The Great America Show - The Great America Sunday Show： January 19, 2025

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.

00:00:05.260 It's great to have you with us.

00:00:06.340 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:00:08.740 So President Trump's appointments are officially starting to be vetted at the Senate.

00:00:13.980 Their Senate confirmation hearings underway this week, beginning with Pete Hegseth, the

00:00:19.540 Secretary of Defense nominee.

00:00:21.840 And I think it's opening our eyes to what these hearings are going to be.

00:00:27.740 It's going to be a platform for the Marxist Democrats to go ahead and throw all the mud 0.95

00:00:32.940 they want at President Trump's nominees for whatever reason they want, attacking Pete

00:00:37.640 Hegseth for infidelity and for drinking on the job, a bunch of things that they use as

00:00:45.160 talking points to try to get their point across.

00:00:48.480 But the point is, they have no point.

00:00:51.280 These people seek attention and they seek to try to obstruct.

00:00:55.820 Look, I wish there was a way for these folks to not even have to show up to these hearings.

00:01:00.480 Why show up knowing what you're getting yourself into?

00:01:03.160 Not one of these folks who has been appointed.

00:01:06.020 You could put Jesus Christ on that appointment panel in this confirmation hearings.

00:01:12.280 If he was appointed by the Republicans, rest assured the man would not be given a fair shake.

00:01:19.360 So I don't know why we have to continue to move through with these.

00:01:21.900 I wish there was a way for President Trump to tell these people, let's go ahead and move

00:01:26.280 forward with the vote.

00:01:27.600 You have the votes.

00:01:28.640 The Democrats have done far worse than than that anyway.

00:01:32.080 I think it would be a good prospect to go ahead and do that, to just eliminate the nonsense

00:01:37.260 and the drama and these quick little soundbites.

00:01:40.000 These Marxist Dems want to get these senators want to get on television. 1.00

00:01:44.000 But I think it does more harm to these Marxist Dems.

00:01:47.080 It shows how little they actually know about what they're talking about, reading off of

00:01:51.020 a script from their staffers, not really knowing what they're talking about.

00:01:56.800 So with that, President Trump also announcing this week that he will create something called

00:02:00.720 the External Revenue Service.

00:02:03.360 It's going to be a counter to the IRS taxation of American citizens.

00:02:07.200 New agency, President Trump says, will collect tariffs, duties, and all revenue that come

00:02:11.620 from foreign sources.

00:02:12.580 Trump says that on his inauguration, which is next Monday, January 20th, it'll be the

00:02:18.560 birth of the External Revenue Service.

00:02:21.340 President Trump also apparently looking at trying to eliminate the IRS once and for all.

00:02:26.860 I think that'd be a great thing for all Americans as they look forward to maybe a flat tax or

00:02:32.040 no income tax at all.

00:02:33.420 I guess we'll soon find out what's going to happen.

00:02:36.520 We do know no tax on tips is coming and no tax on overtime.

00:02:40.020 It's among two of the first things President Trump is going to try to sign into legislation.

00:02:45.420 So we all look forward to that.

00:02:47.440 Or I should say those folks who are on overtime jobs or tip jobs look forward to what's to

00:02:52.900 come.

00:02:53.640 Our guest today is the head pollster for Rasmussen.

00:02:55.960 He goes by the name of Mark Mitchell, great American and a terrific pollster.

00:03:01.000 Mark Mitchell, it's a delight to have you back with us.

00:03:03.640 I hope your New Year's off to a good start and you had a great Christmas with the family

00:03:06.860 of having Mark Mitchell withdrawals.

00:03:09.560 So it's finally good to have you back.

00:03:11.220 I want to start with first the news of the week.

00:03:14.460 Confirmation hearings are underway.

00:03:16.780 Pete Hegseth, who's probably among one of the more difficult ones that it's going to

00:03:20.940 take to get through the Senate, starting his confirmation hearings yesterday on Capitol

00:03:25.780 Hill.

00:03:26.100 As expected, the Marxist Dems going after him or cheating on his wife, an alcohol problem.

00:03:33.120 Everyone's an alcoholic. 0.75

00:03:34.080 Even if you're not an alcoholic, you're an alcoholic.

00:03:36.480 I want to play a clip from Elizabeth Warren, which I'm sure a lot of you guys have seen by

00:03:41.020 now.

00:03:41.220 If you haven't, enjoy.

00:03:43.040 But the question I have for you on this is, will you put your money where your mouth is

00:03:46.800 and agree that when you leave this job, you will not work for the defense industry for

00:03:52.380 10 years?

00:03:52.860 Senator, it's not even a question I've thought about because it's not about it right now.

00:03:58.340 It's not one.

00:03:59.460 My motivation for this job.

00:04:01.500 I understand that.

00:04:02.480 I just need a yes or no here.

00:04:04.460 Time is short.

00:04:06.060 I just need a yes or no.

00:04:07.500 I would consult with the president about what the policy should be in the defense department.

00:04:10.600 In other words, you're quite sure that every general who serves should not go directly

00:04:17.620 into the defense industry for 10 years?

00:04:20.140 You're not willing to make that same pledge?

00:04:22.860 I'm not a general, Senator.

00:04:26.820 You'll be the one.

00:04:28.600 Let us just be clear.

00:04:30.420 In charge of the generals.

00:04:32.420 So you're saying.

00:04:34.260 But the question I have.

00:04:36.240 Oh, my goodness, Mark.

00:04:38.340 The crazy thing is, is they don't.

00:04:41.160 These senators don't write their questions.

00:04:42.880 It's the staffers that write.

00:04:43.860 And the staffers are usually not smart people.

00:04:47.260 They come out of these schools, journalism degrees, poli-sci degrees.

00:04:52.040 You don't learn anything.

00:04:52.820 It's like one of those things you learn on the job.

00:04:54.840 I take someone who works at McDonald's in higher regard than some of these folks who are

00:04:59.440 working with them because they got to, you know, do very calculated things, make sure

00:05:03.480 things are on top. 1.00

00:05:04.260 These staffers are just a bunch of idiots. 1.00

00:05:05.740 And they make their bosses look like total buffoons. 1.00

00:05:11.020 Who is Elizabeth Warren to be questioning anyone on where they're going to go work next 1.00

00:05:15.360 when, Mark, we have some of the most corrupt people in the world right here in our own

00:05:20.620 political system.

00:05:21.480 And we can start with stock trading.

00:05:23.720 Your thoughts.

00:05:25.620 I'll tell you, it's kind of on brand for her just because of all the hay she made with 1.00

00:05:30.080 the consumer protection stuff, to be honest.

00:05:32.300 Well, first off, there's going to be some staffer getting reamed out tonight.

00:05:35.000 I can guarantee you that.

00:05:36.660 But we've just witnessed four years of basically a presidential administration.

00:05:41.020 It's a bunch of staffers they hired off a Tumblr and Reddit, basically.

00:05:44.620 I mean, that's who's putting out these tweets.

00:05:46.400 Look at how, like Kamala HQ.

00:05:49.240 Look at the content of that.

00:05:51.840 I think everybody, it was like a cottage industry in September and October to ask Twitter, where's

00:05:57.700 the community notes for these people, right?

00:06:00.820 But I'll tell you, what a classy guy.

00:06:03.120 I mean, he took her apart.

00:06:05.940 And I think this is shrewd, honestly, just looking at Hegseth, because I think Steve Bannon

00:06:12.240 has said, well, this is the appointment probably with the most hair on it.

00:06:15.880 And I think that's fair.

00:06:16.840 And I think, obviously, most of this is spurious accusations.

00:06:20.280 But they're putting the tough one up front.

00:06:23.700 And I think I've heard that he's had the votes.

00:06:26.400 And if the tough one sails right through, I think then we're going to see a whole lot

00:06:30.480 of slam dunks after that.

00:06:32.580 And to be honest, the public kind of doesn't care.

00:06:35.080 They voted for Trump.

00:06:36.640 54% of people say that they approve of Trump's transition so far.

00:06:40.220 That's really great, considering you got 50% of the vote.

00:06:43.040 And nobody really knows who Hegseth is.

00:06:45.580 And that's after the media threw this entire psychological operation, painting him as a 0.98

00:06:50.840 drunk sexual abuser. 0.84

00:06:52.920 36% have a favorable opinion of him, which is low. 0.97

00:06:56.880 But only 27% have unfavorable.

00:06:59.280 It's because 36% are not sure.

00:07:01.740 They don't know who this guy is.

00:07:03.160 32% of Republicans are not sure.

00:07:05.740 And Republicans, it's 52 favorable to 16% unfavorable.

00:07:11.260 So it's like, yeah, just get Trump his guy.

00:07:13.920 And I think that's the theme we're going to see.

00:07:15.440 Because there's, you know, everybody has lost their infatuation with the MSNBC laser pointer.

00:07:22.000 And they're trying to rev it back up.

00:07:24.500 They're trying to bring us Rachel Maddow now nightly for 100 nights. 1.00

00:07:28.700 In my opinion, they've probably got some hoax that we haven't even heard yet.

00:07:33.500 They're trying to rekindle the resistance.

00:07:36.200 Like, you know, the psychological gaslighting operation goes like this.

00:07:40.640 U.S. intel agency, corporate media, you know, perpetually online libtard to families

00:07:50.340 and normies and water cooler talk.

00:07:52.600 Well, a link of that chain has been broken.

00:07:54.660 And that's the link between MSNBC and the perpetually online liberals.

00:07:59.800 And it's because they got pissed off.

00:08:01.640 They got mad.

00:08:02.540 They're drinking.

00:08:03.240 They're on blue sky with all the furries.

00:08:06.420 And like, how are they going to fix that?

00:08:09.740 And maybe all it will take will be the like super special hoax.

00:08:13.980 Maybe they'll finally come up with something better than Russian collusion.

00:08:17.440 Right now, like Trump's doing an end run around all this stuff.

00:08:21.280 Yeah, it's really, you know, maybe some of the stuff was believable in 2016 when you didn't know Trump.

00:08:27.480 Maybe people thought, okay, maybe he did collude with Russia.

00:08:31.900 Maybe he did do this.

00:08:33.100 But then came the stories of like golden showers.

00:08:35.780 And I'm like, hold on a second.

00:08:37.460 This man is like the biggest germaphobe in the world.

00:08:40.240 He doesn't like touching people. 0.98

00:08:42.300 He doesn't like being around people.

00:08:44.320 You're telling me like he's getting peed on in Russia?

00:08:47.600 I mean, that's when I started questioning, like, hold on a second.

00:08:51.380 What's it?

00:08:51.740 Because, you know, in 2016, I was a Ted Cruz guy before Trump.

00:08:55.500 You know, when Trump came into the race, I'd always liked Ted.

00:08:58.280 I thought Ted was a great choice.

00:08:59.500 President Trump was just coming off being a Democrat, you know, for the earlier part of his life.

00:09:06.500 So we didn't really know what we were getting with President Trump.

00:09:08.880 And, you know, I'm glad to say now I was wrong in 2016.

00:09:13.020 And Lou Dobbs, to the day he died, never let me forget that I supported Ted Cruz, even telling President Trump in front of me that I supported Ted Cruz.

00:09:21.400 But, you know, you make your mistakes and you write your mistakes.

00:09:25.100 But now we fast forward and I think you're absolutely right.

00:09:27.880 I think there is a Russia collusion or China collusion or something like that coming.

00:09:32.520 I just can't seem to think now that you have me on the fly thinking about it from what avenue it can possibly come from.

00:09:39.880 I mean, they tried to say that they colluded again in this last election.

00:09:43.680 The difference is now, Mark, it's not just the mainstream media who's sort of taken a shift to the right.

00:09:48.820 Right. It's Mark Zuckerberg taking a shift to the right.

00:09:54.680 Oh, I'm not saying literally, but with him getting rid of his BS fact checkers on Facebook, I think that's a massive, massive move in the right direction.

00:10:05.220 I don't trust the guy. I can't stand the guy. Still can't stand the guy.

00:10:09.260 But at the end of the day, you know, it's better than the devil, you know, is better than the one you don't.

00:10:15.460 So he may be in all these antitrust case. He may be in a lot of trouble.

00:10:18.460 It's very similar behavior, I have to say, to what Eric Adams is doing in New York, trying to move himself out of the right as he gets in more and more trouble.

00:10:27.740 But I do think, you know, this next four years, we're not going to have Facebook censoring us.

00:10:33.960 We're not going to have Twitter censoring us there.

00:10:36.620 We're not going to have them putting out these nonsense stories and pushing them to the tops of people's feeds.

00:10:41.540 The only thing we're going to have is them putting it out on MSNBC and CNN.

00:10:46.260 And Mark, you and I both know their ratings are absolutely abysmal.

00:10:50.960 Oh, man. The Washington Post numbers, too.

00:10:53.200 They're absolutely correct.

00:10:54.640 And listen, they knew it was happening and they knew it's not the model.

00:10:59.520 They actually come in and build a really good digital product.

00:11:02.960 The Washington Post redefined itself and then went and destroyed itself like knowingly.

00:11:10.060 Right. They they were looking at their daily active users going from 100 million to 3 million or whatever it was.

00:11:16.260 And that's mirroring what we see on MSNBC.

00:11:19.060 I mean, like to rewind, they don't need facts.

00:11:23.020 This is the resistance.

00:11:24.260 They say, look, everybody's resisting Trump.

00:11:27.100 Let's join ranks and they're going to march to their own demise on whatever.

00:11:32.500 Right. Like logic doesn't matter.

00:11:33.860 These are the people that are absolutely the world's expert at agreeing with being agreeable and socially accepted.

00:11:43.760 And now the problem is, is that that's been shattered and they're trying to have like something is going on in the psyche of the left.

00:11:50.640 And I would submit it as exhibit A.

00:11:52.960 My favorite public opinion tool besides polling is Google Trends.

00:11:56.140 You can see what people are searching in America.

00:11:58.560 And sometimes you find some really crazy stuff like how, for instance, the word expatriate was trending in D.C. after the election.

00:12:06.620 That's weird. Why was that?

00:12:07.780 It was the number one trending place for the term expatriate in Washington, D.C., the seat of our own federal government.

00:12:14.380 Right. But if you look at the word resistance, this one's kind of funny.

00:12:19.260 I'm looking back just 90 days.

00:12:21.120 There is a very predictable pattern.

00:12:22.800 You know, it's like everybody searches the word resistance every week.

00:12:26.140 After the election, it plunged.

00:12:28.560 It dropped.

00:12:29.520 And now it's like trying to peak back up again.

00:12:32.460 They're trying to rekindle the Trump resistance and they have nothing to do it with.

00:12:38.020 And you see what, in my opinion, with Zuckerberg, he's probably the world's best weather vane.

00:12:44.000 You know, you don't be a tech billionaire without reading the winds.

00:12:49.220 And I don't want to minimize it.

00:12:50.520 Listen, like.

00:12:51.220 But this is the first time the vane is blowing in the right direction is my point.

00:12:54.900 I guess I was trying to make.

00:12:55.960 Oh, yeah.

00:12:56.440 Well, 2016, Trump won.

00:12:58.180 And what did government and corporations do?

00:13:01.500 They locked arms and resisted Trump.

00:13:04.080 Now, you know, 2020, they said, oh, look at that.

00:13:07.840 The Trump era is over and it's time to double down on government.

00:13:10.680 Let's do whatever the heck the government says.

00:13:13.100 Here we are with the government corporate media ecosystem saying, no, we still need to resist Trump, guys.

00:13:19.200 They just don't know how to do it.

00:13:20.400 And the corporations are like, whoa, whoa, like, I don't know.

00:13:23.660 This one looked like he kind of won for real.

00:13:27.000 And, you know, like, here you are.

00:13:30.400 They're absolutely scattered.

00:13:32.300 And it's crazy.

00:13:32.700 And I'll tell you, it isn't just Zuckerberg.

00:13:34.540 I was reading an article today how banks are now pulling out of these, like, net zero alliances and all of these sustainability efforts.

00:13:42.720 Like, major name banks, like many of them have said, like, listen, it's over.

00:13:47.600 It's time to go back to making money.

00:13:49.700 And some of them, you know, like with Zuckerberg, we'll see.

00:13:52.860 He says he's getting rid of DEI.

00:13:54.580 He says he's going to move the team from California to Austin.

00:13:57.820 He says he's getting rid of fact checkers.

00:13:59.600 But you know what?

00:14:00.000 A community notes system can be manipulated just like fact checkers.

00:14:04.820 We saw it at Twitter.

00:14:05.700 So the proof is going to be in the pudding.

00:14:07.320 And here's my call to Mark Zuckerberg.

00:14:09.460 If you're honest about no longer censoring, remove the shadow ban from Rasmussen Reports Facebook page.

00:14:17.040 Because I guarantee you it's still there.

00:14:19.220 Nobody looks at our content on Facebook.

00:14:21.480 Everybody loves it on Twitter.

00:14:23.320 That was an absolutely compelling argument, I must say.

00:14:25.940 And hopefully he's watching this show so he can lift that shadow ban. 0.98

00:14:29.360 You know, you mentioned net zero.

00:14:31.020 I often talk about it with the guests I have on here.

00:14:33.160 A bunch of names, Mark Marano.

00:14:34.820 He's the CEO of ClimateDepot.com.

00:14:36.540 A really, really smart climate guy.

00:14:39.460 It was very funny.

00:14:41.160 And the whole notion of net zero, I think I was on a United or JetBlue flight, even though I try to only fly Delta.

00:14:48.320 I was on a United or JetBlue flight.

00:14:50.400 And on the napkins, they're like committed to net zero by 2030 and 2040.

00:14:56.140 And I'm like, Mark, you know, I'm not a Scientologist.

00:14:58.860 I have a degree in science, you know.

00:15:01.500 But, like, I don't understand this.

00:15:03.900 Can you explain this to me?

00:15:05.860 How many trees do you have to plant for an hour worth of jet fuel burning?

00:15:09.980 And how do you possibly get to net zero, like, any way, like, possible?

00:15:17.020 It's, like, the most impossible thing in the world to do.

00:15:20.280 It's not the most impossible.

00:15:21.160 It is impossible to do.

00:15:22.400 There's no such thing as net zero. 0.97

00:15:24.260 You can't offset the amount of carbon you put out from an airplane by planting a damn rainforest on, like, 48 states. 0.98

00:15:33.260 Oh, man. 0.97

00:15:34.380 This is a crazy one for me because following the public opinion, the problem is that decades of gaslighting has been somewhat effective.

00:15:41.520 We literally just asked and released today, asked if the climate change caused the forest fires.

00:15:52.460 Hold on.

00:15:52.700 Hold on.

00:15:53.100 Hold on.

00:15:53.500 Before you get there, let's take a quick break here.

00:15:55.800 Yeah, yeah.

00:15:56.120 We're going to have to wait to get to that good information.

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00:16:04.860 So we're going to take a quick break here.

00:16:05.800 We're talking about Mark Mitchell.

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00:16:08.760 He's the lead pollster for Rasmussen.

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00:17:15.020 Folks, we're back.

00:17:18.560 We're talking with Mr. Rasmussen, Mark Mitchell.

00:17:22.020 Mark, before we went to break, we were talking about the wildfires that are still burning on California.

00:17:27.760 And, you know, I feel for those people out there, terrible, terrible, terrible.

00:17:33.040 But after watching the football game on Monday night, the Rams versus the Vikings, I mean, they had a lady come out and sing, this is my fight song. 0.99

00:17:40.720 They did this whole thing like it was a tragedy, like it was 9-11, like this was a natural disaster, like it was Hurricane Sandy, like it was one of these massive things that devastated the country.

00:17:51.000 But it was far different, and that's the thing I think people don't really understand.

00:17:56.460 This was all prevented.

00:17:58.020 This was all preventable.

00:17:59.420 The whole – Trump's been talking about this for the last eight, nine years, as recently as three months ago.

00:18:05.020 So just – and a few weeks ago.

00:18:07.380 A few statistics about what's going on over there.

00:18:10.500 At least 24 killed.

00:18:12.340 12,000 structures burned down.

00:18:14.500 More than 60 square miles burned down so far in the Palisades and the Eaton wildfires.

00:18:22.520 It's only getting worse.

00:18:23.940 I mean, as the winds build up, it continues to get worse.

00:18:27.740 90,000 people evacuated out of their homes.

00:18:31.520 And we still don't know.

00:18:32.900 I put out a tweet on this the other day.

00:18:35.200 January 6th, that night we knew who was in the Capitol on January 6th, a week later now from this wildfire.

00:18:41.860 First of all, we don't have the fire put out.

00:18:45.140 It's still going like we're in the third world country.

00:18:47.480 There's new fires.

00:18:49.060 Right.

00:18:49.500 And they keep going with the winds and all that stuff.

00:18:51.940 But we don't know how this fire started.

00:18:54.160 Like probably one of the most heavily surveilled areas in California, perhaps in the United States.

00:19:00.280 And we don't know how this started.

00:19:02.080 People say maybe it was from fireworks.

00:19:04.500 There's some conspiracies out there that it was China.

00:19:07.580 I'm not entirely sure.

00:19:08.860 What is your polling showing on it?

00:19:10.680 Well, let me first step back and say, if you run your country incompetently and this kind of thing happens, then people are right to question any one of those because you've been derelict in your duty.

00:19:23.380 You failed in your duty of care.

00:19:25.400 And we were just talking about opinions on climate change.

00:19:28.240 And I first will say that we're actually in the field in Los Angeles County right now.

00:19:33.780 We're going to be putting out a poll in the next two weeks.

00:19:36.780 And I can tell you just from an early look at the results, they're not going to be good for the Democrats.

00:19:42.200 Looks like they blame Karen Bass more than Gavin Newsom, but he bears some blame as well.

00:19:48.020 Roughly, it looks like half the respondents say that Gavin Newsom should be recalled, which is pretty big deal in California.

00:19:53.360 So those numbers will be interesting.

00:19:56.380 We asked before the last time that there were fires, you know, back when Trump warned Gavin Newsom.

00:20:01.660 And I think it was like 52-ish, 53% to 41.

00:20:05.820 People said, well, it's probably a variety of natural and man-made causes versus climate change 41. 0.66

00:20:11.760 But we were kind of talking about the stickiness of the climate change PSYOP.

00:20:17.500 And that's what we released this week.

00:20:20.240 And if you focus on climate change by itself, people still say it's a problem.

00:20:24.620 How serious of a problem is climate change?

00:20:26.580 43% vary, 21% somewhat.

00:20:28.900 That's 64.

00:20:30.340 And it's like 47% of Republicans.

00:20:33.680 That's the thing.

00:20:35.640 Now, and here's the other thing.

00:20:37.020 It's 86% of Democrats.

00:20:38.480 So this is literally a core tenet of the Democrat Party and 60% of independents.

00:20:43.980 And then how likely is it that the recent wildfires in Los Angeles, California, were caused by climate change?

00:20:51.140 So now, I guess it could be illegal alien arsons or meth heads too.

00:20:56.980 But 53%, a majority said at least somewhat likely, 28% vary.

00:21:01.700 Only 21% said not at all likely.

00:21:04.020 And even 36% of Republicans said it's likely.

00:21:07.480 So that's the problem.

00:21:09.640 And people have been indoctrinated with Captain Planet and all years and years and years.

00:21:16.200 And quite frankly, in my opinion, when we all look back, climate change will be looked at as a tool of the oligarchy to milk the tax donkeys.

00:21:24.380 And I personally, I ascribe to the George Carlin view, which is that even thinking that humans can change the course of the planet is narcissistic.

00:21:34.240 I did some math and Grok helped me out over the weekend.

00:21:38.500 Get this.

00:21:38.900 If the Earth were the size and weight of a 16-pound bowling ball, the entire mass of humanity would be less than the weight of a single E. coli bacteria.

00:21:50.560 Wow.

00:21:50.800 So to say that in some way we're going to influence the future of the Earth is, quite frankly, pretty arrogant.

00:22:00.860 And the mass of the sun would be like 500 fully loaded semi-tractor trailers.

00:22:04.360 So that is like we're literally bombarded by solar radiation all day and we're sitting on top of a half molten ball of mass.

00:22:14.280 And we're worried about like the three micron thick layer of air around which our bacteria flirt.

00:22:23.020 Like it's like we OK, maybe we're putting carbon out there and maybe it will slightly inconvenience humans.

00:22:30.900 But what we've determined is that humans are really good with dealing with inconvenience.

00:22:34.720 So let's not become communists.

00:22:36.900 Let's just become communists because of a half a degree.

00:22:40.700 Like when the when literally when the Earth's axis shifts and the internal pressure in the planet change the temperature of the core and change our atmospheric temperature by 8 to 10 degrees Celsius, like the like the Antarctic ice core shows happens.

00:22:58.940 Right.

00:22:59.760 Right.

00:23:00.300 The party of science is the most anti-science thing I've ever heard.

00:23:03.580 And they're literally lying to all of America that climate change caused this.

00:23:07.780 And I hope that this is the emperor has no clothes moment.

00:23:10.700 For this particular host, because this is like we talked about hoaxes.

00:23:13.800 There were a lot of hoaxes over the last four years.

00:23:15.960 I don't know of a single 2025 hoax yet, except maybe that it's climate changes to blame and not an empty reservoir or a lack of force clearance or name literally one of any.

00:23:29.140 Again, the Michael Schellenberg interview, this guy's from California.

00:23:33.120 He's been following this.

00:23:34.840 He's the guy that wrote the book on all of the bums in California.

00:23:37.480 California, it's like, yeah, it's a tinderbox and there are meth heads lighting fires, you know, illegal alien arsonists. 0.91

00:23:45.340 Yeah.

00:23:45.860 The other thing, too, Mark, to put just put this to rest for these numbskulls who think it's climate change.

00:23:52.520 And California has gone through like a period of hundreds of years where it's sort of like an ice age where it's wetter at times and it goes through a drought.

00:24:00.380 This period there happened to be in now is a little bit longer than those.

00:24:03.380 But the longest droughts of the 20th century were back in 1987 to 92.

00:24:11.020 And then before that, it was 1928 to 1934.

00:24:14.480 So if they're saying climate change is getting worse, then why are they having these patterns of droughts and then wetness and then droughts and then wetness?

00:24:23.940 And these ancient scientists say that these droughts, both in the late 80s, early 90s, and then the late 20s, compared to ones in the 850 to the early 1000s and the 1100s to the 1300s.

00:24:40.480 So climate change wasn't a thing back then.

00:24:42.860 There was no planes burning holes through the ozone layer, factories, you know, coal burning like it is now.

00:24:49.880 Now, what do they say to that, you know, when you look at the history and when you look at facts, fact-based history, not just your own opinion on what history is?

00:24:59.820 What do they say to that, you know, that notion that, you know, this is a 200-year-long drought that California is currently in and man-made, you can argue with wildfire prevention and forest fire prevention systems by the governor and mayors.

00:25:17.360 I think what they need to do is explore the verbal record of the native indigenous people that were displaced from California when we settled there, about how much of an absolute wall-to-wall wildfire must have been in the medieval warm period.

00:25:33.220 Like, seriously, right?

00:25:34.460 Like, literally imagine that there are wildfires.

00:25:38.200 And seriously, we have a climate, like, we have an environment in California, and we've literally done nothing to prevent our primary, like, risk.

00:25:48.680 Like, they've done nothing.

00:25:50.500 The list of failures is ridiculous.

00:25:53.660 In my understanding, there was a very explicit warning on January 2nd, I think, that, like, listen, we're going to get heavy winds, and it's real dry.

00:26:02.240 And we didn't, like, the city knew that.

00:26:05.180 Were they pre-positioning fire trucks?

00:26:07.300 Were they, like, not, were they canceling their trips to Ghana?

00:26:10.540 Were they refilling, rapidly refilling empty, you know, in reservoirs or pre-stocking trucks or hosing down wet areas?

00:26:19.580 Like, no, it wasn't being done.

00:26:21.180 And that's because they spend, like, five times more on sustainability and equity than they do on water.

00:26:30.620 I forget the numbers.

00:26:31.560 I think it was, like, $35 billion that California has spent on social justice initiatives.

00:26:37.940 And it was only, I think, like, $2.6 billion on fire prevention.

00:26:41.900 I think those were the numbers.

00:26:43.440 So it's, like, show me your budget, and that's where your priorities are.

00:26:49.220 And here's another good one.

00:26:51.560 Forget the woman's name, but the woman who took control over the L.A. 1.00

00:26:58.060 Oh, my goodness.

00:27:01.660 Janice something.

00:27:03.200 The lady who's making $700,000 a year, is that the one you're referring to? 1.00

00:27:06.540 I'm sure she's making bonuses in overtime, too.

00:27:08.960 She's making $700,000 a year, Mark, and her predecessor, who happens to be a white male, was only making about $400,000.

00:27:16.480 Oh, it's interesting.

00:27:17.400 And, you know, he was there for 40 years.

00:27:19.300 Yeah.

00:27:20.220 $400,000 to – now, I don't know.

00:27:23.260 Inflation may be that bad in L.A. and in California.

00:27:26.380 Four years, yeah.

00:27:26.960 I mean, that's almost a 100% pay bump.

00:27:29.320 I don't know any job in the matter of four years that that happens.

00:27:33.800 Oh, wait.

00:27:34.140 No, no, no.

00:27:34.500 Wait.

00:27:34.860 He quit.

00:27:35.860 He retired this last spring, didn't he?

00:27:37.720 It was very recent, in the last year or two.

00:27:41.760 She's just taken over.

00:27:43.200 There's a Washington Post article, I believe, on it, or L.A. Times.

00:27:47.560 I forgot who did it.

00:27:48.760 But they go through this whole breakdown of that.

00:27:50.780 This woman's there. 0.87

00:27:51.520 She's appointed by, I think, by Karen Bass, making over $700,000 a year to run the – I forgot what the acronym is, but it's like the Electricity Department of Electricity.

00:28:07.560 The Department of Water and Power, maybe?

00:28:10.700 I've got the story, I believe, right here.

00:28:14.240 Yes, I got it.

00:28:16.680 Janice Canoes, she runs the L.A. Department of Water and Power. 0.87

00:28:21.060 For some reason, I had a DEI in my head.

00:28:24.000 The Board of Water and Power Commissioner on Tuesday voted to approve the salary, and this is an article from April 24th of 2024.

00:28:31.960 And this article, for anyone who wants to go read it, it's an L.A. Times article, headlined,

00:28:37.280 New head of L.A. DWB will make $750,000 a year, nearly twice as much as her predecessor, with a nice, beautiful picture of the lady right on the front of the article.

00:28:47.740 But they go on.

00:28:48.800 The Board of Water and Power Commission on Tuesday, and like I said, this is from April of 2024, voted to approve the salary for Bass nominee Janice Canoes,

00:28:57.520 that is significantly higher than the $447,082 currently earned by General Manager Marty Adams, who happens, like you said, to be a white male.

00:29:09.840 Canoes is a former senior vice president of electrical operations for Pacific Gas and Electric.

00:29:15.520 She's probably making more money, I might add in there, Mark, than she was making in the private sector, which is very backwards. 0.95

00:29:22.140 Which goes on here.

00:29:25.600 She's still on the military payroll as well.

00:29:28.860 I don't even want to hear the rest of the corruption.

00:29:31.280 So what I was looking for and what I found is that the L.A. Department of Water and Power, whatever, put out an announcement when she took over back in May.

00:29:41.500 And people should look this up on their site.

00:29:43.520 Like this is the announcement.

00:29:45.280 We just replaced the head of our organization.

00:29:48.120 And what we see is quotes that are like, together we can achieve our transformational goals and shore up our systems to fight climate change.

00:29:56.360 Not stop forest fires, not provide clean drinking water, but to fight climate change.

00:30:01.820 And then the Sierra Club is the very next quote.

00:30:04.480 That they're ready to support bold climate action.

00:30:08.760 And we are in a critical moment to confront the climate crisis.

00:30:12.700 And then you have the CEO of Smart Electric Power Line saying that for commitment to clean energy and ability to achieve a sustainable future.

00:30:22.040 Like these are all of the quotes.

00:30:24.000 This is what the elected officials and government employees in Los Angeles are concerned with.

00:30:30.880 Equity, race, sustainability, clean future.

00:30:35.160 Literally talking about bacterial and plastic pollution.

00:30:38.940 Not a whit about safety.

00:30:40.720 Going back to, it's not going back to, it's on the DEI, this fellow by the name of Marty Adams, who I'd love to have on this show, by the way, and see what his take is on all this.

00:30:52.340 They note in this article, Adams received a small series of back day to wage adjustments this year, which boosted his salary by about $50,000, according to the department.

00:31:02.060 Before that, he hadn't gotten a raise since he was hired as general manager in 2019.

00:31:07.100 Oh, dear Lord.

00:31:07.760 I mean, this is crazy.

00:31:08.800 So she gives a quote, and like I said, this is just under a year ago, quote, and this is from Janice Canoas.

00:31:15.440 The department had so many great things going for themselves, well, apparently not, and a lot of new challenges that we need to tackle.

00:31:22.000 She had that collaborating with stakeholders in the community and others in the industry will be key.

00:31:26.780 So I want to know what those new challenges she thought she had were and what they wound up being, because she's really not doing a good job, as you mentioned, military, also a commander in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve who spent five years on active duty.

00:31:41.660 We thank her for her service there.

00:31:44.180 She says very little rattles her.

00:31:45.980 Here we go.

00:31:47.740 We've got another justice warrior.

00:31:49.420 But it's time and time again, Mark, that these people find themselves in these situations.

00:31:56.180 Back in 2021, they had the opportunity to recall Gavin Newsom.

00:32:00.500 Just last year, they had the opportunity to get rid of Karen Bass and put in Caruso.

00:32:04.380 So they took a step in the right direction by getting rid of that Marxist DA, Gascon. 0.55

00:32:10.560 But, you know, I constantly see now these celebrities on Twitter.

00:32:15.260 Maria Shriver was one that I laughed at because she's a big Trump hater. 1.00

00:32:19.980 We've got to move on from this.

00:32:21.480 Well, it takes you hitting the rich and the famous and your three and four or five up to 30, 40, 50 million dollar houses where you're paying property taxes more than some people make in a lifetime.

00:32:35.160 We're supposed to feel bad for you all of a sudden now because your house is burned down because of your leadership, your ineffective leadership. 1.00

00:32:42.680 We're all of a sudden supposed to feel bad for you now because you idiots want to open your eyes to what the reality is. 0.99

00:32:48.560 The reality is, is Gavin Newsom doesn't buy a four million dollar house off a governor's salary and a lieutenant governor's salary just before that. 0.98

00:32:57.200 You know, Gavin Newsom out in COVID during COVID at the what was the French laundry, English laundry out in Napa Valley laughing at everyone in the face as he makes everyone's restaurants close and wear masks.

00:33:09.660 You people had the opportunity to do this.

00:33:12.420 We're supposed to feel bad for you now.

00:33:14.900 Like enlighten me, Mark.

00:33:16.960 Uh, here's the way I see it.

00:33:20.320 This is no longer a situation in America where you have two parties who have a disagreement over policy.

00:33:27.380 Yeah.

00:33:27.880 I really haven't heard a lot about, well, what the Democrats plan to stuff in this bill versus the Republicans.

00:33:32.800 In fact, most Republican legislatures are tripping over themselves to get the Democrat legislation passed.

00:33:39.580 Like that's basically where we're at.

00:33:40.920 But the problem is, is right and left have been become two parts of essentially different cultures in a massive culture war.

00:33:48.420 And we've seen the culture war play out.

00:33:51.000 And right now, sanity, conservative conservatism, which quite frankly, right now seems to mean like, um, meritocracy and objectivity, right?

00:34:02.660 Is locked in a deadly battle with communism, virtue signaling, emotional thinking, and good vibes.

00:34:10.980 They lost, they're losing, it's a war.

00:34:14.460 And quite frankly, one of the reasons that they've lost is because they took a strategy and it didn't work for them.

00:34:21.440 They tried to like advance their tanks in the mud and they're like mired down and we're shelling them right now.

00:34:28.280 Like that's what happened.

00:34:29.780 And so it's very hard to be sympathetic when it, they are still very much hostile to the idea that people are trying to say like, no, slow down.

00:34:39.540 Like you shouldn't be getting all the characters in Disney.

00:34:43.020 You shouldn't have planes whose landing gear doesn't work.

00:34:47.280 And that's what their side of the culture war is.

00:34:50.420 It's like, no, it's okay if people die, if we achieve social justice or if just a little bit more of this mysterious equity gets delivered to us.

00:35:01.280 Right.

00:35:01.940 And so that's very depressing, nihilistic, anti human being.

00:35:07.180 It's a death cult.

00:35:09.120 And not all of them are part of the death cult, but there's a whole lot of people looking at the death cult saying, well, you know, they do believe this.

00:35:14.820 And that kind of aligns with, you know, from this point, the only thing I can project is they're going to get more insane and they're going to lose more people.

00:35:23.280 And we'll see.

00:35:24.760 My polling should tell us how many people in L.A. are interested in switching parties, because that's one of the questions I asked.

00:35:31.920 And the number was not zero.

00:35:33.400 Not sure what it's going to be yet.

00:35:35.660 So we'll find out.

00:35:37.520 Yeah.

00:35:37.620 I want to take one more quick break here and come back with you in just a few moments after a message from our quick sponsors.

00:35:43.240 I want to go a little bit further into that is woke, really dead.

00:35:47.120 You know, time and time again, we see these people showing up and we're going to see them throughout these confirmation hearings coming in completely unhinged.

00:35:53.600 And it's not. 0.55

00:35:54.580 It used to be like these young thugs.

00:35:56.180 They've got like elderly people out there now, Mark, wearing. 1.00

00:35:59.080 I'm not even going to say like what the signs say and stuff, but it's just like insane stuff you wouldn't want your kids to see or anything like that.

00:36:06.500 It's very surprising to me.

00:36:07.820 It used to be younger people.

00:36:09.380 Well, now it's like older people, older than you, older than me.

00:36:13.920 You know, we're both young, so it's not saying much, but and they're like out there deploying these people.

00:36:20.880 And I'm watching and I'm like, what goes through these people's minds?

00:36:24.500 I want to take that up when we return.

00:36:26.680 I also want to take up Trump's approval rating.

00:36:28.860 And if you've got any numbers for me on if the people want retribution, you know, we often hear about retribution.

00:36:38.340 I certainly want it.

00:36:39.760 I mean, I've seen enough.

00:36:41.260 We've all seen enough.

00:36:42.220 2016, 2020.

00:36:44.340 They tried to throw this man in jail for 700 years.

00:36:47.400 They've made him spend millions of dollars on lawyers.

00:36:49.220 They've embarrassed his family over absolutely nothing.

00:36:52.320 I want retribution, plain and simple.

00:36:54.100 I think a lot of people do.

00:36:55.100 And I also want to take up, see if you have any new polling on this or any polling at all.

00:37:00.340 President Trump announces a formation of something called the External Revenue Services.

00:37:05.140 It's going to be used to collect tariffs, potentially abolish income taxes collected by the IRS.

00:37:11.600 I'm curious to what kind of polling you've got on the IRS and just how favorable those good folks are.

00:37:16.920 We're coming right back with Mr. Rasmussen, Mark Mitchell.

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00:38:25.520 Folks, we're back.

00:38:26.340 We're talking with Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen.

00:38:28.260 Mark, while we were on break, we've got some news.

00:38:30.080 The House has passed a bill to ban biological males from girls' school sports.

00:38:35.380 So just as you had told me the last 10 minutes or so, that we may finally be seeing a turn from this woke craziness to a sense of maybe some normalcy, because that's what it is.

00:38:47.660 As a man who's got a few kids, both men and women, I'm sorry, you're going to have to go tell your sons that they can't go play women's softball and get D1 scholarships.

00:38:59.420 But you can also go tell your daughters they're not going to have to wrestle against men and play soccer against men and baseball against men who throw 100-mile-an-hour fastballs.

00:39:08.260 I mean, your thoughts, why has it taken so long to do something that's just so common sense, Mark?

00:39:17.080 This is the story of politics, right?

00:39:21.120 Why do American public opinion say one thing, and yet the legislatures do something completely different?

00:39:28.400 I'll tell you what.

00:39:29.640 Americans are absolutely against all of this transgender stuff. 1.00

00:39:33.540 They're against it less than you would think, but it's still roughly 60, 65 to like 30, okay?

00:39:39.580 But that 30 is insane, and so they shouldn't necessarily get what they want because it's anti-science.

00:39:45.280 It's unsafe for people.

00:39:46.280 It's unfair.

00:39:47.380 It's anti-American.

00:39:49.000 And okay, that's great that Republicans appear to be standing up for something and doing what they were elected to do because I'll tell you what, 80, 85, 90% of Republicans are against this stuff.

00:40:00.180 The voters finally might get what they want, and that's what the Republican Party needs to do more of.

00:40:05.960 Yeah, I don't know what's taking them so long because it's – enough's enough.

00:40:11.260 Turning now to retribution, I hope you've got some numbers for me.

00:40:14.980 Retribution, it's something we've heard throughout this whole entire campaign, and people, the Democrats, you heard them say, don't vote for Trump.

00:40:22.040 All he's out for blood, he's out for retribution.

00:40:24.940 He's going to go – Mark, get this.

00:40:26.560 He's going to go after his political opponents.

00:40:30.820 What can President Trump – first of all, he's got no political opponents, okay?

00:40:35.000 He's washed through all three of them that they brought.

00:40:38.200 He beat Joe Biden in 2020.

00:40:39.580 If you don't believe me, go look at the numbers, the statistics of the votes in 2016, 2020, and 2024.

00:40:48.400 There was a massive spike in 2020 that I think President Trump is going to look into, rightfully so.

00:40:54.180 But moving forward on that, President Trump has no political enemies.

00:40:57.680 This is the end of the road for him, Mark.

00:40:59.600 He's never going to have to run again.

00:41:01.020 And presumably he'll be the face of the Republican Party after, but he's never going to have to run for another re-election unless he wants to run for governor of New York or Florida, which he probably doesn't want to do.

00:41:11.720 What does it look like?

00:41:12.740 What are the voters saying when it comes to retribution and payback?

00:41:16.740 And by retribution, I don't mean President Trump sending audits to these people's houses for their IRS and all that stuff.

00:41:24.480 I mean holding Liz Cheney accountable for running a sham January 6th committee, holding Jack Smith accountable for bringing fake charges or – not bringing fake charges because he doesn't bring the charges,

00:41:35.360 but recommending fake charges against President Trump in a case that should have never been brought in the first place.

00:41:41.600 Fannie Willis in Georgia bringing a case that has nothing to do with it.

00:41:45.180 Big Tish James up in New York who campaigned on getting Trump and then comes forward.

00:41:51.160 They can get Donald Trump.

00:41:52.380 They can get each and every single one of us.

00:41:54.900 That's what I mean by retribution.

00:41:56.580 Mark, what do the people say?

00:41:57.960 Well, it's nuanced.

00:41:58.760 I'll tell you what.

00:41:59.680 A lot of people don't watch all the politics and words like retribution, they don't know.

00:42:04.560 We've asked a couple different questions.

00:42:05.880 I can tell you what.

00:42:06.480 They were not happy with the weaponization of the Department of Justice because we had 64% of voters saying that Trump's political persecution

00:42:14.860 was a witch hunt and that this was like something that happened in Banana Republics.

00:42:19.380 But then we asked this during his campaign.

00:42:21.780 Trump frequently said that various officials, including Pelosi and Biden, should be prosecuted and punished for wrongdoing,

00:42:28.300 which is closer to your thinking that he's seeking retribution on his political enemies or that Trump is bringing accountability to Washington.

00:42:35.460 And retribution wins 48 to 44%.

00:42:38.300 Now, that doesn't mean they think Trump's a dictator.

00:42:41.360 They just are presuming what his motivations are.

00:42:45.700 And 24% of Republicans said retribution.

00:42:48.220 74% said accountability.

00:42:50.560 I think that 74% accountability is an important number.

00:42:53.480 But to be frank, I think a lot of Republicans probably do want that retribution.

00:42:57.300 And for Democrats, it was 72 to 20.

00:43:00.020 Independents, it was 48 to 40 retribution.

00:43:03.260 But after he left office, he faced several criminal prosecutions.

00:43:08.240 Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

00:43:10.180 The prosecutions were always political.

00:43:12.940 Now it's time to ensure what happened to President Trump never happens again in the country.

00:43:17.360 Now, this is why the statements, in my opinion, are better polling than the individual words.

00:43:22.040 Because 55% agree with that statement.

00:43:24.280 43% strongly.

00:43:25.900 Only 30% strongly oppose.

00:43:28.540 And Republicans, it's like, what is that?

00:43:30.540 82% agree.

00:43:32.300 Independence, 50%.

00:43:33.660 Only 42% of independents disagree.

00:43:36.840 But what this really was, this retribution revenge thing, is a very good bit of proof that the Democrats had nothing.

00:43:46.240 They weren't running on the record.

00:43:47.980 They had to run on canards and gaslighting and psyops.

00:43:51.660 And if you look at Google Trends, for just the word retribution, what you're going to see is a really weird thing.

00:43:59.160 There's a massive spike in the middle and end of June.

00:44:03.820 Why is that?

00:44:04.860 Why did it spike all of a sudden in the middle and end of June?

00:44:07.280 Well, I think what happened is Norm Eisen put out a report that showed that Trump was using that kind of language.

00:44:14.100 It came out at the end of May, and all of a sudden there was a seemingly coordinated push by the mainstream media to paint Trump's entire presidency and campaign as a retribution campaign.

00:44:25.300 So I think the mainstream media was working in coordination with quasi-government actors to take down the Trump presidency because they knew Biden wasn't going to be able to do it.

00:44:36.380 How did it end?

00:44:37.740 Was somebody taking a shot at President Trump?

00:44:39.980 I thought you were going to say President Trump winning on November 5th, but yeah, I do, right?

00:44:44.820 So it's like, yeah, the gaslighting doesn't work no more.

00:44:48.180 I mean, maybe it worked on a small percentage of people, but the 2024 election was a referendum with government overreach, people having the boot of the government autocrats on their throat, COVID, a lack of accountability, weaponization of the Justice Department, and the death of the American dream.

00:45:07.920 And it's like, well, in that context, what MSNBC says doesn't necessarily matter anymore.

00:45:14.080 You know, I saw something the other day, and it was a picture of President Trump wearing his garbage truck jacket where he came down the plane, Trump Force One, wearing that neon vest after Biden or whoever it was, Cuban, called us all garbage, who supported President Trump.

00:45:32.100 So, and it was just time and time again, you can go out the course and everything they've done backfired.

00:45:38.080 I'll never forget when they came out and they said, you know, there's going to be cameras in the courtroom for President Trump's proceedings and this and that.

00:45:46.720 And I'm like, how the hell can you do that?

00:45:48.500 You've got to fight this. 0.76

00:45:49.420 It's embarrassing.

00:45:50.240 You can't have the president on video in the courtroom.

00:45:53.560 And then time went on, and I realized, well, hold on, maybe it's actually good for the American people to open their eyes.

00:45:59.520 President Trump gets arrested, fingerprinted in Georgia.

00:46:02.660 What does President Trump do?

00:46:03.800 He goes out and takes his mugshot and starts selling it.

00:46:06.080 It's everywhere.

00:46:07.120 It's still people's Twitter profile pictures.

00:46:11.060 I mentioned the garbage vest.

00:46:13.320 Every single thing they tried to turn on him, he literally hit them with the banana in the tailpipe, is the saying that I love, and reversed it back on them.

00:46:21.720 And it's literally the most brilliant thing in the world.

00:46:25.720 But, you know, almost 10 years now has gone by, Mark, and they still haven't been able to get him.

00:46:31.860 It's almost like Tom and Jerry, you know, like one of our favorite cartoons as a kid, where he's constantly chasing the mouse around the house and can never seem to catch him.

00:46:42.080 And once he, like, finally catches him, it's like nothing happens.

00:46:46.280 We all knew this.

00:46:47.260 The words Teflon Don, those words are like 10 years old.

00:46:51.720 Right?

00:46:52.620 Nimble Navigator, the Trump curse.

00:46:55.520 Like, we know that that's what happens.

00:46:58.620 Like, look at the assets that they burned to try to take down Trump.

00:47:03.420 Every mainstream media organization, the Justice Department, our federal law enforcement agencies, like the IRA, like literally everything.

00:47:12.360 They had 51 former Intel leaders come out and patently lie in a way that they knew was going to be disproved because they thought that they would have a never-ending ability to gaslight the population.

00:47:25.180 You were talking before about resistance and where it came from and what we expect to see.

00:47:31.820 And I think this one's an important one because I think what we should be in the business doing right now is predicting what kind of gas lighting is coming down the pike, what kind of focus.

00:47:41.120 And what was a big surprise for me was back in 2016 and 2017 during the first Trump inauguration was I went to church and I heard people talking about the inauguration.

00:47:53.700 What they were talking about was going down there with those insufferable pink hats, middle-aged, late middle-aged women, early 60s, going down to D.C. in those pink hats. 1.00

00:48:05.080 I'm like, that's weird.

00:48:06.420 Like, why are you doing that?

00:48:07.780 And what is your point?

00:48:09.260 And it was just like a temper tantrum, right?

00:48:11.300 Well, that trend has continued.

00:48:14.420 And one of the questions we asked, I think, was very important in our fall polling.

00:48:19.500 Which cable TV news channel would you be most likely to trust?

00:48:22.860 Now, this isn't about news consumption patterns.

00:48:26.340 This is literally just about, okay, well, do you trust the brand or not?

00:48:29.320 And what's interesting is CNN and MSNBC, the characteristics are very similar of what they tell their viewers.

00:48:37.080 But CNN is much more trusted by younger voters and MSNBC and Fox News is flat across the board.

00:48:44.060 So it doesn't matter what age you are.

00:48:45.800 Roughly 27% of battleground voters said they trusted Fox News.

00:48:51.220 But with MSNBC specifically and Newsmax, the young voters don't watch it.

00:48:57.560 They don't trust it.

00:48:58.440 But the old ones, 65 and older, do. 0.70

00:49:00.820 It was 12% for MSNBC for 18 to 29-year-olds, 25% for 65 and older.

00:49:07.780 So there is something very specific about the upper class, affluent, liberal boomer that just loves consuming MSNBC propaganda.

00:49:19.420 And those aren't the people that left and went to Blue Sky.

00:49:23.100 So those people are still out there.

00:49:24.500 They're probably the ones that broke their TV by throwing a clicker at it.

00:49:27.180 But they'll be back, ostensibly, unless some of them died by a heart attack.

00:49:32.580 So I don't know.

00:49:35.060 They might be, you know, it's eight years since 2016, 2017.

00:49:39.300 Maybe some of them are no longer ambulatory and won't be coming down with their pink hats anymore.

00:49:45.660 I do not know.

00:49:47.340 But we're going to see something.

00:49:49.980 They're not just going to give up power, you know.

00:49:51.800 So, you see, I got invited to go down on Monday for the inauguration.

00:49:56.280 I just, you know, I went in 2016.

00:49:58.200 It was amazing.

00:49:58.960 It was monumental.

00:50:00.400 I went to the president's inaugural ball.

00:50:03.500 I'm out with Anderson Cooper.

00:50:05.520 It was just not a good night.

00:50:06.680 I took my father.

00:50:07.960 It was a big Trump guy.

00:50:09.480 He was working as a C-suite guy at a public company.

00:50:13.420 So he had to sort of duck and hide the time.

00:50:15.840 Now he's retired.

00:50:16.900 So he can do whatever he wants.

00:50:18.320 He can make all the donations he wants.

00:50:19.740 So he feels like he's like a free man now.

00:50:22.100 And I asked him, I said, do you want to go?

00:50:23.640 And he goes, you know, we went in 2016.

00:50:25.700 You know, maybe not.

00:50:26.900 I just don't have a good feeling about it.

00:50:28.500 I don't know.

00:50:29.600 We watched the president get shot at once, almost a second time.

00:50:33.500 We watched Iran send a video of like a drone blowing him up on a golf course.

00:50:37.940 You know, I pray to God nothing happens.

00:50:39.580 But I just don't have a good feeling about it.

00:50:41.160 I was there on January 6th working for Fox News at the time.

00:50:44.460 And I'll never forget walking back from the D.C. Bureau, the Fox News Bureau, to my hotel.

00:50:48.940 On the phone with Lou.

00:50:50.220 And I actually walked right past the pipe bomb.

00:50:52.820 And I had no idea.

00:50:54.140 I'm on the phone and the Capitol Police is telling me, you know, you can't walk down.

00:50:57.940 It is a grave threat.

00:50:58.760 And I'm like, all right, man, whatever.

00:51:00.360 I'm media.

00:51:00.960 OK, go ahead.

00:51:01.920 And I walk by.

00:51:02.760 And then I get to the end.

00:51:03.520 The guy goes, wait, what the hell are you doing here?

00:51:05.120 And I was like, I just said I could walk down there.

00:51:07.020 And Lou's on the other end.

00:51:07.860 And he goes, what's going on over there, partner?

00:51:09.340 Is everything OK?

00:51:10.080 Are you getting arrested?

00:51:10.900 I'm like, yeah, I have no idea.

00:51:13.040 And then, like, the next day I found out there was a pipe bomb there, which was probably planted by the U.S. government.

00:51:18.280 So it was never detonating anyway.

00:51:21.400 So there was really no grave threat there to begin with.

00:51:25.220 Maybe they should have called the Unabomber to figure out how to make a bomb and how to detonate it. 0.97

00:51:29.240 Because the government's incompetent at doing absolutely everything, apparently, even making it all McVeigh.

00:51:35.220 He's a mastermind.

00:51:37.060 Seriously.

00:51:37.960 But I mean, these guys literally fail at the most absurd things.

00:51:43.280 I mean, if it was a government operation and they tried to assassinate the president and the government was in on it, they had Secret Service.

00:51:50.400 It was absolutely easy for them to do.

00:51:53.080 They failed at it if it was a government operation.

00:51:55.580 But like I said, the pipe bomb time and time again, these government outlets, these government organizations fail at their objectives.

00:52:04.660 And I think President Trump is going to blow the whistle, so to speak, on a lot of what we've seen over the last four years and the last eight years as it pertains to January 6th, as it pertains to some of the people going in those capitals as it comes to that, as it pertains to the 2020 election.

00:52:22.360 Before we wrap up, do you have any numbers for me?

00:52:24.840 Do people want the 2020?

00:52:26.780 We often heard from the rhinos, Mark.

00:52:30.080 2020's over.

00:52:31.040 We don't want to relitigate it.

00:52:32.520 I want to relitigate it.

00:52:33.900 Lou Dobbs wanted to relitigate it. 0.99

00:52:36.300 We've settled lawsuits, not us particularly, but we were involved in lawsuits with Fox News where they paid out almost a billion dollars because of an election that they should have never paid out.

00:52:46.860 I can't stand Fox News as an organization, but Fox should have never paid that money.

00:52:50.840 They weren't guilty of doing anything, absolutely nothing wrong.

00:52:53.700 The reason they settled the lawsuit is because they didn't want to – this is what I was told from inside sources – they didn't want to go to trial because it was going to come out that Rupert Murdoch, who was no longer an executive of the company, was still making decisions, which is a massive –

00:53:07.700 You know, as a man who's worked at public companies, it's a massive problem with the shareholders.

00:53:13.100 It's a massive problem with the shareholders.

00:53:15.480 I forgot what they're called, but shareholder retribution pretty much at them revolting that you have this man running a company when he shouldn't be.

00:53:22.320 So that's, I believe, why Fox News settled.

00:53:25.800 It makes all the perfect sense.

00:53:28.300 Do people want 2020 relitigated?

00:53:31.020 Do they really want to know what happened on that day in 2020, or I should say the months prior to it?

00:53:38.880 Well, you've just given me the very first question for our next election integrity set, of which we have many.

00:53:43.900 We've asked many, many questions many, many times.

00:53:46.160 What I can tell you is that voters hate cheating, like roughly 9 in 10 of them think – and Democrats think it's important to –

00:53:53.360 Cheating on tests or cheating on their wives?

00:53:55.440 Well, you know.

00:53:57.200 Universal cheater.

00:53:58.460 Yeah, well, no.

00:53:59.220 Cheating in elections, and they overwhelmingly support – there's overwhelming bipartisan support for common-sense election reform measures.

00:54:08.040 Like, yeah, we should have bipartisan audits.

00:54:09.920 Like, yeah, voting should stop the day of the election.

00:54:12.060 That all has massive majorities.

00:54:14.240 And also going into this election, two-thirds of voters thought that cheating would affect the outcome.

00:54:19.640 Now, we asked after the fact how likely is it that cheating affected the outcome of this election.

00:54:24.720 The number was way less.

00:54:25.880 I think it was in the 40s, but I can't remember off the top of my head.

00:54:28.580 So this –

00:54:29.100 Real quick there.

00:54:30.040 I'm sorry.

00:54:30.260 I didn't mean to interrupt you, but I have a short train of thought, and I'm going to forget about this.

00:54:33.800 So I apologize to the audience for stopping, Mark.

00:54:35.820 But the reason why that number is lower – and you hear the Democrats saying it.

00:54:43.100 They say, well, the number's lower.

00:54:44.940 You don't think this election was stolen because you guys won.

00:54:48.080 No, the election – the confidence is down because we didn't let you steal it this time.

00:54:53.060 We didn't let you go early vote in Pennsylvania.

00:54:56.320 Everyone didn't get a mail-in ballot in Pennsylvania.

00:54:59.620 Your ballot harvesting operation in legal areas like Nevada was countered with our legal ballot harvesting operation.

00:55:07.300 For every one voter you guys registered in Pennsylvania, we registered three or four thanks to Scott Pressler.

00:55:12.380 So it's not that this election wasn't stolen because you guys won and the last one wasn't because you guys lost.

00:55:18.060 No, just go look at three simple numbers, Mark, and I'm not saying you.

00:55:22.040 I'm saying it's these Marxists.

00:55:24.280 Go look at the amount of votes the Democrats got in 2016.

00:55:26.880 Go look at the amount of votes the Democrats got in 2020, and go look at the amount of votes that the Democrats got in 2024.

00:55:32.620 It goes like this.

00:55:34.240 I can prove it with numbers.

00:55:35.460 I can prove that it's 2020 in numbers.

00:55:39.280 The question specifically is how likely did cheating affect the outcome, okay?

00:55:45.060 Two-thirds say that cheating affected the outcome of 2020.

00:55:49.000 You can't get to two-thirds without like upper 30s or low 40s of Democrats.

00:55:53.680 So Democrats think cheating affected the outcome of 2020.

00:55:56.760 But when we ask about 2024, it's only 13% of Republicans say very likely 16% somewhat, so 29%.

00:56:05.480 But with 2020, the Republican number is in the 80s.

00:56:09.520 So Republicans went way down.

00:56:11.500 But what did Democrats do?

00:56:12.740 Well, they're still at that same 40% number.

00:56:15.060 So Democrats do not think, by a majority, the cheating affected the outcome of this election.

00:56:22.540 So when Democrats think this one was fair and Republicans think 2020 was crooked, that tells us there's a problem with 2020.

00:56:30.740 And I hope to God they go after it because this is going to hang over.

00:56:34.440 You can't have two-thirds of the country thinking that elections are stolen.

00:56:38.780 Which presidential election had more cheating?

00:56:41.680 This year's election or the 2020 election?

00:56:44.900 Voters say 2020, 42% to 18%.

00:56:47.760 And Democrats are split in the 20s.

00:56:51.000 So the Democrats are like, yeah.

00:56:53.840 You know what I mean?

00:56:54.660 Like there's no difference for them.

00:56:56.060 But Republicans, 63 to 13.

00:56:58.500 So, you know, 13% of the Nikki Haley voters think this one.

00:57:03.640 And independents is 41 to 9.

00:57:06.100 So when the independents are four times more likely to say there was more cheating in 2020, the problem was with that one.

00:57:12.040 And the turnout says it too.

00:57:13.820 The fact that almost 20% of all voters in America got more than one mail-in ballot at their house.

00:57:19.060 Like that, yeah.

00:57:21.420 And it's still within the statute of limitations.

00:57:23.720 I've yet to see other than the Harmeet-Dillan appointment in what way the Trump administration plans to go after this.

00:57:31.620 But I applaud it every step of the way.

00:57:33.820 Hopefully on day one, we'll see who paid for those postal service trucks.

00:57:38.820 Hopefully on day one, there will be investigations announced into the illegal compiler that was installed in Arizona election systems.

00:57:46.080 So I think to step back, we're entering a period of vast and rapid change.

00:57:54.540 To me, the 2020 to 2024 period, like, listen, if you've ever had a toddler, you've had to discipline.

00:58:01.020 You know that there's a tantrum.

00:58:02.840 You know that they'll say, listen, I'm going to hold my breath and throw myself on the floor until I get what I want.

00:58:08.540 I think that was the Biden administration.

00:58:11.160 I think they are wondering whether they should capitulate now.

00:58:14.940 And that's why, quite frankly, I'm not going to the inauguration because, listen, will it be fine?

00:58:21.400 Probably.

00:58:22.680 But they're rapidly running out of time to do whatever.

00:58:27.540 Like we're talking about massive criminal implications of people across the government, people who may now face multi-year investigations into their, like, the way they conducted themselves in the Department of Justice,

00:58:40.800 and the internal revenue system and state election officials across the country, the military, you know, our intelligence agencies, you know, spying on Americans, like leaking information, like, is all that stuff?

00:58:57.520 Are they just going to take it on a hope and a prayer that it's going to go away or that they can somehow manipulate the Trump administration behind the scenes or lean on congressional Republicans to make that stuff disappear?

00:59:08.820 I don't know if that's a given anymore.

00:59:11.260 Yeah, I think those days are long gone, Mark.

00:59:13.040 We've run out of time here, and I appreciate you always joining us.

00:59:16.640 One last point about the cheating in the elections.

00:59:21.080 To all the Democrats who are watching this show or who will hear this, rest assured the Republicans don't cheat because they don't know how to. 0.99

00:59:27.580 They're too dumb to cheat legally or illegally or whichever way you want to put it. 1.00

00:59:32.280 They're too dumb. 1.00

00:59:33.000 We don't have a Mark Elias on the right, a dirty, crooked lawyer who learns how to play the system and knows how to game the system. 1.00

00:59:40.100 So rest assured, the Republicans do not know how to cheat.

00:59:43.400 We don't cheat.

00:59:44.520 They don't know how to cheat without Democrats.

00:59:47.000 That's the nuance, right?

00:59:49.060 Exactly, exactly, exactly.

00:59:51.540 Well, even at that, Mark, there's so much that we could talk about.

00:59:54.200 As you know, we've went two, three hours on this program before, but we'll have to continue on this conversation sometime soon.

01:00:02.880 Mark Mitchell, Mr. Rasmussen, the face of Rasmussen, you do a terrific job.

01:00:08.380 Keep it up.

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01:00:10.280 Happy to be here.

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