- The break actually came very early on They didn't run a process.
They made an excuse of $317 million in the kitty.
They kept the same campaign manager and said, we will anoint this faulted, broken candidate who was inconsequential in her vice presidency, lost in 2019, as you detailed, complete loser in 2020, never could articulate anything.
Had no compassion for people.
And her own advocates, let's not forget this.
I remember the minute this happened.
I was in Europe.
She went on to The View.
All those women wanted her to win.
They threw her a softball.
They threw her a second softball.
She was so weak as a candidate, she couldn't even answer that she would do something different.
It ricocheted around the world.
She was finished.
They will never do that again.
Why is it always the foreigners and the immigrants?
I mean, seriously, from Alexis to Tocqueville to Mr. Wonderful.
You know him from that Shark Tank show, Kevin O'Leary.
You may think he's an American.
He's not.
He's a Canuckian.
Sorry.
He's a Canadian.
And he understands what the Democrats got wrong.
Uh, why don't the Democrats understand?
Well, maybe because they just don't understand how corrupt they look to the whole world.
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But there are those who are born here who get it as well.
He goes into the lion's den nearly every single day.
He's our good friend.
He's a GOP strategist who has the wrong skin color because the left doesn't allow you to be black and a conservative.
Remember what Joe Biden did?
To Clarence Thomas when he dared to be a conservative nominee to the highest court in the land, a court that today I do believe is going to decide about the transgender lunacy that is mutilating children across the nation.
Yes, if you don't believe me, look it up.
Look at what Boston Children's Hospital has been doing amongst others to perfectly healthy children in the name of inclusivity and gender affirmation.
In a past era, Those doctors would have been executed like we did to those death camp doctors of the Nazi regime.
But, hey, that's left for you today.
Our friend, Sir Michael Singleton, with regards to what the current incumbent, who's still hiding out in Africa, did for his criminal son...
Well, he read the right act also on CNN. God bless you, Michael.
At least he sees things a little bit more clearly than the Democrats at the table do.
Cut 14. For three and a half, almost four years now, I've heard repeatedly by Democrats, individuals at the White House, that that's essentially undermining our justice system.
That's essentially undermining the norms of our country.
And here you have the sitting president going after his own Justice Department saying, well, these charges will not have been brought because his son's last name happened to be Biden.
Now, look, I wrote an opinion piece at the time, Anderson, disagreeing with the The case as it pertains to the firearm issue.
I have a host of issues that have been a firearms guy myself, but there is a lot of precedent with other individuals, particularly of color, being charged with the same crime.
Hunter Biden isn't somehow absolved or special because he's the president's son, so I think that's complete nonsense.
On the tax charge, I would argue there are a whole host of other individuals that have had to deal with other issues very similar, such as Wesley Snipes, a known actor who actually had to go to prison.
He didn't get a pardon.
And so there's a ton of hypocrisy here from my perspective as a conservative.
It's the perpetual line over and over and over again.
It's the, I am somehow morally superior to Trump or to Republicans, and yet you do the same thing.
You make the same argument.
You're not superior at all.
No, you're not.
Hey, John, would you play that as B-roll?
And when you've got all the faces up, would you just freeze it?
Because I've got to ask Jeff something.
Jeff, you made a comment.
Sorry, I know you're fielding calls.
The number is 833-333-Gawker.
That's 833-334-6752.
We'll play it later in the hour, but you made a fascinating comment about, what's his name, Skeletor?
Carville.
About Carville slamming one of the presidents.
Oh, good.
Hang on.
So...
You made this comment about Carville backpedaling after he smeared Pam Bondi.
And then I look at that clip of Mr. Wonderful just taking it to the lunatics at CNN. I see Shermichael and I look at these faces.
I mean, look at them.
Look at Caitlyn.
She looks like she's constipated.
Is that tube out with the glasses there?
That's Axelrod, right?
And tube out.
They don't look really happy.
And I just want to...
Is it possible that they kind of lost their mojo?
I mean, we're a month.
We're 30 days since the election.
I don't want to get too optimistic, but is the left losing it, Jeff?
I told you it sounds like they've been beaten down a little bit.
First of all, there's only one conservative there, too.
Then you've got four liberals to the left of them, and they still let them go.
Right, because they never used to let people like Shermichael or O'Leary go and just hammer them.
Yeah, and this is five people for a nine-minute segment, too.
So, is this a temporary thing, or has President Trump broken them?
There are certain times they are very beaten down.
I can tell this.
They just don't have that fight left in them as much as they used to.
Is this a big deal or not?
Well, you even noticed it, even the fake ones.
Remember Scaramucci?
You said that about him yesterday.
Yes!
No energy!
They've all lost something.
Can we just focus on Caitlin?
What is wrong with...
A, she looks like a guy.
I don't want to take her gender into whatever.
I mean, that would be just wrong of me.
But what...
She just does not look happy.
No, she looks like Dylan Mulvaney.
She does.
Yes!
Oh my gosh, that's it!
Dylan Mulvaney.
Is it?
I need to know if Dylan Mulvaney and Caitlin Collins have ever been in a room at the same time.
Because I'm not sure!
And on that issue, the next thing...
So this is just...
The piece de resistance.
They lost in large part because of the lunacy of the transgender radicals.
And 30 days later, what are they?
Platforming with Jake Tapper on CNN again.
Allegedly, this is the ACLU lawyer.
Who's actually a woman with a moustache.
I'm not kidding, okay?
This is the lawyer who's arguing in front of the Supreme Court today.
If you're not watching, I think you're gonna get it from the pitch of the voice.
This isn't really a man.
But this is the insanity.
They have no conceptualization of how they look from the outside to normal people.
For those only on the radio.
Let me set this up.
CNN, Jake Tapper, talking to the woman dressed like a man full of fake testosterone who has a very thin, wispy mustache.
Play Cut 16. Adolescents, these are not doctors being forced to provide this medication.
These are doctors who are wanting to treat their patients in the best way that they know how, based on the best available evidence to us.
And these are young people who may have known since they were two years old exactly who they are, who suffered for six, seven years before they had any relief.
And what's happening here, it's not the kids who are consenting to this treatment, it's the parents.
Hey, Jeff, you've got two small kids.
Have you ever had those parties with the helium balloons?
Have you ever, like, inhaled the helium to talk like that guy, that girl?
It sounds like helium, doesn't it?
Exactly.
I love that that's the spokesperson.
That's really going to help your cause.
Absolutely.
And, John, I'd like you, as a medical professional, To weigh in again, as you did before we started the show, this comment that two-year-olds who know that they're in the wrong gender.
I mean, that sells it for you, right, as an American voter?
Oh, absolutely.
All two-year-olds know exactly who they are.
Yeah, because what did Jeff say?
His two-year-old thought he wanted to be a dinosaur, right?
No, that was at four.
Oh, four.
And did you go through the dinosaur surgery?
No, that was on his sign in preschool.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
And his was a dinosaur.
Did you do the dinosaur surgery?
No, I'm waiting on the Supreme Court decision.
Wise man.
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Hello, Mr. Guest Host.
How we doing?
Oh, yeah.
Missing the party.
I don't care.
So what was the occasion for your cavalry mounted Jaguar?
It was a buddy's birthday, and it was close to my birthday, and Sam took me up into Winchester, where he lives, and there's a guy who has a ton of civil...
Because Winchester, what, changed hands at 20 times?
Right.
So he's got swords, sabers, bullets, everything.
And so she bought me an 1864 cavalry saber.
Before you were?
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, so it's legit.
Lucky man.
Lucky man.
Yeah, it's a gorgeous sword.
And then I got a buddy who's an authenticist.
I sharpened it.
It was, you know how some of the cavalry sabers, they don't want them sharpened because it's a beating stick.
You don't want it to stick in the bone.
I took a fucking angle or grinder to it and sharpened it because I want a sword.
If I've got to cut something, I'm not a cavalryman.
I told him that.
I'm like, dude, I bought it for me.
You know one of the most scariest things in my life ever?
It was when we protested.
So the former communists won the election in Hungary in 2000 or 2001. And it was all rigged.
So there were huge protests for weeks on end.
And they were having an anniversary for the 56th revolution.
And they had a T-55 tank downtown.
And one of these old tankers, they left fuel in it and a battery.
Holy shit.
And one of the rioters...
He killdozered it?
He started it up.
And what was the response?
I tell you, I've done some stuff in my life, but I was there with my best friend in the melee.
And they deployed the horse police.
Dude, when you're on a sidewalk, and you're jammed in, and the horse, and they have sabers, they're blunt sabers, right?
And they come charging at you down the side.
Dude, there's scary stuff, but a horse coming at you with a dude with a sabre?
Spider-Man up the building.
Dr. G, I have those images that you sent me.
Do you want to put that up?
So this is the first one that you sent me?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm going to mention this thing that you sent me, Jim.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
And then...
We'll get to that later.
We'll get to that later.
And is this good for Jim's Chiron?
Yeah, World Strap.
Yeah, that's good.
That's good.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Good.
And you've got some b-roll of Hexeth, right?
Yeah, did you want that?
For this one, I have a b-roll in cash.
Yeah, this one.
Just don't use that picture of his kids in the ice cream-looking things with the bow ties.
I look at that, I'm like, dude, they're too old for that, man.
You gotta stop that when they're toddlers.
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I don't know who invited him back in the studio because he was guest hosting me for last week.
And he took the feed off my desk.
He rearranged the toys behind me, lowered my microphone.
I don't know who.
He must be some kind of Green Beret who just likes to break stuff.
Jim Hansen, welcome back in studio.
I forgot about moving your stuff in the back.
What the heck?
You moved K9. They stopped watching.
And you guys forgot to change the combination on the door.
I can get in any time.
What is with rearranging my toys?
It was to make my hair look better.
All right, he's in studio, very graciously came in because we need some fire support for a warrior who has been chosen by President Trump to run the five-sided playpen and get it back to one thing and one thing alone, combat effectiveness.
Pete Hegseth's mother was on morning television early today to talk about a letter she wrote that was used against her son and she told the truth.
About the mainstream lying legacy prostitute media that is the New York Times amongst others.
Here's Penelope Hegseth, cut one.
What's your message to the New York Times?
I would say I don't think the way you operate is, it feels almost criminal when reporters call you and threaten you.
I don't think a lot of people know that's the way they operate.
And they are in it for the commission, for the money.
And they don't care who they hurt, families, children.
And I just, I don't believe that that is the right way to do things.
Do you think that's just the way they try to get the story?
Oh, of course.
It's their job.
But I can take the opposite view.
I can take the high road.
I can take the belief in good and the good in people.
And will we be persecuted?
Will we suffer in life?
Yes, sure, we will.
But I know in whom I believe.
I believe in God.
I believe in Pete.
I believe in my family, my husband.
I believe in God.
I believe in my family, my husband, and Pete, my son.
Jim, it's kind of difficult for me to deal with this properly, and I've got a great question, line five from our regular Randy says, what's the strategy to help get Pete confirmed?
I don't want to be cynical, but I have so been through this.
It's like, screw you guys.
You come after me.
You come after my wife.
The people who wrote smear articles about my 18-year-old son when I worked in the White House eight years ago.
I'm like, I'd laugh at these people.
They're punks.
I'm getting very close to breaking the communications regulations here.
It's like, screw them.
I'm just not interested.
But you know how to run campaigns, how to run information campaigns.
What's the right way to handle this?
What should the president do?
What should Pete do?
What should we do?
Because we voted for disruptors, Jim.
Well, you need to understand that the senators who are going to vote to confirm him, and I believe he'll be confirmed.
I bet there'll be three.
I bet it's going to be Murkowski, Collins, and McConnell.
And then the 51. The holdouts.
Yeah.
And they'll let them vote as the conscience of the Senate.
And then they'll vote to confirm him because they don't want this fight because, like you said, America wants Pete Hegseth as their next sex death.
But I don't want to see the Gates scenario.
Right.
Gates would have been superb because like me, like the president, he's been through the ringer.
He knows what has to change in DC, at the DOJ. So how do we prevent Pete from caving or the president saying, OK, Pete, I'm going to go with somebody else?
I don't think Pete's going to cave.
So that's one thing we can count on.
He can take it.
He can take the heat.
So they'll go ahead and attack him.
They'll do what they can do.
And they keep running into, every time they smear him, reality bites and the truth comes out and all of a sudden it's just garbage.
Well, let's talk about that because you sent me a tweet just moments ago.
We've got the letter up here.
So now they're saying that Pete Hegseth has a drink issue and arrived to Fox and Friends in the morning, you know, inebriated.
There's this letter from the charity Concerned Veterans for America that just blasts these accusations.
His Fox colleagues are saying, and then Jeff, you said something about morning television and having a drink problem.
What did you say, Jeff?
It's impossible to do that, being drunk still.
Yeah, and for people not notice.
So are you shocked by how filthy this has already become in the last three weeks?
Not even in the slightest.
I mean, they're throwing everything they can out there because the accusation gets a million views, the retraction gets 10,000.
So the smear goes out, they do what they do.
The thing is, though, they found this letter from 2016. He was supposedly Malfeasant and doing bad things fiscally and running a frat house with CERN Vets for America.
And then in 2016, this letter from one of the trustees was a response to the first person who made that accusation saying, no, we and Pete have different views of the future of the organization.
He wants to be on Fox.
We're going our separate ways.
It's an amicable break.
So as every one of these comes up, it turns to garbage.
We need to put the pressure on the senators publicly, letting them know that it's not a free ride.
If you attack the president and our man, Pete Hegseth, we will come for you the next time you think you're going to get re-elected.
And it may not happen.
So they used this email, they leaked this email from Pete's mother, which was critical of Pete.
But of course, what did they leave out?
What she did two hours later.
And here's the full story from Penelope Hexeth this morning on Breakfast Television.
Cut to...
I wrote that out of love and about two hours later I retracted it with an apology email but nobody's seen that so it was it was a difficult time I want to say something about the media and part of today is to discredit the media and how they operate when they contact you I let a few phone calls go but then they call you and say they threaten you That's the first thing they do.
They say, unless you make a statement, we will publish it as is.
And I think that's a despicable way to treat anyone.
Threats are dangerous and they're hard on families.
I just want to back up what she said, you know, because I get this all the time from the scum at Politico and elsewhere.
They say, we are writing this article about you and you must respond by 3 p.m.
today.
It's like, yeah, take a long jump off a short pier.
I mean, it's what I always say to them.
I don't speak to prostitutes for the Democrat Party.
You've got to treat them for what they are, don't you, Jim?
They're vermin.
They're yapping jackals.
And I love the fact that they usually print your statements that you give because you give such flowery ones.
It's perfect.
That's the way to treat them.
They're stunning.
I've got time for nothing else.
Call it like it is.
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Think of like three times my mom ever got mad at me.
You know, and actually was that abrupt with me.
I can remember to this day when my father once got really angry at me, and he took his belt out of his belt loops, and then that's when it ended.
He was like, I got it!
I got it, Dad.
But it kind of just burns into your cerebellum.
All right, let's stay on this topic of how we can help Pete out.
There's a lot to talk about.
Good, good.
I think it's funny.
Sorry, what?
Sean Davis keeps thinking it's Joni Ernst running a...
Well, this is the thing, that she wants the position.
She was never going to get it, and now she's definitely not going to get it, so what's your game here, you know?
Well, it's just arrogance.
She needs to come out.
She's the one who will turn it.
When Joni Ernst goes ahead and says, I don't see any reason not to back him.
Oh, that's interesting.
Because she's been the one.
Yeah, I think they know that, too.
Okay.
Well, look, I've said it about, I mean, we only let, like, two or three senators on this show, and I think we've got, who have we got later today?
We've got Turboville.
They're just so full of themselves.
All of them think they're going to be president.
Greatest deliberative body.
No, but all of them think they're going to be president.
It's like, no, there's a hundred of you.
It's not happening, dude.
Right.
Did we figure out how they got that email?
How they got the email?
No.
It wouldn't surprise me if the guy sent it himself since he was back in Pete's play.
Sorry, Jeff?
She said someone was copied on it.
But was it blocked out?
Who was CC'd?
Yeah, she said I'm not going to get into who.
Oh, she said that?
Yeah.
Did you watch the whole interview?
Yeah.
Nice photograph, dude.
That is so good.
That's excellent.
Got to post that.
My guess is it was the ex-wife, and the mother liked the ex-wife, was trying to patch things up for them.
You know what I mean?
She's trying to intermediate.
What did you just text about Megyn Kelly?
Oh, he went on Megyn Kelly.
Yeah, just now.
Ooh.
Yes, totally.
It's worth talking about.
There's a couple of things he said.
He said if...
No, get him for this show, Jeff.
All right.
And can you get...
Go through who?
Him or the...
No, I'll go through him.
I'll text him now, but can you get anything from the Meghan interview?
Yeah.
There's a clip where he says he won't drink if he's sec-deaf.
He won't touch a drop because this is the most important deployment of his career.
All right.
What have we got here?
We've got my pillow.
I'll do my pillow at the top, and then I'll tee up cut three, the Pete Hegseth cut.
But you've got to pot it up, guys.
All right?
Jeff, was that today or yesterday?
Today, right?
It looks like it because I'm just seeing clips.
Yeah.
It just dropped on YouTube.
Did he promise not to go to the hospital for a week and not tell anyone?
It's a low bar to be better than Austin.
Yeah.
Yeah, let's mention that as well.
Oh, and Sean Davis said he'd come on the show...
Oh, where's Jeff?
All right.
Just walked out.
Okay.
Sean's got a source who's feeding him stuff about Ernst, so... ... so... ... ... ... ...
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President Trump stands by him.
Here was Pete Hexeth walking around the corridors of Congress early today with his wife, being doorstepped by a quote unquote journalist.
Have you had any conversations with the president left about the ruling to do with Governor DeSantis?
I spoke to the president-elect this morning.
He said, keep going, keep fighting.
Behind you all the way.
You're in this all the way.
Why would I back down?
I'm always here for the war fighters.
This person asked me for me.
You're not withdrawing your name from consideration, just to be clear.
I'm meeting all day with senators.
I know your mom was just on Fox.
She says that you are a change.
I'm not backing down.
I'm a warrior.
I'm here for the warriors.
Give me your take on all of this and how we can help Pete, because there's a kind of seeming dichotomy with President's announcements today and Kash Patel.
What was it?
He's sending a very clear message.
I'm bringing the band back together.
I don't care what the establishment says, which should mean we just bulldoze people like Pete through the system.
And if we give in, come on, Matt Gaetz got run out.
Give in one more time and they're going to try and push everybody out.
So it's time to draw the line.
And Pete Heggs deserves it.
He deserves a job.
He's earned it.
He's got the president's trust.
He's got the trust of the American people.
So do it the old-fashioned way.
Call out your senators online.
Call their offices.
Do all the same things.
And call the ones who are at issue.
Call the ones who are wavering.
So Murkowski, McConnell, who do we have to...
Thune has said he's maybe.
Joni Ernst needs convincing.
Let's talk about Joni Ernst.
So our friend, Sean Davis, there are these stories floating around that Joni Ernst Wants to have the sec-deaf position.
How insane is it that your name can be associated with torpedoing the president's choice, and you think you're going to step into that vacuum that you sabotage?
She may have had a shot at this prior to President Trump announcing Pete Hegsits' pick.
But once that happens, if you start backstabbing his pick, you know you're not getting it.
You're never going to get it.
Trump hates disloyalty more than anything else.
Yes.
So back his play or get out of the way, but don't play games.
So if she is, I hope not.
He said Pete's going to go sit down with her.
He's going to talk to her about women in combat.
He's going to talk to her about the rest of this stuff.
Which allegedly is her thing, right?
That his stance is you can have women in the military, but it is not good for combat effectiveness to have them in the battlefield.
Yeah, and she's got a point.
My wife, combat vet, paratrooper, she disagrees with Pete, but she backs Pete because she knows he'll get a fair shake and he'll make a decision based on the facts.
Well, because he's the president's choice.
And he's the man for the job.
So I think he'll be able to convince Joni Ernst.
I think she should come out and go ahead and put an end to this.
If she comes out and says, I back Pete, it's over.
He's in.
We have a whole 63 seconds left beyond Pete Hegseth.
What is the modus operandi?
What is the concept of operations for the next four years, Jim Hansen?
Burn it down and build a better one.
That's the whole thing.
We've got the double whammy now.
We've got Trump with the band back together better than ever.
And we've got Doge with Elon and Vivek who should scare the crap out of any.
It should scare the crap out of people wasting money in government.
And it should scare the crap out of any senators or anyone else who want to get in the way because there's money to back primaries against them if they get out of hand.
I'm going to go one better.
It's a quadruple whammy.
It's the three arms, right?
We've got the Senate, the House, the White House.
We've got the Electoral College.
We've got the popular vote.
I'm going to have to go for a quintuple whammy.
And we've got...
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The Doge as well.
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It's fascinating.
Just got the alert on my phone.
Pete Hegseth has given an interview with Megyn Kelly.
So, yeah, not standing down, leaning in.
Let's try and get Pete on the show tomorrow.
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We were there...
At Butler, for the president, returning to the scene of the crime, where he was shot in the head by a wannabe assassin's bullet.
And as we were paying our respects to the man who was killed that day, of course, that is Chief Cory Comparator, A beautiful voice was heard, echoing through the rally, across the horizon.
And here is just a little excerpt.
Cut 11. A
beautiful tribute, Ave Maria, as we had Chief Comperatore's firefighter jacket there, his helmet in the stands at the location where he was shot, and I'm delighted to be Hosting right now the man who sang that beautiful rendition.
He says the guy in Karate Kid got it wrong with the pronunciation.
He is America's tenor, Cristia Famacchio.
Welcome to America First.
Thank you so much for having me.
It's a pleasure to be here.
Well, I just want to thank you for that beautiful job you did that day in Butler.
Can I ask you a strange question?
Sure.
You've sung your America's Tenor in all kinds of locales.
Is it very different to not be in a concert hall, in an opera space, as opposed to where you were?
Because I was there four hours early.
I saw these hordes of patriots arrive before the president came on stage.
Literally, as far as the eye could see, outside the rally, to the horizon, were patriots.
How does that affect your performance?
Is it just, oh, I'm just singing again?
Or is it a little bit different for you, Christopher?
Well, there are a few different dimensions to it.
First and foremost, any time that I have the privilege to perform at that kind of a solemn occasion, it's really a special occurrence and something I take very seriously.
The more people that are present, of course, you're aware of that.
At the end of the day, whether it's one person or one million people, the onus on me to share whatever it is that God has given me, you know, that burden remains the same.
And I try to put all of my heart and soul into the performance.
And specifically when I'm doing things for this president, of course, there's an added dimension of spontaneity to it because Really, you never quite know what he might be inspired to ask you to do at the 11th hour.
And in this case, the idea to have me perform the Ave Maria as part of the dedication that they had planned was essentially last minute.
It was 15 minutes before I went on stage that the president directly asked me to do this.
We had to make it happen on the fly and be very flexible in order to accommodate his flashes of inspiration.
It was a real privilege to be able to do that as well.
How did you originally connect with President Trump, Christopher?
Well, originally it was, I think it was Elton John who had cancelled on New Year's Eve from 2014 going into 2015. And President always has some kind of big name, perform a few songs in the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago.
And so at the last minute...
One of the members suggested me at that time, a relatively unknown figure.
And so it was literally 9 o'clock at night on December 30th, and I received a phone call while I was walking in Manhattan, and they said, Christopher, we need you to book the earliest flight possible tomorrow morning to Palm Beach, and you're going to sing for Donald Trump for his New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago.
And after that, we've had a growing relationship, and it really...
I went to a different level when I had the solemn privilege, again, of performing for President Trump's brother's funeral, Robert, at the White House in August of 2020. And it was a long funeral, two and a half hours.
I performed ten songs at that funeral.
And the fifth, right in the middle of the program, was Our Lord's Prayer.
And the president jumped out of his seat, gave me a standing ovation in the middle of that very solemn occasion.
At the funeral.
And it was after that that he called me over and he was so gracious to even mention my name in the same breath as Maestro Luciano Poverotti, who had been a friend of his.
And he asked me which of the two of us I thought were better.
Of course, the answer to that question is Luciano Poverotti.
That's such a Trump question.
I can so see him asking, who's better, you or Pavarotti?
We're out of time for the radio broadcast.
I've got one more question to ask you for our Rumble viewers.
Please stay on the line.
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He's America's tenor.
We'll continue in the break.
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We've got a minute.
What's it been like for you professionally to be associated with President Trump and do you care what the left does to you?
It has been, you know, there have been difficulties associated with that.
But honestly, I had to come to the conclusion that I really don't want to share the stage with anybody that would persecute somebody because of their values and their willingness to stand up for their values.
And so I love President Trump and everything he stands for.
And it's my intention to serve as I love it.
Let's talk separately.
You've got my cell phone.
Let's talk about that separately offline, okay?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
God bless.
Thank you, Christopher.
Thank you so much.
Guys, can you...
Thank you.
Thank you.
Making sense out of today's nonsense.
Here's Dr. Sebastian Gorka.
Can we do it?
Can we squeeze in three calls in three minutes and 32 seconds?
We'll give it a try.
I think we answered his question already, but let's see if he's satisfied.
Randy Knoxville!
Hey, Dr. Gorka.
Yeah, you answered my question.
It was good you and Mr. Handsome, Green Beret.
I appreciate it.
I do worry about Lindsey Graham.
He's the most aggravating reporter.
We've got to put the pressure on all the senators, especially the rhinos.
We need Pete because he's the president's choice.
Call your senator today, tomorrow, and the day after.
Thank you, Randy.
Let's go to Guy in Sacramento.
Hey, Seb.
Merry Christmas and congratulations on your new gig.
Thank you, buddy.
Gotta be quick.
What's the question?
What's the comment?
Listen, I got three quick ones.
No, you don't have three quick ones.
You got one, dude.
Okay, I got one.
How about this?
Remember back in the 80s, I believe it was, when North Korea was duplicating our hundreds and we made the new hundreds?
Yes.
But we never recalled none of the old ones.
If we recall all the old money and put out new hundreds, that would save this country trillions of dollars.
You could do that in six months.
Yeah, I'm not sure it would save us trillions, but thank you, Guy.
Yes, when North Carolina was forging our $100 bills, we had to do something about it.
Thank you, thank you.
And let's go to Judy in Brooklyn.
Listen.
No, you listen.
This is my radio show.
Go ahead.
Yeah, I know, but I'm a caller, okay, and I'm very loyal.
You know that.
Yes, I know.
Could you get President Trump to make this huge bonfire where we can burn all the preschool pornographic educational books, the CRT, Wokeism, 1619 Projects, Please let's reintroduce 1776. You get the picture.
I'm not sure book burning is exactly the right kind of image we want to propagate because you know that's what Hitler and the fascists did.
It's not about banning books and burning them.
It's about not having them read to our children in school, Judy.
You do understand there is a scintilla of difference there.
They're garbage.
They're garbage.
Yeah, they're garbage, but we don't burn books, okay?
Because we do have a First Amendment.
The thing is we protect children from the perversity in those books.
There is a difference.
I'm sure you agree.
You know who the books were done?
By Garland's son-in-law and daughter.
To the millions and millions of dollars.
And we're surprised?
Juan Murchan's daughter made tens of millions of dollars off her daddy persecuting President Trump in a New York court.
They're all filth.
You know that, Judy, right?
I think it would be so symbolic to burn those books.
They belong to you.
Judy, are you listening to me?
Okay?
We don't burn books.
We just don't have them on the bookshelves in children's libraries, and we don't set them in the curricula in high schools and junior schools and pre-K. But thank you, Judy.
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Where did that hour go?
That's crazy.
It is a president's prerogative.
You know, people can say, why are you doing that?
But that's what presidents do every time.
They do it every time.
Thank you.
What we send them to do, what we ask them to do, tour after tour after tour after tour.
Are we equipping them properly?
Are they mentally prepared?
Are we helping them on the way back?
How are they transitioning?
Were they used properly?
I can speak to that because I've lived it.
Not from a general's perspective, not from an air-conditioned office in Washington, D.C., or from a think tank.
from dusty boots and pulling triggers with bullets whizzing by, and you're wondering whether you're ever coming home.
Thank you.
Yes, Bolton.
Do you agree with some of your Democrat colleagues to say that President Biden's pardon of Hunter Biden was wrong or unwise or puts personal interest ahead of duty?
I got nothing for you on that.
What?
Sorry, Chuck Schumer, you got nothing for you on that?
Is that how the most senior Democrat in the upper house of Congress speaks?
I wonder why you've got nothing for you on that and why Joe Biden's still hiding in Africa.
Does he still think Angola is a city?
We'll never know.
We're going to continue the topic of the president's nominees.
He's out there.
Fight, fight, fight!
I like to see this just like Tom Homan.
We want to see Pete Hexeth, Cash Patel, Tom Homan, Radcliffe, all of them coming out of the four set for the next seven weeks.
Just released this interview with Megyn Kelly.
Here's a clip from Pete Hexeth.
But I'm also the right guy to be in the Pentagon to understand what our young water fighters are going through.
What we send them to do, what we ask them to do, tour after tour after tour after tour.
Are we equipping them properly?
Are they mentally prepared?
Are we helping them on the way back?
How are they transitioning?
Were they used properly?
I can speak to that because I've lived it.
Not from a general's perspective, not from an air-conditioned office in Washington, D.C., or from a think tank.
From dusty boots and pulling triggers with bullets whizzing by, and you're wondering whether you're ever coming home.
He is the right man for the job, and more importantly than that, he is the choice of a man who just broke his incumbency record of 74 million.
President Trump's incoming Secretary of Defense, let's make it happen.
Let's talk about all of this and what has occurred in the last 30 days with our good friend.
She's not coming in by video because the Christmas party, three weeks early at KRLA. What is going on, Jennifer Horne?
I've got the inside scoop, all of your favorite personalities from AM870 and KKLA, all of our sister stations, all at a holiday luncheon in Pasadena, California.
I've got my red sweater on, the snowflake necklace.
We're filled with holiday cheer around here.
I love it.
I have to say, I haven't mentioned this.
I got a massive box of early Christmas, late, I think it was late, birthday, early Christmas gifts from our favorite Marine, Daryl.
All my science fiction t-shirts and toys.
What a nice guy.
He sent me a card, happy retirement.
And then he crossed off retirement and he said, new gig.
Daryl, you're walking on thin ice, okay?
I got a new gig.
I'm not retiring.
Well, say hello to everybody at the Christmas party, but I'm kind of like, we've just got to go full throttle.
I mean, the fact that today, and I haven't said enough about this, I did a little video before we came on air, the fact that Peter Navarro, who, as he said at the RNC convention in Milwaukee, went to prison so you wouldn't have to, Peter Navarro has been named as Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing to the President today.
Monica Crowley, formerly of the Department of the Treasury, is going to be at the Department of State.
We're getting the band back together, Jen, and this is not the time to go wobbly, and we have to keep the pressure on, especially the rhinos in Congress.
I absolutely, wholeheartedly, 1,010% agree with you.
First of all, I just saw the story come over about Peter Navarro, and there is no one more deserving of that position than Peter Navarro.
He, as you know, because you're his friend, an incredible human, he went through all of this nonsense, and I'm so glad to see that he is back in the White House where he should be with President Trump.
So that's number one.
Number two, this whole nonsense about Pete Hegseth, it's got me going nuts.
First of all, Matt Gaetz stepped aside.
He made the decision to do that.
That's fine.
But we cannot continue to let the left bully people out of the nomination and confirmation process.
And I think it sends a really bad sign if we let this one go.
Yeah.
Pete Hegg said he needs to fight for this.
I hope President Trump fights for it.
It's not that I believe he's the only one to do the job, because I think he's one of the greatest people.
I think it's a great pick from President Trump.
Obviously, there are other great picks that could do the job.
But if you let this one go, it's going to send a message to the left that they can start to bully President Trump in the public eye.
And that is not what we want to do as we want to go in and get to work day one, hit the ground running.
And I think it's just really important to stay and fight on this one.
People have a past.
Everybody without one.
Good for you.
But everybody's got something that they're not probably proud of.
And people change.
People grow.
And sometimes those experiences actually make you a better candidate for whatever job is in front of you.
And I think he deserves a chance.
And I hope that he sticks it out.
Well, so do I. Let's talk about what may be happening on the left, Jen.
The Crypt Keeper Skeletor did something very interesting today.
He tried first to attack our buddy Kash Patel.
This is Cut 8, James Carville.
Play Cut, Cut 8. You know, Cash Patel, his logo is a K and then a dollar sign.
Patel, which has become indicative of something now, isn't it?
I don't know what, but about...
Yeah, he hawks a lot of products.
Some of them are scams.
Yeah, he's a big...
Yeah.
But being a scamster is what they're looking for.
He's accusing Kash Patel of being a scamster.
I don't know if he's actually learned English.
This is the same person who said, with regards to the women who Bill Clinton allegedly raped, that it's amazing what you find when you drag a $100 bill through a trailer park.
But the next cut, Jennifer, is fascinating because Jeff thinks...
This is a sign of the left losing their mojo.
He says something about Pam Bondi, and then at a high speed of knots, high rate of knots, he furiously backpedals.
So again, Skeletor, this time not about cash, but about Pam Bondi cut eight, cut nine.
The new attorney general nominee for designate, I've read somewhere where she's somehow involved in Scientology.
Maybe we ought to get Larry Wright to look into that, who is like the foremost authority on this.
I mean, we're going to get flooded, and I don't know if that's true about Ms. Bondi, but I think I read that, I heard it, but be clear about that.
But it's something that definitely needs to be looked in, and I think it will be looked into.
I don't know about that.
I read that somewhere.
I'm not sure.
Has Skeletor lost his mojo yet?
Did he ever have much mojo?
I mean, the last time I saw him, he was sitting in a dirty cap in front of his liquor cabinet, which looked like it was very well used, by the way.
You know, there's a rule that I'm starting to live by.
If it ticks off James Carville, if it ticks off Adam Schiff...
Hey, don't forget John Bolton!
Bolton, that's where I was going.
He was going to be the finish.
But if it ticks off any of those people, then I think it's a darn good pick.
And...
You know, it's amusing to hear what they're grasping at now.
They're grasping at the Scientology straw.
I mean, come on.
You can do better than that.
If you have real issues with somebody, lay them out.
But they don't.
All they can do is name-call.
They can start all kinds of allegations and false stories.
We just have to keep our eyes focused on the prize.
We just need to keep going.
I mean, Kash Patel, other than you, Seb, literally Kash Patel is the pick for FBI. And the swamp knows that they're toast.
They just, they know.
And so I think this is what they're trying to do, is just anything they can get a hold of.
Maybe it is a meltdown.
That's probably exactly the right way to put it.
And what is the right target for the next couple of months?
Because the left may be losing their mojo, but isn't perhaps the bigger problem the rhinos on Capitol Hill, John?
Yeah, that's one of the things that always starts to bother me when you start to see these senators kind of waffling on the confirmations.
The reason that we have the majority in the Senate right now is because of President Trump and because of the campaign that he won and because of the RNC's great work under the leadership of Laura Trump that we were able to get where we are right now.
So the Senate really does need to get in line.
And it's not about not using the branches of government and all of this.
It's really about allowing a man to choose who he wants to surround himself with letting him have the team that he wants and unless there are very serious concerns Let him get that team in place so that he can get to work and get the job done that he made the promise to do to the American people.
And they overwhelmingly gave him the power to move forward on his agenda.
Yeah, yeah.
The American people have spoken.
It's time for President Trump's team to also get confirmed.
All right, we've got a minute left with Jennifer Horne.
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Is there hot cocoa?
Is there cookies?
Tell us a little thing.
What's going on?
We're actually at the El Cholo Cafe in Pasadena, so it was Mexican food today.
We had enchiladas and tacos and salad, and I think there's cake.
I think I might be missing that, but I don't eat it anyway, because we're doing the My PhD Weight Loss thing.
We can't do cake.
Yeah, but there's been some games and some accomplishments that we've been celebrating.
A lot of attention on my show, The Morning Answer, And there's a lot going on in California.
We are going to be ground zero of the resistance against President Trump.
So conservatives here have to be ready to hold the line.
And that's what we're getting our group of people, our listeners and our friends together to do.
Well, maybe you need another three hours on radio, maybe three to six Eastern.
What do you think, Jen?
I am totally on board.
If you can make it happen, I'm there.
I might know who to talk to.
Let me see what I can work out.
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What's going to happen to Pete Hexeth and everyone else?
Let's talk to Senator Turberville next here on America First.
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I'm curious about the rest of the interview, but that wasn't very high energy from Pete, was it?
It was a long interview, though.
Okay.
Right.
You know why he's doing her shit, too, yeah?
He's appealing to women.
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I think he's a little bit angry, given what he said to me in the break.
And he has every right to be, because there are some people in this stinking cesspit of a city who don't realize what the American people did 30 days ago today.
And we're going to discuss that with one of the few senators we allow on our show.
I don't know whether to call him senator or coach.
He's a great patriot.
Senator Turberville, welcome back to America First.
Merry Christmas, Sebastian.
Yeah, call me coach, please.
That's what everybody calls me up here, other than a lot of other things.
I love that.
I thought you might prefer coach, so let's stick with coach Tommy Turberville, turberville.senate.gov.
Okay, so we've basically been speaking for the last hour and a half on this issue of my friends, Kash Patel, Pete Hexeth.
I want to get you to react to this clip.
I can't think of a better person to be director of the FBI. This is Anderson Cooper on CNN. This is the most dangerous Desperate attempt I have ever seen to try and besmirch somebody who literally has done nothing wrong.
Cut six.
More breaking news tonight in the president-elect's office picks.
This time, Kash Patel, his choice to head the FBI. CNN's Kristen Holmes is in West Palm Beach for more.
What have you learned?
Yeah, Anderson, we are told that Kash Patel was told by the FBI that he had been targeted in an Iranian hack.
Now, this comes from two sources.
One of the sources telling us that they believe that at least some of Patel's communications were compromised.
Unclear how much, unclear how big this hack was, but this is just the latest in a series of complications and a series of hackings that we have seen from foreign governments.
His communications may or may not have been compromised by Iran.
How desperate is the left and the RINOs and the establishment to stop President Trump's choices taking off his coach?
Sebastian, this is a war.
We know that.
We knew it was coming, but we didn't know how weak a lot of the people in Washington DC are.
We better stand up and understand what's going on here.
This is a media attack against President Trump's nominees.
Now, can the rhinos and the Republicans stand up to this media attack?
We better be able to.
You know, I trust President Trump to pick somebody, to vet them.
After he does all that, he sends them to us and says, this is who we want.
This is the person that's going to work with me, and we're going to get this done, no matter what job it is.
It's not our job to continue to say, well, I don't know about, you know, what he did here or there.
It makes no sense, unless all 53 of us vote and send these people to work with Donald Trump, just like the American people said.
So, this is one of the questions I ask the few senators that allow on my show, and don't take this the wrong way, but it's kind of maybe naive on my behalf.
You, Marsha Blackburn, you just sound like normal people, like patriots.
And I gotta ask you, what is it like to be in that building?
It sounds like you have to bang your head against the wall when you meet people who don't understand what's happened in America eight years ago, what happened 30 days ago.
How hard is it for you to just be a citizen politician when you're surrounded by professional politicians, Coach?
Well, you know, I came from a team sport, Sebastian.
I came from football.
When you're hired as a head coach like President Trump was just hired as head coach by 77 million American people, you pick out the people that you work with best to get your game plan to work to win.
These people up here don't understand that.
They think that they have something to do with it.
And they do to a certain point.
They do to a certain point when it comes to doing bills and And doing the budget and all those things.
But they want to get involved in every little faction of what's going on.
And then they're manipulated, and they don't really realize that the media, the left-wing, corrupt criminal media, is manipulating them every single day up here.
And I don't know whether they like it or not, but I tell them like it is.
I said, I'm not playing God here, okay?
President Trump knows what he wants.
I've looked at the...
I've vetted Pete's...
myself.
I've talked to him several times.
I'm full 100%.
Number one, he can do the job.
And number two, if anything happened 25 or 30 or 40 years ago, it's not going to affect what he's going to do for the next four years.
So, you know, a lot of people up here, Sebastian, think that, man, I've been voted as, I'm a United States senator, and I have a rule over this.
No, you don't.
No, you don't.
The American people have a rule over what we do.
And I guarantee you, every senator up here, except for one, was voted on and elected in a red state.
And those people voted for Donald Trump.
So it's time to quit all this and all of us say, listen, we're all going to vote for peak headset.
And if you did that, if they all come out and said that, it'd be over.
The media would go running and try to dig up something else on somebody else.
And try to create some kind of havoc there.
That's all they do.
It's crash and burn up here.
Well, God bless you, Senator, for being so clear and understanding what the American people did 30 days ago.
We've got a minute left.
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In the last 60 seconds we have, Coach, President Trump is going to do what he has been given a mandate to do.
What is your advice right now?
It's great to see Pete in the media again today.
With Megyn Kelly, what do you say to Major Hexeth right now?
Well, just to do what he needs to do.
I mean, he's perfect for the job.
He's a young guy.
He can communicate, Sebastian, with this new military we have.
You know, these young people, they don't want to look up to a four-star general that's 70 years old.
Our recruiting has gone to hell in the handbasket up here because we can't relate.
Now's the time to get this done.
We're not going to have another chance.
I mean, the people up here better understand, if we don't get something done in the next two years, you can sack the bats on this government, especially any kind of capitalism, any kind of defense mechanism that we have to defend the people of this country.
It is over if we don't get it done this time.
Get off your tail and go for Pete Hegseth and President Trump, and let's get this done.
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For Conrad tomorrow.
For Conrad tomorrow.
We already asked him.
He can't do tomorrow.
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
They're trying next week.
No response from Conrad?
Let me check now.
I don't think so.
Not yet.
Do you have his cell?
I just have his email.
I do, but he doesn't text.
Why don't you call him?
Can you call him?
Yeah.
I'll send it to you.
Oh, and I'm going to need you...
Oh, no, what is this?
Is this C? This is C. Can you explain Cup 4 if I tee it up for you?
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What's the right response, Jeff?
Be annoyed.
And fight back.
That could be my text message tone.
Be annoyed.
Jeff just saying.
Be annoyed.
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Because some of these cuts we never need to explain.
We just play them.
But who is Defina Yoran in cut four?
Who is she today?
And what is she bragging about in this clip?
She's the lead prosecutor in the Daniel Penny case.
So the so-called chokehold case, she's the one who's trying to jail this Marine who saved the people on the metro, on the subway, right?
Exactly.
And this is about a case that was in 2019. It's a guy that walked up to a guy and he killed him over $300, murdered him, an 86-year-old man.
Hang on, hang on.
So she's bragging about getting the murderer off?
No, but she had his sentence reduced for what could have been 25 years to life in prison, and she got him to 10 years.
And he's actually eligible for parole in, I think it was 15 months, they said.
Wow.
All right.
John, play it.
Cut four.
A case where the defendant did not intentionally kill the victim.
He went into an ATM on the Upper West Side and tried to rob an individual.
Unfortunately, it was an older individual.
He was 86. And in the course of the robbery, he fell to the ground.
And as a result, he died.
This is, under the law, a felony murder which is akin to intentional murder.
However, when I first got the case, I took the time to learn about the defendant.
I really felt incredibly sorry for him that he had gotten to that point in his life where he felt like there was no other choice but to commit this robbery.
So she feels sorry for the guy who killed an 86-year-old man after he robbed him at an ATM. But Daniel Penny can go to hell, basically, for saving all the people on that subway train.
And if you talk to anybody else, it wasn't a fall, too.
Did you notice how she said that he fell while she was attempting to rob him?
That's really disgusting.
It's going to take a bit to explain it.
Would you send that to our man in Florida?
Because that really makes...
I was angry when I started this segment, and I'm even angrier now.
People need to say, I wonder if Soros funded her campaign as well.
I'm just curious.
Let's go to Philly.
Frank, line three.
Frank, you're up.
Hello?
Yes.
Yeah, I'm here.
Yeah, I'm here.
Hey, we need a list of...
Well, you know who it is.
It's the RINOs.
It's Murkowski.
It's that fake, oh, I'll subpoena them all, Lindsey Graham.
It's Jody Ernst.
You know who it is.
It's Mitch McConnell.
Those are the ones you need to call up.
All right.
Those are the ones that I know.
I just don't think a lot of other people know.
Yeah, but we gave you all the names an hour ago on the show.
I wasn't listening.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, it's the usual suspects, my friend.
It's always the usual suspects.
Right.
I was at Butler too, and that was moving with that guy's song.
Which one?
The first butler or the second one?
The tenor.
The guy, the tenor.
Oh, the second time.
The tribute for Corey.
Yeah, yeah, the second time.
Yeah, I wasn't there for the first.
And I live out by Pittsburgh, not Philly.
So where did you get to?
Because there were so many people.
How close did you get to the stage?
Because it was massive.
I got right up there where that forklift was.
I was right there.
I just couldn't get inside the barricade.
With the massive flag right off the crane.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was beautiful.
Oh, no.
I could see the crane.
No, I was down by the stage.
There was a forklift down there that people were sitting on.
Yep.
Yep.
I remember it well.
That's where I took one of the photographs.
Thank you, Frank.
Thank you.
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Somebody wants to share their personal experience with our amazing friends at the Prison Fellowship.
Carol in Oklahoma, welcome.
Good afternoon, Dr. Gorka.
Thank you for taking my call.
I was listening to Prison Fellowship, which you were talking about.
I was in and out of prison for 10 years as a volunteer with Prison Fellowship.
We used to take Christian programming to the inmates because they're not all staying there.
They're going to come out one day, and they're going to be our neighbors, and we want good neighbors.
So we had an awful good time going in, fellowshipping, talking with them.
And then prison fellowship was part I got involved in, where I was assigning children from the churches to the—I'm sorry, assigning inmates' children to churches in the area.
Hang on, say that again.
So you were accompanying the children of inmates to local services?
No, I was doing prison ministry, Christian prison ministry, in there with the men and women, with the moms and dads.
What about the children?
You mentioned the children.
Then I got into Prison Fellowship's Angel Tree Christmas program, where I was a volunteer area coordinator.
I was in San Antonio, Texas then, so I had Oliveira County All the way up to Dallas-Fort Worth and then down to the valley around Eagle Pass, assigning the children to the churches and then they buy the gifts and take them to the children.
So talk to us about the difference that it makes to have these children of inmates receive something at Christmas through the Prison Fellowship.
Can you explain the impact that has on these families?
Absolutely.
First of all, we take the gifts and some people I've heard say Oh, look, they've got a Mercedes in the garage.
They've got a big mansion they live in.
And I emphasize it's not what they have.
It's what you're taking to them.
You're taking a gift, which is a contact between mom, dad.
Sometimes both parents are in prison.
But the most important thing is you're taking the greatest gift of Christmas.
You're taking Jesus.
You're letting these children know, hey, you'll hear them say, mom, dad's in prison.
My uncle's there.
I'm going there, too.
My brother's already in.
No.
No.
God has a different plan for you.
Hello?
Are you there?
Yes, yes.
So did I hear you correctly, Carol, that these children think that because of where their parents are, that they will by necessity end up incarcerated themselves?
Many of them do, yes.
Wow.
A lot of them come from lower socioeconomics.
Some of them come from families where the parents were gang members.
And, you know, that's just life.
That's the way it's going to be.
And we show them that, no, it's different.
They have a program also where, a mentoring program, where these children that are visited and receive gifts, they can get a man to go with a boy or a woman to go with a girl and mentor them throughout the year by giving them Christmas cards, birthday cards, maybe taking them out to a park, you know, just to keep the comradery going there.
And to be an example different from what they were used to.
How did you originally get involved with the prison fellowship, Carol?
I was one of those people who said, hey, they did the crime, put them in prison, throw away the key, let them do the time.
Very hardcore at that time.
And the area director, when I was living in Las Vegas is where I actually got started with them.
He said, just come with me one time to the women's prison.
And if you don't want to go in again, I'll leave you alone.
And he kept pushing me.
I said, okay, fine, I'll go.
So we went on Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday morning.
And when I came out, I didn't want to stay in prison, obviously, but there was a piece of me, a part of me, that felt for these women in there.
Because some of them are our sisters or the men, our brothers in Christ.
They've made bad decisions.
Show me somebody living that hasn't made a bad decision.
And yes, they're paying the consequences of that.
But they still have restorative justice.
They do that.
We all are.
Christ forgives.
So what was it about what you saw inside that prison over those three days?
Was it the potential?
Was it the people who said, I know what I've done and I need to make amends?
What was it?
Because you said you were very hardcore before you went in.
What changed?
Just listening to them and watching them and hearing them talk about their children on the outside or their other family members or loved ones.
Not all of them, of course, had children on the outside.
But I really sense it was the Spirit of the Lord telling me that, you know, this is what you're going to do, at least for now.
And I spent a little over 10 years doing that.
And one day it was like you told me, enough, I want you out.
So I continued with the Angel Tree program, but I didn't go back inside the walls.
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Jeff, you're probably too busy, but Cavuto had one of the premiers of Canada on about 10 minutes ago, and he was like, what's your reaction to what President Trump said about Canada becoming a state?
And he really wanted this guy to slam President Trump.
What is his problem?
Does he not respect 77 million Americans?
He's another one.
He just won't get over it.
He just can't get over it.
But why?
Is he anti-democracy?
What's his problem?
I don't know.
Maybe he has a lot of years left on his deal and he's just hoping to get fired and just go away and get paid.
He wants to do it.
Okay.
I can't believe the president did this.
Well, I can't because it's just so bloody perfect.
Alfred Trudeau, Chris Dering at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump posted this on social media.
I think it's just such a great – Jeff, how good is that AI picture of President Trump next to the Canadian flag staring at Canada?
How cool is that?
I told you, remember last week, I really starting to not like AI. This one's good, though.
Is this good?
It looks like him, doesn't it?
Yes, it does.
Okay, so this is even better.
So the post with President Trump saying, oh, Canada, staring at Canada next to the flag.
Cut 13, Jeff.
Is this CNN? Who is this?
I was ABC, I think.
Oh my gosh.
All right.
So President Trump makes a joke.
So what does the lamestream lying media do?
They actually ask the Canadian ambassador to Washington, Kristen Hillman, about Canada becoming the 51st state.
This is just superb.
I'd love your response here to some reporting out of Fox News that Trump allegedly told Trudeau if Canada can't handle the impact of new tariffs, it should become an American state.
There were some participants in the meeting that said Trump was clearly joking.
Was that your understanding of that comment?
Yeah.
Yeah, I do think it's important to emphasize that this was a really social dinner.
I mean, there was a lot of joking, storytelling.
There was a lot of discussion around, you know, the Prime Minister was asking the President about the campaign and the election, asking about Mar-a-Lago.
People were teasing each other.
They talked business.
We talked serious matters, obviously, as well, but it was a three-hour dinner, and there was the Prime Minister and the President I'll be honest, they know each other well and they enjoy each other's company.
So that was the tone and tenor of it.
And I have to tell you, I see it as a good thing.
I see it as a good thing that there's sort of this more teasing relationship, let's just say, than something more serious.
In Canada, we often think of ourselves as sort of like Americans' cousins, and it felt a little bit like family ribbing from my point of view.
It was ABC. Jeff, does anybody in the establishment media, does any, just one, does one of them have a sense of humor?
No, I'm not even close.
President Trump made a joke.
So you're going to ask the Canadian ambassador?
Stay here if you want to have fun, because we have a sense of humor.
Next up, we're going to talk to Paul Kangor about the comparisons between what happened a few years ago with the Gipper, and now with 47, President Trump.
Stay on this channel.
government would shut the doors and sneak away for about three weeks we'd never miss them Our biggest problem is that we have built a permanent structure of government, federal, state, and local, the permanent employees, and they've come to the place that they actually determine policy in this country more than does the Congress of the United States.
There are 14 and a half million public employees in the United States.
That's quite a voting bloc.
And the bureaus and agencies, now in Washington, I heard you talking earlier about some of the research programs.
What would you say if I told you about one, a study in which this was called the demography of happiness.
And in this study, the government found out that young people are happier than old people.
They found out that people that earn more are happier than people that earn less.
And they found out that well people are happier than six people.
That's good.
Glad to know that.
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Has nothing changed in the last 40 years?
What did we find out before Thanksgiving?
The NIH spending millions on finding out if what pufferfish react badly to cocaine or not.
Government is still out of control.
Are we stuck in a chronic hysteresis?
What is the future of conservatism?
That was, of course, the great gipper Ronald Reagan on The Johnny Carson Show.
There is none better to discuss than the man who literally wrote a library on Ronald Reagan.
The latest is on his archenemy, the zombie who is Karl Marx.
The book is The Devil and Karl Marx, Professor Paul Kengor.
Welcome back to America First.
It is great to be with you again, sir.
And congratulations on your appointment by President-elect Donald Trump.
You are the perfect person for that position.
That is far too kind.
Far too kind.
Flattery will get you everywhere.
These discussions are so much fun for me, as you are a scholar of, you know, the great Ronald Reagan, and you've written a whole library on what we need to know about the Pope, blessed St. John Paul II, about Ronald Reagan, and the triumvirate, including my favorite, Margaret about Ronald Reagan, and the triumvirate, including my favorite, Margaret Thatcher, that helped defeat the Soviet Union back on November 9, 1989.
But let's start with this fun question.
Do you feel like we're a little bit trapped in a time loop when we see what's happened with big government here in America and the revitalization of leftist ideologies within America?
Is there a parallel to be drawn between President Reagan and President Donald Trump?
Absolutely.
In fact, part of Making America Great Again, that was originally a Reagan slogan in 1980. In fact, I recently went back and I was reading through my own book, the 2006 book.
By the way, Paul Kengor is one of Paul Kengor's favorite authors.
I want that to be known.
So just to clarify, so I had written The Crusader, Ronald Reagan, The Fall of Communism, which is the basis of the new Reagan movie, which stars Dennis Quaid, right?
And that book came out in 2006. So I was literally flying to L.A. for the premiere of the movie.
And I thought, you know how this is, Seb, because you've written books, right?
I thought, I should go back and read my own book to re-familiarize myself with it.
I'm shocked by how good a writer I am.
I usually don't read my old books and then I go and I say, wow, this guy's pretty good.
And you kind of forget.
I don't know about you, writing books for me is like the Sword of Damocles above my head.
I just want to get it out of the way.
Once it's done, it's finished, it's gone.
But it is fun to revisit them now and again.
Well, and this goes to show you, we've talked about this before, how bad Hollywood is.
It took over 20 years to make a movie on Ronald Reagan.
And that book that it's based on, so we originally were going to make it up from a different book that came out in 2004, God and Ronald Reagan.
We based it on the 2006 book.
So it's been 18 years.
So I thought, I should go back and re-familiarize myself with some of these concepts.
I'm probably going to get asked about this in interviews.
And the opening of part one or part two of the book is called Make America Great Again.
And I thought, wow, look at that.
And here I am reading that in 2024, during the whole MAGA movement.
And when Reagan did it, it wasn't called MAGA, right?
He just used that slogan.
Donald Trump adopted that slogan.
It wasn't stealing it from Reagan or anything.
He originally did it to invoke Reagan.
But so many of these things, the Reagan platform in 1980...
Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Which was basically Trump's message against Biden.
Well, we waited for the longest time.
Myself and others on our programs were saying, that's the question he needs to ask because it's so obvious comparing things.
The four years of Biden-Harris to what we lived through under President Trump.
And finally, about two months before the election, President Trump, at his rallies and on his first tweet back on Twitter, he said that Reaganite question he posed, are you better off than you were four years ago?
So let me ask you this, Paul.
Well, you know, on that point, because you're a historian, too, you get this.
Really, truly, drill down.
Think about the parallels between, I think, our worst president ever, Jimmy Carter, and the guy who now gives him a run for it, maybe worse, Joe Biden.
They really are striking.
Yes.
So you had inflation that was runaway, terrible...
Carter had reached as high as 13%, 14%.
Carter had double-digit inflation, double-digit unemployment, double-digit interest rates.
Look how much interest rates have gone up in the last four years.
So we can talk about the economy, the malaise, how bad that's been.
But on foreign policy, right, what went to hell under Jimmy Carter?
We lost Iran.
Iran had been, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger said, the two pillars of strength for America in the Middle East are Israel and Iran.
It was the Shah's Iran.
We lost Iran under Jimmy Carter.
It was taken over by the Ayatollah.
And by 1979, November 4th, 1979, the year before the November 4th, 1980 election, over 50 American hostages were taken in Iran under Jimmy Carter.
Then what happened, and you know this stuff, seven weeks later, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.
It was the beginning of a calamity in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan ends up years later in the hands of the Taliban.
Iran becomes a principal supporter of Hezbollah under Jimmy Carter.
What's Hezbollah doing today?
Attacking Israel from Lebanon.
That's part of what Jimmy Carter bequeathed to us.
So Reagan comes in in 1980 and says, are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Everyone's like, no.
So, Reagan wins 44 out of 50 states.
By the way, not to take anything away from what Donald Trump did, he won the Electoral College decisively 312 to 226. But Reagan won the Electoral College 489. To 49. 44 out of 50 states.
But in both cases, so we're repeating ourselves here in 2024 compared to 1980, where the Democrat incumbent President Carter and Biden were so bad, so bad, that the country turned to Reagan and now to Trump to go to Washington and reform things and shake them up and to try to make America great again.
I mean, the way history is repeating itself is really quite remarkable.
And how fascinating is it, just to drill down on one of those issues with regards to Iran and terrorism in the Middle East, that we had the hostages released for the inauguration of the incoming President Reagan and just two days ago President Trump As president-elect delivers that blistering threat to those who are still holding U.S. citizens hostage after October the 7th,
it really does feel like the parallels are coming thick and fast, Professor.
They are.
And yesterday in my Middle East course at Grove City College, I held up for my students the front page of the New York Times on January 21st, 1981. I actually keep it in my lecture folder because it's so striking.
And it says, Pledges era of national renewal.
And then it literally says this, Seb.
People can look it up.
I know it verbatim.
Quote, minutes later, 52 American hostages fly to freedom after a 444-day ordeal.
Literally as Reagan's hand was on the Bible, being sworn in by Chief Justice Berger of the Supreme Court, and he's got the Bible open to 2 Chronicles 7.14, right?
And if my people turn from their wicked ways, I will heal their land, I will heal my people.
And Reagan's mother had written an annotation in her Bible, a wonderful verse for the healing of a nation.
At that moment, quite literally, the hostages were being released.
So people who don't think that it matters who's in the presidency, man, it does.
It does.
And you saw that right away with Reagan, and you're seeing it right away with Trump, even before he's been inaugurated yet with Trump.
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I want to tell a personal story, Professor, that kind of gainsays everything we've said for the last 11 minutes on the show.
Because the parallels between Reagan and President Trump are legion.
But they're not...
Complete facsimiles of each other.
So a few years ago, I was invited by a friend who will remain nameless to a celebratory dinner for the anniversary of the original Reagan tax cuts.
And it was with the staffers, with the advisors, with the White House personnel who had worked for President Reagan on that historic tax cut.
And at the end of the meal, I arrived late and my friend who was hosting said, well, Sebastian is somebody who worked for President Trump.
Will you say a few words?
And I did.
And very rapidly, I got into a mild argument with one of the former Reaganauts who said, oh...
You know, the trouble Trump had with the deep state, we're used to that.
We had to fight that 40 years ago, and there's nothing new under the sun.
And I got a little hot and bothered, and I said, excuse me?
You may have had a deep state, which you did back then, but you didn't have a president who was facing 700 years in prison, whose residence was raided by the FBI, who was spied upon by elements of the intelligence service.
So Professor Kengo, would you compare and contrast and tell us that it seems as if the permanent bureaucracy sees conservative leaders today as even greater a threat than Ronald Reagan was?
Yeah, no question.
In fact, I'm using your example of the tax cuts, right?
So it was at the Reagan Ranch, August 13, 1981, Rancho del Cielo, Santa Ynez Mountains, and Reagan there signed the tax cut.
And in fact, there'd be two Reagan tax cuts, 1981 and 1986, and talk about limiting government.
So at that point, there had been 16 separate tax brackets, okay?
Wow.
All the way up to the highest rate.
Ladies and gentlemen, are you listening?
You might want to pull your car over right now, okay?
The highest rate was 70%.
70%.
70%.
So Reagan collapsed 16 brackets into two.
28% and 15%.
All right?
Now, Reagan, in doing that, overwhelmingly got the support of the Democratic Congress.
The Democrats worked with him.
Tip O'Neill worked with him.
The Washington Post called it one of the most significant examples of bipartisanship in the history of presidential politics.
Joe Biden, Senator Joe Biden, voted for it.
Donald Trump never got that kind of support.
And by the way, when Donald Trump cut taxes, I'd have to go back and look at the rates, Seb, but it was something like 37% upper rate to like 35%.
Or 39. I mean, it was nothing against President Trump on this.
I'm glad he did it.
But it was almost negligible, right?
The total tax brackets, some of them changed a little bit.
And he couldn't get any Democrat support for any of that.
He couldn't get Democratic support for anything, even in Congress.
This is all irrespective of your point about the deep state.
But but Reagan had more goodwill from the other side than Trump did.
And the other side was just hellbent on getting Donald Trump from the very beginning, even after he gave them their vaccine, which they ended up prostrating themselves to over the next four years of the Biden administration, trying to force all of the rest of us to take it.
You know, Vax mandates, mask mandates, even if you had a note from your doctor or your your priest or pastor setting a medical or religious exemption, they wouldn't give it to you.
Then as soon as they come into the presidency, Kamala Harris, I will not take Donald Trump's vaccine.
As soon as they take over, everybody's going to take their vaccine.
It suddenly becomes their vaccine.
I'm going a little bit in different directions, but related to that, how thrilling is it that Trump is appointing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., To HHS. And J. Bhattacharya.
Bhattacharya.
Yeah, to NIH. Those are two guys who were, Professor J. from Stanford, he was criticized for, smeared, for criticizing lockdowns.
Smeared by Fauci, who orchestrated the smear campaign.
We have the emails now.
Yeah.
And in fact, he said things like herd immunity, which if you look up on the last few days, some of the reports on his nomination, they're still putting it in quotes.
So herd immunity, like it's something that never existed before.
And RFK Jr., if you Google his name right now, the first thing that pops up is a Wikipedia go-to bio, which describes him as an anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist.
And I asked RFK Jr. about this.
I interviewed him for our American Spectator gal at the National Press Club in September.
And he said, you know, the worst thing about that?
He said, my Wikipedia page is frozen.
It can't even be edited.
Join the club!
Well, join the club as soon as I joined the Trump administration and had to explain for the president why we had a travel moratorium from the seven states that could not identify whether or not the people coming from them to America were terrorists or not.
My Wikipedia page was filled with smears.
And when some friends of mine in the media wanted to fix them...
It was frozen by Wikipedia.
So, RFK Jr., welcome to the club.
And never take Wikipedia seriously.
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The Gipper's sense of humor.
He was shot by an attempted assassin and not long thereafter, a balloon pops at an event and he says, you missed.
He didn't duck, he didn't quiver, he didn't shake.
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The jokes told by President Reagan are legion, whether it's the kid with the pile of manure at Christmas, whether it's the person selling cats outside the DNC convention, on and on and on.
How important or how much of a similarity is there to...
President Trump, I'm thinking specifically of the self-deprecating humor, whether it's wearing the high-visibility vest, saying that it's slimming.
These are things that can't be rehearsed, can't be done on cue cards, and they do add, don't they, to the candidates or the president's, what does Hollywood call it, the cue factor, the authenticity, the je ne sais quoi.
Well, and I'll relate it to the example you just gave of the balloon popping and Reagan saying, you missed me, right?
Look at Reagan and Trump both being shot, okay?
Nearly assassinated.
And Ronald Reagan, after that happens, can still walk in, stumble into the operating room.
Actually, he gets out of the limousine and he fell right on his face, right?
But he was trying to walk in on his own two feet because he got hit.
The bullet just missed the...
His main aortal valve by centimeters.
He could have easily bled to death.
But what does he say when he gets in there?
First of all, he says to Nancy, honey, I forgot to duck, right?
And then he says to the surgical team, I hope you're all Republicans, which made them all laugh, right?
I mean, imagine the surgical team I've talked to, others have talked to, the doctor, the main surgeon who was there, and they're like, at that moment, he relaxed us.
Because at that moment, we're about to operate.
I'm curious.
You don't have to reveal it.
Was the main surgeon, was he a Democrat?
No, he was actually a Republican.
And when he said, so when Reagan said...
So you can verify that that actually happened, that this story that they said today, Mr. President, we're all Republicans, that isn't just a fantasy myth.
No, he actually said that.
And the surgeon said, today, Mr. President, we're all Republicans.
We're all Republicans.
And yes, so for Reagan to be able to think that way, to even relax people.
And then Donald Trump in, you know, my hometown, Butler, Pennsylvania, Butler, PA, class of 1984. Wow.
July 13, 2024. So Reagan was shot March 30, 1981. And then Trump is shot.
And at that moment, when I was watching it live on TV, I was going to cover it for the American Spectator.
And Jeffrey Lord said to me, he said, well, hey, listen, Newsmax is covering it, right?
You could watch it live.
It's going to be a really hot day.
And I told Jeff, I said, well, my son is going to go.
One of my sons.
I think I should go there with him.
And my wife even said, she said, you think he'll be okay there?
And I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's the president, former president, right?
I mean, you know, someone can't just walk out there with a gun on his back and buy a ladder from Lowe's in the morning and climb up the side of the building and set up a rifle and start taking shots of the president, right?
So we're watching it when it happened.
And within a minute, After those gunshots popped off, Trump stands up and pumps his fist in the air.
Fight!
And I said to my wife...
By the way, in the middle of our incredible anxiety, we're afraid that our...
We're wondering about our son at that moment.
I said to Susan, I said...
He just said, fight, fight, fight.
Look at the guy.
And the place, my son later told me, erupted.
He said, Dad, there could have been a stampede out of that place at that point.
But he immediately calmed the crowd.
Fight, fight, fight.
The guy's a fighter.
And by the way, a lot of people don't know this, but...
So he sped to the Butler Memorial Hospital, which is only a few miles away, right past Butler Veterans Hospital, where my cousin Drew is there at the Butler VA right now.
Rick Santorum's parents used to work at the Butler VA. He speeds past there.
He goes to the Butler Memorial Hospital.
And I have sources.
Trump actually wanted to go to the UFC match that night in Pittsburgh.
All right?
And people said to him...
No, I don't think you should.
I think probably least of all because Cory Compertory had been killed, right?
So, you know, this wasn't a moment to do anything like that.
So Trump didn't.
But just the energy, the stamina.
But I have to ask you, Paul, have you seen the footage of him arriving at that hospital?
I have, yes, yes.
It's stunning.
I mean, it's like he's going in to pick up a cup of coffee or something.
He walks in there, no security detail, bold as brass, and the people at the window start crying, saying, oh my gosh, he's here and he's all right.
So guys, if you haven't seen it, I'm going to repost it.
It's a stunning, stunning video of the man who'd just been shot.
And walking into that hospital unaided.
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I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Absolute classic!
An absolute classic from Ronald Reagan.
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All right, Professor Kengor, I'm going to get a little bit philosophical here, big picture, strategic.
We have that great quote from Reagan, you know, the worst nine words in the English language.
I'm here from the government.
I'm here to help.
Conservatives...
As an article of faith, believe that big government equals small citizen.
We want the government to be out of our lives, back to how the founding fathers envisioned it, that federal government should regulate interstate commerce and deal with national defense.
That's about it.
Today, when you look at what's happened to President Trump and the people who worked for him and pro-lifers and January Sixers, when you see the massive abuse of political, judicial, and intelligence agency power, it seems as if the ideological lift, the job ahead of conservatives, is a little bit bigger than small government.
It's also...
A return to the principles of the founding, putting a blindfold back on Lady Justice.
And also one last thing, and this goes to your work for the last 30, 40 years.
I think we've kidded ourselves that we won the Cold War on November the 9th, 1989. When the people of East Germany, as Ronald Reagan encouraged them, with pickaxes and, you know, hand tools dismantled the Berlin Wall.
We won the Cold War over there, but we seem to have lost it here with this rebirth of, you know, socialism on the campuses across America.
So, you know, as a conservative yourself and as a historian, How much larger is the challenge today for us to redefine what conservatism is and how to save the principles of the republic?
Yeah.
Well, we don't want to redefine conservatism, right?
We just want to get it right.
Because conservatism is about conserving.
As Reagan put it, the time-tested principles and values that people have learned from, as Reagan said in his speech at CPAC, February 1977, what we learned not just in one generation or a dozen generations, but in all the combined experience of mankind.
What Russell Kirk, G.K. Chesterton called that democracy of the dead.
Edmund Burke called it an eternal contract between the dead, the living, and the yet-to-be-born.
So this is an enduring moral order that exists.
So the job is to conserve and preserve that enduring moral order.
And that's all well and good.
But what happens when the things we wish to preserve have already been dismantled and destroyed by the partisan leftists inside our nation?
Yeah, then you have to reform and clean up.
You've got to get rid of the corruption, right?
And Ronald Reagan, in his inaugural address in 1981, famously said, the era of big government is over.
But he said there, in that same speech, he said, I don't want to do away with government, because a conservative believes in government to an extent, right?
Conservatives believe in limited government.
We believe in rule of law, and we believe in order.
The highest value, conservatives believe in freedom.
The highest value for a libertarian is freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom.
For a conservative, it's freedom, but it's also order.
So you don't have runaway freedom at the expense of order.
And when the state itself, the deep state, the bureaucracy, the swamp, whatever you want to call it, starts becoming a threat itself to the rule of law, to justice, To civil order, right?
To a moral order.
Then you have a problem within the deep state, and that's what needs to be reformed.
And another thing that Reagan talked about and the Constitution talks about, the Tenth Amendment, is having the proper balance between states and the federal government.
Or, you know, a principle like subsidiarity between local government, state government, and the federal government, between the private sector and the public sector.
So the goal now for conservatives is about pulling back government, controlling it, reining it in.
And something you've got to be careful about here, Rand Paul has been warning about this lately, right?
It's great that Trump and Elon Musk and everyone want to go to D.C. and clean house and reform.
But at the same time, when you get there, don't do things unconstitutionally with the government in order to try to lower the size.
It's a tricky thing, right?
But we're not against government.
We're against big government, nanny state government, cradle to grave, womb to tomb government.
We want limited government getting back to the core convictions and principles of the American founding father.
Let me just drill down on this for a second, because I find this disturbing amongst people who I count as my friends as well, who say, we're going to use whatever tools possible to defeat the left.
And actually, at a dinner table, I said, I don't want to be part of that conservative movement, because then we have sunk to the amoral depths That the left and Alinsky justifies through the ends, you know, justifying all means possible.
How do we slip into this place where some conservatives think you can still be a conservative but use immoral tools?
When did that happen?
Yeah, I know that's wrong.
And I even had somebody tell me at one point, we've got to learn to cheat like the left does.
If they're going to steal elections, we need to find a way to engage in some of the same tactics.
And my answer to that is no, no, no, no, no, you don't.
And in fact, looking back, Donald Trump's best response...
To losing in November 2020 would have been to pull all the supporters together and said, you know, the numbers don't add up.
I don't like what happened in Pennsylvania.
I don't like what happened in Georgia, Wisconsin.
I might even think there might have been fraud.
But you know what?
Let's go back and beat the bastards four years from now, right?
Which is exactly, you know, how do you reverse an election like he just did?
In November 2024. But this kind of Machiavellian realpolitik, you know, Hobbesian ends justify the means.
That's not who we are.
And I know it can be harder to do things the right way.
All right.
But the right way is the right way.
That's what you have to aspire to.
Yeah.
Values don't mean anything if we shed them simply to win.
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There are two of them.
Which one?
The actual shooting, not the response.
Actually, no.
Do the response.
Do the response.
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Copy that.
Let me get my shoes.
Let me get my shoes.
I got you, sir.
I got you, sir.
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Hold that when your head is bloody.
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Remarkable footage of...
Professor Kangor, what does it mean to have a leader of the opposition, a future president-elect, a former president, be shot in the head by an assassin or a wannabe assassin's bullet?
And then he doesn't run away.
He doesn't hide.
He lifts his head up.
He raises his fist.
And he says the words, fight, fight, fight.
I know you're a man of God.
I'm sure you agree that courage is the first virtue that makes all the others possible.
Let's just end on your reaction to what President Trump did after he was shot in your hometown of Butler, Pennsylvania.
Well, I'm so glad you went here because I wanted to mention this a couple of segments ago.
So this is a perfect chance to do this.
The DP, Divine Providence.
Donald Trump predated God with sparing his life on that day.
And he said it that night.
He said it several times in the following days.
Remember when he walked into that convention in Milwaukee on Monday?
He had a look in his eyes like he was a different man.
And then Thursday night in Milwaukee, he gave his speech, and his son introduced him by saying, Dad, God protected you.
Your guardian angels were watching you.
And Trump got out there before a national audience and said, you know, God spared my life.
God was watching me.
And you know what?
Another Reagan parallel.
That is exactly what Ronald Reagan said again and again and again.
And Reagan, and one of my favorite quotes from Reagan, Reagan said this on Good Friday.
April 1981, after being shot, he said it to Terence Cardinal Cook, the Cardinal of New York.
He said, whatever time I have left is for him, capital H, him, for God.
Whatever time I have left is for God.
And so Donald Trump, a man who most of us didn't think had been religious, at least not maybe 10, 15, 20 years ago, he now clearly has a sense that It's not contrived.
It's not fake.
I mean, you can tell it's real, that he was saved for a special purpose.
And by the way, which had to make a lot of us think, is he going to go and lose the election November 5th, 2024, after all that, right?
No, no, he won.
And so now he's going to be inaugurated.
So you've got to ask, right, if you're religious, not very religious, you've got to ask, what is God's plan for Donald Trump?
And Donald Trump has to ask that question.
So here in this Christmas season, and among a lot of us on your show who are believers, I think that's a very good question that we all should be asking.
I think we have the title for today's hour.
It is President Trump and Divine Providence.
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