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Thune Wins The Senate - November 13th, Hour 1

Sean reacts to Senator John Thune's election as Senate Majority Leader.  With the slim majorities that Republicans have, they need to focus together on the work ahead.  Protect our borders, rebuild our military, grow our economy and protect America's reputation around the world.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I mean, the left, their meltdown is it's getting worse by the day.
And you got a story in the W in the Havanian Post.
My husband and his family, they voted for Trump, so I'm I'm canceling Thanksgiving and Christmas.
What are you talking about?
Sonny Houston supports Kamala Harris voters bailing on holiday dinners with Trump supporting relatives.
It is a moral issue.
And it goes on from there.
And the amount of hysteria that is out there, it is it is beyond the pal.
Um I don't I'm not sure exactly.
We're gonna need multiple editions of Dr. Hannity to help people before the holidays, and you know, how do you deal with your crazy family members?
Um and and we'll get into all of that.
Um now it just got announced just a a few moments ago.
It is official that Donald Trump has nominated Florida Senator Marco Rubio to be the Secretary of State.
Um he announced yesterday that my friend and colleague Pete Heggseth will be nominated for Secretary of Defense.
Uh and and Oh my gosh, this is horrible.
Um Pete Pete Hagseth lives, eats, breathes, sleeps, military.
Our military, if you think back to the Reagan years, Ronald Reagan inherited what he described a gap of vulnerability, and that was that we were falling behind our adversaries, our enemies in terms of our our military preparedness and readiness.
And he set out to build a 600 ship Navy, and he did so.
And he built the biggest, toughest military in in that eight-year period of time.
And you know, Pete Hegset understands what where the weaknesses are as it relates to you know the the U.S. military.
And by the way, he's a combat veteran himself.
He went to, I believe, Princeton and Harvard, or Yale and Harvard.
Well, I think it's Princeton and Harvard.
He holds degrees from uh both of them.
He has made it his life's work to advocate for veterans, active duty service met uh members.
He will inherit a Pentagon that has gone woke.
He will inherit a Pentagon that is that has allowed our military preparedness and capabilities to decline.
Uh and we need somebody that's gonna go in there and kind of shake things up and make it things you know great for our military, because this world is a very, very dangerous place.
You know, when China and Russia and maybe North Korea have hypersonic missile technology, and we don't, that's a problem for our country.
Now, the president also announced the president-elect that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the new Department of Government Efficiency.
Uh, according to Elon Musk, it's this will send shockwaves through the system.
Anyone involved in government waste, which is a lot of people, they're gonna be shocked, and they will conclude their work no later than July 4th, 2026, and this will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence, President Trump said.
Uh, as they mentioned, it just got announced officially that Marco Rubio has been tapped as the President's Secretary of State.
The former director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, has now been picked to lead the CIA.
Congressman Mike Waltz, a decorated Green Beret, will will join Trump as the National Security Advisor.
South Dakota Governor Christy Gnome has been picked to be the Homeland Security Secretary.
We told you about Tom Holman, Tom Homan will be the new Border Czar.
He will join us later in the program today.
Um, and Donald Trump is forming his cabinet as Fox News.com put it at at breakneck speed.
And uh earlier today, by the way, he was at the White House meeting with Joe Biden.
According to everybody that I know, the meeting went particularly well.
And here's a little of the audio from that exchange.
Elect former president and gallant.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
And uh looking forward to having uh, like we said transition.
We can make sure you're accommodating what you need.
Well, J Man.
Thank you very much.
And uh politics is tough, and it's uh many cases not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today, and I appreciate very much a transition that's so smooth, it'll be as smooth as it can get.
I very much appreciate that you are thank you all.
The president, meaning uh the president elect Trump then spoke to the New York Post and said that they both really enjoyed seeing each other.
He said, quote, it's been a very long, long slog.
Uh he said it's been a lot of work on both sides.
He did a very good job with respect to campaigning and everything else, according to Biden.
We really had a good meeting.
Uh it's going very smoothly, as you just heard, and you know, I wanted, I asked for his views, and he gave them to me.
Also, we talked very much about the Middle East, and I wanted to know his views on where we are and what he thinks.
He gave them to me, and he was very gracious.
The Oval Office is so beautiful.
I do certainly look forward to coming back.
He said that as well.
Um, so look, things are are gonna get very, very heated very, very fast.
We also have other breaking news, as I predicted, John Thune.
I I always thought it was going to be hard.
I had I would have preferred uh our Senator Rick Scott to be the Senate majority leader, but I kind of felt it was baked in the cake, and one thing I think Republicans need to change are any votes in private.
That has to stop.
I think we need transparency.
And I think every senator should have been willing to go on the record and let their constituents know who they voted for majority leader.
It's that simple.
Now, I know that Thune has been closely associated with Mitch McConnell, and I I hope he will I hope he will lead differently than Mitch McConnell.
The one thing I could say Mitch McConnell was good on would was the issue of judges.
On other issues, you know, he's just been a Trump hater.
I've never seen that in John Thune, but I but I hope, you know, with the slim majorities that Republicans have in the House and Senate, they've got a very limited window if they want to secure our borders, get out all of the criminal aliens in this country, the terrorists, the gang members, the cartels, the drug dealers, and and get out the known terrorists that are in this country.
We have we have a lot of work to do here.
We've got to rebuild our military.
We've got to c we've got to increase our military capability.
We've got to increase preparedness.
We've got we've got to get woke out of the military.
Uh we need recruitment levels to start going up again because nobody's wanted to voluntarily join the military.
And they've got a lot of work there.
They got a lot of work on the economy.
And they're gonna have to spend money on top of that.
We're gonna have to spend money on it uh on our defense department.
They're gonna have to spend money to get rid of those people that are coming into this country illegally that we're gonna have to transport home.
Uh well, but with that said, the president is also in in pretty much every statement saying that we are going to be the most energy dominant country on earth.
Uh, with all of these announcements, and I'll get to some of the others in a second here.
Uh Fox News.com reporting that DC police are gearing up for the same kind of inauguration day riot that Democrats organized to disrupt Donald Trump's inauguration in January of twenty seventeen.
Linda, I don't know if you remember this.
I don't know if you were with us at the time, but we covered that.
And where else would I be?
I'm always here.
Well, okay, but we remember uh remember crossing the street in the middle, we had to break through the parade, and like everybody's job was to hide my face and get us through.
You know, remember the strange hats people were wearing that day.
I do remember those hats.
Are we not allowed?
We can't say that.
It's three o'clock.
You're right.
We can't say that.
Very, very uh eclectic hats.
Yeah, the very, very interesting hats.
Uh, not unlike, you know, and we'll get to this later in the program.
The the women that are shaving their heads, wearing blue bracelets, That are pledging to leave the country, that are, you know, withholding sex from their significant others, and that uh are even willing to divorce their their husbands and not have Thanksgiving or Christmas celebrations with their families if they dared to vote for Donald Trump.
All of that is true.
Uh, but they're putting another 4,000 police officers expected to be on hand in Washington, D.C., I guess for the inauguration.
Protesters made themselves heard in our nation's capital.
By by the time we get to that point, I, you know, who knows?
They're losing their minds very, very quickly.
Uh but you know, I'm I'm looking at the cabinet choices, and I know that some people are not gonna like the certain people, whatever, but you know, it's clear that Donald Trump is picking the people that he believes are gonna be really, really good at their jobs and transform these agencies.
Mike Michael Waltz, Congressman Waltz, National Security Advisor, Pete Heggseth, he's not from the swamp.
He's not gonna go in there and and reinforce wokeism.
You know, it's very, very interesting.
I was thinking about this.
You know, it should maybe take five words to convince any American that Pete Hegseth would be a far better defense secretary than the one we current currently have.
And, you know, the left wing, they're going bonkers, every appointment they're going bonkers.
You know, if anybody needs any convincing about the value of this appointment, how about we talk about Lloyd Austin, Mark Milley, and Afghanistan?
Let's start there.
Because those two establishment geniuses made up Joe Biden's national defense brain trust, and that resulted in in the most disastrous withdrawal, including the the death of 13 Americans, all of which was preventable.
So I really don't want to hear lectures from people.
Uh anyway, it is uh, you know, little Elizabeth Warren was out there attacking Pete Heggseth, and I mean I mean, this is all par for the course.
This is what liberals do.
And if, you know, you have Susie Wiles as the chief of staff, Elise Stefanic is the UN ambassador.
Can you imagine she goes to the UN and treats some of the people there the way she did those college profess those college presidents?
How great that would be.
I mentioned Michael Waltz, Mike Huckabee, by the way, is gonna be Israel's ambassador.
I can't think of a better choice there.
Lee Zeldon is going to be the EPA administrator.
I assume we're gonna hear about Tulsi Gabbard in the days to come and RFK Jr. in the days to come.
I told you about Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, Steve Whitkoff.
Um, he happened to be with the president the day that the second would be assassin was at Trump International.
He's an incredibly successful businessman.
I know him personally.
He's a friend of mine.
Uh he'll do a phenomenal job.
White House counsel is William McGinley, don't know very well, served in Trump's first presidential term as a White House cabinet secretary.
He's returning now for the second term.
Uh Ratcliffe, I think is a phenomenal choice.
He did a great job the first time.
Tom Homan is a phenomenal choice.
Marco Rubio's a phenomenal choice.
And um I'm sure the president is gonna pick somebody that will be a strong A. G, as he has expressed, you know, his displeasure, for example, at Jeff Sessions.
And, you know, look at the people the Democrats pick for A. E. They pick Eric Holder.
When they go low, we kick them.
You don't think he was a politicized AG for Barack Obama.
I just hope that the Republicans in the Senate when it comes to confirmation time, and I'm I have no idea what Lisa Murkowski's gonna do on anything.
So okay, so we have 53.
If you count JD, we have 54.
That means that you have you know only so many defections, you know, for Republicans to get the president's cabinet through.
Now, if the American people elect the president, he ought to have the cabinet that he wants.
He ought to have the cabinet that he thinks will best serve his agenda.
And that's why these people, that's why he was elected and nobody else was.
Anyway, so we're looking for, I would look closely.
Let's see where Tulsi Gabbard ends up, Robert Kennedy uh Jr. ends up.
I think We know where he's headed.
Um, and it's just a new day.
Elections have consequences.
I keep going back to her.
Linda still wants to spike the football.
She can't help it.
She is just it's it's been nonstop since election day.
Although I have kind of emotionally moved on a little bit from a sense of great relief and gratitude to all of you, and that remains.
That has not changed at all.
I'm sorry, I missed what you said.
I was drinking my champagne.
What were you saying about me spiking the football?
I apologize.
Okay, we'll get to that later.
But I'm now in the mode too where it's like, I want to get to work.
I want to like get the border secure.
I want to get the economy running.
I want to get America's energy dominance moving.
I want the world to know that America is now going to establish itself as a leader on the world stage.
I want I want this, I want more law and order restored in small towns and big cities.
I want these criminal aliens and terrorists and gang members and cartel members and murderers and rapists and people involved in be in violent acts against Americans.
I want them to throw the hell out of our country.
People that didn't respect our laws, borders, and sovereignty, those people that have harmed members of our country.
We have known terrorists in the country.
We'll talk about this with Tom Homan later.
We have a couple of announcements.
Number one, I mentioned Marco Rubio is been nominated to be the U.S. Secretary of State.
Uh that's number one.
And there's a longer statement.
Pulsi Gabbard has been named to be the director of national intelligence, which I think is a great choice considering her military background.
Uh Matt Gates, Congressman, Florida, uh, has been nominated to be the U.S. Attorney General of the United States.
President Wright, he is a deeply gifted, tenacious attorney, trained at William and Mary College of Law, has distinguished himself in Congress through his focus on achieving desperately needed reform at the DOJ.
Few issues in America are more important than ending the partisan weapon weaponization of our justice system.
Matt will end weaponized government, protect our borders, dismantle criminal organizations, and restore Americans Americans' badly shattered faith and confidence in the Justice Department.
On the House Judiciary Committee, which performs oversight on the DOJ, Matt played a key role in defeating the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax, exposing alarming and systemic government corruption and weaponization.
He is a champion for the Constitution and for the rule of law.
I'm sure that the left uh immediately will go out there.
Oh, this is terrible.
No, actually, what what what we really need if you look at the most some of the most important appointments the president is making here.
What it what has been done to Donald Trump cannot ever happen again.
We can't have a Department of Justice that has a weaponized system of justice just to go after political opponents the way they did Donald Trump.
And they can't do to Democrats or or allow that that system to continue, or else we're going to be a country, you know, like a third world country putting former presidents and prime ministers in jail after after everybody's term.
It's insane.
And we what we need is equal justice under the law.
You can't have a Department of Justice, for example, that is lying to Pfizer courts using Donald Trump's opponents' dirty disinformation Russian dossier that was bought and paid for as a means of securing those warrants, and then years later saying, well, knowing what you know now, would you have uh would you have used the dossier as the basis of the visor warrant?
No, I wouldn't use it now.
But based on what I know now, well, they they knew a long time ago that it wasn't true.
Anyway, so that is that has got to be cleaned up.
We need people in the FBI that will return what is the greatest law enforcement agency in the world to its former greatness.
And that means you cannot have a weaponized FBI.
You know, we can't be going after grandmas and grandpa's moms and dads and looking into whether they're domestic terrorists, especially in light of all of the terror real terrorists that we know are in the country, but we don't know where they are, and the drug dealers and the cartel Members and the gang members and those that have committed murders against Americans and rapes against Americans and hundreds of Americans victims of violent crime.
And that would include securing our border.
And that's where border security and Tom Homan, who will join us later in the program comes in.
So it is a time I know that the left, the Democrats will lose their minds.
They have been collectively losing their minds for over a week.
And most of Donald Trump, the only announcement I would expect next is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., we already know what that job is going to be.
He is going to make America healthy again.
And that one of the things that they talk about, if you've ever been to Italy, and I have been, one of the most remarkable things is how clean their food is.
What does that mean?
It is free of chemicals.
It is free of preservatives, and it is fresher.
And American food, between using color and all of these things, I mean, there's this a certain truth to what Linda says.
I make fun of her because she has these putrid, disgusting green projectile vomit shakes that she drinks, or these disgusting orange shakes that she drinks, etc.
And however, American food has a lot of chemicals in it and a lot of colors in it.
And American food is not as healthy as other parts of the world.
And the preservatives that they put in them.
And when you look at what, you know, if we're the greatest country on earth, why can't we have fresher, healthier food for the American people?
I, for example, prefer to eat a lot of meat.
I probably should have organic everything.
I eat organic eggs.
I eat some organic food, but not all organic food.
But, you know, there is definite health benefits to doing that.
A lot of people, for example, won't buy organic because it costs a lot more.
But if it becomes mainstream and more profitable, then the price would definitely come down.
Uh one Trump advisor is advising potential DOJ saboteurs leave or be fired.
I mean, this is one of the things.
If you get one of these positions, either in intelligence, the DOJ, the FBI, whatever it happens to be, it's not just the person that is in charge.
It's going to be that person plus 30 below them in top positions if you want to ensure that holdovers maybe from Clapper and Brennan and Comey and people that have had agendas.
I mean, we can't have 51 former Intel officials weeks before an election lying about a laptop that they know nothing about.
These are not things I've forgotten.
You know, we've had three years, we lived through Donald Donald Trump lived through three years of Russia lies, conspiracy theories.
If you want to know why legacy media is dead in part, is because they peddled those lies and conspiracy theories.
Now, the what's interesting is the Trump transition advisor, guy by the name of Mark Paletta, warned the DOJ career attorneys in saying career DOJ attorneys must be fully committed to implementing President Trump's policies, or they should leave, or they will be fired.
And he gave examples.
Now, people say, well, Matt Gates, he's pretty political.
Yeah, okay.
And you're gonna tell me that uh, let's see, Eric Holder wasn't.
When they go low, we kick them.
They go low, we kick them.
Um interesting article I noticed on MediaId today that Fox News and people like me were right about everything a lot more than their competitors.
We were right about the COVID lab league theory and the Hunter Biden laptop story, and we were right about the state of the economy, and we were right about and we diagnosed all the democratic problems that they themselves, we knew that that Joe Biden was in cognitive decline and all these other networks, you know, defended Biden and and didn't tell their audiences the truth.
This is partly the cause of the death of legacy media.
We spent a lot of time covering the disaster that was the Harris Biden open border crisis, and they kept saying the borders secure and the borders closed.
We went over how bad the economy was when they lied about that too and said that inflation was transitory and it never was.
You know, nobody seemed to pay attention to Kamala saying, well, the higher price of of a gallon of gasoline is the cost of democracy when people are paying $13,000 more a year for items that they were buying four years ago.
You know, we recognize that global rising prices, you know, uh were severe in impacting the American people and all these other networks now.
You know, where do they go to get their good names back considering nobody trusts them anymore?
Uh now the soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader John Thune has made a statement.
He said the Republican team is united.
We are on one team.
We're excited to reclaim the majority, get to work with our colleagues in the House and enact President Trump's agenda.
Now we have a mandate for the American people, not only to clean up the mess left by Biden and Harris and Chuck Schumer, but also to deliver on President Trump's priorities.
We will make sure that the President and his team have the tools and support they need to enforce border security laws and to remove violent criminals who have been wreaking havoc in every one of our states.
We will work to make America prosperous again by streamlining the bureaucratic machine and overturning costly Biden Harris regulations.
We will restore America's energy dominance and not just our our own energy security, but energy dominance, which will lower the cost and bolt bolster our national security.
And congratulations to Senator Thune.
Donald Trump put out on truth, the newly elected Senate majority leader.
He moves quickly and will do an outstanding job.
I look forward to working with him, Senators John Barrasso, Tom Cotton, and all the other leadership to make America great again.
By the way, Oprah Winfrey is now denying that she personally benefited from the one million dollars that Kamala Harris's campaign paid to her production company.
He says I was not paid a dime.
My time and energy was my way of supporting the campaign.
I did not take a personal fee.
However, the people who worked on that production needed to be paid, and they were.
End of story.
A million dollars.
That now that the appointment of Senator Marco Rubio to be the next Secretary of State, that uh the new the New York Post is reporting that Laura Trump is reportedly on Governor Ronda Santos's short list.
As a matter of fact, they're saying the top choice to replace Senator Rubio in the U.S. Senate.
Anyway, those close to the Florida governor, according to the New York Post, uh say that the definitive top choice to replace Rubio, you know, happens to be Laura Trump, who I think would be a great addition to the U.S. Senate, but she needs to make a decision, and that's hard when you know everyone's encouraging you to do it.
And you know, that's got that's a very personal decision.
Biden's Get Trump prosecutor, Jack Smith has given up, and it looks like Smith and his team plan to resign before President elect Donald Trump takes office.
I know the Congressman Jordan has asked that the special counsel's office uh preserve all of the files, communications, etc., etc.
involved in the investigation into Donald Trump to make sure that there weren't any coordination that is untoward.
Speaking of Oprah, uh Al Sharpton through a charity he founded received a half a million dollar gift from the vice president's campaign in two lump sums, one for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars September the fifth, another on October the first.
The large donation not disclosed during Sharpton's interview with Harris, uh, who works for MSDNC.
Now we do have a lot of a lot of insanity going on with the left.
We'll get into this later.
Headline, Huffington Post, my husband and his family voted for Trump.
I'm canceling Thanksgiving and I'm canceling Christmas.
You know, add to that liberal women are planning to wear brute blue bracelets to signal to each other that they are liberal.
Other women are slamming the idea, but and calling it virtue signaling.
It's called the 4B movement.
And some liberal women now are sharing, shaving their heads, and they're stockpiling abortion pills.
And they are swearing off physical and romantic relationships with men, even their husbands, and vowing to never have children, and some are planning to divorce their husbands.
And now the media is getting in on the action.
The Washington Post offering a guide on how Americans can flee to other countries.
I mean, it is it is going to be a very interesting transition.
I will tell you that.
No doubt about it.
Anyway, 800-941 Shauna's on number.
We'll get to all of this.
Uh we'll get Bill O'Reilly's view on this.
Also, we'll have an update.
I mean, this is so repulsive.
I mean, that you have this FEMA individual, I guess, leader, you know, uh, telling uh employees that the homes that they skipped that had Donald Trump signs on them, ravaged by Hurricanes Helene and Hurricane Milton, that it was presented as an isolated case.
But anyway, apparently, this person, a former employee, tells the post that it happened for years with FEMA allegedly telling workers to prioritize the marginalized over Trump voters.
I mean, are you kidding me?
It can't get any worse than that.
Notes, Trump sign, no contact per leadership.
It actually says that in a in a memo that they put out.
Can't make this up.
Anyway, 800-941 Shauna's a number.
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