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Dec. 16, 2024 - Sebastian Gorka

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Sebastian Gorka LIVE: Drone mystery - President Trump speaks out

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	The biggest in the United States Constitution is its first three beautiful words.
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	Generations of Americans have sacrificed to maintain the promise of those words, the promise of our country and of our great history.
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	That was from President Trump's address to the United Nations.
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	Greetings, dear friends.
	Is it Monday again already?
	Christmas is just around the corner.
	We have a bumper show for you today, including the manhood hour.
	Don't go anywhere for the next three hours, and especially when you hear the clips.
	I'm going to try and get through six clips in the next nine minutes, because President Trump spoke at Mar-a-Lago today, and he covered...
	Quite a large swath of topics, from the drones on down to the assassination of the UnitedHealth CEO. But let's start with one I love.
	This will be indicative of the second Trump administration dealing with cretinous, idiot reporters the way they should be dealt with.
	Here we have somebody asking an incredibly inappropriate question about Iran, from President Trump, today, cut 10. Are you entertaining the idea of preemptive strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities?
	Against who?
	Against Iran's nuclear facilities.
	Well, I can't tell you that.
	I mean, it's a wonderful question, but how can I, am I going to do preemptive strikes?
	Why would I say that?
	Can you imagine if I said yes or no?
	You'd say, that was strange that he answered that question.
	Am I going to do preemptive strikes on Iran?
	No.
	Is that a serious question?
	How could I answer a question like that?
	If you wondered how moronic the press corps is, that's how moronic they are.
	I've been doing a lot of interviews in my lane of counterterrorism and I actually get people from the BBC and elsewhere saying, so what is President Trump going to do about this jihadi group and that jihadi group and what are they going to do in Syria?
	If you ask that question now, weeks before the inauguration, you are a clinical moron.
	I'm sorry.
	That's not how national security works.
	We don't telegraph our actions in advance.
	Unbelievable.
	Just as unbelievable that the U.S. government doesn't know what's happening above the skies in New Jersey, above Bedminster.
	Here's President Trump with a rather solid declaration on the drones in American skies.
	Listen to what he said just earlier today from Mar-a-Lago.
	Cut 9. Can you comment on the drones that are flying around New Jersey ports?
	It seems like the American people have a big disk.
	The government knows what is happening.
	Look, our military knows where they took off from.
	If it's a garage, they can go right into that garage.
	They know where it came from and where it went.
	And for some reason, they don't want to comment.
	And I think they'd be better off saying what it is.
	Our military knows and our president knows.
	And for some reason, they want to keep people in suspense.
	I can't imagine it's the enemy, because if it was the enemy, they'd blast it out.
	Even if they were late, they'd blast it.
	Something strange is going on.
	For some reason, they don't want to tell the people.
	And they should, because the people are really...
	I mean, they happen to be over Bedminster.
	They're very close to Bedminster.
	I think maybe I won't spend the weekend in Bedminster.
	I've decided to cancel my trip.
	Have you received an intelligence briefing on the drones?
	I don't want to comment on that.
	The government knows what they are.
	They know where the drones are launching from.
	What President Trump, President-elect Trump, doesn't know is why your current government isn't doing anything about it.
	Has he received a briefing?
	No comment.
	He also was asked about the assassination of Brian Thompson, UnitedHealth CEO, and what some of the reactions to that brutal assassination indicate about those who did not elect President Trump to be the 47th President of the United States.
	Cut 17. The United Healthcare shooting, the shooting of the CEO, can you give us your thoughts about that?
	And what do you make of the reaction around the suspected shooter?
	Does that tell you anything about how people think about healthcare?
	I think it's a terrible thing.
	I think it's really terrible that some people seem to admire him, like him.
	And I was happy to see that it wasn't specific to this gentleman that was killed.
	It's just an overall sickness as opposed to a specific sickness.
	That was a terrible thing.
	It was cold-blooded.
	Just a cold-blooded, horrible killing.
	And how people can like this guy is...
	That's a sickness, actually.
	That's really very bad.
	Especially the way it was done.
	It was so bad.
	Right in the back...
	And very bad.
	A thing like that, you can't believe that some people...
	And maybe it's fake news.
	I don't know.
	It's hard to believe that that can even be thought of.
	But it seems that there's a certain appetite for him.
	I don't get it.
	Sadly, it isn't fake news.
	Jeff, what do you think of the comedian Chris Rock?
	I usually like him a lot.
	What about the cut you got for me?
	I was shocked that he said that.
	This isn't fake news.
	This is real.
	This is Chris Rock on Saturday Night Live talking about the father who was assassinated because he's a CEO. Cut 20. He actually killed a man!
	A man!
	A man with a family!
	A family!
	Kids, man!
	I mean, I have condolences.
	I have real condolences for, you know, the healthcare CEO. I mean, this is a real person, you know?
	But you also gotta go, you know, sometimes drug dealers get shot.
	Sickening.
	Truly, utterly perverse.
	Let's end the opening of our show with some good news, some unbelievable news from a company called SoftBank, an investment company from Japan, which is...
	Very large and very rich.
	And President Trump was right there this morning at Mar-a-Lago standing next to the CEO, Masayoshi-san, with quite a stunning announcement.
	Cut 16. And we've just concluded a very productive meeting, and today I'm thrilled to announce that SoftBank will be investing $100 billion in America, creating 100,000 American jobs at a minimum.
	And he's doing this because he feels very optimistic about our country since the election.
	Jeff, he's standing there with the CEO who's going to drop $100 billion in America over four years.
	Do we need an inauguration, really?
	It is pretty nice, isn't it?
	I mean, it's like he's the boss, right?
	It's just like back to four years ago.
	Right.
	Although, we need the inauguration because the inauguration is fun, right?
	Yeah, of course.
	Okay, good.
	We're not going to cancel it.
	We're going to do it.
	It's incredible.
	We know the world knows who the real president is.
	It's the man who's returning to take the off of office one more time, and it just can't count quickly enough.
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	We're trying to get the star of that show on the line momentarily.
	But before we do that, so strange, the double standards in this city.
	As Chris Plant often says, if it weren't for double standards, the left wouldn't have any standards at all.
	Here we have Benny Thompson, who I believe was the chair of the January 6th Fake Committee of Congress, talking about January 6s.
	Cut 13. My position is those individuals should never be pardoned because their insurrectionist activities is not who we are as a nation.
	So in our opinion as a committee, he created it.
	But in this position, he's absolutely wrong in even entertaining the notion of pardoning people who would do such a dastardly deed.
	Eric, didn't we play a clip from Thompson last week where he said he'd accept a pardon from Joe Biden?
	We sure did.
	And I might add, he looked very nervous, like very visibly wide-eyed and uncertain of his future as he was saying that.
	But January 6th, he shouldn't get a pardon, but he should.
	Pardon's for me and not for thee, apparently.
	Fascinating.
	All right, we've done it.
	We've connected over the interwebs to a very special guest, a guest I'm really excited about.
	When I told my son this morning, you'll never guess who's coming on this show.
	And I told him he was beaming ear to ear because I think after Samurai Jack, I think it was his favorite TV show for many moons.
	I can't believe 91 episodes.
	Also starring our other buddy, Adam Baldwin, we have the star of Chuck and so many other things, Zachary Levy.
	Merry Christmas!
	Hi!
	What's going on, Sebastian?
	Levi Levy, give me the correct pronunciation.
	What's the Hollywood pronunciation?
	Levi like the jeans.
	Levi like the jeans.
	Okay, I'm so excited.
	I think I dinged you on Instagram.
	You actually replied.
	You're one of these famous people who replied.
	We managed to get you on the show.
	I bumped into a friend of yours at a Christmas party on Saturday.
	The world is tiny.
	Welcome to America First.
	Big fan, whether it's Shazam, whether it's Chuck.
	But I want to have you talk about You've got a new studio, a production company.
	What is Wildwood Studios?
	And is it deliberately a slight permutation on the word Hollywood, Zachary?
	Yeah.
	It is.
	It is.
	So listen, Wildwood Studios does not quite exist just yet.
	It was a vision that God put on my heart 25 years ago when I first started working in Hollywood and I got my first look behind the curtain and I saw how all the sausage was made and I was so bummed out because it's just so broken and it's been broken since the beginning.
	Hang on, hang on.
	Let's stop there.
	Okay, that's a buried lead.
	Were you bummed out from the get-go?
	Was it obvious to you from the beginning that you needed another way to make content?
	Yeah.
	I mean, listen, I assumed...
	I assumed correctly that Hollywood was a pretty inhumane industry that doesn't really value its workers, right?
	It's like, you know, profits over people, like most all industry.
	I assumed correctly that it was about that.
	I assumed incorrectly that the inhumanity was just the kind of price that we paid for excellence.
	You know, this is how we go make excellent movies and excellent TV shows and all this stuff that I loved growing up.
	What I learned very quickly was that a lot of the leadership in Hollywood doesn't give two shits about excellence.
	They just care about commoditizing art and artists and wringing every cent out of their workforce in order to just, you know, keep making money, money, money.
	And I didn't want to be a part of that.
	I knew that if I was a part of that, I would be complicit in it, whether I liked it or not.
	And I really felt like God told me as I was, you know, really wrestling with this, I felt like God told me in his still small voice, like, hey, You're not wrong.
	It's very broken, but I'm going to, I got, I'm going to make a better version of this and I'm going to use you as a leader in doing that.
	And you're going to have to go create a new like United Artists type of studio that like Chaplin and Pickford and Fairbanks and all of those OGs in the silent era did.
	And it almost worked, but it didn't quite work.
	And I think that now is the time.
	Now is the time.
	Yeah, I gotta ask you, are you buoyed by all the kind of systemically different approaches, whether it's Angel Studios, whether it's, you know, the paywall, Daily Wire stuff?
	It seems to me that Hollywood hasn't woken up to the 21st century.
	I definitely think that they, listen, like any massive ship, right, it, it, It takes a while for it to turn.
	And so therefore, there's a lot of these other much more nimble, much more inventive, smaller vessels like Angel, like Daily Wire, like, you know, various others that have tapped into lots of different things that I think are very crucial, specifically really understanding your audience and catering to your audience, valuing your audience.
	And in doing that, hopefully also really valuing your artists, right?
	I think that you cannot have greatness without doing both things.
	You have to value your artists and value the art that they are creating, and by that I mean value your audience, right?
	They are deserving of the best.
	And I think that Hollywood, unfortunately, it's such a massive thing, and the people at the top of this massive thing do very well, right?
	They're all making this money as it goes upward.
	And a lot of people at the bottom have just gotten pinched over and over again.
	Our guilds and unions have not been able to protect us.
	We've negotiated away almost everything.
	Our contracts are up in about a year and a half.
	And at that point, I'm not even sure what we'll be able to get from it.
	I think AI is going to start to dominate.
	Yeah, that's a very scary proposition.
	What does AI do, especially for those who've signed away their image to be usable in an artificial intelligence production?
	We're talking to actor, founder of Wildwood Studios, Zachary Levi.
	Follow him at Zachary Levi.
	Instagram, also Wildwood Studios with a Y. Don't go anywhere, Zachary.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
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	Chuck?
	Guys?
	I know Kung Fu.
	Chuck?
	laughs And many, many other things.
	It's actually a riff on a show I used to watch as a kid called Joe 90, which was actually marionettes.
	A little boy who could absorb any skill and was a secret agent done by the same people as Thunderbirds.
	But this was live action, and I can't believe five seasons.
	My son loved Chuck, but the guy who starred in it...
	I guess he's just typecast because he's such a cool dude.
	He just plays superheroes.
	We are delighted to have Zachary Levi back with us.
	Gotta ask him before we talk about other things, Zachary.
	Chuck, who can do whatever he needs to do as his secret agent, or whether you're a Shazam, does it ever go to your head that the world sees you as a superhero?
	I don't think they do.
	I mean, you know, some kids obviously can be delighted in the mystery of all of that.
	But I will say this.
	All of the projects I've gotten to be a part of, Chuck and Shazam and Tangled and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, I mean, you know, so many wonderful projects.
	They all bring a lot of joy to people.
	And I've gotten to meet so many wonderful fans over the many years I've been blessed enough to do this.
	And that's what they share with me the most.
	And to the extent that I get to bring joy into people's lives magically, if that's my superpower, then I'll take it.
	All right, well, he dropped a little secret in the break that he's got a new movie coming out next year.
	We're going to have him back before I go into the administration to discuss that.
	But he's broken out of typecasting because he's stepping into the arena to talk about other stuff with a rather viral interview with that individual, Bill Maher.
	Let's show a little clip from that interview.
	And again, this is the main difference between the left and the right here.
	When the left loses an election, yes, they grumble about it, and they say things they shouldn't, like he's an illegitimate president.
	They don't actually try to stay in office.
	Kamala Harris...
	Hang on a second.
	Bill, if Hillary Clinton and the Democrats got their way when they were challenging Trump and saying he was an illegitimate president in 2016, and they somehow got that...
	Steele dossier to somehow, which was, by the way, all completely nonsense.
	You watch too much Fox News.
	I don't watch Fox News at all!
	I legitimately do not watch Fox News.
	Hold on a second, Bill.
	Did Hillary not, did they not all think that he was a Russian asset?
	And that Russia had fixed the election?
	Was that not what they were saying?
	Okay, but I gotta explain to you the difference.
	Was it not?
	And then we don't have to talk about this all night.
	Was it not?
	My favorite is that little vocal phrase.
	I don't want Fox News at all!
	It's my favorite part of the clip.
	What's it like?
	Because it bugs me so much.
	I remember this moment where a cameraman who's related to quite a famous guy in Hollywood, an actor...
	The cameraman's completely conservative.
	He tells him as he's leaving my studio, getting into the elevator, that so's his brother, but he won't come out of the closet.
	What's it like for you to, you know, branch out of late and talk about stuff that isn't purely related to acting?
	Was that a tough decision?
	Was there some event that did it for you?
	Are you glad you did it?
	I'm just curious because it seems like there's a lot of people out there who should be doing that but aren't, Zach.
	I mean, listen, I can't speak to anybody else's journey.
	I think it's important that we all have grace and patience with everyone.
	And none of us can expect anything of anyone else.
	We can only hope for the best in their life.
	And I would say for myself and anyone else in my industry, it's a very liberal industry and has been for a long time.
	And so being your authentic self, you're often walking a very, very, very fine razor's edge.
	And I walked that, I think, pretty deftly for many years.
	This election was just too important to sit on my hands any longer.
	For me, and I know that a lot of people on the left felt the same way about Trump, but I really genuinely felt like if Kamala Harris would have been elected president, then we would be in really dire straits as a nation, as a world.
	I really believe that.
	What was the biggest issue for you?
	Was it economic security?
	What was the thing that made you say, okay, I've got to be open here?
	I just, I mean, all of them.
	Look, just to look at both, let's say, you know, Trump's four years in office versus Biden-Harris four years in office.
	I mean, the country was a stronger, more prosperous, Our border was more secure.
	Our economy was more prosperous.
	We weren't involved in foreign conflicts.
	So many things, right?
	I mean, was it a perfect presidency?
	Absolutely not.
	Is he a perfect man?
	Absolutely not.
	Like I said very vocally, I'm voting for not just Donald Trump.
	It's for J.D. and Elon and Vivek and Bobby and Tulsi.
	I mean, like, to me, that is what we need.
	We need disruptors that are going to get in there because, to me, the biggest issue, and this is Where I think a large divide between voters, left voters and right voters, but really just kind of voters in general.
	Do you believe that we have a captured government or not?
	Do you believe that the corruption at the highest level is there or not?
	And I think that Trump, like him or lump him, he was never a part of the political machine, right?
	The disruptor.
	He came in and people were like, well, wait a minute, we can't control.
	That's what I've been saying for years.
	He's a threat to vested interest because nobody owns him.
	Not the unions, not Big Pharma, talking of which Bobby Kennedy, we're watching the news roll, has just arrived in Congress.
	This is going to be an interesting series of meetings for Bobby.
	We've only just scratched the surface.
	Thank you for doing what you do.
	Can't wait to get you back after Christmas.
	Follow him right now at ZacharyLevi.
	Like the jeans.
	And also Wildwood with a Y, Wildwood Studios on Instagram.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
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	Is that the best way to just keep DMing you on Instagram?
	No, well, you've got my assistant's email, so you can just be...
	I'll send it to her.
	Good.
	Awesome.
	Merry Christmas.
	Cheers.
	Have a great day.
	Merry Christmas.
	See you, buddy.
	That was great.
	Yeah.
	And Johnson liked it.
	Mics are hot.
	I may adopt your strategy.
	For the pre-record...
	Time to put Christianity back in America.
	Then for that...
	It'll say mute.
	Hey, Seb, can you hear us?
	I can, I gotcha.
	I can't hear him.
	So we're not hearing anything from you.
	It could be something.
	Our audio's up.
	Our audio's up.
	We had this with them a couple weeks ago.
	Yep.
	Check, check, check, check.
	Hello, hello.
	One, two, one, two.
	You got me?
	I need to call Nephi or text him if not.
	90 seconds.
	Otherwise, what we could do is just reconnect.
	Sometimes just reconnecting.
	You want to dial them up again?
	- There wasn't anything else going on. - And the Rumblers say that Chris Stagall has already announced on his show that he's guest hosting Thursday Friday.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Good.
	Hey, you got me, John?
	John, you got me?
	I'm fine.
	You want to call me when I sell?
	You just use video, yep.
	No, just use the video and then call yourself.
	And then cell phone audio, yep.
	Yep, yep, yep.
	Alrighty.
	Perfect.
	Wanna use any cuts here?
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	We're trying to connect to John Solomon.
	We have video, but we need sound as well.
	I just want to give you an update.
	I haven't even mentioned it yet.
	The school shooting Madison, Wisconsin.
	The Abundant Life Christian Church.
	A teacher and a teen student were killed in the shooting earlier today.
	The third fatality is the shooter themselves.
	So three bodies at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin.
	We will have more updates and share them with you as soon as we have them.
	We have to check in with the headquarters of JustTheNews.com with their founder and editor-in-chief, John Solomon.
	Merry Christmas, John!
	Merry Christmas, Sam.
	Good to be with you.
	All right.
	I don't know if you're going to break multiple stories this week on our show, as you did last Monday.
	But we were watching the footage.
	It's at the top of your Twitter feed.
	I reposted it.
	RFK Jr. walking into the Senate offices.
	What do you expect?
	I'm here.
	And look, you know this city better than anyone.
	This may be the most contentious event.
	Set of meetings and eventual confirmation hearings because it's not necessarily the Republicans that are going to have the most problem with Bobby Kennedy.
	It's the Democrats because he left the tent.
	Is this the one you expect to have the most fireworks?
	I do.
	There's a lot of reasons for it.
	The first is he did leave the tent, so the Democrats are a little sore about that.
	They realize he contributed to that winning coalition that Donald Trump put together in November.
	Another one is that one of the Democrats' biggest funders is Big Pharma.
	And Big Pharma has a lot to lose if Bobby Kennedy is in.
	And so they'll be protecting their caste constituency in addition to their pride.
	And I think it will be, I think you have it just right, Seb.
	It'll probably be the most contentious of all of the confirmation.
	That said, I think that Bobby Kennedy has a good chance of getting confirmed.
	He'll stick to the president's messaging.
	He'll stick to making America healthy again.
	Who could be against making America healthy again?
	And so I think if he sticks to that positive messaging, doesn't get bogged down in old things he said from a long time ago, says he's just going to carry out President Trump's agenda, I think he'll squeak through.
	But you're right, the Democrats are going to throw, well, a little bit of jelly beans at him before they get done.
	Yeah, look, it's not empirical.
	It's not scientific.
	And it is Joe Rogan.
	But Joe Rogan made this point once with regards to what, you know, Bobby Kennedy make America healthy again.
	If you go back and watch the family videos of American families at the beach in the 50s and 60s, you just don't see overweight people.
	And it's not that, you know, we didn't have a roaring economy.
	We did.
	So something's wrong with, you know, the fact that we have a sizable proportion of the nation that is actually medically obese.
	What happened?
	Well, it happened in the last couple of generations and maybe Bobby Kennedy can get to the bottom of it.
	All right.
	The president had a fascinating press conference at Mar-a-Lago today where he discussed everything from the assassination of the UnitedHealth CEO to the drones.
	And then he had standing next to him the CEO of SoftBank, who just announced a $100 billion investment in America over the next four years.
	Have you ever seen anything of the like, John, whereby whether it's Notre Dame Cathedral a week ago and the way the president was received or whether it's massive investments being announced, you know, more than a month before the inauguration, it's as if the new president is already the commander-in-chief, John.
	He absolutely is.
	He is making a difference.
	The world is moving at his pace now.
	They're not waiting any longer.
	They're getting engaged with him because they know this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for America to reassert its leadership in the world and for the other places in the world that have suffered through Well, incongruities and sometimes inconsistencies and sometimes pure mumbling from the Joe Biden presidency to get clarity.
	And when America is clear, the world is safer, the world is more prosperous.
	And I think people are excited no matter what their personal opinions were of President Trump over the years.
	They're very excited now.
	I can't let you finish your segment today without asking you...
	15 million in damages settled in President Trump's favor against George Stephanopoulos and ABC, a million of which Stephanopoulos has to pay himself.
	Is this something they can just, you know, sweep under the carpet or is this a big deal and maybe portentous of more to come?
	I think they're ringing a bell for the legacy media.
	There are five years of this relentless negative publicity that often was based on false premises, false statements, false facts.
	Donald Trump is finally getting even, and I think that this settlement is the first of several that will maybe be a self-correction moment for the media, certainly a moment of chagrin for the legacy media.
	Donald Trump has the upper hand And I think that ABC agreement shows that.
	And then I think, you know, the real question is, how do they engage going forward?
	Are they going to continue to do the silliness of the last eight years?
	If so, they get put in a penalty box.
	I think they'll be frozen out, a lot of the press conferences.
	But if they start to engage more constructively, I think you'll see a much more constructive conversation between the president and the media.
	And that'll be one more thing that the president will have helped fix.
	So, it sounds like you're not sure there'll be a change in behavior?
	They'll just have to pay the consequences?
	I'm not sold on the change in behavior.
	There's certainly a change in the bottom line.
	Someone's got to write some checks, but I'm not 100% sure the behavior's changed yet.
	We'll see.
	Let's see what happens.
	But you know the great thing about the president?
	No matter how many hard feelings, how much coverage he's gotten, he's giving them one more chance, which I think is what the American people want.
	That's very gracious, and I think, hopefully, the media will respond in kind.
	Yeah, he's got more patience and grace than I would have.
	He needs to go off and clear his throat with some seasonal eggnog.
	In the meantime, make sure you're following John at JSolomonReports, JustTheNews.com every evening on RIV, JustTheNews.noise.
	Your calls next here on America First, 833-333-Gawker.
	That's 833-334-6752.
	Oh, sorry, I forgot.
	We have to talk about Z Factor and Katie's little message.
	Katie, talk to us about Z Factor.
	Okay, I will say, if I don't take it, I'm up at 4. And I love that time with the dogs, but I'd rather be asleep in bed.
	So when I take Relief Factor, I actually sleep till 6, even 7 o'clock in the morning.
	I tell you what, I'm a much happier camper.
	Is my brain already in the White House?
	I think that's the first time in six years I did that.
	Z Factor is real.
	Go to relieffactor.com.
	Click on the Z Factor tab.
	If you value a good night's sleep and you don't want to feel drowsy in the morning if you took something that just leaves you woolly-headed, 1-800-4-RELIEF and ask for your first bottle of Z Factor.
	relieffactor.com, 1-800-4-RELIEF. Still any titles?
	Yeah, what for?
	Monologue, Levi, and Solomon.
	President Trump...
	Gives the media one last chance.
	No, no, no, no, for the monologue.
	Knows the truth about the drones.
	No, the drones, colon, President Trump knows the truth.
	And then for Solomon, what you just said.
	Okay.
	And also Levi.
	Yeah, Levi...
	You were about to think of something and then Solomon came on.
	yeah it had to be Trump Zachary Levi By the way, did you hear the police said they didn't know if the shooter was a man or a woman?
	Okay.
	Oh, no.
	Which means it's got to be another trans thing.
	Oh, no.
	Christian school.
	Did the cops say that?
	This guy, Barnes?
	Yeah.
	All right.
	I'll ask you to say that on air.
	So we just dropped eight seconds from that thing live.
	Levi?
	Alex?
	Say again?
	So you just hit the dumb button, right?
	Yes, sir.
	Okay.
	who knows how to set up a zoom call who knows how to set up a zoom call Like to invite somebody to it.
	John was an old man.
	America First.
	Magnificent.
	I really don't want to believe it, but there is a pattern.
	Jeff, what did you hear from the chief of police in Madison about the school shooter?
	He said he wasn't sure if the shooter was a male or a female.
	If they have the dead body, there's only one way that they're not sure.
	What is that, Jeff?
	They don't know what to say.
	Right.
	Is it another trans killer as so many, many times before?
	Nashville and so forth.
	We'll keep you updated.
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	Let's go to your calls.
	Peter wants to talk about the president's press conference this morning.
	Hi, Dr. G. Hey.
	I've got some great things to say regarding today's press conference at Mar-a-Lago, which President Trump held.
	I agree, but I can't wait for him to lower drug prices, get rid of every last vaccine mandate, and sue media outlets for defaming Donald Trump and editing that Kamala Harris interview to make her look A-OK. And I can't wait for Donald Trump to sue the Des Moines Register for that election interference, the Ann Seltzer poll that claimed to show Kamala Harris in the lead, which manipulated the public.
	Oh yeah, we're going to have to talk about that breaking news as well.
	Absolutely fascinating.
	That press conference today, if that's a taste of the next four years, it was absolutely sublime.
	Thank you, Peter, and Merry, Merry Christmas.
	Don in Los Angeles.
	Dr. G, ho, ho, ho, Merry Free Christmas.
	I am reveling in watching the left-wing media stumbling all over themselves trying to attack Kash Patel.
	And just real quickly, the funny one is they keep saying that he's going to weaponize the FBI against Trump's opponents.
	I'm thinking, oh, you mean like the Biden administration?
	Yeah, The Obama administration, the Hillary State Department, like they all did to Trump.
	You mean like that?
	Exactly.
	The irony, you could shovel it with a spade.
	Absolutely with a shovel.
	Thank you, my friend.
	Let's go to Dave in Arizona.
	Ultra-maga-dittos.
	We did it.
	We did it, dittos.
	We did it, we did it, we did it.
	That's how all conversations should start in America.
	Hello, my name's Sebastian Gorka.
	We did it.
	Carry on.
	You've got 70 seconds.
	Absolutely.
	Well, it'll be exciting to see you at AmFest later this week.
	I'm glad you're able to join.
	Are you tracking me?
	That's not even official.
	Yes, I will be addressing the thousands assembled in Phoenix for AmFest for Turning Point this Friday.
	Thank you.
	So you're going to be there, Dave?
	Absolutely.
	It'll be my fourth year, sir.
	It'll be good to see you back together with Admiral Bannon.
	We always have a good time with the Breitbart reunions, right?
	Absolutely, absolutely.
	What else would you like to share?
	Well, we got to be on our guard.
	We've still got a lot of people that are establishment class that are going to fight against every one of President Trump's agendas.
	So I'm glad that you're going to be there to steer the direction because the nullification project in 2025 will be the one from 2017 to the 17th power.
	Yeah, although this time we're not going to have seditionists inside the building, so it's going to be very, very different.
	Thank you, Dave.
	Thank you to all of your callers.
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	And look, honestly, every video I've seen, and I've spent the last couple days looking at every one of these videos, every video I have seen on Twitter or on the Internet are all airplanes.
	They're literally all airplanes.
	Some of them will show an airplane that's kind of stable out there and says, that's a drone.
	And actually, it's an airplane flying towards you at 30,000 feet, and I can see the lighting on it.
	We asked the question last week, who is the dumbest person in Washington, D.C.? We forgot to add him.
	Why is a former congressman always on CNN and MSNBC? Have you ever seen people, Eric, I love this, in their Twitter bios, former candidate.
	Why would you ever write former candidate?
	Do you understand that?
	It's like act Actual loser.
	Not former candidate.
	Actual loser.
	It's holding up a pedigree, just to say, like, in his case, I was a congressman, you know, 30 years ago.
	And 30 years later, he'll still be saying he's a former congressman.
	But yeah, along with the fact that they, like CNN and others, they like being able to have a Republican on to say, oh, look, here's a Republican that we like having on every now and then, just so they can pretend they're bipartisan.
	Well, Jeff, don't you love it when people have in their bio who they never even went to Congress and it says, former candidate?
	I like when they're like, ran against Nancy Pelosi or something like that, too.
	They always put that in there.
	Like, it's a big name, but they ran against them.
	Do they really think that looks good?
	I don't know.
	I think it's the only thing they can put.
	This is a brand new congressman from Texas.
	He's a friend of ours.
	He's Brandon Gill.
	And he spoke at the Young Republicans in New York at the weekend.
	And he had a great take on, well, Daniel Penny.
	Cut 12. It's great to be here all the way from North Texas.
	There we go, in the home in New York of the great patriot Daniel Penny.
	I don't know about y'all, but I think we need a lot more Daniel Pennys in this country.
	Because we have far too many Jordan Neelys.
	We have far too many Jordan Ely's and we need more Daniel Penney's.
	I don't have video of this, but he also said the following.
	This is the right attitude.
	I have no interest in bipartisanship after what they did to us.
	That is the way.
	And Dan Scavino was also honored there.
	And he said the following thing on Twitter that I reposted everywhere because it was simply so bloody superb.
	And he's, you know, more famous than I am or closer to the president.
	So we can understand how bad it is for him.
	But people keep asking me, hey, Sebastian, how are you preparing for going to the White House?
	And I say, well, I'm doing a lot of training because I'm swimming through a sea of resumes people have sent me, especially people who I haven't heard of for 15 years who now say they're my best friend.
	It is.
	Jeff, you cannot imagine how many resumes I receive on a daily basis.
	Still?
	It's been almost a month now, isn't it?
	Yes!
	Every day!
	What should I reply, Jeff?
	I'll handle the replies if you want.
	Oh, now that's a good offer.
	I'll just forward them to you.
	That would be delicious.
	Alright, so this is Dan Scavino's tweet from the weekend, which is just, I wish I'd done this before.
	You know, when you see something and you say, I wish I had stolen that already because that is so incredibly, incredibly good.
	I have, big letters, zero interest in working with anyone who is a former colleague that disappeared upon our departure from the White House and was nowhere to be found when President Trump announced his candidacy on November the 15th, 2022. I was there.
	I was there at Mar-a-Lago.
	Or who were silent throughout 2023. Again, capitals.
	Stop calling me.
	Stop emailing me.
	Stop texting me.
	You're not going to hear back from me.
	What do you think, Eric?
	Is that the Jeff way?
	That absolutely taken out of Jeff's own heart.
	That is the right attitude to have.
	That suddenly these people, I would add one thing.
	Anyone who's sending you their resumes and, you know, trying to get something, ask, who'd you support in the primaries in 2016, 2020, and 2024?
	Alex, I saw you grinning there when I read Scavino's little tweet out there.
	Just give me your – because you are the in-house diplomat.
	When somebody who hasn't stood up for the president or America First or for MAGA suddenly wants a job in the administration, what kind of person is that, Alex?
	Well, here's what my mind went to.
	What?
	You should put them all in a filing cabinet, and then after you leave, start a private company for CT. And there you have employees.
	But seriously, what kind of person isn't a team player and then begs to be on the team?
	Pretends.
	What?
	Cretins.
	Cretins!
	That is the correct pronunciation.
	They are utterly cretins.
	Absolutely pathetic.
	It's fun to have fun with these individuals, especially when people on their side, and I think Stephen Smith, I think he is a Democrat.
	I mean, I'm not a sports guy, but this is fascinating.
	After the Inspector General report from the Department of Justice last week, he went on a little bit of a rant about January the 6th.
	Stephen A. Smith, cut three.
	Vice President-elect J.D. Vance posted the following on X, quote, for those keeping score at home, this was labeled a dangerous conspiracy theory months ago, end quote.
	Didn't hear anything about that for the election.
	Didn't hear anything about that.
	When the quote-unquote insurrection was broached by Vice President Kamala Harris as a Democratic nominee, the belief that Donald Trump was a danger to democracy and using this as a profound, illuminating bullet point to make that case.
	And now here we are yet again finding even more evidence to Donald Trump's claims when he articulated that Process is rigged.
	My big issue is that I'm really, really sick and tired of every time I turn around finding something else that the Democrats have lied about or downplayed or misrepresented along the way.
	People are speaking out.
	Even Democrats are speaking out.
	But we're not getting enough people to tell us the truth about the drones.
	Maybe Marvin from Ohio has the answer.
	Let's listen.
	Line one.
	Marvin, welcome to America First.
	Hello, Seb.
	Hello.
	Yeah, I just wanted to mention that these drones that they're seeing in the sky, they have anti-gravity capabilities.
	You see the one that landed in Heathrow Airport in England?
	They've actually taken pictures of it.
	It was like a metal sphere.
	It landed and took off again.
	What is your proof that they have anti-gravity capabilities?
	Because so does a helicopter.
	Well, these things don't have any means of propulsion.
	There's no jets.
	How do you know that?
	How do you know they have no means of propulsion?
	They do have means of propulsion.
	It's anti-gravity.
	But how do you know that?
	This is a pretty big claim.
	How do you know the drones flying across America do not have conventional means of propulsion?
	Well, you can see it.
	There's nothing visible.
	You can't see a propeller when it's spinning.
	You know that, right?
	Right, right.
	But a little round spear that they've taken still photos of.
	It doesn't have anything.
	I'm looking right now.
	There is no such report on the internet of a spherical UFO at Heathrow.
	So what are you referring to, Marvin?
	The drones that are over New Jersey.
	Some of them are...
	Okay, so hang on.
	Are you talking about Heathrow or New Jersey?
	No, Heathrow in England.
	I just looked that up.
	There is no such report.
	Are you on like Infowars or something like that?
	I've seen it.
	I've seen the article.
	Let's talk about America.
	How do you know that these are means of non-conventional propulsion?
	Well, the only thing I can say from the pictures, I haven't seen any kind of propulsion system.
	I'll say it one more time.
	A drone's propellers are not visible when they spin because they're going at thousands of revolutions per minute, especially when they are hundreds and thousands of feet above you.
	You will not see the propeller.
	It's like you don't see a helicopter's propeller blade spin.
	Well, several people have taken pictures of the orbs.
	Okay, Marvin, this isn't like...
	Stay on the line.
	I'm just for complete giggles.
	Stay on the line and tell Jeff what article you have about the orbs that he threw, because as far as I can tell, there is no such article.
	Please, let's stay in the real world.
	I mean, it's all fun.
	But let's stay in the real world.
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	Oh, do you have the two images? do you have the two images?
	Uh, let me get them.
	The spherical...
	Yeah, the letter.
	Yeah, yeah, I'm working on that now.
	There's a sphere bar in Heathrow in terminal number five.
	And if you have lots of drinks, you will see UFOs.
	We gotta do Casio, too.
	You gotta do what?
	Casio.
	Oh, yeah.
	Um...
	Six...
	Seven...
	10, 12, 16, 17.
	No, forget six.
	He's such a pathetic person.
	Start with nine.
	President Trump says the U.S. government knows what the drones are.
	Watch President Trump crush...
	Moron reporter.
	Oh, 12.
	I like 12.
	Let's do 12.
	New congressman at Brandon Gill, colon, We need a lot more Jason Penney's.
	Daniel Penney.
	Daniel.
	Then 16. Do we even need an inauguration?
	Question mark.
	Japanese company drops $100 billion on Trump's America.
	17, President Trump sounds... ... President Trump sounds... ...
	... Mikes are hot, and...
	Do you want to use the Joe Stuff audio again?
	Yes, please.
	Sonia, is that right?
	Air Marshall National Council?
	Dr. Gorka, you got it.
	That's right.
	Good.
	Let's squeeze president.
	Is it president or chairman?
	Executive director.
	Put exec gear.
	And then I've got the images of the letter you sent me, so we'll walk through that, okay?
	Got it.
	Great.
	All right.
	60 seconds.
	Angel Tree audio at the top.
	Angel Tree audio at the top.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	All right.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Music Music Crude and
	slow, snowflake.
	Yet attack was no better than that of a clumsy child.
	It's pretty much the left in a nutshell.
	I think we have an audio from one of the children you have helped through the Prison Fellowship Angel Tree program.
	Let's hear from Joseph.
	I will write to my dad about what happened and one Christmas gift I got from Angel Tree was a drawing pad.
	That was my favorite.
	I also got paint and colored pencils.
	I knew he knew what I wanted and he got the right thing.
	My name is Joseph and I love Angel Tree.
	Just the joy in his voice.
	Isn't that worth it?
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	All right, I was complaining about having to...
	Swim through all the resumes people are sending me who want a job in the administration.
	It's tough to manage my inbox at the moment.
	But when I get an email this morning saying, urgent!
	No, it's a text.
	Urgent!
	Open your emails!
	I just sent you something!
	Some people you pay attention to when they do that, and in this case, it was one of those people.
	Sonia Labosco, Executive Director of the Air Marshal National Council.
	Welcome back to America First, Sonia.
	Dr. Gorka, thank you so much for having me back and thank you for listening.
	I appreciate you immensely.
	Well, I think I discovered you first after you broke some incredible news on Dan Bongino's show a while back and then Dan shared your contact details with me and we got you on our show to discuss that.
	Will you share the gist of the document you sent me today and why it's such a serious call for assistance?
	Yeah, well, I received some information from air marshals that were deployed on a worldwide deployment right now, and they had been watching The Sean Ryan Show, which I had been watching the show as well, and there was a guest on there.
	Her name is Sarah Adams, and she was with the CIA, and her call sign is super bad.
	And she put out some information regarding a new way that Al-Qaeda is going to plan on, you know, attacking the homeland.
	And that's with invisible bombs.
	These are bombs that are undetected by magnetometers, undetected by canine scent.
	So when they sent me the information, I immediately put the agency, the TSA, on notice because They're very aware of this, Dr. Gorga.
	TSA had a copy of the video and they've taken it down and they've ignored the fact that they have not identified and let our employees that are deployed worldwide know that this threat is happening right now.
	So let's be a little bit precise in our language.
	They're not invisible.
	They're just not detectable by the traditional means of detection we use for improvised explosive devices.
	So with regards to this person, I've been texting with Sean all morning to put me in touch with this former CIA analyst.
	What are you hearing from your colleagues, from your Air Marshal brethren?
	Are these reports, is this a one-off?
	Is this some Al-Qaeda technology whose existence hasn't been confirmed?
	What do we know about these technologies?
	How seriously do we have to take it?
	This is beyond serious.
	On a scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11. And Sarah Adams is the real deal.
	We are actually using, you know, we don't have an intelligence division anymore in TSA. They took our law enforcement intelligence division away.
	So we can only depend on the air marshals' open source intelligence.
	So we actually follow Sarah Adams, who writes a newsletter for Sean Ryan and OpenTel Insources.
	She is the only one that's providing the air marshals the information that we need to stay on our feet and stay on our toes with threats.
	But this is a credible threat.
	This technology has already been developed and they're planning an attack on our homeland in 2025. So what are you recommending in your letter happen now and who has it been sent to?
	This letter, we're recommended immediately to do a law enforcement classified brief.
	We need the intelligence on this.
	We love Sarah Adams.
	She's super bad.
	But we need some information on the inside as well.
	We need TSA to acknowledge this threat, acknowledge that it exists.
	I mean, they do not care about our American travelers.
	They know that this threat is credible, it's out there, and they still stick their head in the sand and people are going to die.
	We're not ready for the type of attack that's going to happen on our homeland right now.
	We're not ready and we're trying to push as hard as we can.
	We're not waiting on an inauguration.
	See, we can't wait because we know the terrorists are not sleeping.
	They're training every day to try to defeat us.
	So what is the immediate action that should occur?
	Immediately.
	Congress should call immediately.
	There should be immediate briefings behind the scenes.
	The DHS secretary, unfortunately, we know that he was impeached and he didn't show up at the last congressional call in December.
	But somebody needs to take some action and guard our homeland.
	This threat is real and it's coming to us.
	I am concerned, and I also told you another, I am concerned because we've got an inauguration coming up.
	If these chemicals that are inside the vest are not detectable by a magnetometer or a canine, think about what that means for the venues that 47 is visiting right now, the venues that our law enforcement are in.
	Think about the areas that we think are secure, and this technology can get through and beat our systems.
	We should be beyond concerned.
	Yeah, especially when it's events of that nature that aren't controlled spaces like an enclosed airport or travel hub.
	That's a very, very different situation.
	Your reaction to the IG report where the conspiracy theorists, so-called, were confirmed last week that there were literally dozens of assets on January the 6th.
	Was that a surprise to you, Sonia Labosco?
	It was not.
	I mean, we knew that they were there.
	You know, we know that the FBI, we know that Ray has been a liar for his entire existence, that he has been working behind the scenes to defeat the American people.
	I was not surprised by it.
	And I hope he doesn't get a pardon, but I think we're going to see a lot of pardons come out in this upcoming before January the 20th that are not going to be shocking, but they definitely knew they were going to get away with it.
	Yeah, it's hard to be even more shocking than what we saw.
	Chinese spies pardoned last week, people who had thousands of pedophilic pornographic images on their computers at home being pardoned by Joe Biden.
	We're talking to Sonia Lobosco.
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	Mike's hot.
	Thank you.
	I want to revisit, just remind people about the original story that brought us together, okay?
	Yes, sir.
	Whether there have been any developments in that, okay?
	Yes, please.
	Thank you.
	Okay, good.
	Has that letter been sent?
	Yes, sir.
	That was sent this morning.
	I sent that letter first thing this morning because this is something we can't sit on and wait, right?
	We're going to get to that in the future.
	We're funding the Taliban almost $80 million a week, and they're using that to attack us on the homeland.
	And why our congressional representatives who know this very well, they know that we're funding the Taliban to come and attack us on our homeland.
	At 80 plus million a week, Dr. Gorka, think about that.
	80 million a week.
	Yep.
	Insanity.
	Insanity.
	Oh, we haven't played Cut 19.
	We're going to have to play that. - Yeah.
	What else?
	Which cut?
	No, not here.
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	And then I'll do my pillow.
	Four.
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	Yep But she's not active right Is she active?
	CIA? Inactive.
	Inactive, right.
	Do you have contact details for Sarah?
	I do.
	Would you share them so we can get her on the show tomorrow?
	Absolutely.
	I'll send you what I have for her.
	Thanks.
	She's been an incredible resource.
	Thanks.
	A minute 40. To
	You can put it back in this fucking institute.
	Thank you.
	That was wrong.
	And that is the part that I want to modify.
	Many dangerous gangs are in our city.
	ICE would like to go after them.
	We should be coordinating to go after dangerous people.
	We have a dangerous Venezuelan gang that has participated in all sorts of crime.
	I think that's the mayor of New York.
	I think that's Eric Adams.
	Now they want to work with ICE? Hmm, fascinating.
	Does he mean it?
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	For those who missed the breaking news you made a while back when you came on my show...
	Remind them of the story of how the air marshals were being abused for political purposes.
	And if you'd be so kind, would you give us an update on where that issue stands today?
	Yeah, well, when we first broke the story, it was because the air marshals had been weaponized.
	There was a letter sent by Congressman Benny Thompson to the TSA administrator, David Pekoski, Asking him to target white supremacists and people that were at the Capitol on January the 6th, 2021. So with that letter that Benny Thompson sent to the TSA administrator, he reassigned the air marshals based on a manifest.
	TSA scrubbed a manifest list and found out everybody that was in the National Capitol region from January the 5th to January the 7th, 2021. You didn't have to be at the Capitol.
	They put you on a suspected domestic terrorist watch list And that's when the air marshal's mission completely changed.
	We started following people in the sky, a physical security detail of three air marshals on each person that they deemed a suspected domestic terrorist from January the 6th.
	So that's where we raised thousands and thousands of resources following Trump supporters around the United States.
	And some of those weren't even, you know, they were in the national capital region for a funeral or for a business interview.
	They weren't even there for a political reason.
	Yet they were put on this list by TSA at the request of Benny Thompson.
	And what's the latest on that?
	Is the Air Marshal Service still being abused for political purposes?
	Yes, we are.
	There's been no change in that.
	There's been no change.
	And recently we broke the story about, you know, Tulsi Gabbard being on the same suspected domestic terrorist watch list.
	And Congress has gotten involved.
	But it's my understanding today they've not provided one single document from TSA to the Congressional Oversight Committees as to why they put Lieutenant Colonel Tulsi Gabbard on the same suspected domestic terrorist watch list.
	So we don't even know the excuse they use, Sonia.
	No, we have no idea why they put her on the list.
	The only thing that we know is that she'd been on the media and she'd been very outspoken about Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris and how they had just absolutely ruined our country.
	And her being outspoken, she was put on the list the very next day after she was on a Fox News story talking about that issue.
	So there was nothing in her background that would have put her on this list.
	TSA is an administrative agency.
	They have no true power to be out doing suspected domestic terrorist investigations.
	They never vetted her for any reason.
	And we wasted a lot of resources following not only her, but her family as well.
	Can the air marshal service be fixed after January the 20th, Sonia?
	We absolutely 100% can.
	It can be repaired.
	We have to get away from TSA. We have to be moved out of TSA. We have to go to a law enforcement entity.
	TSA is an administrative, bureaucratic, unelected agency full of bureaucrats trying to undermine the American safety.
	But if we are moved out of TSA and into a law enforcement entity, this agency can thrive and we can do the job we were hired to do after 9-11.
	In the meantime, please follow this lady, breaking news with regularity that concerns every single American in the nation.
	Labosco Sonja on Twitter, Air Marshal NC as in National Council, airmarshallnc.com, Executive Director of the Air Marshal National Council.
	Thank you, Sonja.
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	We made more progress for working class people and communities of color under Biden.
	Not everything we wanted, not nearly everything we wanted, but more than we'd gotten under preceding presidents.
	And we need to brag about that, rather than sit in a trauma unit that we lost an election by less than 2%.
	You lost it by the popular vote, you moron.
	God, that guy, he really is.
	He's not in D.C. Maybe he gets it for the dumbest person in New York.
	So things were great under Biden.
	Really?
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	Let's go to Michaela, Georgia, line two.
	Dr. Gorka, thank you very much for taking my call.
	This is the second time.
	I've had the honor of speaking with you.
	Everything that I was going to say now has changed listening to the last person speaking, Miss Sonia, and poor Marvin.
	Just poor Marvin.
	That's all I can say about him.
	All right, so what do you want to say after everything's changed?
	Well, I want to say that regarding the bomb that Sonia spoke about, we allow, or Alejandro Mayorkas allows illegals to get on our planes.
	We know nothing about them.
	They mostly have no ID. One of them could be carrying a bomb.
	The drones, how can the government say they're It's not harmful when they say they know nothing about them.
	Well, they can't.
	They can't.
	They're idiots.
	They don't even realize the logic of what they're saying is utter insanity.
	They say, they stand at the podium, we don't know what they are or where they come from, but we know they're not dangerous.
	That doesn't make any sense.
	Right.
	They're idiots.
	And they think we are idiots.
	Now, the left that follows them are obviously idiots.
	But those of us who are awake, not woke, are not idiots.
	And I also wanted to speak on President Trump.
	I have voted for him every primary and every election.
	And in 2015 and 2016, I was actually a never-Trumper.
	But when Rick Perry had to drop out, I went and did my own research.
	On President Trump.
	And I was so impressed with everything that he had done, with how he had given to the community, never asking for any kind of pats on the back for it.
	I found out and discovered that he's an amazing man.
	And we are blessed to have him.
	Well, I'm glad your stint in Never Trump Land was abbreviated to mark your successful entry into a manga world.
	Stay on the line.
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	Let's go to Joe in Illinois, line one.
	Dr. G. I would love nothing more than to see the King of England and his son and Macron of France at his inauguration.
	You could bring the King of Jordan, the King of Saudi Arabia to try to make people understand that Trump is going to make world peace.
	He's going to bring back the Abraham Accords, and I don't know who else you can think of, but...
	No, I like the idea.
	I don't know what the limit is on how many world leaders we can have here, but I agree with the ones that you mentioned.
	So, although the breaking news out of Canada, Joe, is that Trudeau may have to dissolve the government.
	He may not be prime minister for long, so maybe he doesn't get an invitation.
	Let's go to Ray in Livermore, line three.
	Yeah, Trudeau's government's dissolving.
	The German government is dissolving around Schultz.
	France is having its problems.
	The world is changing right before us.
	Isn't it amazing?
	Who said elections have consequences?
	It was that senator from Illinois, right, Ray?
	Yes, very consequential.
	I called about the drones, but let me just say this.
	Is my resume already in the trash?
	I'm the senior caller at large and self-appointed ombudsman.
	What title do we give you if I don't have a radio show?
	Senior what at large?
	Just senior guy behind the tall grass at large?
	No, coffee boy, driver.
	I'll take anything you got, Dr. G. Yeah, I'm so curious to see what happens when I'm in this position because we need good people we can trust, a former infantry.
	Are you excited about 12 o'clock on January the 20th, Ray?
	It's going to be great.
	You're going to see stuff that we've been dreaming about.
	For me, Ronald Reagan was the first president I voted for, and we've been waiting for this kind of stuff that long, Dr. G. We really have.
	But to the drones, a reliable source, although it's on the internet, it's a man who calls himself a retired frogman, has said that And please, I know you'll be quick to kick garbage to the curb, and it doesn't hurt my feelings, that nukes, that lost Ukrainian nukes.
	Yeah, yeah, I heard this.
	There was some drone company CEO who did a video, and he just slipped in this.
	And in the 90s, the Ukrainians lost a nuke, which is like, dude, so what, for 30 years...
	This nuke has been floating around and it's still usable and somebody smuggled into America.
	Just because you make drones doesn't mean you know anything about geopolitics.
	So this is the one theory I've seen, Ray, that they're sniffing nukes.
	And then the other one is, oh, just the aliens.
	Look, Occam's Razor, Ray.
	What was the last vessel that flew across America for a long time and the US government did nothing to it?
	Where did it come from, Ray?
	Oh, you're right.
	The one that had stamped in large letters, made in China.
	Bingo!
	Right.
	Occam's razor.
	When all else is a little bit too complicated, go with the simplest explanation.
	But President Trump knows, and I can't wait to hear the truth.
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	The new Al-Qaeda bomb threat, question mark.
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	One minute.
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	From Alabama. - Thank you. - Thank you. - Thank
	you. - Thank you. - Thank you.
	- I mean, the problem is, you have a framework in your mind that, "How you have a framework in your mind that, "How can Donald Trump, how "How can Donald Trump, how can Donald Trump, how can Donald Trump, Donald Trump, how can Donald Trump, how can Donald Trump?
	Guys, can we cut it out?
	Donald Trump is not an idiot.
	Donald Trump, let me just be very clear.
	Donald Trump is smarter than me, you, and all the critics.
	You know why we know?
	Because he has the White House, the Senate, Totally agree.
	The popular vote, he has a massive media ecosystem bigger than the mainstream built around him and for him and a religious fervor in a political movement around him.
	And his best buddy is the richest person in the history of the world.
	And the most relevant Kennedy is with him.
	This dude is a phenomenon.
	He is the most powerful human on earth and in our lifetime.
	And we're still saying, well, how is this God?
	We look like idiots to ordinary people.
	You're totally right.
	Jeff, how does the guy who actually calls himself a communist and worked in the Obama White House, why is he like the one Democrat who seems to get it?
	He actually understands that they won.
	I know, it is pretty incredible, isn't it?
	And what's his future?
	Is he like making a pitch for like, I'm going to be the man who fixes the Dems?
	I think he's trying to help them a little bit.
	You know what I mean?
	He actually is making sense.
	Yeah, no, it's shocking.
	It's shocking.
	Let's go to Robert in Alabama, line four.
	Welcome, Robert.
	Well, you doing good today?
	I'm breathing.
	I'm on the right side of the grass.
	There you go.
	That's what I like to hear.
	It is...
	I just want to make a comment about the presidential...
	You know, the...
	When he got up and talked to the reporters.
	The press conference this morning.
	Yes, the press conference.
	What about it?
	It's refreshing to see a man that we elected speaking so eloquently about what's going on, what he's going to do.
	You know, it's just totally refreshing.
	Well, it's not just eloquently.
	I just like it, you know, Robert, when he just swipes down the idiots as well.
	The person who said, are you going to take preemptive action against the nuclear sites in Iran?
	He says, what a stupid question.
	I mean, isn't that just refreshing, Robert?
	Yes, it is.
	That's what I've been waiting for.
	I've been waiting for him to get on and do an interview with the reporters.
	That just made my day.
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	Still hard to believe that happened in America just a few months ago.
	The former president, the future president, the then leader of the opposition, shot in the head by a bullet traveling at 3,000 feet per second.
	And then what happened afterwards?
	For me, the definition of courage.
	Here's courage, his example to the world, the fight, fight, fight, but also how those around him didn't run.
	Truly stunning.
	Let's talk about that and so much more with a man who...
	Well, he knows what it means to wear the cloth of the Republic, to fight and bleed for our nation, holder of multiple bronze stars and a Purple Heart.
	He's the author of a series of fictional works, the Eric Steele series and the non-fiction Outlaw Platoon.
	Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan.
	Formerly of the 10th Mountain Division, Captain Sean Parnell, welcome back to America First.
	It's great to be here, Dr. Sebastian Gorka.
	Thank you for that amazing introduction.
	All right.
	Well, we have a lot to discuss.
	I know you know Pete Hegseth.
	We want to talk about being the man who steps into the arena, who decides he wants to serve our nation out of uniform as well as in uniform.
	Can we just dissect for a minute?
	I gave a speech last night to a group of wonderful ladies here in Virginia, and I spent a little bit of time on what happened in Butler.
	You were there.
	You were there when it happened.
	As a practitioner of military arts, can you walk us through what you witnessed there as the gunfire erupted?
	Because President Trump has never served in the military.
	He wore a uniform of a military high school, but he never served in the military.
	But what he did right there, you know, I played at being a soldier.
	I was a weekend warrior in the British military.
	I am convinced if I got shot in the head, And I saw blood on my hand, I would have said, oh my gosh, I've been shot!
	And I would have frozen, and I would have stood there.
	He didn't freeze.
	As a warrior, tell us your reaction to what you witnessed that day.
	Well, I'll tell you, he certainly rose to the moment in a way that few could.
	And I say this as somebody who's been around some of the best of the best in some of the most dire combat situations that you could possibly imagine.
	I've seen men with far more training crumble under the pressure, and that, by the way, is not an insult to them.
	I mean, every time you get shot at, it's a new reaction, right?
	Once somebody's bucket is full, it's full.
	But President Trump, no military training whatsoever, obviously never been in combat before, shot at before, again, rose to the moment in a really unbelievable way.
	And by the way, The country and indeed the world needed him to react like that.
	Okay, explain that.
	That's really good.
	The country and the world needed him to react like that.
	What does that mean, Sean?
	Well, I think for me, as somebody who's been in combat and was at that rally 20 feet from President Trump that day and was with him 20 minutes prior, You know, Dr. Gorka, we have been languishing as a country and directionless for over three years now.
	I think that Americans, by and large, have really, really suffered under the Biden-Harris administration.
	I'll just tell you this.
	There's not a day that goes by where I don't speak to someone who was struggling to pay for their groceries or was struggling to put fuel in their automobile.
	So people have really struggled.
	And I think President Trump has been a light in that very, very dark time for tens of millions of Americans.
	And when those gunshots went off that day, And he fell to the ground.
	I mean, it's important to remember that the vast majority of people for what's, you know, was minutes but seemed like hours didn't know if he was alive or dead.
	Yeah.
	And in fact, as we as we It ushered people out, because we worked for probably eight or nine hours after the rally to try to rescue people.
	Every single person that I spoke to, I swear to God, every single person that I spoke to, the first question was not about how they can get themselves to safety.
	It was, is President Trump okay?
	Is that not...
	Truly, does that not truly capture the greatness of the American heart and why truly this nation is exceptional?
	We're a generous, loving, caring, giving people.
	And in that day, the people cared about President Trump.
	And when he rose to his feet and raised his fist, and I kind of saw it out of the corner of my eye and saying, fight, fight, fight.
	I didn't hear him say that, but I saw him out of the corner of my eye rise up But I heard the crowd just erupt, and I thought that he must, at least at this point, he's still alive, at least for now, because we didn't know how badly he was wounded.
	But it was...
	It was one of the most unbelievable things I've ever seen.
	How strange is it?
	Also, you were there in the crowd because I think you live very close to that ground in Butler, Pennsylvania.
	You look at the footage from the Vegas shooting and other events.
	Nobody ran.
	Does that also mean something's changed in America, Sean?
	Yeah, and I think it speaks volumes of our movement, the America First movement, people that love the country.
	And I think at the core, Dr. Gorka, people who put this country and would be willing to put this country before themselves, including their own lives, if need be.
	That spirit of the founders and that spirit of patriotism, I really do truly believe runs through the heart of every single patriot that supports this movement.
	And you're absolutely right.
	It was unbelievable to me in the moments after the shots rang out.
	And boy, I can tell you about the day leading up to that moment and how just something felt different.
	But nobody ran.
	In fact, people stood fast to make sure that President Trump was okay.
	And they cared a lot about one another.
	Speaks volumes of the movement.
	You said it felt different that day.
	What felt different?
	I went back with the president for his return visit to Butler.
	What felt special or different about that day before the shots rang out?
	Boy, so I've been on stage with President Trump almost every single time.
	He's been to Western Pennsylvania since at least 2020. And from the moment that I walked into this rally with my wife, something just felt different.
	And I don't know how to describe it.
	I'll just say this.
	When you operate in combat for 485 days over time, you develop this awareness when something is awry.
	And it's like the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
	Call it our own spidey sense.
	Whatever you want to call it, you can sense it.
	It's intangible.
	It's hard to describe.
	People that have never experienced it might think I'm just a little bit crazy.
	But that's kind of how I felt.
	I was doing a movement to contact, but knew that the enemy was out there, but hadn't made contact yet.
	That's how I felt.
	Dr. Gorka, it was oppressively hot.
	The hottest day in western Pennsylvania that I can remember.
	It was probably over 95 degrees.
	No wind.
	No clouds.
	And people had been waiting in line.
	You know how the Trump rallies can be.
	People have been waiting in line for hours and hours and hours.
	Some people were in line the night before.
	And so a lot of people were just sitting out there.
	And the Trump team did a great job handing out water and stuff.
	But there was something different in the air that I can't describe.
	And I went back and I spoke up on stage.
	And as I was up on stage, I just felt something.
	I felt something that was there with me.
	I don't know what it was.
	And I learned later.
	I didn't know this at the time.
	All I knew at the time was that it felt differently.
	I just felt something there.
	And the flag above me Twisted in on itself.
	Again, no wind, right?
	Because you got that big American flag hung from those two cranes.
	It almost looked like an eagle.
	It looked like a cross.
	Some people said it was surreal.
	It was religious.
	It was an omen of something to come.
	I don't know what, but that happened when I was on stage, and then President Trump came in.
	We met him backstage, and then he walked out, and 12 minutes later, after he walked out, The world was almost changed forever.
	But there was something in the air that day, Dr. Gorka.
	I'm just telling you, there was something in the air that day that was different.
	Absolutely.
	History was made and a lot of people want to bury that history because of who was responsible and who called President Trump a dictator and a wannabe Hitler for the last nine years.
	We're talking to Sean Parnell.
	Follow him at Sean Parnell USA, host of Battleground with Sean Parnell.
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	SebGorkaStore.com The confirmation preparations continue for the President's nominees.
	One of them, for the Secretary of Defense, is well known to our guest.
	His name is Pete Hegseth.
	I mean, in addition to personal witnesses and all of that, it was fully investigated at the time, years ago, and I was completely cleared.
	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.
	Sean Parnell, you know Pete Hegseth.
	You have also stepped into the political arena, just as he has done.
	Tell us about who this man is and how you can relate to what they're doing to him and his family right now.
	I'm laughing because, boy, can I relate.
	So yeah, I've known Pete for a very long time, long before he was on Fox& Friends.
	We were both in the infantry, and as you probably know, there's a kinship among those of us who served in the infantry.
	We were also both at Concerned Veterans for America at the exact same time.
	Tell our listeners what that is and what the mission was and what you saw Pete do there.
	Yeah, so Concerned Veterans for America filled a very important void in the veteran nonprofit space.
	You have all sorts of veterans organizations out there, the VFW, Disabled American Veterans, the American Legion, that help veterans after policy in Washington has already been written.
	So those organizations very effectively help veterans navigate the VA. Well, what we realized at the time, Dr. Gorka, was that there's no policy organization on the front end That helped our legislators craft good policies that served our veterans well.
	So that is where CVA and how CVA fit into this puzzle.
	And so Pete was extraordinary at this organization.
	I read this piece by Jane Meyer at The New Yorker.
	And if you read that piece, you came away thinking that You know, CVA was just a slush fund for a bunch of drunk veterans, and I'm here to tell you that nothing could be further from the truth.
	It was a very effective policy organization that effectuated very real and substantive changes in the veteran space, culminating with the VA Accountability Act and the Mission Act, which President Trump signed into law in 2018, which gave veterans a choice with regards to where they got their health care, the most substantive VA reform in a generation.
	But that notwithstanding, Pete was the leader of this organization.
	He exposed, going way back to 2014, the Department of Veterans Affairs secret waitlist scandal with the VA. It was his presence in the media that moved the needle culturally and exposed that scandal and saved, I can't even tell you how many veteran lives.
	So the guy, you know, I was with him at the organization when all of these alleged things happened, and I can tell you that none of them did.
	It was just all completely bogus.
	So why are they so afraid of him, Sean?
	What's the problem with Pete?
	I mean, I know Pete Hegseth not very well, but I've met him.
	I admire what he's written in his book, War on Warriors.
	I know why Washington, D.C. doesn't like him, but you know him much better than I do.
	Well, let me tell you, if you are an America First conservative, You are going to be on the receiving end of some pretty tough stuff from the media.
	And the reason for that is, is that true America first conservatives, you know, in the in in the same vein of of President Trump, you know, we represent disruptors and a disruption ultimately to the status quo.
	And when you and you look, you've got Republicans and Democrats in Washington, some call them the uniparty.
	They all drink from the same trough.
	But anytime you you have somebody that is not controlled by lobbyists or special interests and really, truly puts puts the country first.
	Well, it it scares people because it shakes up the status quo.
	And if the status quo is shaken up, that could really hurt people's bottom lines.
	And in the case of Pete Hegseth, I mean, boy, you have Pentagon budgets and military contractors and this big self-licking ice cream cone, money exchanging hands.
	Nobody wants that disrupted.
	And Pete represents a threat to all of that ultimately because he's a Trump guy and he's loyal to this country first, last and always.
	For those out there who have a question about that man, let's do the D.C. elevator pitch.
	Give us 60 seconds, Sean Parnell, on Pete Hexeth and why he's the right choice.
	Well, first of all, he knows what it's like to have a bullet cracked by his head.
	He's served in the wars that politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, sent us to over the last 20 years, by the way.
	He's a combat veteran of Iraq, is a combat veteran of Afghanistan.
	And then he served in Guantanamo Bay, protecting the very people who were trying to kill him.
	And then beyond all of that, obviously he's Ivy League educated.
	He's very reform minded.
	He understands the policy issues.
	surrounding the Pentagon, Department of Defense, in very deep and substantive ways.
	And more than perhaps all of those things, Dr. Gorka, is that he understands the warfighter and he puts them first in everything that he does.
	And I think it's high time I mean, I think that...
	That that will do our warfighters well to have somebody like Pete in that role.
	You mean not to have somebody who took off their four stars, went to Raytheon, was a member of the board of Raytheon, and against the U.S. Constitution, was whitewashed aloud without the cooling-off period to become the Secretary of Defense?
	We don't need people like that.
	Shock, horror.
	We want combat veterans.
	Yes, we do.
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	We're talking about stepping into the arena like Sean did recently to run for public office like his buddy Pete Hexeth is doing right now as a nominee for Secretary of Defense.
	But I want to ask one of our OG questions, Sean Pennell.
	It's one of my favorites to all our Manhood Hour guests.
	Who shaped for you most your conceptualization of what it means to be a man?
	For most men, hopefully it should be their father, but sometimes it's not.
	It's the football coach, it's a drill sergeant, it's their grandpa.
	Who was the person you looked up to and you said, that's what I want to be like when I'm a grown-up man?
	Well, I have to say my dad, of course, but also my mom.
	I feel like there are lots of people that shaped who I was as a kid.
	But this might surprise you.
	I was bullied pretty terribly as a kid, like very, very badly.
	And looking back on that time in my life, all of those bullies who I despised, of course, back in the day, I look at now and I'm kind of grateful for what they did because It really instilled in me a desire to protect people.
	Anytime I ever saw anybody going through something like that, whether it was a kid, whether it was in high school, in the military, it doesn't matter.
	Being a hero is about doing for people who can't protect or do for themselves and stepping in when they need you most.
	And we should judge the quality of our relationships and friendships in our lives, whether or not people are there for us when times are rough.
	And it was really those times in elementary school and high school when kids were picking on me all the time that really laid that groundwork.
	So I am grateful for all of those kids.
	It sounds strange.
	Who bullied me as a kid because I think they really shaped me into the person that I've become today.
	And ultimately, if it wasn't for the guidance of my mom and my dad...
	What was it your mom...
	Give us a couple of adjectives, a couple of words.
	What was it that your mom instilled in you?
	That you said, yeah, I want to be that.
	Oh, toughness.
	A relentless pursuit of anything.
	Her big thing was, don't let other people shape the way that you think.
	If there's something that you want to do, if there's a goal out there on the horizon, it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks.
	There are naysayers throughout every phase of your life, you're going to encounter them.
	What you need to do, Sean, is march in pursuit of that goal, focused on that on the horizon, and don't let anybody talk you out of it.
	And I think that, just being tough and relentless, is what my mom and my dad instilled in me as a kid and what I'm grateful for today, for sure.
	I'm curious, if you met any of those louts and layabouts that gave you a hard time when you were a kid and bullied you, with your massive forearms and biceps, what would you say to them today, Sean?
	You're putting me on the spot.
	I don't know.
	I'd like to think that I'd give him what for, you know, but I don't know.
	Maybe, you know what, Dr. Gorka, I think I'd say thank you.
	As weird as that sounds, I'm grateful for that experience.
	I really truly am.
	I think it shaped me into the person that I am today.
	Wow, that is grace.
	That is what grace sounds like.
	We're talking to Sean Parnell, author of the Eric Steele series of novels, and also the non-fiction Outlaw Platoon, a New York Times bestseller, Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
	This is The Manhood Hour.
	All right, we're talking about manly virtues.
	The warrior class has the greatest concentration of those virtues.
	I have to play this clip to you, which just shocked me, Sean.
	I'm sure you've seen it.
	This was Senator Kennedy talking to the former vice chief of the National Guard Bureau, a man who had the rank of general.
	If you want to wonder what your buddy, what...
	Pete Hegseth is facing.
	This is just a flavor, just a taste.
	Duty, honor, respect.
	You talked about that in your opening statement.
	On October 14th of this year, you went on CNN. I want to read you what you said.
	Make sure I'm accurate.
	Here's what you said.
	President Trump is not like any sane leader.
	I'm very proud of General Milley for saying that President Trump is a total fascist.
	To Bob Wood, if he as chairman of the Joint Chiefs is calling the president a fascist, I'm so proud of him for breaking that barrier.
	The challenge is because most MAGA Republicans They don't understand what fascism is.
	The reality is that they are in fact fascists themselves.
	Did I read that accurately?
	Senator, I am happy to discuss my personal perspective with you separately at any time.
	That's not the purpose of the hearing today.
	That's General Randy Manor.
	We don't have to talk politics, Sean.
	You ran as a Republican.
	We don't have to talk about President Trump.
	But we're talking about the former Commander-in-Chief and the incoming Commander-in-Chief.
	What that general did is in contravention of the UCMJ. How worried are you?
	I mean, God bless Pete.
	Hope he is confirmed.
	Comes in a sec def.
	How big a lift will Pete and the rest of the president's team have to get that kind of...
	Unconstitutional, un-American attitude out of our armed forces.
	It is such a good and also an important question.
	Because I gotta believe that there are probably 50%, if not more, of people who wear stars on their shoulders who think the same way.
	And if you think, by the way, that the commander-in-chief and half of this country are fascists, then you're not fit to serve in the uniform.
	And you're right.
	It is in violation of the UCMJ. And my issue here is not that we all have political beliefs.
	When I was a young platoon leader, I had Democrats and Republicans in the same foxhole, Blacks serving next to Whites, serving next to Christians, serving next to atheists.
	None of that matter, right?
	And when you hear these military leaders, especially generals, say the line that diversity is our strength, that should be a big warning sign.
	Because, of course, are we better because we're diverse?
	Yes.
	But what makes our military truly exceptional is that we can unify beyond our many differences.
	That's what makes us a lethal fighting force.
	And that when that general and that exchange between Senator Kennedy of Louisiana and that general, it just the arrogance of that general is astounding and concerning.
	But he thinks that he's smarter than a sitting senator representative of the people of Louisiana.
	And that's a real problem that Pete's going to have to deal with.
	And, of course, President-elect Trump.
	And it's going to be a tough one to deal with because, as you know, all of these generals have their own little fiefdoms around them.
	So Pete is going to need a cadre of people around him that can help him move that ball down the field and get it done effectively.
	But it absolutely needs to be done in order to make our military effective and lethal again.
	You're a decorated veteran.
	You've run for political office.
	I've got to ask you, I served as a civilian in the DOD for five and a half years.
	When did this start?
	And what was the genesis?
	Because I had to teach a couple of courses on the Capstone program, which is where when you get your first star, you have to come to Fort McNair and be taught how to be a flag officer.
	And I saw this creeping desire to be a political actor and to placate those above you in suits.
	And that's not what civilian control is.
	That's somebody in a uniform pretending to be a politician.
	Where did you see or where do you think the rot begins?
	I couldn't agree with you more.
	I too saw this slow creep.
	And you know, I think it really started under Barack Obama.
	And maybe this is just when I started to notice it.
	But the left back then adjusted their tactics.
	And you see this same dynamic through many of our once venerated institutions in America.
	The FBI, a lot of the ground-pounding agents are great people there, but the left infests these organizations, and they get into positions of power, and they're the ones that are making the strategic decisions there, and they steer some of these institutions.
	Very radically left.
	And I think, I don't think, I know they've done that in the Department of Defense as well.
	We see one ridiculous left-wing, egregious social experiment after the next in our military.
	But ultimately, Dr. Gorka, I think that that really began under President Obama.
	Yeah, no, that's when I was sadly in the Defense Department.
	I thought I'd escaped socialism by moving here in 2008, and then my fellow Americans elected Obama as the commander-in-chief, and it was downhill from there.
	After that, I didn't trust anybody over the rank of major...
	I mean, if you're in 05 or 06, you had to earn my trust and respect because the sooner you got close to that one star, it was like, I'm worried.
	I'm worried.
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	Okay, let's end on this amazing note.
	Nobody talks about this.
	I just love this.
	This is a video that should have gone viral.
	President Trump, after being shot, just strolling in to the hospital in Butler.
	Play cut.
	I see all the children.
	I see all the children.
	Oh, yeah.
	We're front row, and my friends have blood coming out of his head.
	Oh, my God.
	Oh, Jesus.
	There he is.
	Oh, there he is.
	There he is.
	Oh, my God.
	He's walking!
	He's walking!
	Just the worry and then the flip, the joy.
	He just walks in.
	I mean, just totally walks in.
	As cool as a cucumber.
	Do you have hope for masculinity after we see stuff like that, Sean?
	I do.
	In fact, I have a real sense of optimism for the first time in probably three years.
	I'm always long on America.
	But, you know, President Trump, I mean, he's the most electrifying political figure, certainly in my lifetime, maybe of all time.
	And you heard it in the voices of those regular people in Butler County.
	You can tell by the tone of their voice how much they admire and care about that guy.
	And Dr. Gorka, after that, I mean, I swear to God, like my neighbors have signs with Trump, fight, fight, fight.
	You drive through the town of Butler spray painted on the road is fight, fight, fight.
	I mean, on I mean, it is like it has become woven into the fabric of who we are in Western Pennsylvania and as a community.
	But the people love the guy.
	And that's the great irony of all this.
	Despite relentless media propaganda, since the moment that that man came down the golden escalator telling the American people to believe otherwise, they love him.
	They don't give a crap what the media says anymore.
	The guy's the most popular, certainly Republican president, maybe Republican president of my lifetime, but maybe of all time.
	And The people love him.
	And you heard it in that video, and it was great to see that.
	Yeah, it is a revitalizing moment.
	It is catalytic.
	As a British man of the left commented, he won because people want to be allowed to be proud for their nation again.
	That's why 77 million Americans voted him of every variety.
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