Sen. Ron Johnson joins the program to break down the latest news of the U.S. Senate race. Then, Darren Beattie talks about Matt Gaetz and the path towards confirmation. Finally, a look at the Democratic National Convention.
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00:02:28.000Well, first of all, that Tuesday night was triumphant when Wisconsin sank the putt that won the President's Cup for President Trump.
00:02:35.000So it was a lot of fun being there on the ground.
00:02:37.000We're the ones that put him over the top.
00:02:38.000And we were very hopeful with Eric Hovde.
00:02:41.000The difference is President Trump was up by enough votes to withstand the ballot dump from Milwaukee Central Count.
00:02:50.000Now, what I can say is, you know, when we came into the election night party there with all the data folks, I got there and we found out that Central Count had not secured the tabulator machines.
00:03:19.000So myself and the chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin went down there, talked to RNC lawyers, to our election observers, got a handle on what the situation was.
00:03:29.000We knew that as a result of that, it was going to take them longer and they were going to have a late night ballot dump.
00:03:34.000But I will say that our observers were very confident that the count was going to be accurate.
00:03:41.000What was feeding into this is the head of the Democrat Party of Wisconsin the day before had been on MSNBC saying that we're going to see this red mirage early in the evening, then early in the morning, We're going to overtake him, the blue wave.
00:03:56.000It's just like you couldn't say something that reduced confidence in the election more than he did.
00:04:02.000Plus, we had slow counts in, I think, Racine and Green Bay.
00:04:41.000So what we need to do is we need to do a post-election audit.
00:04:45.000I would love to have RNC lawyers pay attention to this because, Charlie, we've got a crucial...
00:04:51.000Wisconsin Supreme Court election here in April that we must win.
00:04:55.000If we don't, the court is forever, in my lifetime, probably going to be led by radical left judicial activists, and we may never have an opportunity to win the 10 electoral votes in Wisconsin again or ever get a U.S. Senate seat.
00:05:09.000So it's crucial we understand what happened.
00:05:12.000We have wards that are voting at more than 100% versus registered voters, but we have same-day registration.
00:05:19.000So it's entirely possible, but we just never do the post-election audits in detail to determine, okay, these are the people that voted.
00:05:29.000When I entered politics in 2010, the basic meme was, well, every Republican candidate is going to start at an X percent disadvantage because Democrats cheat.
00:05:40.000It's just like kind of an accepted reality.
00:06:21.000Because a recount is just recounting the actual ballots in the system.
00:06:25.000The question is where did they come from and was the person who is actually assigned to that ballot the designee, the person who filled it out?
00:06:56.000But again, in the end, our observers believed that that was an accurate count and those ballots were accounted for.
00:07:02.000What we don't know is the person who filled out that APC ballot, is that a legitimate voter?
00:07:08.000Is that an illegal alien using a driver's license?
00:07:11.000In Wisconsin, you can't really distinguish whether that's a citizen or not a citizen when they use that driver's license to register to vote.
00:07:34.000And Charlie, you have to do that pretty fast because people move.
00:07:37.000So again, this is very difficult to really audit, really difficult to understand the truth, which is why, in the end, you can commit fraud and not get caught.
00:08:30.000Actually, I think at the start of the day, the news was 108,000 absentee ballots they were going to process.
00:08:34.000So it wasn't like those were mystery ballots.
00:08:36.000And this is central Milwaukee, and you're going to get a very high percentage of those ballots going for the Democrat candidate.
00:08:43.000So again, that wasn't a surprise to me.
00:08:45.000What you need to do in Wisconsin is just true, which is why Ben Winkler can predict that you're going to have a lead and that it's going to be You know, eaten into once Milwaukee Central County gets reported, you just need to build up enough lead.
00:08:58.000I think President Trump was leading by 125,000 votes, so when that ballot dump occurred, again, those are the right number of ballots.
00:09:05.000We had, you know, the chain of custody on those things.
00:09:10.000Eric Hoverty was just trailing him by about 60,000 votes, and he couldn't survive that onslaught of Democrat votes.
00:09:19.000Senator, can you just reiterate what you mentioned?
00:09:21.000Because I think it's very important because we will be doing multiple visits and spending serious money for the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat this spring.
00:09:30.000Democrats typically are able to win these one-off elections.
00:09:35.000What, again, is the significance of holding on to or at least winning the Supreme Court seat?
00:09:40.000If the Democrats have a permanent majority of leftists on that court, they'll redistrict, we'll probably lose House seats, and they'll set up the system where it's going to be very difficult to win electoral votes.
00:10:02.000We need to spend money on an even more robust ground game.
00:10:06.000Because last spring election, when we lost that Supreme Court race, Dan Kelly only got 800,000 votes.
00:10:12.000In an off-year election, Walker and I got 1.2 to 1.3.
00:10:15.000There's no reason why we can't turn out 1.2, 1.3, which would have overcome the million votes that the Democrat Supreme Court justice got last April.
00:10:50.000But I think you'll agree this reason trumps them all.
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00:11:40.000Well, I think elections matter, and I think presidents ought to be able to fill out their administrations with the people that they want to serve in the administration.
00:11:47.000So my bias is always going to be to support President Trump's selections.
00:13:14.000Senator, one thing to entertain is potentially changing of Senate rules to allow concurrent nominations, especially for the lower level, the Senate confirmations that sometimes just go through voice vote.
00:13:27.000Before we even get to recess appointments, I would love to see that potentially entertained.
00:13:32.000Can you educate our audience on what a recess appointment is and what it would take and require to do such an appointment?
00:13:39.000Well, the Supreme Court has now ruled what a recess is, and I think you have to be on recess, know any type of procedures going on for 10 days.
00:13:47.000And again, this was part of the Constitution when people traveled by horse and buggy, and they had to go back to their farms, and they were out of session for quite some time, and the administration had to staff itself.
00:13:58.000But again, back then, the government was far smaller, and the number of people who had to be appointed is far less.
00:14:06.000So, again, that's a tool that is available.
00:14:10.000And, you know, I do think we need to be wary about changing Senate rules because eventually Democrats come get the majority as well.
00:14:18.000And, you know, we do want the capability of blocking some of their awful nominations ourselves.
00:14:24.000So I would caution people about changing Senate rules.
00:14:28.000And we just have to win the elections, Charlie.
00:14:51.000What I was talking about with changing Senate rules was just allowing concurrent nominations, but I don't know if that might involve filibusters or not, so I will yield to the parliamentarian and your wisdom there.
00:15:03.000In closing here, Senator, legislatively, back in 2016-2017, we spent a lot of our political capital, as you remember, trying to repeal Obamacare, only to come Short because of one thumb down.
00:15:16.000What do you think should be the top priority for the President and his agenda through the U.S. Senate that realistically we can get done before the summer?
00:15:24.000Well, I mean, we need to prevent a massive tax increase that automatically takes effect in 2026.
00:15:33.000I think also passing the promises made that President Trump made when it comes to taxes is important as well.
00:15:40.000I'm going to be completely supportive of Elon Musk's The Department of Government Efficiency, I'd love to work very closely with them, just showing the $1.3 trillion of other mandatory spending that we can't address during reconciliation.
00:15:52.000We can't use reconciliation for normal appropriation counts, which is kind of bizarre.
00:15:56.000But we got $1.3 trillion of other mandatory spending, not Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, that the unit party has literally transferred out of discretionary spending, put it in the mandatory category, So it just remains on automatic pilot.
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00:17:33.000Darren, as you know, we are fighting very hard to try to confirm Matt Gaetz as Attorney General.
00:17:38.000Before we go into the specifics here of the baseless accusations that are being hurled towards Gaetz, please build out the significance of this nomination and the importance of getting him confirmed.
00:17:54.000You know, I think it's no mystery to us what's been going on basically since Trump stepped into the political arena.
00:18:01.000There has been corruption of our institutions across the board, a repurposing of our institutions away from their proper and legitimate function toward Basically, political suppression against the enemies of the corrupt regime.
00:18:18.000But when it comes to the intelligence world, which we've reported on extensively and talked about, there's almost a sense in which you expect the intelligence world to be a little bit dirty.
00:18:30.000We only would hope and ask that at least sometimes they play dirty on behalf of the interests of Americans rather than conspiring against Americans.
00:18:39.000But there's an inherent dirtiness to the work of the intelligence world.
00:18:48.000Justice really cuts to the core of our self-conception as Americans.
00:18:54.000And I would put the corruption of the Justice Department and the weaponization of the Justice Department in a different category entirely for that reason.
00:19:04.000It was only when the Biden-Harris administration began egregiously attacking and bringing Sham legal cases against political enemies that you started to hear this term banana republic bandied about to refer to our once great nation.
00:19:23.000And so I think justice is the precondition, setting the Department of Justice aright, cleaning out the filth in Department of Justice, restoring legitimacy to our justice system and law and order.
00:19:38.000That is a precondition for the broader work that we need to do across the board in terms of reorienting the bureaucracies as such.
00:19:48.000In other words, if justice isn't fixed, there will be no draining of the swamp.
00:19:52.000As far as why Matt Gaetz is the indispensable man for this indispensable work, there's nobody in the country that better combines not only to Trump and the MAGA agenda, Exceptional legal acumen.
00:20:08.000And also, we might get into this a little bit, he has more so than anyone, arguably than Trump, felt the personal result, the personal brunt of the very corruption and weaponization that he will soon be in a position to address and correct.
00:20:27.000So for that reason, I think that Venn diagram of personal stake Intellectual capability and expertise and unwavering loyalty to Trump and the MAG agenda.
00:20:51.000I think it's fair to say that attorneys general in the previous administration amounted to the Achilles heel.
00:20:57.000And it's not just about setting justice aright.
00:21:00.000If you have an attorney general who's not willing to fight, that can cause problems that compromise the entire agenda writ large because all of your bandwidth is sucked up, for instance, in dealing with Russian nonsense or this or that.
00:21:14.000Trump understands this now, and that's why my understanding is He is all in on Gates.
00:21:21.000He understands this is the appointment that sets the tone, sets the tenor, sets the narrative in which we are to understand all of the other appointments.
00:21:30.000It is the indispensable appointment, and that's why it's inevitable.
00:21:34.000Attorney General Matt Gates is inevitable.
00:21:58.000In fact, I can name five U.S. senators that I've been communicating with that have all said, you know what, if it comes up for a vote, I will vote for it.
00:22:06.000And so they want to try to kill it without a vote.
00:22:24.000Well, look, as far as these sham allegations, which I don't even really want to dignify and up to the point of discussing them, but if we're going to address them, I think it suffices to say that we had an extremely aggressive and corrupt Justice Department that basically prosecuted Any grandma who sat within 10 meters of the U.S. Capitol, and yet these people absolutely hate Gates.
00:23:02.000That's why you only hear smears and innuendo and this vague this or vague that.
00:23:08.000These rumors, the purpose of the rumors that are manifestly false is to serve as a pretext for weak people who are afraid to put someone like Gates in because they know that he's the indispensable man for Trump.
00:23:24.000And so we cannot accept any wavering From senators, this is a line in the sand.
00:23:38.000And by the way, I'd just like to say we need to put this to senators very starkly, and I think they will do the right thing once they understand the stakes involved and once they understand the intensity of our commitment here.
00:23:52.000But also, I think we need The conservative legal community needs to step up.
00:23:58.000I pointed this out in other occasions.
00:24:01.000Trump has done a lot for the conservative legal world, for organizations like the Federalist Society and that kind of legal establishment in many ways.
00:24:12.000And I think that these organizations ought also to step up.
00:24:17.000And provide reassurances and support that could be very helpful for the senators coming to terms with what needs to be done.
00:24:41.000I mean, we've established that by virtue.
00:24:43.000You'd think they would have been holding on to something, actually, if there were anything.
00:24:48.000By now, it's not as though Gates is appointed attorney general and all of a sudden the system hates him.
00:24:54.000The system's hated him for a very long time because He's gained prominence as one of the most effective, if not the most effective, supporter of Donald Trump and his agenda.
00:25:06.000So this idea that, oh, we can't support him because of this or that, that's simply a pretext.
00:25:12.000It's simply a lie, and it needs to be called out.
00:25:15.000And if they say there's something, well, put it forth then.
00:25:20.000It's a weak excuse, cannot be accepted, will not be accepted.
00:25:26.000Additionally, Darren, I know that we have you on to talk about Matt Gaetz, but I kind of want to talk about some of the other appointments.
00:25:47.000Because while some of these red senators will Not be thrilled with Matt Gaetz.
00:25:53.000The domestic stuff on the AG Department of Justice is bad, but it's I don't think nearly as secret as what's going on with DNI. You might disagree, Darren.
00:26:04.000I think Tulsi has one of the toughest lips of all the appointees.
00:26:31.000Just to give an example, because now we have this ridiculous escalatory action, thanks to Biden's last minute lame duck decision to give these missiles to Ukraine.
00:26:43.000One repeated pattern that we've seen from intelligence officials, military industrial complex officials in the last administration was it's absolutely critical who's responsible for the intelligence briefing, who's responsible for providing these reports,
00:26:59.000because what the old game is, they fudge the briefings, they provide selective information, they only show what they think will be most likely to convince Trump To engage in some kind of escalatory action that is totally unnecessary or perhaps even counterproductive.
00:27:19.000That's one of the key tactics that the intelligence community uses in order to subvert the Trump agenda and lead America Kind of sleepwalking into some major conflict.
00:27:31.000That's why I think it's one of the many reasons that it's very critical to have somebody like Tulsi in charge of the intelligence at the top who can prevent that sort of manipulation with the dire consequences that it invites.
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00:28:50.000So, Darren, Can we speak for a second about the timeline?
00:28:54.000Hearings are going to start in early January.
00:28:56.000We are going to have a major fight of confirmations.
00:29:00.000The grassroots need to enjoy this victory that Donald Trump earned and everyone in this audience earned.
00:29:05.000And then it's battle stations ready in early January.
00:30:21.000Darren, if you had to describe what is the mandate that the voters gave Donald Trump?
00:30:26.000The mandate is to clean up our government and restore legitimacy to our government and set America...
00:30:33.000I keep saying the stakes of this are not just a politically successful second term, which I fully expect.
00:30:41.000The stakes of this are much longer, much deeper, much more powerful.
00:30:46.000The stakes of this are, if we do this right, And we need the right people to do it right.
00:30:52.000If we do this right, we're setting America up for success and freedom into the end of the century.
00:31:00.000This is setting America up which was so close to the bottom of the trash heap.
00:31:06.000We've been brought so far down into the sewage pit by people like Biden, by people like Harris, by people like Merrick Garland, and I can go on and on and on to the point that we're on a trajectory to being worse than a third world country because we don't even have some of the freedoms of third world countries.
00:31:26.000We have the squalor, but none of the freedom.
00:31:56.000And that's why we need to be 100% committed.
00:31:59.000No compromises, not wavering on anything.
00:32:02.000We need to make it very clear there will be Armageddon for any senator who does not step in line.
00:32:10.000In closing here, how big of a deal has the liberation of Twitter and it becoming X has been for the information warfare?
00:32:17.000I think that was a development of civilizational importance.
00:32:21.000I don't think Elon is exaggerating when he talks in those terms.
00:32:26.000That changed the entire game as far as censorship.
00:32:29.000We have now a free flow of information on the most important public square in the world.
00:32:37.000Elon stepping into the arena in the way that he did, and he understood, he was smart enough to understand, you can't restore free speech to X and then stop there.
00:32:48.000There is already a target on his back.
00:32:51.000And so it became existential for him to go all the way and go all in on Trump's victory, which he did, and he did successfully.
00:32:59.000And now, given his track record of success and courage, I fully expect him to be phenomenally successful in his endeavors with Doge to cut trillions of dollars of waste and poison out of our glutted federal budget.