AMERICA IS BACK!
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John Mcclaughlin is a brilliant, brilliant Gop strategist, strategist and pollster who has been with us for the past 4 years. He has been in touch with President Donald J. Trump for the last 4 years and has been on his way to becoming the 45th president of the USA.
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hello everybody and welcome to the great america show it's great to have you with us thanks so
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much for joining us today folks it's a day we've all been waiting for for a very very long time
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45 becomes 47 my opinion he's 45 46 and 47 uh if you want to look back at that 2020 election that
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was uh allegedly won by joe biden uh there's so much on the agenda for president trump today
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there's so much on the agenda for him for the next four years uh president trump set to kick off his
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day after being inaugurated um executive order time 100 executive orders on the docket some are even
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saying 200 president trump not going to bed until he signs those is what we're hearing among them
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dei uh keeping men out of women's bathrooms um anchor babies babies born here in america to
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illegal parents are not citizens uh all common sense things folks that uh would be common sense
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to you and i but weren't so common to the marxist democrats who have sought to ruin this country
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over the last four years and sought to ruin this country over the last a century a quarter century
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you pick a timeline they've always been in favor of destruction of this country and the uh the
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wonderful fabrics that hold it together um but we could all sleep well going to sleep tonight
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knowing that donald j trump is back in his rightful place on pennsylvania avenue in the great white
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house with his beautiful family um this was a time that was a long time coming a long time in the
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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
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but i want to bring in our guest today who's got some words he's a brilliant brilliant brilliant
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gop strategist and pollster john mclaughlin john thanks so much for joining us here on this uh
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monumental day i think is probably the best way to describe uh what we've waited for now here for
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the last four years at least i have i know you're really non-partisan and all that good stuff but
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i've been waiting for the last four years for the return of donald j trump john give me your thoughts
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as you're sitting here in your hotel room in washington dc
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getting ready uh for the new trump administration right and by the way on a personal note one person
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who would be particularly happy happy today is lou dobbs oh yeah our friend our great friend and this
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was the day that he you know he loved and he's probably he knows and uh i'm sure his wife debbie's
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very happy and uh it's a great day it's a big change for america and the thing
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the thing about the way things are in the country we took a poll in december that we released
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and uh the the vast majority of americans 66 percent thought the country was on the wrong track
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so biden's leaving trump a mess i mean when you look at it they said the economy was getting worse
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not better 55 37 84 percent negatively impacted by inflation 48 to the point where they're having
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trouble making ends meet so you've got donald trump's being sworn in today and joe biden leaving
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him a big mess pardoning everybody that was an accomplice on major things and donald trump has to
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restore the credibility and integrity to the government and then grapple with high inflation
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open borders uh crime rising across america trying to end endless wars the gaza terrorists
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hamás have decided to give back three hostages in exchange for a ceasefire so they can regroup
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and get billions of dollars in aid for america and they're still holding 91 other hostages or bodies
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at this point and donald trump has to solve these problems whether it's iran china russia and the russia
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ukraine war i mean he's it's he proved that he politically he's superhuman in terms of
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what he did in the political campaign nobody's ever come the adversity he's overcome nobody's ever
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withstood uh a challenge where not only were they trying to beat you in the election they tried to
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impeach him twice they tried to then indict him take away his wealth take away his right to free speech
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take away his right to be on the ballot um and try to put him in jail to stop him from being president
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and thanks to the american people none of those tactics worked and he won the popular vote and swept
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the battleground states and we prior to that we won the republican primary in crushing fashion like no
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other republican in history has ever done and not only didn't it work john it completely backfired in my
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opinion i mean man shot at once another assassination attempt set up god only knows how many other
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assassination attempts there were that we didn't learn about because this government is so damn
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corrupt um but against all odds i mean the man's a convicted felon was sent down to georgia mug shotted
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fingerprinted like he was some sort of criminal um and every step of the way john he found a way
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to overcome the adversity of it it sounds so crazy to say that it it sounds so insane to say that this
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man had to overcome adversity adversity but he did and every time john you know this man for a very
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long time far more than i know him every single time they threw the kitchen sink at him this man
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threw back the tub i mean like i said mugshot he sold mugshots after they came up on his image they
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came and said we don't want cameras in the court we want cameras in the courtroom trump says yeah i want
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them in the courtroom i want america to see this democrats no no no we don't want them in the courtroom
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anymore get them out of the courtroom it was time and time again that he beat them at their own game
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how do you think donald trump feels uh today of all days oh i just saw him when he uh greeted
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president biden and joe biden at the white house with melania he uh sent him home and i think there's
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a sense of relief i mean when you you you you i listed all the political things but let me tell you
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by the grace of god he survived two assassination attempts and one where they clipped his ear
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and uh you know it didn't change any of the polls we were ahead we've been ahead ever since biden
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triggered inflation and uh you know surrendered afghanistan from september 21 you could go to our
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website mcglobalonline.com you could go back on all the lou dob shows and your show where we talked
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about this where we said trump was ahead in the popular vote and he was ahead in the popular vote
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before he debated uh joe biden and crushed him he was ahead in the popular vote uh going into the
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convention coming out of the convention when harris when biden dropped out pick harris to
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replace him he was ahead he was ahead in september he was ahead after the their only debate and he
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led all through october and uh the american people want change they look at what's wrong with the
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country they look at all the problems we have and they want him to succeed and uh fortunately we have
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some majorities but majorities where uh we can get things passed in the house and the senate and they
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have to focus on that the challenge is really ahead we have an opportunity you know the funny thing
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john the silver lining in all this is you often see the republicans fight we saw the republicans fight
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when it came to the mccarthy ousting uh mike johnson is speaker byron donald's a speaker no it's jim
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jordan a speaker no it's gonna be donald trump a speaker we saw i mean perhaps one of the biggest
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messes we've ever seen the republican party uh just about a year ago and uh you know i don't know i
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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
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but you know at the time i was a little nervous a little hesitant we have this big presidential
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election coming up and uh and the republicans may be shooting themselves in the foot but it turns out
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not now john for the first time i think in a long time at least in my lifetime we saw fighting
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happening after this election with the democrats joe bison clearly didn't want to leave kamala
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pushed him off the cliff chuck schumer nancy pelosi all doing the same thing uh apparently
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joe biden endorsed kamala harris so quickly because he knew she was going to get killed by
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donald trump and he wanted to you know say all right this is what you guys want this is what i'm
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going to give you and you had told us time and time again if donald trump goes up against kamala this
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was when joe biden was in the race and like you said go back and listen he would kill kamala worse
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and he'd beat joe biden oh what do you would you say to joe biden i mean looking at the the poor man
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i don't mean poor man but what he was done to him was completely wrong for any political party it's
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not something you see in america he brought it out himself i mean president trump is right he's the most
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he's the worst president in history the united states he's also the most corrupt he's probably the
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most corrupt president in terms of he's pardoning people on his way out there were part of his
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administration part of his his plots against donald trump that january 6th committee where he tried
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to stifle political opposition i mean joe biden makes warren harding look like mother theresa
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with the corruption from his family the corruption from the scandals he pardoned his son for for uh to
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protect the family i mean it's just it's it's ridiculous he was he you know they i mean there's still
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unaccountability for the i i i think it was uh congressman commerce committee said there's 25
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billion million 25 million dollars in payments to the biden family from the time he was president until
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you know during while he was out of office etc before he got back into office from
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foreign governments china romania ukraine i mean and and and uh foreign corporations and and uh
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uh but it's like you know we've got to sweep all that out and uh donald trump is going to issue an
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executive order i read a report where he's going to issue an executive order and the 51 intelligence
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uh leaders who in 2020 signed that that uh uh signed that letter saying that the hunter biden laptop that
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we know is true and valid now it was evidence that it was uh russian disinformation he's taken away
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their their security clearances and i think that's only a start i mean you have people like john brennan
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the cia you have others who were who basically lied to the american people to help joe biden win the
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election and uh you know that cost us the election back in 2020 on election day we did a poll 36 percent
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of the biden voters were not aware of the hunter biden laptop uh issue and if they had been they would
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enough votes would have switched that trump would have won and the reason they didn't know was
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because they censored uh the new york post they censored any media outlet facebook um twitter at
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the time they censored any discussion of that fact uh and that was a scary moment in american history and
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that cost us the election uh more so than anything else and more so than any other uh thing that they did
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yeah i mean you can go down the list but it was also the changing of voting laws in states like
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pennsylvania which we didn't see happen this time around but i think their reign is over their reign
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of terror is over but for these pardons i it's just mind-blowing to me mark milley if mark milley did
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nothing wrong he shouldn't need a pardon and what people don't know is you a lot of people don't know
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you have to accept the pardon you don't just get a pardon and it goes out of the wayside you have to
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accept this pardon so to see liz cheney uh dr anthony fauci it's so so so sickening to me
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that this man what he did to this country john what he did to him the american people for for a year and
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a half two years with his six foot rule with the mask rule what he did to kids john who were never
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going to develop normally uh in social settings because of taking them out of schools what he did
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to businesses that had to close based on no science i mean how do you ever recover from this
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and how do you look at the american people in the eye john and say it's okay what you did let bygones
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be guy guns you may be a criminal uh you were maybe going to be investigated but go ahead be free i mean
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i mean joe biden tried to run the country like he ran delaware like a mafia done yeah that kind of
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corruption and uh the biden crime family tried to extend over america and the american people revolted in
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spite of the suppression uh they beat them in spite of the media acquiescence that they said
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they knew he was a failing president and uh the media has lost the mainstream media has lost all
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credibility which is why podcasts like yours and and others are doing very well because people want
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the truth and they know the truth and something you mentioned earlier was also a point about the
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democratic party they're in shambles two years ago really three to two years ago uh dick morris who's
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the person who introduced me for donald trump in 2011 when he first thought of running against
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barack obama and we put together a campaign plan for him spent a month and he decided
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to pass on that election but he saved it for 2015 um we had a three years ago we had a plan
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to broaden his coalition so that we could create a uh you know a majority party and we're and it's still
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in progress all we did was rent these voters in the last election but we we have a very solid base
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trump's base is solid with them but we did polls where we looked at african-american voters hispanic
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voters uh suburban women and younger voters and trump made progress in all those groups i mean he won
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21 of the african-american vote he won 46 of the uh uh hispanic vote historic number better than any
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republican ever before he won uh uh increased shares he won the suburbs he won increased air as
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a suburban and he won a great share of younger voters who were sick of the lockdowns and take
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the lack of freedom that that happened during covid and the lack of economic opportunities that they were
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facing in terms of getting better paying jobs inflation undercutting them in terms of uh
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uh their prospects for even trying to buy a car or a home right so uh uh so trump worked on that and
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uh you know the voters said they're going to give him a chance to do that and winning the campaign
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may have been tough uh but uh dealing with the government of washington it's going to be even
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more of a challenge he's got he's got four years to do it but you really have to have a very successful
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first few months yeah yeah you're absolutely right and that relies on the speaker of the house
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i want to take a quick break here when we come back we're continuing with john mclaughlin
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republican strategist and brilliant pollster i want to take up some of these executive orders i want to
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take up mike johnson and the role like i said that he's going to play with president trump's agenda uh
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and then i want to go a little bit further into this mandate that the american people sent president
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trump back to washington dc on we're coming right back with john mclaughlin stay with us
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folks are back we're talking with brilliant pollster and gop strategist john mclaughlin a man who was
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guiding president trump along the way from 2016 before 2016 all the way now through to 2024 john's
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job is complete he gave president great information uh it got him over the finish line and uh here he
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is back in the white house john i want to turn to something before we get to these pardons and some
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of these executive orders that president trump is issuing last night i was watching cnn can't watch fox
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news i can't listen to it because they'll like the same stuff speed over i like to hear what the
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democrats are saying not that they're intellectually smart or anything like that but i like to hear where
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their mind is and what they're thinking about and i'm listening to this anchor i've never even heard
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of her before but she's anchoring a show and she's saying the voters don't want these these uh these
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deportations overwhelmingly they don't want uh president trump to pardon the january 6th is and
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i'm sitting there and she's going through this list of things that the american people don't want and
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i'm saying to myself every poll i've seen americans are in favor of mass deportations they're in
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they were even in favor of workplace raids uh they're in favor of getting rid of this dei stuff
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they're in favor of uh january 6th pardons and pretty much what this woman was saying on cnn
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that the vote the american people 77 million of them didn't send there wasn't a mandate john the most
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votes for republican ever in history wasn't a mandate and that donald trump needs to now learn to figure
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out how to work with the democrats what's wrong with these people what they did to us for the last four
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years they want us now to go work with the democrats right that's that's inside the potomac uh
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inside the belway potomac kind of logic where they want they want to see how stupid you are
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and uh and by the way you know i used to have a great friend pat caddell who polled for jimmy
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carter but then he also helped president trump he was a trump person and he used to say that the
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democrats are the crooked party the republicans is a stupid party yeah and we now have to show that
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we're not stupid and i will tell you on your points about deportation that december survey that
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we took this and we released this on our website mclaughlinonline.com uh when we asked the question
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about are you in favor do you support or oppose deporting criminal illegal aliens and of course
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americans support that 86 to 8 69 percent strongly support we asked them in general just deporting
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illegal immigrants and 66 to 27 they support that 43 strongly support i tell you the difference is a
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lot of these polls and you see in the media polls if you call them illegal immigrants or not a lot of
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the media polls don't call them illegal because they don't think it's a crime like joe biden didn't
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think it was a crime to just come in the country whether you're from china or africa or wherever
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yeah and uh that's why part of the reason that trump won the hispanic vote so sadly was
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puerto ricans in the united states are citizens and they're treated like second-class citizens
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and other hispanic voters because they're voters they came here legally became citizens went through
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a process took them years of time and hard work right and they resent somebody who just walks over
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the border and then can come take their jobs get taxpayer funded benefits for free free luxury hotels
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in manhattan uh money for food money for free health care uh cell phones i mean uh you you talk about
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uh resentment i mean it was it's very very plus the you know a lot of them are criminal illegal aliens
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and they've come in with gangs and they've come in uh where they you know most of the crimes in
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manhattan they're committed by illegal aliens now and uh they beat up our cops they they've killed
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americans across the country you're not safe in suburbs or rural areas right so they brought in
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fentanyl i mean the china is still sending in fentanyl donald trump has to end that so uh uh so as far as uh
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as as far as the the near future goes there's a lot of executive orders that are going to be placed today
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and uh most americans will be very very happy that these executive orders are in place
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and today we start securing the border making the country safe again and uh hopefully uh hopefully
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most americans recognize how important that is and as far as the polls you're talking about
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watch the wording of the polls from cnn and other outlets and whether if they don't phrase it as
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illegal immigrants if they've if there's euphemisms used uh in the wording of the question
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they're trying to sell us something that we don't believe in yeah i think you're absolutely right
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some of those executive orders uh that that are coming out now that we're finding out uh one of
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them sticking on the issue of immigration is president trump plans to make it illegal for uh anchor
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babies is the term that we uh we often heard as them saying it's the baby of an illegal alien who comes
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across the border has a baby and that baby becomes a citizen by default um you know i i figured he was
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going to keep his campaign promises but i didn't think he was going to start doing it this fast and
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this abrupt we're now hearing about workplace workplace raids the possibility of them coming
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tomorrow and this week in the following week in new york and chicago uh eric adams a last minute
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addition to the dais of uh inaugural guests president trump saying he's looking at pardoning him i don't
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know if that's exactly a good good idea um i think he's a very flawed man but nonetheless it's
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president trump's decision to make um and if it's going to make i guess new york a better place
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as new yorkers we should be all for it um any executive orders that particularly stand out to
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you that say you know donald trump is is keeping his word donald trump is keeping his word on day one
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as he promised he would i think there's gonna be one about uh boring transgender men from going into
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girls locker rooms and playing sports i think most country will be most americans particularly sports
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moms who voted for donald trump will be relieved about that um and as well as the athletes the
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women athletes that were trying to save uh women's sports but uh but that's that's one example but
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there'll be lots and uh you know it's i think the country there's a sense that we can go we can
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end some of the silliness stop our own self-inflicted decline and try to move on and we've got challenges
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if we don't have a growing economy a lot of the things that we want to do is that are not going
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to happen so we've got to make the trump tax cuts permanent in fact in december when we took the poll
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we asked if they would want to make uh the trump tax cuts permanent and they 70 to 17 uh the voters
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said yes they want to make the tax cuts and jobs act permanent they and also the no tax on tips they
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support that 71 21 no tax on social security 82 to 11 no tax on overtime 65 66 to 25 the democrats are
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trying to slow us down in this regard and uh hoping we don't get this done because the midterm elections
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within majorities yes if we don't if we don't have economic growth it would be unlikely that we'll be
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able to hold those majorities so so what we're looking at right now is trying to get those tax cuts
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passed early like before memorial day because it the trump tax cuts when they were first passed
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passed in december 2017 didn't help us in 2018 when we lost both houses because you didn't have
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economic growth i want to turn to mike johnson in just a second but before we move on to mike johnson
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the job the important job that he has to do um among some of the executive orders we're expecting is
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january 6th do you have any polling in your mna on january 6th and where the people stand
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on pardons for these folks and what do you think president trump ultimately does uh with the pardons
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for these people i don't have i don't have polling on that and some of the like you were talking about
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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
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will i will tell you that right now i mean for the media reports i've seen and from the comments
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president trump has made there's a lot of people who have been put in jail for in effect trespassing
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while when we go back to the blm riots of 2020 you have people committing violence and kamala harris was
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getting them out of jail with bail and they were never prosecuted so uh uh they burned down a police
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precinct in minneapolis etc i mean it just there was no accountability however you know january 6th
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happened and i think a lot of a lot of people there were selectively prosecuted uh to the harshest
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of the lord and even when they signed plea deals and were convicted they were they were the federal
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prosecutors would throw at uh throw terrorism charges against them and uh so you know i mean the vast
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majority of voters right now recognize january 6th as yes it was a it was a protest that you know
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pelosi didn't accept the national guard schumer didn't accept the national guard donald trump
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tried to put 10 000 troops in a bigger fence around the place and uh you know so uh uh so i think
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there's there's an there's a lot of injustice that's about to get corrected so i'll let i'll
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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that wrong right i want to take one more quick break here john and when we come back i want to take up
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mike johnson and the role that he's going to play and how important it is for a republican president to
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have a good speaker of the house not like paul ryan we're coming right back with brilliant
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we're back with john mclaughlin brilliant pollster and uh gop strategist uh instrumental
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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
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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
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
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
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
00:35:11.700
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
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