Today on the Great America Show, we have new polling on President Trump, immigration, Ukraine, and more. We also hear from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who says his committee has processed more U.S. Attorneys than the previous administration.
00:07:56.220Now, I don't even know if we've talked on air before my trip down to Washington, D.C., and even before or after the special elections.
00:08:04.160But going into the beginning of November, the worst that Trump had done was a negative four net approval rating, which is not that terrible.
00:08:13.040But you'd hope it'd be better since he got one of the biggest mandates for his agenda of any Republican president ever in recent history.
00:08:20.580But then November was a complete crap show.
00:08:24.140So, I mean, the government shutdown and then SNAP being defunded and then the elections were horrible because Republicans weren't able to convert the Trump voter from 2024.
00:08:34.140And then Trump's all over the map fighting the press about affordability and counter signaling is based on things like H1Bs and the student visas.
00:08:41.560And we've been polling on all that stuff.
00:08:43.060And I was so openly hostile to the administration for not understanding their base.
00:08:48.940Like, I was getting hundreds of DMs from people who were burning their MAGA hats and saying, I thought Trump was going to be our Franco.
00:09:43.840Democrats are plus three on the generic ballot.
00:09:46.720The gerrymandering war of attrition continues on.
00:09:50.540It's going to be everybody fighting for like one inch on the football field next year for the midterms.
00:09:57.420And I have no idea who's going to win.
00:09:59.220But the message that I've been saying is that, listen, you guys got elected for a reason and people want you to do more.
00:10:07.140And if you fail, it's because you've not done enough.
00:10:09.820And so Republicans and Trump need to get together and lay out what a real plan to fix America looks like.
00:10:14.960I would have thought they would have had one coming into this administration.
00:10:18.780But what I'm starting to find out is that it was kind of just like what Trump 1.0 was, which was chaotically just throw a bunch of crap at the wall and see what sticks.
00:10:28.420But unfortunately, this time around, it seems like he's drawing a lot more guidance and input from the wrong people, like donors and foreign nations and Fox News hosts.
00:10:39.360And he needs to get a little bit more input from younger people on the Internet, I think.
00:10:44.660Yeah, I totally agree with you on that.
00:10:48.160You know, people got upset when he had Elon Musk around him.
00:10:58.980I think he did a terrific job and, you know, was unceremoniously pushed out because he thought he was going to be able to do more than he actually could.
00:11:06.400He's like every person who goes into government, Mark, you know, you've luckily never had to work in government.
00:11:12.400But any person who goes into government, you go with these big expectations and then you get in there and you realize the whole thing's just a melting pot.
00:11:18.320And there's really very little wiggle room on where you can go left and right because everyone's just so corrupt and compromised.
00:14:37.940So whatever he does between now and then has to be enough to convince Americans that Republicans can govern, that Trump and Republicans together can govern.
00:14:49.340They're passing like resolutions against anti-Semitism in the House.
00:14:53.240I want to say something because you didn't get to know Lou Dobbs.
00:14:57.220I wish you did because you would have loved him and he would have absolutely adored you.
00:15:00.760There's very few people that he liked and you would have known, knowing Lou, he would have loved you.
00:15:05.060And I don't mean this, I don't even know how to say this, but Lou had an influence on President Trump his first four years like nobody else had.
00:15:18.220The only time it ever came out that Lou would advise or speak to President Trump would be someone on his staff leaking it because they hated the fact that President Trump watched Lou's show every single night.
00:15:29.000And whatever we wrote on that show, you know, I had someone come here the other day telling me, you know, what the hell do you know?
00:15:36.620I mean, everything Lou read off a teleprompter, he'd written, read with me writing part of it or advising him on part of it.
00:15:44.260So President Trump was watching the show every single night and Trump would watch it and he would tell his staff, and this has been reported, so it's not a secret, do whatever Lou Dobbs just said.
00:15:53.900So the staff hated Lou, they hated anything about him, they tried to keep him away from it, but Lou never shied away, and I'd spent a lot of time with him.
00:16:03.360When we were in the city, I'd spent eight, nine hours a day with him.
00:16:06.420He never shied away from picking up the phone and saying, very respectfully, Mr. President, this is wrong, you have to do this, and Trump listened to him.
00:16:15.040He had someone who had the best interests of his country and the best interests of President Trump, not the best interests of their pockets.
00:16:21.360He never took a dime from anybody aside from whoever was paying him, Fox News or CNN at the time, and I think he's got that void because Lou Dobbs isn't picking up the phone and President Trump isn't tuning in every night to hear the cold, hard truth about things that necessarily aren't going good.
00:17:12.800He is literally just shooting from the hip, and he does that based on information that he personally collects from the people he thinks are important.
00:17:21.000And it's not Susie Wiles gatekeeping him.
00:17:23.380She was actually helped get me down there.
00:17:25.480She was one of the people who were like, hey, he needs to hear from new voices.
00:17:28.160And what's happened is he was getting influence from people like you, younger people who understand the real state of America, filtered through Lou Dobbs, and he was getting people like Charlie Kirk, and they're gone now.
00:17:46.140And he talks to that guy for hours, and it's like America and the state of where we're at right now is too important to be governed by people like Lindsey Graham and Sean Hannity.
00:17:57.100They don't really understand, and they – maybe they – well, I don't think Lindsey does, but I'm sure Sean Hannity has the best interest of America at heart, but he doesn't buy groceries.
00:18:06.300He hasn't tried to compete with Indians to get a job.
00:18:10.860I disagree with you on that, and I'll tell you why.
00:18:12.480And it's very few times I actually disagree with you.
00:18:14.260If Sean Hannity had the best interest of America, he wouldn't have Lindsey Graham on his show every night.
00:18:19.560He knows damn well Lindsey Graham is not good for America.
00:18:22.480And the difference is, Mark, and I don't mean to blow smoke up anyone's ass, is Lou Dobbs was one person I knew for a fact never benefited or gained a dollar off of President Trump or anything that he did.
00:18:38.220And as a matter of fact, the stuff that Lou was putting out and spewing – I don't even say spewing, but the stuff that Lou was putting out, it actually hurt him.
00:18:46.820If Lou – and Lou told me there was times along his career, Mark, where he'd gotten contacted by foreign countries.
00:19:26.620He paid his other producers out of pocket to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year out of his own pocket to not take money because he felt at the beginning, because he was so new to the podcasting space, that it wasn't right.
00:19:38.680He didn't want to come out here and push sponsorships on people.
00:19:41.500He didn't want to come out here and sell things because all he wanted to do was push the word forward of America first.
00:19:46.960Whereas these other guys, Mark, I mean, they run to go.
00:19:49.980Take money from whatever foreign countries given them, whatever scumbag is giving of them just to take the money.
00:19:55.460And, you know, it pains me because the only thing I knew coming into this industry was Lou Dobbs.
00:20:00.160And it kind of hurts me because the level of ethics that this man had, you don't see anymore.
00:20:06.780So, like, I look at things now and I'm like, that's wrong.
00:20:22.860It's like we are industry pariahs and it's because I can't be bought.
00:20:26.020And that's this is my biggest wake up call for the industry.
00:20:30.620Again, people outside looking in, I think, are getting a much better glimpse into what is really going on, mostly because of Twitter.
00:20:37.240And every single thing I've experienced tells me that it is as bad as I thought it was.
00:20:43.040In fact, worse in some ways, these people are like cartoon caricatures of selling out in a way that is even more profoundly debased than you could possibly think.
00:20:54.660You look at somebody, for instance, like Ted Cruz and the way he behaves and the interests that he peddles and take your pick.
00:22:33.520And if he runs for president, it's going to be J.D. Vance.
00:22:35.280I don't know what his obsession with Tucker Carlson is, and hopefully we get to see Tucker at AmFest next week, because I want to figure out what the hell is going on with Ted Cruz.
00:22:47.160Demand is having a meltdown and it happens every single day.
00:22:51.940Well, I think we can probably conjecture about what that is.
00:22:54.620And it's because I think Ted Cruz is smart enough politically to understand that he's going to absolutely get blown out of the water and that if he thinks at all he'll ever be president.
00:23:05.280It's through some miraculous stroke of good luck for him.
00:23:26.440Like you're just going to have everybody's special interest.
00:23:28.800And what happens is the presidential candidate gets money.
00:23:32.400They get all that like donor bucks ciphered back to them and they're, you know, the people under them and it keeps the interest in the news.
00:23:42.760And so I think what he's doing is what is the best thing that Israel's decided needs to be in the news right now is attacking Tucker Carlson.
00:23:51.320And so he's just doing their dirty work.
00:23:53.940And, you know, it's just wild how they're, they're not stopping, even though they destroyed the public opinion on Israel.
00:24:00.800But I can tell you, it's not working on Tucker Carlson.
00:24:03.360I don't know if you knew this, but we pulled on him and, you know, the left hates him and his numbers have slipped with Republicans, certainly since when he was fired from Fox.
00:24:14.400But he's still 60% favorable among Republicans to only 22% unfavorable, only 11% very unfavorable.
00:24:22.360So it's not really working like he is very popular among Republicans.
00:24:25.860So you look at the Texas Senate situation and you got John Cornyn and you got Ted Cruz and the races have been tight.
00:24:33.360Like Texas did pretty well in 2024 for Trump, whatever it was, it was like plus 10 or something.
00:25:21.060I didn't know this, but apparently like that was the only ad that Sarah Huckabee Sanders cut in her run for Arkansas governor was about how her trip to the Wailing Wall transformed her politics.
00:25:32.420And now you have Mike Huckabee out there today leading report.
00:26:13.180But I mean, we look at what they did in 9-11 and how much business we've done with them to the tune of like $500 billion over the course of the last 10 years.
00:26:24.600So you hear them talking about this and they're taking money from Saudi Arabia and you're taking money from here.
00:26:31.740And that's the only country they're focused on.
00:32:04.340A poll from Emerson has him down to a Democrat in the non-swing state of Ohio, whereas Sherrod Brown, the Senate candidate, is down against the Republicans.
00:32:19.900It's guys like you, Mark, who are moving the needles to expose guys like Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:32:26.180You can't be running for public office.
00:32:27.820You shouldn't be in public office out here saying that Americans are lazy and that we need more Indians here.
00:32:33.680I don't know what country that works in, but it's not going to work here in a country where you have Americans who love this damn country and bust their ass for every dollar they make.
00:32:43.860Yeah, you know, it was kind of gross, too.
00:32:45.620I don't know if you remember the Ramaswamy massacre of last December.
00:32:49.400We're coming up on the one-year anniversary.
00:32:55.500Elon Musk came out there and told everybody to F their faces, and it was a mess.
00:33:00.860But if you recall, the most insidious thing about the Vivek Ramaswamy post is that it was a response to a pretty heartfelt, beautiful picture of a high school football quarterback kissing the head of the cheerleaders on a football field.
00:34:27.480And if you're going to run a governor in the Rust Belt, these people's jobs have been stolen.
00:34:32.660And I've been hammering the H-1B program on one of the few people.
00:34:35.600I mean, obviously, a lot of people have been hammering it, but in politics, this is one of those things that the Republican big business people all want to protect because this is where they get their profits from.
00:34:47.040They screw the American people so that they can pad their pockets.
00:34:51.420And even if you look at, like, Vance has been one of the leaders in reducing the number of immigrants here in America, but he hasn't actually come really vocally out against this.
00:35:30.880But if you're worried about increasing American wages and restoring the middle class, you have to be focused on getting rid of the high salaried people.
00:35:40.560And that is all of the corporations that have given the best jobs in America to H-1Bs.
00:55:51.260The Patton wouldn't pull up with this, like put up with this coke addled guy who's got it.
00:55:56.780Quite frankly, the fact that there was kind of like an implied red line over audits for fraud should have been the end for the American taxpayer.
00:56:06.700Like a violent, bloody, evil war supporting that.
00:56:12.220I guess that's fine because we've done that in the past.
00:56:14.600But one where the American taxpayer is being milked by freaking foreign oligarchs that are stashing this away in yachts somewhere.
00:56:40.040I'm actually surprised that those numbers are millions and not billions.
00:56:43.340I'm actually really pleased that the amount of money that we're sending to Ukraine now is only less than a billion and Israel less than a billion there.
00:56:51.540So I think it's a move in the right direction.
00:56:53.500But it's like, guys, what are you doing, though?
00:56:55.820It's three hundred and twenty six days.
00:56:57.380You got to govern for the American people and not for the special interests.
00:58:58.920And you know what I heard behind the scenes is that, well, the way they're doing contracting in the DOD is that they're requiring certain data not be accessible or used by foreign national employees.
00:59:11.300And if you're a technology company, you've been hiring these people with both hands and fists.
00:59:16.100And apparently, apparently Google may have won that contract because they were able to convince Uncle Sam that they were the least dirty shirt and were able to like firewall this information.
00:59:29.940Like if we ever got in a war with India, if there were ever data that China wanted and they were willing to burn a bridge, you know, it would be theirs.
00:59:37.580They are next to China, which is our biggest.
01:00:29.780Yeah, that's the kind of thing that Republicans in Congress should be considering.
01:00:35.900But, you know, I'm pretty sure that sort of like the big business chamber of commerce folks down in Washington, D.C. aren't going to consider that.
01:00:43.640We've certainly done things like that.
01:00:45.340Remember, we've had immigration laws that have forced our immigrants to come from places who will assimilate.
01:00:51.800That was literally the law in America up until 1965 for almost 200 years.
01:00:58.080That's what we did is we took immigrants from places.
01:01:01.660First off, we stopped immigrants when we were out of room because I think that first great wave of immigration in the early 1900s precipitated the Great Depression for 100%.
01:01:11.560And then we cracked down on immigration and then we opened the floodgates again.
01:01:15.400Infinity immigrants from everywhere on Earth.
01:01:18.060And it is a failed experience as Donald Trump is now talking about, but the Republicans are not.
01:01:24.080So these people are being left behind in the dust by a right wing movement that they don't even understand.