On today's show, we discuss the latest on the nomination of Pete Hegseth as the next nominee for the 2020 Republican nomination for the position of Secretary of Defense, and why he may be the perfect choice.
00:06:00.140It is very important in this day and time when you've got these fiascos in Ukraine,
00:06:05.800you've got these fiascos now in Syria.
00:06:07.760You see what's happening in the Red Sea.
00:06:11.880Of course, Israel's trying to drive Israel, the Persians with their proxies in Hezbollah and Lebanon and Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood are trying to drive Israel back into the sea.
00:06:21.060I think it's very helpful to have a young person, a younger person that has combat experience, that's had to see those fights.
00:06:29.400Right there is the reality of Pete Hegseth's time before deployed in the military.
00:06:49.220It's very rare, and we've also had a ton of, like, congressmen with no real managerial experience, guys like Les Aspen and others that had no managerial experience whatsoever go over there and take over SECDEF and did, you know, okay.
00:07:06.600What they want, what the military industrial complex wants is a yes man.
00:07:11.180They want somebody that can go over there and just rubber stamp everything that's going on.
00:07:14.720We know that if you take the DOGE process and the appropriations process and all that, what's trying to happen to deconstruct the administrative state and to take on the deep state, they're going to have to be some reorganization.
00:07:30.160I believe the defense budget has to be cut and not increased.
00:07:33.580I can make a quite succinct argument for that, that we need to cut the defense budget.
00:07:39.220The defense budget, I think, is out of control.
00:07:40.920We can no longer, and part of that is the programming part.
00:07:43.740We don't need to be everywhere doing everything.
00:07:45.800We need to concentrate on where the enemies of the United States are, like in Beijing, right, in Beijing.
00:07:53.440The KGB in Moscow, a bad set of actors, a bad set of actors.
00:08:00.280And, of course, Tucker just did a really interesting interview with Lavrov, the foreign minister, and brother, he is a flat-out gangster.
00:08:10.420And you always have to watch those guys, but he makes the point.
00:08:14.980It looks like the West, and particularly certain elements of the United States, are trying to instigate a third world war.
00:08:20.760And I mean a shooting war that nobody wants to get into.
00:08:24.600And certainly people here in the United States do not want to get into a shooting war in the Eurasian landmass in Ukraine.
00:08:31.120Of course, Biden, poll out this morning, you've got to give the war and posse a huge shout-out.
00:08:40.280Today, Biden poll, worst president in modern times.
00:08:44.120That's saying something, because you've had Jimmy Carter and George Bush.
00:09:12.840Remember, in January 21, when what the political director of CNN says,
00:09:17.940I'm going to, we're going, it's like Biden's arms, remember the little lights they had on the reflecting pool on the night before the inauguration?
00:09:26.640And he goes, oh, it's like the arms, it's like Joe Biden's arms hugging America.
00:10:06.520As we showed more data and more information, just pounded he was illegitimate.
00:10:10.100Over and over again, and this audience taking the lead on that, it shows you the power of just standing in the breach and being relentless and continue to hammer it.
00:10:21.120Of course, Joe Biden, over there at the White House, what are they doing?
00:10:25.600Besides trying to instigate a shooting war in Ukraine by shipping more weapons over there and trying to get $25 billion aid packages we can't afford.
00:10:34.120And at the same time, we've got Todd Benzman is down in Mexico City.
00:10:37.240We're going to try to get Todd on later.
00:10:39.220What they're doing is instigating more folks to come across the southern border so they can get more illegal aliens here into the United States.
00:10:46.900So we have a bigger, bigger problem to do on the deportations.
00:17:58.560If women want to volunteer and women are suited for certain roles and can physically and emotionally handle certain roles, which I think they've proven at least to a certain degree and in certain roles they can.
00:18:09.160And, you know, if you look at today's battlefield, particularly when you talk about some of the wars in the Middle East and other places where it's just not front lines, you know, these civic affairs battalions, these medical battalions, these logistic battalions, or these brigades.
00:18:30.940Maybe it's not – maybe it's not – you don't have a – you're not in infantry, artillery, or such, but you're in something that of a logistic support or civics affairs or medical that puts you in the middle of it.
00:18:43.100So I – and Pete doesn't agree with that.
00:18:53.720People are going to have different ideas.
00:18:54.920I think what Pete stands for, the kind of warrior spirit, and even a little warrior spirit that maybe is a tad over the top, I think that's what we need now.
00:19:06.480After 20 years of kind of just slugging it through with these great heroes at the working level that had just been so abused by, let's be frank, field great officers that awoke that have become politicians, political generals, political – they have to be political.
00:19:23.320Under Bush and Obama, and President Trump wasn't able to wring it out of the system because it's going to take a while.
00:19:30.580He's going to wring it out of the system this time, and Pete Hex is going to be the tip of the spear to do it.
00:19:46.440Make sure they understand that you've got Pete Hex is back.
00:19:48.960This show and Charlie Kirk and a couple of Real America's Voice with Posobiec really appreciate the fact that the people here threw down hard and started to wake people up to say, hey, look, you know, and particularly, you know, I'm just not a Ron DeSantis fan.
00:20:02.500I think he's done a good job as governor.
00:20:03.820I think he's a very good governor, but, you know, and particularly I don't – the typical DeSantis team, you know, my phone's been up yesterday.
00:20:11.700His team is pushing it that it's going to be imminent, imminent, putting pressure on old Pete.
00:20:17.280Pete's out there hammering, and they're up there in people's ear, imminent.
00:20:21.780What you're going to get with DeSantis, and this is what I'm just telling you, what you're going to get is that same crowd that was back in the primary, and just remember how they acted.
00:20:29.740When we sat there and said, hey, this is Trump's deal, they stole the 2020, Trump is going to come back, Trump is going to win, don't get in the way, let's not waste money, let's not waste time, let's be very focused, this opportunity cost, no.
00:20:45.500They wouldn't listen, they wouldn't listen, and I had to be blunt, you know, Ron DeSantis is not going to be president of the United States, full stop.
00:20:52.720I know people in Ron DeSantis camp are particularly all those wealthy people that wrote that $400 million of money.
00:20:58.520I told them, you might as well take it out in the front yard and put it in a wheelbarrow and set it on fire, set it on fire, because it just, he's a solid guy, he does not have the right stuff.
00:21:12.840And so now, you know, he's pushing, no, I'm imminent to be Secretary of Defense, it's poisonous, it's poisonous.
00:21:19.220And so Pete Hex, this guy was back, President Trump came out today, said, hey, Pete's fighting, and let Pete fight on, and we're a big believer in that.
00:21:26.360And here's one of the reasons we're a believer, if you show weakness on these things, they're going to try to pick, and Cash has got traction.
00:21:33.540Cornyn's out there, and Hugh Hewitt, maybe we'll play that in a little while, he's saying, hey, Cash is going to get confirmed.
00:21:40.120And Cash right now, behind the scenes, people are saying, hey, Cash Patel's going to get confirmed.
00:21:44.260So that's gone, they're all in shock, right?
00:21:46.720I mean, they're going to come back, don't they, trust, it's a long way from confirmation.
00:21:50.100So they're still coming, they're still coming.
00:21:53.200But they're all, you know, Tulsi right now, they're basically accusing Tulsi of being a Russian asset.
00:21:57.980A woman who put herself in harm's way, this is how they think.
00:22:01.800This is how they think, she put herself in harm's way because she speaks truth to power, particularly in a situation like Syria, right?
00:25:45.460I mean, it's like your 21st birthday every single day.
00:25:49.560I can't believe the news keeps getting better, but it does.
00:25:52.580So now reports that Jack Smith and his team are lawyering up in on reporting that white shoe law firms are getting contacted by the special counsel's office,
00:26:08.560seeking representation in advance of investigations and potentially criminal charges brought against the special counsel and his team of thugs.
00:26:16.860And we will name names after we get back.
00:26:19.740I don't want to interrupt our rogues gallery of naming names here.
00:26:25.360But there's also an interesting twist.
00:26:28.520They are looking for pro bono representation or the development of legal funds like nonprofits so they don't have to pay their own lawyer fees.
00:26:46.800If you tried to grow, even if they get retained, we're going to identify all your clients and we're going to let MAGA know exactly what's happening here.
00:26:53.580Yeah, just like you guys did, just like President Trump couldn't get representation for about a year.
00:26:57.540Boris Epstein hadn't stepped in and just pulled a rabbit out of the head and done magnificent work.
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00:29:47.340He'll also have been pressing Mr. Biden to do what he can to protect targets of Mr. Trump.
00:29:52.800Among them, Congressman Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, one of the president's closest allies,
00:29:58.120who urged the White House to consider preemptive pardons shortly after Mr. Trump's election last month and likewise recommended that the president pardon his son, Hunter.
00:30:07.400Congressman Clyburn telling the paper,
00:30:09.000I think there are a lot of people who are coming into this next administration who are telling us who they are.
00:30:15.120I've seen Kash Patel saying who he's going after, and so why should we not believe them?
00:30:20.600But as White House officials weigh the matter, they are concerned that such a move would fuel the impression spread in conservative media that the recipients actually had done something wrong.
00:30:31.280The Times goes on, at least some of those who would be obvious candidates for such pardons have said privately they would not want one because of such an implication.
00:30:42.160In fact, I've run into, you know, in Washington this week, a couple of people who are on that Kash Patel enemies list.
00:30:49.120That's the appendix of 60 different names of what he calls deep state, quote unquote, executive branch people that he put in his last book.
00:30:59.280And, you know, which is entitled Government Gangsters and, you know, is an extraordinary document to exist for a prospective head of the FBI.
00:31:09.860I think the threat to these folks and potentially, by the way, to members of the press is very real.
00:31:15.420I think there are numerous ways in which if you're determined to use the tools of the government, including the vast powers in the FBI, you could really go after people, you know, and impugn their name, you know, use the IRS.
00:31:46.360They don't, you know, think that they've done anything wrong and they think that, you know, they need to stand and fight if that's what it comes to.
00:31:53.680So I don't know if the Biden administration, if the president will follow through on this or not.
00:31:59.440This may be a way of floating the idea out there to see what the reaction would be from the people who are on this list.
00:32:07.040If they don't want the pardon, then my guess is they're not going to have an embarrassing public, you know, argument over.
00:33:03.840Let's have some fun here as we identify very serious work.
00:33:07.920As we identify who the culprits are and what they're thinking of doing right now, ma'am.
00:33:13.640Well, here's an interesting question, and maybe Mike Davis or someone can answer that.
00:33:18.980If attorneys receive pardons hinting that they, suggesting that they committed some sort of a crime, shouldn't they be disbarred?
00:33:29.100I mean, how can you have a Jack Smith, okay, let's name names, Jack Smith, special counsel, his team in Florida, Jay Bratt, David Harbaugh, and James Pierce, who also was a J6 prosecutor.
00:33:58.600What do you think they're thinking about giving them a blanket pardon for, but if Julie Kelly could make a recommendation to either a special counsel that gets set up or the Justice Department after Pam Bondi and the team's over there, what would you say?
00:34:14.720Well, I would begin with Jack Smith abusing the grand jury process by conducting the entire investigation into the so-called classified documents case in Washington, D.C.
00:34:29.180The alleged crimes, Steve, happened in southern Florida.
00:34:34.140This was after Donald Trump left the White House.
00:34:38.460The indictment itself starts on January 21st of 2021.
00:34:42.780All of the alleged criminal activity, harboring the documents, obstructing justice, et cetera, allegedly happened at Mar-a-Lago.
00:34:51.400But instead of conducting the investigation in the proper jurisdiction, southern Florida, knowing that he would not get the rubber stamp that he got in Washington, D.C.
00:35:02.280from then-Chief Judge Beryl Howell, Jack Smith conducted the entire investigation there, getting the rubber stamp from Beryl Howell, getting any subpoena that he wanted, compelling testimony even from Donald Trump's attorney, Evan Corcoran, under claims of what's called the crime fraud exception.
00:35:22.680Jack Smith claiming that his attorney was in the process of committing a crime and, therefore, attorney-client privilege should have been pierced, which, of course, Beryl Howell happily did, forced Evan Corcoran to testify and turn over all of his records, communications with the former president.
00:36:19.640The Mueller investigation gave Robert Mueller and that special counsel whatever they wanted.
00:36:24.640Then along comes the DOJ investigation turned over to Jack Smith in November of 2022.
00:36:29.540She continues to give them whatever they want.
00:36:32.100Not only that, not only signing off on piercing attorney-client privilege, she also signed off on Jack Smith's subpoena to get all of Donald Trump's Twitter data.
00:36:43.140And Twitter, right after Elon Musk bought it, fought not just that, but fought a nondisclosure order that Beryl Howell also entered prohibiting acts for Twitter from telling their customer, Donald Trump, that they were under a search warrant to get all of his Twitter files, to get all of his data, everything.
00:37:04.900Even deleted tweets, draft tweets, who liked his tweets, who he retweeted.
00:37:12.780I mean, the entire file was turned over to Jack Smith with the imprimatur of Beryl Howell.
00:37:18.280Furthermore, she fined Elon Musk $350,000 for about a 50-hour delay in producing the Twitter files, claiming that he was trying to obstruct the investigation.
00:37:34.900And then said to Twitter's lawyers in a court hearing, are you trying to cozy up to Donald Trump?
00:37:41.220Is that why you're fighting the subpoena and this nondisclosure order?
00:37:45.460This is the sort of thing that happens in Washington's court house.
00:37:48.760Let me juxtapose how this is going to be framed for the American people.
00:37:55.580They've arrested yesterday or early this week.
00:37:58.500They're still arresting people for January 6th.
00:38:03.280We just had the verdict on this on November 5th of what people felt about this lawfare.
00:38:09.160Remember, MSMEC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Democracy Dies in Darkness.
00:38:13.740It was their top thing, even more than abortion, was democracy, democracy, democracy, that we're fascists, that we're Nazis, we're brown shirts, that we're garbage, we're deplorables.
00:40:04.160We need your 18-year-old kids that only killed a million of you folks over here in this totally preventable war that Donald Trump would have never allowed.
00:40:13.080And the Russians would never have tried.
00:40:14.760Putin and the gangsters and the KGB in Moscow would have never tried on Trump's watch ever.
00:40:21.900And at the same time, now, on the border – Todd Benz is going to be in the second hour.
00:40:26.020All they're doing is trying to figure out every way they get more people across to make it a bigger issue.
00:40:31.100At the same time, they're funding these groups to say, hey, you've got to go to court, try to stop this, try to stop the deportation.
00:40:36.000Like President Trump said the other night at the Rust Vote event, what kind of people, what kind of love of the country do they have to allow 10 to 15 million illegal people here on their watch?
00:41:20.180Well, Steve, I'm going to tell you what a blanket pardon for Jack Smith and his team would mean.
00:41:26.500Just like the Hunter Biden pardon, this is to protect Joe Biden and his White House.
00:41:32.320Because guess what will happen if they investigate Jack Smith and Jay Bratt, especially Jay Bratt?
00:41:37.860He was taking marching orders from the Biden White House.
00:41:42.100There is proof that was demonstrated in the documents case that I covered that Jay Bratt was at the Biden White House at least twice in 2021.
00:41:51.700There were meetings between Mayra officials, the Obama flack, David Ferrero, and his attorney, Gary Stern, who were meeting with Joe Biden's general counsel, Jonathan Suh.
00:42:05.780So guess what, Jack Smith, if he's thrown under the bus and Biden doesn't protect him, they are going to discover, probably 100% discover, communication between Jack Smith and his team, the Biden White House, perhaps Joe Biden himself, directing the documents case, and of course the J-6 case in Washington that's now been dismissed as well.
00:42:38.020Because if he was in cahoots to concoct some sort of crime against Donald Trump related to classified material, that's not covered by the immunity test handed down by the Supreme Court earlier this year.
00:42:52.000That would be a personal act, not in his official capacity as president.
00:43:36.980The National Police Association – I've got to get the exact same.
00:43:40.100A big law and order group came out and endorsed Cash Patel, beheaded the FBI next.
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00:47:01.180He got them to back off like Jack Smith in this crowd.
00:47:03.780There was – who knows if it's true or not.
00:47:05.800But remember, they're going to get concessions.
00:47:08.120The harder you make these things, they're going to get concessions and try to get additional new people in there that are more moderate, that are not going to go – you know, are not going to go fix bayonets and go over the top and take on the apparatus of the administrative state and the deep state.
00:47:25.300You saw this yesterday, and I'll get to it in the second hour and again tonight, but the Doge guys went up there yesterday, and when you go up to Capitol Hill, you've got to go in with a show of force.
00:47:39.280If you're going to take on the administrative state and the deep state with all the lobbyists, all the money go through, you've got to hit it with a boom.
00:47:46.580If you go up there in like a listening session, they're going to all of a sudden smell that, hey, I don't think these guys can bring it.
00:47:53.660And the first thing they started going to – Focahanna, she had Focahanna, she had all these other people going on MSNBC last night saying it's not constitutional.
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