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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	It's ludicrous.
	It has been rejected not only by the FEC, as you mentioned, but also by federal prosecutors and also by prior prosecutors of New York State.
	So this is really well past its sell-by date A. It does not fly in court.
	It is frivolous.
	And what you are looking at, really, Tucker, is the mother of all election interference here.
	Why are we playing a card of Hamid Dillon to open the show?
	Well, with good reason, because it irritates Mark Cuban.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
	This is America First coming to you live from just outside the insalubrious, fetid, rank, malodorous, noisome, ghastly swamp that is Washington, D.C. Welcome to
	my show.
	Jeff, Mark Cuban, I'm missing his commentary on Alina Haber's appointment to the Trump administration and then Hamid Dillon being named as the head of the Civil Rights Division under the Attorney General Pam Bond in the Department of Justice.
	Don't you think he needs to comment?
	You think he would?
	I don't know.
	He's been very quiet since the election.
	What did he say about President Trump and the fairer sex?
	I don't remember.
	What was it exactly?
	He said that President Trump doesn't like to have intelligent, strong women around him.
	Oh, that's right.
	I remember that now.
	Do you remember that?
	Yes.
	So people like Pam Bondi, Susie Wiles, Alina Haber, Harmeet Dillon.
	Should I go on?
	You could keep going.
	Press secretary.
	Yeah, Caroline Levitt.
	Oh, and what's the latest about our body?
	We should try and get her on.
	What are they saying about Carrie Lake, Eric?
	This is exciting.
	It's being rumored that Carrie Lake is the frontrunner or one of the frontrunners for Ambassador to Mexico.
	What do we think of that?
	I mean, you know me, I've been trying to pitch this thing that if she didn't win her seat, she could be in charge of election integrity after what they did to her the first time around in the state of Arizona.
	But, whoa, Tom Homan as Bordazar?
	Oh, Governor Noem!
	Hey, Mark Cuban, Governor Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security.
	What about that, Eric?
	Sending Carrie Lake to Mexico?
	That's actually quite clever.
	That is a great idea because while it's generally said that ambassadorships are not important positions, Mexico is going to be an important one with all the wheeling and dealing that has to be done with trade, the border crisis, etc., etc.
	I don't know.
	Are there too many women?
	I just found another one, Tulsi Gabbard.
	I mean, there's another one!
	Who's going to be the chief of the intelligence community, director of national intelligence.
	She's in the news again.
	She was talking about Syria.
	I think she was walking the halls of power in Congress, making sure that she gets the requisite votes as well.
	I think things have turned out.
	He's not a woman, but he's powerful.
	He's brave.
	Things have turned the corner for Pete Hegseth.
	Here's Tulsi Gabbard on her future role in the Trump administration.
	Cut seven.
	I want to address the issue that's in the headlines right now.
	I stand in full support and wholeheartedly agree with the statements that President Trump has made over these last few days with regards to the developments in Syria.
	My own views and experiences have been shaped by my multiple deployments and seeing firsthand the cost of war and the threat of Islamist terrorism.
	So this is really important.
	And I know, you know, full disclosure, I've been nominated to a position in the Trump administration.
	But I want everybody to understand here, who is part of the 77 million who voted for President Trump.
	President Trump is in command.
	Whoever he brings in, this is a very different Trump administration.
	Whoever he brings in, whichever portfolio they're given, whether it's Tulsi Gabbard as DNI, whether it's Pete Hexeth as the Secretary of State, whether it's people at a lower rank like myself running counterterrorism in the White House, we will be executing the vision, the America First platform, the MAGA agenda of the man chosen.
	It's important to remember that.
	We're not going to have loose cannons doing their own things.
	We're not going to have neoconservatives running portfolios or Lincoln Project covert operatives.
	Oh, by the way, the Lincoln Project, back in the news.
	Back in the news.
	Not because they've dissolved themselves, as they should, especially after their...
	Founder John Weaver was found to be doing inappropriate things with young men.
	Yeah.
	How's he doing?
	How's John Weaver doing?
	Lincoln Project.
	Call up.
	Tell me.
	Give me an update.
	833-334-6752.
	Now they've been found funneling millions of dollars from their donors through the Lincoln Project to their own companies and their friends' companies.
	Perfect.
	Just the perfect indication of who these people are.
	But let's go back to the topic of women.
	Jeff, this person, Quentin Fuchs, campaign manager for Harris, it sounds like he's got an issue with women.
	Well, something's going on there.
	This is the weirdest...
	I don't know if I understand what he's saying here.
	He's at my alma mater that I deny attending.
	He's at Harvard's Kennedy School, and he's trying to...
	Make excuses for why his candidate flamed out so badly, despite being the quintessence of the DEI hire.
	And it's really weird.
	Eric, if your candidate is a...
	What's the PC phrase?
	Person of colour and female.
	You probably shouldn't blame black women for her losing, right?
	Yeah, she won them by 91%.
	They're one of her strongest voter bases.
	So clearly there's a plethora of other reasons for why she ended up losing.
	But that's exactly what Quentin Fuchs does.
	Please, it's quite stunning.
	Listen to this incredible excuse.
	Cut five.
	We had 107 days, and I know people don't like that timeframe, that number, but to open up a Democratic primary, you would have had black women, who were the strongest voting bloc for Kamala Harris, be highly upset if it was not Kamala Harris.
	You would have had someone starting with zero infrastructure.
	Did I hear that right, Eric?
	That if they actually did it democratically, and they allowed...
	Democrats to choose their candidate and didn't rig it, then what would have happened?
	Black women would have been angry, he says.
	I mean, I can think of one black woman who would have been angry if there was a primary, because, you know, she probably would have lost it.
	But yeah, that is the most astounding thing to me, because assuming she loses said primary to Mark Hiller or whoever, clearly that would be an indication that black women weren't enough Jeff,
	what would happen if a Republican strategist talked about black women being too angry?
	It'd be an immediate 48-hour news cycle, and everyone would have to denounce it in the party.
	But he'd be fired, right?
	Instantly.
	Yeah, but I think what he's saying there is basically that she wouldn't have won the primary, and that would have upset black women.
	He's admitting that she would not have won a primary.
	That's why they didn't have a primary.
	You may be right.
	Either way, it doesn't look good.
	Blaming them for her losing the primary because she's an awful candidate because she couldn't even get 2% the first time around.
	Or blaming black women because they're angry.
	Could you imagine a Republican saying that?
	Oh my gosh.
	We haven't even got the real stories of the day.
	So much to discuss.
	Not just Hamid, Pete Hexeth, the Healthcare United killer being arraigned today.
	Taylor Lorenz being fired from her 27th job.
	Carrie Lake, we've discussed that.
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	I assume it's Falks, yeah.
	Maybe it's fool.
	Oh, he worked for Pritzker.
	Scott, what a genius.
	They keep talking about Pritzker possibly running for president, too.
	It's not going to be him.
	Nope.
	He'll run, though, because he's got a ton of money.
	Right.
	But he'll never win that.
	This guy will probably make a ton of money off of him when he runs.
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	Michael Pack, full disclosure, is a friend of mine.
	He's a superb documentarian.
	He has a new series of mini-documentaries on the Wall Street Journal that everybody can watch.
	And here's a little snippet on the latest.
	It's not a science fiction horror story, but it is about the blob.
	I think the blog describes wider than just the government.
	It's a groupthink shared by senior media executives, senior corporate executives, civil servants.
	Wouldn't it be better if experts and technocrats were running everything?
	That's a whole shared belief system.
	Big spending, big government, big taxes, big immigration.
	Big spending, big government, big taxes, big immigration.
	What do we do about it?
	Let's talk to the lady who diagnosed it so well, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, a good friend of the show, Liz Truss.
	Welcome back to America First.
	Great to be back on the show.
	So we were talking in the break about the similarities between what we call the deep state or the permanent bureaucracy here on this side of the Atlantic and what you've referred to as the blob.
	Let's put up your book, which is now updated with a paperback version, 10 Years to Save the West.
	Liz, when did you realize...
	The power, the extent of the entrenched interest that you have labelled the blob?
	I was a government minister for 10 years, and I always knew in every department I was in, whether it was education, justice, the Treasury, that civil servants had their own agenda.
	But what I didn't realise until I got to the very top is just how ruthlessly they would fight to Implement that agenda and how they would willfully ignore democratically elected politicians.
	And I understood why my predecessors had done nothing to take them on because they valued their own survival.
	And it was only when I got to the top and I saw The sheer power these people exerted that I realized that Britain was no longer run by the elected politicians.
	It was run by the unelected bureaucracy.
	And I detail this in the film.
	I was threatened with the British economy going under, with the government not being able to fund itself unless I reversed my policies.
	And these were policies like fracking, like cutting taxes, like cutting regulation, like becoming more independent from Europe.
	Those are the policies the blob didn't want me to follow, and they were They were threatening me with the future of the British economy, and that is what totally shocked me.
	And that's when I realised that we need a much more powerful force to take on the blob in Britain.
	Well, we'll talk about what we do with the blob on your side of the pond and on our side.
	The website is elizabethtrust.com.
	Please follow her at TrustLiz, T-U-R-S-S, TrustLiz.
	Give us the diagnosis from what you witnessed and what you suffered because I want to diagnose it correctly.
	It's not some massive cabal and there's, you know, Blofeld in a hollowed out volcano with a joystick who's running it.
	It's individuals who collude and conspire actively.
	We saw that inside the Trump administration, people who are actively sabotaging the president and his mandate.
	And then the rest of it, especially across the various organs of government, it's a kind of culture of, well, I've been here for 20 years.
	and I know better than the person chosen by the electorate.
	Would you say that's what you were up against?
	Is it connivers and then a culture or is it more organized in the UK? So, first of all, it's a groupthink that believes the same thing.
	So, they believe in climate change alarmism.
	They believe that government is a good thing and there should be more of it.
	They believe technocrats should be making decisions, not the public.
	They believe that experts know best.
	They believe in international bodies.
	They don't believe in the United Kingdom.
	They don't believe in the sovereignty of our nation.
	And these views are formed at universities.
	They're prevalent in the left-wing media.
	They're prevalent in the senior civil service.
	But then what happened in Britain is more and more power was outsourced to these people.
	And this mainly happened under Tony Blair.
	So, for example, the Bank of England was made independent.
	The Bank of England governor is pretty much unsackable on an eight-year term.
	And what I discovered was he was less sackable than I was.
	And that's where the power play comes in.
	These people know they're powerful.
	They talk to each other.
	They leak.
	They brief.
	They...
	Everything that you discuss with them ends up in the press straight away.
	So you simply don't know who you can trust, even when you're the Prime Minister.
	And unlike in America, it's very hard to appoint those senior people.
	It's something we need to change about Britain because they simply cannot be trusted now.
	And they've got so powerful That any challenge to their authority is a challenge to independence or a challenge to the rule of law.
	And they come up with all these things.
	But of course, they're the people undermining democracy because they have no respect for the fact that our government was elected.
	No, they have utter complete contempt for the actual voters who want to choose who represents them.
	The book, Get It Today, it is out in paperback as well, updated, 10 Years to Save the West, leading the revolution against globalism, socialism, and the liberal establishment.
	ElizabethTruss.com.
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	We'll be back with the right Honorable Liz Truss after these messages.
	And then I want to talk about how you see the pushback against the blob as an international phenomena from, you know, Trump to Maloney to Brexit.
	So let's talk about some good news, OK? Yeah.
	Very good.
	We need some good news here in Britain.
	We need to import the entire MAGA movement.
	That's what we need.
	You've got to build it.
	You've got to build it.
	Build it, build it, build it.
	You're a Brit.
	You need to come back to help save off.
	No, I'm an American now and I've got a job to do for the boss.
	Sorry, sorry.
	It's all gone downhill since I left.
	All gone downhill.
	You had 23 years of me.
	You got a good chunk of me.
	I think it all started going downhill when all the Brits left for America.
	It's when the people with the get-up-and-go left the country.
	No, but you know where it begins with.
	It's Blair.
	It's Blair.
	It's Blair who's really a commie who, you know...
	Blair is a massive problem, but a lot of the problems date back to Attlee.
	Yeah, if you want to go deep...
	The Welfare State, the National Health Service, the Town and Country Planning Act.
	Yes, and yeah, absolutely.
	Yeah, and beverage and then, you know, the 40s.
	Canes.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	All of them.
	It's like our version of FDR. Right.
	Right.
	No, that's correct.
	But the thing with Blair is...
	Oh, he is evil.
	I agree.
	No, Clinton, who aped him, is you just took a commie and you cloaked it in this third-way BS. And it tricked people into, oh, there's an alternative to these nasty conservatives and these crazy Labour lefties.
	No, it's communism in a handmade suit.
	It was all things like the Climate Act, the Equality Act, the Human Rights Act, all these things that sound soft.
	Right.
	Actually incredibly destructive.
	When I heard the news that Boris was celebrating the concreting over of the last fracking site in the UK, I said, that's it.
	I mean, this is just, this is the end.
	A Tory prime minister is celebrating the lack of energy independence, which when I was a kid, I mean, I think we were about the same vintage.
	North Sea oil, you don't have the rebirth of the UK without North Sea oil.
	Yeah.
	You're preaching to the converted.
	Well, I know.
	I know.
	But I'm getting it out of my system.
	I would love to get fracking.
	And it would make such a massive difference in Britain.
	Huge.
	Massive, massive.
	It's the biggest problem.
	The idea that, you know, I hear news stories about how pensioners won't be able to afford their heating.
	It's like, excuse me?
	What?
	What?
	Exactly.
	Nuts.
	It's all under our feet.
	It's all under our feet.
	Yep.
	The black gold.
	President Trump always talks about the black gold.
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	No, no, we're good.
	Okay.
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	She is the author of the new updated book, now out in paperback, 10 Years to Save the West.
	I want to talk about some good news in a moment before we have to say goodbye to you.
	But first, I keep talking to my British buddies, and I can't get a good answer to this.
	If you open the borders, as occurred in the UK or here, a rational actor, once they see massive pushback, once they see the success of the Brexit vote, the political elite, if they're rational, would say, That didn't work out how we thought it would work out.
	Maybe we shouldn't have unfettered immigration to the UK. What is the explanation for this seeming political suicide by the quote-unquote elite?
	The people who are making the decisions in Britain are not the people who are elected, so they do not face the consequences of the decisions they are making.
	And there's huge pressure from the economic establishment, like the Bank of England, like the Treasury, to import more people to Britain because they think it will boost the economy in the short term.
	And because we're not doing things like fracking that would actually get the economy going, instead, They want to use immigration as a way of filling the gap.
	They're wrong, but they're very powerful within the government.
	The second thing is the Human Rights Act.
	We cannot deport illegal immigrants because of the Human Rights Act.
	Even people who have been I mean, it is extraordinary.
	But the British political class is squeamish about repealing the Human Rights Act, leaving the ECHR because they don't want to be seen as against human rights.
	And the problem at the last election is because the Conservatives Did such a bad job on the economy and immigration.
	People elected Labour.
	Keir Starmer is a human rights lawyer.
	He is part of this problem.
	So people...
	This is why he's incredibly unpopular.
	President Trump is more popular in the UK than Keir Starmer is.
	People are very, very frustrated.
	But you've got a group of people who are ideologically opposed to borders.
	They don't really believe in Britain.
	They...
	I think that having lots of illegal migration to the country is going to water down the things they hate about Britain, which is all the things I love about Britain.
	That is the problem.
	We've only got a few seconds left.
	Let's talk about some positive things with your voice out there, with Nigel Farage, with Maloney on the continent, with President Trump returning to the White House.
	Do you see an international resistance to the blob?
	I see a massive domino effect, and the start is President Trump and everything Elon Musk is doing with Doge, dismantling the deep state.
	And that is going to reach Europe, and it is reaching Europe.
	But I think the UK is five years behind.
	I think in 2029 there will be a huge revolution here because the public are fed up.
	They're absolutely fed up with all these policies being imposed on them.
	It doesn't matter who gets voted into office.
	The fact is the Labour Party have continued a lot of the policies the Conservative Party had in office and the bureaucrats are in charge.
	But people are beginning to wake up to that and they're seeing what President Trump is doing.
	And I think after four years of a resurgent America, you know, proud again on the world stage, showing strength, I think it will be compelling and the public will vote with their feet.
	All right, well, you only have to change one vowel.
	It's not MAGA, it's MUGA. So you're going to make the UK great again.
	It's perfect!
	Or MAGA, make England great again.
	MAGA, that's even better.
	I can think of no one better to spearhead it, read the book, understand the universality of the blob and how we have to stop it.
	Ten years to save the West, leading the revolution against globalism, socialism and the liberal establishment.
	The website is ElizabethTruss.com and please follow her at TrustLiz.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
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	He says, create a new position.
	Press secretary question screener.
	During press conferences, questions from the press need to go through Jeff before they reach the press secretary.
	No questions would get through.
	Yeah, I don't think there'd be anybody left in the White House press briefing.
	I think, Jeff, there'd be like a puddle of blood on the floor, right, Jeff?
	James Rosen would be the only one.
	James Rosen!
	Imagine Jeff just talking to Jim Acosta.
	What a stupid question.
	He's not taking that question.
	What a stupid question.
	Also, I'm pretty sure, isn't she the only other head of state we've had on the show besides the president?
	I think so.
	Because we've got Farage on, but he's not a head of state yet.
	I think so.
	I think that's right.
	Oh, and John is there.
	Hey, buddy.
	How are you?
	Good, good, good, good.
	We're not letting you out of the studio ever again, though.
	No driving across D.C., okay?
	That's banned.
	It's banned.
	I know.
	It's terrible.
	I've had a really bad week of making...
	Deadlines, because I've just spent so much travel.
	It's crazy.
	So I'm going to scoop myself on this show.
	Yes.
	To make my better judgment.
	Yes.
	The Act Blue has confirmed to Congress.
	Sorry, we'll break around 5 o'clock, but you'll get it first.
	That they've changed the rules into September to stop automatically rejecting foreign gift cards, which leaves open the possibility they were doing it before.
	Wow.
	Major development.
	Also, I'll be able to report that there are hundreds of SARS that Congress will look at next week, so I'll give you a double scoop.
	Hundreds?
	Wow, that's amazing.
	All right.
	That's very rare.
	All right.
	Come in with James Comer.
	Come in with nine.
	Then I'll do the conservative health care read, and then we'll go straight to John.
	All righty.
	Come in with nine.
	And health care.
	Staying home for Christmas?
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	I'm going to work through the Christmas holidays, let the kids take off, and then I'll take a vacation later in the year.
	Yeah.
	How about you?
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	You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You I do think he'll pardon other family members.
	He's going to have to.
	Look, all we can do on the Oversight Committee is do criminal referrals.
	People say, why didn't you arrest Joe Biden or whatever?
	That's not how it works.
	We do investigation and then we turn over our investigation to the Justice Cabinet.
	We have a corrupt Justice Cabinet under Merrick Garland.
	I don't think anyone in America disagrees with that now.
	What we did with Jim Biden, the president's brother, we brought him in for a transcribed interview and he lied, just like Hunter Biden lied in his deposition.
	And it's a felony to lie to Congress.
	We have criminal referrals on Jim Biden as well as Hunter Biden.
	So I fully expect Joe Biden to pardon Jim Biden and maybe others.
	Chairman Comer saying more pardons flurry out of the Oval Office for James, for Frank Biden, and so many more.
	I don't know what the...
	What did he say, Eric?
	The Justice Cabinet?
	I haven't even heard that phrase before, but interesting turn of phrase.
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	Usually I have to tease it out of him by the end of the segment.
	But not today, he said.
	It's the Christmas season and I'm going to fill your stocking in advance.
	He's going to scoop himself not once, but twice.
	And that's why we love John Solomon of JustTheNews.com.
	John, it sounds like the news cycle isn't going to be slowing down for you.
	Oh, not at all.
	And, you know, you were gracious enough this summer to start talking with me about this story.
	ActBlue, the largest online small donation fundraising machine the Democrats ever built.
	Two billion dollars allegedly routed through ActBlue to liberal and democratic causes.
	There was an investigation begun this summer by Chairman Brian Stile, Chairman James Comer, who just had on.
	And it looked at the possibility that maybe foreign money was being laundered through ActBlue into the Democratic campaign coffers this 2024 election cycle, giving them an illegal unfair advantage.
	That doesn't mean ActBlue was complicit.
	It might have just been the victim.
	But we learned something very valuable today.
	It's a story that's going to break on Justine News around 5 o'clock.
	Your folks are going to get it first.
	Chairman Brian Stout, the Chairman of the House Administration Committee, that's the Election Integrity Committee in Congress, told me today that ActBlue secretly and suddenly changed its policies in September, as his investigation was ramping up, as his subpoenas were coming forward, to suddenly ban the use or acceptance of gift cards that were bought overseas.
	Now, why is that important?
	That means before September 9th, when this change was made, ActBlue apparently accepted Foreign gift cards, even though foreign money is not supposed to be.
	Hang on.
	People are going to miss what you just said.
	This is huge.
	That a party website for donating for political purposes was allowing people to use gift cards purchased outside the country.
	John, did I hear you right?
	You heard that exactly right.
	You said it perfectly.
	Now, did those actually go through?
	We don't know yet, but Chairman Stahl says after July, when they were raising historic amounts of money on Act Blue for Kamala Harris and the Democrats, that they In fact, still had policies in place that would allow a foreign gift card to be automatically processed.
	We need to find out how much of that money actually came from foreign sources, if any of it, and why was there the sudden change?
	It's very interesting.
	September 9th is three days after Chairman Steyerl introduced the SAVE Act, which would have prohibited these sort of things from happening.
	It didn't get through Congress because Democrats blocked it.
	But Chairman Stiles onto something.
	This could be a major, major scandal that carries into 2025, foreign money laundering into the potential election.
	That's what they're looking at.
	The chairman has named four countries, China, Russia, Venezuela, and Iran as possible suspects for this money.
	Here's the next big development.
	Congress was told earlier this week they will be allowed to see as early as next week Hundreds of suspicious activity reports.
	You heard me right.
	Hundreds, not a dozen, not a few.
	Explain for those who aren't familiar, I mean, what a suspicious activity report is and how it's actually serious in terms of hunting down threat financing, terrorist financing, corruption.
	This is a big, I mean, one suspicious activity report could be an accident, but hundreds is an issue, right, John?
	Yeah, it is.
	And by the way, the threshold for an activist activist activity report is pretty high.
	It's designed to detect money laundering, usually foreign money laundering, often nefarious money laundering.
	So it's a required legal tool that banks and financial institutions must file when they see a transaction that walks, talks and barks like a money laundering transaction.
	There are apparently hundreds of these that mention Act Blue.
	We're going to get an exact number in the next 24 hours, but that is a big moment.
	That will show where, if there is any foreign money, where it came from and how it was routed into or through or around Act Blue.
	That could happen as early as next week.
	This is a very big and unfolding investigation that has the potential To have a very big impact in 2025. We'll keep you up to date on it, but I think the big headline today, ActBlue didn't have rules prohibiting foreign gift cards from making donations to its platform until September this year when Congress started banging its pots and pans.
	That's a big red siren.
	We're going to look at it more, but major development that we just confirmed a few minutes ago.
	So he scooped himself, and we're very grateful.
	The full details come on your website and your show tonight.
	Yes, sir.
	I'll have them in the next hour, and we'll keep it going all through tomorrow to you.
	And let me just get your qualitative take.
	We've only got a few seconds left.
	These developments, if you separate, what is it Bannon says, the noise from the signal, this does not look good for ActBlue, does it?
	Well, it doesn't look good for Democrats.
	Listen, ActBlue could simply have been careless and allowed these transactions to go through without being complicit.
	But Democrats 30 years ago were caught with Bill Clinton cheating by taking China money.
	The concern is that it may have done it again.
	It may be on a larger scale using the electronic era, the digital era fundraising.
	Again, nothing's proven yet, but there are some very large warning signs.
	Three chairmen now involve Jim Jordan.
	James Comer and Brian Stile all working together.
	That's how serious Congress is taking this.
	This could be a big deal next year.
	He always brings the goods.
	That's why you have to find him, follow him, bookmark at JSolomonReports on Twitter, justthenews.com, and every evening on RAV, just the news, not noise.
	Merry Christmas.
	Thank you, John.
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	And don't forget the Colbert cut.
	I got that too.
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	Colbert will call it 13.
	Let me get the angel tree cut.
	Um...
	Do you want to hear either of these?
	Yeah.
	Go ahead.
	Colbert.
	And this guy they caught down in Pennsylvania, Vinnie Rigatoni.
	He's got social media, and we've been able to see it, and holy happy trail, Batman!
	Okay, next.
	You know that guy's a talent.
	In the words of an angel tree child in Florida.
	I guarantee you that I would not have made it past 6th grade if my dad hadn't.
	Alrighty.
	You want to use...
	You want to use Colbert here or save it for later?
	No, no.
	Calls.
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	Let's go to Sean, New York City, line one.
	Dr. Gorka, I was just wondering what mistrust would think of a possible Anglosphere alliance.
	I don't think it would be antithetical to an America First agenda if we had some kind of fair trade and common defense agreement amongst the Anglosphere.
	And I'd like to put Israel at the top of the list, even if it wasn't a quote-unquote Anglosphere alliance.
	What are your thoughts on Israel joining NATO? Yeah, it's been discussed for many, many decades.
	Why is an Anglosphere?
	Because the Anglosphere is pretty small and we can't, you know, I mean, what would be Canada, the UK? Why is it stronger than NATO? Well, if we look at the map, we've got India, which is the second largest population on Earth.
	So you want to be in an alliance with a nation that has nuclear Pakistan next door?
	That's pretty scary, you know, because you start making alliance commitments to a nation that has a nuclear country next to it that doesn't like it.
	It's certainly a valid point, but I do think we need a hedge against China.
	Well, we do.
	What about if we fix NATO like President Trump did in the first time?
	Sean, it's a great question.
	Stay on the line.
	Let me kind of think about it.
	And let's give Sean one of our President Trump is back t-shirts.
	Dale, Wisconsin, line two.
	Hello.
	Yes.
	Dale?
	Yeah, I just wanted to call and thank you for what you guys do.
	You're very welcome.
	I so appreciate it.
	And first of all, congratulations on your appointment to Trump's team.
	Thank you.
	Because I'm behind Trump 100%.
	And I just love your show.
	And thank you for putting up that telephone number.
	Which one?
	Well, the one that I can read, I'm 81. And I don't have a cell phone.
	And I just enjoy watching your show.
	Well, that's very kind.
	That's very kind of you.
	Stay on the line.
	Let Dale pick whatever he wants from the website.
	So kind.
	It's going to be tough for me to leave here, especially to leave behind this amazing team that we've built here on America First.
	But, um, you'll have Hugh Hewitt from 3 to 6, and then you'll have Chris de Gaal taking Hugh's morning shift, the wonderful Chris de Gaal.
	So, I'll try not to be a stranger.
	I don't know how much media I'm going to be doing from inside the White House, but it's a very different team this time, so, um...
	I'll try not to be too much of a stranger myself.
	God bless you, Dale.
	Thank you, Sean.
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	Resist this!
	Sebastian Gorka!
	You can try to resist, but you will fail.
	77 million Americans spoke just five weeks ago.
	America First is back in the personage of the president-elect of the United States, my former, and God willing, my future boss, as well as of 12 o'clock on January the 20th.
	And it's not just about elections.
	It's about perceptions as well.
	And let's talk about what happened in Notre Dame at the weekend with president-elect Donald J. Trump, with a man who's literally written the book on him, our fan favourite, the one and only Lord Conrad Black.
	Lord Black, welcome back to America First.
	Thanks so much.
	So we can rotate through some photographs here from Notre Dame as and when they're ready.
	But talk to us about how this first one of Jill Biden staring doe-eyed at the president.
	It goes on and on and on.
	Elon Musk likewise.
	Maloney staring.
	Big thumbs up.
	Macron, the power handshake.
	I don't know if you saw the video of...
	The heir to the throne receiving President Trump at the British Embassy.
	But it looked to me as if he were already president or being treated as such, Lord Black.
	Yes, so it seems.
	Well, in fairness, I thought that Mrs. Biden looked well, her daughter looked well, and they conducted themselves in a very dignified way.
	But, I mean, the facts are the next four years belong to Trump, and the Bidens are...
	Whatever else may be said, they're part of history now.
	Is there something to be said?
	I mean, I just I look at the British example where you have an election and the prime minister can be given short shrift and kicked out of 10 Downing Street within a matter of days.
	The fact that we have this election system with the so-called transition based upon, I guess, the speed of a horse-drawn buggy, that we have the election in the first week of November and the chief executive doesn't take the oath until the almost the very end of January.
	Isn't that a little bit outmoded?
	Yeah, I think it is.
	You know, it was originally March the 4th, and Franklin Roosevelt changed it because in his time, of course, there were planes and railways, and you could get to Washington much more quickly.
	He moved it up from March 4 to January 20. But, you know, Woodrow Wilson, who was a great student of the British system, had determined that if he lost his bid for re-election in 1916, and it was a very close election with Charles Evans Hughes, if he had lost it, His plan was to name Hughes as Secretary of State and for he, Wilson, and his Vice President, T.R. Marshall, to resign so Hughes would become President right away.
	He thought it was nonsense to wait so long.
	Now, on the other hand, in the British and Canadian system, you have opposition critics for every department.
	There's a shadow foreign minister and a Shadow, a treasury person and so forth.
	All the principal departments, there's an opposition person who's a critic of that policy and is all ready to step in and occupy.
	Here, you would want to give the incoming president some time to put his cabinet together, I would have thought.
	I know on numerous occasions in the years that we've had these discussions, you've added the caveat that you're not a psychiatrist or a psychologist, but you are an observer and an author of geopolitical events and presidential history.
	Will you dissect from the outside At least from a political or statecraft perspective, what we saw in Notre Dame, even from people from the other political aisle, if you will, I mean, because if it were Kamala Harris who were the president-elect, I think things would be rather different.
	So what does it mean that he, President-elect Trump, is received vastly by the world leaders who were collected there?
	Well, look, I think always a president-elect of the United States is going to be received as, to use a judicial expression, a person of interest in any gathering in that interregnum between the election and the inauguration.
	And no matter where he goes, he's going to receive relatively deferential or at least curious treatment.
	But in this case, I'm going to take a bit of a liberty here.
	Well, I think that, from what I've heard, Joe Biden himself was rather popular with foreign leaders as an individual.
	I liked him as a person.
	I think there's generally an understanding that a bit of a vacuum developed where not all aspects of the role of the one and only superpower in the world were being executed by the Biden administration, and it is No secret to anyone that that is likely to change with his successor.
	So I think there is an element of, well, all right, here's the new president, and the president of the United States is always treated with respect.
	But in addition to that, we know him, we've seen him before, and we know that he is going to be a much more activist and assertive person than has been the outgoing president.
	So I think to some extent you're getting a bit of expression of relief that the vacuum is being filled.
	Let's talk about what the process is beyond the president and his inauguration but the confirmation of his cabinet members.
	Pete Hegseth gave an interview last night on Fox News.
	Here's a little clip of the man designated to be President Trump's Secretary of Defense.
	Cut one.
	I mean, in addition to personal witnesses and all of that, it was fully investigated at the time, years ago, and I was completely clear.
	And that's why, Sean, you know what I look forward to?
	I look forward to the FBI background check.
	I look forward to the actual under oath conversations with senators as we go through the process because, again, this is what the left does, Sean.
	It's the anatomy of a smear.
	They take something, and then they add anonymous sources and contortions and flat-out lies, and then they try to try you in the media before you can even get into the doors with senators.
	I don't want to...
	Look, I don't have to be Senate confirmed, and I am, you know, nominated, what have you, so maybe I'm a little bit rose-tinted, but I think something has turned in the last few days with regards to Pete Hexeth and Joni Ernst.
	What are you seeing as you follow the various permutations?
	Does it look a little bit stronger than it did a week ago?
	Yes, definitely.
	I think there was...
	Look, I think the people who don't want the incoming Trump administration to really shake up the government, which they pledged to do, naturally launched an offensive against his nominees, his more controversial and potentially vulnerable ones.
	And the game is to knock them down, demoralize the administration, and try and insulate the established state in Washington As much as they can from any serious shake-up.
	And I think that Trump himself and his immediate collaborators responded very quickly against that.
	They couldn't fight it with Gates, but they certainly have with the others.
	I understand that Kelsey Gabbard had a very satisfactory tour of a number of the senators yesterday.
	And as I understand it, the There were even suggestions that Senator Ernst might face a primary rival and a well-known Iowa television personality if she tried to get in the way of what everyone, including she, apparently, recognizes as the need for a real shakeup of the Pentagon.
	So, I mean, I think the standard attack on an attempt at fundamental change was begun.
	But the incoming administration responded very promptly and with great determination to make it clear they wouldn't put up with that.
	I spoke to one of the Senate-confirmed nominees yesterday who said, yeah, I'm walking through the halls, I'm having the meetings, and I'm playing nice.
	Is that the right way to, you know, is it the playing nice or, excuse me, 77 million Americans have spoken?
	What is the right approach?
	Well, I think it depends who it is.
	Some of them are more naturally independent of the president-elect's influence than others.
	But in general, I think the Republicans recognized in a way that was not the case eight or four years ago that this really is President Trump's party.
	He won the popular vote, and he brought several of the senators in right behind him on his coattails.
	Whereas there was a lot of divisiveness within the Republican Party until comparatively recently, I don't think there is now.
	It's his party.
	He's won.
	And I think there's a widespread sentiment, especially among the Republicans, but even among a few of the more civilized Democrats, that it's time to roll things back a bit and go back to the era when a president who's won an election fair and square deserves a presumption of a right that the people he wants to put into In the Senate-confirmed positions, unless there's a strong reason to vote against it, he should be allowed to appoint who he wants.
	Especially since the same— He's the author, most recently, of the book you must have on your bookshelf, The Political and Strategic History of the World.
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	We'll be back with Lord Black in a moment.
	Music Liz Truss on in the first hour.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, you know, she was always, I thought, an improbable prime minister.
	But the funny thing is, I thought that budget that she brought in, which was the basis of people turning against her, was a brilliant budget.
	It was a great budget.
	That wasn't the problem.
	It was the way it was communicated and the lack of requisite communication.
	Yeah, that's right.
	And the British don't have the same...
	Recognition that Americans and Canadians do that there is something to the Laffer curve.
	You know, if you cut taxes, you don't just lose the revenue.
	Economic activity goes up and you get some of it back.
	And they don't really understand that, even though Mark Thatcher proved it.
	Yep, absolutely.
	All right.
	We did Coma.
	We played Tulsi.
	We did Tulsi.
	Maybe the Eric Adams cut would be a good one.
	Or Crystal.
	Yeah, Crystal.
	Just start coming with the audio of Angie, and then I'll tee up Crystal.
	Yep.
	Tee up top, and then tee up two.
	I just need a title for Mistrust.
	Oh, for Truss, yes.
	Something about the Blob would be cool, but...
	Yeah.
	The Blob code...
	Sorry?
	Does Liz Truss, as I do think the Starmer government, is a complete shambles?
	Complete disaster.
	She said it's an utter disaster, heading for the rocks.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I hope she's coming back.
	I mean, she lost her disc, but I hope she doesn't retire.
	No, I don't think she's disappearing.
	Call it The Blob, capital B, colon, Britain's Deep State.
	Yes.
	Very nice.
	All righty.
	90 seconds.
	I asked Bossy Jeff about coming on.
	He just sent me something.
	Do we have a hole tomorrow we can fill?
	Tomorrow?
	Yeah, we can do like 4.30.
	4.30?
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Sebastian, thank you for putting me in touch with Miranda Devine.
	I had a very nice exchange with her.
	Perfect.
	Good.
	She is a huge fan of yours.
	Well, vice versa.
	I think she's great.
	Yeah, and she's got a very good relationship now with the president as well.
	I saw her get very special treatment at the front of the line at Butler, Pennsylvania, when we were waiting there for the photographs.
	Good, good.
	No, she's an excellent writer and courageous.
	Yes.
	She's terrific.
	Fearless.
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	I don't know why my producer Jeff puts these clips on the show.
	Maybe just to make sure I'm awake and to heighten my blood pressure.
	As far as I'm concerned, this person is an irrelevance.
	Bill Kristol defining for us as only a never-Trumper can what the definition of authoritarianism is cut to.
	What's the crime?
	How can a president-elect of the United States say people should go to jail?
	That is literally authoritarianism, right?
	I'm putting you in jail, the charges, you know, the crime, we'll figure out the crime later, right?
	And that's what Trump's saying.
	I wish, I don't, it was a good interview by Kristen Welker, but I wish she had said, well, what crime do you think they committed, President, Mr. Trump?
	Well, we could ask the same question with regards to Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, or President Trump themselves, Lord Black, couldn't we?
	What crime did they commit?
	I see this as kind of a tragedy.
	You know, I've known Bill Kristol a long time, and I knew his father and his mother quite well.
	Very distinguished people.
	And Bill was a real coming figure in American intellectual political circles.
	And he's just become more and more absurd.
	And I think it's a Terrible waste of talent.
	I mean, what on earth does he think he's talking about?
	We're discussing here an outgoing administration that turned the Justice Department and, to an extent, the intelligence agencies into arms of the dirty tricks division of the Democratic National Committee to pervert the law and use it as an instrument against the leader of the opposition.
	And he is, I think, surely...
	He's unconsciously stealing one of the most notorious pages from the playbook of the left-wing strategist Saul Alinsky and saying, you accuse your opponent of what you yourself are doing.
	What on earth was he talking about in that quote you played?
	Yeah.
	Where is Trump trying to send people to jail?
	They were trying to send him to jail.
	So let me ask you this.
	When we look at the four years ahead of America and the second Trump administration, you know, there is the old aphorism, it's the economy, stupid.
	President Trump is going to unleash the natural resources.
	He's just said, I think he just tweeted moments ago, anyone who invests over a billion dollars in America We'll get instant approval of all their applications, including the environmental studies.
	And he said, let's rock.
	I mean, he just wants to get the economy just humming as soon as possible.
	When it comes to the reform efforts, whether it's the Department of Justice, the CIA, the FBI, we've got the right persons.
	We've got Kash Patel coming.
	We've got Hamid Dhillon.
	I mean, Pam Bondi.
	Does he have to be careful To not overemphasize that portion of the mandate and stick to that which appeals to all?
	Or does he have to keep the promise to, you know, depoliticize the judiciary, for example, or the FBI? I think you can do both with equal determination.
	But I think the key is on the, as you say, the reform side.
	Now, economic growth, basically, everybody is forked.
	Even though you'll get the advocates of the Green Terror complaining that they're endangering the planet if they tolerate gas heaters or some idiocy like that.
	But on the reform side, I think there's clear evidence that public supports ID in elections, immunization against this Democratic technique that they tried again in the Pennsylvania Senate race, trying basically to pass illegal ballots as legal.
	I think the country would support a comprehensive measure to make elections clean and fair for everyone.
	And so if you pitch it at reforming the system in a nonpartisan way to make it a better system altogether, more immune from diddling and inappropriate or even illegal activity, rigged elections, all the rest of it, I think you're fine.
	If it looks like it's a straight vengeance operation, then I think that the public would say, well, we understand the instinct of vengeance, and we understand why the president feels that way, but we're not really here for vengeance.
	We want better government, not vindictivism.
	And we've only got a couple of minutes left.
	We're talking to Lord Conrad Black.
	ConradMBlack.com is the website co-host of the podcast Scholars in Sense with Victor Davis Hanson and Bill Bennett.
	It looks to me, and tell me if you see it differently from your perch, that the other side really hasn't drawn the requisite conclusions and is doubling down.
	When you have Tim Walz three days ago say, well, I guess the American, we didn't understand the American people didn't want to vote for equity and inclusion.
	No.
	No, they've been drinking their own bad water for so long that even a day of reckoning of polls such as they had, and it wasn't a landslide, and we shouldn't call it a landslide, but it was a clear victory, fair and square.
	Trump won the popular vote, won the Electoral College.
	No significant charges of electoral The people spoke, and they spoke clearly in favor of the Republican option.
	Look, I understand it's a shock, and I've used this symbol before on your program, that if you take a can of insecticide, in the summer when a fly is buzzing around driving you crazy, you blast it with insecticide.
	It becomes even more energetic for about 15 seconds, then drops down dead.
	And I think that's what we're getting here.
	I mean, they were shocked by the election.
	I don't know why.
	I mean, it wasn't such a surprise, I didn't think.
	And you and I basically predicted in this program.
	And they still haven't recovered and pulled themselves together and said, look, let's analyze what happened here.
	But I assume they will.
	I mean, there are a lot of smart people in the Democratic Party.
	They've had many successful leaders in the past, and they'll be back, but they won't get back the way they're doing it now.
	But hopefully they won't draw those conclusions within the next two years, and there can be an even greater route to the next election.
	We've been talking to the wonderful Lord Conrad Black, author most recently of a seminal work you must purchase.
	What a perfect Christmas gift.
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	No, they're getting more glorious.
	Look, I think it's going to be a great term.
	Yes.
	And, you know, it isn't always the case, as you know, that the incumbent White House Party loses in the midterms.
	It's a little early to talk about the midterms.
	But if, as I suspect, the president gets the economy humming, there's real progress in foreign policy, and he brings in reform measures, not just persecuting his enemies like they did to him, but actually preventing rigged elections and things like that.
	I think the public will reward him, especially since the Trump hate movement went so over the top, portraying him literally as a Hitler.
	I mean, as an utterly evil, wicked man, which there can be no case for such an argument.
	And then maybe he can lock in a few more Supreme Court associate justices before he's done.
	Why not?
	I think Clarence Thomas has deserved his retirement.
	He's been an outstanding justice.
	He shouldn't go prematurely.
	No, no.
	Wonderful.
	Thank you, Conrad.
	Thanks, Sebastian.
	God bless you.
	Bye-bye.
	Okay.
	title for that?
	They're treating him like president already.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Two and a half minutes.
	Oh, what are the additional cuts you got?
	The Colbert cut, 13. Colbert, okay.
	And then we got another Angel Tree cut, but we already did Angel Tree.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, I forgot that.
	I forgot that.
	Okay.
	...to the bottom of this, because we need to put that blindfold back...
	Yes.
	And then you have...
	...the breach of the no-nonsense of...
	I mean, every amount...
	Two minutes.
	I'm sending you the image of this latest post from the president.
	Alright.
	Oh man.
	Pretty epic.
	So good.
	I think he's still going to use Truth Socials as main thing as president instead of Twitter.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I could see it.
	Oh, man.
	Something's going on at the Metro.
	There must be about 30 cops over there.
	Oh, really?
	Across the street?
	Oh, they're saying shots were fired.
	Yeah?
	Oh, boy.
	No. No.
	No. No. No.
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	They are saying that they don't agree with America First.
	How do you say that?
	Magnificent.
	I can't keep up with the boss!
	It's happening too fast!
	Jeff, do you remember that amazing lawyer?
	I think he used to clerk for Antonin Scalia.
	Do you remember Mark Paoletta?
	Yes, I do.
	President has just named him as the top OMB lawyer in the White House.
	Every day.
	It's just...
	Get that clip for me for the next segment, Jeff, the too much winning.
	Because this is just at the level of almost too...
	What are you pointing your finger up, Eric?
	I already have that clip if you want to use it.
	Now!
	Hit it!
	We're going to win so much.
	You may even get tired of winning.
	And you'll say, please, please, it's too much winning.
	We can't take it anymore.
	Mr. President, it's too much.
	And I'll say, no, it isn't.
	We have to keep winning.
	We have to win more.
	We're going to win more.
	Sorry, you can't fake it.
	Even the kind of crackle in his voice, he's just so excited.
	You're going to say too much, and I'm going to say, no, we need to win more.
	Mark Powell, congratulations.
	We salute you.
	God bless.
	What an amazing choice.
	And then the thing I mentioned to Lord Black, let's put it up on the screen.
	This is the president's announcement with regards to...
	You want to do business here?
	We're not going to outsource the jobs.
	Any person, any company investing $1 billion or more in the United States of America will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but in no way, I love that, but in no way limited to all environmental approvals.
	And in cap letters, get ready to rock.
	Wow.
	It's got to be like the genie out of the bottle.
	Just the economy, the prosperity, the happiness, the joy.
	What did they say, Alex?
	Wasn't the other side a campaign of vibes and joy?
	Whatever happened to the vibes and joy on the other side?
	They never had them.
	Just like there wasn't any.
	They talked about it, but even when they said Beyonce's coming out to sing, she never came out to sing, Eric.
	I mean, they should have sued Beyonce, shouldn't they?
	That was the most dumpster fire rally ever.
	Once they realized she wasn't singing, people started fighting in the stands.
	Some people were having drug overdoses.
	People were leaving en masse.
	It was a total disaster.
	Of course, the media didn't cover it.
	I remember I was watching it live, and it suddenly went around on social media.
	Beyonce's coming.
	She didn't.
	It's like, really?
	That is who you are.
	Frauds.
	You're fake.
	There's nothing genuine.
	But it's about winning, winning, winning on our side.
	Okay, your calls.
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	Hello.
	With all the pardons going through, it might be difficult to pursue the Yeah, but wouldn't it have to be the people who paid the money?
	I mean, who's the damaged party?
	You'd have to indicate who the damaged party is in that case.
	It's not a federal.
	You're talking about a civil action, right?
	Well, they sold government favors.
	Right, but you're doing it as a civil action, aren't you?
	Is that the point?
	Yeah, but the U.S. government lost something.
	Well, yeah, but then it would have to be the government that sues.
	Yeah, I would say the Justice Department should sue, not the foreign government.
	Interesting.
	I like that.
	Thank you, Bob.
	Interesting.
	First, let's get the president sworn in with Harmeet, with everyone else, with Governor Noam, with Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, all of the team, and then we can start doing what needs to be done.
	Joe, Illinois.
	Dr. G, Tom Holmstrom, the new board is our Said he's going to start with Chicago.
	And I'd love him to come out here by me in Carpentersville, Elgin, and Aurora to start his new crusade.
	Why?
	Why that?
	Why?
	Because my property taxes went up over $1,200 in one year.
	Oh, because they're sucking the lifeblood out of the taxpayers.
	It's madness.
	Go ahead.
	It's madness.
	Stay tuned.
	Tom has promised to come on the show on Friday, so call us back on Friday after Tom comes on and we'll ask him details about where he's going to start.
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	Coming with the winning again.
	I love the way when he says the word more, you can really hear the hoarseness in his voice.
	Yes.
	He's putting everything, we're gonna win more!
	God, it's so good.
	Even like 2015 clips of Trump, like his hair is a little bit different.
	Yeah.
	It's so good.
	Good.
	More winning.
	Good.
	Alright, two minutes.
	Good.
	Bigly.
	Any media tonight?
	I believe so.
	Let me double check.
	You have...
	Oh no, I don't.
	No, you do not.
	Not tonight, but there's some interviews coming up in the next couple days.
	Who reported the Carrie Lake thing?
	Is it something reliable?
	I think Town Hall was the one in the rundown, but I think Semaphore was the first to report it.
	And Town Hall just quoted it a little bit.
	Yeah, I think that would do up.
	I'm at 15.
	Bigly.
	He has a dream team he's assembling.
	He's assembling.
	Dream team.
	Bigly.
	It's bigly.
	It's bigly.
	30. We're
	going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning.
	And you'll say, please, please, it's too much winning.
	We can't take it anymore.
	Mr. President, it's too much.
	And I'll say, no, it isn't.
	We have to keep winning.
	We have to win more.
	We're going to win more.
	Who's the most technically adept person in our team?
	Who's the geekiest geek when it comes to tech?
	Alex?
	I'll take it, sure.
	But I think it's John.
	Chief engineers need to be geeky.
	Alright, you two can settle it because I need an answer before I walk out of the studio today.
	I don't know how you do this, but there's got to be a way to do it.
	I need that clip of too much winning as my ringtone.
	Can you work that out?
	Sure.
	Could you imagine?
	You probably know more than me because you have R2-D2 as your phone.
	I do, but you buy that.
	That's super easy.
	I don't know if that's available on the ringtone store.
	Could you imagine being in a meeting in the White House and somebody calls you and it's too much winning comes out on your phone?
	Wouldn't that be fun?
	Would that make even Jeff smile?
	Jeff, would that amuse you?
	Why don't we make it the ringtone and put it on the Seb Gorka store so everyone could buy it?
	All right, guys.
	We've got six weeks to do it.
	That was impressive.
	That guy should work in the Trump administration.
	That's interesting.
	That's interesting.
	What do I have here?
	I have calls, George, Robert.
	Two Roberts.
	I've got double vision.
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	Let's go to George, Columbus, Ohio.
	Hi, Dr. Gordon.
	Thanks for taking the call.
	Yep.
	First, I'd like to congratulate you on your new position.
	God bless you.
	Godspeed.
	So I've got an idea of how we can make most of these immigrants and legals just leave.
	All you guys have to do is change the tax code so that this year all employers have to prove that their employees have the right to work in this country or they cannot claim them in their taxes.
	Yeah, I don't like that.
	I think you called in beforehand with regards to that.
	It shouldn't be incumbent.
	It should be incumbent on the person who's here illegally.
	I think it's, you know, the person...
	E-Verify has to be really, truly implemented.
	But I'm not sure you want to put the...
	I get that.
	Can I ask you one more question?
	Yeah, go ahead.
	No, not at all.
	Because it just seems like, okay, when we were using it for Joe Biden's side, they're commies.
	It's a communist term.
	It's not.
	It's actually an imperial term.
	It's pre-communist, right?
	It's the Tsar and Tsarin.
	It's a Russian word from Caesar, from ancient Rome.
	It is the Russification of the word Caesar.
	But I get what you're saying, why we're using a Russified version.
	Do you have an alternative, George?
	I don't know.
	Let's take back...
	Boss?
	Head honcho.
	I think for Tom Homan, I think we have to do head honcho.
	I think, look, I get where you're coming from.
	I like it.
	Let me think about what's better than using a term from Russian imperial history.
	Good stuff.
	Let's go to our first Robert in Illinois, line two.
	Yes.
	Robert Oak Park, Illinois, wanted to thank you for your service to our country, and congratulations.
	You know, I can sleep at night now knowing we have new vision in the White House, because had it went the other way, we'd have been lost as a nation, as you solemnly profess.
	Well, you know, it's funny you say that, Robert.
	I wasn't going to say this, but since you brought it up, I've had a lot of people text me.
	A lot of people congratulate me.
	Some people I haven't heard from in like 15 years, Robert.
	And there's two variations usually.
	Congratulations.
	Or the other variation is I can sleep well at night now and I feel safer.
	So, Robert, it's very kind of you to echo what so many people have sent to me as a message.
	I appreciate it.
	I will do everything to fulfill the mission of keeping America safe from the terrorist threat as I work for National Security Advisor Colonel Mike Waltz and for the Commander-in-Chief President Trump.
	Thank you.
	That's really very kind.
	The worm is turning even in New York.
	I'm shocked.
	Why?
	Eric, isn't Mayor Adams, isn't he a Democrat?
	He was indeed elected in 2021 as a Democrat.
	All right.
	Well, he sounds a little bit maggot to me now.
	I wonder why.
	Cut six.
	And now we're hearing others are saying that Biden should pardon people because this would be difficult on their families and difficult on them and they would have to pay high legal fees.
	What about me?
	What about those mothers who are placed on FBI watch lists because they were standing up for their children?
	Well, you said the other day you think that the justice system has been politicized.
	You believe that, don't you?
	Yes, I do, in all my heart.
	But not only do I believe it, the president stated it.
	Donald Trump stated it.
	And countless others.
	You should look at some of these stories, what happened to people that stand up because of what they believe.
	Hey, Mr. G, that court case, Juan Mirchan, that was in New York, right?
	Yes, it was.
	And when the president had to go there every day for a year and to appear before that crooked judge, I mean, you're the producer.
	You've got the memory like a steel trap.
	How many times did the mayor of New York say that this is a politicized abuse of the judicial system?
	None, because he wasn't indicted yet.
	Oh, thank you.
	Yes, yes.
	Whatever happened to that?
	Eric's in a bit of trouble right now, isn't he?
	A little bit, but I don't think.
	I think that's getting dropped.
	You think in 40 days he'll be good?
	Yes, you can tell he's lobbying every time he speaks.
	Isn't it?
	I gotta ask, because to me it sounds bad, Jeff, when in the middle of the interview you say things like, and what about me?
	That doesn't look very good.
	I know, he should have just dropped that part.
	He could have made his point without saying that.
	What about me?
	Well, just the tone, just the arrogance.
	Oh my gosh.
	Okay, thank you guys.
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	Let's go to our second Bob of the Day.
	Robert, welcome to America First.
	Are you doing all right today?
	Every day.
	Every day living the dream, my friend.
	Well, everybody's saying congratulations.
	I thought I might be the first one, but I guess not.
	Thank you.
	Oh, man.
	Get them dudes and hold their feet to the fire.
	Whoever you can get.
	All them Republican squishies.
	Try to hold their feet to the fire.
	Get some of them other Republicans in there and tell them to hold their feet to the fire.
	We need every person we can get, including you.
	And Pete Hexeth, the other lady, just try to, I don't know, I think y'all should take your gloves off.
	Well, that's why I helped a friend of mine get 50,000 phone calls and text messages to the rhinos in the space of just 48 hours.
	And I think that, in part, what those people did have turned things around.
	So I agree with you.
	Look, 77 million people voted for President Trump, and President Trump gets to pick his cabinet and his directors, his agency head.
	So absolutely, the people have spoken.
	Thank you, Robert, and thank you for your patience.
	What about the other side?
	What about the lunatics?
	They finally located and arrested and arraigned the killer of the health executive who was murdered, Brian Thompson, just last week in New York.
	And what does the left think?
	This is meant to be comedy.
	Think about what kind of person thinks this is actually funny.
	And this guy they caught down in Pennsylvania, Vinnie Rigatoni.
	He's got social media, and we've been able to see it, and holy happy trail, Batman!
	You know that guy's Italian, because you could grate Parmesan on those abs.
	Jeff, what is that?
	Where does that come from?
	I don't understand that.
	I don't get it either.
	You can grate cheese on his abdomen.
	What, like, a psycho killer is now funny?
	I know.
	Right after it happens, too.
	It's like it's something from a couple years ago.
	Could you imagine if his widow and his children see that?
	That's what I was thinking, too.
	And then the audience actually laughed.
	Anyone help me out here?
	Eric?
	Alex?
	I think that's the work of the devil.
	They're anti-capitalist communists.
	They want to normalize violence against CEOs.
	Sorry.
	It's so obvious.
	Alex nailed it.
	It's not that, you know, making fun of death.
	It's making fun of a successful head of a company.
	Wow.
	I think Alex gets a t-shirt.
	Stay on the line, Alex.
	You get to choose a t-shirt.
	Maybe the Kamala, you're fired.
	That was really good.
	I mean, I do have the best team, and I hope that Christogal appreciates it.
	But, yeah, nice job.
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	The jury has reached a unanimous verdict in the case of Daniel Penny.
	He's been found not guilty on the charge of criminally negligent homicide.
	Now, remember what was at stake here.
	The jury could not agree on manslaughter.
	They failed to agree twice.
	The judge gave them another bite at the apple on this lesser charge.
	Negligent.
	That was yesterday morning.
	Big news out of New York.
	The former Marine Daniel Penney acquitted, innocent, did not kill, did not intend to kill or was not guilty of manslaughter when that clearly mentally deranged individual got into that subway car and started shouting, I'm going to kill you all.
	It's one case, but could it be, what does Hugh Hewitt say?
	I'm always impressed when he says dispositive.
	Could it be proof dispositive or otherwise of, I don't know, the worm turning?
	Maybe Lady Justice is having her blindfold put back on her face?
	Let's talk about that and so much more.
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	Every week on townhall.com, he just lights a bonfire.
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	Colonel K. Kurt Schlichter, welcome back to America First.
	Hey, thanks for having me.
	That was great news yesterday.
	Great news.
	Right, so let's talk about, A, are you surprised that they just threw it all out, especially after relatively short deliberation from the jury?
	And if you weren't, is it just a one-off case?
	Is it just Bernie gets 2.0 if you're of a certain vintage?
	What does this decision with regards to Daniel Penny mean to you, a person who practices the law?
	Well, practice the law.
	I'm kind of becoming a semi-lawyer, but I did do it for 30 years.
	Look, I think the best way to describe it is pleasantly surprised.
	The judge and the corrupt prosecutors, because the New York District Attorney's Office is a corrupt organization.
	They were doing everything they could to convict this innocent man.
	In fact, he's not an innocent man.
	He's an active hero.
	I would love to see President Trump decorate him with a Medal of Freedom or some other honor because it's about time we stand up against criminals.
	And I was concerned that New York citizens were not already there because they had put this Alvin Bragg creep in power.
	They'd elected him.
	And...
	I was thinking that they would probably convict him of this lesser charge, which of course they shouldn't have considered anyway, but let's put that aside.
	This not guilty verdict is pretty much dispositive along with the dismissal after jeopardy attached of the reckless manslaughter claim.
	So put it into the broader context of everything else you mentioned.
	Alvin Bragg, Juan Murchin, Jack Smith, Fannie Willis.
	Can we put it into that constellation?
	I mean, this is New York.
	This isn't exactly Texas.
	So if a New York jury said, this is garbage, get the out of here.
	You're a political commentator as much as you are a legal expert.
	What conclusions should we draw?
	Look, I think we're seeing a movement here, and I don't think this is unrelated to the re-election of President Trump, because it is kind of the same.
	We're tired of where we're going.
	We're tired of choosing criminals over regular citizens.
	We're tired of crime.
	We're tired of failure.
	We're tired of defeat.
	We're tired of the idea that we're somehow supposed to be afraid instead of the criminals being afraid.
	Right.
	And, you know, and I think Donald Trump is the avatar of that feeling.
	I think it really sped into high gear with Barack Obama.
	Donald Trump was the reaction.
	There was a counter reaction.
	Now we've had a counter counter reaction.
	And, you know, Dr. Gorka, you can feel this energy out there.
	You can feel like a weight has lifted off the country.
	And you listen to Donald Trump's Interview yesterday with Kristen Welker, or a couple days ago with Kristen Welker.
	And he was just relentlessly positive.
	People are aching to get back to the America that we grew up with.
	I wrote a column a while ago.
	Donald Trump needs to make the 80s happen again.
	Because if you grew up in that time, you grew up in a time where there were no limits, where the sun was always shining, where everything was California.
	Where Miami Vice was on TV, the greatest music was out there.
	You knew that if you could start a business or you could support your family, you could do what you wanted to do.
	And you were a part of the greatest country on the face of the earth.
	We beat the damn communists without firing a shot.
	At least not in Europe.
	In Afghanistan, where we gave them hell.
	It was just a great time and a great feeling to be an American then.
	And we want it back so badly.
	You could be a person who's 45 years old and you've never felt that because you came of age at about 2000 with 9-11 and all the troubles that have come since then.
	I think this Daniel Penny thing is just another example of how we want to move back to the America as it should be, dare I say, to make America great again.
	Now, that is catchy.
	I like that.
	We'll talk about what's happening in D.C., what happens on January the 20th.
	But, you know, you are a legal professional.
	Your mother was a storied judge as well.
	Let's talk about how we fix, not the political, the cultural part of it.
	Yes, everybody's happy.
	The president just destroyed Welker for being an idiot.
	But it seems that we just have this overtly politicized judiciary in many cases.
	These political actors who are avowedly political actors as district attorneys, as local prosecutors, who say, you know, I'm going to put Trump behind bars or people who campaign on ideological platforms of social justice.
	There's no quick fix.
	An election doesn't change that.
	So how do we deal with...
	Inoculating or removing this politicized venom from the bench and from the prosecutorial offices.
	Well, Dr. Gorka, the bench and prosecutors both have tremendous power.
	And the understanding behind that was always that they would use it in a fair and neutral manner.
	And the leftists, the Soros people, saw that as low-hanging fruit.
	And they understood that they could use that discretion and abuse that discretion to not do their duty, but rather to impose their political will because they couldn't win it in elections.
	Now, in district attorney elections, judge elections, people don't pay a lot of attention.
	People don't really vote on those.
	So it's easy to get a bunch of activists to have an outside say in them.
	The other thing is juries.
	Juries trusted.
	Juries would trust the FBI. Well, if the FBI said it, it's got to be true.
	If the DA's telling me this guy's a crook, it's got to be true.
	Who am I? I'm just Joe Citizen.
	Well, I think Joe Citizen's waking up to the fact that the FBI's got an agenda.
	The DA's got an agenda.
	And it ain't my agenda.
	The chain of command should be God, American citizen, all these government flunkies.
	And it got inverted somewhere along the line where we American citizens just sort of gave over our discretion.
	We defaulted To these institutions.
	And the institutions, because of their lack of character and because of leftist scheming, took advantage of it.
	Well, they've lost the benefit of the doubt.
	They don't have it anymore.
	If an FBI agent gets up on the stand, a huge percentage of Americans are going to go, if he pointed out the window at the sun coming up in the east, I wouldn't believe it.
	And that's on them.
	Alright, so I'm still waiting for how we fix that.
	We will continue our discussion with the author of the Kelly Turnbull series of novels, adventure novels.
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	All right.
	So we have in just a few weeks time, 43 weeks to go, the new president or as was 45 will be sworn in as 47.
	We have Kash Patel nominated as his director of FBI.
	We have the former AG of Florida, Pam Bondi, coming in as the secretary, as the attorney general in the Department of Justice.
	What about the other half of law and order in America, not law enforcement, but the courts and the prosecutors?
	We left you in the first segment with this question.
	It's not going to be a quick fix.
	The president can request that all of his federal prosecutors be replaced because, hey, those are politically decided, determined officers of the chief executive.
	But what about across the country?
	The people who are funded by George Soros.
	I, as a Brit, Kurt, I find it really weird that Sheriffs, judges, prosecutors can be elected.
	That's just anathema to the system I grew up in.
	But it is the American reality.
	How do we change it and how hard is it going to be to change it so we have unbiased officers of the court?
	Well, we're going to need to take a multilateral approach.
	The first is American citizens need to do their duty.
	You need to get out there and vote.
	Here in Los Angeles County, where I am, Well, we finally voted out the terrible Gascon and got in Nathan Hockman, who is, I wouldn't call him a conservative, but he's a law and order guy.
	He's going to prosecute actual criminals, where Gascon just let him go.
	So we have to do our duty.
	As American citizens, the time of subcontracting out Our role in government is over.
	We have seen that we cannot trust others to handle it for us.
	We've got to take action.
	We've got to take responsibility.
	Now, at the federal level, some of these prosecutors and some of these police departments seem to be actively violating civil rights laws.
	You look at Alvin Bragg.
	You look at his patterns of prosecution.
	Who he chooses to prosecute and who he doesn't.
	Now, they have great discretion, but you can't do it on the basis of race, can't do it on the basis of sex, you can't do it on the basis of gender, you can't do it on the basis of politics.
	And Alvin Bragg is clearly doing it on all those bases.
	And I'd like to see the Southern District of New York dig in and find out exactly what's going on there.
	He needs to be investigated.
	And that's almost unprecedented because the District attorneys have huge discretion.
	But you know, when you have huge discretion, to paraphrase Spider-Man, you have huge responsibility.
	And you have a responsibility not to violate our Constitution.
	What he has done At least on the surface, indicates to me a good faith possibility that a crime has been committed.
	It should be investigated.
	Maybe there's no crime there.
	If there is no crime there and he's just a bad district attorney, that's for the people of New York to deal with.
	We aren't in the business of framing people, Dr. Gorka.
	We've been the victim of that ourselves.
	We're not doing that.
	But to that point, what happens to those who perpetrated that political persecution under the color of law?
	What should happen after January 20th?
	Because if you got away with it, with impunity, you know, putting a 72-year-old grandma in prison because she prayed inside Congress on January the 6th, Why should anyone have faith in the system of justice in America?
	What has to happen to people like that, like the U.S. Attorney for D.C., who failed to prosecute 70% of the felonies occurring in D.C., violent felonies, but who would put grandmothers in prison because of, you know, quote-unquote insurrection?
	Well, even if it's not a violation of federal law, even if it's not a crime— And I'm not convinced it is or isn't.
	It is certainly an abomination.
	It's a disgrace.
	It is a violation of their oath and their duty, and they should be fired in disgrace.
	And I know Donald Trump is going to go through it.
	Look, if you touched a January 6th case, in my opinion, if I were the attorney general, You'd be out with a sign saying, I'll litigate for food because you're not working.
	But is that enough?
	Is that enough?
	Is saying they lose their job when they've actually made the lives of innocent people hell?
	Is that enough to restore the faith of the average American in the justice system in America?
	I don't know if it'll restore it.
	It is a necessary start.
	Step one, accountability to the extent you can have it, because most of them are probably not going to be criminally liable or civilly liable, but they may be employment-wise liable.
	The second step is to put in prosecutors who are going to use their discretion fairly and objectively without consideration of persons.
	Without consideration of politics, without consideration of race.
	Look, when you trash your reputation, you know, you've got to earn it back.
	And sometimes you can't do it for a while.
	Sometimes it may be decades before people look at the FBI like they used to look at it when it was Inspector Erskine outbusting bank robbers and communists.
	Okay?
	When you trash your reputation, You suffer for it.
	You have a bad reputation because that's what you've earned.
	You've got to earn it back.
	And I'm not sure the FBI can.
	I'm not sure the FBI shouldn't be dismantled and rebuilt in some other way to fulfill the functions that it currently has.
	So when Cash says we could turn it into a museum of the deep state, that's not necessarily hyperbole, Colonel Kay?
	No.
	No.
	Look, the FBI has—and it's not just the FBI's seventh floor going after and targeting political enemies.
	You've had scandal after scandal there.
	You've had traitors like Robert Hansen.
	You've had guys like John Conley, who was working with Whitey Bulger in Boston.
	You've had the Crime Lab.
	Either intentionally or negligently, you know, helping convict people with bad information and bad lab results.
	This is intolerable and people are not going to tolerate it.
	So maybe we do need to start again.
	Maybe we need a new federal law enforcement agency and a new federal counterintelligence agency that's not a law enforcement agency.
	And maybe we need a federal crime lab.
	Maybe we need to break it up into component parts.
	I mean, that is a long discussion of itself.
	But we know the cause.
	The cause is the FBI's own choices, its decision to violate its oath.
	To lack integrity for personal gain.
	For those who aren't aware, if you go to the FBI training facilities, the Academy in Quantico, they have the FBI shield, and instead of Federal Bureau of Investigations, it lists the qualities of a new agent for the new agent class.
	It's fidelity, integrity, bravery.
	Yeah, right, right.
	And there was that, you remember the 1986 gunfight in Miami where a couple of bank robbers shot it out with, heavily armed bank robbers shot it out with FBI agents with underpowered light weapons.
	And they didn't back up.
	Some of them died.
	Some of them were permanently injured.
	But these guys were heroes.
	That's the FBI I want.
	The guys who stand up to the dude with a rifle when they only have a 38 snub nose and don't back down for a second.
	That's what America deserves.
	That's what the FBI should be.
	That's what Kash Patel needs to bring it back to.
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	All right, let's talk about confirmation hearings.
	You, along with our mutual friend Jim Hansen, have been a wonderful advocate for combat veteran Bronze Star, multiple Bronze Star recipient, Pete Hegseth.
	And you've got your fiery article just went up, I think, on Monday in townhall.com.
	We need to ritually sacrifice a squish, GOP Senator Gorka.
	To encourage the others.
	All right.
	Everybody needs to read it.
	Everybody needs to follow you.
	But walk us through.
	Give us the bottom line up front and walk us through your concept of operations, Colonel K. Well, the bottom line up front, Dr. Gorka, is we need to follow an example of the Royal Navy in your former homeland.
	When an admiral failed to do his utmost, the British shot him, which...
	Seems to me to be a real innovative incentive program.
	And that's why the Royal Navy was really something to behold before Keir Starmer and some of these soft conservatives turned it into a bunch of dinghies bobbing around in a bathtub.
	As the old saying goes, the beatings will continue until morale improves.
	Nothing wrong with that.
	And that's what needs to happen for some of these Swiss senators.
	I think they've forgotten 15 years ago.
	But I haven't.
	I was there.
	The Tea Party movement came in and said, too many of you senators are too soft.
	We're going to primary some of you.
	And we did.
	And the results were mixed.
	We had some bad candidates, like the woman who said she had to explain she wasn't a witch.
	We had some successes.
	We had some senators who said, I'm not even going to try.
	I'm going to resign or retire.
	And we beat other ones.
	We proved that the idea that because you're a Republican in office in the Senate, you're untouchable, is crazy.
	Now, we hear that now.
	Well, we don't dare challenge Senator—and I'll just use a hypothetical.
	I don't know, Joni Ernst of Iowa.
	We don't dare challenge her.
	I mean, we have that seat, and, you know, she's reliable enough.
	Sure, she's voting for gun control, and she's supporting George Floyd.
	And she's signing on to the illegal alien welcome mat plan from James Langford, another guy who, if he were running this time, would be a potential candidate for primarying.
	But don't believe that.
	You choose your fights.
	You're not going to choose Susan Collins.
	We'll never do better than Susan Collins.
	But in Iowa...
	Leaving Ann Seltzer aside, I was deep red.
	That's Trump country.
	And any Republican is probably going to win there.
	A hardcore Republican is probably going to do just fine.
	One that Donald Trump and the rest of us can trust to be there instead of showboating by trying to stop Pete Hegseth.
	You know, I think what happened with her And I'm hoping she comes around and proves me wrong.
	But I think what happened with her is she thought, oh, I can get some attention for holding this up.
	I can get some love from the Washington Post.
	And what she didn't realize was she was going to throw a spotlight on herself and all of us folks out on X, thank you Elon Musk, were going to dig into her past and figure out, wait a minute, when we've needed her, she hasn't been there.
	I didn't know she was a squish on immigration before this.
	I didn't know she was a squish on gun control.
	I certainly didn't know she had a video love fest for convicted felon George Floyd.
	I didn't know any of that.
	I know it now because she brought that all down on herself.
	So what are your predictions with Pete, with Cash, with Tulsi?
	Have the Rhinos met their match?
	I have a friend of mine who will go unnamed who organized 50,000 text messages to the four Rhinos senators.
	So what's your prediction, Colonel K? I think they're going to fold like a house of cards.
	I think Joni Ernst is going to sit there quietly during the...
	Confirmation hearings and come out and say, well, gosh, after hearing Pete Hegseth, I sure support him.
	That wouldn't have happened without the MAGA backlash, without the America First backlash.
	And we'll get Tom Tillis and John Cornyn's already on board.
	He knows he's got a primary coming up if he doesn't watch it.
	Look, it is good for senators to fear the electoral wrath of their voters.
	Yeah.
	They should always be thinking, my gosh, if I do this, I'm going to have a primary and it's going to be a giant hassle and that's my best case.
	Worst case is, I might win and have to get a real job.
	I just love that phrase.
	Oh yeah, that's a great idea, but I love the phrase MAGA backlash.
	She comes up with the wonderful phrases.
	Author of the Kelly Turnbull series and the most recent book, The Attack.
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	All right.
	I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, Colonel K, but the people have spoken.
	But the swamp really doesn't care.
	And the fact that these scumbags on Capitol Hill with an R after their name had no problem voting yes for the likes of Merrick Garland, who weaponized the Department of Justice against President Trump, who voted for that absolute disgrace to the uniform he once wore,
	Austin Lloyd, who, against the laws of the United States, should not have been the Secretary of Defense because he hadn't gone through the mandatory The fact that they rubber stamp Democrat presidential nominees and then have conniptions about, you know, combat heroes like Pete Hegseth.
	Are you optimistic about the next four years?
	Are the egos in D.C. going to get in line behind the Trump train and the 77 million Americans who have spoken?
	Well, I'm always optimistic, Dr. Gorka.
	I'm a Californian.
	And, you know, it's always sunny and there are always palm trees.
	Look, we've won.
	We've got the initiative.
	We're inside their decision loop.
	Yeah, we're going to have slackers.
	Yeah, we're going to have people who want to go along and get along, who want the status quo.
	But we knew that going in.
	Look, our coalition is about 51-52% of Americans, and some of them are going to be soft.
	Okay, I get it.
	I understand.
	I accept it.
	And I'm ready for the fight.
	I'm excited for the fight.
	And thank God we have a fighter as our president.
	Donald Trump loves nothing more than fighting and then winning.
	And, you know, it's not glorious if you're not fighting a powerful enemy, right?
	I love what you're saying.
	It just moves to my ears.
	And you know it.
	You know, you and Jim have actually had my back in the past for potential real fights.
	Oh, yeah.
	I know.
	I know.
	You guys were, like, there instantly when trouble rumbled.
	Yeah.
	For me, it's like fuel.
	So, you know, for him, it's the rallies, it's the energy.
	I just love the fight.
	I mean, I actually get energized.
	I relish it.
	Clearly, you do too.
	Clearly, so does Jim.
	What happened to that spirit?
	Because I know I'm an immigrant, a legal immigrant, but for me...
	That's the American way.
	You know, embracing the challenge, leaning in is the American way.
	So what happened to our side that we look at President Trump or we look at an Elon and we say, that's cool.
	Well, yeah, that's how everyone should be if they're an American.
	Exactly.
	And look, when that spirit comes back, look, people have been so beaten down.
	People have been told, you can't, you won't, you're not able to, you're not good enough.
	And it's all a lie.
	And once Donald Trump and the rest of this movement start showing them that the potential is there to be whatever you want to be, to do whatever you want to do, and to conquer things that you're told can't be conquered, to change things that you're told can't be changed.
	Oh, don't try and change the bureaucratic state.
	Oh, the deep state will never change.
	Baloney.
	There's a great Solzhenitsyn quote out there.
	What if it's all papier-mâché and you can just poke your finger right through it?
	Yeah.
	And the importance, I think, Solzhenitsyn and others who are riding from behind the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, Lechweins and others and, you know, the great dissidents.
	One person, if one person just starts to question the papier-mâché edifice, that just can have a completely catalytic effect on others who just need to see, I'm not crazy and I'm not alone, Kurt.
	Yeah, and we've got 77 million.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
	It's an amazing time to be alive.
	And, you know, we salute people like Colonel K. I think somebody, I think Pete Hegseth needs to reactivate this colonel, get him back on active duty, get him into the five-sided playpen, because along with Jim Hansen, wow, we could do some serious damage to the DEI that has infected the CRT. To have Mark Milley say, under oath in Congress, I'm white and I want to know what white rage is.
	There is a lot of work to be done.
	In the meantime, have some fun as well.
	It's going to be a crazy four years or maybe 12 years.
	So you need to be able to unwind.
	Unwind with the Kelly Turnbull series of books.
	The latest is Overlord No.
	8. Can't wait to see.
	I have actually been communicating with the artist who's creating the graphic novel.
	Can't wait to see that salty, my friend.
	And if you want to have something a little bit more serious...
	That tells you that we have a lot of work to do come January the 20th.
	It is Colonel K's book, The Attack.
	Could an October the 7th atrocity happen, the likes of which Israel went through here in the United States?
	I've read the book, and you need to read it too if you believe in securing the I'm Sebastian Gorka.
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	Colonel K, you recently celebrated or commemorated or commiserated your separation from the United States Army, but once a soldier, always a soldier.
	What is your...
	Expectation.
	What is the best thing President Trump could do on January the 20th and have echoed by Secretary of Defense Hexeth to send that reverberating message across all the armed services?
	Is there something uniquely symbolic?
	Is it, you know, putting Fort Bragg's name back on the signs in Fayetteville?
	What is...
	What would be the message that would be received by our warfighters, Kurt?
	If I were Pete Hegseth, I would walk into the assembled Joint Chiefs of Staff, and I know it's not the chain of command, but, you know, I'm the boss.
	I'm telling you, you go find the guy to tell to do it.
	Every bit of DEI is gone.
	Eliminated.
	Out the door.
	Ended.
	Now.
	And I want you to come back here on Friday, 9 a.m., 0900. See, I'm thinking like a civilian.
	Gotta get back into the game.
	0900. And I'm gonna go around this table.
	I'm gonna look at each of you.
	Have you complied with my order for your service?
	If your order is anything other than, yes, sir, I'm going to relieve you and your deputy's going to do it.
	Is anyone unclear about what my order is?
	Thank you, gentlemen.
	You're dismissed.
	Let me just read this right now because this is going to shock you.
	I just did a quick search.
	The Army has 231 generals.
	The Marines have 62. The Air Force is 198. The Navy has 162. Even Space Force, Space Force, Kurt, has 21 flag officers.
	This is insanity, Kurt.
	We...
	Pete's got a lot of work to do.
	He needs to talk to Colonel K, Jim Hansen, and our other regular guest as well, Secretary Robert Wilkie.
	They could help the incoming Secretary of Defense get us back to where we should be.
	In the meantime, follow Colonel K at Kurt Schlichter.
	Read his articles at townhall.com.
	And don't forget, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, keep your head on a swivel.
	Watch your six.
	Hold the line.
	Never give up.
	Never give in.

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