Mitch McConnell is the unlikely face of the resistance to President Trump, but is he actually a bulwark against him? And what if he's actually the one who can stop Donald Trump from getting his cabinet picks confirmed?
00:01:53.340I think that this is where I think you really draw the line, that he is serious about protecting the integrity of the institution.
00:01:58.900Because Donald Trump, from the moment of his election, basically made it clear that he wanted to bend the Senate to his will, as you said.
00:02:07.960He wanted the Senate to surrender its powers of advice and consent.
00:02:12.740Mitch McConnell, at some point, is going to say, look, the way this system is set up under the Constitution, we are not potted plants.
00:02:19.680We are going to be jealous of our power.
00:02:21.620And we're not going to let you roll over.
00:02:24.340So, the other what if that I think that we need to keep in mind, and again, I don't put a lot of stock in this, but what if, at this point in his life, Mitch McConnell is all out of bleeps to give?
00:02:38.820What if he decides, I have nothing to lose?
00:02:41.320I am not going to be, I am not simply going to be another spear carrier for Donald Trump.
00:02:49.300You put all those things together, and you have the possibility of someone saying, I have nothing to lose.
00:02:58.060I am going to do what I want to do, really for the first time in maybe 20 years, in terms of not having responsibility in leadership.
00:03:06.500So, again, default position, skepticism, but it is a really interesting question right now, especially going back to your last segment.
00:03:16.060You know, we're learning about the unilateral power of the president, all the things that Donald Trump will be able to do without congressional approval.
00:03:23.880The fact that he can unilaterally impose billions of dollars in taxes is extraordinary.
00:03:28.860I don't think a lot of people fully realize that.
00:03:30.860The fact that he does have the power to initiate mass deportation.
00:03:34.880The fact that he can use the Department of Justice.
00:03:37.640So, this is a moment at which the Senate, in its historic constitutional role, can be a check on Donald Trump.
00:03:47.800And there's no love lost between these two men.
00:03:53.000This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:05:16.500The system works against, the system is destructive to American citizens, particularly those American citizens that are the full faith and credit of the United States government.
00:05:26.180That would happen to be the working class and middle class of our beloved republic.
00:06:06.420Now, Charlie right there and Alex Wagner actually break it down.
00:06:10.140Is that, and Charlie talks about the unitary.
00:06:12.380So take your number two pencil out because this is a piece of nomenclature.
00:06:16.960And you must remember this in the fight going forward, the unitary theory of the executive.
00:06:23.700This is not to impose upon the Senate.
00:06:26.220This is not to impose upon the judiciary.
00:06:28.240Those three branches, those other two branches of government, as laid out in our beloved Constitution, that's now 230, 240 years old, they are equal.
00:06:37.500They were co-equal powers with checks and balances.
00:06:40.840Hey, I went to prison for four months on a misdemeanor in a debate about the power of a illegal and illegitimate committee in Congress and the president's ability to exert executive privilege.
00:07:18.160It lays out three jobs that the guy, whoever is in the presidency has three jobs.
00:07:24.180They're the chief executive of the U.S. government.
00:07:26.320They're the commander in chief of the armed forces and also they're the chief magistrate and chief law enforcement officer of said government.
00:07:36.820That is, since Watergate, they've hived off over into the Justice Department.
00:07:42.760This is why you have a thousand patriots in prison on J6 right now.
00:07:47.260A corrupt judiciary, a corrupt Department of Justice, U.S. attorneys, every U.S. attorney should be fired at one minute afternoon on the 20th of January.
00:07:57.620Gone and take their deputies out, too.
00:08:00.720Damien Williams, a sores plant in the Southern District, in the Southern District, the most powerful of all of them.
00:09:02.800And unless we lance that boil and lance it now, that's the blocking device.
00:09:09.120I can tell you, from the establishment's point of view, the resistance, they're doing the color revolution, and Natalie will be on here later to do it.
00:09:15.440But that's all going to be a thing that we're going to have to work through.
00:09:18.740But I keep saying on the interregnum, you must seize the institutions.
00:09:23.240If you do not seize the institutions, we cannot reform them.
00:09:26.440If you do not seize the institution, you cannot deconstruct the administrative state.
00:09:30.300The imperial capital is set up on institutions that have atrophied and grown and metastasized and work against the American people.
00:09:41.580From the Justice Department to the Agriculture Department to the Defense Department to this corrupt intelligence, 18 branches of Tulsi Gabbard will heroically go in and try to change.
00:12:22.940They would rather have 51 and have a couple of Democrats that caucus with them and not have Carrie Lake, because Carrie Lake, you're a fire breather.
00:12:54.560There was no bipartisan support for that.
00:12:56.480We saw that it was going to actually take this outrageous policy on our border and codify it into law and prevent President Trump from truly securing the border.
00:13:35.600I just want to hold you a couple of minutes on the other side.
00:13:37.880Because people want to know the future of Carrie Lake.
00:13:41.820You're one of the most revered members of the MAGA movement and a great leader.
00:13:47.160And people want to know if that leadership's – if you're going to put your shoulder to the wheel to help President Trump in Washington, D.C. or throughout the world.
00:13:56.840The great Johnny Kahn, Andrew Breitbart, one of his early partners, in a song, the anthem of the Tea Party, more relevant today than ever.
00:14:05.360Johnny Kahn takes us out with American Heart.
00:14:09.600We're going to return in the war room in just a moment.
00:14:12.380But I say I still believe in the greatest innovator, liberator, cultivator, freedom knows.
00:14:30.380So I suggest you take a look inside, cause I think you've changed already, you went and lost your pride, but I'm American made, I got American partner, I got American babe.
00:16:27.520I think you can tell from the tariff discussion when you have guys like Kevin O'Leary talking about 400% tariffs to take down the Chinese Communist Party.
00:16:36.560Hey, I was talking to these, I don't know, a couple thousand anti-CCP dissidents last night, gave a talk, and then talked about going forward what's going to happen.
00:16:45.980I mean, they're all for, remember, we can't take down the illegitimate Chinese government.
00:17:12.200It's the common man and woman, the little guy.
00:17:14.080And the Chinese, as a great civilization, have never had, they're the only civilization on Earth.
00:17:20.800In a great civilization, they've never had freedom.
00:17:23.240Either been under an emperor, either been under a warlord, either been on an invasion of foreign powers like the Manchurians, or either been under communist dictatorship.
00:18:21.620Because the slave labor of Lao Bajing keeps wages down throughout the world.
00:18:25.960And now you have Kevin O'Leary and following President Trump,
00:18:28.320we have an opportunity to take down the Chinese Communist Party.
00:18:32.420Carrie, what the audience wants to know,
00:18:34.880you're one of the leaders of this movement, and a beloved figure, because you're a fighter.
00:18:38.280What does Carrie Lake's future look like?
00:18:40.880I want to first talk a little bit about what you just mentioned.
00:18:43.740You know, we have an opportunity to bring down this CCP and free the people of China.
00:18:49.700Can you imagine how that would change the world?
00:18:52.080I think the money we spend, the money we could save not having an enemy like the CCP any longer,
00:18:59.000if you want to look at it from pure economics.
00:19:00.980I think, you know, they were on the verge of another uprising right before COVID.
00:19:05.620Remember in the streets of Hong Kong in 2019?
00:19:08.420I think the people are ripe for revolution and for freedom, and they're ready to go.
00:19:14.800And I'm hoping that President Trump does what O'Leary suggested.
00:19:18.700I don't know if 400 percent is the right number, but, you know, that would be stark.
00:19:23.300It would happen quickly with that number like that.
00:19:25.800So I'm excited about freeing and helping people.
00:19:29.520This is why we need you with President Trump's administration, because it should be noted that 45 of those young patriots in Hong Kong were sentenced to prison,
00:19:40.420to Chinese prisons on the mainland two days ago.
00:19:44.320And Marco Rubio, look, as much as people say neocon for the waltz, waltz is the most anti-CCP in the House.
00:19:49.180And Marco Rubio and Senator Rubio is the most anti-CCP in the Senate, even greater, I think, than Josh Hawley.
00:19:55.500And Senator Rubio's staff has done the most important report, it hasn't been totally disseminated,
00:20:00.980about the wealth of the Mandarins and the Chinese Communist Party and the money they've made.
00:20:05.180These families are richer than the monarchies in the Gulf.
00:20:10.040They're richer than that when that comes out.
00:20:11.960So, Kerry, you are engaged with the transition.
00:20:14.780I understand you're doing reps here to maybe take a Newsmax gig.
00:26:22.500Of the three, of Hegseth and Gabbard and Kennedy, they're going to pick one.
00:26:27.540I happen to think, as controversial as Pete is, and Pete's a buddy is a good man, as controversial as Pete is, if he hangs in there, the target's going to be Kennedy.
00:26:39.080Because the biopharmaceutical, remember, these common complexes, the biopharmaceutical and medical complex is going to target, and they understand Kennedy is tough, he's smart, he's relentless, and he will take them apart.
00:26:55.780And Mitch McConnell feeds at the trough of the biopharmaceutical industry.
00:26:59.940We are setting ourselves up for a defeat and or compromise that, Bobby, remember, Gates, go back.
00:27:09.940When Gates went around, what was leaked?
00:27:12.300When he went around with J.D., he wasn't going to go after MSNBC.
00:28:14.780Natalie Winters is on deck in the war room.
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00:29:28.480Friend of the show, Joyce Vance, is back to answer some of our legal questions on Trump's mass deportation threats.
00:29:34.220And they also see him as a champion of the working class.
00:41:00.300But by narrative films as well, where the filmmakers and the buyers, the studios and the networks
00:41:08.300and the streamers are willing to go that way.
00:41:11.300They're willing to try to make films that are not only entertaining, but informative as well.
00:41:17.300So I think right now, it's probably one of the most significant times in our history.
00:41:22.300And since film began, since the film experience began, it became an art form, it became a business, a huge business.
00:41:31.300Now is probably one of the most important times in our history for us to make films that will teach people about what reality is around the world.
00:41:41.300You know, Italy has seen fascism. Italy has seen these things.
00:41:52.300You guys, you understand what happens. You have seen this before.
00:41:58.300My country is in its adolescence. Adolescence is very arrogant. Adolescence thinks it knows everything. Adolescence is naive and ignorant and arrogant.
00:42:13.300And we are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence.
00:42:19.300We haven't seen this before in our country.
00:42:22.300So Americans who don't travel, who 80% don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete.
00:42:37.300What I can say is that the only way that we can help with these issues is to help each other.
00:42:47.300Now, we can't just say that women should help women, because that's the only way we have survived so far.
00:42:56.300We must say that good men must help good men. And those good men must be very aware that a lot of your friends are not good men.
00:43:11.300And you can't continue to pretend that your friends are good men when they are not good men.
00:45:08.300Your comments and observations, your comments and observations of the Rhodes scholar Sharon Stone and the astrophysicist Alec Baldwin, their attitude to working class men and women in our great country, ma'am.
00:45:22.300Well, I think you're a masochist if you wanted to play that clip again.
00:45:26.300Are you just like torturing the audience?
00:45:28.300That's the worst birthday present that I think you could possibly have come up with.
00:45:32.300But look, I think this gets back to, I mean, even what we were talking about with Ann Applebaum last night, right?
00:45:37.300The idea that these people are defending the institutions, this sort of neoliberal establishment that I think the Trump agenda has really unearthed to, for lack of a better word, the emperor has no clothes.
00:45:48.300But in this case, it's really more so that the experts have no clothes, right?
00:45:53.300When they sit there and people like Alec Baldwin and Sharon Stone and these, you know, room temperature IQ losers say, oh, well, you know, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can't be HHS secretary because what's going to happen to public health?
00:46:06.300We're going to, I don't know, have pandemics.
00:46:09.300On your guys' watch, that happened because you created it, because you hate this country and you're part of, I don't know, a globalist world order that didn't want Trump to win the 2020 election, so you sent taxpayer dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:46:22.300Are they going to sit there and say that, oh, no, we can't have people like Peter Navarro in charge of economic issues and tariffs are really bad because we're going to get, I don't know, crazy inflation and gas that people can't afford?
00:46:32.860Well, I guess they checked that box, too. Or what? We can't have people like Tulsi Gabbard run intelligence.
00:46:39.100We can't have people like Pete Hegseth, right? He's not qualified because what? He doesn't sit on a Raytheon board seat.
00:46:45.020He doesn't have experience working for Boeing or Lockheed Martin, right?
00:46:48.920Oh, no, we're not going to have peace and stability because Pete Hegseth is over at the Pentagon.
00:46:53.340You mean the peace and stability that we've seen unfold in, I don't know, Ukraine, the Middle East, the South China Sea, basically everywhere, including our own southern border, right?
00:47:02.080They say they say that our movement is adolescent and naive.
00:47:05.960Well, Sharon Stone, that shows how truly dumb you are to think that the MAGA movement was something that was, I don't know, just created out of thin air like yesterday.
00:47:15.080This has been a decades long struggle that you have been at the forefront of, Steve, of taking the Republican Party back and aligning it with the grassroots,
00:47:23.420taking it away from the donor class that people like Sharon Stone and Alec Baldwin represent to a T.