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00:02:57.000The short way of describing it is that the advice and consent process is one in which the president nominates and the Senate confirms, meaning the Senate has the opportunity to, if you will, sort of veto.
00:03:11.000It's like the veto, but in reverse order on the personnel front as opposed to the legislative front, Where the Senate and the House together will offer up legislation the president can veto.
00:03:21.000Presidential appointees the president nominates, the Senate confirms.
00:03:26.000It's a yes or no proposition at the end of the day.
00:03:31.000Anytime you have the political party of the president aligned with the political majority in the Senate, normally you can expect to see a lot of cooperation among the senators, particularly the senators of the majority party, To confirm that president's choices.
00:03:48.000It's not automatic, not presumed, of course.
00:03:50.000But in the last four years, for example, where the Senate has been under the control of the Democrats during a Democratic administration, the Democrats basically never break ranks, particularly on the president's most important nominees, his key cabinet-level positions.
00:04:08.000And I think that's one of the reasons why it's important for us as Republican senators right now to get behind President Trump's nominees.
00:04:15.000Obviously, everybody's got their own decisions to make in each case, but particularly with key nominations that are of the utmost importance to the president, we should err always on the side of deferring to President Trump.
00:04:54.000In a meeting with about a dozen Republican senators Monday night here in the Capitol, he came in and met with us.
00:05:01.000He outlined his bold vision for running the Department of Defense.
00:05:04.000He acknowledged that we've got a lot of problems.
00:05:07.000He acknowledged up front the job of the U.S. military and of the Department of Defense It's really to take care of the warfighter and make sure that the warfighter can do the warfighter's job.
00:05:17.000The warfighter is to be intimidating, threatening, frightening even to our adversaries, our current and would-be adversaries around the world.
00:05:26.000It is not to fulfill some mandate from the far left wing of the Democratic Party's base.
00:05:34.000That's what he is going to restore on day one.
00:05:37.000He said, I walk into that building, once I'm confirmed, And the DEI stuff comes to an abrupt end that very first day.
00:05:44.000That is exactly what we need right there, and it's one of the reasons I'm so proud to support him.
00:05:48.000I'm also a big supporter of Cash Patel.
00:05:51.000It's another really key appointment that the president needs to be able to make.
00:05:55.000The FBI, like the Department of Defense, has a lot of problems in it, and Cash Patel is exactly the guy we need in there.
00:06:02.000He knows where the bodies are buried, so to speak, metaphorically speaking, of course, although with the FBI, you never know.
00:06:08.000Cash Patel scares people to death in Washington.
00:06:13.000The swamp creatures are scared of Cash Patel and FBI and of Pete Exes and the Department of Defense because they know they will get to the bottom of what's wrong with both entities.
00:06:25.000Do you believe that Cash Patel is likely to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate?
00:06:32.000And for one simple reason, there isn't a good reason to oppose him.
00:06:37.000And I would say that to Republicans and Democrats alike, there's not a good reason to oppose him.
00:06:42.000It's important to remember, he's a guy who has a lot of important credentials, including being a former prosecutor.
00:06:50.000That's the same credential that's been held by many prior FBI directors.
00:06:55.000He incidentally has prosecuted more cases than Kamala Harris, who has spent a significant part of her career as a prosecutor.
00:07:03.000So, Cash Patel also was the author of a A brilliant memorandum, at least a primary driver of this important memorandum when he was working for Congressman Nunes in the House that uncovered the Russiagate hoax.
00:07:18.000As he's proven his ability, not only as a prosecutor but later on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee staff, he's proven his ability to weed out corruption, to weed out falsehoods, to weed out the deep state's worst, dirtiest, nastiest, ugliest tricks.
00:07:41.000And so speaking more broadly here, Senator, the Republican conference has an opportunity to send a signal to the rest of DC that it is not going to be business as usual.
00:07:54.000Speak also to Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Kennedy.
00:07:57.000Yeah, I'm a huge supporter of both of them.
00:08:02.000I worked with her when she was in Congress.
00:08:04.000Worked with her on a number of religious liberty fronts.
00:08:08.000She's a bold fighter, and I think she has been so strong in calling out abuses in Washington.
00:08:17.000She herself has been the victim of a retaliatory deep state system that put her on the terror watch list, actually had minders, like spies, literally following her as she traveled around the country.
00:08:36.000He comes from a very different political background than I do.
00:08:39.000But I respect and deeply admire the fact that he's one who's going to stand up against this sort of government, food, drug, industrial complex that very often has not led to better health outcomes.
00:08:55.000I want to get your reaction very quickly as we close here, Senator, to this extraordinary clip.
00:08:59.000New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg pushes for preemptive pardons.
00:09:04.000Play cut 120. I shouldn't say easy, but there's a way to do this, I think, that would make the narrative clear cut for the American people.
00:09:13.000It's not ideal to have an incoming potential head of the FBI, Kash Patel, who has published enemies' lists.
00:09:22.000But one advantage of that is that he wrote a book, he has an enemies' list in it, so we know exactly who he has threatened to go after without cause.
00:10:09.000And because it's without cause, she insists that the need there for a pardon to insulate these people from legal accountability is so compelling in her mind, because it is without cause.
00:10:23.000She presupposes the answer to the question that she poses, and she presupposes it in a way that is without foundation.
00:10:31.000She hasn't established that it's without cause.
00:10:34.000Ash Patel would beg to differ that it's without cause.
00:10:38.000In any event, this would be an odd way of going about it.
00:10:42.000We've got Gerald Ford pardoning Richard Nixon when that whole episode happened.
00:10:52.000But when you're talking about a fairly wide net of saying, okay, let's look out for the people who we know that the incoming administration might have cause to realize Mike Warren investigation.
00:11:16.000But to just throw a wide net out there and say we're going to pardon all these people prospectively because we think the incoming administration might have reason to investigate them, that's weird.
00:11:34.000Look, I'm going to be realistic about my diet in December.
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00:12:26.000One of the most bizarre and eerie stories of this entire year unfolded yesterday in Manhattan.
00:12:38.000So the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, a major health insurance company that does over $400 billion in revenue, was in New York City for a shareholder meeting or for an investor meeting report.
00:12:53.000And he was walking the streets of New York alone, which was kind of bizarre, no staff, no security, and was walking into the Hilton Hotel.
00:13:04.000When he was about to walk in around 6.45 in the morning, a masked gunman with a firearm with a silencer attached, a very important detail, starts shooting at him.
00:13:17.000First shoots at him in the leg, his gun jams, and then fires a shot that ended up killing him behind his back.
00:13:26.000There was a woman that witnessed this on 122 with coffee and just kind of ran away.
00:13:33.000This was obviously not a random shooting.
00:15:04.000And then, of course, there was also an active Justice Department investigation into UnitedHealthcare.
00:15:10.000And so on top of that, former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz, who is a lizard freak, she's a terrible person, she said that this is, we want these executives dead after murder of health insurance CEO. And so there's so many questions around this.
00:15:45.000In one of the most surveilled, one of the most watched, one of the most, let's just say, trafficked cities on the planet, this guy's able to just disappear?
00:15:56.000If this guy was hired to kill him, then he's also probably dead by now.
00:16:02.000Was this guy impacted by a lack of coverage?
00:16:05.000It is less and less likely that this guy was actually hired to do this.
00:16:12.000It's more and more probable that he or someone that he loved had a health insurance dispute and this guy made it his life's mission to go kill the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.
00:16:26.000How he knew he was going to be walking the streets is also another bizarre wrinkle.
00:16:30.000How did he know he was going to be walking the streets at 6.45 a.m.?
00:16:33.000One of the strangest stories of 2024. Joining us now is Jeff Younger with a very, very powerful story about the Trans Mafia and how it's impacted him.
00:16:51.000Well, you know, my ex-wife began to transition my son when he was three years old.
00:16:56.000If you go out to YouTube, you can just search for Mommy Says I'm a Girl, and you'll see the first iPhone video I ever took with him telling me that he believed he was a girl.
00:17:05.000She ramped this up, and eventually the schools in Coppell, Texas began to transition my son behind my back.
00:17:11.000I'd take him to school in boys' clothes.
00:17:13.000The teacher would give him a dress and make him use the girls' bathroom.
00:17:35.000We brought in the top experts from both sides.
00:17:39.000I won 50-50 custody, no child support, but most importantly, I got a check on all medical procedures on my son because the pediatrician that my ex-wife took my son to, Dr. Pape in Flower Mound, Texas, intended to castrate James at 8 or 9, and I was able to stop that.
00:17:58.000During that whole process, I lobbied the Texas legislature and mobilized the movement and got it outlawed here in Texas.
00:18:05.000Because of that, the judges in Dallas County moved my case into the 301st District Court with Judge Mary Brown.
00:18:13.000She systematically stripped me of all parental rights instead of giving me 50-50 custody.
00:18:17.000She gave me supervised visitation that required me to affirm my son was a girl.
00:18:22.000Because I refused to affirm my son was a girl, she let my ex-wife move to California out of Texas where she could castrate him because I had got that law passed.
00:19:10.000But worst of all, he gave my ex-wife sole legal custody, which allows her to chemically castrate him, which I believe has already happened.
00:19:18.000I mean, this is just jaw-dropping and honestly breathtaking.
00:19:24.000So have you had a chance to see your son recently?
00:19:28.000The only way I can see him is if I affirm that he's a girl.
00:19:33.000It's been almost three years at this point.
00:19:35.000I've sent letters to him and birthday presents and Christmas gifts and Easter gifts.
00:19:41.000My ex-wife, as far as I know, doesn't give those to him.
00:19:45.000In the judge's order in California, the recent order from two weeks ago, he said she's not required to give him letters or my children letters or gifts.
00:19:54.000She can send them right back to him anytime she wants.
00:19:56.000So what I've been doing is posting letters on my substack, jeffyounger.substack.com, and I post letters to my boys regularly in hopes that they know that their father still loves them and is still trying to protect them.
00:20:08.000As a deeper question, unrelated to this topic, but it is connected, do you believe that generally fathers do not get the hearing or the rights that they deserve in divorce proceedings in this country?
00:20:34.000The federal government has created financial incentives for the states to remove one of the parents in divorce.
00:20:40.000The Title IV-D program gives states reimbursements for the collection of child support, and it's 66 cents on the dollar for administrative expenses.
00:21:17.000What in an ideal world would the federal government do to prevent this from happening to future families?
00:21:27.000I think the federal government needs to outlaw the chemical castration of minors, and I think Trump is on the right track.
00:21:35.000Hospitals should simply be federally decertified and ineligible for insurance reimbursements if they're harming children with these practices.
00:21:44.000The other thing that I think we need to do is take a look at those Title IV-D incentives.
00:21:49.000And instead, change the incentives to create a condition where the states get more money if both parents can equally share in their children's lives.
00:21:59.000So, for example, the money should be tied to equal possession time between the parents, and the states wouldn't be removing fathers on an industrial scale the way they're doing now.
00:22:13.000It's not just that there are states that allow for the castration of children, but California is a magnet and a sanctuary and almost a soft subsidy for it.
00:22:26.000So California passed a law which I call the Transgender Kidnapping Bill.
00:22:30.000Many of the conservative foundations also called that.
00:22:33.000And actually, many of the conservative foundations warned parents not to take their children into California after they passed this bill.
00:22:39.000One of the arguments I made to the Texas Supreme Court is that California does not even allow any public servant, including police, To obey court orders from another court.
00:22:50.000So even if my son was ordered back to Texas to protect him, California would not obey that order and they would not send him back.
00:22:56.000At age 12, if a child voices consent for these irreparably harming procedures, the state obligates medical providers to give that to the child.
00:23:08.000They have a mandatory affirming policy.
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00:24:24.000Let's talk more about the factory here.
00:24:27.000I know you've become, unfortunately, a subject matter expert on this.
00:24:30.000Can you talk about the money that is being made here?
00:24:34.000Do you believe there was a heavy and significant financial incentive to castrate your son?
00:24:42.000Yeah, so first of all, Obama created an incentive by giving subsidies to insurance companies that pay for these procedures and mandated that the insurance companies pay for these procedures.
00:24:54.000The second thing is the drugs that are used are among the most expensive drugs sold in the United States.
00:24:59.000The hospitals get a significant markup and the pharmacology companies get tremendous profits from it.
00:25:05.000The estimates in the Texas gender clinics was that each child that goes into the gender clinic is approximately a 4.5 million lifetime income stream to these clinics because they can't get off the drugs.
00:25:17.000And once they have the surgeries, what it essentially amounts to is these children have an open wound.
00:25:24.000And the so-called gender-affirming care after they do the surgeries is functionally identical to outpatient wound care because they have to keep the wound open because the body will naturally close up and grow all this stuff back together.
00:25:38.000So they have to keep the wound open and have permanent lifetime wound care, which is very painful and very expensive and very lucrative for the clinics.
00:25:54.000Is there anything non-legislatively, Jeff, that you look back that you wish you would have done differently, parentally?
00:26:01.000Things you would have known, signs you would have seen.
00:26:04.000I know this is a difficult topic for you to talk about, but is there anything that you look back that you say, I wish I would have known XYZ or ABC and I want other parents to know this?
00:26:17.000Well, a couple of things that I've really, very disturbing things that I've learned.
00:26:20.000In all the 50 states, it is perfectly legal, in some cases mandatory, for licensed care providers, that's nurses, doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, even teachers, they're licensed care providers, social workers, daycare workers are licensed care providers.
00:26:37.000They are allowed in all 50 states to exert a right of privacy for your child against you, the parent.
00:26:45.000And they don't have to tell you that they have exerted such a right of privacy.
00:26:49.000That's the legal basis on which schools have been transitioning children behind the parents' back.
00:26:56.000They're exerting this legal right of privacy that they have.
00:26:59.000One of the things that I learned is you should never leave your children alone with licensed care providers.
00:27:04.000A lot of pediatricians are trained to ask the parent to leave the room during one part of a well check exam, for example, for your child.
00:27:12.000And they ask your children all kinds of questions about sexual activity and all kinds of things about you.
00:27:17.000Never leave your children alone with licensed care providers.
00:27:21.000That has a certain corollary when you think about the public schools.
00:27:24.000You're going to have to get your kids out of public schools and get them into private Christian schools or homeschooling because the states, in many cases, the states require the teacher to affirm your child behind your back.
00:27:37.000Jeff, how can people support you and your family in this terrible situation?
00:27:44.000Get involved in your local community and make sure your schools are not transitioning children.
00:27:50.000Make sure that your state passes laws against it.
00:27:53.000While the liberal states have passed these transgender kidnapping bills, none of the conservative states, including Texas, has passed transgender sanctuary Which protect children who come to Texas.
00:28:06.000If a child comes to the state of Texas or a conservative state, we should not return that child to another state where they'll be sexually abused.
00:28:14.000And so we need to pass our own sanctuary laws and try to get that done in your states.
00:28:19.000That's really the most important way you can support me, is by making your state safe for children.
00:28:55.000The Department of Justice needs to launch criminal investigations into every gender-affirming care clinic, every child castration clinic across the country, every single one.
00:29:07.000We need to look into Lurie Children's in Chicago.
00:29:11.000We need to look into Boston Children's Hospital.
00:29:58.000They're being psychologically manipulated by the system.
00:30:01.000But understand, now that we control the instruments of the federal government, we are able to then use the federal government, we being our movement, like Daniel Penny.
00:30:11.000If Daniel Penny gets convicted, we're just not going to send any money for New York transportation, or that's what we should do.
00:30:19.000You see, the options in front of us are significant.
00:30:24.000And so when it comes to this gender castration thing, there's many ways to look at it.
00:30:28.000Number one, you have to look into the advertising of it.
00:30:31.000Have the Federal Trade Commission go and say, were you guys fraudulently advertising the service?
00:30:37.000Number two, look into who's making all this money.
00:31:09.000Then, the federal government needs to join...
00:31:12.000With all the other states and start suing on the civil side and the plaintiffs as well.
00:31:18.000How powerful would it be if the Solicitor General of the United States, the Department of Justice, joins some of these plaintiff lawsuits of these 12 and 13 and 14 and 15 year olds or these 20 year olds that are detransitioners That are suing these doctors because they cannot reach sexual climax and they've been completely cut off and they regret it and the doctors say, too bad, so sad, buyer beware, you're 20 years old, I lied to you when you're 13. These doctors need to go to prison.
00:31:45.000Class action lawsuits, squeeze them criminally, and I guarantee you, in fact, Dr. Ethan Chaim, who I think is under federal indictment right now for the whistleblower at the Houston Children's Hospital, which I hope that we can get that indictment lifted and fixed with Pam Bondi.
00:32:02.000Dr. Ethan Chaim blew the whistle that there was illegal activity happening in Houston.
00:32:53.000Well, then if it's an identity, how can people detransition from it?
00:32:55.000If it's an identity, how can you be a man one day and a woman another day?
00:32:58.000And so we need to make sure that this story never happens again, where dads lose their sons because the wife wants to transition their kid because obviously they're psychologically deranged.