A man who still won t answer a question about how many times he beat his wife. President Trump invites foreign leaders to the Inauguration. Pam Bondi and Pete Hegseth are in hot water with the Justice Department. And Anna Paulina Luna, the congresswoman from Florida joins us to talk about it all.
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00:00:30.000Hey, welcome to the Wednesday podcast.
00:00:32.440Pete Hegseth had to sit in front of Senate committee yesterday.
00:00:35.580And of course, the Democrats used their questioning to attack him, including some bizarre hypotheticals from Tim Kaine.
00:00:42.340And some of the dumbest questions, do you like Doritos, from some really stupid people in the Senate.
00:00:48.760President Trump also sent some invites to foreign leaders to inauguration coming up on Monday.
00:00:55.180Who made the cut and who wasn't invited?
00:00:57.540And Anna Paulina Luna, the congresswoman from Florida, joins us to talk about Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth, what's coming up in the administration, what to watch for.
00:01:09.040And is there any news on the UAPs and the drones in New Jersey?
00:01:15.360Wait until you hear this all on today's podcast.
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00:10:59.160It also shows their hypocrisy of the whole democratic process thing they supposedly love so deeply and were trying to protect against Donald J.
00:12:27.560He is making it illegal for, let's say you're in the Palisades, and your house is now a bunch of rocks and rubble.
00:12:37.120He is making it illegal for people to offer to buy your home.
00:12:43.560Because he, in his view, at least this is the stated view, these are greedy developers who are going to come in and try to rip off these homeowners.
00:13:10.280Those people aren't going to be duped.
00:13:13.040And the ones that are 3.5 million probably are the ones that have been sitting there and cannot afford to move because of the taxes and everything else.
00:13:36.200What if you realize that Gavin Newsom is so terrible you want to exit the state?
00:13:41.220So now you're not going to get offers from people who might give you offers that you, like, let the person themselves judge their own situation as to whether it's a ripoff.
00:13:49.980So did you hear also about the ceiling on rentals, on the gouging?
00:14:35.220I will tell you, I mean, buying something and free speech, when I was 18 years old, I went to the Vatican and I was looking at the Sistine Chapel.
00:14:45.120And at the time, I was living in Texas, when Texas was Texas.
00:14:48.340And I looked at it and I just thought to myself, I know some Texan has come in here and go, all right, how much for the painting people up there?
00:17:47.080Okay, so first of all, you know, yesterday during the confirmation hearings, you know, Pete did incredible.
00:17:51.840They were trying to lock him into their sound clips or sound bites.
00:17:55.860But, you know, the one thing that I kept hearing from the Democrats was they were taking his comments out of contacts in regards to women in the military.
00:18:03.380So Pete never said that he didn't want women to serve in the military.
00:18:07.780But I have the same agreement in that there are certain roles that women should not be subjected to in the military, right?
00:18:14.320So in a lot of foreign countries, you'll see that there will be women-only sniper teams and or women-only teams that will see certain combat.
00:18:22.220Now, I preface this by saying that there has been a study that was done, and it showed that when women were placed in harm's way, that the natural instinct for men was to protect that woman.
00:18:57.000Instead of focusing on the mission as if it would be if there were just other men present, the men would then in turn go to protect that woman.
00:19:04.120And it could ultimately result in, A, more casualties, more people getting hurt, and then also jeopardize the success of the mission.
00:19:10.260And so I think when we're looking at, you know, military policy as a whole, we need to take these things into account and consideration.
00:19:18.860But, you know, it's very easy because Pete is a white male for them to try to demonize him and paint him as this anti-woman, you know, alcoholic womanizer, which is simply not the case.
00:19:29.800But the other thing and the reason why I wanted to show my support for him was, look, Pete is a Christian.
00:19:34.800He has the Jerusalem cross tattooed on him.
00:19:37.120That doesn't mean that he's a Nazi and that does not mean that he's a white nationalist.
00:19:40.200And so what I've been telling reporters is if Pete was so anti, you know, anti-minority, anti, you know, anything to do with what we stand for and values in this country, why would Jimmy Carter then have that same cross?
00:19:56.760Because they don't really have much of a response to that.
00:20:02.680Because I took from him yesterday something else about the military.
00:20:07.020I have no problem with women in the military, with an exception of the natural order of things where I think men I have to tell you, if if one of the guys was captured by, you know, Al Qaeda, I would do everything I can to make sure that one of members of my team, you know, we're safe and I do everything that we should do.
00:20:31.900However, it's different if I know that the woman member of our team has just been captured.
00:20:38.380I it takes on a different meaning to me because I know what's going to happen to her in compared to, you know, Tom or Tim.
00:20:44.600Uh, and I, I think that is a natural instinct that you cannot get rid of and you don't want to.
00:20:52.360The second thing that I think Pete was talking about is, and we saw this in the, um, the fire chief, uh, in, in, uh, Los Angeles where she said, you know, I, you know, I'll talk to people and they'll say, well, you can't lift my husband out of our burning house.
00:21:08.640And her response was, well, you know, he got himself into a place he shouldn't be.
00:21:26.620Um, I would say that there still is though, this aspect of psychology and certain situations where I don't, I don't think women should be placed.
00:21:35.020So, um, right now what we're seeing is, you know, and those are all great points, one, right?
00:21:40.180So the military standards currently is that there are different standards for women and for men.
00:21:44.960Um, that's just a fact, but there are also different requirements for different jobs, right?
00:21:49.680So like if you go in, for example, to be a firefighter, you're required to lift X amount, whether or not you're a man or a woman in the military.
00:21:56.240Um, but in that sense, I would say that when you're talking about conditions where you're living in the field, when you're talking about conditions,
00:22:04.600when you know that there is going to be a psychological aspect and component, it doesn't mean that women aren't, um, as good as men.
00:22:13.100I think that there's been cases and can be, or women can be better snipers than men are, um, you know, depending on, on what you're looking for job wise.
00:22:20.820But what I will say is, you know, as far as my perspective is concerned, I don't think women should be required to register for the draft.
00:22:28.760I know that Senate Democrats were pushing that in the NDIA.
00:22:31.900Um, and I also think that women should not be placed in certain combat roles in the military for those reasonings.
00:22:39.580Um, let me switch, uh, topics with you.
00:22:42.040Um, you were one of the biggest advocates for the UAP UFO disclosure.
00:22:46.760Any updates on, on that hearing, uh, the updates on the New Jersey drones and it, were you able to get David Grush into a SCIF and get a classified briefing?
00:23:02.380So I was not able to get Grush into a SCIF.
00:23:05.100In fact, they were blocking that by, uh, via not reactivating his security clearance.
00:23:10.000And so I'm hopeful with the new incoming administration, especially because as of right now, you know, Marco Rubio is going through his confirmation for secretary of state and I've been in the Senate, one of the big advocates and supporters of looking into UAPs, um, AKA UFOs, and then everything else associated with that.
00:23:29.020Um, now what I will say is that I've been grossly disappointed and disgusted by how the Biden administration handled what happened with the Chinese spy balloon, which to be clear is different than a UAP.
00:23:40.480But the fact is, is that some of these drones are likely tied to not just hobbyists, but also to probably more nefarious actors.
00:23:48.080And that even if we had that information available to share to the public, I don't believe that the Biden administration would have done that because of how I saw how they handled the, um, the drone.
00:24:00.640The balloon traversing the United States and collecting intelligence.
00:24:03.360Nonetheless, it was a Chinese intelligence operation.
00:24:06.600Um, you know, I had one of my colleagues, Van Drew, who actually made an omission on television that it was adversarial drones.
00:24:13.520And then you saw the Intel community come out and papoo it, but Van Drew would not just make something like that up.
00:24:19.160So you're seeing kind of this rift occur with the intelligence community and then people that do want the American people to simply know the case.
00:24:25.480Now, I think that this is probably a topic of longer discussion in regards to what a UAP is, but what's interesting, Glenn, and I know that you look at these things through a lens, as do I, um, as a Christian, first and foremost.
00:24:48.700And he kept calling these things interdimensional beings if we're specifically referencing UAPs.
00:24:53.940And so I think that that's just a lens in perspective to think about this from.
00:24:57.460I think that there's a lot, uh, you know, if you would have talked about this even 10 years ago, your political career would have been over.
00:25:03.460People would have said you were a conspiracy.
00:25:04.580I can tell you that this is probably the number one question I get no matter where I'm at in the country.
00:25:09.780People come up, they've seen the hearing, they appreciate it because everyone's curious.
00:25:15.000So let me, let me just, let me just follow that here just a little bit.
00:25:18.960The intern, um, interdimensional beings that could be spiritual, uh, that could be a quantum being any idea what he meant by that?
00:25:30.760You know, I actually tried to pull on that string and he did not want to go there.
00:25:36.100And then I can also tell you that when I was talking to him with a group of other legislators on the phone prior to the hearing, that he did make the omission that he was actually in fear of his life and that something had happened where they tried to kill him.
00:25:49.160So I don't know if that was associated, but he did not want to go into that any further.
00:25:55.060And so based on my investigation, based on what we were told in the hearing, I would say that it does not seem like it would be a good thing that he gave me the impression that this was nefarious.
00:26:06.400And so take that for what it's worth, um, if interdimensional, I think quantum could be, you know, right on the same page there.
00:26:15.880So it is so bizarre that this kind of stuff is happening and we're not being told, uh, Donald Trump said that he would talk about the drones on Tuesday.
00:26:27.320He said, give me a day to get settled in office.
00:26:30.100And he said, I'll find out the drones and I'll tell the American people.
00:26:33.340Um, should we know if that's China, should we know the American people?
00:26:39.240I think that it would be well within his wheelhouse.
00:26:42.480And I think that he wants the American people to start to trust their elected officials.
00:26:47.160This goes so much deeper than just having someone in the white house that's on your side.
00:26:52.140Because we know that, and from what I've gathered, remember I've been, has been bipartisan and bicameral, meaning the Senate, the house and Democrats and Republicans have all been working on this together to get some answers and information.
00:27:04.600And there is a certain level of stove typing that we've seen with information.
00:27:08.320And then also to the aspect of I, as a sitting member of Congress who sit on oversight and foreign affairs was denied access by a general at Eglin Air Force Base to whom I responded, who gives you the right and authority to tell a duly elected member and group of congressmen that they don't have access to a program that we write the damn checks for.
00:27:26.620You have no authority to deny us access.
00:27:29.260And so that conversation, um, probably was not comfortable for that general.
00:27:57.280He literally got up and left in the middle of the meeting, said he had orders to go TDY to the state of Georgia and he never came back.
00:28:03.200Are you, are you concerned at all about some of the conversations?
00:28:08.140We just saw another, uh, video from James O'Keefe, uh, where he's talking to somebody who was, I think he claimed to be in the FBI, said he and others were meeting with generals to make sure that, uh, they had a control on Donald Trump.
00:28:23.480Are, are you, are you confident at all this time around, uh, Donald Trump's going to be able to route that?
00:28:33.220And I say that has to do a lot with the confirmation of the secretary of defense, you know, top down last time when president Trump was office in office, I think that there was a lot of trust in people to do the right thing.
00:28:45.620And then he realized that the deep state was real and there were people that were just running, uh, regardless of whether or not he was a Republican and whether they were Republicans or not, that they were working against his agenda because they didn't like what he stood for.
00:28:56.600Um, but now what we're finding is there is going to be a group set up to go through these generals that a discharge military members based on vaccinations and boards.
00:29:07.500But the fact is, is that if you are a general and you're pushing wokeness ideologies, or you're trying to undermine the objective of the commander in chief, you have no place in the department of defense period.
00:29:19.660And I look forward to that because I can just tell you from a congressional perspective, Glenn, I actually had an amendment in the national defense authorization act to remove DEI from military training.
00:29:29.600And I have friends still in the military.
00:29:31.820And so someone at Ramstein air base actually sent me an email of a officer there that was directly undermining what we did at the congressional level saying, Congress has removed DEI.