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00:00:00.000 hello everybody and welcome to the great america show it's great to have you with us thanks so

00:00:06.540 much for joining us today folks it's a day we've all been waiting for for a very very long time

00:00:11.640 45 becomes 47 my opinion he's 45 46 and 47 uh if you want to look back at that 2020 election that

00:00:20.000 was uh allegedly won by joe biden uh there's so much on the agenda for president trump today

00:00:25.840 there's so much on the agenda for him for the next four years uh president trump set to kick off his

00:00:30.820 day after being inaugurated um executive order time 100 executive orders on the docket some are even

00:00:39.100 saying 200 president trump not going to bed until he signs those is what we're hearing among them

00:00:45.580 dei uh keeping men out of women's bathrooms um anchor babies babies born here in america to 1.00

00:00:54.040 illegal parents are not citizens uh all common sense things folks that uh would be common sense 1.00

00:01:00.120 to you and i but weren't so common to the marxist democrats who have sought to ruin this country 0.90

00:01:04.940 over the last four years and sought to ruin this country over the last a century a quarter century

00:01:09.720 you pick a timeline they've always been in favor of destruction of this country and the uh the 0.83

00:01:16.340 wonderful fabrics that hold it together um but we could all sleep well going to sleep tonight

00:01:22.120 knowing that donald j trump is back in his rightful place on pennsylvania avenue in the great white

00:01:29.020 house with his beautiful family um this was a time that was a long time coming a long time in the

00:01:35.860 making and as i say it's just a truly truly remarkable that we're back here that uh i'm at a loss of words

00:01:44.460 but i want to bring in our guest today who's got some words he's a brilliant brilliant brilliant

00:01:49.160 gop strategist and pollster john mclaughlin john thanks so much for joining us here on this uh

00:01:55.840 monumental day i think is probably the best way to describe uh what we've waited for now here for

00:02:01.240 the last four years at least i have i know you're really non-partisan and all that good stuff but

00:02:05.600 i've been waiting for the last four years for the return of donald j trump john give me your thoughts

00:02:11.000 as you're sitting here in your hotel room in washington dc

00:02:14.660 getting ready uh for the new trump administration right and by the way on a personal note one person

00:02:22.880 who would be particularly happy happy today is lou dobbs oh yeah our friend our great friend and this

00:02:28.820 was the day that he you know he loved and he's probably he knows and uh i'm sure his wife debbie's

00:02:34.460 very happy and uh it's a great day it's a big change for america and the thing

00:02:39.300 the thing about the way things are in the country we took a poll in december that we released

00:02:44.940 and uh the the vast majority of americans 66 percent thought the country was on the wrong track

00:02:51.280 so biden's leaving trump a mess i mean when you look at it they said the economy was getting worse

00:02:56.620 not better 55 37 84 percent negatively impacted by inflation 48 to the point where they're having

00:03:04.460 trouble making ends meet so you've got donald trump's being sworn in today and joe biden leaving

00:03:11.260 him a big mess pardoning everybody that was an accomplice on major things and donald trump has to

00:03:17.940 restore the credibility and integrity to the government and then grapple with high inflation

00:03:24.100 open borders uh crime rising across america trying to end endless wars the gaza terrorists 0.97

00:03:31.920 hamás have decided to give back three hostages in exchange for a ceasefire so they can regroup

00:03:37.800 and get billions of dollars in aid for america and they're still holding 91 other hostages or bodies

00:03:45.100 at this point and donald trump has to solve these problems whether it's iran china russia and the russia

00:03:51.060 ukraine war i mean he's it's he proved that he politically he's superhuman in terms of

00:03:58.240 what he did in the political campaign nobody's ever come the adversity he's overcome nobody's ever

00:04:04.860 withstood uh a challenge where not only were they trying to beat you in the election they tried to

00:04:11.000 impeach him twice they tried to then indict him take away his wealth take away his right to free speech

00:04:16.700 take away his right to be on the ballot um and try to put him in jail to stop him from being president

00:04:22.880 and thanks to the american people none of those tactics worked and he won the popular vote and swept

00:04:29.640 the battleground states and we prior to that we won the republican primary in crushing fashion like no

00:04:35.660 other republican in history has ever done and not only didn't it work john it completely backfired in my

00:04:41.420 opinion i mean man shot at once another assassination attempt set up god only knows how many other 0.99

00:04:47.260 assassination attempts there were that we didn't learn about because this government is so damn 0.94

00:04:51.280 corrupt um but against all odds i mean the man's a convicted felon was sent down to georgia mug shotted 0.87

00:04:57.960 fingerprinted like he was some sort of criminal um and every step of the way john he found a way

00:05:04.140 to overcome the adversity of it it sounds so crazy to say that it it sounds so insane to say that this

00:05:11.020 man had to overcome adversity adversity but he did and every time john you know this man for a very

00:05:17.080 long time far more than i know him every single time they threw the kitchen sink at him this man

00:05:23.620 threw back the tub i mean like i said mugshot he sold mugshots after they came up on his image they

00:05:30.320 came and said we don't want cameras in the court we want cameras in the courtroom trump says yeah i want

00:05:34.640 them in the courtroom i want america to see this democrats no no no we don't want them in the courtroom

00:05:37.940 anymore get them out of the courtroom it was time and time again that he beat them at their own game

00:05:43.840 how do you think donald trump feels uh today of all days oh i just saw him when he uh greeted

00:05:50.980 president biden and joe biden at the white house with melania he uh sent him home and i think there's

00:05:56.480 a sense of relief i mean when you you you you i listed all the political things but let me tell you

00:06:02.160 by the grace of god he survived two assassination attempts and one where they clipped his ear

00:06:06.320 and uh you know it didn't change any of the polls we were ahead we've been ahead ever since biden

00:06:12.100 triggered inflation and uh you know surrendered afghanistan from september 21 you could go to our

00:06:18.660 website mcglobalonline.com you could go back on all the lou dob shows and your show where we talked

00:06:25.560 about this where we said trump was ahead in the popular vote and he was ahead in the popular vote

00:06:29.980 before he debated uh joe biden and crushed him he was ahead in the popular vote uh going into the

00:06:36.300 convention coming out of the convention when harris when biden dropped out pick harris to

00:06:42.660 replace him he was ahead he was ahead in september he was ahead after the their only debate and he

00:06:47.500 led all through october and uh the american people want change they look at what's wrong with the

00:06:52.860 country they look at all the problems we have and they want him to succeed and uh fortunately we have

00:06:59.240 some majorities but majorities where uh we can get things passed in the house and the senate and they

00:07:05.420 have to focus on that the challenge is really ahead we have an opportunity you know the funny thing

00:07:11.040 john the silver lining in all this is you often see the republicans fight we saw the republicans fight

00:07:16.380 when it came to the mccarthy ousting uh mike johnson is speaker byron donald's a speaker no it's jim

00:07:22.520 jordan a speaker no it's gonna be donald trump a speaker we saw i mean perhaps one of the biggest

00:07:26.920 messes we've ever seen the republican party uh just about a year ago and uh you know i don't know i

00:07:33.460 didn't know if it was going to hurt the party i like to think it didn't and now i know it didn't

00:07:37.140 but you know at the time i was a little nervous a little hesitant we have this big presidential

00:07:40.900 election coming up and uh and the republicans may be shooting themselves in the foot but it turns out

00:07:46.420 not now john for the first time i think in a long time at least in my lifetime we saw fighting

00:07:52.360 happening after this election with the democrats joe bison clearly didn't want to leave kamala

00:07:58.120 pushed him off the cliff chuck schumer nancy pelosi all doing the same thing uh apparently 0.53

00:08:04.860 joe biden endorsed kamala harris so quickly because he knew she was going to get killed by 1.00

00:08:08.960 donald trump and he wanted to you know say all right this is what you guys want this is what i'm

00:08:13.320 going to give you and you had told us time and time again if donald trump goes up against kamala this

00:08:18.000 was when joe biden was in the race and like you said go back and listen he would kill kamala worse

00:08:22.240 and he'd beat joe biden oh what do you would you say to joe biden i mean looking at the the poor man

00:08:28.820 i don't mean poor man but what he was done to him was completely wrong for any political party it's

00:08:33.820 not something you see in america he brought it out himself i mean president trump is right he's the most 0.84

00:08:39.240 he's the worst president in history the united states he's also the most corrupt he's probably the

00:08:45.000 most corrupt president in terms of he's pardoning people on his way out there were part of his 0.80

00:08:50.640 administration part of his his plots against donald trump that january 6th committee where he tried

00:08:56.700 to stifle political opposition i mean joe biden makes warren harding look like mother theresa

00:09:03.620 with the corruption from his family the corruption from the scandals he pardoned his son for for uh to

00:09:10.580 protect the family i mean it's just it's it's ridiculous he was he you know they i mean there's still

00:09:16.380 unaccountability for the i i i think it was uh congressman commerce committee said there's 25

00:09:23.960 billion million 25 million dollars in payments to the biden family from the time he was president until

00:09:29.780 you know during while he was out of office etc before he got back into office from

00:09:34.240 foreign governments china romania ukraine i mean and and and uh foreign corporations and and uh

00:09:43.760 uh but it's like you know we've got to sweep all that out and uh donald trump is going to issue an

00:09:50.280 executive order i read a report where he's going to issue an executive order and the 51 intelligence

00:09:54.780 uh leaders who in 2020 signed that that uh uh signed that letter saying that the hunter biden laptop that

00:10:05.680 we know is true and valid now it was evidence that it was uh russian disinformation he's taken away

00:10:11.980 their their security clearances and i think that's only a start i mean you have people like john brennan

00:10:16.340 the cia you have others who were who basically lied to the american people to help joe biden win the

00:10:23.600 election and uh you know that cost us the election back in 2020 on election day we did a poll 36 percent

00:10:30.580 of the biden voters were not aware of the hunter biden laptop uh issue and if they had been they would

00:10:36.180 enough votes would have switched that trump would have won and the reason they didn't know was

00:10:41.880 because they censored uh the new york post they censored any media outlet facebook um twitter at

00:10:49.420 the time they censored any discussion of that fact uh and that was a scary moment in american history and

00:10:56.100 that cost us the election uh more so than anything else and more so than any other uh thing that they did

00:11:03.100 yeah i mean you can go down the list but it was also the changing of voting laws in states like

00:11:08.800 pennsylvania which we didn't see happen this time around but i think their reign is over their reign 0.72

00:11:13.600 of terror is over but for these pardons i it's just mind-blowing to me mark milley if mark milley did

00:11:20.160 nothing wrong he shouldn't need a pardon and what people don't know is you a lot of people don't know

00:11:24.340 you have to accept the pardon you don't just get a pardon and it goes out of the wayside you have to

00:11:28.520 accept this pardon so to see liz cheney uh dr anthony fauci it's so so so sickening to me

00:11:36.760 that this man what he did to this country john what he did to him the american people for for a year and

00:11:43.240 a half two years with his six foot rule with the mask rule what he did to kids john who were never

00:11:47.980 going to develop normally uh in social settings because of taking them out of schools what he did

00:11:53.140 to businesses that had to close based on no science i mean how do you ever recover from this

00:11:58.580 and how do you look at the american people in the eye john and say it's okay what you did let bygones

00:12:03.500 be guy guns you may be a criminal uh you were maybe going to be investigated but go ahead be free i mean

00:12:10.200 i mean joe biden tried to run the country like he ran delaware like a mafia done yeah that kind of

00:12:15.400 corruption and uh the biden crime family tried to extend over america and the american people revolted in

00:12:22.120 spite of the suppression uh they beat them in spite of the media acquiescence that they said

00:12:26.960 they knew he was a failing president and uh the media has lost the mainstream media has lost all

00:12:32.300 credibility which is why podcasts like yours and and others are doing very well because people want

00:12:38.000 the truth and they know the truth and something you mentioned earlier was also a point about the

00:12:42.960 democratic party they're in shambles two years ago really three to two years ago uh dick morris who's

00:12:49.700 the person who introduced me for donald trump in 2011 when he first thought of running against

00:12:55.020 barack obama and we put together a campaign plan for him spent a month and he decided

00:12:59.560 to pass on that election but he saved it for 2015 um we had a three years ago we had a plan

00:13:07.240 to broaden his coalition so that we could create a uh you know a majority party and we're and it's still

00:13:14.840 in progress all we did was rent these voters in the last election but we we have a very solid base

00:13:21.480 trump's base is solid with them but we did polls where we looked at african-american voters hispanic

00:13:27.440 voters uh suburban women and younger voters and trump made progress in all those groups i mean he won

00:13:33.640 21 of the african-american vote he won 46 of the uh uh hispanic vote historic number better than any

00:13:42.440 republican ever before he won uh uh increased shares he won the suburbs he won increased air as

00:13:48.020 a suburban and he won a great share of younger voters who were sick of the lockdowns and take

00:13:53.380 the lack of freedom that that happened during covid and the lack of economic opportunities that they were

00:13:59.440 facing in terms of getting better paying jobs inflation undercutting them in terms of uh

00:14:05.920 uh their prospects for even trying to buy a car or a home right so uh uh so trump worked on that and

00:14:12.820 uh you know the voters said they're going to give him a chance to do that and winning the campaign

00:14:18.960 may have been tough uh but uh dealing with the government of washington it's going to be even

00:14:25.960 more of a challenge he's got he's got four years to do it but you really have to have a very successful

00:14:30.520 first few months yeah yeah you're absolutely right and that relies on the speaker of the house

00:14:34.340 i want to take a quick break here when we come back we're continuing with john mclaughlin

00:14:38.060 republican strategist and brilliant pollster i want to take up some of these executive orders i want to

00:14:43.200 take up mike johnson and the role like i said that he's going to play with president trump's agenda uh

00:14:48.720 and then i want to go a little bit further into this mandate that the american people sent president

00:14:53.200 trump back to washington dc on we're coming right back with john mclaughlin stay with us

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00:15:59.300 folks are back we're talking with brilliant pollster and gop strategist john mclaughlin a man who was

00:16:07.060 guiding president trump along the way from 2016 before 2016 all the way now through to 2024 john's

00:16:14.780 job is complete he gave president great information uh it got him over the finish line and uh here he

00:16:21.280 is back in the white house john i want to turn to something before we get to these pardons and some

00:16:26.140 of these executive orders that president trump is issuing last night i was watching cnn can't watch fox

00:16:31.140 news i can't listen to it because they'll like the same stuff speed over i like to hear what the

00:16:34.620 democrats are saying not that they're intellectually smart or anything like that but i like to hear where

00:16:39.780 their mind is and what they're thinking about and i'm listening to this anchor i've never even heard

00:16:44.160 of her before but she's anchoring a show and she's saying the voters don't want these these uh these

00:16:50.540 deportations overwhelmingly they don't want uh president trump to pardon the january 6th is and

00:16:56.260 i'm sitting there and she's going through this list of things that the american people don't want and

00:17:00.060 i'm saying to myself every poll i've seen americans are in favor of mass deportations they're in

00:17:04.960 they were even in favor of workplace raids uh they're in favor of getting rid of this dei stuff

00:17:10.720 they're in favor of uh january 6th pardons and pretty much what this woman was saying on cnn

00:17:16.180 that the vote the american people 77 million of them didn't send there wasn't a mandate john the most

00:17:22.560 votes for republican ever in history wasn't a mandate and that donald trump needs to now learn to figure

00:17:28.760 out how to work with the democrats what's wrong with these people what they did to us for the last four

00:17:33.780 years they want us now to go work with the democrats right that's that's inside the potomac uh 1.00

00:17:39.640 inside the belway potomac kind of logic where they want they want to see how stupid you are 0.99

00:17:44.100 and uh and by the way you know i used to have a great friend pat caddell who polled for jimmy 1.00

00:17:49.320 carter but then he also helped president trump he was a trump person and he used to say that the 0.99

00:17:54.980 democrats are the crooked party the republicans is a stupid party yeah and we now have to show that 0.99

00:17:59.840 we're not stupid and i will tell you on your points about deportation that december survey that 1.00

00:18:04.740 we took this and we released this on our website mclaughlinonline.com uh when we asked the question 0.74

00:18:10.220 about are you in favor do you support or oppose deporting criminal illegal aliens and of course

00:18:16.300 americans support that 86 to 8 69 percent strongly support we asked them in general just deporting 0.96

00:18:23.340 illegal immigrants and 66 to 27 they support that 43 strongly support i tell you the difference is a

00:18:32.720 lot of these polls and you see in the media polls if you call them illegal immigrants or not a lot of

00:18:37.820 the media polls don't call them illegal because they don't think it's a crime like joe biden didn't

00:18:42.280 think it was a crime to just come in the country whether you're from china or africa or wherever

00:18:46.880 yeah and uh that's why part of the reason that trump won the hispanic vote so sadly was

00:18:53.840 puerto ricans in the united states are citizens and they're treated like second-class citizens

00:18:58.380 and other hispanic voters because they're voters they came here legally became citizens went through

00:19:04.560 a process took them years of time and hard work right and they resent somebody who just walks over

00:19:10.680 the border and then can come take their jobs get taxpayer funded benefits for free free luxury hotels

00:19:17.800 in manhattan uh money for food money for free health care uh cell phones i mean uh you you talk about

00:19:25.960 uh resentment i mean it was it's very very plus the you know a lot of them are criminal illegal aliens

00:19:33.960 and they've come in with gangs and they've come in uh where they you know most of the crimes in

00:19:38.680 manhattan they're committed by illegal aliens now and uh they beat up our cops they they've killed 0.99

00:19:44.620 americans across the country you're not safe in suburbs or rural areas right so they brought in 1.00

00:19:50.540 fentanyl i mean the china is still sending in fentanyl donald trump has to end that so uh uh so as far as uh

00:19:59.260 as as far as the the near future goes there's a lot of executive orders that are going to be placed today

00:20:04.960 and uh most americans will be very very happy that these executive orders are in place

00:20:10.800 and today we start securing the border making the country safe again and uh hopefully uh hopefully

00:20:18.220 most americans recognize how important that is and as far as the polls you're talking about

00:20:21.620 watch the wording of the polls from cnn and other outlets and whether if they don't phrase it as

00:20:27.500 illegal immigrants if they've if there's euphemisms used uh in the wording of the question

00:20:33.900 they're trying to sell us something that we don't believe in yeah i think you're absolutely right

00:20:38.600 some of those executive orders uh that that are coming out now that we're finding out uh one of

00:20:44.200 them sticking on the issue of immigration is president trump plans to make it illegal for uh anchor

00:20:50.380 babies is the term that we uh we often heard as them saying it's the baby of an illegal alien who comes

00:20:55.980 across the border has a baby and that baby becomes a citizen by default um you know i i figured he was

00:21:02.700 going to keep his campaign promises but i didn't think he was going to start doing it this fast and

00:21:07.020 this abrupt we're now hearing about workplace workplace raids the possibility of them coming

00:21:11.620 tomorrow and this week in the following week in new york and chicago uh eric adams a last minute

00:21:17.820 addition to the dais of uh inaugural guests president trump saying he's looking at pardoning him i don't

00:21:23.640 know if that's exactly a good good idea um i think he's a very flawed man but nonetheless it's

00:21:29.260 president trump's decision to make um and if it's going to make i guess new york a better place

00:21:34.260 as new yorkers we should be all for it um any executive orders that particularly stand out to

00:21:40.800 you that say you know donald trump is is keeping his word donald trump is keeping his word on day one

00:21:46.200 as he promised he would i think there's gonna be one about uh boring transgender men from going into 1.00

00:21:53.840 girls locker rooms and playing sports i think most country will be most americans particularly sports

00:21:58.940 moms who voted for donald trump will be relieved about that um and as well as the athletes the

00:22:04.820 women athletes that were trying to save uh women's sports but uh but that's that's one example but 1.00

00:22:10.860 there'll be lots and uh you know it's i think the country there's a sense that we can go we can

00:22:18.120 end some of the silliness stop our own self-inflicted decline and try to move on and we've got challenges

00:22:24.340 if we don't have a growing economy a lot of the things that we want to do is that are not going

00:22:29.300 to happen so we've got to make the trump tax cuts permanent in fact in december when we took the poll

00:22:34.760 we asked if they would want to make uh the trump tax cuts permanent and they 70 to 17 uh the voters

00:22:41.680 said yes they want to make the tax cuts and jobs act permanent they and also the no tax on tips they

00:22:46.780 support that 71 21 no tax on social security 82 to 11 no tax on overtime 65 66 to 25 the democrats are

00:22:55.940 trying to slow us down in this regard and uh hoping we don't get this done because the midterm elections

00:23:02.540 within majorities yes if we don't if we don't have economic growth it would be unlikely that we'll be

00:23:08.920 able to hold those majorities so so what we're looking at right now is trying to get those tax cuts

00:23:15.540 passed early like before memorial day because it the trump tax cuts when they were first passed

00:23:21.880 passed in december 2017 didn't help us in 2018 when we lost both houses because you didn't have

00:23:27.880 economic growth i want to turn to mike johnson in just a second but before we move on to mike johnson

00:23:33.360 the job the important job that he has to do um among some of the executive orders we're expecting is

00:23:40.380 january 6th do you have any polling in your mna on january 6th and where the people stand

00:23:46.520 on pardons for these folks and what do you think president trump ultimately does uh with the pardons

00:23:51.540 for these people i don't have i don't have polling on that and some of the like you were talking about

00:23:57.180 some of the pardons biden's making in some of these you know it's there's i'm not a legal expert but i

00:24:02.440 will i will tell you that right now i mean for the media reports i've seen and from the comments

00:24:07.580 president trump has made there's a lot of people who have been put in jail for in effect trespassing

00:24:14.000 while when we go back to the blm riots of 2020 you have people committing violence and kamala harris was

00:24:20.100 getting them out of jail with bail and they were never prosecuted so uh uh they burned down a police

00:24:25.980 precinct in minneapolis etc i mean it just there was no accountability however you know january 6th

00:24:34.320 happened and i think a lot of a lot of people there were selectively prosecuted uh to the harshest

00:24:40.780 of the lord and even when they signed plea deals and were convicted they were they were the federal

00:24:45.540 prosecutors would throw at uh throw terrorism charges against them and uh so you know i mean the vast

00:24:52.560 majority of voters right now recognize january 6th as yes it was a it was a protest that you know

00:24:58.820 pelosi didn't accept the national guard schumer didn't accept the national guard donald trump

00:25:03.980 tried to put 10 000 troops in a bigger fence around the place and uh you know so uh uh so i think

00:25:10.820 there's there's an there's a lot of injustice that's about to get corrected so i'll let i'll

00:25:16.980 leave president trump and his legal experts up to that and hopefully if there's you know for the reports

00:25:22.440 i read if there's innocent people in jails in washington they need to be released as soon as possible

00:25:27.440 even if they're not innocent and they're guilty of trespassing i mean they shouldn't be in a federal

00:25:33.920 jail so yeah i don't john i don't think one of my favorite interviews i've seen this past

00:25:39.300 election cycle i think it was on msnbc uh lady goes to like a blue collar factory in michigan and says 1.00

00:25:45.440 what do you think about january 6th and the guy goes december 7th what are you talking about january 6th

00:25:51.440 and then he goes to another guy uh what do you think about january 6th he goes yeah i really don't know

00:25:55.740 much about it i you know i know there was like a rally or something that day and i think that that

00:26:00.200 set the tone the truth of the matter is the people who cared about it like myself like you like uh

00:26:05.560 people who know the victimization and the selective prosecution that was done we care about it a lot

00:26:11.000 more than the average american who's just trying to make ends meet who's trying to buy groceries who's

00:26:15.880 trying to send their kids to college who doesn't want their 5 10 year old kid in the bathroom with 0.96

00:26:20.880 men uh with other boys you know that's what i think the voters cared about and clearly that's

00:26:27.180 what resonated with them although president trump i have to give him credit and i often do about this

00:26:31.420 he didn't shy away from the january 6th issue on the debate stage in front of national a national

00:26:36.180 audience of millions of people when asked about it he stood strong and said we're going to treat

00:26:40.800 these people right what was done to them was wrong he could have completely shied away from it

00:26:44.060 said you know i don't think we should talk about it or whatever he didn't so his point was for the

00:26:50.160 for the left the mainstream media right now to be confused about where he stands is is mind-boggling

00:26:54.400 to me because he never wavered he never said we'll take a look at it he always said these people were

00:26:59.960 treated wrong and he put it back on joe biden so um i think we're going to see you know that right

00:27:05.340 that wrong right i want to take one more quick break here john and when we come back i want to take up

00:27:09.920 mike johnson and the role that he's going to play and how important it is for a republican president to

00:27:16.880 have a good speaker of the house not like paul ryan we're coming right back with brilliant

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00:28:22.060 we're back with john mclaughlin brilliant pollster and uh gop strategist uh instrumental

00:28:32.400 figure in the president trump movement the maga movement john um mike johnson what people don't

00:28:38.020 realize is how important the role is for the speaker of the house and how they call the agenda

00:28:42.040 for president trump and i assume president trump and mike johnson i've already met about how they're

00:28:47.220 going to move forward with his agenda what they're going to start with what they're going to end with

00:28:50.260 and that was a big mistake that happened under paul ryan paul ryan i think started with health care

00:28:54.760 which was the hardest thing to do they should have never touched it they should have let it be

00:28:58.960 figured it out along the way they started with health care it held up things for a year and a

00:29:03.140 half before you knew it the term was up they lost the congress they lost the house and now president

00:29:08.340 trump's sitting here kind of lame duck the only thing you do is executive order um do you think

00:29:13.600 mike johnson has learned his lesson over the last year and the mistakes he's made the mistakes he's

00:29:19.060 continued to make the mistake he made a just a month ago trying to skate through an omnibus bill

00:29:23.500 do you think mike johnson has finally learned his lesson and has a brain in his head that tells him

00:29:30.280 we need to get this agenda through this was a mandate by the american people

00:29:34.500 i think the speaker's probably very relieved that president donald trump is taking office today yeah

00:29:41.180 because when your speaker i used to work for danny hasser when he was speaker i know newt gingrich i

00:29:47.040 delivered a poll to newt gingrich when you know we were the minority and i said to him i've never seen

00:29:53.780 a generic vote uh where he was the the whip at the time when generic it was up seven in 1994 we won

00:30:00.140 a landslide that poll september poll forecast that that majority so uh when you're uh the speaker

00:30:08.720 and there's a republican president like there was with george w bush and danny hasser you really have

00:30:17.140 a team effort where a lot of things have to get done and after 9-11 fortunately for the country you 0.63

00:30:22.260 had you had leaders that were working together and we defied the midterm historical letdown where in

00:30:30.080 2002 we actually picked up two senate seats and eight house seats and a lot of it was due to the

00:30:36.880 american united against the war on terrorism but on the other hand we had a growing economy

00:30:40.700 and president bush took the lead and speaker hasser you know basically had a bigger majority but he was

00:30:49.140 still able to uh have his his his members vote in their own interests speaker johnson is fortunate that

00:30:57.420 now you're going to have president trump setting the agenda and president trump will say i want tax cuts

00:31:03.080 because i talked to president trump uh in his first term and i said to him why did you do health care

00:31:09.180 first and he said well well paul ryan and senator mcconnell told me i needed the savings to get the tax

00:31:18.640 cuts i'm like what are you talking about savings from health care health care is like stalingrad and

00:31:22.180 savings they mean health care cuts like cutting medicare which people aren't in favor of and i said

00:31:28.740 you need economic growth you got to pass the tax cuts fortunately we had leaders like larry kudlow

00:31:34.060 who'd written the tax cut plan and others who were willing to help before larry went into the government

00:31:38.680 and we got the tax cuts passed and we had economic growth that helped the country but it was too late

00:31:45.640 for the midterm elections now you've got senator thun you've got speaker johnson president trump

00:31:50.660 is telling them he needs one big beautiful bill he needs the tax cuts he needs economic growth he needs

00:31:58.920 to keep his word to the american people he needs to secure the border put them all in the bill 0.84

00:32:03.540 historically you get one record reconciliation bill if democrats want to oppose a bill that secures the

00:32:10.680 border provides economic growth um and does many other good things for the country let them vote against

00:32:18.700 it and we'll meet them in the midterms so we will beat them so so speaker johnson he's not alone

00:32:25.340 anymore he now has a president he can count on who will set the agenda and his job should be to make

00:32:32.560 sure that slim republican majority lines up and just like they did with the lake and riley bill

00:32:37.620 get democrats to to stand up and be on the record whether they're for or against you know uh these

00:32:44.700 principles that we have of securing the country securing the border and and uh growing the economy

00:32:50.380 and like with the lake and riley bill if you if you're a democrat and you're going to vote not to

00:32:56.880 arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens try to run a midterm election on that so uh so i think i think

00:33:04.940 that's what you're going to say i think you're going to see leadership from president trump and i think it

00:33:09.060 would behoove the republicans uh in the senate and the house to uh to make sure we get that job done 0.74

00:33:17.060 because that's that's the path to their re-election their majorities as well as uh you know good peace

00:33:23.340 of prosperity for the country that's what it's about and i think among some of the things that uh that

00:33:28.520 need to happen is not another dollar for ukraine i mean we got to figure out what's going on over

00:33:32.140 there before we keep writing these checks and mike johnson said to us when he first came in we're not

00:33:36.460 going to send a dollar to ukraine two days later he was meeting with zelinski two days after that he

00:33:40.600 had a billion dollar check it wasn't a billion dollars but metaphorically speaking had another

00:33:45.460 check for zelinski we've got to get our stuff uh fixed here at home first john we have an economy

00:33:49.940 that's teetering we have a stock market uh that's teetering i mean there's so much uncertainty in this

00:33:55.180 country right now that it can go either way at any point and you know president trump sat down with

00:34:00.380 the great lou dobbs in january of last year uh just about a year to the date almost and uh president

00:34:07.520 trump said to lou he said you know i don't want to be herbert hoover i don't want to have

00:34:12.320 an economic breakdown i don't want the economy to crash if it's going to crash let it happen now so

00:34:17.820 i can come in and fix it and the media went crazy the mainstream media went nuts president trump is

00:34:23.580 wishing for a an economic breakdown and he wants the markets to crash under joe biden but

00:34:28.380 these people don't listen and i think it's part of the reason that americans are so tired these

00:34:32.980 democrats a new poll out from cnn no less john has the democrats at the lowest ratings in more than 30

00:34:39.420 years at 30 approval do you think the democrats are finally going to wake up once and for all

00:34:46.020 john fetterman i never thought he would be like the voice of reason a man with a stroke a man who was

00:34:53.100 socialist as can be when he ran whose wife is a socialist um i never thought i'd see the day that

00:34:59.780 john fetterman is the voice of reason why why can't these democrats learn and wake up and realize that

00:35:05.580 if they did work with the republicans and they did work on things that matter to the american people

00:35:10.140 it would benefit them

00:35:11.700 well first of all they're wrong on a lot of issues and they refuse to believe it

00:35:18.820 but uh but the reality is i think some democrats will come around but we have to lead the challenges

00:35:25.780 for republicans conservatives trump supporters we broaden our coalition you have rfk you have tulsi

00:35:32.780 gabbard you have reform anti-washington uh liberals and democrats coming to our coalition because they

00:35:40.260 didn't trust our government and they want to talk about freedom they want to end censorship they want to

00:35:44.980 have success out there they want to have you know i mean kennedy wants to make america healthy again

00:35:50.060 who could be against that sure but you know but uh like but in the meantime when you look at it

00:35:56.340 you're right but when you look at it um when you look at the challenges ahead uh your points are exactly

00:36:02.520 right that that that we have we have severe challenges and a lot of the democrats are doubling down

00:36:08.260 like uh aoc and others and it would be our mistake to let them you know back in power or slow us down

00:36:17.860 we have to we have to basically say no no we were elected we do have a mandate but what's more

00:36:23.080 important is our policies work in february of 2021 i met with president trump jason miller was there

00:36:30.080 and we were going through a poll and i said do you realize 63 percent of all republicans want you to run

00:36:36.940 again and i said to him when biden's policies fail just like jimmy carter's policies failed there was

00:36:42.720 buyer's remorse they want a reagan when his policies fail they'll want donald trump there'll be buyer's

00:36:48.160 remorse and you'll get reelected and that's what he exactly did he put and he loves this country

00:36:55.440 it's the most patriotic person i ever met and uh he put us back on the path to success and uh we just

00:37:02.460 we have to now work every day to make sure that excessive success is real i gotta be honest there

00:37:08.920 wasn't a doubt in my mind john from the second that donald trump left the white house on january 20th

00:37:13.580 of 2021 and did that little mini rally at the air force base there wasn't a doubt in my mind that he

00:37:18.580 was ever running again and i went on uh predicted and i placed a few bets along the way that donald trump

00:37:23.280 was going to run again that donald trump was going to be the nominee and i made a little bit of money on

00:37:26.580 it because that's him he he's not the kind of man who's going to go out on an l and i don't think it was

00:37:31.160 really a loss in 2020 so a lot of people don't think it was a loss in 2020 um right i could be

00:37:36.760 the first pollster that worked for a successful candidate who's gotten elected three times since

00:37:42.520 fdr right go ahead go ahead who won the president three presidential elections in a row it's it's

00:37:51.780 truly remarkable and more votes each time i mean it's truly remarkable what this man has managed to do

00:37:57.740 uh he's truly something else before we wrap up and i appreciate you taking the time to join us

00:38:02.420 on this monumental day in america um i'm obviously not in dc this time i was there in 2016 that was

00:38:08.640 enough for me i supported president trump then i support him now but you know taking the trip out

00:38:13.380 of there uh i'm heading off vacation today so good enjoy but uh you know seeing everyone's instagram

00:38:20.960 posts and twitter messages it's so cool to me to see how mainstream this has become before the show we

00:38:27.120 were talking about president trump on stage with the village people these guys hated him in 2016

00:38:32.220 they hated him in 2020 so many people um and i just dislike snoop dog i think i did a video

00:38:39.180 trying to kill trump he's out there performing at the crypto thing all these rappers john all these 0.61

00:38:45.580 influencers these people who came out of the woodwork some for good reasons some because they're hucksters

00:38:51.420 and opportunists uh a lot of people there but nonetheless it's just so cool to me that it's cool

00:38:58.500 to support president trump it's cool to support a movement and it's it's it feels like something john

00:39:04.080 you're on the ground there that i've never experienced before i've never seen before sporting events

00:39:09.280 uh victory parades for the new york yankees on the canyon of heroes on broad 6th avenue in new york city

00:39:16.140 nothing seems to feel like it even going back to that rally we were at at madison square garden john

00:39:21.780 the energy hulk hogan coming out on the stage it was just so cool to see the american people love each

00:39:29.120 other and enjoy something and unite 77 million people john i can't agree with someone on where to

00:39:35.740 go to dinner yet you get 77 million people to agree on an agenda and a movement for this country what's

00:39:41.540 your thoughts well i i think you're exactly right there are people right now as we speak

00:39:46.280 in 20 degree weather that feels like 10 degree weather uh on lining the streets of washington just

00:39:55.240 watching his motorcade go by from the white house to the capitol and they there's no outdoor inaugural

00:40:02.100 they a lot of them know that they won't get into the capitol one center uh but they've stayed in

00:40:07.000 washington to celebrate and they they have hope now we have to we have to get our policies done get

00:40:16.340 our policies implemented so that hope becomes a reality and make things better and like president

00:40:20.520 trump said we can have a golden age of america and uh that would be fantastic but it's it's going to

00:40:26.020 take a lot of hard work and a lot of public support to get us there but there's hope now yeah it's time

00:40:31.480 to make america great again john mclaughlin we hope you enjoy your day and have a blast out there

00:40:35.960 have a drink for me and uh and uh tell president trump hey and uh we all miss him and uh the great

00:40:42.420 lou dobbs is in heaven smiling down yes he is your mentor is is very well he's very happy with you john

00:40:48.380 right now so that's great john enjoy your day brother and have a good one all right thank you john

00:40:54.340 thanks everybody for being with us today and uh thank you to john mclaughlin for taking the time

00:40:59.260 in his busy day in washington dc to join us here on the great america show on this monumental day

00:41:04.340 in america uh the swearing in the inauguration of president donald j trump and his return to the

00:41:10.480 white house making history once again folks and we hope you're enjoying this day as much as we all

00:41:16.020 are here on the great america show we waited four years for this moment to come and it has finally

00:41:20.960 finally arrived so thanks all for being with us today we really appreciate it we'll see you back

00:41:25.560 here tomorrow for the great america show where our quest for truth justice and the american way

00:41:29.560 continues folks until then may god bless you may god bless america and may god bless the great lou dobbs

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The Great America Show - January 20, 2025

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