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00:02:05.840And for those governors and mayors who are saying they're going to stop Tom Holman, they're going to stop President Trump, shame on you.
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00:02:15.120Matt Gaetz is stepping down from his nomination to Attorney General of the United States.
00:02:21.820Long Island leaders say they are hopeful that President-elect Trump's pick for EPA head, former Congressman Lee Zeldin, will in fact protect the environment.
00:02:30.240What Donald Trump has said all along, that he wants to undo Biden's signature environmental law, the Inflation Reduction Act, which plowed hundreds of billions of dollars into this green energy transition.
00:02:56.300And everybody's uptight and crazy right now.
00:03:02.120Russia has just updated its nuclear doctrine Wednesday of this week, saying that any attack on Russia by a non-nuclear state with the support of a nuclear country and the support of a larger military alliance will be seen as a joint attack.
00:03:24.340The Ukrainian Air Force saying Russia has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile in the central eastern city of Dnipro.
00:03:32.220But this morning, Western officials said that the weapon was a ballistic missile, but not an ICBM.
00:03:37.760It's clear this is a new weapon, and it's clear that Russia has wanted to see how that would make Ukrainians and the West feel.
00:03:45.260Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
00:03:50.340We are live here on the program back in Washington, D.C.
00:04:03.760This is a question from MAGA out there, and I know there's a lot of new people in the movement, so I got a question for you.
00:04:07.540Do you think this movement takes days off?
00:04:12.220Do you think that you get to sit there and wait for the returns to come in and kick back and say, oh, CNN says we're up, and Fox says we're up, and we win Pennsylvania, and everything's going to be great?
00:05:30.020Knew we could count on you to deliver.
00:05:32.800And so when Trump's first pick for AG, Matt Gaetz, isn't able to generate enough support from votes in the Senate, the Senate Republican Caucus, the America First Republican Caucus, and suddenly you sit back and you say,
00:09:55.440They are trying to block the peace deal before it even gets out there trying to kill it in the crib the same way, the same way the deep state is trying to kill in the crib the new populist movement.
00:10:08.800Folks, I'm told that we have the host of The War Room, Stephen K. Bannon, now joining us on the phone.
00:10:40.140Now, look, I would have gutted it out and hunkered down and punched through this thing.
00:10:45.340But I think they feel that people are playing games up there, and there's maybe more disclosures that came out of this report.
00:10:52.540The report hasn't been leaked yet, but I think there's threats of it.
00:10:56.180And to me, since he was never charged with a crime and Merrick Garland, as corrupt as Merrick Garland is, didn't go after him, you've got to power through this.
00:11:42.320And they're trying to, whether it's the judges in the Senate or whether it's the impoundment situation, whether it's the escalation of the Ukraine war, whether you just caught them.
00:11:52.760And, you know, Chris Wray and Mayorkas wouldn't even come and testify.
00:11:55.940I just spent four months in a frickin' federal prison because of what they did today.
00:12:02.020And the reason they avoided the Senate and walked away because they know they got good sources to come to the House, I think, in the first week of December.
00:12:09.420So in every aspect, the Biden regime is making this almost impossible for Trump to relieve the watch.
00:12:17.280That's, I think, the concern we have here is that this thing is metastasizing.
00:12:20.720And I've warned people about this, and you've got to hunker down.
00:12:22.860So for someone like Gates who was in charge of the crime, I would have powered through this and said, hey, it's all or none, and we're not letting anybody go.
00:12:30.200But they, you know, greater minds than mine made the decision, and we are where we are.
00:14:22.020I think this person really ought to be not just vetted, but I think more importantly, they've got to be in sync with the president and where he wants to go with the Department of Justice, and particularly Maine Justice.
00:14:35.340So the good news is if you look at the team that's come around Gates, it's pretty fantastic.
00:14:40.820And they're filling that team out with other announcements, OPR, OLC, others.
00:14:46.040So the team over there is the best team we've ever had, but you need a leader.
00:14:50.600And I think the bottom line is we have to find somebody that I think directionally has the same direction of the strategic direction at Gates and, let's say, hopefully have to fight.
00:15:02.640You know, there's an interesting – I saw Jake Sherman had a post up pointing out that –
00:15:07.820and I expect maybe perhaps Speaker Johnson would have to be the one who rules on this, but Gates resigned from the current Congress, but he was also just elected to the next Congress.
00:15:19.220So the question I think for a lot of – on a lot of folks' minds is, is he still entitled to the seat that the voters of his district just elected him for?
00:15:29.240I think he's announced – I might be wrong, but I think he announced he's not going to take the oath on the third.
00:15:36.280I might be wrong with your production guys on the pull-up, but I believe he put out a tweet that said that he has no intention of taking the oath on the third.
00:15:46.060And so that seat is open, and this special election will go forward, my belief is.
00:15:52.640I think he announced he's not going to take it, so we're going to go in – you know, we're going to go in a couple light right out of the box.
00:16:07.080Well, Steve, when we're looking at all of this, what does this tell us then for folks like an RFK or folks like a Tulsi?
00:16:15.480Because I got a lot of people texting me now, a lot of people in the chat saying, whoa, what's going on?
00:16:19.720Does this mean we're not getting the dream team?
00:16:21.700Does this mean the Republican Senate are going to be, you know, pushing back on everybody?
00:16:25.220Do you have the same sense for either of those picks or Pete Hegseth as well, for that matter?
00:16:31.800This was, I think, one of the things they tried to get Gates with is that, hey, we're going to drag this out.
00:16:37.860You know, he didn't get – he got a good reception from certain people, but I think he was told a note on certain terms yesterday.
00:16:45.080And I think J.D. was also vice president, the vice president, that, you know, there were a number of hard no's, and that hard no's could increase.
00:16:55.280And my belief is they told him, hey, we're going to stretch this thing out because we're going to drive the agenda here.
00:17:00.420We're going to stretch this out into February, maybe even March.
00:17:02.560And, you know, if you're called out from the herd like that, how are you going to survive?
00:17:08.280I strongly have said this time and again.
00:17:11.800The best way to win here is to continue to flood the zone, that these nominees have to go and the Senate has to be prepared to take them kind of in a joint – now, it's obviously different committees, but in joint hearings that start the 4th or 5th.
00:17:27.800And, Tommy, Senator Tuberville was just in studio yesterday and concurred that that's one of the things they're working on.
00:17:32.560I think more than ever, you've got to bundle this first batch of the four horsemen of the deep state apocalypse have got to go in together to different committees but simultaneously, and we've got to push those through because these are not going to be tough.
00:17:46.800Look, you know, Mitch McConnell notched a win today.
00:22:05.780It hasn't even been four months and we had that debate, the Kamala coronation, the assassination attempts, the election, the announcement of the Trump cabinets.
00:22:12.860It's been a whirlwind of information in the last couple of weeks, kind of hard even for the human mind to process it.
00:22:20.880But when it comes to Matt Gaetz, there's a parallel that I would want to make with the energy space.
00:22:29.520They don't want a change in status quo.
00:22:31.920And the energy space is going to be the same.
00:22:34.060If you remember, Kamala bragged in her debate against President Trump that they've spent a trillion dollars on the green agenda.
00:22:40.480Those folks are not going to give up that trillion dollars very easily.
00:22:44.020They are going to fight tooth and nail for that green money.
00:22:47.540And so, you know, the picks that President Trump made for energy and interior and EPA, and I'm thrilled with them, but they're going to have a real fight on their hand.
00:22:55.560Because just as the FBI and the DOJ don't want reform, the green movement does not want to be put back in its place.
00:23:02.080So the hard work is really just beginning.
00:23:05.820Well, and actually the EPA, that's one that we haven't really gotten into too much.
00:23:10.360Lee Zeldin, though, by the way, fantastic congressman, did the yeoman's work there in New York State in 2022.
00:23:17.980What do you think his role would be over at the EPA?
00:23:20.820Because let me tell you something, that guy is a fighter.
00:23:22.760You know, Matt Gaetz, by the way, has taken all the fire for all of Trump's other appointees, like Zeldin, who are going to just absolutely get there and go to town.
00:23:32.360Well, the interesting thing about when he was in Congress was he represented New York One, which is the end of Long Island.
00:23:37.220And there is a good mix of, yes, multimillion-dollar homes, but there's a lot of agriculture.
00:23:43.480And there are lobster fishermen and regular fishermen and offshore wind projects and transatlantic pipelines.
00:23:52.060And so I think what Lee Zeldin will bring to the EPA is what he did in Congress, which is helping these agencies, these entities, to coexist.
00:24:14.020And that's why we've created a lot of chaos, because what the Biden administration was unable to get through legislation, they just did through the EPA.
00:24:21.800Just look at the fact that a couple days ago they announced new rules on methane.
00:24:25.940And the current EPA administrator, Michael Regan, said, well, this is actually coming out of the Inflation Reduction Act.
00:24:32.980It took you losing the White House and the Senate to roll out something.
00:24:36.200So, and also, even if that were true, Jack, how bad can methane really be if it took them two years to roll out these rules, right?
00:24:44.680Like, how serious is climate change if they're like, well, we have to wait a couple years to actually get the legislation or the regulation implemented?
00:24:52.780So the EPA has been weaponized to push a proactive agenda.
00:24:57.440And Lee Zeldin will be great at putting the EPA back in its place, hopefully until the point that it's just completely dismantled and all of that power given back to the states where it belongs.
00:25:11.860And that's certainly something that Linda McMahon said the same thing for Department of Education, this idea that just put it back with the states.
00:25:18.920Because, I mean, think about it, right?
00:25:20.280So I come from the state of Pennsylvania.
00:27:00.340If the industry is able to operate freely, it will do its job, produce more for less in the most environmentally friendly way for the greatest number of people at the lowest price point.
00:27:11.220It's what happened in 2017, 18, 19, pre-COVID.
00:27:15.140And so there's a lot to look forward to.
00:27:17.400It's going to take a little time, and that's where I want the American people to still stiffen their resolve, right?
00:27:22.800He'll get inaugurated, and gas is not going to drop to $2 in a couple weeks.
00:27:28.080Because this industry takes a little while to come online, and we've had four years of a lot of damage that needs to be – that's four years of putting us in a ditch.
00:27:37.180And before we can even start to grow, we've got to get ourselves out of the ditch, and that's going to take a lot of work and a lot of time.
00:27:44.180Well, something that I want to get on because we're talking about Alaska, Nick Begich, who – this was the piece that came in last night, or I guess I saw it Alaska time.
00:27:54.380Maybe it's this morning for them, but are we seeing – did he just win by, like, under 3 percentage points?
00:28:04.740You and your show and your audience deserve some of the credit here because Nick was very much the underdog, and I was on this show in February and talked about Nick, and I even just retweeted the video, and I talked about how, you know, he's a politician very much in the mold of Vivek Ramaswamy, loves Alaska, and he should be considered.
00:28:25.540And people saw that interview, and people started reaching – and Nick said how his numbers started to explode, and people started donating money.
00:28:33.380Vivek himself reached out and helped the campaign, and here we are 10 months later, and Alaska has elected a great conservative, pro-America, pro-Donald Trump, unabashedly pro-Alaskan energy, more so than the rest of the federal delegation.
00:28:49.540Remarkable, and it's not because of you or because of me or because of – but getting his name into the media helped.
00:28:59.480It helped a lot, and so it's great to know that we can pull our candidates across the line and build this network of concerned Americans who want good people elected, and so it's just a great – Nick's a friend, so I make no bones about it, and it's great to see he'll be in Congress.
00:29:16.940And Alaska should be thrilled to have someone who deeply loves and respects the state and will fight for the state representing them in Congress.
00:30:07.960It invites machinations, and it invites intrigue, and it invites corruption.
00:30:15.720It's a terrible, terrible system, and so I hope Alaskans continue to fight to get it repealed because it just – it poisons the electoral system.
00:30:24.640Well, that's right, and it pulls things away from the actual votes of the people because it really helps out people who've got money.
00:30:33.900It helps out people who are tied to special interests and all of this.
00:30:37.460But, Daniel, we've just got about one minute left for you.
00:30:40.400What is the next – what is the one big thing you're looking forward to from the next administration?
00:30:46.680And please tell people where they can go to follow you.
00:30:49.740Powerofthefuture.com or shoot me an email, daniel at powerofthefuture.com.
00:30:53.060I think the most essential thing is the equivalent of H.R. 1, which was passed by the House in 2023 after they won the majority.
00:31:02.380Of course, Chuck Schumer stopped it in the Senate, and it was never going to get signed by Biden.
00:31:06.500But that same piece of legislation, there are taxes on oil and gas, the natural gas tax that have to be repealed because it's punishing the American people.
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00:34:09.280We weren't planning on doing this, but, yeah, we're going to call an audible here.
00:34:12.480Kenny Cody, the columnist at humanevents.com, is joining us.
00:34:17.020Kenny, you wrote extensively about Ron DeSantis during the primary, during last year.
00:34:23.820Look, everybody knows what we're talking about today.
00:34:25.840We're talking about the revenge of the Uniparty, the revenge of the establishment.
00:34:30.860Steve Bannon just came on here and said this was Mitch McConnell's rearguard action through John Thune, pushing Matt Gaetz out or blocking, chop blocking Matt Gaetz from getting into the attorney general spot.
00:34:42.720But, Kenny, here's a question that I'm going to toss to you.
00:34:46.660Not do I think Governor DeSantis should appoint Matt Gaetz, but would he appoint Matt Gaetz?
00:34:51.360And, by the way, by the way, I will put out for the people as well that they have had a great relationship in the past, even though they saw different ways on the primary, that Gaetz and DeSantis have always had a fantastic relationship.
00:35:04.220I mean, I think his political instinct is if the 2024 told us anything is that DeSantis has no national political instinct.
00:35:10.700Now, for Florida to stay popular with the state legislature, the congressmen's there, the congresspeople there, for sure, yeah, he's got some political instinct.
00:35:19.740The smartest thing DeSantis could absolutely do to win back MAGA, to get America First Republicans and conservatives on his side would be to appoint Matt Gaetz, even if it was just for two years.
00:35:30.180Matt Gaetz wouldn't even have to serve the entire terms if he didn't want to.
00:35:33.640But just for two years, that would absolutely get MAGA and America First Republicans back on his side.
00:36:00.700In the absolute battle for our nation, when we are hitting dark times and we're having to go after fellow Republicans because they're not willing to stand up like the Democrats do to us every single time, we need a firebrand fighter.
00:36:12.520We don't need a normie con Republican in this Senate seat or in Gaetz's congressional seat, for that matter, if he doesn't run for the 119th Congress.
00:36:35.260Well, look, you know, and one thing that I'll add, and I've seen this thrown around out there, that if DeSantis were to appoint Matt Gaetz as senator,
00:36:44.860then that would likely prevent Matt Gaetz from running for governor when his seat comes up, when DeSantis' seat comes up, and he's terminated out in 2026.
00:36:57.380So it would really open a seat up there.
00:36:59.640So definitely some interesting things to think about.
00:37:02.460And we know that Gaetz certainly has been throwing his name out there for Senate and for governor, for some other things.
00:37:10.800And I think, I'll put it this way, folks, don't count out Matt Gaetz.
00:37:27.160I mean, just because Mitch McConnell is retiring from being a majority leader doesn't mean his same people are not working to undermine the MAGA movement and to undermine the America First movement.
00:37:36.160They're going to try in every single trove to go after Trump, to go after the MAGA Republicans, to go after those very few Republicans that we have in the United States Senate GOP caucus.
00:37:48.080They're going to try to undermine him at every single opportunity.
00:37:51.340Now, I think that we're going to have to really see the nominations of Hexeth, Gabbard, Kennedy, and others to see how much influence we can really have over these establishment Republicans.
00:38:03.120But, you know, we are not in a battle for against Democrats, against the cultural Marxist left.
00:38:09.940And people don't realize that just because we have won, just because Trump dragged the establishment Republicans over the threshold to get the majority in the House and the Senate doesn't mean they're not going to try to undermine him at every single opportunity to keep their stranglehold on Washington, D.C.
00:38:25.140But the problem is the American people voted to get this out of Washington, D.C.
00:38:31.000They voted for a mandate to change the establishment, not to bow down to it when times got tough, not when there's a 53-47 majority in the Senate and not when we have a majority in the House and the executive branch.
00:38:47.640But you need to realize that Republicans don't love you.
00:38:50.880Do these establishment Republicans want to hurt you just as bad as the Democrats do?
00:38:54.540That's why Mitch McConnell and others toe the line for Joe Biden are not willing to toe the line for Donald Trump.
00:39:00.460So we have to fight back against them on these committees, on nominations, on legislations, with executive orders, and who we put running the executive branch and who we put running a lot of these committees when we get the majorities.
00:39:11.940We have to assign and appoint and confirm every single person that wants to serve in Donald Trump's administration to put forth the MAGA mandate that the American people voted for.
00:39:25.160We cannot just allow the establishment Republicans and the establishment Democrats to continue to have control.
00:39:30.640And today, unfortunately, they probably got a victory.
00:39:32.220But we need to know that we have got to fight back if we want to win over these next four years.
00:39:37.540Look, folks, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
00:39:59.440But, oh, yeah, I'm going to be a little busy from time to time because I'm literally bailing people out of their homes and saving people's lives and getting people food together and organizing drives.