.
	And don't be envious of his White House mug.
	It is very handsome, very large.
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	Ken, two questions because you've helped so much already.
	Recess appointments, it's there.
	We have some law from the Liberal members of the Supreme Court 10 years ago, which is super, super helpful.
	Given your understanding of the history of...
	Number one, what's your personal expectation?
	Will there be some kind of cooling of egos?
	And the Senate says, okay, popular mandate, not just Electoral College.
	You get your nominees, number one.
	What's your expectation, Ken?
	Well, I mean, certainly that's always been the historical pattern.
	And in fact, it used to even extend to lifetime appointments in the judicial realm.
	I mean, it was as recently as 1986, that arch conservative Antonin Scalia was confirmed 98 to 0 to the U.S. Supreme Court.
	And Pat Leahy, former judiciary chairman, of course, liberal senator from Vermont, as he explained at the time, he said, Judge Scalia, he was an appeals judge at the time, Judge Scalia's philosophy is not my philosophy, but it is Ronald Reagan's philosophy, And I have to respect the mandate that the American people gave President Reagan.
	And so again, it was 98 to 0 with judges.
	We're talking here about executive branch appointments.
	They serve at the pleasure of the president.
	They only serve for a couple of years.
	And so the president has always had even much greater latitude historically to be able to pick the team that would assist him in carrying out the agenda to which the American people elected him.
	An agenda that is supported by quite the mandate in the Senate yesterday.
	Steve Daines from the Republican majority.
	Well, he put it very succinctly.
	Cut 13.
	Hi, I'm Steve Daines.
	My pronouns are Republican majority.
	I have a simple message for Chuck Schumer and for Bob Casey.
	It's over.
	Yeah, quite the mandate.
	Last question, one that's been bugging me.
	Actings.
	We had a lot of actings.
	Acting Director of National Intelligence and so forth, Acting Attorney General.
	Why does that occur and what is the constriction, the constraint on acting members of the executive when they are only actings, Ken?
	Right.
	Unlike recess appointments, which are rooted in the Constitution itself, acting positions are under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, and under that, whenever a Senate-confirmed position becomes vacant in the executive branch, there are three buckets from which someone can fill in, and they're called One is whoever the first assistant is under law to that position, they automatically become the acting.
	But the president is also able to take anyone who is GS-15 or above for at least 90 days in that agency and can elevate them to the acting position.
	Or the president can take any Senate-confirmed official from anywhere in the U.S. government and laterally transfer them to be an acting officer.
	That lasts for 210 days.
	And if during that time, so seven months, and if during that time the president makes a nomination for a permanent replacement, then the acting status can continue until the Senate votes on that confirmation.
	And acting has less powers than a confirmed or not?
	It has all the same powers.
	It's just a matter of that sometimes, you know, like opposition party senators won't take them as seriously because if they're acting, they could disappear at any moment if the Senate votes on a permanent replacement.
	So they have the full range of powers.
	It's just even the title indicates they might not be there for long.
	Then again, many times they are.
	That was your grad school briefing in 15 minutes from the wonderful Ken Kuklowski.
	We need to get him on our Newsmax show.
	In the meantime, follow him at Ken Kuklowski.
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	Is that going to be old news?
	No, it's going to be a team.
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	On both of them?
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	Let's go to Donald in New York.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	Thank you so much for your excellence and Salem news.
	It's fantastic.
	Thank you.
	On the sentencing of the murder of...
	Yes.
	He should be executed.
	He should be, but the Soros-funded prosecutor has not asked for the death penalty.
	Sadly, it is life without parole.
	Which falls right into the left playbook of bankrupt America.
	That guy's going to be in jail if he has a normal lifespan.
	He's going to consume about, oh, well, at $100,000 a year.
	He might be in jail for 40 years before he dies of natural causes.
	Are you familiar with Claude and Piven's playbook?
	I am.
	I am Claude and Piven.
	I am.
	It falls right into it.
	And I hope President Trump makes good his threat to bring back the death penalty.
	Now, the courts can argue that the death penalty is Cruel and inhumane treatment.
	I would far rather die if I've got to die from a crime I have committed.
	Quickly, as opposed to rotting in jail for 30, 40, 50 years?
	Yep.
	You'll have no disagreement from me.
	That man needs to receive the death penalty sooner rather than later.
	Thank you, Donald.
	Thank you so much.
	Charlie, on this topic of Jose Ibarra, the murderer of Lake and Riley.
	Cut line four.
	Yeah, Donald stole a little bit of my thunder there about that, but I'm absolutely livid over that decision, and I think the judge could have given him the death penalty if he wanted to.
	But what I also wanted to touch on is my understanding is this guy was flown to New York by the Biden administration.
	Correct.
	And then...
	They let him go after they arrested him.
	Yep.
	Child endangerment released by Alvin Bragg.
	Yep.
	Right.
	And then paid for him to hop on a bus or whatever transportation.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	They asked him where he wants to go and he said Atlanta and they paid for a plane ticket.
	That's nice.
	That's nice.
	And then they paid for his trip to go there so that he could kill this poor woman.
	So you're telling me, in the meantime, we got two parents that didn't shoot up a school in Michigan sitting in jail for at least 10 years for what their kid did, but we can't hold these piles of trash in New York that are responsible for this guy being in Atlanta for this woman's but we can't hold these piles of trash in New York I can't believe that, and I hope that when Matt Gaetz gets into office that this is something that he jumps on and holds accountable criminally.
	Those that are responsible and have blood on their hands for not only Lakeland Riley, but every other poor person that lost their life as a result of these stupid policies that kill hardworking, taxpaying Americans.
	Well, that's why we elected President Trump 15 days ago.
	Thank you, Charlie.
	Let's squeeze in one more call on this topic.
	David Orlando, Line 3.
	Dr.
	Gorka, how are you?
	Good.
	A few months back, after watching Bill Barr be interviewed about Trey Gowding on Fox News, I smelled a rat that he had something to do with the Mar-a-Lago raid.
	I called you at the time, and just recently, today, Revolver News posted a video of Bill Barr being interviewed, and the interviewer asked him, point flat, did you have any involvement with the Department of Justice?
	And he said he would not answer that question.
	I think it's very important for the American citizens to know whether or not Bill Barr played any role in the Mar-a-Lago raid.
	And if so, that would be a lesson today's Republicans Well, listen, that is absolutely fascinating.
	Bill Barr is filth, is scum.
	Stay on the line, David.
	I need you to give any details you have of that article at Revolver News because I need to see that video.
	I need to hear what Bill Barr said because it doesn't surprise me, but I need to see that with my own eyes.
	Thank you, David.
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	Thank you.
	Any other cuts you want to use here?
	Yes.
	I really like 6.
	That one was just so good.
	We'll do that with Jen.
	Come in with 15.
	15.
	Yup, the other one.
	15.
	And then I'll...
	What else?
	And then I'll tee up eight as well.
	Come with 15 and then tee up eight.
	All right, 50 seconds.
	All right.
	All right.
	But it gets even better.
	Here's the deep state full circle.
	Just last week, do you know what Strzok and Page received from the Department of Justice?
	What?
	A $1.5 million payout to settle a lawsuit that Strzok and Page brought for the improper disclosure of their personal text messages on FBI phones.
	And the DOJ just rewarded them.
	They broke the law.
	They broke the chain of command.
	They broke every regulation there is in the FBI.
	They weaponized the system of justice against a political target they hated.
	We found those text messages.
	And we got them declassified finally in full when I became deputy director of national intelligence.
	And the world has now seen them and they can read them.
	And that's the best form of transparency.
	That's why I want this 24-7 declassification office.
	Don't have me regurgitated to you.
	Read it.
	Get the documents, get the files, get the memos.
	But the deep state came full circle and gave these guys a payday for rigging a presidential election and breaking the law.
	Kash Patel, that's why he should be the director of the FBI, because he understands it's not just about corruption, it's about the deep state protecting and rewarding treason.
	Did you hear a $1.5 million payout from Biden's DOJ to the people who affected the Russia hoax against President Trump?
	Got to stop it, as we have to stop the invasion of America and the occupation by illegals.
	Back to the topic of the late Laken Reilly, Rachel Marin, and Jocelyn Nungere.
	Stephen Miller, reading the Riot Act to the left.
	The moment that President Trump puts his hand on that Bible and takes the oath of office, as he has said, the occupation ends, Liberation Day begins.
	He will immediately sign executive orders, sealing the border shut, beginning the largest deportation operation in American history, finding the criminal gangs, rapists, drug dealers, and monsters that have murdered our citizens and sending them home.
	No one will be allowed to enter the country illegally and ICE will be empowered in partnership with FBI, DEA, ATF, the National Guard to fully seal and secure the border with CBP and to find and identify the criminal threats that are inside this country and send them back home.
	Oh, and by the way, he'll be in the White House as Deputy Chief of Staff in charge of policy.
	Not just, you know, immigration policy.
	All policy!
	Because that's what he was nominated as last week.
	And next to him will be the President's border czar, a real border czar, who's going to secure it, not open it, the great Tom Homan.
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	Now, what Elon has, that people keep forgetting because they say, well, he doesn't have a legislative mandate here.
	And I say, oh, he's got better than that.
	He's got X. So what happens is you're in some state somewhere, and you own a project to nothing, and you're spending $2 billion.
	He just will shame you out.
	He'll start naming to all of your voters exactly what you've done wrong and what you're not doing to fix it.
	And I love the concept of just squeezing heads to stop waste because all he has to do is turn on the machine.
	Now, it's going to be very contentious.
	I've said this multiple times about this mandate.
	The power he has is not to be underestimated because if you can get to the voter of that governor or that senator that's wasting money in his eyes...
	And he can make a good case on X? You're going to cause a lot of damage in that constituency.
	And I love this idea because it's a negotiation.
	That's what it is.
	If you don't fix this, I'm going to call you out.
	The man who loves head-squeezing, Mr.
	Wonderful Jeff.
	Shouldn't we just make him a member of the Trump cabinet?
	Just make something up for...
	I know he's Canadian, but, like, minister of head-squeezing.
	No.
	The spokesperson for Doge.
	Oh, he would...
	Oh, my gosh.
	That suggestion is almost as good as something Jennifer Horne would think up.
	Let's get her on.
	Jennifer, are you there?
	Yes.
	I'm here.
	I'm ready for good ideas.
	I love this idea.
	We can make America wonderful again.
	Mr.
	Wonderful would be in charge.
	I love it.
	Make America wonderful again with the Doge spokesman, all the way from what Chris Plant calls America's hat.
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	Alright, are we still having fun?
	Are we still having fun?
	We're still having fun.
	I was actually just looking.
	You'll get a kick out of this.
	The LA Times.
	First of all, you know they fired their editorial board, but they refused to endorse Kamala Harris.
	And I really thank Elon Musk for putting cracks in corporate media.
	I really think that started with him and his endorsement and his crackdown at Twitter.
	But the LA Times had a map of Los Angeles County and the areas that went for Trump.
	Dr.
	G, my area is as red as red can be.
	Beverly Hills, as red as red can be.
	Glendale, Burbank, pieces of Long Beach.
	Now, it's not all of L.A., obviously.
	California went for Kamala Harris.
	Hang on, hang on, hang on.
	Beverly Hills?
	Red as a beat.
	What?
	It's amazing.
	Pieces of Malibu, red, red, red.
	Pieces of the San Fernando Valley, red.
	Going for Trump and by at least two, three, four percentage points.
	So I was just enjoying looking at that map and looking at even in L.A. County, how much of it has changed in four years' time from 2020 to 2024.
	It is the Trump effect.
	It's amazing.
	That's incredible.
	The people who will not recover, though, are the mainstream media.
	MSNBC is maybe getting sold by NBC. And poor Mika, poor Joe.
	They had this to say.
	Cut four.
	I will say really quickly on this, you know, a drudge at the top said, oh, like news meltdown, all this other stuff.
	I mean, I could be completely wrong.
	We could all be fired a year from now.
	Whenever this happens, you never know what's going to happen.
	Or tomorrow.
	Yeah, but...
	Or we could be fired tomorrow.
	Ouch!
	And maybe they will be fired tomorrow because I haven't played this yet.
	I'm sure you have.
	The hostage video from The View.
	Sunny Hostin, who perhaps more than anyone else except Kamala Harris, is responsible for Kamala Harris' failure with that what-would-you-do-differently question.
	She said some things about Matt Gaetz that probably would have meant her...
	Losing a lot of money for their parent company and that's why she was told to make this hostage statement on the show.
	Sonny, you have a legal note.
	I do have a legal note.
	Thank you, Whoopi.
	Matt Gaetz has long denied all allegations, calling the claims, quote, invented, and saying in a statement to ABC News that this false smear following a three-year criminal investigation should be viewed with great skepticism, that DOJ investigation was closed with no charges being brought.
	I just can't get enough of things like that.
	How about you, Jen?
	Love it.
	And you know what I love is what it really means.
	We were talking about this on the morning show today, and Grant and I were saying, okay, this is a hostage situation.
	All you have to do is just look at her face.
	Her voice is tense.
	I mean, she must have been flaming up.
	The paws!
	Yes.
	Okay.
	I loved Whoopi, too.
	She goes right at the end of that clip.
	She goes, we'll be right back.
	Like, they threw it to a break immediately.
	But what this means, because Matt Gaetz is a public figure, and as you know, we have leeway.
	And by the way, we should have leeway to say what we need to say about people who are in public life, right, in the media and in this talk radio business as well.
	But if she delivered those things that were malicious and she knew them to be intentionally false, then that is where that legal message would come from.
	And so you have to ask yourself if this is actually the uncovering of the media knowingly doling out false information for malicious reasons.
	And that's why they're going to have to take a pause now before they start doing things like this.
	And well done for Matt Gaetz and his legal team to have this sucker ready to go and hit send on it as soon as The View is on, because apparently this is how it happened.
	She was bad-mouthing him, and a few minutes later she's doing this take-back.
	It was amazing to watch.
	And Capitol Hill saw the vice president-elect, also Senator Cruz and Matt Gaetz, Talking behind the scenes, saying, guys, popular mandate, Kamala lost.
	And, Jen, there are some people in the establishment who might be calling out Kamala for her failure.
	Of all people, Katie Couric, cut sex.
	I was frustrated by her inability to really succinctly answer questions at times, Jen.
	If she was asked about changing the Supreme Court at that CNN town hall, she had an opportunity to talk about ethics and what Alito and Clarence Thomas were doing.
	And she answered, like, in one sentence and then, like, went on to something that had nothing to do with the question.
	You know, people notice that.
	And it's like, answer the goddamn question, please.
	I mean, yeah.
	Ooh.
	How can they say these things about your future governor, Jennifer?
	I could say that a whole lot more about maybe my future governor.
	Let's hope not.
	Kamala's got her paperwork filed.
	But you know why I think they look so bad?
	They look so phony when they do things like this, Seb, is that Katie Couric and Jen Psaki, who you just heard from, had the opportunity to say those things to the American people when Kamala Harris was still the candidate.
	And now, to save their own rear end because Kamala Harris got shellacked and they didn't see it coming, they have to come out and pretend they're real news people now and say, oh, yeah, well, we noticed she couldn't answer questions.
	Why not hold her accountable when you were talking to her?
	Because both of those ladies had an opportunity to interview Kamala Harris, and they didn't follow up with hard questions.
	They let her skate.
	So it's amusing to me to see the media in total disarray because they know they have been uncovered and that the people are awake to the fact that they have been spoon-feeding them nonsense for the last decade and probably beyond that.
	So I laugh when I see this because they should have had these concerns when they still could have made a difference.
	Now they're just covering up for their failures.
	Why do we not use the phrase shellacking more often?
	I love that.
	I love that.
	They got shellacked.
	I love it, but it doesn't quite make sense because shellac is a varnish and you put it on things that you value and it makes them pretty.
	Am I missing something?
	No, it is weird that we say it like that, though.
	But you say you got shellacked.
	I think maybe just paint it over, perhaps.
	Is that what it is?
	I think that's kind of the use.
	Who are our etymological researchers here?
	Alex, you know stuff like this.
	Shellacking should be a nice thing.
	Why is it a pejorative thing?
	Any ideas, Alex?
	I have no idea, Dr.
	G. We shall be...
	The keyboard is like the cat...
	On Twitter, the keyboards will be going in the break.
	We will be finding out why shellacking is a pejorative.
	We'll research it.
	We will.
	There's this thing called the interwebs that Al Gore invented.
	We will be switching on our steam-powered interwebs in the break because it is a great phrase, but it's kind of counterintuitive.
	But she was shellacked.
	I like to use trounced.
	Trounced is a good one.
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	My gosh, is she going to find a lot of dirty dishes in the sink?
	No, I'm not that.
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	Wexler 2.
	Wexler?
	Yeah.
	So many things.
	The trans thing.
	They're not trans women.
	They're men!
	Exclamation mark.
	There you go.
	There you go.
	I like that.
	Okay.
	Alright, three and a half minutes.
	What's the date today?
	The 20th.
	Meaning exactly two months from Inauguration Day.
	I love it.
	So good.
	I'm ready for it.
	Yeah, we want to have like a big party, a little celebration.
	Sending you a statement from the president.
	Yep.
	Just trying to verify if it's real first.
	Do you guys think that Tom Homan would come on The Morning Answer to speak of sanctuary cities in LA that we just declared?
	Absolutely.
	Yeah, I mean, we tried to get him on Newsmax and he couldn't make the window, so he's back to back.
	But yeah, just ask him.
	Because I want to start a little campaign.
	Uh-huh.
	That I think might be fun, getting our listeners to call the city council.
	Yes, nice.
	Yeah, I think there's enough of us where we could cause a little trouble for Mayor Bass, and I think it would be fun.
	Yeah, well, you've had him on, right?
	He went on with Bob Frantz at Cleveland last week, so he's doing local shows, too.
	Do you have his email, Jeff?
	No, we use text.
	You haven't had him on?
	No, I did, but it was like two years ago.
	We usually used Mark Morgan, usually.
	I'll connect you on a text thread.
	Perfect.
	That would be great.
	Thank you.
	Okay.
	We've got to cause some trouble in LA. I'm telling you, there's an opportunity here.
	You caused trouble?
	What?
	No.
	No.
	That's not possible.
	I don't believe you.
	All right.
	Where's President Trump?
	Wow.
	Only Cash is trending on Truth Social.
	Only Cash.
	Only Cash.
	Did they pick him yet?
	No.
	He's one of three choices.
	Three choices.
	Mostly because I heard an argument on my favorite radio show, America First, yesterday as I was driving back from speaking to the women in Palos Verdes.
	She's slick.
	What was the argument?
	The argument was there's only one person for FBI director.
	Show me the money.
	Lee would be a complete and utter disaster.
	I don't see this.
	I also saw, apparently...
	Gascon didn't just lose, he got crushed by like 20 points.
	Really?
	He got crushed, Eric.
	By 20 points and Prop 36 passed by 30 points.
	Wow.
	It's pretty amazing.
	And Prop 36 was which one?
	The repeal of 47, which is returning a little bit of power back to the police and the DAs.
	The theft under $1,000 thing.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah.
	Though it looks like they might be up to their little shenanigans again over in 13 with John Duarte.
	Oh, yeah.
	Did you see who's curing votes?
	Oh, geez.
	Who is it?
	Nancy Pelosi's daughter, Christine, is curing votes in the Duarte election.
	And they're also going to take, I'm telling you, Garcia gets thrown.
	And so Michelle Steele is.
	Yeah.
	322 votes and people say their vote doesn't count.
	Wow.
	Yep.
	All right, Suigars.
	Then I've got the Johnson.
	You want to use Cut 5 here?
	I will, on the most good news.
	Is this effort in response to Congresswoman McBride coming to Congress?
	Yes, and absolutely, and then some.
	I'm not going to stand for a man.
	You know, if someone with a penis is in the women's locker room, that's not okay.
	And I'm a victim of abuse myself.
	I'm a rape survivor.
	I have PTSD from the abuse I've suffered at the hands of a man.
	And I know how vulnerable women and girls are in private spaces.
	So I'm absolutely 100% going to stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a women's restroom, in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms.
	I will be there fighting you every step of the way.
	Well said, well said.
	We'll share with you what Speaker Johnson said after waiting a day.
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	Jennifer Horne, why does it take a woman, not only a woman, but a survivor of rape, to say a person who has a penis doesn't get to use the women's toilet in Congress?
	Why isn't there a man or a man in leadership to say, no, you've got a penis, you don't go in the women's changing room?
	You know, I'm actually happy it's a woman.
	And I almost think it has to be a woman in this time and place.
	Because what will happen the minute a man stands up and says something like that, they're going to get crushed by the mainstream media.
	That doesn't mean they shouldn't.
	That doesn't mean it's disappointing that it wasn't a man standing up for what's right.
	I mean, everybody should be.
	But I think the voice is more powerful when it comes from a female, particularly someone who has been very open about being a survivor of sexual abuse and assault.
	And I think that Nancy Mays needs a lot of credit right now.
	I know sometimes there's a little back and forth, but what she's done is actually opened the eyes to a lot of women who say that my needs matter too.
	I think so oftentimes we're about serving the need of this collective, this group of trans people.
	We're about serving that need.
	We need to actually remember that there are people on the other side of that argument who deserve to have their feelings considered, too.
	And I'm so proud that she stood up and stood up in the way that she did.
	There is not a person alive that is going to be able to have a at least any kind of solid argument with the things that she's laid out.
	She's right.
	People will know that she's right.
	And I'm glad she's in front of a microphone saying them.
	And this was a day later.
	Speaker Johnson cuts heaven.
	I want to make a statement for all of you here and be very clear.
	I was asked a question this morning at the leadership gaggle, and I rejected the premise because the answer is so obvious.
	For anybody who doesn't know my well-established record on this issue, let me be unequivocally clear.
	A man is a man, and a woman is a woman.
	And a man cannot become a woman.
	And then he went on to say, but we respect people.
	If you've got a mental problem, we don't respect you.
	You need mental help.
	Mike, thank you for saying that, but it was a little late and it was qualified.
	Now, I'm trying to get confirmation of this statement.
	It was sent by Miranda Devine, so I think it's real.
	It wasn't on the president's Twitter feed, but it's from the campaign.
	And I just want to share this Trump campaign statement on Michael Wolff's new book.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you can laugh.
	The senior staff of the 2024 Trump campaign collectively have issued the following statement, quote, A number of us have received inquiries from the disgraced author Michael Wolfe, whose previous work can only be described as fiction.
	He is a known peddler of fake news who routinely concocts situations, conversations and conclusions that never happened.
	As a group, we have decided to respond to his bad faith inquiries, and we encourage others to completely disregard whatever nonsense he actually publishes.
	Consider this, our blanket response to whatever he writes.
	Signed by Susie Wiles, Chris Lacevita, Daniel Alvarez, James Blair, Taylor Budowich.
	Justin Koperal, Stephen Chung, the head of comms, Tony Fabrizio, Vince Haley, the president's speechwriter, Brian Hughes, Jason Miller, Tim Murtagh, Tim Saylor, and my office buddy from the first Trump administration, Andy Sabrabian and Travis Tunis.
	I just read this to you because...
	He's scum.
	I was ordered to talk to him in the first White House.
	I walked into a room and I saw the reptile and I said, you're not going to get anything from me.
	Just the brazenness, Jen, that this person who wrote a whole book full of lies is now wanting access to the second Trump administration, Jen?
	It makes you question their integrity, right?
	If Trump was so bad and he wrote a book filled with all of these truths, why in the world would he want to have another conversation or write another book about him?
	It's the same way I feel about Mika and Joe.
	They show up at Mar-a-Lago after they've called him a dictator and a tyrant and all of these ridiculous things, yet I guess he's okay if you're worried about saving your job.
	I'm happy with this, the silver lining with people like this, that they have caused the American people to wake up.
	And not only do the American people elect Donald Trump in a mandate, and oh, should we remind ourselves, every swing state, the Electoral College of Popular Vote, all of the stuff, the House, the Senate, given back to Republicans.
	But with every person who continues, a reptile, as you said, it's a good word, that continues to show their head, we're waking people up because Trump is not the bad guy anymore.
	They're dancing like him at football games on Sunday.
	And the NFL said, there's no problem with it.
	Isn't that nice?
	And so I think, look at Andrew Breitbart.
	What did he say?
	You start normalizing culture, excuse me, that culture is what we need to change.
	We are changing culture.
	So people like this...
	They're totally irrelevant.
	They may try to make news.
	They may try to sell a book.
	But it's taken a few years.
	People are wise to them.
	But what do you do?
	I mean, that's just, you know, he's a reptile.
	He's filth.
	But what about people like Jennifer Rubin?
	I mean, this clip, I'm curious.
	You work in the media.
	What do we do with people like this?
	Cut five.
	You can't talk broad themes.
	You have to boil it down to nuts and bolts, and you have to be pithy.
	What do I mean by pithy?
	How about this?
	Republicans want to kill your kids.
	It's actually true.
	If you're going to oppose vaccinations, if you're going to stop breakthrough medical research, if you're going to allow minors and all sorts of people to get semi-automatic weapons which they use to shoot up schools, well then you are responsible.
	So a million abortions a year, that's fine, but we want to kill their kids.
	I think President Trump broke Jennifer Rubin.
	I think so.
	And when she says pithy, I feel like my face was covered in her saliva.
	I mean, that was a thick one.
	But I will tell you about Jennifer Rubin.
	I'll tell you about MSNBC. I was listening to them this week, too, and the ladies on The View.
	All they have left is fear-mongering.
	So they're going to try to take the small audiences that they have, and they're going to try to scare the heck out of them.
	And it's unfortunate because I think there are literally a handful of people in this country who are scared by people like her.
	But I think the proof will be in the pudding.
	And as these four years start to roll out and as we see the results that Trump is going to bring us, their audience is going to continue to diminish and there's going to be no one left for them to scare anymore.
	And they won't be able to broadcast their podcasts from their bedrooms.
	I don't get these people.
	Why are you doing...
	I don't want to see your bed.
	It's weird.
	It's just creepy.
	It's just sloppy.
	Follow her at Jennifer Horne.
	And me too, please.
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	More on the Lake and Riley verdict next.
	I don't know.
	It is the weirdest thing.
	When I'm in a hotel, even if I angle it so you can't tell I'm in the bedroom, it's just weird.
	Right, so you can't see the bed.
	You go up against a wall.
	There was someone who I just saw, and it was a famous person who should have more money than this, and it looked like they were broadcasting.
	Who was it?
	It was the lefty guy that was broadcasting from a basement, like a garage, in the dark.
	I mean, it was very bizarre.
	It's like, find a blank wall, at least.
	So weird.
	All right, you guys.
	Well, have a great day today.
	So, Homan.
	Yeah, I'll connect you with Homan.
	Awesome.
	Good.
	Thank you.
	All right, my dear.
	Thank you.
	Okay, bye, guys.
	Thank you, Jen.
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	Fox, not even Fox did this.
	CNN definitely didn't because I checked.
	I was on doing an interview live with my colleague Bianca Della Garza.
	And then the impact statements were being read live from the courtroom in Georgia, from the Lake and Riley murder trial.
	And Newsmax, I just sat there, my interview was cancelled, and I sat there for 20 minutes, and Newsmax played all of them, all of them, for the next hour.
	And everybody needs to hear at least some of them.
	This was earlier today.
	This is Lake and Riley's sister giving her impact statement.
	That predator is inhumane and is the epitome of evil.
	I have no doubt in my mind that the monster sitting in this room with us today is the same monster that encountered my precious sister on February 22, 2024, where he proceeded to attack, assault, beat, murder, and attempt to rape her.
	Jose Antonio Ibarra has completely and utterly ruined my life, and I can only hope and pray that he receives a sentence that ruins his.
	Thank you.
	I didn't know what to do today because after what I witnessed, I was going to be quiet on radio.
	Not good.
	Or I was going to scream and shout and yell in anger.
	So I thought I'll reach out to a friend and maybe we can maybe we can discuss this together.
	And I think he'll probably share some of my views.
	He's a former Green Beret, a regular guest host for me.
	Jim Hansen, welcome back to America First.
	Good to be here, Seb.
	Jim, thank you for joining us at such short notice today.
	Talk to us about how you react to today's decision.
	He has been found guilty on all counts.
	Today were the impact statements from Lake and Riley's sister, best friend, roommate, stepfather, father, and on.
	This isn't just one court case amongst many.
	This is a special one.
	So tell us for you, White's special, Jim.
	I think it's emblematic of everything that has gone wrong by the Biden administration and the political left in allowing an open border to put U.S. citizens at risk of the horrific death that this monster brought on Lake and Riley.
	I think the good thing about today, guilty on all counts.
	Fantastic.
	That's our justice system working.
	Except for one thing, it stopped working when the George Soros paid and owned DA refused to pursue death penalty charges because she didn't want that to affect other undocumented people who are being tried.
	That's absurd, that's obscene, and I think she needs to be removed.
	Well, that's hardly surprising.
	That will be the challenge for the next administration, for local conservative actors.
	We have this peculiar system in the U.S. of electing prosecutors and often electing judges as well.
	Would you put this, Jim, into the broader context of It's the great irony, and I'm not trying to make light of it, but if there were one issue that got President Trump elected back in 2016, which the left should not have gifted him in the election 15 days ago, it probably would have been illegal immigration.
	This decision today, this court case, I don't think can be understood without putting it in the broader context of 20 million illegals and the dismantling of our immigration system.
	A nation state has borders.
	They took ours away.
	They made us less than the country that America has always been.
	If anyone who can manage to walk across the desert becomes essentially an American citizen.
	Now, they don't get full rights of citizenship because, in some cases, they get better than the rights of U.S. citizens.
	They get free room and board.
	They get phones.
	They get gift cards.
	They get flown around the country, as this guy did, to New York City and then to Atlanta, where he killed Lakin Riley.
	I think this is something that Americans cannot tolerate.
	It got Trump elected in 2016, and they made it worse.
	They literally took something that was so common sense, build the wall, turned that into a smear, and now have shown the world and every U.S. citizen they care more about illegal aliens than they do American taxpayers.
	We're talking to Jim Hansen, author of the book Get Based, president of WorldStrat.
	Follow him right now at Jim Hansen DC. We will continue the discussion momentarily after a clip from Laken Riley's father in court today.
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	Laken Riley's murderer, Tenente Aragua gang member, has been found guilty on all counts, raping that beautiful 22-year-old American, smashing in her skull, and strangling her to death.
	Here is Laken's father today.
	I am reminded that my daughter is gone.
	I will never hear her laugh again, never see her smile, never hold her hand or feel her hug.
	She was taken from us, from her family, from her friends, from her future.
	Our world has been torn apart and no matter what happens here today, nothing will ever bring her back.
	I am haunted by the thought of the fear she must have felt in those final moments, and it breaks my heart knowing that she suffered.
	I have to live with the fact that I could not protect her when she needed me the most.
	The pain of not being there, of not being able to stop what happened to her, is something I will never escape.
	My daughter had so many dreams, so many hopes for the future, She had worked so hard to become a nurse to work with children and spread the love of God.
	She was a loving, kind, and intelligent young woman.
	She had so much to offer the world and her life was taken from her far too soon.
	I will never get to see her achieve those dreams.
	The void that has been left is unmeasurable.
	The impact of our loss on our family is immeasurable.
	As a father, I am forever burdened with the pain of losing my child.
	I will spend the rest of my life trying to navigate this grief, trying to make sense of the world that took my daughter from our family.
	But I will never forget her.
	I will keep her memory alive.
	I hope justice is served for her, not only because I'm her father, but because she deserves it.
	Thank you.
	And he, the murderer, was just sitting there without his headphones on, just staring, because he doesn't really care.
	Jason Riley, the father of Lakin Riley, murdered at the age of 22 by an illegal immigrant allowed into America and given a plane ticket to Atlanta, paid for by you, the taxpayer.
	We're back with the President of World Strat, my good friend, former Green Beret, Jim Hansen.
	Jim, the left is going to say, well, a lot of people get murdered every day and, you know, U.S. citizens kill Americans as well.
	They can burn in hell along with Jose Ubar as far as I'm concerned.
	This one case for me is enough.
	Proof, justification to say that the new incoming Trump administration can't take prisoners, whether it's illegal aliens murdering 12-year-old young girls and raping them first like Jocelyn Nungere, whether it's the 100,000 fentanyl deaths caused by open borders, whether it's anything else.
	Is it time for a different kind of American government, given the popular mandate, Jim?
	It absolutely has to be.
	I choked up when I was listening to that man talk about his daughter.
	I have a daughter.
	I thought about losing her so often, and that was the greatest fear I could have.
	But to lose her to a policy that is just so fundamentally unlawful, unconstitutional, and un-American By saying anyone who wants to come in can stay here is horrifying.
	And I think to push back against that and all of the other policies that you pointed out is exactly why Americans chose Donald Trump and JD Vance.
	And I think they've started off by hiring the kind of people, by appointing and nominating the kind of people Who will take decisive action to restore our republic, to bring back the rule of law, to close our borders, and to make America a safe and prosperous place for its citizens again.
	Do you have the impression, because you know and work in this city, you know very well, is it posturing from the Senate regarding the president's nominees like Pete Hexeth, like the great Matt Gaetz, or is it worse than that?
	Does the upper house of Capitol Hill understand what happened 15 days ago in America, Jim?
	I fear they don't, because they are arrogant, narcissistic, pampered people.
	They do not face the kind of consequences for their actions that they should.
	Every six years, the Senate has to run for election, but incumbents almost never lose, except this time.
	We knocked a few off.
	And if they don't get the message from the citizens in that vote, they need to get it from the entire populace and the rest of the Trump administration as we push forward with an agenda that they can either get on board with or be steamrolled by.
	We're doing this.
	I think that's a great bumper sticker for the next four years.
	We're doing this.
	God bless you, Jim Hansen.
	Best to your bride.
	Love seeing that stars and stripes in the back out the window because that's who he is.
	President of WorldStrat.
	Follow him at Jim Hansen.
	And the book is not We're Doing This.
	It's Get Based.
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	- That was earlier this year, in Butler, Pennsylvania.
	The former president, the then leader of the opposition, shot by an assassin's bullet traveling at 3,000 feet per second.
	If he hadn't turned his head, literally hadn't turned it just that extra one-eighth of an inch, we would have watched his murder live on television.
	What did he do afterwards?
	This is what he did.
	Let me get my shoes.
	He took control of that situation.
	them.
	He shouldn't have been able to if the Secret Service were doing their job.
	He should have been bundled into the back of that armored vehicle instantly, without control of his body, because that's what you do to a protectee who's under fire.
	He took control, and he said,"'Wait!
	Wait!' And then he pushed them aside, lifted his head high, and raised his fist, his face covered in blood.
	And he said,"'What?' Fight, fight, fight.
	We did that 15 days ago at the ballot boxes, and we were victorious.
	We took back the nation not just through an electoral college victory, but through a popular vote mandate.
	Now is the time to make good on that.
	Four years is nothing, and two years until the next election will pass in the blink of an eye.
	There is no compromise when the American people have spoken.
	There is only the utter destruction of the corruption in Washington and across federal government.
	This is a moment, this is a window that will close before we know it.
	And we must march through it to build back America on the foundations defined by the principles our founding fathers gave us.
	Nothing less, nothing less will do in terms of the mandate that man has been given.
	God bless President Trump, his family, keep them safe, and all those who love this nation.
	Next, what lies ahead in the national security domain?
	Let's talk to a former member of the Trump cabinet.
	Stay here on America First.
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	Donald Trump.
	I wish the people at your home could hear the sound in this room.
	It is so loud in here.
	It is so loud.
	Mike Johnson without his tie for once.
	Dana White beaming from ear to ear.
	The President...
	A little bit serious, I don't know why, but that was Madison Square Gardens for the UFC match at the weekend.
	Triumphant, triumphant, triumphant.
	What does that mean for the world after January the 20th?
	How do our enemies look at that imagery, that footage?
	And what about our friends and our allies and our partners?
	None better to ask than the former cabinet member, the person responsible for veterans affairs in the first Trump administration.
	And prior to that...
	A job just as tough.
	The man who was responsible in the five-sided playpen for the readiness of all our armed forces.
	Secretary Wilkie, I hope you don't mind me calling it the five-sided playpen.
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	Asylum.
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	Okay.
	We have so much to discuss in terms of the last 15 days.
	The world is moving fast.
	The world is moving fast.
	Our former boss is moving fast.
	Let's just start with that imagery.
	Yeah.
	After the last four years, by comparison, what does that imagery, how does it reverberate outside of the continental United States?
	Well, it's the return of American common sense.
	The return to power of the ordinary American who went forth and changed the world.
	People sort of are shocked when I quote Colin Powell, but he had it right on target when he said that an American soldier has done more for world peace than all the U.N. agencies, all of the celebrity telethons.
	We'll ever do.
	He's liberated more villages, towns, countries than any force in history.
	And he's the greatest force for good other than the savior in the history of the world.
	And I think people see that, the return to rugged Americanism, an Americanism that's confident, that is not lost in a miasma of self-flagellation, which is the hallmark of The Democratic Party and Biden and Harris.
	I mean, I'll give you this one story.
	And you and I have talked about it, but it sums it up.
	Right at the beginning of this administration, and then we can see what happened the other day down in South America.
	Biden's secretary of state is berated by the Chinese foreign minister in Fairbanks, Alaska.
	Who reads Biden's speeches, reads Harris' speeches about America being irredeemably racist, an oppressor.
	For Kamala Harris, the font of most of the world's problems.
	And the only thing the Secretary of State could mouth in defense is that we have to do better.
	Saying we have to do better in the face of a communist tyrant.
	Whose country's murdered 100 million of its own people since 1949.
	Can you imagine them saying that to Nixon or Reagan or Trump?
	And then we see the spectacle just the other day of Joe Biden wandering aimlessly into a hall with some of the world's despots, some who are marginally effective.
	And then missing the photograph.
	He misses that photograph, but in the one that he's taken, he's shuffled to the back.
	And the dictator of China is in the center of the picture.
	Biden's even farther back than the soon-to-be outgoing leader of Canada, Mr.
	Trudeau, Trudeau II. I think those are the proper bookends for the Biden-Harris administration and good riddance.
	If we red team for a moment, if we think like the enemy, let's look at that nation, China, and let's look at Iran.
	There are 60 days left for them in this lame duck presidency.
	If you were thinking strategically for them, what would you expect them to do before President Trump is sworn back?
	Well, the Iranians, I would expect, would be making every motion in the direction of, we want peace.
	I think they would be ordering Hamas and Hezbollah to come to the table to put the Israelis on the spot because the world press and the Europeans would automatically take Hamas and Hezbollah's side.
	Of course, the Iranians forgetting that Donald Trump doesn't care what the Europeans think, at least the Western Europeans think.
	We're going to see a change in that and the attitude...
	May I interject?
	Yeah.
	So one of my proudest moments in the Trump administration was the cabinet arrayed in the oval.
	And the president knew he was going to kill the Iran deal, but he wanted me and Steve to come in and make the case in front of the cabinet.
	So he called us his heavies, and he said, Seb, Steve, come in here.
	And we stood at the Reslu desk.
	He was behind it.
	And to the arrayed cabinet, we explained why it's bad for America, why it's bad for Israel, bad for the Middle East, and doesn't stop Iran getting nuclear weapons.
	And I'm not really talking out of school, because others have discussed this.
	Secretary Wilkie, there was a refrain from numerous members of that cabinet who said, you can't do this because of the reaction of the Europeans.
	We're standing in the Oval Office.
	And the views of Belgium were meant to...
	I mean, the president, of course, did the right thing.
	But that was just shocking.
	It's a 19th century mentality that grips our State Department, has always held sway, that for some reason the Berlin-Paris axis is the font of all historical wisdom.
	They don't realize that the road connecting Warsaw, Budapest, and Bucharest is now the front line.
	Unpack that.
	The fulcrum has moved in terms of military power and influence from Berlin and Paris to the recently liberated nations of Eastern Europe.
	Who understand the threat of...
	Who have lived under both the jackboot and the hammer and the sickle in the lifetime of my grandmother.
	Well, actually, my parents.
	My parents.
	They're the ones who are spending 4% of GDP on defense.
	They're the ones who have opened their arms to American troops, at least under Donald Trump.
	And I should add Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania to that equation.
	How significant was it that just a few days ago you had the EU spokesperson say, well, we're going to stop buying LNG from Russia?
	Right.
	I mean, that was 12 days after the election.
	Isn't that a good sign?
	Yeah, that's a very good sign, because that weans them off.
	I mean, that cripples Putin if they follow through on it.
	But there's a worrying aspect of this, if you believe, as I do, that...
	The balance of power, conventional power, has moved east.
	You still hear Macron and Schultz, to a lesser extent, talking about an EU security force.
	But that costs them money.
	It costs them, but it also gives them the feeling that they have power.
	If they were serious, they would say, look, Let's help each other and the United States.
	Let's invest in drone technology.
	Let's invest in cyber and AI and develop military applications that we can share with our Our NATO brethren instead of this pipe dream.
	I mean, I remember them talking about this in the 90s, the European Common Security and Defense Initiative.
	But you'd have to pay for it.
	That's right.
	And they don't want to.
	And they don't want to.
	No, they don't want to.
	And hopefully, I pray that our great neighbor to the north...
	Finally sees the light, but people forget they're an important part of NATO. When you and I were born, they had the fourth largest army in NATO. Their battle record was unsurpassed.
	You want to see battle monuments go to the western front.
	And a portion of casualties as well.
	And Eisenhower said the finest troops he commanded were Canadian.
	And now you've got an army up there that's about the size of the Alabama Guard.
	But with an imminent change of government.
	And probably an army that's less effective than the Alabama National Guard.
	They're no longer a two-ocean power.
	I think they have four or five icebreakers.
	Come on, Canadians.
	Sort it out.
	We did it here.
	America has stepped up to the plate.
	Our Commander-in-Chief is returning.
	We're talking to the former Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
	He is, of course, Newsmax's chief senior strategist for all matters of national security and foreign affairs, distinguished fellow at the America First Policy Institute.
	I'm Sebastian Gawker.
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	I still wish he'd do it.
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	Look, I've seen some of these Democratic governors say they're going to stand in the way, they're going to make it hard for us.
	Well, you know, a suggestion.
	If you're not going to help us, get the hell out of the way, but we're going to do it.
	So if we can't get assistance from New York City, and we may have to double the number of agents we send to New York City, because we're going to do the job.
	We're going to do the job without you or with you.
	No compromise from one of the first people to be named by President Trump.
	Tom Holman, former acting director of Rice, is going to be the border czar.
	But we have sanctuary cities.
	We have sanctuary states.
	How will he go in there with his officers, his agents?
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	Secretary Wilkie, you had this incredible position in the Pentagon.
	Yes.
	You were responsible for readiness, preparedness of all of our armed services.
	We hear this all the time.
	Oh, posse comitatis and President Trump can't do this.
	Will you explain what the possible scenarios would be at 1201 on January the 20th if Governor Noem, Secretary Noem, along with Stephen Miller and the Board of Tsar, Tom Homan, say, okay, we have millions of illegals in America.
	Is it just going to be federal law enforcement?
	Who's it going to be?
	Let's go back to the beginning.
	The first regular army of the United States to take the field in the face of what was then an insurrection or domestic riot was commanded by George Washington himself, the Shays Rebellion.
	There were so many at the time when Washington took the field.
	You look throughout our history, Grover Cleveland, Nixon, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Johnson.
	As a native of New Orleans, the 82nd Airborne Division, after Katrina patrolled the streets, taking out looters.
	Guarding property and life and property.
	The army of the United States has been used throughout our history when there has been domestic crises.
	And what the left forgets is that when President Eisenhower said, I will enforce federal law, you in Arkansas Obey.
	And by the way, here's the 101st Airborne Division to remind you to obey when Little Rock Central was integrated.
	That has been the power that the president has had since the beginning.
	President Trump used it when he declared an emergency in 2018.
	That allowed him to use military assets and military funding to build the wall.
	Nothing illegal, in fact, absolutely constitutional.
	My own father in the 1960s, at different times when he wasn't in Vietnam, It was either here in Washington, D.C., because of the riots, and federal troops were brought in during the protest times, or in Detroit or Camden, New Jersey, because the cities were in flames.
	So this, I would argue, is even a more dangerous specter hanging over the United States.
	We don't know who's here.
	It's wrecking the economy of many of our states and communities.
	So how would this work?
	The 82nd Airborne is not going to go in and start arresting people.
	What the 82nd Airborne would do, or any other military unit, would be to support Customs and Border Patrol.
	In the UK, they call this military support to civilian authorities.
	That's exactly right.
	And that's what we call it here.
	And it is one of the missions of the armed forces.
	So they would be giving logistics support, providing cover in case they were attacked, and that any of the law enforcement activities would be conducted by Border Patrol, ICE. And give you an example of how that works every day.
	If a ship of the United States Navy is in the Gulf of Mexico, and it sees a cigar boat that they know is full of drugs, Well, the Navy doesn't have the authority to go in and arrest people.
	However, but what the captain of that naval vessel does is he calls down to one of the state rooms on his ship and says, send up Commander Smith, United States Coast Guard.
	Commander, it's your ship.
	And people forget that the Coast Guard is a law enforcement agency.
	It is a law enforcement agency, and the Coast Guard is responsible for that takedown.
	So this is hysteria.
	It's ahistoric.
	It is contrary to the American experience.
	And by the way, I would remind the Democrats that the only internment camps that we know of in this country were built by and for Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
	And what do you expect Given your prior positions in the Cabinet and in the Pentagon, the sanctuary mayors and the sanctuary governors, will they have any options?
	No, because law enforcement's going to come in, probably in the form of a United States attorney and say, Mr.
	Mayor, it's the federal supremacy.
	You either cooperate or we take over your police force.
	If you remember, when George Wallace was standing in the door at the University of Alabama, the deputy attorney general, I think it was Nicholas Kotzenbach, whispered in his ear, the president's going to nationalize your guard if you don't stop, which meant that he was no longer in command.
	John Kennedy was in command.
	He backed off.
	What is your prediction?
	Will these people realize that in President Trump they've met a match?
	Can you imagine the mayor of Los Angeles, Bass, standing up against Donald Trump?
	It's going to get interesting, ladies and gentlemen.
	It is going to get interesting, so buckle up.
	We're talking to the former Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the Honourable Robert Wilkie.
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	Promo code G-O-R-K-A. I said this earlier in the green room to my best buddy from the UK who's known me for the last 44 years.
	I said, there's only one person who's a former cabinet member of the United States with whom you can have a detailed, fascinating discussion on the longest running television show in the UK, which is Doctor Who.
	We often have fun with our shared histories because you grew up there when your father was serving over in the UK. We're not going to bore you with trivia of science fiction, but we may do that in a special edition of Making Movies Great Again.
	Secretary Wilkie, I cannot tell you how many interviews I've done, like yourself, with the British media in the run-up to the election.
	I am concerned for this special relationship, which I deem to be a true thing.
	We have a government there whose foreign secretary has said utterly scurrilous calumny smears against President Trump.
	How concerned should we be and is it rectifiable?
	Well, let's look at the way Britain was looking at us in the 1970s under Mr.
	Carter.
	Britain was looking at its closest friend disintegrating in front of its eyes.
	And that anchor across the Atlantic was...
	We're sinking and not holding steady.
	Apologize for the strange metaphor.
	You served in multiple services.
	Why is that important?
	The relationship to the United States and Britain represents, and I'm going to get esoteric here, but I believe it.
	It represents a continuum of Western civilization that began in the Judean desert.
	Moved to Athens, moved to Rome, moved to London, moved here.
	Bismarck, after he was dismissed by Kaiser William, was asked by the New York Times, what's the most important thing you see coming in the new 20th century?
	And he said, the North Americans speak English.
	This is why Churchill wrote the history of the English-speaking peoples.
	That's right.
	The most tolerant, The most liberal, small l, most beneficent civilization in history.
	In just pure military terms, the commonality of interest, training, tradition between the forces of the United Kingdom and the United States...
	Martial culture.
	Absolutely.
	There's a cultural acuity in Britain Amongst their military that we don't have because we're not as old as they are.
	They can go into different places in the world and know exactly what's going on just by history.
	Can I interject?
	Do you still see that?
	Are you not worried by what's happened to the British military?
	Oh, it's terrible.
	I'm very worried.
	We lose a partner.
	The West loses...
	A foundational source of strength and pride?
	Let me put what you said into perspective.
	The combined strength, manpower, the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, and the British Army is smaller than the 130,000 United States Marine Corps.
	They are on a glide path to destruction.
	But they have lost pride in their nation.
	If you think it's bad in some places in this country, it is countrywide in Britain.
	You have a leadership in the Labour Party that is ashamed of Britain.
	It's ashamed of Britishness.
	It apologizes for its nation.
	At every opportunity it gets.
	And its great leaders.
	That's right.
	They viciously attack the memory of Churchill in particular.
	And if anybody wants to see what's at the end of the road for the United States, look at Britain.
	But you have hope under President Trump?
	Very much so.
	And I think the Trump effect, I certainly have seen it in Eastern Europe.
	And I think the people of Britain, it's the common people of Britain.
	The people who voted for Brexit.
	Right.
	Who, in many instances, used to be labor.
	But labor's left them.
	Because, one quick thing, the great man, George Kennan, he loved Upstairs, Downstairs.
	The British TV show.
	Yeah.
	He loved Upstairs, Downstairs.
	And he was asked why.
	He said, well, no...
	No-show, encapsulated.
	The collapse of British pride, the collapse of Britain's sense of place better than upstairs, downstairs.
	But what did it show?
	It wasn't the common man of Britain who cracked.
	It was the upper classes.
	The privileged classes who cracked.
	That's such a superb take.
	And that's what we've seen in this country.
	They've risen up and said enough.
	I hope they do in Britain.
	Well, it's up to the people of the UK as it was up to the people of America just a scant 16 days ago.
	We're talking to the senior national security analyst for Newsmax, former cabinet member in the first Trump administration, the Honorable Robert Wilkie.
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	972-728-7468, patriotmobile.com, slash G-O-R-K-A. All right, Secretary Wilkie, we have the names coming thick and fast for Cabinet members, for staffers inside the White House.
	We have a name for the Secretary of Defense.
	You have worked very closely on Capitol Hill, still with the Senate.
	What is your prognostication for this?
	Recess?
	Appointments?
	Is it going to go that far?
	Is there going to be any kind of wiggle room?
	Where are we with relations between the upper house and the president?
	Yeah, I don't know that either side is fully engaged on this, because what you have are constitutional prerogatives for both sides.
	So that will play out in the next few days.
	Mr.
	Thune will want to, I'll just say it, he'll want to restore regular order, which are hearings, committee votes, and then floor votes.
	The one thing that he has that his predecessors for the most part did not have, I think they ended up getting it in the The second half of the first...
	No, they did.
	They had it in the first Trump term, that the Democrats can't filibuster cabinet nominations.
	You can filibuster anything below that, but Supreme Court nominees, cabinet secretaries, you can't filibuster.
	So that's off the table.
	And now it's going to be a discussion amongst Republicans.
	And, you know, they'll have 53 because it's pretty clear that Casey is done in Pennsylvania.
	Thank goodness.
	Of course, most people didn't even know he was there.
	So you'll have 53.
	And look, that means you can't lose four.
	So we have not unleashed the nominees on the Senate.
	They're going to go home.
	They'll probably go home tomorrow or Thursday because next week is Thanksgiving.
	And then they're in for a rump session in December.
	The hearings will probably begin that first full week of January.
	So the way it works is you have the hearings with the new Congress.
	And when the president is going to the lunch after the inauguration in Statuary Hall, the Senate will vote on the nominees and present him with the commissions and he'll sign them in the president's room off of the Senate floor when he gets them.
	Usually by the end of the First full day of an administration, which would be that Tuesday, since the 20th is a Monday, they'll have them all done.
	Now, whether or not Major Hegseth is confirmed, there is no one who knows that building better.
	Right.
	And you actually turned around a disastrous department, Veterans Affairs.
	What were the percentages in terms of popularity when you came in?
	Right.
	It was at 37 percent, according to CNN, and we left with it at 91 percent.
	Okay.
	So no one better to ask.
	Whoever the new Secretary of Defense is, would you tell us what now is the biggest, heaviest lift for the person who bears that title?
	I believe it is restoring a sense of American exceptionalism.
	It's rhetorical, spiritual.
	You are in a unique position.
	You have a unique profession.
	This is a profession of arms.
	It is not a jobs program.
	You are standing in ranks with thousands of years of tradition.
	And our goal is to deter bad actors.
	And win wars if that fails.
	And win wars if we have to.
	And in order to do that, we must prepare you.
	So that you have a level of lethality that not only inflicts maximum damage, trained to a level of lethality, that inflicts maximum damage on the enemy but does everything it can for us to get you in and out and back home as quickly as we can.
	And that spiritual correction...
	The beginning of that can be very rapid and snowball.
	It will come for the president.
	If the leadership communicates.
	Well, they won't have an alternative.
	Look, I can't tell you what number it will be, but there will be an executive order from the president, from the White House, that eliminates DE&I programs across the government.
	Now, there would be corresponding secretarial directives that would implement that on a department-wide level.
	But look, let's get that out of the way real fast.
	We're not going to spend the first 30 minutes of a recruit's time in basic training teaching him to unlearn everything he's learned in his community by relearning the use of pronouns.
	How important are the symbolic things?
	As I said last time you were here, I went back to Fort Bragg for a retirement ceremony, and it wasn't just the base name that had been changed.
	They changed the street names.
	The street names.
	Changing those back in the first week seems small but could be significant.
	Well, it's significant because it's a matter that is bigger than the military.
	You know, I spent three years trying to keep Nancy Pelosi from ripping Abraham Lincoln's words off of VA hospitals because the poor, great emancipator had the temerity not to mention 21st century so-called progressive pressure groups in a speech that he gave in March of 1865.
	But the Confederacy has always been the low-hanging fruit.
	They're really after Jefferson and Washington and Madison.
	As the President warned us.
	As he said.
	I mean, there was a commission last year chaired by the mayor of the District of Columbia where they concluded they want to remove the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial.
	Theodore Roosevelt has come down in New York.
	In Elizabeth Warren's own Boston Common, Abraham Lincoln's been ripped down.
	So that's what we're about.
	We're about the very meaning of America.
	And if you can't celebrate our history, what's worth defending?
	Well, we have an opportunity.
	We have two years, four years.
	Well, the next election is two years, but four years to rebuild everything that has been torn asunder.
	And it would be wonderful to see Secretary Wilkie a seminal part of that.
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	SebGorkaStore.com Secretary Wilkie, I should have done this at the beginning, but there's so many strategic things we have to talk about with regards to January the 20th.
	But your reaction to these unconfirmed reports that the outgoing lame duck president told the Ukrainians they could use U.S. missiles deep in Russian territory, is this just...
	Reckless insanity?
	Well, it's from the addled minds of the Biden national security team in the sense that the time for this was at the beginning.
	Remember what Donald Trump did.
	He inherited a situation where Putin had gobbled up 20% of Ukraine.
	Obama-Biden sent the Ukrainians helmets and meals ready to eat.
	Donald Trump sent them precision-guided munitions and artillery shells to fight and deter Russians.
	These kinds of weapons were given to the Ukrainians by Donald Trump.
	And nobody invaded.
	And nobody invaded.
	So what did Joe Biden do as soon as he came in?
	Back came the meals ready to eat.
	Back came the helmets.
	Back came the blankets.
	Weakness in the face of our enemies.
	I mean, these are people—think about it.
	If you can't defend us rhetorically, how are you going to defend us kinetically?
	If you don't love America, it's very hard to fight for America.
	Putin figured that out.
	Right away.
	And as a good gangster, he struck where he saw weakness.
	Putin knows what he's up against.
	But I do think, and I'm not speaking officially for the president, that he will make that call and say you either stop or he gets everything he wants.
	And don't listen to the nonsense that the press is salivating over that Putin is changing his nuclear doctrine.
	Every red line he's drawn, Ukraine has blown through it.
	I'm out of time.
	I have a minute left.
	You have served with distinction and honor in two of our service branches at the cabinet level, turned around the Veterans Affairs Administration.
	We have lots of listeners in the military.
	What is your message to those who are still inside but have lost faith?
	What is your message to them for the next 61 days?
	Same message Ronald Reagan gave them in 1980.
	It's morning in America.
	It's coming.
	You represent the greatest force for peace in the history of the world.
	You have done more to bring peace to the world than any other force in history.
	We are going to return the primacy of the American soldier in the minds of the American people in terms of its value and what it means for Americans to look up to those who serve.
	Back to where they were, back to where they should be.
	Absolutely.
	We've been talking to the distinguished fellow of the America First Policy Institute, the Honorable Former Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Robert Wilkie.
	This has been America First, a one-on-one.
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