The Ben Shapiro Show - TEAM OF THE CENTURY: More Stellar Trump PICKS!

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00:00:25.000 So, the insiders are going insane because some of Donald Trump's new picks are quite controversial and controversially awesome.

00:00:33.000 So, my favorite pick of the day yesterday.

00:00:35.000 And Trump is rolling out these picks unbelievably fast.

00:00:37.000 Remember, the election just happened last week.

00:00:40.000 The election was a grand total at this point of eight days ago, and Donald Trump has already rolled out nearly his entire cabinet at this point, at least when it comes to the national security side.

00:00:50.000 Yesterday, he rolled out Pete Hegseth, Army veteran and Fox News host, as his choice for Secretary of Defense.

00:00:56.000 And the usual suspects are going absolutely insane.

00:00:59.000 I think perhaps my favorite response has come courtesy of Politico, which is losing it over the fact that Pete Hegseth is an outsider.

00:01:07.000 So, for example, they put out a piece saying that it's all about how the defense industry, the defense industry lobbyists, are very upset.

00:01:14.000 Quote, Problem, guys.

00:01:28.000 The people who have been running our defense apparatus for nigh on to decades at this point have done a horrendous job.

00:01:34.000 The Department of Defense has been signally responsible for the worst botched pullout in American history and Afghanistan.

00:01:42.000 A completely failed response to terrorism by the Houthis in the Red Sea.

00:01:46.000 A completely weak response to Russian invasion of Ukraine.

00:01:50.000 That's what the Department of Defense has done.

00:01:51.000 They've burdened the Department of Defense with a bunch of woke nonsense.

00:01:54.000 Plus, they have not actually built to spec, meaning that they are not interested in the next war.

00:01:59.000 They just keep building for the last war.

00:02:01.000 There needs to be a tremendous overhaul inside the Pentagon, and Pete Hegseth is the guy to do that.

00:02:07.000 You can sense it from all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth from all the right people.

00:02:13.000 Apparently, Elizabeth Warren is super upset. 1.00

00:02:16.000 Elizabeth Warren tweeted out, quote, So I'm just going to point out at this point that she says that her qualification to be on the Senate military personnel panel is that she has siblings who served.

00:02:37.000 Pete Hegseth is an Army major.

00:02:39.000 He was in the National Guard.

00:02:40.000 He served in both Iraq and Afghanistan and was awarded the Bronze Star twice.

00:02:45.000 Listen, I know Pete Hegseth.

00:02:46.000 Pete Hegseth is awesome.

00:02:47.000 He's awesome.

00:02:48.000 He's going to break all the right brains.

00:02:50.000 He's going to go in.

00:02:51.000 He's going to clean house.

00:02:53.000 We did an interview with Pete Hegseth just a few months ago about his brand new book, which is all about cleansing the military of woke.

00:02:59.000 Pete is a young go-getter.

00:03:01.000 Pete is 44 years old.

00:03:04.000 He is obviously very bright.

00:03:06.000 He went to Harvard and Princeton.

00:03:08.000 Plus, there's the military record.

00:03:10.000 I mean, he's literally writing the book on how to clear the military of all the dead wood.

00:03:15.000 And here he was, for example, talking about what he thinks America's foreign policy should be like.

00:03:22.000 I am all in on this.

00:03:23.000 All in.

00:03:25.000 It goes all the way back to we're not even declaring wars anymore because they're so politically untenable as to what way they'll go, so no one actually wants to invest in them or is willing to.

00:03:35.000 And so you get these forever wars, which is a bad phrase because they're not forever wars, but it's the way it ends up being described because there is no actual end state.

00:03:45.000 Tell me what the end state is in Ukraine.

00:03:47.000 I could tell you what the end state is in Israel. 0.90

00:03:49.000 And what's the only thing the American military and the American diplomats are doing right now?

00:03:54.000 Trying to stop Israel from finishing the fight.

00:03:56.000 Like, there's one thing that Israel could do. 1.00

00:03:58.000 Kill every last one of those Hamas mothers now, and then the war stops. 1.00

00:04:04.000 And, by the way, Israel didn't start it. 1.00

00:04:06.000 Like, that's how wars end.

00:04:07.000 That's how peace breaks out.

00:04:10.000 For thousands of years, somebody actually wins the war.

00:04:14.000 And when they win the war, then there's a new reality, a new geopolitical reality.

00:04:18.000 We don't fight that way.

00:04:19.000 We let the lawyers lead.

00:04:20.000 We let international institutions have too much say.

00:04:23.000 And it percolates.

00:04:24.000 I tell stories directly as a platoon leader down to, can you shoot?

00:04:27.000 Can you not shoot?

00:04:28.000 Are guys being criminalized after the fact?

00:04:31.000 I mean, Donald Trump pardoned a bunch of guys I advocated for in his last couple years in office.

00:04:37.000 They killed the right guys in the wrong way, according to somebody.

00:04:40.000 I'm done with that.

00:04:41.000 Like, we need to fight total war against our enemies when we do.

00:04:45.000 And yeah, you don't kill civilians on purpose.

00:04:47.000 But you kill bad guys.

00:04:49.000 All of them. 1.00

00:04:49.000 You stack bodies. 1.00

00:04:50.000 And when it's over, then you let the dust settle and you figure out who's ahead.

00:04:54.000 But it turns out we're the ones with the big guns right now.

00:04:56.000 I like this.

00:04:57.000 This is good.

00:04:58.000 What he's saying right there, that's good.

00:05:00.000 I know America has fallen into the habit of not winning wars or winning wars and then blowing the peace.

00:05:05.000 Pete Hegseth is not that type.

00:05:07.000 He's going to be great.

00:05:08.000 Also, again, he literally wrote the book on de-woking the military.

00:05:11.000 Here he is, for example, discussing reforming U.S. military leadership. 0.70

00:05:16.000 Any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever, that was involved in any of the DEI woke s*** has got to go.

00:05:23.000 Either you're in for warfighting, and that's it.

00:05:26.000 That's the only litmus test we care about.

00:05:29.000 You've got to get DEI and CRT out of military academies so you're not training young officers to be baptized in this type of thinking.

00:05:36.000 And then, you know, whatever the standards, whatever the combat standards were, say, in, I don't know, 1995, let's just make those standards.

00:05:43.000 And as far as recruiting, to hire the guy that, you know, did Top Gun Maverick and create some real ads that motivate people to want to serve.

00:05:50.000 Okay, that is right.

00:05:52.000 That is correct.

00:05:52.000 By the way, more young men will join the military with Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.

00:05:57.000 You know why?

00:05:57.000 Because people who are joining the military look at Pete Hegseth and they think, that dude is a badass.

00:06:01.000 And that's somebody who I want heading up the Department of Defense.

00:06:05.000 These are awesome, awesome picks.

00:06:07.000 Seriously, they're just great.

00:06:08.000 And it's hilarious because the entire left, they're bringing out clips of Pete Hegseth saying things.

00:06:12.000 And every time they bring out a clip of Pete Hegseth supposedly being terrible, all I can think of is, stop, I'm already supporting him.

00:06:18.000 You can't make me support him anymore.

00:06:19.000 It's not possible.

00:06:20.000 So for example, some of them bring out a clip of him talking about how women should not be serving in frontline combat positions.

00:06:25.000 I don't understand what's even controversial about that.

00:06:28.000 Is your idea here that women should be in frontline combat positions?

00:06:32.000 Like next to the big bulky Navy SEAL guys?

00:06:35.000 Like that's your proposition?

00:06:36.000 Keep bringing out more clips of Pete Hegseth.

00:06:38.000 Every new clip makes me support him even more, but it's not possible because we've hit the limit of possible support at 100%.

00:06:44.000 You can't support him 110%.

00:06:46.000 It's not statistically possible.

00:06:48.000 Now, a lot of this is happening because Donald Trump is deliberately going outside the system of the military structure.

00:06:53.000 He's apparently pursuing a draft executive order that would create a board to purge the woke generals.

00:06:59.000 Yes, this is correct.

00:07:01.000 Many of the people in the military, like every grunt will tell you, everybody, I mean, I know a lot of people who are serving in America's military. 0.96

00:07:07.000 Everyone will tell you the biggest obstacle to military success in the United States military is the political generals, the people who have kissed enough ass to make their way to the top of the heat.

00:07:16.000 That's not every general, but there are some who for certain have made their way to the top of the heat by playing the game.

00:07:22.000 Well, the military bureaucracy is what prevents the United States military from adapting, from innovating, from being quick and responsive.

00:07:29.000 Wiping all of that out would be great.

00:07:31.000 I mean, again, I'm gonna listen to people who think that Rachel Levine ought to be an admiral.

00:07:36.000 Like, the dude who says he's Rachel Levine ought to be an admiral.

00:07:39.000 Like, that's you.

00:07:41.000 You're the people who I'm gonna listen to about military policy.

00:07:44.000 The people who believe that the way that you recruit people to the United States military is by waving rainbow flags.

00:07:50.000 Like, I'm sorry, that is not how you recruit people to the military.

00:07:52.000 We have a massive shortfall in the number of people who want to join the military.

00:07:56.000 We have a massive shortfall In terms of the military technology we actually have to develop.

00:08:02.000 It is a rough world out there.

00:08:03.000 And Pete Hegseth knows that better than literally anyone who is being looked at for this position.

00:08:08.000 Again, Trump has amazing gut instincts.

00:08:10.000 And what we're watching right now is those gut instincts coming into play.

00:08:13.000 Because apparently he thought about Pete Hegseth like two and a half days ago.

00:08:17.000 And then he had an interview with him yesterday.

00:08:18.000 And then he picked him yesterday.

00:08:20.000 Just great.

00:08:21.000 Again, one of the reasons he's doing this is because of this executive order.

00:08:24.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order that establishes a warrior board of retired senior military personnel with the power to review three- and four-star officers and to recommend removals of any deemed unfit for leadership.

00:08:37.000 If Trump approves the order, it could fast-track the removal of generals and admirals found to be, quote, lacking in requisite leadership qualities.

00:08:43.000 Again, I don't understand what the left is so afraid of about this.

00:08:46.000 I mean, how could it possibly be worse than Lloyd Austin, who has presided over a defense department that allowed a giant Chinese spy balloon to float over the entirety of the continental United States, that has allowed the United States Navy to be made a mockery of in the Red Sea?

00:09:00.000 A Secretary of Defense who literally went AWOL for like a week and nobody knew where the hell he was?

00:09:05.000 I'm also amused to hear many of the people who are ripping on Pete Hegseth's credentials.

00:09:10.000 These are the same people who thought that Pete Buttigieg should be Secretary of Transportation because he likes trains.

00:09:15.000 Literally, those were his qualifications.

00:09:17.000 Give me a break.

00:09:19.000 Apparently, I love this, according to the Wall Street Journal, this could create a chilling effect on top military officers given the president-elect's past vow to fire woke generals, referring to officers seen as promoting diversity in the ranks at the expense of military readiness.

00:09:32.000 As commander-in-chief, Trump can fire any officer at will, an outside board whose members he appoints would bypass the Pentagon's regular promotion system, signaling across the military he intends to pursue a number of generals and admirals.

00:09:43.000 Again, that is good, and Pete Hegseth helping to oversee that will be excellent.

00:09:48.000 By the way, he should be appointing people to Secretary of the Navy.

00:09:52.000 I would recommend somebody like Mike Gallagher.

00:09:53.000 Mike Gallagher would be an excellent candidate for Secretary of the Navy, the former Republican representative from Wisconsin, who's also a military man.

00:10:01.000 And we need to update our Navy more than any other branch of the American military.

00:10:05.000 The Navy needs a complete facelift and an update.

00:10:09.000 This is...

00:10:10.000 This is all very good, what is happening right now.

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00:12:17.000 Meanwhile, he has also announced that he is going to appoint John Ratcliffe over at the CIA.

00:12:22.000 John Ratcliffe, of course, is a former Trump staffer.

00:12:28.000 He's a hawkish former House lawmaker.

00:12:30.000 And Ratcliffe, he called a warrior for truth and honesty.

00:12:34.000 Trump has credited him with exposing fake Russian collusion in the House.

00:12:39.000 He was a representative for Texas' fourth congressional district from 2015 to 2020, and then he was confirmed by a divided Senate in 2020 to be the nation's intelligence czar, right?

00:12:47.000 He was the DNI, replacing Dan Coates, who resigned after a tenure mark by friction, with Trump.

00:12:51.000 Ratcliffe focused heavily on the threat from China.

00:12:55.000 Ratcliffe is going to come in and again, he's going to clean house.

00:12:57.000 And I'm telling you, they need to clean house over at the CIA. So first of all, Ratcliffe understands the difference between the Trump doctrine and the Obama doctrine.

00:13:05.000 The Trump doctrine is very simple.

00:13:06.000 America has interests.

00:13:07.000 We will muscularly defend those interests.

00:13:09.000 And we will threaten you if you attempt to threaten those interests. 1.00

00:13:12.000 If you attempt to walk over that line, we'll punch you really hard in the face. 0.97

00:13:15.000 Here's John Ratcliffe expressing this just a few months ago over on Fox News. 0.72

00:13:19.000 You know, the famous Obama doctrine, which was that, look, we can deter Iran diplomatically and it won't come at the expense of Israel. 0.76

00:13:28.000 Well, Barack Obama was wrong.

00:13:30.000 He misunderstood the lethality and the evil nature of the Iranian regime.

00:13:35.000 And what Israel has done is essentially employ the Trump doctrine, a pressure, maximum pressure campaign, understanding that the only way to deter terrorists like Iran and their proxies is to put Your foot on their throat.

00:13:51.000 And Israel has done that. 0.93

00:13:53.000 We should be assisting Israel in doing so.

00:13:56.000 But again, political expediency and the quest for power by Kamala Harris and the Democrats is resulting in American national security taking a back seat, unfortunately.

00:14:09.000 Good for John Ratcliffe.

00:14:10.000 He's awesome.

00:14:10.000 By the way, the amount of deadwood they're going to have to clear out over there is serious.

00:14:13.000 I mean, when we talk about the deep state, again, you can't have an executive branch this large without an awful lot of trash in it.

00:14:20.000 The best example is literally today, the CIA has now arrested a former CIA official. 0.82

00:14:25.000 This is an actual current CIA official.

00:14:26.000 He will be former very soon.

00:14:28.000 A CIA official has now been charged with disclosing classified documents that appeared to show Israel's plans to retaliate against Iran for a missile attack earlier this year, according to court documents and people familiar with the matter.

00:14:39.000 The official's name is Asif Rahman.

00:14:42.000 Was indicted last week in federal court in Virginia with two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information.

00:14:49.000 He was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday in Cambodia and brought to federal court in Guam to face charges.

00:14:55.000 What's he doing in Cambodia?

00:14:57.000 Was he fleeing?

00:14:58.000 What's the story?

00:14:59.000 The documents were prepared by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, which analyzes images and information collected by US spy satellites.

00:15:05.000 It conducts work in support of clandestine and military operations.

00:15:08.000 The information in the documents is highly classified and details interpretation of satellite imagery that shed light on a possible strike by Israel on Iran.

00:15:15.000 They began circulating last month on the Telegram app.

00:15:18.000 Court documents said that Rachman held a top security clearance with access to sensitive compartmentalized information, which is typical for many CIA employees who handle classified materials.

00:15:27.000 I guarantee you, task number one for John Ratcliffe is going to be going through the lists of the CIA and cleansing out everyone who does not have the best interests of the United States at heart and who believes that it is their sole job to stop the Trump administration from doing its duly appointed work.

00:15:44.000 Those were not the only appointments yesterday.

00:15:47.000 There is also Mike Huckabee.

00:15:48.000 So Mike Huckabee has now been appointed the ambassador to Israel, taking over for my friend David Friedman.

00:15:54.000 Huckabee is awesome.

00:15:56.000 Governor Huckabee, when it comes to Israel, is extraordinarily hawkish.

00:15:59.000 He certainly understands the situation in the Middle East quite well.

00:16:03.000 He also, as an evangelical Christian, is deeply supportive, of course, of the state of Israel.

00:16:09.000 Here was Governor Huckabee talking about Hamas versus Israel.

00:16:14.000 I tell people this is not a political, sociological, economic battle.

00:16:19.000 This is a spiritual battle.

00:16:20.000 This is as clear a definition between good and evil as we have seen in our lifetime and one of the most profound in all of history.

00:16:31.000 Again, he is correct about that.

00:16:33.000 And of course, Mike Huckabee understands that the reality on the ground in Israel, especially when it comes to the so-called West Bank, is that increased Israeli building in the West Bank is not a bad thing. 0.76

00:16:43.000 The areas that Israel is building end up being economic hotspots.

00:16:46.000 They end up being places of democracy and freedom.

00:16:48.000 And that's the Palestinian Authority that has declined its entire population into a horrible situation in the West Bank.

00:16:55.000 Here's Mike Huckabee talking about this.

00:16:58.000 Can't wait to get back.

00:16:59.000 I'm going to take an extra hat.

00:17:01.000 I'm going to get it to President-elect Trump.

00:17:04.000 Build Israel Great Again!

00:17:06.000 Who knows?

00:17:07.000 We may see him wear this out there in one of his rallies somewhere.

00:17:11.000 I don't know.

00:17:12.000 Can't promise that.

00:17:14.000 I can only promise he will get a copy of the hat.

00:17:17.000 Thank you very much.

00:17:18.000 Again, Mike Huckabee will be the new ambassador to Israel.

00:17:21.000 And this team is just, it's so good.

00:17:24.000 It's so good.

00:17:25.000 Meanwhile, the president has also announced that William McGinley will be the White House counsel.

00:17:29.000 He was, of course, in the first administration for Trump as the White House cabinet secretary.

00:17:35.000 So, in announcement Tuesday evening, Trump said that McGinley played a major role in his election victory as the RNC's outside counsel for election integrity.

00:17:42.000 He said, Bill's a smart and tenacious lawyer, will help me advance our America First agenda while fighting for election integrity and against the weaponization of law enforcement.

00:17:51.000 He's going to be playing a key behind-the-scenes role in vetting Supreme Court candidates and nominees as well, presumably for lower courts as well.

00:17:58.000 He was the general counsel at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, too.

00:18:03.000 So, again, these are very good picks.

00:18:05.000 Speaking of the sort of legal side, Jack Smith is now planning to resign as special counsel before Trump enters the White House, which makes perfect sense because otherwise Donald Trump would have the signal pleasure of firing Jack Smith, who's been going after him for a wide variety of charges in multiple jurisdictions.

00:18:19.000 According to National Review...

00:18:22.000 Smith intends to finish his work and leave before Trump can fulfill his promise of firing the federal prosecutor within two seconds of taking office, anonymous sources told the New York Times.

00:18:30.000 Prosecutors and FBI agents on his team were reportedly told to leave over the course of the next few weeks.

00:18:36.000 So in Kiss Goodbye to Jack Smith, all those votive candles that Democrats bought are now going to go on eBay for about five cents a pop alongside the Robert Mueller candles, which are now available for free on eBay.

00:18:48.000 Meanwhile, the other big announcement yesterday in terms of staffing.

00:18:51.000 Apparently, President Trump has now appointed Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk to a government efficiency effort called DOGE. Again, this is, you know, government efficiency can be fun.

00:19:04.000 This is great.

00:19:05.000 It's a perfect role for Vivek.

00:19:07.000 Vivek's a businessman.

00:19:08.000 Vivek understands efficiency.

00:19:10.000 Vivek's super bright.

00:19:11.000 Obviously, he's tech savvy.

00:19:12.000 He and Elon will make an amazing team in going through and vetoing all of the government spending initiatives that they can.

00:19:19.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, President-elect Trump picked Tesla CEO Elon Musk and biotech company founder Vivek Ramaswamy to lead an effort to cut spending, eliminate regulations and restructure federal agencies.

00:19:29.000 Trump said in a statement on Tuesday night that Ramaswamy and Musk, the wealthiest person in the world, would lead what the president calls the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, which is hilarious.

00:19:39.000 And if I know Elon Musk, I assume that the first recommended cut will be in the $69 billion realm.

00:19:44.000 The group's mandate is to streamline government bureaucracy, the president-elect said.

00:19:49.000 Now, Doge will operate outside the federal government.

00:19:51.000 They're going to be working with the White House Office of Management and Budget to implement their recommendations.

00:19:55.000 Now, again, they're not going to have any statutory authority, at least so far.

00:19:58.000 They're going to make recommendations as to cuts, and those recommendations are going to be completely transparent, according to Elon Musk.

00:20:05.000 Trump gave Musk and Ramaswamy a deadline of July 4th, 2026 to complete their work.

00:20:11.000 Musk is not going to become an official government employee, which makes sense.

00:20:14.000 Why would he possibly enter government directly, which would mean that he'd have to divest from, you know, all the giant companies that he runs.

00:20:20.000 Trump said a smaller government with more efficiency and less bureaucracy will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

00:20:27.000 I am confident that they will succeed.

00:20:31.000 Again, this will be great.

00:20:32.000 It is going to be excellent to have a department of efficiency that is operating outside government to make recommendations that will be taken very seriously by the Trump administration.

00:20:41.000 By the way, the business community is over the moon about this administration.

00:20:44.000 Over the moon about this administration.

00:20:47.000 Bill Ackman is saying as much.

00:20:49.000 Ackman, of course, was a Democrat who endorsed Donald Trump for the presidency.

00:20:54.000 And as he points out, the amount of excitement in the business community over all of this is amazing.

00:21:00.000 He says, quote, The business community is giddy with excitement about the Trump administration.

00:21:04.000 I'm hearing this from everyone, including from people who didn't vote for Trump.

00:21:06.000 By the way, I'm hearing exactly the same thing.

00:21:08.000 I spoke to many Democrats who are in powerful positions in terms of business in Hollywood.

00:21:13.000 And secretly, they're like, this is kind of great.

00:21:16.000 This is kind of great.

00:21:17.000 Business confidence, says Bill Ackman, is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

00:21:20.000 Business leaders are becoming more confident about the country and the economy.

00:21:23.000 This means they'll be making more investments in our future, which will drive the economy and the stock market, reducing the cost of capital and bolstering confidence further, catalyzing more investment and more growth in a self-reinforcing virtuous cycle.

00:21:34.000 Merger and acquisition activity is about to explode as there are an enormous number of deals that have been deferred pending a more favorable regulatory environment for transactions.

00:21:42.000 M&A will drive efficiency, greater profitability, and growth.

00:21:44.000 It will also enable the return of capital to investors who will seek to redeploy their profits and proceeds in new investment opportunities.

00:21:50.000 The Doge and deregulation will drive government efficiency and make America a vastly better and lower risk place to do business efficiently and effectively.

00:21:58.000 I'm also hearing about non-U.S. companies that are desperate to immediately create a presence on U.S. soil.

00:22:02.000 They are frightened to be locked out of the most important economy in the world.

00:22:04.000 They will build factories and make new investments here to avoid the risk of tariffs and because they don't have a better place to invest capital.

00:22:11.000 China's economy is in trouble.

00:22:12.000 Europe's is a mess.

00:22:13.000 The U.S. has now become, by far, the best country for investment.

00:22:16.000 Growth is about to explode.

00:22:18.000 That is correct.

00:22:19.000 Folks, growth is about to explode.

00:22:22.000 You know, I was losing sleep over worry.

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00:24:31.000 Call right now, 1-877-CARS4KIDS, K-A-R-S, Cars for Kids, And there's been a lot of loose talk about Trump's tariff plans.

00:24:41.000 The reality is that an enormous amount of Trump's tariff plan is designed in order to generate wins from other countries.

00:24:50.000 You threaten to tariff a country in order to have them lower their own trade barriers against the United States, for example.

00:24:54.000 Trump did that with Canada.

00:24:56.000 Use the threat of tariffs in order to change the deal on NAFTA. Trump did that.

00:25:01.000 Trump is pragmatic.

00:25:04.000 All he cares about is the level of economic success.

00:25:06.000 What that means is that he's not going to heedlessly run directly into the teeth of a tariff-driven inflation.

00:25:13.000 He's instead going to use the threat of tariffs in order to cudgel America's geopolitical opponents into submission, which is exactly what he should do.

00:25:21.000 Apparently, Trump has told allies he wants his former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer as the administration's trade czar, according to people familiar with the matter.

00:25:28.000 Lighthizer is a key advisor to Trump and helped implement his tariff policies during his first term in office.

00:25:33.000 Now, Trump wants him to be a czar, which would likely give Lighthizer oversight of trade policy across the administration.

00:25:39.000 That position would not require Senate confirmation, allowing him to immediately have the power to start implementing Trump's tariff proposals shortly after the president-elect is inaugurated in January.

00:25:48.000 It'll be interesting to see how all of the voices in Trump world bounce off of one another, but the team that he is putting together is really, really spectacular.

00:25:56.000 These are really good people that he is putting in place.

00:26:00.000 Meanwhile, we're already seeing the beneficial effects of some of his picks.

00:26:04.000 Tom Homan, will you recall, is the border czar. 0.94

00:26:07.000 Man, that guy is a bulldog. 0.98

00:26:09.000 I mean, he looks like a bulldog. 1.00

00:26:10.000 He acts like a bulldog. 0.97

00:26:11.000 Here is Tom Homan speaking at the National Conservatism Conference just a few months ago, talking about what's going to happen next. 0.52

00:26:18.000 Well, there is the secret.

00:26:20.000 That's why Tom Homan pissed off.

00:26:22.000 Because we had this locked down.

00:26:25.000 And I tell you what, Washington Post can do all the stories they wanted me about Tom Homan's deport.

00:26:29.000 People was really good at it. 0.99

00:26:31.000 They ain't seen shit yet. 0.98

00:26:32.000 Wait till 2025. 0.98

00:26:33.000 Yeah.

00:26:35.000 By the way, if he deports a million illegal immigrants at the very beginning, which will be largely focused, again, on criminal illegal immigrants, as well as new illegal immigrants who have crossed during the Biden administration, that's going to show an awful lot of skin in the game and good faith by Trump toward the American people.

00:26:51.000 Meanwhile, Democrats are in a state of absolute disarray.

00:26:55.000 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are not getting along.

00:26:57.000 Plus, Joe Biden is in a state of complete mental deterioration.

00:27:00.000 Yesterday, Joe Biden was asked about whether there would be a hostage deal between Hamas and Israel. 0.99

00:27:06.000 Listen to this doddering old fool be completely unable to even respond. 0.83

00:27:11.000 President Biden, do you think that you can get a hostage deal by the end of your term? 0.99

00:27:19.000 All right.

00:27:23.000 Thank you all.

00:27:25.000 What in the world?

00:27:26.000 What? 0.97

00:27:30.000 Can you be hit in the head by a camera behind you?

00:27:33.000 I can't imagine why they lost.

00:27:35.000 It's a giant, giant mystery.

00:27:35.000 Why did they lose?

00:27:37.000 Meanwhile, the tension between Kamala Harris and the Bidens is quite real.

00:27:41.000 Yesterday, there was an event at which Kamala Harris and the Bidens were present.

00:27:45.000 Look at the way that Jill Biden responds to the presence of Kamala Harris, who shoved her husband aside. 0.98

00:27:50.000 It is quite delicious.

00:27:54.000 You can see Kamala Harris is going to sit next to Jill Biden. 1.00

00:28:02.000 Joe Biden does not even move.

00:28:03.000 Does not even move.

00:28:04.000 Does not get up to shake her hand.

00:28:05.000 Does not respond to her presence.

00:28:07.000 Just stares directly forward.

00:28:09.000 Joe Biden cannot.

00:28:11.000 Like, cannot.

00:28:12.000 It's amazing.

00:28:12.000 She cannot.

00:28:13.000 Amazing.

00:28:14.000 Meanwhile, Peter Ducey asked Karine Jean-Pierre if there's any awkwardness between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris considering the fact that Joe Biden is the happiest man in the world that Kamala Harris lost.

00:28:22.000 Here is Karine Jean-Pierre, soon to be the ex-press secretary.

00:28:27.000 We know that today, a week after the election, President Biden and Vice President Harris had a private lunch.

00:28:35.000 How awkward was that?

00:28:38.000 I don't even understand.

00:28:39.000 Why would it be awkward?

00:28:41.000 Because the president got squeezed out for her, and then she kept him at arm's length, and then she lost, and now she's back.

00:28:47.000 Why would you characterize it as awkward?

00:28:49.000 They have regular lunches.

00:28:51.000 They meet and talk regularly.

00:28:53.000 Why would you call it awkward?

00:28:56.000 So there's no weirdness about the way that things have unfolded since life.

00:28:59.000 Did you see them together yesterday as well, when they honored our veterans and were together?

00:29:03.000 This is...

00:29:05.000 I'm not even going to take the premise of the question.

00:29:08.000 What I will say is the president and the vice president had lunch today.

00:29:13.000 They've had lunch many times.

00:29:15.000 They communicate with each other regularly.

00:29:19.000 They had an opportunity to discuss the last 70 days or so of this administration, how important it is to get things done for the American people.

00:29:31.000 And that's their focus.

00:29:32.000 That is genuinely their focus.

00:29:35.000 Is it though?

00:29:36.000 Is it really?

00:29:37.000 By the way, this is an amazing story.

00:29:39.000 So Al Sharpton, who is the king of racial grift, I mean just the king of it, apparently he pried 500 grand out of the Kamala Harris campaign just before giving her an interview on MSNBC. So you want to talk about journalistic integrity?

00:29:50.000 You want to talk about objectivity?

00:29:52.000 How about the fact that according to the Washington Free Beacon, Kamala Harris' presidential campaign donated half a million dollars to Al Sharpton's nonprofit organization just weeks before the anti-Semitic MSNBC host, who once said that diamond merchant Jews have the blood of innocent babies on their hands, conducted a friendly interview with Harris.

00:30:09.000 So they literally paid off the interviewer, apparently.

00:30:11.000 The campaign's remittance to Sharpton's National Action Network was part of a flurry of donations, $5.4 million in all, to Black and Latino advocacy groups that seemed aimed at winning Harris support from those constituencies.

00:30:21.000 Harris's campaign gave two payments of $250,000 each to National Action Network on September 5th and October 1st, according to campaign finance records.

00:30:29.000 And then, on October 3rd, Sharpton aired a video of Harris wishing him happy birthday on his MSNBC weekend show.

00:30:36.000 And then he conducted a glowing interview with her on October 20th.

00:30:40.000 Man, Al Sharpton, that dude always gets his taste, doesn't he?

00:30:43.000 I mean, you know, honestly, good for him.

00:30:45.000 Seriously, that is a dude who uses every bit of leverage he can to enrich himself.

00:30:49.000 And I guess, you know, that is the way to do it in Democratic circles.

00:30:53.000 Meanwhile, Democrats have a bunch of systemic problems on their hands.

00:30:56.000 One of those systemic problems...

00:30:58.000 Is that the number of split-party Senate delegations has been steadily shrinking since about 1965.

00:31:04.000 If you look back to the mid-1970s, early 1980s, about one-third of all states had a split delegation, meaning one Republican and one Democrat who were their senators.

00:31:13.000 Today, there are three.

00:31:15.000 Just three states have a split delegation.

00:31:17.000 One of those is Wisconsin, one of those is Pennsylvania, and one of those is Maine.

00:31:22.000 Now, Pennsylvania has been trending red.

00:31:24.000 Wisconsin has also been trending red.

00:31:26.000 Presumably, Maine, which has been trending blue, might split the other way.

00:31:30.000 But you have 25 states that are complete Republican hold states.

00:31:35.000 Both senators are red.

00:31:38.000 And by the way, there's another state that if Republicans would, you know, run people who are not Kerry Lake, they might win some Senate seats in Arizona.

00:31:44.000 Arizona went for Donald Trump by five points.

00:31:46.000 If they ran some good candidates in Arizona, there's little doubt in my mind that that state also flips back red.

00:31:51.000 So you'd be talking about 26 states that are Republican in orientation in the Senate, which is 52 seats, which is a majority.

00:31:58.000 Right now, just 22 states are pure Democrat blue states.

00:32:04.000 Again, these are signs that bode ill for Democrats.

00:32:08.000 Meanwhile, the New York Times is reporting that black voters are asking, quote, what have Democrats done for us?

00:32:13.000 Well, once they start asking that question, that's going to change exactly what they expected the Democratic Party, which is taking their support for granted.

00:32:21.000 Quote, in the final weeks of the campaign, many Democrats hoped signs of crumbling support among black voters would not materialize at the polls.

00:32:27.000 There's an expectation that Trump's baggage would be poisonous as he was heavily criticized for trying to discredit Ms. 0.95

00:32:32.000 Harris's racial identity, spreading vicious disinformation about Haitians eating pets, and accusing immigrants of taking quote-unquote black jobs.

00:32:38.000 Now again, all of those stories didn't make one bit of difference. 0.52

00:32:41.000 They didn't make one bit of difference.

00:32:42.000 Because when Donald Trump was saying, well, you know, sometimes she'll identify as Indian, sometimes she identifies as black, like I don't know what the story is, it turns out that there's an undercurrent of that question that actually existed for many black voters.

00:32:54.000 There are many, many interviews that were done on air that suggested just that.

00:32:58.000 Meanwhile, as far as eating the dogs and eating the cats, that just became a meme.

00:33:02.000 That thing became a meme right away.

00:33:04.000 My four-year-old daughter is wearing a shirt around that says they're eating the dogs. 0.99

00:33:07.000 It's just a meme.

00:33:08.000 It's just funny.

00:33:08.000 It doesn't mean anything.

00:33:10.000 And as far as accusing immigrants of taking black jobs, you want to talk about a manufactured media nonsense story.

00:33:15.000 Democrats talk about black jobs all the time.

00:33:18.000 But if Trump mentions it's racist now, Well, the reality is that many, many black voters are moving away from this.

00:33:26.000 Some of the voters, namely working class black men, said they doubted their circumstances would fundamentally change regardless of who won.

00:33:32.000 The dissatisfaction evident in urban centers in swing states like Milwaukee and Philadelphia was potent enough to depress turnout in some Democratic strongholds and even flip some majority black counties to Mr.

00:33:42.000 Trump.

00:33:43.000 The New York Times says the outcome was less a reflection of enthusiasm for Trump and more of an indication that some black voters were questioning what dividends, if any, have come from their loyalty to the Democratic.

00:33:51.000 That would be an excellent question.

00:33:53.000 That's a question that should have been asked, you know, 60 years ago, considering that the Democratic Party has run majority black areas completely into the ground. 0.90

00:34:02.000 Some of the most heavily populated areas in terms of demographically black areas in the country have been run like just a horror show. 1.00

00:34:10.000 Many of the things that black voters require the most, things like school choice, for example, so not trapped in failing public schools, have been denied by Democrats who are at the behest of teachers unions.

00:34:19.000 Many of the welfare programs Democrats designed were implicitly designed to break up families. 0.97

00:34:23.000 Of course people are looking around and asking, why are these cities governed like trash?

00:34:27.000 It is worse to live in a major American city today than it was 20 years ago. 0.80

00:34:31.000 It's just that simple.

00:34:33.000 That is bad.

00:34:34.000 And people of all races and all ethnicities are beginning to realize that.

00:34:38.000 In just one second, we'll get to Democrats struggling, engaging in the blame game.

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00:35:14.000 Okay, meanwhile, Democrats again tearing each other apart.

00:35:18.000 Apparently they're now angry at Hakeem Jeffries, which is hilarious because he's one of the potential leaders of the Democratic Party.

00:35:23.000 According to Axios, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is getting caught up in the ideological infighting plaguing his party, with some members of his left flank dialing up their scrutiny toward him.

00:35:32.000 Jeffries' loyalists have long touted his reputation as a unifier and coalition builder, but some progressives are wondering aloud if he has the medal to take on President-elect Trump.

00:35:40.000 If Democrats had taken control of the House, Jeffries would have been seen as the kind of hero that's going to hold it all down for us, said one House progressive.

00:35:47.000 But the lawmaker predicted with Democrats on track to lose the House, he'll be put in the same blanket as other Democratic Party leaders, and probably worse.

00:35:55.000 Now again, going after Hakeem Jeffries, do it.

00:35:57.000 Like, really do it. 0.88

00:35:58.000 I'd love to see you guys tear each other apart.

00:36:02.000 Outgoing Progressive Caucus Chairman Pramila Jayapal on Monday appeared to question Democratic leadership's willingness to work with Republicans over the last two years.

00:36:09.000 Quote, we had the situation where we had Democrats in the minority in the House who felt incumbent upon us, we can debate whether or not that was the right thing to do, to fix Republicans' lack of being able to govern and instead of letting it show through.

00:36:20.000 So she is going to be taking on Hakeem Jeffries, which is just absolutely delicious.

00:36:25.000 Again, fun to watch the Democrats ripping each other apart. 0.87

00:36:28.000 By the way, speaking of Pramila Jayapal, you want to talk about somebody who's just incredibly dishonest.

00:36:33.000 Pramila Jayapal, who is a progressive nutcase from the state of Washington.

00:36:37.000 She was asked about getting rid of the filibuster now because she had been advocating for it before.

00:36:41.000 And people are like, well, okay, well, you're still in favor of that now that Republicans control both the House and the Senate.

00:36:45.000 Are you?

00:36:46.000 And she's like, no, only when we control it.

00:36:47.000 There's a shock.

00:36:49.000 I think, obviously, would I be, you know, am I championing getting rid of the filibuster now when the Senate has the trifecta?

00:36:55.000 But had we had the trifecta, I would have been because we have to show that government can deliver.

00:36:55.000 No.

00:37:01.000 And right now, even with people going to the ballot, they are bypassing their government because they don't feel like government, whether it's at the state level or the federal level, is actually going to get them the things that they need.

00:37:13.000 So I guess the idea here is everything for my friends, the law for my enemies, is sort of like constitutionalism for my enemies.

00:37:20.000 But if it were me, I would be able to do whatever I want.

00:37:23.000 It's so funny.

00:37:24.000 All these people on the left who said that Trump was a threat to the institutions, you notice something that's not even being discussed in the Republican-run Senate?

00:37:30.000 Getting rid of the filibuster.

00:37:31.000 You notice that?

00:37:32.000 Democrats were discussing getting rid of the filibuster, packing the Supreme Court, adding states willy-nilly, changing the structure of voting in the United States.

00:37:39.000 Republicans are like, yeah, no, these institutions, they're pretty good.

00:37:41.000 We just need to clean them.

00:37:43.000 I wonder who's the actual threat to democracy.

00:37:46.000 Meanwhile, a kind of hilarious battle went on on the floor of the Senate.

00:37:50.000 Chuck Schumer congratulated Donald Trump on his victory and then tried to ding him by saying, well, I hope that he's going to be done with all of his stolen election talk.

00:37:56.000 Mitch McConnell then turned around and slapped Chuck Schumer.

00:37:58.000 So here's Chuck Schumer.

00:38:00.000 Before I turn to the Senate, let me say this.

00:38:03.000 I hope that after last week, we can put the rest, the fantasy of stolen elections and rigged outcomes.

00:38:11.000 Four years ago, the losing side refused to accept the will of the people, and it led to a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

00:38:20.000 This year, we will not go down that dark and violent path.

00:38:25.000 Oh my goodness.

00:38:26.000 So he's still going on this.

00:38:28.000 And meanwhile, Mitch McConnell's like, so if we stop talking about stolen elections now, will you stop talking about foreign interference and pretending that that's what won Trump the election?

00:38:36.000 Thus far, I've been encouraged by the lack of baseless speculation that Tuesday's decisive result was influenced in any way by foreign interference.

00:38:46.000 Washington Democrats appear to recognize that they're on the losing side of a legitimate, crystal clear mandate.

00:38:57.000 Meanwhile, Democrats again trying to figure out, are they going to go moderate or are they not?

00:39:00.000 So, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who's sort of a quasi-Trump ally, you watch, he'll be putting on a Trump hat within a year.

00:39:07.000 Eric Adams points out, we have a broken immigration system and it needs to be fixed.

00:39:12.000 The voters communicated loudly and clearly.

00:39:16.000 We have a broken immigration system. 0.91

00:39:18.000 It needs to be fixed.

00:39:20.000 That's the only conversation I want.

00:39:21.000 It's broken.

00:39:22.000 It needs to be fixed.

00:39:24.000 And New York City was devastated by that broken system.

00:39:27.000 220,000 migrants and asylum seekers have made their way here.

00:39:31.000 No financial assistance from the administration.

00:39:35.000 I think it was about 200-something million dollars with billions of dollars we had to pay for.

00:39:41.000 I don't want to see that happen again.

00:39:43.000 I don't want what's taking place in Chicago or in Denver, Los Angeles, Houston.

00:39:48.000 I don't want to see it take place again.

00:39:50.000 Let's fix our immigration system. 1.00

00:39:52.000 Anything other than that, I'm not interested in that conversation.

00:39:55.000 I mean, he's right.

00:39:57.000 He's right.

00:39:58.000 It'd be amazing if Eric Adams, annoyed by the fact that he's being told that he couldn't talk turkey with turkey.

00:40:05.000 Actually flips into a Republican, and he becomes the first Republican mayor of New York City since Michael Bloomberg.

00:40:09.000 That would be, by the way, not totally out of the realm of possibility, considering the way things are going for him inside the Democratic Party.

00:40:15.000 Meanwhile, James Carville, who said that Kamala Harris was totally going to win, is now trying to say, I told you so, because he said the wokeness was not going to do them any favors. 0.97

00:40:23.000 We're not going to say, well, we're going to say we told you so.

00:40:26.000 We told you this identity was disaster.

00:40:30.000 We told you to get out in front of public safety issues.

00:40:32.000 You didn't.

00:40:33.000 You didn't.

00:40:34.000 We told you to have an open process and demonstrate the magnificent and staggering and deep talent that exists in the modern democratic party.

00:40:42.000 You didn't.

00:40:43.000 We told you to differentiate yourself from Biden.

00:40:46.000 You didn't.

00:40:47.000 I hate to be surprised I know it all, but all of these things are part of the record.

00:40:54.000 Well, I mean, he's right about that stuff.

00:40:56.000 And also, I'm wondering what this magical deep bench of talent they're talking about is.

00:41:00.000 Why are they so dispirited if they've got this incredible magical deep bench of talent that will no longer include Kamala Harris?

00:41:05.000 By the way, you know what's going to be hilarious?

00:41:07.000 When Kamala Harris becomes governor of California, which is what's going to happen next.

00:41:10.000 Get ready for it, guys.

00:41:11.000 You think she's totally going away?

00:41:12.000 She's here to haunt you.

00:41:12.000 She's not.

00:41:13.000 Like Hillary Clinton, she will never leave.

00:41:15.000 The thing about Democratic politicians, they never go away.

00:41:18.000 Ever, ever, ever.

00:41:19.000 So get ready for Kamala Harris to haunt our politics for years to come.

00:41:22.000 Again, she's not an old lady.

00:41:24.000 So, she could be around drinking wine and bothering everybody for decades. 1.00

00:41:27.000 Meanwhile, Kristen Gillibrand, who is the senator from New York, the junior senator from New York, Chuck Schumer is the senior senator, she's out there saying that she's going to invite Donald Trump to a superconductor factory.

00:41:36.000 Why, look at all the people who are ready to start working with Donald Trump now that he won.

00:41:40.000 I'm also going to invite President Trump to tour the semiconductor manufacturing in New York State so that he can see for himself that these are jobs that will last for decades and that we want to be competitive with China.

00:41:53.000 Something he said publicly many times, he wants to out-compete China.

00:41:56.000 New York's a way to do that.

00:41:57.000 So I'm going to be reaching across the aisle with this new administration to do things for the benefit of New York in every aspect I can, because that's my job.

00:42:06.000 I love this.

00:42:07.000 I love all the same people who are saying they're gonna work with Hitler now. 0.96

00:42:09.000 Remember he was Hitler and now they're gonna work with Hitler because Hitler won. 0.96

00:42:12.000 Or maybe he was never Hitler and you were lying the whole time.

00:42:15.000 Well meanwhile there's still people who are on the he's Hitler bandwagon. 0.77

00:42:18.000 That's most of the left-wingers in the media.

00:42:20.000 Sonny Hostin who has absolutely lost whatever was left of her mind.

00:42:23.000 She says that actually you should stop talking to any of your relatives who voted for Donald Trump.

00:42:28.000 Folks, you shouldn't stop talking to your relatives if they voted for Kamala Harris or if they voted for Donald Trump.

00:42:32.000 They're your relatives.

00:42:33.000 You shouldn't really do that.

00:42:34.000 But here's Sonny Hostin making the case that they are deplorables, irredeemables.

00:42:39.000 Keep going down this path, Democrats.

00:42:41.000 Really enjoy it.

00:42:42.000 Really marinate in it.

00:42:44.000 Truly.

00:42:45.000 I hope that you just steep in it.

00:42:47.000 Just go for it, man.

00:42:49.000 I completely understand her point because I really do feel that this candidate, President-elect Trump, is just a different type of candidate.

00:42:59.000 From the things he said and the things he's done and the things he will do, it's more of a moral issue for me.

00:43:06.000 And I think it's more of a moral issue for other people.

00:43:11.000 I would say it was different when, let's say, Bush got elected.

00:43:14.000 You know, you may not have agreed with his policies, but you didn't feel like he was a deeply flawed person, deeply flawed by character, deeply flawed in morality.

00:43:24.000 I think a lot of devs called him deeply flawed and humanized him.

00:43:29.000 They're very different figures.

00:43:30.000 I mean, you know, you along with Millie and along with John Kelly warned us about how deeply flawed he was as a candidate.

00:43:39.000 And so I think when people feel that someone voted not only against their families, but against them and against people that they loved, I think it's okay to take a beat.

00:43:50.000 Okay, really.

00:43:52.000 These people are filled with joy and happiness.

00:43:54.000 Some of the leftists, man, some of the least happy people in the world.

00:43:58.000 Speaking of joy, here was Joy Reid, just in a state of full-scale denial.

00:43:58.000 Some of the least joyous.

00:44:02.000 Don't worry, it's not a big deal.

00:44:03.000 It's not that big a majority.

00:44:04.000 Don't worry, everything's fine.

00:44:06.000 Okay, yeah, the copium is strong with this one.

00:44:10.000 Before you sink into despair, thinking Trump wants some sort of landslide or mandate, never forget that his so-called landslide is winning just slightly over 50% of the approximately 63% of eligible voters who bothered to turn out.

00:44:26.000 This was not a high turnout election, which is actually really unfortunate, because it turns out this was the election that really was the most important election of our lives.

00:44:38.000 Well, I mean, if you couldn't get your people out for the most important election of their lives, then what is that supposed to mean exactly?

00:44:44.000 I didn't see her using the same exact logic about Joe Biden in 2020 when he underperformed in the Senate and underperformed in the House and won a bare majority over Donald Trump.

00:44:54.000 The same thing was not apparent from Joy Reid, weirdly enough.

00:45:00.000 Meanwhile, every day is a wonderful day in Elon land.

00:45:03.000 This is perhaps my favorite story of the day.

00:45:05.000 So, there's a Saturday Night Live star who says that Elon Musk is very bad.

00:45:09.000 Why is Elon Musk very bad?

00:45:10.000 Because when he was on SNL, apparently he made her cry.

00:45:13.000 Not even kidding.

00:45:14.000 Here is Chloe Fineman talking about how he's a very bad, mean man who made her cry when she was on SNL. Okay, I just saw some news article about Elon Musk being, like, butthurt about SNL and his impression.

00:45:28.000 But I'm like...

00:45:30.000 You're clearly watching the show.

00:45:32.000 Like, what are you talking about?

00:45:34.000 And I'm like, you know what?

00:45:35.000 I'm going to come out and say at long last that I'm the cast member that he made cry and he's the host that made someone cry.

00:45:44.000 Maybe there's others.

00:45:46.000 But I saw some articles and stuff and I was like, I'm not going to say anything.

00:45:49.000 But I'm like, no, if you're going to like Go on your platform and be rude.

00:45:54.000 Like, guess what?

00:45:55.000 You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing the sketch.

00:46:02.000 I was so excited.

00:46:04.000 I came in, I asked if you had any questions and you stared at me like you were firing me from Tesla and were like, it's not funny.

00:46:14.000 I waited for you to be like, haha, JK. No.

00:46:17.000 Then you started pawing through my script, like flipping each page, being like, I didn't laugh.

00:46:22.000 I didn't laugh once, not one time.

00:46:25.000 Cut to the sketch made it on and it was like fine.

00:46:28.000 And I actually had a really good time and I thought you're really funny in it.

00:46:31.000 But, you know, have a little manners here, sir.

00:46:37.000 Um, I'm sorry that your sketch was unfunny.

00:46:42.000 You cried because you said your sketch was unfunny?

00:46:45.000 Like, I'm...

00:46:46.000 What?

00:46:50.000 Like, seriously, he came in and said your sketch was unfunny, and instead of you saying, okay, how can we make it funnier, you cried?

00:46:54.000 Because you stay up all night...

00:46:55.000 By the way, they stay up all night writing those sketches for SNL? Seriously?

00:46:59.000 Those crappy sketches take them all night? 1.00

00:47:01.000 I could write that crap in 3 minutes, 20 seconds. 1.00

00:47:03.000 Are you out of your mind? 1.00

00:47:05.000 ChatGPT could do a better job.

00:47:07.000 Musk wrote back, frankly, it was only on the Thursday before the Saturday that any of the sketches generated laughs.

00:47:12.000 I was worried. 0.98

00:47:12.000 I was like, my damn SNL appearance is going to be so effing unfunny, it will make a crackhead sober. 0.98

00:47:17.000 But then it worked out in the end. 0.99

00:47:22.000 Oh, Elon Musk.

00:47:24.000 Seth Dillon of the Babylon Bay, our friend, he said, she's a professional comedy writer who cries when someone doesn't think her jokes are funny.

00:47:29.000 That's funny.

00:47:31.000 Fair.

00:47:31.000 Fair from Seth Dillon.

00:47:33.000 Oh, goodness.

00:47:35.000 Enjoying the Elon Musk of all of this.

00:47:38.000 It's really, really enjoyable.

00:47:39.000 Already, folks, in just one second, we'll get to the continued riots in Amsterdam.

00:47:42.000 Remember that time it was the fault of soccer hooligans from Israel? 0.99

00:47:45.000 Yeah, not so much, as it turns out.

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