On this day in 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, resulting in the loss of over 7,000 lives and the destruction of more than 200 ships and aircraft. This is a day that will live in infamy.
00:01:17.820The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
00:01:30.820The United States was at peace with that nation, and at solicitation of Japan, still in conversation with its government and its emperor, looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.
00:01:52.860Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu,
00:02:05.540the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message.
00:02:22.680And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations,
00:02:32.480it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attacks.
00:02:41.480It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago.
00:03:00.060During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
00:03:17.820The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces.
00:03:31.860I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost.
00:03:38.660In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas.
00:03:43.600This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:04:45.740I think it was the Texaco, the New York Philharmonic Plan.
00:04:51.280That's the classic one that they broke into to announce it.
00:04:53.580We're going to do a lot today in the commemoration of Pearl Harbor, one of the hinges of history that catapulted this country into being a world power.
00:05:06.180And some people will say got a little off course in the subsequent years and tried to build an empire instead of focusing on our republic.
00:05:15.340But you can't question the valor of the men and women who had already been drafted but then came to service right after December 7th.
00:05:24.940If we did in the same time frame, because one of the things about World War II, when you look at it, the concentrated time frame of things happen, if we were to take the 3 November of 2020, which is obviously a big date in the history of the MAGA movement in this country, as December 7th, we would be right now finishing the third year of the war.
00:05:49.080And focused on, we would have gone to Normandy, Rome would have fallen, Paris would have fallen, the great battle of Normandy that took about a month and a half, two months, would have been finished.
00:06:01.740Market Garden, the paratroopers arrayed British, Polish, and American.
00:06:07.260The bridge too far would have happened in September.
00:06:10.260And right now we would be looking to cross the Rhine and drive to the heart of Germany.
00:06:15.920But the Battle of the Bulge was about to take place in a couple of weeks.
00:06:19.400And, of course, with Patrick O'Donnell every Christmas, we do a special on Christmas Day, the combat history of Christmas.
00:06:26.400And we will get into all the details there.
00:06:29.000So I'm also going to talk about the controversy of what actually happened.
00:06:33.360Still, I think there were seven Pearl Harbor commissions, naval review boards, and still a lot of questions.
00:06:41.420I know that Admiral Kimmel's family still fights to get his record cleared.
00:06:47.880He was the Pacific Fleet Commander and, of course, General Short from the Army.
00:06:53.920We're going to get into all of that today throughout the day as we commemorate the valor, the heroism, but also the event and what really took the United States,
00:07:03.820although we were kind of had risen to a world power in the late 19th century after the Civil War and, of course, World War I.
00:07:10.160With the rejection of the League of Nations, we kind of said, hey, we just got to take care of ourself and focus here.
00:07:17.540One thing of note in that speech, and people don't remember it because I'm very adamant that we actually have to understand World War II because it's not taught properly.
00:07:27.520People think it's Pearl Harbor, Normandy, the atomic bomb, and the Holocaust.
00:08:31.060We had Cleo on here to walk through the Chinese Communist Party and what they're doing, the Pacific Island chain.
00:08:35.460The same exact area where 80-some years ago your grandfathers fought through – in some cases your fathers – fought through the bloody Pacific.
00:08:46.560The bloody Pacific, I know Burchett's father was there.
00:08:49.980I think Steve Stern's father was there.
00:08:53.640I want to go to – I've got a very special guest.
00:08:56.380We're going to get back to this throughout the morning.
00:08:58.320But I want to play a short cold open for him.
00:09:01.000We have Congressman Burleson who's just done a fantastic job.
00:09:05.360I want to play the cold open for him and then bring him on.
00:09:07.260What I would want to say is that if the speaker is not going to come forward and say no to the Senate and do another continuing resolution, if he's going to allow for all these clean FISA renewals and all these other things, we are going to say no for him.
00:09:25.900And what that means is it means violating the norms and voting down the rules.
00:09:32.220But if that's what it takes, that's what we're going to do.
00:09:54.340I know that others like Chip Roy are livid about this.
00:09:56.940Look, they're actually—we're going to end up having a year where we're going to walk away as a Republican conference with the only thing that we've accomplished is that we've eliminated George Santos.
00:10:10.560That's how uninspiring this conference has become.
00:10:13.500And I didn't come here to play business as usual.
00:10:19.060I didn't come here so that we can continue to pass these continuing resolutions and keep all of the provisions that the Democrats have put in place.
00:10:28.020I didn't come here so that we can continue to fund the new policies in the Biden administration, including paying for the travel expenses for people that want to get abortions.
00:10:39.000If we can't stand up for some of these issues like that, then I don't know what we're doing here.
00:10:49.480The FISA thing, they slipped in there, and that kicks down to April.
00:10:53.460Nobody's doing any work right now to pass the appropriations bills.
00:10:55.960You guys are going to leave next Thursday, I believe, until 14th, come back, and you're going to have a couple of days, maybe a week, until the 19th, and nothing's been done.
00:11:04.940So I think there's the audience, and I'm sure your constituents are saying, just what is the work plan?
00:11:09.900I mean, people want to know exactly what's going on.
00:11:12.220We all are supporters of Speaker Johnson, but I've got to tell you, I think Chip Roy is right.
00:11:15.940It's strike two and a half or maybe two and three quarters.
00:35:44.000He wants to terminate the Constitution.
00:35:45.700We could go on for four hours of our show listing all the things he said out loud.
00:35:49.840And there are familiar names in your new reporting this morning about how he would fill out his cabinet.
00:35:54.820Who are some of the people that might populate the West Wing and beyond?
00:35:59.760Well, one interesting thing we found out yesterday is that Melania, his wife, is pushing for Tucker Carlson to be the vice presidential pick,
00:36:08.420which might strike some people as ludicrous and kind of anti-Trump in that Trump doesn't like somebody who can compete with him on the public stage.
00:36:17.000She's pushing hard and making it clear that she might be out there more campaigning for the ticket if he is on it.
00:36:23.300But it's below there that you should really pay attention.
00:36:26.100Like Stephen Miller, who was the architect of everything you saw in immigration in the first term and who wanted to push the extent of laws and customs much further,
00:36:35.220he could end up as your attorney general or the head of Department of Homeland Defense.
00:36:39.540He's going to be in a place of great power.
00:36:41.800He has written and spoken very clearly about what he wants to do, whether it's detainment camps or it's mass deportation of people who are here illegally.
00:36:51.880He's been very clear about what he's going to do.
00:37:45.260He's going to come in with a group of enablers and a group of executors.
00:37:49.060So whatever you thought about the first term, he's going to be able to do things at a velocity rate he wasn't capable of because he didn't really know how to govern.
00:37:56.840No new president really knows how to govern on day one.
00:38:17.420It's basically an ideological litmus test.
00:38:20.220Are you willing to believe wholly in Donald Trump, serve loyally to Donald Trump, and then implement his view of what the world should look like?
00:38:30.000If you can pass that test, you might be one of the 50,000 people who get to come into government, into the positions that viewers never heard of.
00:38:37.220They're positions that sit in agencies and sit throughout government.
00:38:41.420But they're the ones who execute on policy.
00:38:43.800They're the ones that allow things to happen.
00:38:46.220They're the things that allow things to happen at the border.
00:38:49.720And so my message to anyone is just read.
00:38:52.460Take a look at it and then make a compare and contrast.
00:38:55.140But you're talking about a much different America, two very radically different views of the country.
00:38:59.100You know, the first Trump term, I always felt like never has so much malice been filtered through so much incompetence.
00:39:08.000And some of those restraints of people of some amount of conscience who were in those positions.
00:39:14.580And it's very clear from all this reporting, New York Times, Washington Post, others, the Axios piece, that that's going to be different.
00:39:21.320I think we are at risk of ignoring the fact that it's not just a poll number that is making that likely.
00:39:31.320At the end of the day, this is the only guy in America, I would argue, who has a movement.
00:39:38.080OK, and so as much and you don't defeat a movement through shame and finger wagging.
00:39:43.720You have to build a bigger, better movement.
00:39:45.680OK, none of these other Republicans are building a movement.
00:39:50.220What does that movement look like on the Democratic side?
00:42:22.940Trump is the leader of, I think, what will arguably be debated as the most important political movement in the history of this country.
00:42:32.520It's a populist nationalist movement to take this country back and to pass on a revered republic that was bequeathed to us.
00:42:42.500That's why Trump is the American Cincinnatus.
00:42:44.320He's come back from the plow, just like General Cincinnatus did in ancient Roman Republic, came back from the plow to save Rome once again.
00:43:10.000If you come to this show every day and get the information and push it out, you can see what you see, which is the most important thing of all.
00:43:20.860Axios, the railhead of conventional wisdom, is in full meltdown today.
00:44:56.280Please always remember, always and everywhere, that the reason that we have the strength, the reason that the polling is so bad, the reason that they're in freakout mode, the reason that, you know, they're running around with Sean Haney's clip that, oh, he wants to be a dictator for a day.
00:45:09.080The reason they're in full and total meltdown and when Axios puts out, and who knows, that list may never come true, but it's a type of person that fully understands President Trump's policies, that what made the first term so successful understands President Trump's resolve and direction.
00:45:29.540And, more importantly, understands, this is why I say the steal in 2020 was also as providential as the victory in 2016.
00:45:50.320This is why you saw in the Senate yesterday, they're in full meltdown because the Biden regime and the established Republicans are trying to hold up, think about it a second, with what, 12,000 people coming across yesterday, across the border.
00:46:03.580And you see the footage, it says, it's, you've seen it before, we've cut it over three years, but it's mind-boggling.
00:46:14.060And they tried to hold up, they tried to hold the country hostage that they're not going to make any changes unless you give $80 billion to the money laundering operation and the child trafficking and the biolabs in Ukraine to the grifters, to Zelensky.
00:46:27.540So they get skim, I don't know, 10, 20, 50% off the top.
00:46:33.080What would the people that are still entombed in the Arizona, on Pearl Harbor, entombed in Arizona, today, think 1,000, over 1,000, those sailors, that they couldn't even get them to give them a burial.
00:46:49.980They were buried at sea by the Japanese, and they're still today, 82 years later, there.
00:46:54.720What would they say from the grave about their country they fought for and died for in a sneak attack?
00:47:04.640What would they say about that country that would allow, what is it, 250,000, 300,000, would allow 25 or 30 combat divisions, a combat division roughly being 10,000.
00:47:17.620Two-thirds of these are fighting-age males.
00:47:27.720And they're up there in a nation with $2.5 trillion deficit over the last 12 months, adding a trillion dollars to the debt in 90 days, and a deficit of $200 billion a month to add another trillion in five months.
00:47:41.820They can't even get enough courage together to sit down and try to address it and try to have a thing.