The hearings for Pete Hegseth, the new nominee to be the next Secretary of Defense, are underway on Capitol Hill, and the Dems are doing their best to smear him. President Trump announces a new agency, the Externals Revenue Service, which will be a counter to the IRS, and pushes for a flat tax or no income tax at all. Our guest today is pollster Mark Mitchell.
00:08:59.500President Trump was just coming off being a Democrat, you know, for the earlier part of his life.
00:09:06.500So we didn't really know what we were getting with President Trump.
00:09:08.880And, you know, I'm glad to say now I was wrong in 2016.
00:09:13.020And 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.
00:09:21.400But, you know, you make your mistakes and you write your mistakes.
00:09:25.100But now we fast forward and I think you're absolutely right.
00:09:27.880I think there is a Russia collusion or China collusion or something like that coming.
00:09:32.520I 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.
00:09:39.880I mean, they tried to say that they colluded again in this last election.
00:09:43.680The difference is now, Mark, it's not just the mainstream media who's sort of taken a shift to the right.
00:09:48.820Right. It's Mark Zuckerberg taking a shift to the right.
00:09:54.680Oh, 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.
00:10:05.220I don't trust the guy. I can't stand the guy. Still can't stand the guy.
00:10:09.260But at the end of the day, you know, it's better than the devil, you know, is better than the one you don't.
00:10:15.460So he may be in all these antitrust case. He may be in a lot of trouble.
00:10:18.460It'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.
00:10:27.740But I do think, you know, this next four years, we're not going to have Facebook censoring us.
00:10:33.960We're not going to have Twitter censoring us there.
00:10:36.620We're not going to have them putting out these nonsense stories and pushing them to the tops of people's feeds.
00:10:41.540The only thing we're going to have is them putting it out on MSNBC and CNN.
00:10:46.260And Mark, you and I both know their ratings are absolutely abysmal.
00:10:50.960Oh, man. The Washington Post numbers, too.
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00:17:18.560We're talking with Mr. Rasmussen, Mark Mitchell.
00:17:22.020Mark, before we went to break, we were talking about the wildfires that are still burning on California.
00:17:27.760And, you know, I feel for those people out there, terrible, terrible, terrible.
00:17:33.040But 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.
00:17:40.720They 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.
00:17:51.000But it was far different, and that's the thing I think people don't really understand.
00:19:10.680Well, 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.
00:21:09.640And people have been indoctrinated with Captain Planet and all years and years and years.
00:21:16.200And 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.
00:21:24.380And 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.
00:21:34.240I did some math and Grok helped me out over the weekend.
00:21:38.900If 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.
00:22:36.900Let's just become communists because of a half a degree.
00:22:40.700Like 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.
00:23:00.300The party of science is the most anti-science thing I've ever heard.
00:23:03.580And they're literally lying to all of America that climate change caused this.
00:23:07.780And I hope that this is the emperor has no clothes moment.
00:23:10.700For this particular host, because this is like we talked about hoaxes.
00:23:13.800There were a lot of hoaxes over the last four years.
00:23:15.960I 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.
00:23:29.140Again, the Michael Schellenberg interview, this guy's from California.
00:23:45.860The other thing, too, Mark, to put just put this to rest for these numbskulls who think it's climate change.
00:23:52.520And 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.
00:24:00.380This period there happened to be in now is a little bit longer than those.
00:24:03.380But the longest droughts of the 20th century were back in 1987 to 92.
00:24:11.020And then before that, it was 1928 to 1934.
00:24:14.480So 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?
00:24:23.940And 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.
00:24:40.480So climate change wasn't a thing back then.
00:24:42.860There was no planes burning holes through the ozone layer, factories, you know, coal burning like it is now.
00:24:49.880Now, 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?
00:24:59.820What 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.
00:25:17.360I 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.
00:25:34.460Like, literally imagine that there are wildfires.
00:25:38.200And seriously, we have a climate, like, we have an environment in California, and we've literally done nothing to prevent our primary, like, risk.
00:25:53.660In 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.
00:26:02.240And we didn't, like, the city knew that.
00:26:05.180Were they pre-positioning fire trucks?
00:26:07.300Were they, like, not, were they canceling their trips to Ghana?
00:26:10.540Were they refilling, rapidly refilling empty, you know, in reservoirs or pre-stocking trucks or hosing down wet areas?
00:27:51.520She'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.
00:28:07.560The Department of Water and Power, maybe?
00:28:10.700I've got the story, I believe, right here.
00:28:16.680Janice Canoes, she runs the L.A. Department of Water and Power.
00:28:21.060For some reason, I had a DEI in my head.
00:28:24.000The Board of Water and Power Commissioner on Tuesday voted to approve the salary, and this is an article from April 24th of 2024.
00:28:31.960And this article, for anyone who wants to go read it, it's an L.A. Times article, headlined,
00:28:37.280New 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.
00:28:48.800The 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,
00:28:57.520that is significantly higher than the $447,082 currently earned by General Manager Marty Adams, who happens, like you said, to be a white male.
00:29:09.840Canoes is a former senior vice president of electrical operations for Pacific Gas and Electric.
00:29:15.520She's probably making more money, I might add in there, Mark, than she was making in the private sector, which is very backwards.
00:29:25.600She's still on the military payroll as well.
00:29:28.860I don't even want to hear the rest of the corruption.
00:29:31.280So 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.
00:29:41.500And people should look this up on their site.
00:29:45.280We just replaced the head of our organization.
00:29:48.120And what we see is quotes that are like, together we can achieve our transformational goals and shore up our systems to fight climate change.
00:29:56.360Not stop forest fires, not provide clean drinking water, but to fight climate change.
00:30:01.820And then the Sierra Club is the very next quote.
00:30:04.480That they're ready to support bold climate action.
00:30:08.760And we are in a critical moment to confront the climate crisis.
00:30:12.700And then you have the CEO of Smart Electric Power Line saying that for commitment to clean energy and ability to achieve a sustainable future.
00:30:40.720Going 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.
00:30:52.340They 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.
00:31:02.060Before that, he hadn't gotten a raise since he was hired as general manager in 2019.
00:31:08.800So she gives a quote, and like I said, this is just under a year ago, quote, and this is from Janice Canoas.
00:31:15.440The department had so many great things going for themselves, well, apparently not, and a lot of new challenges that we need to tackle.
00:31:22.000She had that collaborating with stakeholders in the community and others in the industry will be key.
00:31:26.780So 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.
00:32:21.480Well, 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.
00:32:35.160We'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.
00:32:42.680We'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.
00:32:48.560The 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.
00:32:57.200You 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.
00:33:09.660You people had the opportunity to do this.
00:33:12.420We're supposed to feel bad for you now.
00:33:40.920But the problem is, is right and left have been become two parts of essentially different cultures in a massive culture war.
00:33:48.420And we've seen the culture war play out.
00:33:51.000And right now, sanity, conservative conservatism, which quite frankly, right now seems to mean like, um, meritocracy and objectivity, right?
00:34:02.660Is locked in a deadly battle with communism, virtue signaling, emotional thinking, and good vibes.
00:34:10.980They lost, they're losing, it's a war.
00:34:14.460And quite frankly, one of the reasons that they've lost is because they took a strategy and it didn't work for them.
00:34:21.440They tried to like advance their tanks in the mud and they're like mired down and we're shelling them right now.
00:34:29.780And 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.
00:34:39.540Like you shouldn't be getting all the characters in Disney.
00:34:43.020You shouldn't have planes whose landing gear doesn't work.
00:34:47.280And that's what their side of the culture war is.
00:34:50.420It'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.
00:35:09.120And 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.
00:35:14.820And 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.
00:35:37.620I 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.
00:35:43.240I want to go a little bit further into that is woke, really dead.
00:35:47.120You 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.
00:35:56.180They've got like elderly people out there now, Mark, wearing.
00:35:59.080I'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.
00:38:26.340We're talking with Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen.
00:38:28.260Mark, while we were on break, we've got some news.
00:38:30.080The House has passed a bill to ban biological males from girls' school sports.
00:38:35.380So 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.
00:38:47.660As 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.
00:38:59.420But 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.
00:39:08.260I mean, your thoughts, why has it taken so long to do something that's just so common sense, Mark?
00:39:49.000And 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.
00:40:00.180The voters finally might get what they want, and that's what the Republican Party needs to do more of.
00:40:05.960Yeah, I don't know what's taking them so long because it's – enough's enough.
00:40:11.260Turning now to retribution, I hope you've got some numbers for me.
00:40:14.980Retribution, it's something we've heard throughout this whole entire campaign, and people, the Democrats, you heard them say, don't vote for Trump.
00:40:22.040All he's out for blood, he's out for retribution.
00:40:39.580If you don't believe me, go look at the numbers, the statistics of the votes in 2016, 2020, and 2024.
00:40:48.400There was a massive spike in 2020 that I think President Trump is going to look into, rightfully so.
00:40:54.180But moving forward on that, President Trump has no political enemies.
00:40:57.680This is the end of the road for him, Mark.
00:40:59.600He's never going to have to run again.
00:41:01.020And 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.
00:41:12.740What are the voters saying when it comes to retribution and payback?
00:41:16.740And by retribution, I don't mean President Trump sending audits to these people's houses for their IRS and all that stuff.
00:41:24.480I 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,
00:41:35.360but recommending fake charges against President Trump in a case that should have never been brought in the first place.
00:41:41.600Fannie Willis in Georgia bringing a case that has nothing to do with it.
00:41:45.180Big Tish James up in New York who campaigned on getting Trump and then comes forward.
00:42:06.480They were not happy with the weaponization of the Department of Justice because we had 64% of voters saying that Trump's political persecution
00:42:14.860was a witch hunt and that this was like something that happened in Banana Republics.
00:42:19.380But then we asked this during his campaign.
00:42:21.780Trump frequently said that various officials, including Pelosi and Biden, should be prosecuted and punished for wrongdoing,
00:42:28.300which is closer to your thinking that he's seeking retribution on his political enemies or that Trump is bringing accountability to Washington.
00:44:04.860Why did it spike all of a sudden in the middle and end of June?
00:44:07.280Well, I think what happened is Norm Eisen put out a report that showed that Trump was using that kind of language.
00:44:14.100It 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.
00:44:25.300So 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.
00:44:37.740Was somebody taking a shot at President Trump?
00:44:39.980I thought you were going to say President Trump winning on November 5th, but yeah, I do, right?
00:44:44.820So it's like, yeah, the gaslighting doesn't work no more.
00:44:48.180I 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.
00:45:07.920And it's like, well, in that context, what MSNBC says doesn't necessarily matter anymore.
00:45:14.080You 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.
00:45:32.100So, and it was just time and time again, you can go out the course and everything they've done backfired.
00:45:38.080I'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.
00:45:46.720And I'm like, how the hell can you do that?
00:46:13.320Every 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.
00:46:21.720And it's literally the most brilliant thing in the world.
00:46:25.720But, you know, almost 10 years now has gone by, Mark, and they still haven't been able to get him.
00:46:31.860It'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.
00:46:42.080And once he, like, finally catches him, it's like nothing happens.
00:46:55.520Like, we know that that's what happens.
00:46:58.620Like, look at the assets that they burned to try to take down Trump.
00:47:03.420Every mainstream media organization, the Justice Department, our federal law enforcement agencies, like the IRA, like literally everything.
00:47:12.360They 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.
00:47:25.180You were talking before about resistance and where it came from and what we expect to see.
00:47:31.820And 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.
00:47:41.120And 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.
00:47:53.700What 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.
00:51:37.960But I mean, these guys literally fail at the most absurd things.
00:51:43.280I 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.
00:51:50.400It was absolutely easy for them to do.
00:51:53.080They failed at it if it was a government operation.
00:51:55.580But like I said, the pipe bomb time and time again, these government outlets, these government organizations fail at their objectives.
00:52:04.660And 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.
00:52:22.360Before we wrap up, do you have any numbers for me?
00:52:36.300We'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.
00:52:46.860I can't stand Fox News as an organization, but Fox should have never paid that money.
00:52:50.840They weren't guilty of doing anything, absolutely nothing wrong.
00:52:53.700The 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 –
00:53:07.700You know, as a man who's worked at public companies, it's a massive problem with the shareholders.
00:53:13.100It's a massive problem with the shareholders.
00:53:15.480I 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.
00:53:22.320So that's, I believe, why Fox News settled.
00:53:59.220Cheating in elections, and they overwhelmingly support – there's overwhelming bipartisan support for common-sense election reform measures.
00:54:08.040Like, yeah, we should have bipartisan audits.
00:54:09.920Like, yeah, voting should stop the day of the election.
00:58:22.680But they're rapidly running out of time to do whatever.
00:58:27.540Like 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,
00:58:40.800and 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?
00:58:57.520Are 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?
00:59:08.820I don't know if that's a given anymore.
00:59:11.260Yeah, I think those days are long gone, Mark.
00:59:13.040We've run out of time here, and I appreciate you always joining us.
00:59:16.640One last point about the cheating in the elections.
00:59:21.080To 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.
00:59:27.580They're too dumb to cheat legally or illegally or whichever way you want to put it.