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00:00:03.000We'll bring you all the latest winning because, let me just say, Donald Trump's selections thus far, 10 out of 10, not 9 out of 10, like 10 out of 10.
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00:00:25.000So, the insiders are going insane because some of Donald Trump's new picks are quite controversial and controversially awesome.
00:00:33.000So, my favorite pick of the day yesterday.
00:00:35.000And Trump is rolling out these picks unbelievably fast.
00:00:37.000Remember, the election just happened last week.
00:00:40.000The 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.
00:00:50.000Yesterday, he rolled out Pete Hegseth, Army veteran and Fox News host, as his choice for Secretary of Defense.
00:00:56.000And the usual suspects are going absolutely insane.
00:00:59.000I think perhaps my favorite response has come courtesy of Politico, which is losing it over the fact that Pete Hegseth is an outsider.
00:01:07.000So, for example, they put out a piece saying that it's all about how the defense industry, the defense industry lobbyists, are very upset.
00:01:28.000The people who have been running our defense apparatus for nigh on to decades at this point have done a horrendous job.
00:01:34.000The Department of Defense has been signally responsible for the worst botched pullout in American history and Afghanistan.
00:01:42.000A completely failed response to terrorism by the Houthis in the Red Sea.
00:01:46.000A completely weak response to Russian invasion of Ukraine.
00:01:50.000That's what the Department of Defense has done.
00:01:51.000They've burdened the Department of Defense with a bunch of woke nonsense.
00:01:54.000Plus, they have not actually built to spec, meaning that they are not interested in the next war.
00:01:59.000They just keep building for the last war.
00:02:01.000There needs to be a tremendous overhaul inside the Pentagon, and Pete Hegseth is the guy to do that.
00:02:07.000You can sense it from all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth from all the right people.
00:02:13.000Apparently, Elizabeth Warren is super upset.
00:02:16.000Elizabeth 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.
00:03:25.000It 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.
00:03:35.000And 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.
00:03:45.000Tell me what the end state is in Ukraine.
00:03:47.000I could tell you what the end state is in Israel.
00:03:49.000And what's the only thing the American military and the American diplomats are doing right now?
00:03:54.000Trying to stop Israel from finishing the fight.
00:03:56.000Like, there's one thing that Israel could do.
00:03:58.000Kill every last one of those Hamas mothers now, and then the war stops.
00:04:04.000And, by the way, Israel didn't start it.
00:05:08.000Also, again, he literally wrote the book on de-woking the military.
00:05:11.000Here he is, for example, discussing reforming U.S. military leadership.
00:05:16.000Any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever, that was involved in any of the DEI woke s*** has got to go.
00:05:23.000Either you're in for warfighting, and that's it.
00:05:26.000That's the only litmus test we care about.
00:05:29.000You'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.
00:05:36.000And then, you know, whatever the standards, whatever the combat standards were, say, in, I don't know, 1995, let's just make those standards.
00:05:43.000And 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.
00:07:01.000Many 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.
00:07:07.000Everyone 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.
00:07:16.000That'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.
00:07:22.000Well, the military bureaucracy is what prevents the United States military from adapting, from innovating, from being quick and responsive.
00:07:29.000Wiping all of that out would be great.
00:07:31.000I mean, again, I'm gonna listen to people who think that Rachel Levine ought to be an admiral.
00:07:36.000Like, the dude who says he's Rachel Levine ought to be an admiral.
00:08:21.000Again, one of the reasons he's doing this is because of this executive order.
00:08:24.000According 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.
00:08:37.000If Trump approves the order, it could fast-track the removal of generals and admirals found to be, quote, lacking in requisite leadership qualities.
00:08:43.000Again, I don't understand what the left is so afraid of about this.
00:08:46.000I 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?
00:09:00.000A Secretary of Defense who literally went AWOL for like a week and nobody knew where the hell he was?
00:09:05.000I'm also amused to hear many of the people who are ripping on Pete Hegseth's credentials.
00:09:10.000These are the same people who thought that Pete Buttigieg should be Secretary of Transportation because he likes trains.
00:09:15.000Literally, those were his qualifications.
00:09:19.000Apparently, 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.
00:09:32.000As 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.
00:09:43.000Again, that is good, and Pete Hegseth helping to oversee that will be excellent.
00:09:48.000By the way, he should be appointing people to Secretary of the Navy.
00:09:52.000I would recommend somebody like Mike Gallagher.
00:09:53.000Mike Gallagher would be an excellent candidate for Secretary of the Navy, the former Republican representative from Wisconsin, who's also a military man.
00:10:01.000And we need to update our Navy more than any other branch of the American military.
00:10:05.000The Navy needs a complete facelift and an update.
00:10:10.000This is all very good, what is happening right now.
00:10:13.000And let's be real, a lot of positivity out there.
00:10:16.000For those of us holding our breath these past several months, we can finally exhale and get to work on the major issues facing the country.
00:10:20.000One of the most significant issues is the national debt.
00:10:22.000Of course, that fact is, and this is important, our nation is broke.
00:10:26.000Debt is a house of cards that simply cannot be quickly dismantled.
00:10:30.000For as long as the economy sits on top of that house of cards, the strategy remains the same.
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00:11:16.000Also, every single month, millions of Americans hand over their hard-earned money to landlords, getting absolutely nothing in return except a place to live.
00:11:22.000What if I told you there is a logical solution to this financial inefficiency?
00:12:30.000And Ratcliffe, he called a warrior for truth and honesty.
00:12:34.000Trump has credited him with exposing fake Russian collusion in the House.
00:12:39.000He 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?
00:12:47.000He was the DNI, replacing Dan Coates, who resigned after a tenure mark by friction, with Trump.
00:12:51.000Ratcliffe focused heavily on the threat from China.
00:12:55.000Ratcliffe is going to come in and again, he's going to clean house.
00:12:57.000And 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.
00:13:30.000He misunderstood the lethality and the evil nature of the Iranian regime.
00:13:35.000And 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.
00:13:53.000We should be assisting Israel in doing so.
00:13:56.000But 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.
00:14:28.000A 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.
00:14:59.000The documents were prepared by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, which analyzes images and information collected by US spy satellites.
00:15:05.000It conducts work in support of clandestine and military operations.
00:15:08.000The information in the documents is highly classified and details interpretation of satellite imagery that shed light on a possible strike by Israel on Iran.
00:15:15.000They began circulating last month on the Telegram app.
00:15:18.000Court 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.
00:15:27.000I 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.
00:15:44.000Those were not the only appointments yesterday.
00:16:33.000And 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.
00:16:43.000The areas that Israel is building end up being economic hotspots.
00:16:46.000They end up being places of democracy and freedom.
00:16:48.000And that's the Palestinian Authority that has declined its entire population into a horrible situation in the West Bank.
00:16:55.000Here's Mike Huckabee talking about this.
00:17:25.000Meanwhile, the president has also announced that William McGinley will be the White House counsel.
00:17:29.000He was, of course, in the first administration for Trump as the White House cabinet secretary.
00:17:35.000So, 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.
00:17:42.000He 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.
00:17:51.000He'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.
00:17:58.000He was the general counsel at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, too.
00:18:05.000Speaking 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.
00:18:22.000Smith 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.
00:18:30.000Prosecutors and FBI agents on his team were reportedly told to leave over the course of the next few weeks.
00:18:36.000So 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.
00:18:48.000Meanwhile, the other big announcement yesterday in terms of staffing.
00:18:51.000Apparently, 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.
00:19:12.000He and Elon will make an amazing team in going through and vetoing all of the government spending initiatives that they can.
00:19:19.000According 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.
00:19:29.000Trump 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.
00:19:39.000And if I know Elon Musk, I assume that the first recommended cut will be in the $69 billion realm.
00:19:44.000The group's mandate is to streamline government bureaucracy, the president-elect said.
00:19:49.000Now, Doge will operate outside the federal government.
00:19:51.000They're going to be working with the White House Office of Management and Budget to implement their recommendations.
00:19:55.000Now, again, they're not going to have any statutory authority, at least so far.
00:19:58.000They're going to make recommendations as to cuts, and those recommendations are going to be completely transparent, according to Elon Musk.
00:20:05.000Trump gave Musk and Ramaswamy a deadline of July 4th, 2026 to complete their work.
00:20:11.000Musk is not going to become an official government employee, which makes sense.
00:20:14.000Why 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.
00:20:20.000Trump 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.
00:20:27.000I am confident that they will succeed.
00:20:32.000It 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.
00:20:41.000By the way, the business community is over the moon about this administration.
00:20:44.000Over the moon about this administration.
00:21:17.000Business confidence, says Bill Ackman, is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
00:21:20.000Business leaders are becoming more confident about the country and the economy.
00:21:23.000This 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.
00:21:34.000Merger 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.
00:21:42.000M&A will drive efficiency, greater profitability, and growth.
00:21:44.000It will also enable the return of capital to investors who will seek to redeploy their profits and proceeds in new investment opportunities.
00:21:50.000The Doge and deregulation will drive government efficiency and make America a vastly better and lower risk place to do business efficiently and effectively.
00:21:58.000I'm also hearing about non-U.S. companies that are desperate to immediately create a presence on U.S. soil.
00:22:02.000They are frightened to be locked out of the most important economy in the world.
00:22:04.000They 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.
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00:23:38.000Also, who actually wants to deal with the hassle of selling a car?
00:23:40.000Have you actually like looked outside your house?
00:23:42.000You see that car that you haven't driven for a while because the engine in great shape and it costs more to fix it than it is to get rid of it.
00:23:48.000If you have a car that's just sitting in your driveway, taking up space, you really should consider donating it to Cars for Kids.
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00:25:04.000All he cares about is the level of economic success.
00:25:06.000What that means is that he's not going to heedlessly run directly into the teeth of a tariff-driven inflation.
00:25:13.000He'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.
00:25:21.000Apparently, 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.
00:25:28.000Lighthizer is a key advisor to Trump and helped implement his tariff policies during his first term in office.
00:25:33.000Now, Trump wants him to be a czar, which would likely give Lighthizer oversight of trade policy across the administration.
00:25:39.000That 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.
00:25:48.000It'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.
00:25:56.000These are really good people that he is putting in place.
00:26:00.000Meanwhile, we're already seeing the beneficial effects of some of his picks.
00:26:04.000Tom Homan, will you recall, is the border czar.
00:26:35.000By 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.
00:26:51.000Meanwhile, Democrats are in a state of absolute disarray.
00:26:55.000Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are not getting along.
00:26:57.000Plus, Joe Biden is in a state of complete mental deterioration.
00:27:00.000Yesterday, Joe Biden was asked about whether there would be a hostage deal between Hamas and Israel.
00:27:06.000Listen to this doddering old fool be completely unable to even respond.
00:27:11.000President Biden, do you think that you can get a hostage deal by the end of your term?
00:28:14.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:28:22.000Here is Karine Jean-Pierre, soon to be the ex-press secretary.
00:28:27.000We know that today, a week after the election, President Biden and Vice President Harris had a private lunch.
00:29:15.000They communicate with each other regularly.
00:29:19.000They 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.
00:29:39.000So 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?
00:29:52.000How 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.
00:30:09.000So they literally paid off the interviewer, apparently.
00:30:11.000The 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.
00:30:21.000Harris's campaign gave two payments of $250,000 each to National Action Network on September 5th and October 1st, according to campaign finance records.
00:30:29.000And then, on October 3rd, Sharpton aired a video of Harris wishing him happy birthday on his MSNBC weekend show.
00:30:36.000And then he conducted a glowing interview with her on October 20th.
00:30:40.000Man, Al Sharpton, that dude always gets his taste, doesn't he?
00:30:43.000I mean, you know, honestly, good for him.
00:30:45.000Seriously, that is a dude who uses every bit of leverage he can to enrich himself.
00:30:49.000And I guess, you know, that is the way to do it in Democratic circles.
00:30:53.000Meanwhile, Democrats have a bunch of systemic problems on their hands.
00:30:58.000Is that the number of split-party Senate delegations has been steadily shrinking since about 1965.
00:31:04.000If 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.
00:31:38.000And 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.
00:31:44.000Arizona went for Donald Trump by five points.
00:31:46.000If they ran some good candidates in Arizona, there's little doubt in my mind that that state also flips back red.
00:31:51.000So you'd be talking about 26 states that are Republican in orientation in the Senate, which is 52 seats, which is a majority.
00:31:58.000Right now, just 22 states are pure Democrat blue states.
00:32:04.000Again, these are signs that bode ill for Democrats.
00:32:08.000Meanwhile, the New York Times is reporting that black voters are asking, quote, what have Democrats done for us?
00:32:13.000Well, 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.
00:32:21.000Quote, in the final weeks of the campaign, many Democrats hoped signs of crumbling support among black voters would not materialize at the polls.
00:32:27.000There's an expectation that Trump's baggage would be poisonous as he was heavily criticized for trying to discredit Ms.
00:32:32.000Harris's racial identity, spreading vicious disinformation about Haitians eating pets, and accusing immigrants of taking quote-unquote black jobs.
00:32:38.000Now again, all of those stories didn't make one bit of difference.
00:32:41.000They didn't make one bit of difference.
00:32:42.000Because 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.
00:32:54.000There are many, many interviews that were done on air that suggested just that.
00:32:58.000Meanwhile, as far as eating the dogs and eating the cats, that just became a meme.
00:33:10.000And as far as accusing immigrants of taking black jobs, you want to talk about a manufactured media nonsense story.
00:33:15.000Democrats talk about black jobs all the time.
00:33:18.000But if Trump mentions it's racist now, Well, the reality is that many, many black voters are moving away from this.
00:33:26.000Some of the voters, namely working class black men, said they doubted their circumstances would fundamentally change regardless of who won.
00:33:32.000The 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.
00:33:43.000The 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.
00:33:53.000That'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.
00:34:02.000Some of the most heavily populated areas in terms of demographically black areas in the country have been run like just a horror show.
00:34:10.000Many 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.
00:34:19.000Many of the welfare programs Democrats designed were implicitly designed to break up families.
00:34:23.000Of course people are looking around and asking, why are these cities governed like trash?
00:34:27.000It is worse to live in a major American city today than it was 20 years ago.
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00:35:14.000Okay, meanwhile, Democrats again tearing each other apart.
00:35:18.000Apparently they're now angry at Hakeem Jeffries, which is hilarious because he's one of the potential leaders of the Democratic Party.
00:35:23.000According 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.
00:35:32.000Jeffries' 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.
00:35:40.000If 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.
00:35:47.000But 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.
00:35:55.000Now again, going after Hakeem Jeffries, do it.
00:35:58.000I'd love to see you guys tear each other apart.
00:36:02.000Outgoing Progressive Caucus Chairman Pramila Jayapal on Monday appeared to question Democratic leadership's willingness to work with Republicans over the last two years.
00:36:09.000Quote, 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.
00:36:20.000So she is going to be taking on Hakeem Jeffries, which is just absolutely delicious.
00:36:25.000Again, fun to watch the Democrats ripping each other apart.
00:36:28.000By the way, speaking of Pramila Jayapal, you want to talk about somebody who's just incredibly dishonest.
00:36:33.000Pramila Jayapal, who is a progressive nutcase from the state of Washington.
00:36:37.000She was asked about getting rid of the filibuster now because she had been advocating for it before.
00:36:41.000And people are like, well, okay, well, you're still in favor of that now that Republicans control both the House and the Senate.
00:37:01.000And 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.
00:37:13.000So I guess the idea here is everything for my friends, the law for my enemies, is sort of like constitutionalism for my enemies.
00:37:20.000But if it were me, I would be able to do whatever I want.
00:37:24.000All 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?
00:37:32.000Democrats were discussing getting rid of the filibuster, packing the Supreme Court, adding states willy-nilly, changing the structure of voting in the United States.
00:37:39.000Republicans are like, yeah, no, these institutions, they're pretty good.
00:37:43.000I wonder who's the actual threat to democracy.
00:37:46.000Meanwhile, a kind of hilarious battle went on on the floor of the Senate.
00:37:50.000Chuck 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.
00:37:56.000Mitch McConnell then turned around and slapped Chuck Schumer.
00:38:28.000And 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?
00:38:36.000Thus far, I've been encouraged by the lack of baseless speculation that Tuesday's decisive result was influenced in any way by foreign interference.
00:38:46.000Washington Democrats appear to recognize that they're on the losing side of a legitimate, crystal clear mandate.
00:38:57.000Meanwhile, Democrats again trying to figure out, are they going to go moderate or are they not?
00:39:00.000So, 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.
00:39:07.000Eric Adams points out, we have a broken immigration system and it needs to be fixed.
00:39:12.000The voters communicated loudly and clearly.
00:39:58.000It'd be amazing if Eric Adams, annoyed by the fact that he's being told that he couldn't talk turkey with turkey.
00:40:05.000Actually flips into a Republican, and he becomes the first Republican mayor of New York City since Michael Bloomberg.
00:40:09.000That 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.
00:40:15.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:40:23.000We're not going to say, well, we're going to say we told you so.
00:40:26.000We told you this identity was disaster.
00:40:30.000We told you to get out in front of public safety issues.
00:40:34.000We told you to have an open process and demonstrate the magnificent and staggering and deep talent that exists in the modern democratic party.
00:41:24.000So, she could be around drinking wine and bothering everybody for decades.
00:41:27.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:41:36.000Why, look at all the people who are ready to start working with Donald Trump now that he won.
00:41:40.000I'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.
00:41:53.000Something he said publicly many times, he wants to out-compete China.
00:41:57.000So 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.
00:42:49.000I completely understand her point because I really do feel that this candidate, President-elect Trump, is just a different type of candidate.
00:42:59.000From 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.
00:43:06.000And I think it's more of a moral issue for other people.
00:43:11.000I would say it was different when, let's say, Bush got elected.
00:43:14.000You 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.
00:43:24.000I think a lot of devs called him deeply flawed and humanized him.
00:43:30.000I mean, you know, you along with Millie and along with John Kelly warned us about how deeply flawed he was as a candidate.
00:43:39.000And 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.
00:44:06.000Okay, yeah, the copium is strong with this one.
00:44:10.000Before 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.
00:44:26.000This 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.
00:44:38.000Well, 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?
00:44:44.000I 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.
00:44:54.000The same thing was not apparent from Joy Reid, weirdly enough.
00:45:00.000Meanwhile, every day is a wonderful day in Elon land.
00:45:03.000This is perhaps my favorite story of the day.
00:45:05.000So, there's a Saturday Night Live star who says that Elon Musk is very bad.
00:45:14.000Here 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.
00:47:24.000Seth 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.