The Great America Show - The Great America Saturday Show： February 15, 2025

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

00:00:06.440 so much for joining us i hope you all had a great weekend and enjoyed the super bowl with your

00:00:11.160 friends family and loved ones what a super bowl it was now we start the countdown until next

00:00:16.240 football season where i will be uh in hiding until that season starts as i'm now in denial

00:00:22.380 with no sports left to watch let's get into some news of the day folks the marxist dams are having 0.69

00:00:28.380 a very tough time fathoming with elon musk the world's smartest and richest man cutting government

00:00:34.060 waste and what are they so terrified about are they terrified that he may uncover their slush funds and

00:00:40.700 where they're stealing money and laundering money because it certainly seems as so uh marxist 0.84

00:00:47.320 deranged dam maxine waters among some of the folks leading the fight trying to barrage into the

00:00:52.520 department of education office last friday these folks can't seem to fathom with what's going on

00:00:58.380 uh elon musk uncovering all the fraud and waste we've seen now in usa id money going to politico

00:01:04.460 we now find out that usa id spent some money a few thousand dollars in polling with gallup polling

00:01:10.700 why would the united states government be involved in polling now we knew they were involved in npr and

00:01:16.300 funding them we found out they were funding politico to do hit pieces on president trump but now we find

00:01:22.200 out they're doing polling maybe they were manipulating those polls who knows i want to bring in our guest

00:01:27.480 today he's gop strategist and pollster the great john mclaughlin also a pollster for president donald

00:01:33.720 j trump john it's great to have you back with us here on the great america show the last day the last

00:01:37.700 time we spoke was uh on that great day january 20th and president trump was made 47 once again

00:01:43.600 without incident the marxist dems relented and they rolled over like they should because they lost 0.84

00:01:48.960 um i want to start with some of the developing news we have usaid now i've heard about usaid before

00:01:55.680 i never really did much digging into it i don't think anyone did because we thought it was this

00:01:59.520 well greased uh well oiled machine that was you know doing good for kids in africa and uh underdeveloped

00:02:07.020 nations feeding them it turns out uh they were doing a lot more than that 80 something million dollars to

00:02:12.060 the clinton foundation we also find out they were paying for polling now why would a federal government

00:02:17.280 agency be paying for polling your thoughts first on the polling aspect of it john well they

00:02:22.920 politicized it and they weaponized it i have clients in europe who are in democracies you know

00:02:29.000 nato allies democratic nations and they were interfering with uh grants to uh uh grants to uh spread

00:02:38.440 propaganda against uh right of center governments it's a left of center agency uh in the united states

00:02:44.720 they were subsidizing politico politico is very influential in terms particularly on the left

00:02:50.180 but it's very influential with the media and uh it's kind of like a soros modeled operation where

00:02:56.960 they see these things they bias it to the left and they corrupt it and uh you know their biases they carry

00:03:04.740 stories about how great open borders are and immigration and they don't carry things about uh

00:03:11.720 illegal immigrants committing crimes etc they don't uh talk about you know terrorism the way we might

00:03:19.060 talk about terrorism uh they don't talk about uh cutting government waste precisely because they are

00:03:25.520 government waste and when you talk specifically about usa id they uh um they were just giving out grants

00:03:33.580 for all sorts of propaganda in terms of dei to foreign countries and and uh uh transgender ideology

00:03:41.700 that really goes against the culture of those countries right and and you know i poll in these other

00:03:49.440 countries uh in you know for democratic allies and you've got countries like uh georgia the georgia

00:03:57.520 republic they had an election in december and the prime minister was re-elected but soros and the gang are

00:04:03.220 trying to uh undermine the government precisely because even though georgian voters and georgian people

00:04:10.800 are anti-russian anti-putin they want to try to drag them into the ukraine war to be like a second front

00:04:17.480 and it's it's it's wrong instead of stopping wars they're propagating this kind of stuff where

00:04:24.200 um usaid is is like um not liked because they're going against cultures of people in europe and elsewhere

00:04:32.800 in the world where instead of uh being friends of the united states and allies of the united states

00:04:39.000 they're trying to turn them into ideological tools that are driven by the biden harris administration

00:04:45.200 you know aligned with soros and it's it's really hurt the united states it's made the united states

00:04:50.840 look weak it's made the united states look corrupt and uh you know thank god president trump's exposing

00:04:57.820 this and getting it to a point where marco rubio is going to take over that agency and since they never

00:05:04.520 challenged any the the validity of any of these projects and why they were doing them hopefully

00:05:11.140 get rid of those bureaucrats who were just sending american tax dollars uh overseas to be wasted and 1.00

00:05:17.240 americans are already suspicious of foreign aid so this is just this just affirmed our suspicions and

00:05:24.100 sadly it was correct the crazy thing john is now if you go back and look at we know who's paid first of

00:05:29.680 i didn't know politico was paid by the u.s government but you look like outlets like npr and

00:05:34.520 you look at every single story john they ran russia collusion russia collusion was a hoax we knew from

00:05:41.100 the inception john it was total bs i think these outlets knew i mean they portray themselves to be

00:05:46.860 idiots uh you know on the main stage but i actually think they're they're really smart and it's a game of

00:05:52.220 deception that they run uh rather than a game of intellect um yet this is the government john paying

00:05:58.540 to come out and speak out against our own president when they knowingly willingly know it's not true

00:06:04.600 it's all fake it's a lie they ruined the man's life they tried to get him killed two times uh they

00:06:11.660 impeached him how many times we've now got impeachment number one from the lunatic al green the the 0.84

00:06:17.480 resident medical patient over on capitol hill i mean how much more is donald trump supposed to take

00:06:23.880 before he actually does retribution and by retribution i don't mean uh going out and doing

00:06:29.640 illegal things i mean by like rooting out the corruption so that it never happens to someone

00:06:35.480 again uh you hit the nail on the head when you said the word corruption i mean joe biden besides being

00:06:41.160 the most incompetent uh failure that ever served as president of the united states as president trump

00:06:47.040 has pointed out and it helped us win the campaign uh win the election because the american people

00:06:51.760 already knew it um corruption is the main word and they corrupted npr which was supposed to be

00:06:58.560 a kind of neutral just fact-based uh organization that was supposed to reach areas that didn't have

00:07:05.760 media outlets etc and and the same for pbs and you know yesterday you find out there's a study

00:07:11.960 from the non-partisan media research center that brum bozel's organization released where npr and pbs

00:07:20.180 were were banning abolishing basically they were targeting conservative outlets whether it was

00:07:26.920 one american news network news max news max definitely uh they were a media research center

00:07:33.840 anything that was a conservative writer center source or balance to the propaganda that they were putting

00:07:40.280 out um they they basically you know censored them from uh the pbs and npr news media

00:07:49.460 and that's dangerous and they were doing this overseas and brem bozel's now her and him and carrie lake

00:07:55.020 are up to be uh uh running the media boards that uh control this which is the prerogative of the

00:08:01.780 president and uh you know they what they're doing is they're they're holding they're going to try to

00:08:07.240 hold up those senate appointments and uh we've got it we've got to get them passed as soon as possible

00:08:12.320 because you know there once was a time for us 20th century guys who are older there was once a time

00:08:20.240 where the voice of america was a voice of integrity and freedom around the world there once was a time

00:08:26.160 when radio free europe was a beacon of hope to people in communist captive countries instead

00:08:33.140 it'd been infiltrated by the marxists here in the united states and they've become propaganda tools 1.00

00:08:38.960 and they actually undermine our democratic allies and they undermine right of center governments

00:08:44.880 and that has to be stopped i mean it's like i mean president trump needs to take control of these

00:08:50.800 media outlets again and become a beacon of of uh freedom for for the rest of the world because

00:08:58.420 nobody's spending nobody's you know telling the truth on the international scene about

00:09:03.820 the communist chinese party um nobody's telling the truth about you know what russia is doing and

00:09:11.180 what the united states what needs to be done and that'll help bring peace to the world i mean yesterday

00:09:16.860 was the uh uh yesterday was the birthday of ronald reagan and ronald reagan what he did was was become a

00:09:24.620 principled consistent voice of freedom against communism throughout the world so much so that you know by the time

00:09:32.940 he was done with his eight years of presidency without firing a shot maybe grenada was a little piece

00:09:39.180 actually where we beat the cubans or whatever right but without firing a shot within a year after he left

00:09:45.260 office the brilliant wall connect collapsed right and communism fell and the iron curtain went down

00:09:51.020 and freedom you know reach people that that never knew it in their lifetimes and now you've got

00:09:58.700 sadly the the tools that we use to get information out uh to to encourage uh people to stand up for

00:10:07.020 freedom and to and to you know that way they can find out the truth those tools have been corrupted by

00:10:12.220 the left in the united states to actually you know propagate marxist uh ideology and government ideology

00:10:19.980 that's that's basically left of center and socialist you know the problem john and i've been saying this

00:10:25.340 often these shows that i've been doing and it really made me open my eyes obviously before

00:10:30.620 this has been going on for the last four years but it really made me open my eyes when that plane

00:10:34.460 crashed in dc i couldn't turn on a news network john and get the news everything was this this this and

00:10:40.940 this and then trump came out and said it was a dei issue now every single news network's saying trump's

00:10:45.820 a psychopath that nurse he's calling a dei you can't turn on a news network now john i don't watch television

00:10:51.820 uh i listen to very few podcasts i listen to joe rogan podcasts about really the only thing i listen

00:10:57.100 to but sometimes i do want to turn on the tv john and find out the news i want to know what's going

00:11:01.660 on you can't even turn on a local news network here in new york city without it giving you some sort

00:11:06.780 of bias spin trump did this trump did that it's it's never covering it down the middle make your own

00:11:13.100 determination do you think we could ever get back to a society where we can turn on a news network and it

00:11:19.020 used to be cnn i gotta be honest when i want to find out news i turn on cnn cnn's got very good

00:11:24.140 reporters when it comes to news fox news not so much um if i want to get news i'll listen to them but

00:11:31.580 even then their reporters get into the dirt of anti-trump this anti-trump that can we ever get back to

00:11:37.900 america where you can turn on you know your bunny fix your bunny ears you may remember that right

00:11:43.180 yeah right you need to get to uh i spent a few days at my grandparents house as a kid and uh and

00:11:49.340 turn on the news john and listen to you know a non-biased anchor tell you the news and let you

00:11:55.260 make the determination for yourself well there's definitely a uh a huge vacuum for that and people

00:12:01.660 would would welcome that but you know i mean that the tragedy when you mentioned about that the

00:12:07.980 the helicopter and the air did the airline crash in washington which was absolutely tragic

00:12:14.060 and it appears to be should have been prevented uh uh but uh but you know the the the news outlets

00:12:21.660 you're talking about their ratings have nosedived for a reason because people know they're not getting

00:12:27.020 the truth they know they're being propagandized they know that uh uh that basically the coverage

00:12:33.660 they're censoring the truth and they're they're slanting the coverage for to to help their point

00:12:39.740 of view and that's why cnn's nodes dive you know it's like i have a different opinion about their

00:12:45.020 coverage but they're uh cnn's nose dive msnbc is nose diving yeah and also it's generationally people

00:12:51.580 don't want to go back to the the usual viewing habits and now what happens is most people stream

00:12:58.860 and they instead of uh being passive and grazers of the news what they are is they're hunters

00:13:06.620 they're looking for the truth and as the hunters look for the truth they come to your podcast they

00:13:12.060 come to other podcasts they also go to streaming news services so it's it's not it's not disappointment

00:13:19.580 television of the 20th century it's basically you know what i want to find out i'll look at my phone

00:13:25.100 because you can look at you know your iphone or your google phone whatever you look at you you find

00:13:29.900 out what's going on at that point in time and uh um and it's and it's changed the the media viewing

00:13:35.980 habits but also the the news media because of their bias has basically turned off their audiences

00:13:45.100 and and uh and the world has changed in terms of well i want to find out what's going on i'm going to

00:13:51.260 go to president trump's true social right and i'm going to look at truth and i'm going to look at

00:13:55.340 rumble and they'd rather look at reality then and they'll watch news services where they get a live

00:14:01.420 video feed then trust somebody to edit it look at the big story about kamala harris with 60 minutes

00:14:08.540 yep i mean it might as well have been a campaign produced ad because they took out all the outtakes

00:14:14.540 where she was bad and they they edited in answers that they thought would help her i mean it was a

00:14:21.740 campaign contribution it wasn't a news report at all and uh and that's why you know cbs you know 60

00:14:29.660 minutes their credibility is down and their ratings are down and uh you know instead the highest rated

00:14:35.500 programs they have are nfl football games right and so you know hopefully hopefully those outcomes

00:14:42.460 aren't tinkered with but we'll see yeah so uh and and you know what president trump going to the

00:14:48.460 super bowl this weekend is going to up the ratings on that program so uh it's it's i and i think i

00:14:55.820 think people are coming back to their most reliable source of news tends to be their friends and family

00:15:01.900 ironically yeah and people go to facebook and social media to find out what they know is true or what

00:15:07.900 the people they think is true and uh it's sad because uh the days of the news media being

00:15:13.420 unbiased and trying to hide their uh their prejudices it's over yeah it's like it's right there in front

00:15:20.540 of you yeah you're absolutely the first first i want to go back to you you disagree with my cnn

00:15:25.740 coverage obviously their editor is total garbage i'm just talking about the stuff that they actually

00:15:30.620 report news you know they get their reporters on the ground fast and they get to the scenes that's

00:15:34.780 by that i mean that i would never listen to the editorial garbage although i do think scott

00:15:38.940 jennings does a good job um going back to um the people's thirst for wanting more news wanting the

00:15:48.060 truth and the honesty i can't tell you how many emails like my guys send me that it gets sent in

00:15:52.620 to us that people are uh hateful towards me because i don't do more episodes we do five days a week

00:15:58.140 on the weekends we do reruns uh some clips of our best episodes that perform during the week

00:16:02.860 for people to you know catch up if they missed it or whatever and we've got guys sending in i can't

00:16:08.300 watch the show anymore you don't do seven days i mean how how hard do you want these guys to work

00:16:12.540 it's not i don't just come out here john and and plop out here i i read hours before the show we do

00:16:17.980 hours of reading and research make sure we're bringing you the truth and the honesty and there's

00:16:22.940 people who are mad at me because i can't do seven days a week i would never make any lou did seven days

00:16:28.220 a week with updates and stuff like that because uh you know this is what lou lived and breathed um 0.61

00:16:34.780 uh you know they can't make people work seven days a week but we'll wish maybe maybe in the future we

00:16:39.500 can uh also you'd mentioned social media access i was talking with tim birchett of tennessee the other

00:16:44.460 day and it really does make a difference that you can go on twitter and write disdain or or

00:16:51.580 fluff to your members of congress your politicians your favorite celebrities and them sit there and read it

00:16:56.620 it's not like the old days john where you'd call the member of congress's office tell them how much

00:17:00.380 you hate the guy hang up the phone and they relay the message or send a letter via pigeon carrier or

00:17:05.900 send a fax or whatever method you used to have to do it it really has changed the political climate now

00:17:11.340 that president trump goes on twitter and truth social and sees what people are saying responds to

00:17:16.140 what people are saying he actually does himself um especially if it's a two o'clock in the morning

00:17:20.700 you know it's president trump uh members of congress politicians it really has changed the

00:17:26.460 political climate john i think for the better uh what's your thoughts on that well first of all

00:17:31.260 by the way i i gotta you give you sympathies because trying to follow on lou dobbs's legacy

00:17:37.980 is pretty hard but you're doing a great job and uh and and to credit you when somebody's saying you

00:17:45.340 got to do more of it that's your audience they want more of it you you've got a good product and

00:17:50.140 you're getting people another point of view and facts out that they don't normally have so you got

00:17:55.020 to do more of that so john try to make your audience happy and then figure out a way to

00:18:03.180 to live up to the standard that lou set you set up for you i have the same problem because

00:18:09.100 you know donald trump having been having worked for him since 2011 and and uh survived three

00:18:15.820 campaigns with him he tells me what my polls say so so right now i'm doing very well because he has

00:18:22.860 his highest job ratings ever although some of these media polls are starting to bias them again

00:18:27.660 nope trump has we had you know just uh just completed poll the end of january i want to take

00:18:32.700 that i want to do a whole segment so let's go you know let's let's take a quick break here

00:18:36.620 the audience will be mad that i just cut you off tell me i talk too much but yeah it is what it is

00:18:43.420 um let's take a quick break we're talking with a brilliant pollster gop strategist john mclaughlin we

00:18:47.980 return we're going to take up his mna uh polling we want to know how donald trump is doing on the

00:18:53.100 world stage on the the stage here in america congressional approval ready we're gonna get

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00:20:07.420 john mclaughlin john you do your mna poll every month uh once a month which means 12 a year uh give us

00:20:14.460 the latest on what's going on let's start with first uh the direction of this country where are

00:20:19.820 we heading uh are americans optimistic or pessimistic well at the end of january the numbers were actually

00:20:28.220 getting better because biden left president trump with a big mess yeah i mean in terms of you know

00:20:33.420 you've got the economy is not as good as they said it was stagnating people know that they're not finding

00:20:38.620 the jobs that they want to find a lot of the jobs that they said they were created were like fake

00:20:43.580 jobs or government jobs people find out now they work for the government that are remote but in

00:20:48.860 december we had 66 to 24 they said the country was on the wrong track in january it closed 16 points

00:20:55.980 where the wrong track dropped to 58 the right direction went up to 32 republicans the majority

00:21:01.340 of republicans actually said we're in the right direction because they're recognizing president trump's

00:21:05.740 success now there's serious problems in terms of inflation inflation people said 84 said it's still

00:21:12.300 too high 50 saying still they've been they've been negatively impacted so much by uh inflation that

00:21:19.340 they're having trouble making making basic necessities you also have uh they a closing of the gap where

00:21:27.500 is the economy getting better or worse and last month it was fifth in december 55 37 and in january

00:21:34.380 close to 10 point gap 49 said it was getting worse 39 actually thought it was getting better and we

00:21:40.380 had a poll recently for the job creators network where uh we had the highest index ever in terms of

00:21:48.220 them having a positive attitude towards um their own uh business and uh and and uh the national

00:21:57.740 environment so for the first time we were like in major positive territory as far as

00:22:03.100 where the small business owners thought the national environment was going and that's the that's a

00:22:07.420 scientific survey of 400 small business owners that we take and by the way they said 59 to 19 they said

00:22:13.740 the trump tax cuts helped them so and that's poll again you've got it's diverse it's not political

00:22:21.660 it's small business owners who are struggling but you've got in there going back to our national poll of

00:22:26.860 voters i mean there's there's a renewed sense of optimism where things are getting better but

00:22:33.740 we're not there we still have a long way to go we've got they they want the border secure they know

00:22:39.340 it's not all the way there they know it's only just started they also want the economy to grow again

00:22:45.820 and and when you ask you know about goals they'll tell you about two-thirds of the voters are saying we

00:22:52.540 got to secure the border and we have to have tax cuts to reduce inflation and grow the economy so uh

00:22:59.260 so so president trump on the other hand he's got an approval rating of 52 to 43 straight up

00:23:05.820 uh which is the highest that we've seen since election day where he was 56 43 also when you ask

00:23:12.540 it do you approve of trump and his policies or do you approve of policies but not his personality or

00:23:19.020 you just not like trump's personality or his policies 57 like his policies which is really

00:23:25.980 good because those are kind of reagan-like numbers so only 38 really opposes policies and don't like

00:23:32.700 him personally so and and what's interesting his job the job that he's doing pulls up his favorable

00:23:39.180 ratings where he's still in that positive uh biden and harris by the way biden on the other hand 56

00:23:44.460 percent of all americans are still unfavorable to him it's the inverse of trump i mean look he you

00:23:50.220 know he pardoned the whole family as he was going out the door except for him and jill and it's like

00:23:55.820 he's just i mean he's just uh it's it's the damage he did to the country we are we are so lucky what we're

00:24:03.420 finding out now about what his administration was doing and how weak they were and how corrupt they were

00:24:09.500 we are we are so lucky that uh um that that president trump won that election is now uh using

00:24:16.700 his experience using his his determination to root out the corruption and root out the uh uh the failure

00:24:24.220 and and you know get the government moving back in the right direction working for the people instead

00:24:28.700 of uh uh you know the special interests in the washington dc uh what what people call the deep state i mean

00:24:36.540 it's just they they clearly put uh the government's interest ahead of the people and now the people

00:24:41.660 are coming back in charge yeah a few things you'd mention there uh the trump tax cuts i think we're

00:24:48.300 expecting those to maybe uh start getting revved up around june july is that correct where we're

00:24:53.340 going to start seeing they said uh before uh is it labor day or memorial day uh where they were

00:24:59.740 going to have them set and ready to go and among some of the biggest things were his campaign promises

00:25:03.820 no tax on tips uh social security uh no tax on overtime i mean these things are massive it's such

00:25:11.900 a simple equation john i'm not an economist you're not an economist but we understand common sense

00:25:16.860 if you put more money in the american people's pockets they are going to spend it maybe to get

00:25:21.980 one out of every 10 maybe one out of every 15 who put some money under their mattress because they're

00:25:26.460 saving for rainy day that's fine but the general population is going to go out and buy their kids the

00:25:31.260 toys that they couldn't buy them before they're going to go out and buy filet mignon for dinner

00:25:35.100 instead of skirt steak you know you can go down the list of things where they're going to spend

00:25:39.660 the money but it's going right back into the economy and when it goes back into the economy there's sales

00:25:44.140 tax and there's it's just a recirculation of the money why are the democrats so against tax cuts it's

00:25:52.700 tax cuts are the american people and by the way john corporate tax cuts are the same exact thing

00:25:57.820 when you give uh corporations tax cuts some of them do stock buybacks and for people who aren't so

00:26:03.260 well versed in that stock buybacks drive the stock price higher people who have 401ks make more money

00:26:08.300 people have iras make more money people who invest in the stock make more money wall street makes more

00:26:13.100 money optimism goes up you get the whole trend on where i'm going with this why are the democrats so

00:26:17.820 against this well it's about control they think they're smarter than you and they think they should

00:26:23.660 raise your taxes and take your money and they do a better job spending it as they've shown with usa id

00:26:30.460 and other things they think that they can do a better job than you and it really threatens washington

00:26:37.340 that the people would want tax cuts now we did polling two questions in the january survey

00:26:45.020 we asked them do they think you know the fed does a better job than they get credit for for the federal

00:26:50.060 government only 25 percent of the voters said that they said it's wasteful and inefficient 64

00:26:56.860 and when we asked them how much of the federal budget they think is wasted and we gave them choices

00:27:01.500 going you know in intervals going from zero to a hundred percent the average was 38 this is the

00:27:08.540 perception of the voters that they think 38 was the mean score what they think is wasted by the federal

00:27:14.860 government now that's why back in december when we took the poll uh well we asked them should the trump

00:27:22.460 tax cuts be made permanent uh 70 of all voters said that should only 17 opposed 58 of democrats said it

00:27:30.700 should yeah do you want no tax on tips they approve 71 21 do you want no tax on overtime 66 25 you want no

00:27:39.980 tax on social security income 82 to 11 the voters support that there is huge public opinion support

00:27:47.820 uh for getting this done now in the january survey the generic ballot for congress was 48 republican

00:27:54.060 the democrats had collapsed to 40 well this was it was dead even on election day right so the democrats

00:28:00.300 agenda has been vanquished because they decide that they you know they want to have chemical castration

00:28:05.820 of children whether they're or chemical sterilization i mean they're they're literally fighting trump's

00:28:11.100 orders to uh where we don't want this to happen in children they are they're fighting an executive order

00:28:18.140 about uh men you know going into girls locker rooms and playing women's sports etc they're fighting that

00:28:26.460 um they want to keep this money in washington to spend your money on this silly stuff that is absolutely

00:28:34.540 wasteful wasteful wasteful and hurtful and they don't want the republicans to pass the one big

00:28:41.020 beautiful bill that secures the border and and uh provides uh tax cuts that would grow the economy

00:28:48.860 they want to win the midterm elections and take back congress and the house and the senate and the way

00:28:54.300 to do that is to stop the republicans from getting the tax cuts because trump's tax cuts in his first

00:29:02.780 uh term didn't pass till december they did health care first and they lost that by a vote paul ryan

00:29:09.580 and so the tax cuts didn't go into effect trump lost the midterm well the republicans lost the

00:29:16.140 midterm election right paul ryan mitch mcconnell they lost the midterm elections and trump got impeached

00:29:23.020 yep and you know if you think the democrats you know don't know what they're doing you're exactly wrong

00:29:30.300 yep they're going to do everything they can to slow down that reconciliation bill they're going to

00:29:35.820 try to fake fake us out on immigration because you remember uh in december we asked should you know

00:29:41.820 do you approve or disapprove of support of deporting illegal uh illegal aliens who are criminals 86 to 8 0.92

00:29:48.380 the voters support that do you support or oppose deporting illegal alien illegal immigrants that's the

00:29:54.380 exact way we asked it 66 to 27 american voters support uh deporting illegal uh immigrants so the democrats

00:30:04.620 want to stop all that the republicans i used to have i had a great friend pat caddell pat caddell

00:30:11.660 supported president trump he was jimmy carter's pollster back in the 70s uh well i worked for finkelstein

00:30:17.820 who was one of reagan's pollsters i didn't know him then but i got to know him later on and pat had a

00:30:22.540 saying his saying was the democrats are the crooked party and the republicans are the stupid party yep

00:30:29.580 so the democrats want to see how stupid the republicans are right now uh you know are they

00:30:35.580 going to support president trump or are they going to you know listen to washington and not listen to

00:30:41.340 the people that support president trump the majority of americans support president trump whether it's

00:30:46.380 on securing the border on on uh growing the economy through tax cuts uh on cutting the waste in

00:30:53.500 government if the republicans don't get their act together and and you know do these things and we're

00:31:00.460 talking about before memorial day you can't wait till labor day you can't wait till later on this year

00:31:05.980 if they don't do that they will be the minority party in both houses in the midterms and that's what

00:31:11.980 chuck schumer knows and by the way chuck schumer right now he's a 24 favorable 39 unfavorable the

00:31:18.460 republicans should make should should point out he's opposing them on these message messages and and

00:31:25.020 drive his negatives over 50 percent that he becomes the next joe biden because if we don't get these

00:31:31.740 things done we will lose the majorities in the senate in the house and and electing child trump won't have

00:31:38.940 been enough to uh uh to basically put our country back on the right track uh you've got uh just go

00:31:45.820 into that real quick uh chuck schumer 39 unfavorable uh kamala harris 50 unfavorable it seems like ebola

00:31:53.420 is probably more favorable than chuck schumer at this point in america at a 25 favorability rating i think

00:32:00.300 you'd probably get more than 25 who would view ebola not knowing what it is it's more favorable than this

00:32:05.020 man um he's just that unlikable we saw what he did with the whole tariff scam where he held up a

00:32:10.380 a thing of corona it's not a corona i wish it was an avocado and he chuck doesn't go to the store and

00:32:17.420 go grocery shopping i mean stop fooling yourself back to the trump tax cuts i'd be more than happy to

00:32:22.940 have one of these tofu eating uh harvard educated yale educated blue-haired liberals come on the show and 0.61

00:32:28.620 debate them any day of the week on tax cuts on immigration because they're wrong i mean there's

00:32:34.940 no way to put it illegal immigrants aren't good for this country it's as simple as that tax cuts are 1.00

00:32:40.460 good for this country the stimulation of growth for this country that's a fact you can spin it any way

00:32:45.980 you want it and these these brilliant uh economists try to do so but they make themselves look like absolute

00:32:52.220 fools uh the gop and and the midterm elections we talk about it often on the show about paul ryan

00:32:58.620 screwing the pooch i don't think i think mike johnson maybe has learned his lesson i can't tell

00:33:02.300 yet i'm not going to say for sure that he's fully reformed because he hasn't been a good speaker up

00:33:07.260 until uh january when he was re-elected hopefully he's learned his lesson um i don't think he's

00:33:12.620 compromised i don't think you know he's the one of the poorest men in congress i don't think anyone's

00:33:17.500 giving him money i think he just thinks differently than the the the maga republican i'll say it nicely

00:33:26.380 that way it's going to come down to them fighting john they don't fight it's what it is the republicans

00:33:31.660 never fight every fight they come to they roll over on their back like a golden retriever as congressman

00:33:36.700 andy biggs puts it um there's going to be a fight for these tax cuts we spoke about before cash

00:33:42.940 patel and tulsi being held up and this scares the hell out of me because they're now held up another

00:33:48.220 week right they were supposed to be brought in last week now it's held up an absolute another week

00:33:53.020 no fight from the republicans they're fine with it they roll over on their back chuck grassley

00:33:57.100 rolls over on his back how do we get these people to start fighting well i think uh fighting for us

00:34:02.940 uh i think speaker johnson i think will pretty much do what president trump asked him to do and i

00:34:09.100 think he was i think he was holding on to his speakership precisely so so president trump could win

00:34:14.780 the election and and get these things moving um senator thune who i worked for years ago in the

00:34:21.340 90s when he first got elected to congress and um i actually did the survey that showed he could beat

00:34:27.980 tom daschle and he uh i ran the independent expenditure to help him beat tom daschle with

00:34:34.060 an important election in south dakota in 2004 uh and john thune hasn't had a tough race since then

00:34:41.820 and the people of south dakota like him but he's now the leader of the senate so i think you're going

00:34:48.300 to see both leaders defer to president trump and rightly so because it's his agenda that will get

00:34:56.860 their majorities re-elected and and the in 2002 um we were able to we were the lead pollster for the

00:35:06.620 national republicans congressional committee tom davis was the leader of that and we also had

00:35:11.740 done work for the rnc the year before in virginia to help them keep their virginia house of delegates

00:35:16.860 but we used tactics and we used ideas and messages that were aggressive with the democrats that

00:35:24.380 enabled the republicans while while george w bush was president to pick up two senate seats and house

00:35:30.300 and eight house seats and defy history and keep their majorities president trump has got a very

00:35:36.940 good political team um sending them ideas about what they need to do to keep their majorities and

00:35:43.580 they've got to go play offense and the the most immediate thing is it's not about politics anymore

00:35:49.740 as much as or even the daily news cycle it's performance we have to reduce inflation we have to

00:35:56.780 grow the economy we have to secure the border we have to stop these endless wars we have to uh lower

00:36:04.620 crime in the united states if people see results in the first year of president trump's term it makes it

00:36:14.140 possible that we can win you know the midterms for those of us old enough to remember i got a picture

00:36:19.660 up there with ronald reagan behind me he's like yeah because i did work for uh arthur finkelstein was one

00:36:25.180 of his pollsters and reagan didn't his tax cuts didn't go into effect till 1983 they got him passed

00:36:32.300 didn't go into effect till 83 in the me in the meantime we lost 26 house seats and somebody pointed

00:36:37.820 out to me it could have been worse yeah we picked up a senate seat but you know at the time the democrats

00:36:43.900 controlled congress and the tax cuts went into effect in time for reagan to be re-elected but it didn't help

00:36:51.020 us in the midterms this is all about now getting the results getting the performance to win the

00:36:57.580 midterms and uh and and i think the one thing you can count on is president trump yeah he wants to he

00:37:04.700 wants to restore america he wants to you know it's it's always been his slogan ever since we sat in his

00:37:11.020 office and he said well let's talk about you know my slogan is going to be make america great again we

00:37:16.220 were in his office on the 26th floor of tom tower and i was at his desk and uh i had a button with

00:37:22.380 me which because it was from 1980 of reagan saying let's make america great again that was one of

00:37:28.060 reagan's slogans in 1980 right and trump looked at him he says well he says let's i'm saying make it's

00:37:35.660 it's like and he just he just threw the he threw the it's probably still at his desk on the 26th floor

00:37:41.820 there he took the button put it in there but it was uh but it was it was it was true then it's even

00:37:48.540 truer today we've got to make america great again that's going to be trump's legacy that's what he

00:37:52.940 wants to do and we've got we literally have only a few months to get it done this year and if those

00:37:59.900 republican members in the house and senate like being in the majority like being committee chairs like uh

00:38:05.900 getting laws passed and bills done they better hop on board and and get this get the get these

00:38:12.140 policies enacted because that's the only way they're going to keep their majorities we're talking with

00:38:17.820 john mclaughlin brilliant gop strategist and pollster we're going to come right back with him go a little

00:38:22.460 bit deeper into these midterm elections i want to talk about gaza which is going to be uh the new slogan

00:38:28.620 should be make gaza great again and i want to go into the federal elections commissioner has been fired but

00:38:33.980 she's not leaving her post this is a lady who's uh among some of the many swamp members uh you know 1.00

00:38:41.900 who who makes dc a swamp so we're gonna take one quick break here we're coming right back with john

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00:39:51.260 folks we're back with john mclaughlin a gop strategist and pollster john we were talking about

00:39:55.900 the midterm elections to me it's this is probably the easiest midterms for the republicans in a very

00:40:02.380 very long time there's no infighting inside the party right now uh the republicans are fully united

00:40:08.060 behind president trump it seems fully united behind mike johnson fully united behind john thune right so

00:40:13.900 you have the unity which has been very hard for the republicans to do okay you have that aspect you have

00:40:18.940 an agenda an america first agenda which the american people overwhelmingly voted for on november 5th

00:40:24.860 okay so you have that aspect to me it's very simple you pass the tax cuts you you get in inflation

00:40:31.740 down i think those two simple things coupled with this border thing that i mean we're going to talk

00:40:37.020 about that as well but tom holman seems to be having very under control um you've got three major issues

00:40:42.940 right there the saying is it's hard to mess up an empty lot it seems to me in my opinion that this is

00:40:50.140 just an empty lot the republicans just have to do what they promised they were going to do and we'll

00:40:55.180 pick up some senate seats we'll hold senate seats more importantly and and we'll hold the house for

00:41:00.220 another two years for president trump to finish out his agenda and then pass the torch to maybe jd vance

00:41:07.020 is your interpretation of this similar to mine and how easy it is and that's what we call it a layup

00:41:12.780 politics yes uh government it's never that easy so but uh but it's it's like it's a clear path i mean

00:41:22.940 president trump is a historic figure in american politics he's done uh he's probably won elections

00:41:29.980 he won the republican nomination greater than ronald reagan ever did you know winning primaries that

00:41:36.060 were blowouts that and when we won the when we won the nomination he was the front runner for president and

00:41:42.540 he stayed the front runner for president and we and we won the national popular vote because of that

00:41:47.740 so so it's very simple he laid out a very specific agenda he laid out a very straightforward plan to

00:41:55.740 get these things done and now he's enacting them if you want to know what president trump's going to do

00:42:01.020 just follow what he says he's a businessman he's not a politician he's somebody from outside the system

00:42:06.620 who's been elected to reform it and he's broadening his coalition when he gets people like rfk jr and he

00:42:12.300 gets people like tulsi gabbard gabbard former democrats part of his coalition it's an expanding

00:42:18.300 majority and it can get even bigger yeah and it's it's up coming upon these democrats these republicans

00:42:25.980 in the senate to cut the nonsense out and get tulsi through and get rfk through they knew that the

00:42:32.620 american people knew the senators knew that the these people were presumably going to be part of president

00:42:37.580 trump's administration before november 5th before he won the election they knew what they were getting they

00:42:42.140 had plenty of time to to do it stop dragging your feet stop letting chuck schumer call the shots

00:42:46.620 here he's in the minority stop acting like he's in the majority and stop being so terrified of this

00:42:51.420 man there's absolutely nothing to be terrified of chuck schumer i promise you of that uh you want to

00:42:57.500 look at skeletons in the closet i promise you uh it probably looks a lot worse for chuck schumer

00:43:03.020 than a lot of these senate republicans enough's enough cut the bs uh john i want to turn to gaza which

00:43:10.060 seems to be the news of late uh president trump taking over a territory which i think is probably

00:43:15.260 one of the smartest things he's he's proposed possibly ever it's a land that's been long

00:43:21.340 disputed uh what better way than to let america take it make it habitable and make us our safe haven

00:43:28.540 in the middle east a lot of people on the right and on the left have an issue with america being so

00:43:33.740 tied in with israel saying that israel you know we live for israel okay we take gaza i think it

00:43:39.580 settles both people on both sides gaza will be ours it'll be our safe haven in the middle east

00:43:43.900 and it'll be independent what's your thoughts well as i mentioned you know there's a picture behind me

00:43:49.660 of myself and reagan a long time ago there's also a picture of uh myself and netanyahu behind me on the

00:43:55.420 shelf in this office and netanyahu i've worked for since 2003 uh through his last election in 2022

00:44:05.420 and uh you know i've during president trump's first term uh bb loved it because he had a

00:44:12.460 president he could work with and president trump moved the embassy to jerusalem recognizing that as

00:44:17.740 the capital he also gave him the goland heights which was very important considering the challenges

00:44:23.900 they had recently from hezbollah and from uh uh syria on the northern border because they've been under

00:44:29.420 attack since october 7th of 23 uh from all sides uh from hamas in the south and all these iranian

00:44:39.740 proxies whether it was in syria or whether it was in lebanon or whether it was in gaza um they they had

00:44:47.020 israel under siege and joe biden um you know was kind of straddling his options he was very weak

00:44:54.940 and it was this would have never happened october 7th the attacks from gaza and israel would have

00:45:01.100 never happened if trump was president because they were afraid of him and iran frankly didn't have

00:45:05.660 the money and trump as we speak is putting the sanctions back on iran and on china to cut off the

00:45:11.420 terrorist flow so it's a very difficult thing now whether you take over gaza etc i mean because of

00:45:17.500 the war what was done you know proportionally to in israel what what the hamas terrorists who not

00:45:25.420 only hate israel they hate america yeah and they're part of an iranian plot and a and a and a radical 0.59

00:45:32.460 islamic plot that you know that it goes to when they're done with israel where you know they don't 0.99

00:45:39.500 care that it was that that's where you know um the christian religions emanated from in fact that

00:45:46.700 that's why they hate it they don't they hate judeo-christianity um they they're when they're

00:45:52.940 done with israel they want to they want to uh decimate the united states yep and we cannot take 1.00

00:45:59.420 them lightly in any threat they've had fought was on president trump over the ever since he left office

00:46:04.860 because you know years ago they came and they took our embassy in tehran that's how the islamic 1.00

00:46:12.220 revolution started well they also while president trump was was there they wanted to get our embassy

00:46:18.060 in baghdad and trump stopped them putting in 3 000 troops and killing solomani so you got to look this

00:46:25.340 at a bigger perspective is like he's trying to shake up um the middle east that we get some sort of

00:46:32.700 stability and peace and there's a lot of arab nations there who yes they signed the abraham

00:46:38.220 accords when trump was there with working with bb on that right but um they you know right now they

00:46:45.580 don't want the palestinians because they know they're you know it's a it's it's a problem because 1.00

00:46:50.620 it's they've been brainwashed they're ingrained with this ideological hate of israel and the united states

00:46:59.020 right and um you know i i think president trump's trying to shake it up and i mean i've been on the

00:47:06.140 i've been on the coast in israel of those beaches and i've been on the border with gaza and i've been

00:47:11.900 in the tunnels uh which are terror tunnels which extended this there's scores of them and they extend

00:47:18.620 into israel you know it would be easy for them to put in a nuclear bomb right underneath israel 0.97

00:47:25.500 and and and the the you know a lot of these terrorists are crazy enough to do that you know

00:47:30.780 when you think about it going back to um going back to the uh uh these uh it's what is it uh bin

00:47:40.140 lon bin lon when he attacked us on in the world trade towers uh their first instead of the world trade 0.71

00:47:46.220 towers some of them were thinking about they wanted to fly those planes into nuclear reactors oh my goodness

00:47:53.420 but they were right and and the american government knows it and uh they thought about it khalid sheikh

00:47:59.740 muhammad is still in guantanamo and they know about it and they they thought about doing that but bin

00:48:06.700 lon didn't want the reaction from the united states he said he got the reaction he did from 9 11 but uh

00:48:13.580 but let's look this is what we're dealing with and credit to president trump for working with bb to

00:48:21.020 they have to clean you know a gaza right now is uninhabitable yeah they have to they have to clean 1.00

00:48:26.460 out uh the the rubble and the and the terrorism that's there and try to make it a place where you

00:48:34.940 could live and right now the people those those palestinian families um they can't live there so 1.00

00:48:41.580 they have to figure out well which arab countries are going to help them out whether they're right on 0.99

00:48:46.140 the border of egypt and egypt doesn't want them right so think about it it's like you know the

00:48:51.260 palestinians before our fat when he was in lebanon they had they had problems there but they created 0.99

00:48:56.700 like an internal civil war same in jordan um it's a very difficult situation so i credit president trump

00:49:03.740 for trying to solve it uh and working with israel to solve it and secure it but it's going to take a

00:49:09.340 lot of help from the arab nations to solve that and we're definitely going to have to 1.00

00:49:13.180 do something with iran that they go back into their box and they don't don't stop funding the

00:49:20.300 surrogates whether it's the hoodies in yemen or it's it's the hamas in gaza or it's hezbollah up in

00:49:26.860 lebanon it it just needs to stop and then donald trump's the strong horse is going to make sure that

00:49:33.020 they can't do those things again you know what i tell everyone john who says well america shouldn't

00:49:37.980 be over there they shouldn't have anything to do with gaza and this and that and gaza's this and that

00:49:43.100 if gaza had a legitimate government john do you think this would be happening if gaza had a

00:49:47.260 legitimate president if they had a man who ran this if they had a coalition if they had a government

00:49:52.700 there'd be no taking over gaza it's an illegitimate place it's got no leadership nobody runs the place i

00:49:59.340 mean even looking out into palestine who really runs the place you know what i mean there's no legitimacy 0.93

00:50:05.180 to any government there so for al green to be saying donald trump is partaking in dastardly deeds by

00:50:11.980 doing this the place really i i mean it's like it's run by nomads no it's it's it's it's run by

00:50:20.460 terrorists who hate america right and and you probably the problem that we have is that um until they

00:50:27.900 realize that they can't win this and that their support from iran is going to dry up you're going to

00:50:35.660 have this problem where you know they they they were they were cheering in the streets when 9 11

00:50:42.780 happened after america and and those of us who forget what 9 11 was about and it was about radical islam

00:50:49.740 trying to defeat america um that would be a huge historic mistake and uh what we have to realize is

00:50:57.580 you know that if we're not strong those terrorists come back in power and they will they will attack

00:51:04.140 americans and kill americans and it's been going on for years now so yep so donald trump has a very

00:51:10.780 very difficult job that uh you know joe biden appeased them he allowed iran to build up a war chest of

00:51:18.300 billions of dollars again and they have used it to attack americans and our allies

00:51:24.300 so uh so i think cleaning out gaza and ending the terrorism is a is a very worthy goal and an 1.00

00:51:31.420 important goal that the united states should be focused on but uh we should net we shouldn't put

00:51:37.340 our guard down and we shouldn't think that this is going to be easy and it's going to take a lot

00:51:41.260 more than just the united states and israel the rest of the world including the united nations which is

00:51:46.700 totally wasting money we provide we provide a quarter of their budget roughly and a quarter of their budget and

00:51:53.180 they they were funding those terror tunnels that were in they were they they have concrete you could

00:51:59.660 run a railroad car down them they have electricity they have internet they have uh water extending

00:52:06.860 miles into israel they were built with american tax dollars that was supposed to go for hospitals

00:52:12.860 and schools instead they built terror tunnels and the united nations covered it up just like they

00:52:20.220 covered up for these terrorists that attacked the israel and murdered babies old people civilians 0.53

00:52:26.940 on october 7th i mean i mean we've got to take a serious look at what the united nations is supposed

00:52:33.500 to be doing instead you know their their human rights outfit seems to be like a terrorist uh uh

00:52:40.860 you know uh training group or funding group and uh we can't allow that to happen and you got to realize

00:52:46.380 like other countries like china etc or if they're now turning a blind eye to it they're actually

00:52:51.500 trying to help this i mean the the probably the biggest uh user of iranian oil right um is china and

00:52:58.940 uh you know if they're going to provide revenues that are going to be used to kill americans and israelis

00:53:04.220 and our other friends and allies in the world that has to stop yeah for us new yorkers remembered

00:53:09.740 especially i i can't tell you what i ate for dinner last night but i can tell you where i was on 9 11

00:53:14.780 i was a young kid i remember getting taken out of school i remember everything to the day i remember

00:53:18.940 my mother not being able to get a hold of my father who worked on 388 greenwich which was

00:53:23.180 two blocks over from the world trade center we we got footage from after it of the plane

00:53:27.500 passed the surveillance passing by his building at city group on greenwich street and i'll never

00:53:33.260 forget not knowing if i had a father uh a good friend of mine a firefighter him being trapped in

00:53:38.700 between beams in the world trade center going in to save people uh you know it's been 23 and a

00:53:43.660 a half years since uh we had an incident thank god like that in america but how long are we supposed

00:53:49.260 to sit back and wait for it to happen again and if it does happen again it's going to be from a nation 0.98

00:53:53.580 like iran uh a nation like iran that obama sent billions of dollars in cash to for them to do

00:53:59.420 whatever they want and people don't realize that and and for everyone i speak to who says you know

00:54:03.980 america's too in bed with iran well i tell them well okay that's fine you may think that in some cases it may

00:54:09.740 be true but if you go look at who's backing palestine and gaza it's iran and these are very

00:54:15.980 very bad people the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world and if a nuclear weapon

00:54:21.340 goes off it's not going to be north korea it's going to be iran yeah well hopefully president trump

00:54:26.860 can stop that but there are huge challenges and and this is just a start and he has positive intentions

00:54:32.780 he likes people he wants people to live in peace he wants them to actually you know to be secure and

00:54:39.660 be wealthy and and prosper and and you know when trump is a real estate uh expert and he's looking

00:54:47.820 at what they have there and he's like you know they can have this wonderful uh city by the sea by

00:54:54.300 the mediterranean sea where the people would work and be happy and you have great schools you'd have

00:54:58.780 great hospitals you could have great universities you have technology um but you know the terrorists

00:55:04.860 don't share that dream i mean they they they they want they'd rather people suffer and die uh than

00:55:12.300 provide you know peace and prosperity for you know people that that that would that would really enjoy

00:55:19.020 peace and prosperity so it's it's kind of sad but it's a real challenge that president trump has to

00:55:24.540 has to try to try to solve and at least solve you know put us on the path to solve in the long term

00:55:30.620 i'm all for it just as so long as it doesn't turn into another iraq or another afghanistan

00:55:35.740 and we know all too well how america finds a way to screw up an empty lot uh yeah no pun intended it's

00:55:42.140 what it is john mclaughlin gop pollster mclaughlin associates great american come back soon it's

00:55:48.540 always a pleasure talking with you thank you john thanks everybody for being with us today please be sure to

00:55:53.420 join us back here tomorrow for the great american show where our quest for truth justice and the

00:55:57.500 american way continues we'll see you back here tomorrow same time same place and until then

00:56:02.540 may god bless you may god bless america and may god bless the great lou dobbs we'll see you back here

00:56:07.740 may god bless you tomorrow folks

The Great America Show - February 15, 2025

The Great America Saturday Show： February 15, 2025

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