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What am I not carding myself for?
That's what I'm asking.
No, I have no contemplation.
Pardon me myself right there.
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Let's stop the finger pointing.
Let's just assess the truth.
I'm not interested in who's to blame.
I want to know what happened.
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That is the balance of mind.
I'm not a perfect person, as is being acknowledged.
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President Trump just truthed out that it is my honor to announce the John Voigt, Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone to be special ambassadors to the great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California.
They will serve as special envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to foreign countries back, bigger, better, stronger than ever before.
I do know in the case of Sylvester Stallone that he tapes Pulsa King right here in the U.S. I won't say what state.
I don't think I'm at liberty to do that.
These are three very talented people.
Uh they'll be my eyes and ears, and uh, and I will get done what they suggest.
It will again, it will again be like the United States of America itself, the golden age of Hollywood.
There was a golden age of Hollywood.
That that time has come and that time has gone.
And TV movie production, Southern California's plummeted to catastrophically low levels in recent years.
Major studios, streamers, they have moved shooting activity to cheaper locations.
Can you blame them?
Even in the even they've said enough to California.
They've just had it.
You know, um, we do have some news out of California, not of it, none of it really very good.
More bad news in terms of what we're learning about what it could have been prevented out there.
Uh there's one story, BizPack Review story, uh that suspicions swirl after Biden family source says the paintings that Hunter Biden lost in the quote, LA wildfire were worth millions of dollars.
Hmm.
I wonder if those paintings were insured.
Linda, does that is that would that be a terrible guess on my part?
I don't think so.
Anyway, source close to the Biden family told the New York Post the artwork was worth millions.
And the outlet noted the attorney, you know, bought that the attorney bought $875,000 worth of the former drug-addicted sons work through Soho Gallery.
And Morris, who loaned the first son the five million to help pay his tax bill, has been financing a documentary on him.
But you know, we'll wait, we'll watch, we'll see uh what happens in in this front.
We do have a ton of news uh today that we've got to get to, and we've got to get it all in.
Also, Jim Jordan uh will be with us uh in the course of the program as well.
Um look, let me let me address what's going on with these hearings.
Um look, we're four days away.
Donald Trump, you know, as of Monday at noon, will be the president of our country.
That is great news.
Things are already changing rapidly.
We'll talk later about what's going on with Israel.
I know it's a horrible deal.
I really do.
But it may be I I am I'm reading the tea leaves a little bit differently than everybody else.
And what I suspect is that Trump, you know, hell will All hell will break loose in the Middle East if they don't release the hostages.
I'm I'm almost seeing this, and I could be wrong in my perception as the last opportunity to maybe get whatever hostages are alive out of there.
Do I think in the end this is in any way going to stop Israel and Donald Trump from achieving their goal, their mission of obliterating radical Islamic terrorists in Gaza and in Lebanon and the Hoody rebels and the head of the snake Iran?
I don't.
I think the world is going to have to face a truth and a reality that the Iranians, which have plotted and planned and schemed and provided the weaponry, but not only October 7th and Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad and the Houthi rebels and have fired their own ballistic missiles into Israel.
They're gonna have to be dealt with, and they're gonna be have to be dealt with before they ever become a nuclear armed country, and we know that they've been working hard in that direction.
Uh reports that they're fortifying their nuclear sites in anticipation of a potential strike by either the Israelis or a combination of the Israelis and the the U.S. It's just something the world cannot cannot risk.
That would put the world at a risk of a modern day Holocaust.
Um but with all that said, that will be dealt with in a good amount of time.
I mean, it's gonna have to be dealt with probably fairly quickly, to be honest.
Probably a lot more quickly than people would like or that I would even like.
It is what they're offering is a horrific deal.
There's no other way to put it.
It is awful.
Hamas'lead ceasefire negotiator praised the October 7th attack.
I mean, I know people are interested in Qatar, but Qatar and their prime minister that actually credited Trump with this even being remotely possible.
We'll play that coming up later.
You have to remember that Qatar was also housing Hamas leaders in some of the most extravagant high-end hotels throughout a big part of the conflict.
The only deal, frankly, at the end of the day, should be the unconditional surrender by Hamas, which is already nearly destroyed and will be destroyed.
It's got to be demilitarized in Gaza once and for all, and that deal has to take shape at the right time, and I would argue the same has to take place for Lebanon.
Now, if you have 33 hostages that are going to be released in exchange for 2,000 convicted terrorists, okay, do the math.
That's a horrible deal.
My suspicion is, and I know that Israel's probably feeling a lot of pressure to get this done, and and Donald Trump wants to send a very clear message.
That message is gonna have to be sent anyway.
There is my prediction.
But if this is probably the last opportunity, Aaron Cohn said it on Hannity last night, that you know, if if these remaining hostages, those that are actually alive, you know, are probably surrounded by people that'll blow themselves and the hostages up if Israel makes another attempt at trying to rescue them.
They they were very successful in rescuing a number of these hostages.
And it's not a done deal.
Netanyahu's accusing Hamas of trying to back out of the deal, and they would like to keep this a militarized area.
And at some point, these people are all gonna have to be dealt with.
And there's gonna be held to bay to pay, and I think that's the only reason they're even at the table.
But I do think we have more leverage than I than maybe they think they have.
However, I do respect, I give great respect, and I'm not gonna judge Israel or the United States, you know, taking what is on paper a horrible deal because they value their the life of their citizens so much more than people that indoctrinate their children with cartoons and math equations to hate Jews
and to hate America.
I can't fault them for that.
Now, we're watching, you know, the show's trial go underway.
I I will tell you the star yesterday, they were pretty nice actually to uh Senator Marco Rubio, um, which is usually the case of a if a U.S. Senator gets called up to a different position, but they were not particularly kind to Pam Bondi, but she absolutely destroyed Adam Schiff.
We played this on the program yesterday.
I won't play it again now.
And she just kept pointing out things like seventy-two percent of Americans have lost faith in the DOJ because of people like you, basically.
And, you know, there it what what really came out and really was was just in the forefront, and I love when she said the crime rate in his state of California is 87% above the national average, and then said, you know, he was the one that was that had a censor was censured by the the Congress, not Pam Bondi, one of the biggest congenital liars, conspiracy theorist peddlers in the country, or Blumenthal implying that Pam Bondi was lying.
This is the guy that lied about Vietnam.
That was Blumenthal that did this.
You know, and and if you go back in time, you know, there was one problem, Blumenthal, Democrat, now running for the U.S. Senate, never served in Vietnam, but he claimed that he did, was never held responsible.
Pam Bondi slamming Senator Harano during the hearing, and that went viral after the attorney general designate Pam Bondi slammed her for being the only senator to refuse a meeting before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing even took place.
Why didn't she meet with Pam Bondi?
Do they actually have an open mind?
Most of these people don't.
And the one thing that just really stood out in all of this, and Pam Bondi vowed there's not going to be an enemies list.
She's going to end weaponization.
And she went on and on and on.
It was a master class how she flipped the script on on Senator White House of Rhode Island in response to a question.
You know, it would not be appropriate for a prosecutor to start with a name and look for a crime, White House said.
It's a prosecutor's job to start with the crime and look for a name, correct?
Uh Senator, I think that is the whole problem with the weaponization we have seen the last four years and what's been happening to Donald Trump.
And this is this gets to the heart of it, is that these are the very people that sat idly by silently.
They had no problem with the weaponization of justice against Donald Trump.
They had no problem with the double standard, uh unequal justice under the law, top secret classified information.
Donald Trump that was was the only person covered under the Presidential Records Act, yet it was Mar-a-Lago rated, but not the four locations Joe Biden had top secret classified information in, or Hillary Clinton servers, you know, that that had a lot more top secret classified information on them than anything they found at Mar-a-Lago, and then of course 33,000 subpoenaed emails.
They didn't care about a dirty Russian disinformation dossier that was bought and paid for by Hillary that was then used to spy on Donald Trump.
None of them ever raised, you know, an eyebrow when an attorney general abusing power in New York that ran on a platform to get Trump literally takes us uh uh uh something, a legal NDA identified as such,
the bookkeeping uh records as such, and turns that into this novel legal theory to charge Donald Trump with a federal crime, of which he has no jurisdiction to do so, and not one Democrat cared about weaponization then.
And what you can only conclude in this is that deep down, they know in their hearts what they did is wrong.
They know that the DOJ was weaponized.
They know that the FBI has been politicized.
They know that the intelligence community's been politicized and turned on American citizens, and yet they said nothing.
They didn't even care about the valuation of Mar-a-Lago.
Nobody said, you know what, we've got to be fair here.
The valuation is not 18 million, it's close, it's a billion plus dollars.
They didn't care about any of that truth.
And what they're fearing, and the reason that you know that they went so deep in the paint in this line of questioning, is they fear what they have allowed and stood Silent on and and secretly supported because they all hate Trump equally is going to be used against them.
And Joe Biden says he's not going to pardon himself.
He needs to reconsider that.
Because we do know Biden lied.
We have photographic evidence that Joe Biden lied when he said he never once talked to his son, his brother, or anybody about their foreign business deals, when in fact we have pictures of Joe and Hunter and his brother with their foreign business partners.
And we have we have the specific times of meetings.
We have Hunter's laptop, which outlines the monies that were paid to Joe directly.
Half his income goes to Pops.
about what account they're going to pay Pops Home Repairs with.
I'm sitting here with my father and between everybody he knows of my ability to hold a grudge.
You're going to regret not giving us the money.
Uh the one billion taxpayer dollars that were leveraged by Joe Biden to get a prosecutor that was investigating his son, who admittedly was addicted to drugs, had no experience in energy, oil, gas, coal, or Ukraine, or China for that matter, you know, is making millions and millions of dollars.
And apparently, according to Hunter, that money was going to Pops.
And Pop's you think he just leveraged it for his health, or was that phone call from Dubai or wherever it would came from with Barisma executives and Hunter to Joe Biden prior to that trip where he leveraged the billion dollars?
Was that the uh we need your help pops?
Uh, you gotta get this prosecutor off our ass as quickly as possible.
Anyway, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we are officially on preemptive pardon watch for sure.
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All right, there is news at uh my free state of Florida, Governor Ronda Santas earlier today, uh now announcing that the attorney general of Florida, Ashley Moody, who's been on this program many times, will take Senator Marco Rubio's seat in the U.S. Senate, uh, elected as the state's top law enforcement officer in 2018.
She campaigned on a pledge to voters that she would be a prosecutor, not a politician, along with Governor DeSantis.
She boosted her political profile on the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, calling on the federal government to hold China responsible in elevating her to the post.
Governor DeSantis praised Moot Moody as a key player in his political battles, a law and order prosecutor who is prepared to help President elect Donald Trump secure and shut the border, reign in inflation, overhaul what he described as the federal bureaucracy that has run amok.
I'm ready to show up and fight for this nation and fight for President Trump to deliver the America First agenda on day one, she said during the announcement in Orlando earlier today.
I think a good choice.
She's been a friend of this program for a long time.
All right, we'll come back.
The latest out of Israel, the latest out of Washington.
We're only four days away.
This long national nightmare ending.
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I mean, you know, you're eating a lot of steak.
I mean, you I don't know why Abraham'd have the time to work with them on new ideas.
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Um anyway, the the Democrats, you know, return to, you know, form.
And, you know, this was predictable.
I told you this would happen.
More of the nomination hearings going on today.
And Doug Bergham, who is going to be the energy secretary.
Here's uh here's Senator Horano asking this question of Doug Bergham.
Now, by the way, before any nominee gets asked this quote these questions, I think every senator needs to answer these questions themselves.
Listen.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Welcome.
As part of my responsibilities to ensure the fitness of nominees before any other committee sandwich.
I said I asked the following two initial questions.
First is since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or a thought of a sexual nature?
No, Senator, I have not.
Have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement related to this kind of conduct?
I have not.
I mean, you gotta be kidding me, right?
I mean, they sit up there in the high horse.
I would like Senator Herano to ask every one of our Democratic colleagues the same question.
I think now, I mean, so we know where this is going.
Probably Cash Patel will face hard questioning, as will Tulsi Gabbard, as will Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
I don't expect that there's gonna be any problems.
Uh Scott uh Bessett, uh I'm sorry, Bassett uh testified before the Senate Finance Committee hearing today, and he's up for the role of Treasury Secretary.
He crushed it today.
And I think Lindsey Graham identified it perfectly.
He said, a home run from my point of view.
Uh This man has been successful at everything he's tried to do.
He's worked really hard.
And why did President Trump pick him?
He believes that President Trump's economic agenda is a good fit for this country, and he wants to help President Trump be successful.
And anyway, so he delivered a really strong opening statement that he believes President Trump has a generational opportunity to unleash a new economic golden age that will create more jobs, wealth, and prosperity for all Americans.
That's what I want.
I want I want every American to have the opportunity to be successful based on how hard they're willing to work.
And if you're willing to work hard in this country, you should be able to achieve the American dream and not settle for the what the Washington Post suggests is a townhome because Americans can't afford a home with a backyard anymore.
Let's settle.
No, I don't believe Americans need to settle.
I think Americans need to succeed, and they need a government that's going to get off their back and allow them to succeed, and that means enticing and encouraging economic growth.
He said we've got a secure supply chains that are vulnerable to strategic competitors.
We've got to carefully deploy sanctions as part of a whole of government approach to address national security requirements.
do i'm a free trader but i'm a fair trader you have to have free and fair trade and if china wants to charge 25 grand for a car going into china well we need to have the same practice applied to them and send a message the best approach to achieving these important goals and make sure that the dollar remains the world's reserve currency he said we will unleash the american economy by implementing pro uh growth regulatory
policies reducing taxes unleashing american energy production that is our biggest opportunity to help every american get rich once we start producing all of that energy and producing all of that money and selling it to all our western european allies it's good for national security it sort of siphons off monies for nefarious activities from countries like iran and russia and
other countries in the middle east that don't have our best intentions at heart he he advocated for extending the trump tax cuts and he said it's the single most important economic issue of the day if we don't renew an extension then we will be facing an economic calamity and as always with financial instability that falls on the
And then he warned of that a huge tax increase on the middle class would take place if the tax cuts are allowed to expire.
That's exactly what would happen.
And then he flipped the script on Senator Ron Wyden when he tried to hit percent with a gotcha question on tariffs, and he just got shut down.
And he, you know, in his argument and gave the gave Senator White an economics lesson.
He doesn't know anything about the economy, clearly.
And then Vincent shut down Wyden's claim that we are in a clean energy race with China.
He said, Senator, China's gonna build ten new coal-fired plants this year.
That is not a clean energy race.
That is an energy race, but not a clean energy race.
You know, remember, they're a developing nation under the Paris Accords, just like India.
Then he hammered government spending.
We don't have a revenue problem.
We have a spending problem.
Spending is out of control.
Hence, you know, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
And then he talked about the Chinese economy is the most unbalanced economy in the history of the world.
They are using their surpluses to fund their military machine.
The U.S. has the lead, and we must make sure we maintain it.
I'm not so sure that that they're not surpassing us militarily.
That scares me.
He reaffirmed Trump's promise not to cut Social Security or Medicaid Medicare.
He indicated support for more sanctions on Russia to end the Ukraine war.
That's its given.
There'll be sanctions on Iran as well, so they they can't be rich.
That is the money that they use to foment terror around the world.
And he had an exchange with Bernie Sanders over the federal minimum wage, and Sanders asked if he would work with those who want to raise the federal minimum wage to a living wage to take millions of Americans out of poverty.
He said, Well, I believe the minimum minimum wage is more of a state or regional issue.
And then asked, Well, you know, should we change the federal minimum wage?
We have $725 an hour.
He said, No, sir.
Look at California.
I think they're going up to fifteen to nineteen dollars an hour, whatever it is.
You're not going to be able to get workers.
And he said free trade has got to be balanced against fair trade.
And clearly what has happened is the trade has not been fair, and that has fallen on American workers, and China's the most unbalanced economy in the world, and they are in a recession and trying to export their way out of that.
And then he talked about when Donald Trump was last president, Iran was down to producing a hundred thousand barrels of oil exports.
Now they're exporting 1.7 million barrels because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris turned a blind eye towards the sanctions that were working and bankrupting the regime to the point they were at the tipping point whether they would survive.
He said we can make the Iranian regime broke again and at the same time increase our domestic production with the highest energy standards in the world.
He's right.
And if we do all these things, the world is going to be a better place.
Conservatism works whenever you practice it.
Anyway, so um, you know, and then Bergham, by the way, went into great specificity and detail on a lot of this.
It just is what you have is a changing of the guard.
Um, I don't know really what to make of Joe Biden's farewell address last night, except to say that it was sad.
It was pathetic, it was everything that you would expect.
I mean, it was Joe Biden mumbling and bumbling, you know, a career politician filled with delusions of success, petty political attacks, and every cliche imaginable.
You know, if you really listen very, very closely, you know, we're watching him.
He didn't mention the Department of Justice that he weaponized.
He didn't mention his last minute actions to try and sabotage Donald Trump as he comes into office.
He failed to mention that we are now on preemptive pardon watch and his get out of jail free cards.
He failed to mention that his greatest legacy will end up being the tens of millions, 10, 12, 14, 15 million, whatever the number is, unvetted illegal immigrants, including gang members, cartel members, known terrorists, murderers, rapists that are in our country, and however many Americans are victims of violent crime, murdered, raped.
If there's a terror attack on our homeland by these people that he allowed in unvetted, that will be his legacy.
That is Joe.
That is on Joe, that is on Kamala.
You know, in their in the farewell address, we got more class warfare against well, I don't know who the oligarchs he's talking about are.
You know, I know that the Bidens love oligarchs because they were they got a ton of money from oligarchs like the former First Lady of Moscow and all these rich oligarchs in China and Kazakhstan and Ukraine, you know, but it was a typical mumbling, bumbling, disorganized, uninspired, you know, riddled with visions of grandeur about himself, you know, the typical lying about how great he was when in fact he's just been lying.
I mean, he's been saying in recent days that he made the border more secure, and that Vladimir Putin, you know, real really respects him and cares what he thinks.
He's dreaming.
But ask yourself this as Joe Biden leaves and frankly in disgrace as one of the worst presidents in history.
I ask anyone listening to this program, can you identify a single policy that Joe Biden implemented that improved your life economically?
Are you better off?
We're paying twelve thousand dollars more per per person per year than we were paying four years ago.
About a buck twenty-five buck fifty more a gallon for gasoline.
Are you better off that his policies help you and your family?
He's worked fifty years in government.
He owns two large homes, multi-million dollar homes.
He goes on lavish vacations.
Where did all that money come from?
You know, Joe Joe lying about never meeting with Hunter's business business partners.
We now have photographic evidence of such.
Do you think your town, your cities are more safe and more secure?
Are your schools better off?
Did he do anything to help secure social security and Medicare?
What is he what did he do in these years to make this country a better place?
Apparently, according to the New York Post, he sat on a pillow for an extra boost as he delivered this 18 minute farewell address last night.
Photos taken from just outside the Oval Office show that, you know, he had a small little cushion wedged between the presidential rump and the seat.
Seemingly, you know, a firm leather chair.
Pretty pathetic, also, in and of its own right.
And by the way, he leaves office, you know, with one of the lowest approval ratings of any president in a modern era.
He's probably one of the worst presidents in our country's history.
Kamell apparently is pissed off that Biden keeps saying he would have beaten Trump.
Jill Biden took that big shot at Nancy Pelosi.
We were friends for 50 years.
I want to get the whole story about how Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, George Clooney, Barack Obama, how they organized the coup, and how they all thought they were clever.
And they all thought they'd convinced the American people.
And they all or, you know, arranged for Kamala to take over for Joe.
And you know that Kamala was up to her eyeballs in that deal, too.
I wonder if we'll ever get the real story.
All right, a lot of ground yet to uh cover.
We'll get into all of it, and we are in preemptive pardon watch.
We'll check in with Congressman Jim Jordan, the chairman of the very important House Judiciary Committee, also Caroline Glick.
Yes, it's a horrific deal, but it might be the only chance to get these hostages released.