How did they ruin California? One of the great tragedies of our country. We explore Gavin Newsom s 2028 presidential ambitions. Senator Roger Marshall talks about the latest in the U.S. Senate and more.
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00:01:28.000There's lots to cover today, lots of news ongoing.
00:01:30.000I want to remind you guys that the inauguration is in seven days.
00:01:35.000In seven days, we have the inauguration of the 47th President of the United States, the first time since Grover Cleveland that a president will serve non-consecutive terms.
00:01:48.000And all of you in this audience who worked so hard, who chased ballots, Who registered voters, this is a victory for all of you.
00:01:58.000This is a victory for everybody in the audience that decided to go pick up your shovel and put your working boots on and get out in the trenches, get out in the streets, and make it happen.
00:02:12.000And I just want to reflect on the improbable odds of how our movement was able to overcome what seemed to be The most formidable of all challenges.
00:02:27.000Taking back the country from a group of people who hate it.
00:02:32.000A group of people who have contempt for it.
00:02:35.000The challenge in front of this new administration, and they are going to hit the ground running, I can tell you from my short conversations with the president, I was able to see the president yesterday, actually on Friday as well, this is a motivated team that is ready.
00:02:58.000We have a once in many generations opportunity, once in many lifetimes opportunity to execute on the border, to drill baby drill, to unleash the American economy.
00:03:10.000We have extraordinary potential in this country.
00:04:44.000President Trump has brought you into the room in a record way.
00:04:49.000We must stay disciplined and humble, motivated and hungry throughout this entire process.
00:04:56.000In seven days, President Donald Trump will make history.
00:05:02.000In seven days, those of you that dedicated your entire life, your whole being, your energy, everything that you possibly can to This movement will be fulfilled.
00:05:15.000And it is not the ending, but it is the beginning.
00:05:19.000The beginning of a new dawn of America.
00:05:21.000In seven days, President Donald Trump will say, so help me God.
00:05:27.000That will say, we are taking back this country from the people that have done such remarkable and intractable damage to it.
00:05:35.000A great example of somebody who has done such damage to this country and is a Contrast to the ascendant political ideology, which is the people, is what we've seen in California with Gavin Newsom.
00:05:50.000Gavin Newsom, remember when Democrats in California called a special session just to protect illegal immigrants from accountability?
00:06:05.000This guy wants to be president more than anybody we've ever seen before.
00:06:09.000Democrats spent $18 billion on illegals, who pay $8.5 billion in taxes, and only $3 billion on forest management.
00:06:21.000In one week, President Donald Trump will say, so help me God, and one of the reasons why he won is people like Gavin Newsom that have been running the country into the gutter, have been running the country over a cliff, and now entire neighborhoods have completely vanished and disappeared in California.
00:06:48.000So while their state burns and people don't have homes, what is the priority of Gavin Newsom to Trump-proof California?
00:06:57.000California Democrats have reached a $50 million agreement to shore up state and local legal defenses against the incoming Trump administration just a week ahead of the president-elect's inauguration, Politico writes.
00:07:08.000Half the money would go to fending off any mass deportation plan the new president might enact in his administration.
00:07:17.000So they're spending money to try to thwart federal law enforcement.
00:07:22.000The move, the first of its kind in the nation that positions California to lead a second term resistance against Donald Trump, comes as Republicans bash state Democrat lawmakers for focusing on the highly partisan issue, even as the southern part of the state suffers from historically devastating fires.
00:07:53.000Any different than southern states that were resisting the federal government that led to the Little Rock Nine and the militarization of the National Guard?
00:08:07.000How is this any different than Gavin Newsom saying we are going to thwart federal supremacy when it comes to immigration law?
00:08:17.000Democrats want to lock in their state's decline and failure, and Gavin Newsom better be careful.
00:08:21.000This very well might be against a lot of laws that say we are not going to, we're going to pay money to actively make sure the federal government can't do what the voters want to do.
00:08:32.000California is in a state of mind right now, where effectively they're saying, don't you dare try and help save us.
00:08:57.000Look, we're going to be able to do mass deportations in Miami and Orlando.
00:09:01.000In Columbia, South Carolina, in Augusta, Georgia.
00:09:04.000But as soon as the mass deportations start coming for Sacramento, California, it's going to be very interesting.
00:09:10.000Who's in charge of immigration policy?
00:09:13.000The states are not in charge of federal immigration policy, period.
00:09:18.000Politico continues, the deal includes $25 million Newsom has proposed for the State Department of Justice to fight federal government in court shortly after Trump's re-election in November.
00:09:30.000Plus $25 million more proposed by state Senate leaders to defend immigrants against deportation, detention, and wage theft.
00:09:38.000The $25 million proposed by the Senate would fund grants for legal nonprofits and immigration support centers.
00:09:45.000Senate Budget Chair Scott Wiener, sound familiar?
00:09:53.000He is behind nearly every creepy, bad, treasonous, awful idea in the state of California.
00:09:59.000Quote, this funding agreement cements California's readiness to serve as a bulwark against Trump's extremist agenda.
00:10:07.000Floor votes on the so-called special session package could come as soon as this week.
00:10:13.000This would give Gavin Newsom time to sign the deal before Trump's inauguration on January the 20th and shift focus away from the session's partisan feud to how Democrats are responding to the unfolding disaster in Los Angeles.
00:10:23.000So just so you understand this, for all of you watching California or understand California politics, as Los Angeles is burning to a crisp...
00:10:32.000The priority of California lawmakers is to create a $50 million fund to prevent President Trump from getting rid of cartel members and getting rid of illegal migrants.
00:10:48.000Representatives for the governor's office and legislative leaders did not respond to requests for comment as the deal was expected to be announced as early as Monday, today.
00:10:57.000Republicans have agitated for a special session focused solely on fires.
00:11:01.000And Newsom told Pod Save America over the weekend he's happy to do whatever moves the needle forward.
00:11:07.000What does it even mean, moves the needle forward?
00:11:09.000When asked about calling such a special session, he said he and legislative leaders were going to discuss whether that was necessary.
00:11:17.000I mean, can we just remark on how Politico has just become a press release service for radical Democrats?
00:11:26.000This is just disgusting, naked, partisan garbage from Politico.
00:11:31.000Newsom and legislators representing Los Angeles have also been in Southern California since the fires escalated.
00:11:37.000But that has not neutralized GOP critics.
00:11:41.000At a time when California should be laser-focused on responding to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, Democrats' lawmakers' priority is creating a $50 million fund.
00:11:52.000Wiener continues, Senate Democrats are particularly proud to provide funding for providers of legal aid services, which we know our communities need best and are best positioned to defend and scale the millions of individuals and families that will be impacted by the incoming administration's extremist agenda.
00:12:11.000Trump warned us in 2018, he warned Newsom to amend their policies.
00:12:16.000By the way, can East Palestine or North Carolina Get some of this Marshall Plan money that Gavin Newsom is talking about?
00:12:25.000Why do taxpayers outside of California have to subsidize Democrats' incompetence and potentially criminal negligence?
00:12:33.000If we had any sort of a fair justice system still in this country, Gavin Newsom would be in federal prison.
00:12:38.000If we had any sort of fair composition here, Gavin Newsom would pay a very, very heavy and significant price for not just the negligence, The blocking of federal law enforcement.
00:12:57.000What if a governor of Alabama told his local officials, do not hand over January 6th protesters to the FBI? In fact, we are going to create a fund to make sure that January 6th protesters are not handed over to the FBI. The world would explode, and they'd call him a traitor and a threat to democracy.
00:13:20.000But Gavin Newsom has more of a priority to foreigners that have invaded our land and broke into our country than to the people that have their homes completely eliminated.
00:13:32.000Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here with New Year's Resolutions.
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00:15:16.000Sunlight and weather plays a lot into the human psyche.
00:15:19.000Turns out that you could turn your state into a seismic hellhole.
00:15:26.000Taxpayer-funded abortions, gender reassignment surgery, illegals everywhere, critical race theory in the schools, terrible economy, high inflation, and people will still live there.
00:15:36.000Now, California does have a declining population.
00:15:40.000It does have people that are leaving for my home state of Arizona.
00:15:45.000However, it's remarkable the power that living in Santa Barbara has on some people.
00:15:54.000Turning it into just the communist dystopian hellscape.
00:15:56.000I always joke around with producer Andrew.
00:15:58.000I said, so what is the breaking point?
00:15:59.000You know, when they can medically kidnap your kids?
00:16:02.000And I... I actually see it from his perspective and Sonia Friend's perspective.
00:16:07.000When California is good, it's the best place on the planet.
00:16:12.000There's some moments where you say, what am I doing here?
00:16:14.000It cost me $95 to fill up my car with a tank of gas, and I just spent $700 at a local grocery store, and I can't afford rent.
00:16:23.000Then you're driving down Pacific Coast Highway at 3 p.m.
00:16:27.000on a Sunday afternoon with the windows down, and you say, I'll pay anything.
00:17:44.000When you're landing into Orange County at John Wayne Airport, when you're landing into San Diego, when you're landing into Burbank or you're landing into LAX and you just see the pristine nature of what God gave America.
00:17:59.000It goes to show how we human beings can mess up the pristine, the serenity that was once the untouched jewel of America.
00:18:09.000And now Gavin Newsom wants to be president.
00:21:02.000Senator, our audience is wondering, what is the status of President Trump's nominees in front of the U.S. Senate and the likelihood of their confirmation?
00:21:10.000Charlie, well, first of all, I just got to say thank you for helping us make America healthy again.
00:21:14.000It sounds like you're promoting some good, nutritious meals there, so we're glad to hear that.
00:21:19.000Look, the status of President Trump's nominees, I'm very, very optimistic.
00:21:23.000And why this is so important, talking about the obvious here, is when President Trump walks in there on day number one and issues 100 executive orders, if he doesn't have people in place in his cabinet, those orders go nowhere.
00:21:36.000So that's why we need to be expeditious as possible.
00:22:13.000And I know that there's been some media narratives that Bobby Kennedy can't get the votes, that Tulsi Gabbard can't get the votes.
00:22:23.000So, Senator, I want to lean in on one of those, which is Bobby Kennedy.
00:22:27.000Bobby Kennedy, of course, former Democrat, ran for the presidency as a Democrat, but has been very big on Make America Healthy Again.
00:22:35.000You are a physician, and you're known as Doc Marshall as well as Senator Marshall.
00:22:39.000How should we think about the Bobby Kennedy nomination to lead Health and Human Services?
00:22:45.000What a courageous individual to put himself out here.
00:22:49.000And he's just going to get hammered by all the special interest groups.
00:22:52.000He's going to get hammered by the big food manufacturers, the people that make the ultra-processed food, all those types of things.
00:22:58.000But, Charlie, I think what's going to drive his nomination is the groundswell out there of people that are behind him.
00:23:06.000Look, I think it was a sentinel moment of President Trump's campaign when he got that endorsement.
00:23:11.000So there's a huge following out there for Bobby Kennedy.
00:23:15.000These are the same moms that back during my campaign in 2020 that didn't want their kids to get vaccinated, that they wanted to have the choice with them and their doctors on what to do.
00:23:26.000Those same moms, and I think a lot of it is women out there, are very concerned about the health of their children, the mental health of their children.
00:23:44.000I'm going to be right there standing beside him.
00:23:46.000We formed the Make America Healthy Again caucus, and I just couldn't be more excited.
00:23:51.000I've been working on this for 40 years.
00:23:53.000Bobby and I don't agree on everything, and that's okay.
00:23:55.000My own partners in my practice and I don't agree on everything, but we have the same goal, and we're locked in to make that happen, and Bobby Kennedy is the right person for this job.
00:24:09.000And also, it's about time that we have a Health and Human Services Secretary that cares about the health care, not just sick care, not just trying to get people routinely on drugs.
00:24:18.000Can you speak about that as a physician, that getting the root causes of the chronic disease epidemic, I'm sure you have many stories throughout your career that just throwing more drugs at the problem is not always the solution.
00:24:29.000Yeah, Charlie, to your point, 60% of Americans have a chronic disease.
00:25:22.00020% of our youth, of our children, are on a prescription drug medicine.
00:25:26.000We'd love to come back and talk about mental health and especially the...
00:25:30.000The young kids, young adults under the age of 30 sometimes.
00:25:34.000But there's a huge opportunity here for us.
00:25:37.000So, Senator, the lineup looks like this.
00:25:40.000Pete Hegseth, his hearings start tomorrow, it looks like.
00:25:43.000Doug Burgum and Doug Collins, Marco Rubio then the following day, Chris DeNome, Pam Bondi, John Ratcliffe, Chris Wright, Russ Vogt, Sean Duffy.
00:25:51.000So, Senator, walk us through the hearings.
00:25:53.000This is a super accelerated pace, is it not, versus prior administrations?
00:26:22.000And I'm telling you, he's going to be the best recruiter for the military we've ever seen.
00:26:27.000My youngest son just returned from active duty in Poland the week before, and he happened to be in the office the day that Pete was coming through.
00:27:38.000You know, I think about, I used to coach a lot of little league sports, and one thing I couldn't do was make my players faster or jump higher, at least not too much.
00:27:47.000So there needs to be a level of talent, a physical fitness of our people entering the military.
00:27:52.000And I say physical fitness, their mental fitness as well.
00:27:56.000We're at all-time lows for recruiting for a lot of reasons.
00:28:00.000I mean, I... My son, I shouldn't use my son on this example.
00:28:04.000Many people are hesitant to join the military right now because of the DEI issues.
00:28:09.000And then the transgender surgeries, the military paying for transgender surgeries.
00:28:14.000Look, today's military has to go with some drastic cultural changes.
00:28:19.000The numbers for recruiting are at an all-time low, and we just can't.
00:28:53.000So, Senator, I want to get your thoughts on the legislative agenda and schedule.
00:28:57.000Outside of the one-bill, two-bill debate, are there other items that you're going to be pushing for?
00:29:02.000Some skinnier bills that can maybe pass the House and the Senate without getting 60 votes, or maybe getting 60 votes, maybe in regards to restraining the Chinese Communist Party?
00:29:12.000Or what other legislative priorities do you hope the Senate majority champions in this very consequential legislative year?
00:29:19.000Yeah, Charlie, not to circle back, but I think it's important that we organize and prioritize, that we stay locked in on this smaller legislative agenda right now.
00:29:28.000But we can't focus just on the reconciliation bills, which you've alluded to.
00:29:32.000We also need to take into account the government funding ends March the 14th, and we've got a debt ceiling facing us as well.
00:29:40.000So behind all this, one of the things I'm focused on is a budget bill that would require Congress to do a real budget and then have...
00:29:48.000We have sticks as well as carrots if they don't do it.
00:29:51.000So one of my one-off pieces of legislation is the budget bill, but I just can't stress enough.
00:29:56.000We need to stay locked in on President Trump's agenda.
00:30:01.000And if you really push him, I think you'd say, look, I mostly ran on security, so let's lock in on that bill.
00:30:07.000Let's give him the money to secure the border.
00:30:09.000It's going to be very expensive to hunt down 400, 500,000 criminal aliens and then put them in a prison and then ship them out.
00:30:17.000So, you know, those are some of the issues that I'm focused on.
00:30:22.000Whatever we can do to roll back regulations, there's something called a congressional review action that we can go back and try to lock in and roll back a lot of these Biden overreach opportunities as well.
00:30:33.000Finally, Senator, I know you were serving in the House during the first Trump administration, and then, of course, you got promoted up to the Senate.
00:30:40.000What lessons, as we go into this final week, I'm asking this of all of our lawmaker guests, what lessons did you learn in the first administration that we can make sure not to repeat this one, to make sure that we have a successful administration?
00:30:53.000Because the first one was terribly chaotic the first 18 months.
00:31:03.000And I think that they need to be loyal people.
00:31:05.000So I think that'll be a big difference as going forward as President Trump's people are loyal, that they're committed to this American First agenda.
00:31:12.000I think the other lesson learned is, much like being a physician, one of the lessons I learned is try to look through the illness through the eyes of the patient.
00:31:19.000In the eyes of the family, not necessarily mine.
00:31:22.000So as I sit there and see some of the ongoing arguments in the House and the Senate, I'm trying to remind my colleagues that what Speaker Johnson has over there, the dynamics, are completely different than ours.
00:31:34.000So try to look at it through his eyes.
00:31:36.000We don't have any senators from New York, any senators from Illinois, California, who care about this SALT tax.
00:31:42.000And I'll let you get into that with your listeners some other time.
00:31:45.000But it's just not a big issue over here.
00:31:47.000But Speaker Johnson has to We want to address that SALT tax as he goes through trying to fund border security along with making the Trump tax cuts permanent.
00:31:56.000You know, over here on the Senate side, we want to make sure that we don't leave some of the great opportunities on the scrap table.
00:32:02.000I would love to lower the corporate tax more.
00:35:49.000Blake or Andrew can find it, or maybe Ryan.
00:35:53.000Can anyone find if there is the Pink Hat March the day after?
00:35:58.000Remember last time in 2017 they had this ridiculous march of Madonna saying she's going to blow up the White House and there were like 500,000 people in D.C.? Does the left have anything comparable planned?