The Megyn Kelly Show - President Trump is Back, Major Executive Orders, and Biden's Last Minute Pardons, with Emily Jashinsky and Eliana Johnson ｜ Ep. 986

00:00:00.520 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM channel 111 every weekday at New East.

00:00:12.300 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. How happy are we?

00:00:18.340 Today we're broadcasting from Washington, D.C., where our prayers have been answered.

00:00:22.180 It is official. Joe Biden is gone. Kamala Harris is gone.

00:00:25.760 Everyone is cleaned out of the White House press office, and Donald Trump is the 47th president of the United States.

00:00:32.940 J.D. Vance, the vice president. Right now, it happened.

00:00:37.600 The day began at St. John's Church, where Donald Trump, his family, and incoming top officials worshipped and demonstrated that class and grace are back in the White House.

00:00:48.300 Look at Melania, this incredible hat. Absolutely stunning. 0.99

00:00:52.540 All right, so here we got a little fashion info for you.

00:00:56.620 Lippis. It is a guy named Adam Lippis who designed that beautiful dress.

00:01:01.760 It was a navy blue coat.

00:01:03.540 And then the hat was by Eric Javits, another New York-based designer.

00:01:08.600 Lippis is 52. He rose to prominence as a creative director for Oscar de la Renta, but since 2004 has his own company.

00:01:15.080 He also used to design for Target, so good for her for getting a guy who is close to being a man of the people.

00:01:22.200 Mr. Trump and Melania then took a brief visit over to the White House, where President Biden was heard saying two words to President Trump, welcome home.

00:01:32.240 Good line.

00:01:32.680 This lovely little piece of jargon came just after Mr. Biden announced pardons for Dr. Fauci, the January 6th Committee, General Mark Milley, and many, many others to protect them from, quote,

00:01:46.360 So baseless and politically motivated investigations, because who would want to be the target of one of those?

00:01:52.100 And just before he pardoned five, count them, five members of his family with about 15 minutes to go in his presidency, Mr. Biden for the last time using his power to protect those around him.

00:02:05.460 Yeah, I mean, we did Hunter in advance, and then he did brother, Jim, and the sister and the in-laws and basically anyone named Biden other than his daughter, Ashley, who, as far as we know, has a substance abuse problem, but no criminality in her life.

00:02:21.820 Okay, so at noon, his presidency did come to an end per the U.S. Constitution.

00:02:26.320 Trump's began, and take a listen to the reaction from Trump supporters in the Capital One arena here in Washington.

00:02:32.560 It's where, I can't remember what they're called, but the hockey team and the basketball team play here inside, thanks to the extreme cold here.

00:02:42.140 It is freaking cold in Washington as the new president entered the Capitol building on Capitol Hill.

00:03:02.560 It's very cool.

00:03:07.900 So what you're seeing, they're not anywhere near the action, right?

00:03:11.420 The president's walking into the rotunda on Capitol Hill a couple miles away, and so there were people who were in that room, then there were people who were in the overflow room inside the U.S. Capitol building.

00:03:22.420 And then these folks in the Capitol One building, which is the sports arena, were overflow, overflow, and you would have thought they were right in front of him, given those cheers.

00:03:32.220 The enthusiasm in this town right now is palpable.

00:03:36.180 I mean, palpable.

00:03:37.000 And here is the moment it became official, when Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, swore in Donald J. Trump as the 47th president.

00:03:49.840 Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.

00:03:53.540 I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.

00:03:56.460 I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.

00:03:59.500 That I will faithfully execute.

00:04:01.580 That I will faithfully execute.

00:04:03.700 The office of President of the United States.

00:04:06.760 The office of President of the United States.

00:04:09.800 And will, to the best of my ability.

00:04:12.120 And will, to the best of my ability.

00:04:14.720 Preserve, protect, and defend.

00:04:16.880 Preserve, protect, and defend.

00:04:18.620 The Constitution of the United States.

00:04:20.540 The Constitution of the United States.

00:04:22.660 So help me God.

00:04:23.560 So help me God.

00:04:24.800 Congratulations, Mr. President.

00:04:31.320 Wow.

00:04:31.800 Shaking the hand of outgoing President Joe Biden.

00:04:36.420 Hugging his family.

00:04:38.000 There was a moment there where Chief Justice John Roberts got started a little sooner than the family anticipated.

00:04:43.260 So Melania had to step in, sort of at the very beginning of the oath.

00:04:46.560 And then you saw Trump's children come, sort of like, oh, it's time.

00:04:49.420 You know, like, we've got to get over there.

00:04:51.140 And Tiffany Trump was sort of in the middle.

00:04:54.180 And it was kind of nice.

00:04:55.420 Joe Biden kind of said, come over here and stand here.

00:04:57.940 You could go a different way with it.

00:04:59.760 You could go a different way.

00:05:00.860 But I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.

00:05:02.660 He was just being a nice guy.

00:05:04.020 The crowd inside the Capitol included Trump's predecessors.

00:05:07.180 Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

00:05:10.160 Not Michelle.

00:05:12.040 She's not a phony.

00:05:13.160 And she hates him and didn't want to be there.

00:05:14.640 We don't know why she didn't come.

00:05:15.580 But, of course, that's why she didn't come.

00:05:16.660 The guys who made all the news and got the attention of all the news media were the tech

00:05:22.160 titans.

00:05:22.960 Elon Musk of X, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and The Washington Post, Mark Zuckerberg, who created

00:05:29.240 Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, and more, many more.

00:05:35.720 Sundar, the guy who runs Google.

00:05:37.280 They were all there as the president, delivered a message about unity, about optimism, and about

00:05:42.800 always now putting America first.

00:05:45.240 As you will see in this soundbite, no clapping nor any standing ovation, however, from now

00:05:51.420 former President Joe Biden or any of the Democrats sitting behind Mr. Trump, even when he discussed

00:05:57.800 surviving an assassin's bullet.

00:06:00.580 Just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my

00:06:06.500 ear.

00:06:08.440 But I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason.

00:06:15.240 I was saved by God to make America great again.

00:06:19.620 I mean, I get it.

00:06:34.900 They don't generally stand for the other side.

00:06:37.100 If he hadn't finished it with make America great again, they probably would have stood,

00:06:42.020 I guess.

00:06:42.640 I don't know.

00:06:43.520 I'm glad we don't have to find out.

00:06:45.380 But maybe we can we can give him that one.

00:06:47.380 Whatever.

00:06:47.880 Everybody else is on their feet, clapping away.

00:06:50.440 And it was a beautiful moment.

00:06:51.660 And Trump seemed contemplative and seemed a bit more serene.

00:06:55.480 He's definitely in a great mood.

00:06:57.560 He's been working around the clock.

00:06:59.640 And you can only imagine what that was like for him to return.

00:07:03.120 You know, he talked about how they they tried to kill me.

00:07:05.600 They they indicted me and I'm back.

00:07:08.380 I did it.

00:07:09.520 I survived.

00:07:10.840 But perhaps my own favorite moment from the speech was President Trump announcing the

00:07:14.960 executive actions he plans to take today.

00:07:18.600 They're happening now, including that the federal government will only recognize two genders.

00:07:26.140 Today, I will sign a series of historic executive orders.

00:07:30.680 First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.

00:07:40.340 We will drill, baby, drill.

00:07:43.840 I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every

00:07:54.260 aspect of public and private life.

00:07:59.020 As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there

00:08:06.120 are only two genders, male and female.

00:08:09.660 And wait until you hear how exactly he did that, because now we have the executive orders

00:08:18.180 and they're a thing of beauty.

00:08:20.320 I know so many, so many people who have worked so hard for this moment were rejoicing on that

00:08:27.520 portion of the speech.

00:08:28.360 And when you read the executive actions that he took on that, it's just absolutely huge.

00:08:32.640 Thank God he won.

00:08:33.960 The speech had a fittingly Trumpian ending, where he boldly declared that America is entering a new

00:08:40.540 period of peace and prosperity.

00:08:44.240 Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers.

00:08:49.880 The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.

00:08:53.760 They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and factory workers, steel workers and coal miners,

00:08:58.920 police officers and pioneers who pushed onward, marched forward, and let no obstacle defeat their

00:09:06.500 spirit or their pride.

00:09:08.820 Together, they laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways, won

00:09:16.900 two world wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed over every single challenge that

00:09:24.660 they faced.

00:09:25.360 We will stand bravely, we will live proudly, we will dream boldly, and nothing will stand

00:09:33.740 in our way because we are Americans, the future is ours, and our golden age has just begun.

00:09:41.260 Thank you.

00:09:42.380 God bless America.

00:09:43.640 Thank you all.

00:09:44.500 Thank you.

00:09:45.940 Thank you very much.

00:09:48.080 First speech as the 47th president.

00:09:51.400 CNN's John King called the president's speech dark.

00:09:53.960 Of course, we always hear that when Trump speaks.

00:09:56.420 And here's Gayle King over on CBS making it all about race. 1.00

00:10:01.940 Guys, I have to say, I'm looking at this crowd.

00:10:03.880 I do not see many people of color.

00:10:06.400 Has anybody else besides me observed that?

00:10:08.960 I'm fascinated by why that is.

00:10:12.380 On Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

00:10:15.800 Oh my God.

00:10:17.420 You know what?

00:10:18.040 Why don't you take a look at your own party if you're looking for absence of diversity?

00:10:23.080 Okay?

00:10:24.040 See what happened to the working class because they fled your party, Gayle King, in droves.

00:10:29.940 And they're not coming back anytime soon, you elitist snob who's obsessed over people's

00:10:35.200 melanin.

00:10:36.100 Nobody in the Republican Party thinks like that.

00:10:38.540 And by the way, there were plenty of people of color, both there and in the overflow room

00:10:43.020 and over at the Capitol Arena.

00:10:44.560 And I saw them myself when I was there yesterday.

00:10:47.120 So get over yourself.

00:10:49.660 After his historic speech, Trump heading over to Capitol One Arena.

00:10:53.280 And there, at this moment, he is addressing, or about to, supporters of all races.

00:10:59.020 And he's going to sit at this desk and sign his first set of executive orders on the border,

00:11:03.880 energy, and more.

00:11:05.060 I'm going to list for you what they are.

00:11:07.180 Joining me now to react to all of this and other breaking news out of the Trump second

00:11:10.500 term now underway are the EJs. 0.80

00:11:12.540 Who's better than this historic day to have Emily Jashinsky, DC correspondent for Unheard

00:11:17.280 and host of Undercurrents, and Eliana Johnson, editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon

00:11:21.180 and co-host of the podcast, Ink Stained Wretches.

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00:12:25.400 Great to see you.

00:12:26.600 Great to be with you.

00:12:27.660 How are you feeling?

00:12:29.200 Good.

00:12:30.320 Eliana is just keeping it short right now.

00:12:32.000 Yeah.

00:12:32.160 I mean, how could you look at the golden ages upon us?

00:12:35.560 The sun is shining through the windows.

00:12:37.560 I apologize for your like half lit face.

00:12:39.460 It's just sort of we're here and it's like we're dealing with the sun.

00:12:42.060 It's nice to have some sun, but it's freaking cold outside.

00:12:44.960 Yeah, it's freezing.

00:12:45.700 Right?

00:12:46.020 Oh, yeah.

00:12:46.620 It's freezing.

00:12:47.260 I mean, I don't like I don't know how they honestly could have done the inauguration outside

00:12:50.260 because it's one thing if you had to show up for one hour and stand there, but you

00:12:53.360 had to get there.

00:12:54.620 The orders to get there began at eight.

00:12:56.800 So that's the latest.

00:12:58.640 You could have shown up at eight in the morning for a 12 o'clock ceremony.

00:13:02.060 It would have been a nightmare.

00:13:03.240 Well, you know, it could be 75 degrees and I wouldn't want to stand outside for in a crowd

00:13:08.720 like that.

00:13:09.160 But for this Minnesota girl, I was like all bundled up this morning, ready to track.

00:13:14.180 I was afraid I was going to have to walk five blocks to get here.

00:13:17.100 It's not cold out.

00:13:18.360 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:13:19.040 It's cold.

00:13:20.020 20 degrees.

00:13:20.780 It's fine.

00:13:21.340 But it's what feels like seven with the wind.

00:13:24.560 Yes.

00:13:25.040 But anything above zero for us hardy Midwesterners again.

00:13:30.100 Upstate New York and Wisconsin.

00:13:31.600 I was going to say, I don't want to be out there, but it was not as cold as I thought

00:13:37.060 it would be.

00:13:37.700 We get it, Eliana.

00:13:38.520 You're very tough.

00:13:39.360 Yeah.

00:13:39.920 I did feel bad, though, because, you know, while they fit 20,000 people into the Capital

00:13:43.680 One arena, they like that's nowhere near of the people who wanted to come watch this

00:13:48.780 inauguration.

00:13:49.340 You know, it would have been hundreds of thousands and many had purchased their tickets and the

00:13:53.880 people who wind up not getting in are like the hardcore ranking file.

00:13:58.360 Normal people.

00:13:58.740 Yeah.

00:13:59.240 Yeah, of course.

00:13:59.960 In fact, like Joe Rogan, he's going to make it in.

00:14:02.100 Yeah.

00:14:02.460 But, you know, Joe Schmo from Minnesota is not going to make it in.

00:14:06.060 You know what happened with us is we went to the Capital Arena with Trump yesterday and

00:14:09.900 I spoke at his event there and saw much of the same cast of characters as came today.

00:14:15.200 And my whole family went.

00:14:16.360 We had a great time.

00:14:17.040 We did not get invited to the inner inauguration, which is fine.

00:14:20.840 That was for like mostly his top, top surrogates and donors.

00:14:23.700 But they did invite us to go back to the Capital One arena in a VIP thing.

00:14:27.160 And we just said, you know what?

00:14:28.200 You should give those tickets to somebody else because we had the whole day yesterday.

00:14:31.400 Let somebody else do it so we can get more like people who really, you know, regular

00:14:36.500 people who don't have VIP access.

00:14:38.820 But I think no matter how many people did that, you know, you needed 10 times the number of

00:14:44.140 stadiums.

00:14:44.900 There is a cool thing about Trump supporters.

00:14:46.920 Anytime you go to a rally, they love the fellowship with each other and they can find it anywhere.

00:14:51.880 Like the hardcore Trump diehards. 0.84

00:14:54.300 They don't mind standing outside and getting rained on because they meet people from around

00:14:59.420 the country who are just like them.

00:15:01.060 And for a long time, they couldn't find other people like that.

00:15:03.680 And they were like a little bit of fright.

00:15:05.020 So there were 220,000 inauguration tickets granted when it was supposed to be outside.

00:15:09.520 You can fit about 20,000 in Capital One arena.

00:15:12.020 So there is a big gap.

00:15:13.380 But what I've seen just walking around the city in the last couple of days is a lot of

00:15:16.480 people finding fellowship.

00:15:18.100 They're thrilled.

00:15:19.020 They're thrilled.

00:15:19.280 At least.

00:15:19.720 Do you guys know, have you ever watched Fox and Father?

00:15:22.120 It's Lawrence Fox and Father Calvin Robinson.

00:15:25.220 They're UK guys.

00:15:25.880 They're awesome.

00:15:27.140 They got unceremoniously canceled by GB News, which is supposed to be conservative.

00:15:31.160 But in any event, so they were trying to get, I guess, to the Capitol arena today and either

00:15:35.260 couldn't or something happened.

00:15:37.120 So they wound up watching it with Kid Rock in his hotel room.

00:15:40.500 A lot of those things have happened, you know, and people, you can hear the cheering.

00:15:44.280 We saw it in our hotel room and you could hear the cheers when Trump was actually, when

00:15:48.920 he took the oath of office, as soon as it was done, like all over the hotel room, down

00:15:52.400 in the lobby.

00:15:53.480 Just people are feeling so jubilant.

00:15:55.040 And I'm sure everybody listening to this has had their own experience of that.

00:15:58.300 You know, one striking thing about this inauguration, 2024 versus 2016, is crowd size would not

00:16:04.960 have been a problem this go-round.

00:16:06.320 Yes.

00:16:06.880 So that's too bad for Trump.

00:16:07.980 Hotel capacity was higher.

00:16:08.800 But then even when you look at who was inside, it was the CEO of Google, CEO of Meta, every

00:16:17.300 corporate CEO, the CEO of TikTok.

00:16:19.240 CEO of Amazon.

00:16:19.860 CEO of Amazon and his wife, who I know we'll get to.

00:16:23.360 But what's striking to me is that America's top corporations and their leaders, they want

00:16:32.140 to be associated with and want to be seen with this guy, which is a really striking contrast

00:16:36.740 from eight years ago.

00:16:39.180 It was not the case.

00:16:40.460 They were- 0.99

00:16:41.680 Disgusting. 1.00

00:16:42.280 They didn't want to be associated with him. 0.91

00:16:44.060 And then I think it will be quite different depending on how this term goes for people

00:16:48.600 working in the White House and coming out of the White House.

00:16:50.620 I mean, those were tough times for those folks, but this is a very different environment

00:16:54.780 from Trump.

00:16:55.420 Did you see over the weekend Oscar de la Renta was tweeting out-

00:16:58.560 Oh, yes.

00:16:59.040 From their account.

00:17:00.040 Their own looks.

00:17:00.480 Right.

00:17:01.060 And that used to be-

00:17:01.940 For Ivanka, because they did Ivanka's dress.

00:17:02.720 And they did Usha Vance.

00:17:03.980 Oh, Usha.

00:17:04.440 That's right.

00:17:05.400 We looked amazing.

00:17:06.460 I mean, honestly, after Melania, she was his close second on best dressed.

00:17:09.900 Yeah.

00:17:10.260 She looked incredible.

00:17:10.800 She was my top.

00:17:11.920 Melania is a class of one. 0.69

00:17:12.480 None of us wants to compete against Melania.

00:17:13.540 Usha was my one.

00:17:15.320 Usha was your number one?

00:17:16.280 Yes.

00:17:16.780 She just is the nicest person.

00:17:18.400 I've met her.

00:17:18.840 I've spent a little time with her.

00:17:20.620 She's genuinely kind, warm, friendly.

00:17:23.140 She's perfect for JD, who is also nice and kind, but I think she's sort of a softer

00:17:28.520 place to fall.

00:17:29.280 You know what I mean?

00:17:29.800 She's just that sort of loving.

00:17:31.800 Yeah.

00:17:32.320 And he's also more of a fighter, right?

00:17:35.260 She's the brainy Supreme Court clerk, brilliant lawyer, but also this loving mom.

00:17:40.140 And every smile-

00:17:41.180 Look at that smile.

00:17:41.800 She's got the thousand-watt smile.

00:17:43.380 She looks so happy.

00:17:44.180 She was so cute when she was holding their daughter, Mirabelle, with the three Band-Aids

00:17:50.200 on her fingers.

00:17:51.120 Yes.

00:17:51.520 You know, we don't know why she had the three Band-Aids on her fingers. 0.99

00:17:53.840 Sucking her thumb. 0.64

00:17:54.620 Well, some kids, yeah, she was sucking her thumb, but some kids actually like those for 1.00

00:17:58.120 security blankets.

00:17:58.780 I have a friend whose daughter loves Band-Aids.

00:18:00.480 They just make her, it's like a, it's like a lovey for her.

00:18:03.680 Or maybe she just gets her fingers hurt a lot.

00:18:06.220 I don't know what's going on, but it was adorable.

00:18:08.560 And it was so, any mom is like, yep, been there.

00:18:11.300 You just get, it's such an easy gimme.

00:18:12.920 Sure.

00:18:13.200 You want to wear them?

00:18:13.980 You're good.

00:18:14.840 Yeah.

00:18:14.980 Anyway, Usha was a star.

00:18:17.680 Okay, let's get to the executive orders, and then we got to get to what Joe Biden did.

00:18:20.960 Because the executive orders are truly a thing of beauty.

00:18:23.460 I'm so happy about these.

00:18:25.160 I mean, there are going to be legal challenges on these within two minutes, some of these

00:18:29.520 in particular.

00:18:30.320 But let's just talk about what they are.

00:18:32.000 All right, this is a summary.

00:18:33.820 On the border.

00:18:35.340 Close the border to asylum-seeking migrants. 1.00

00:18:38.400 Resume border wall construction.

00:18:40.080 Declare an end to birthright citizenship.

00:18:41.720 Now, that one's going to be tricky because it's in the Constitution.

00:18:44.960 Trump thinks that there's a loophole in it because it says you have to be subject to

00:18:48.120 the jurisdiction of the United States in order for this to apply.

00:18:52.100 And there's a legal argument that you're not if you're just born here to somebody who's

00:18:55.340 here.

00:18:55.980 That's going to play out for the first time.

00:18:58.340 Once and for all, conservatives have been wanting to have this fight, and they're about

00:19:01.220 to get it.

00:19:02.820 Involve the U.S. military in border security.

00:19:05.300 This, too, is going to draw immediate legal challenges because we have strict limits in our law

00:19:09.260 for how our military is used.

00:19:11.580 Declare migrant crossings across the U.S.-Mexico border to be a national emergency.

00:19:17.160 The Wall Street Journal noting that this would allow Trump to unilaterally unlock federal

00:19:20.660 funding for border wall construction without approval from Congress, et cetera.

00:19:24.340 Designate drug cartels as global terrorists.

00:19:28.020 That CBP won this app that Biden's been allowing these illegals to use, offering 40,000 supposed 0.99

00:19:34.940 it appointments a month, like we're supposed to allow the border to be open because these

00:19:39.480 people are going to go through this orderly process by using the app and then show up

00:19:42.500 to their asylum hearings.

00:19:44.320 It hasn't worked at all.

00:19:46.180 We've opened the door.

00:19:47.180 We let them loose.

00:19:48.280 They don't show up to the asylum hearings.

00:19:49.960 We never follow up.

00:19:51.140 And even if they show up to the asylum hearings and we say, you don't get asylum, they just 0.83

00:19:54.740 leave and we don't arrest them.

00:19:56.040 We never even try to track them down.

00:19:57.740 It's a nightmare.

00:19:59.060 That's over.

00:20:00.220 It's no longer available.

00:20:01.180 And existing appointments have all been canceled right on.

00:20:06.000 Okay.

00:20:06.680 Gender and diversity.

00:20:07.820 This is the one.

00:20:08.920 Hold on.

00:20:09.140 Cause I have, I have a better description of it on my phone than what I have here in my

00:20:12.720 hand.

00:20:13.460 And I want to make sure I get this one, right.

00:20:15.980 Stand by.

00:20:16.880 Okay.

00:20:17.400 All radical gender ideology, guidance, communication policies, and forms are removed.

00:20:23.200 How great is that?

00:20:24.540 There is a government, there is now a government wide recognition, uh, that of the biological

00:20:29.820 reality of two sexes clearly defines male and female female is decide woman is defined 1.00

00:20:36.360 as an adult human female.

00:20:39.520 Hallelujah.

00:20:40.860 Controversial stuff.

00:20:41.740 It never should have been hard, but it, it was thanks to Biden Harris agencies will cease

00:20:46.920 pretending that men can be women and women can be men when enforcing laws that protect

00:20:50.860 against sex discrimination.

00:20:52.040 Great.

00:20:52.760 Um, the executive order directs that government identification like passports and personnel

00:20:57.660 records will reflect biological reality, not self-assessed gender identity.

00:21:02.180 Um, let's see, ends the practice of housing men in women's prisons and taxpayer funded transitions

00:21:09.100 for male prisoners ends the forced recitation of preferred pronouns in schools and in government

00:21:18.480 settings.

00:21:19.240 Your school can no longer make you say he is a she when you know he is a he, and you

00:21:26.220 don't have to say it's my religion or I don't want to, right?

00:21:29.620 They're just not allowed to do that anymore.

00:21:31.500 Thanks to this Trump, uh, executive order.

00:21:34.840 It's a thing of beauty.

00:21:35.660 And I, like, I cannot wait.

00:21:37.560 Um, okay, tariffs and trade directing federal agencies to begin an investigation into trade

00:21:44.060 practices, including trade deficits, unfair currency practices, counterfeit goods, and

00:21:47.760 a special exemption allowing low value goods to come to the U.S.

00:21:51.100 Tariffs free, tariff free, assessing China's compliance with the trade deal.

00:21:55.560 Uh, okay, I'll skip some of that, but it's a stump on tariffs.

00:21:59.160 Energy.

00:21:59.480 Okay, here, these are, there's some great ones in here.

00:22:02.700 Declare a national emergency on energy, which could allow Trump to unlock powers to speed

00:22:08.520 permitting for pipelines and power plants.

00:22:11.300 Order the federal government to roll back regulations that impede domestic energy production.

00:22:16.300 Signal an intention to loosen the limits on tailpipe pollution and fuel economy standards,

00:22:20.340 which Trump refers to as the electric vehicle mandate.

00:22:23.340 Roll back energy efficiency regulations for dishwashers, showerheads, and gas stoves.

00:22:29.280 Open the Alaska wilderness to more oil and gas drilling.

00:22:32.700 Eliminate environmental justice programs across the government, which are aimed at protecting

00:22:36.260 poor communities from excess pollution.

00:22:38.000 It's not on here, but one of the ones, um, in the original list is pulling the permits for,

00:22:45.820 on all federal lands, for those terrible wind farms.

00:22:50.020 That is huge.

00:22:51.340 Let me tell you, down where I go in the summer in New Jersey, this is a huge issue for us.

00:22:56.680 They are going to put in this huge wind farm, like nine miles from shore, where you will

00:23:02.620 see, they will ruin the Jersey coastline.

00:23:04.760 You will hear them.

00:23:05.520 They will torture the sea life, including the whales.

00:23:08.620 That one of those things breaks and you cannot, the ocean gets ruined.

00:23:12.220 The toxins that fall in, that's what happened in Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, last summer.

00:23:16.480 It is absolutely huge that Trump said no more.

00:23:21.480 And the only reason these are about to go through in New Jersey, among other places, is because

00:23:25.140 the feds gave the permit and Trump just pulled it.

00:23:27.740 I love that.

00:23:28.620 It's all so good.

00:23:29.700 Um, he will sign an executive order reinstating service members who were unjustly expelled

00:23:35.160 from the military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate with full back pay.

00:23:40.020 Oh my God, I'm feeling euphoric.

00:23:41.560 He will end remote work policies for the federal workforce and he will order many agencies back

00:23:46.720 to the office four to five days a week.

00:23:48.360 And he's renaming the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America, and reinstating the name Mount

00:23:53.980 McKinley to our highest mountain, which is in Alaska, because they changed the name thanks

00:23:59.500 to wokeness under Barack Obama.

00:24:01.440 God bless President Trump.

00:24:03.240 What's your favorite?

00:24:04.520 Which one do you want to talk about?

00:24:06.640 You know, what I thought was so interesting is these are some of the ones he highlighted

00:24:10.280 in his address.

00:24:11.840 What we read in the news over the weekend was that he's going to sign between 100 and 200.

00:24:16.260 Not totally clear.

00:24:17.340 And I think there were mixed messages coming out from the Trump folks, how many exactly

00:24:20.760 there were going to be.

00:24:21.780 The ones he chose to highlight in his inaugural address were ones, these things probably have

00:24:26.940 70% support from the American people.

00:24:29.380 So he was clearly strategic about what he chose to highlight.

00:24:32.220 The gender and DEI one.

00:24:35.100 That's the issue that he probably won the presidency on.

00:24:39.180 I mean, his most viral ad was I'm for you.

00:24:42.140 She's for they, them.

00:24:43.660 Yes.

00:24:43.780 And about Kamala Harris's support for taxpayer funded gender transitions for illegal immigrants

00:24:51.460 and prisons.

00:24:52.920 The birthright citizenship one will be controversial.

00:24:55.600 But overall, like these are things that the, you know, broad segments of the American people

00:25:00.920 support.

00:25:01.660 So I'll be interested to see which other ones come out tonight.

00:25:04.360 And like, do they get lost in this big shuffle of doing 100 as opposed to 10?

00:25:09.220 He said in his post inaugural address to his address in the overflow room, some people wanted

00:25:16.400 me not to announce them all right away.

00:25:18.060 I think he said this.

00:25:18.800 I either said it there or I read it, but yeah, he said they didn't want me to announce it

00:25:21.760 all.

00:25:21.960 They wanted me to trickle it out.

00:25:23.120 I said, no, we're doing it all today.

00:25:24.560 He'll never be more powerful than he is today.

00:25:27.280 Yeah.

00:25:27.500 You know what?

00:25:27.840 You're right.

00:25:28.220 So, so much goodwill.

00:25:29.540 It's a good idea.

00:25:30.500 People are like, yes, change.

00:25:32.060 Was a, which, what's your favorite in there?

00:25:33.460 Well, I mean, it's gotta be DEI because that's the catch-all.

00:25:36.720 That's the umbrella term.

00:25:37.620 They even sneak gender stuff under the DEI umbrella.

00:25:40.420 So, I mean, between those two, I think people understand, regular Americans understand how

00:25:44.680 sweeping that is and it's huge, but I was also struck.

00:25:47.960 I mean, I got the press release of the executive actions from the White House.

00:25:50.840 They wasted no time.

00:25:51.700 They sent it out, I think at 12, 24 PM.

00:25:53.800 And I am looking at this and I'm thinking to myself, if somebody had sent this to me in

00:25:58.200 2012, I would have had an out-of-body experience saying, why do we need to do any of this,

00:26:04.380 right?

00:26:04.560 Like, so much of this is actually just rewinding the clock.

00:26:07.700 Obama's administration is what changed Title IX to put, to completely radicalize our regime

00:26:13.820 on sex and gender, to conflate gender identity and sex.

00:26:16.700 He also put men in women's prisons. 0.54

00:26:18.480 Like, so much of this stuff came out of the Obama administration.

00:26:21.460 Trump was able to tweak some of it.

00:26:23.020 Biden comes back in, reinstates all of it.

00:26:25.520 And here we are, day one of the Trump administration.

00:26:27.660 We're just rewinding the clock on so much of this in ways that it's like, it's not even

00:26:31.620 him creating new ideas.

00:26:33.180 It's literally just him rewinding the clock to sanity.

00:26:36.340 It's so true. 0.84

00:26:36.960 One of the questions that raised in my mind, actually, is it puts Democrats in an interesting

00:26:40.180 position for the 2028 campaign.

00:26:43.500 And if anybody cares to ask in the media, so where do they stand on these executive orders?

00:26:48.620 Are they going to campaign against them?

00:26:50.340 Will they undo them on their day one?

00:26:52.120 Gail King's not going to ask about it.

00:26:53.500 You know, Trump's not running again, but it does put them in an interesting spot.

00:26:57.660 You mentioned the, you know, where the American people feel.

00:27:00.480 So here's a couple of numbers to support that.

00:27:02.200 There was a New York Times' If So's poll that just came out on the gender, well, no, on a

00:27:05.960 few of these issues.

00:27:06.580 First of all, on mass deportations, 55% of the American people support them for all illegals. 0.72

00:27:12.560 All of them.

00:27:13.400 Not some.

00:27:14.160 All of them.

00:27:14.660 55%, 63% support deportations for those who arrived illegally in the past four years.

00:27:23.220 63%, two-thirds of the American public wants you out if you got here in the past four years.

00:27:27.040 And a majority, healthy majority, 55, wants you out irrespective of when you got here if

00:27:31.000 you're here illegally. 0.58

00:27:31.660 87% support deporting illegal immigrant criminals.

00:27:37.380 And then on, let's see, oh, like foreign engagement with like the foreign wars, 60% support

00:27:44.080 less foreign engagement.

00:27:46.520 On trans issues, here we go.

00:27:48.940 Listen to this.

00:27:50.380 They said, do you agree or disagree?

00:27:52.600 Society has gone too far in accommodating trans people.

00:27:57.080 77% agree.

00:27:59.680 Accommodating.

00:28:00.320 They even rigged that question.

00:28:01.920 Right.

00:28:02.240 They even rigged that question.

00:28:04.340 77%, nearly 80% of the populace says we have gone too far.

00:28:08.600 93% of the GOP, 62% of Democrats say that.

00:28:12.320 62.

00:28:13.640 Trans women, agree or disagree. 0.81

00:28:15.640 Trans women should not be allowed in women's sports. 1.00

00:28:19.300 Trans women, which is a fake term. 0.99

00:28:20.960 That's men pretending to be women. 0.98

00:28:22.480 Should not be allowed in women's sports. 1.00

00:28:24.920 79% agree with that.

00:28:27.200 79.

00:28:27.560 It's 94% of GOPers, 67% of Dems.

00:28:32.060 I mean, that's how the hell are they going to challenge Trump on this executive order?

00:28:36.460 How the hell are the Dems in the Senate going to stop a vote on the Protection of Women and

00:28:41.800 Girls and Sports Act that just passed the House like they did when it passed the House

00:28:44.960 under Biden's administration?

00:28:47.080 It passed the House under his administration.

00:28:48.860 It got to the Senate and they stopped it.

00:28:50.640 But now, yes, the GOP controls the Senate, but you need 60 votes to get cloture on a vote.

00:28:55.380 You need 60 senators to be able to have a vote on it.

00:28:58.060 And good luck.

00:28:59.100 They, you know, you're telling me that all those Dems are going to say no in response to 67% of

00:29:04.600 their voters saying we're against this.

00:29:07.220 It's going to be a huge issue.

00:29:08.500 And then last but not least, minors should not be able to get puberty blockers, agree 1.00

00:29:12.280 or disagree.

00:29:13.120 71% agree.

00:29:15.040 They should not be allowed.

00:29:16.620 90% of the GOP, 54% of Dems.

00:29:19.360 We've won on that issue.

00:29:21.860 We've won.

00:29:22.420 That battle's over, whether they know it or not.

00:29:25.500 When I don't, I think the media is framing this, the video clip you showed of John Carl

00:29:31.520 calling this dark.

00:29:32.700 They're framing this.

00:29:33.480 They're really trying hard to shoehorn this back into the American carnage narrative of 0.96

00:29:37.540 Donald Trump being an aggressive fascist.

00:29:40.360 He is aggressively instating fascism around the country. 0.97

00:29:43.560 And to most Americans, they look at this and they're like, this just feels like we're

00:29:47.400 returning to something normal, like a baseline.

00:29:50.020 And that's not what the media senses with this at all.

00:29:51.980 They think this is something that's like pushing in a different direction.

00:29:55.220 But for a lot of people, it just feels like stability and calm.

00:29:57.840 Can we talk about that for one second?

00:29:59.140 Because Doug and I were watching this this morning and we were talking about just how

00:30:01.980 extraordinary it is that Trump is our president, you know, that he became president, that he's

00:30:05.240 now been returned to the presidency.

00:30:07.020 We were talking about just how awful Barack Obama was and how radically he changed the country

00:30:13.080 with his far left progressive agenda.

00:30:16.520 And he was-

00:30:17.060 And not with Congress.

00:30:17.960 No, no, with his pen and his phone.

00:30:19.900 Remember?

00:30:20.300 His pen and his phone.

00:30:20.880 And I mean, it was infamous.

00:30:23.300 Like he was more dangerous than any politician that's followed because he was so affable.

00:30:31.180 And he had his folksy way of talking.

00:30:33.060 And, you know, people were like, I like him.

00:30:34.820 And they felt good about themselves.

00:30:36.260 They're voting for the first black president.

00:30:38.780 So it was like he had all his momentum as this agent of hope and change, like a great

00:30:44.220 slogan.

00:30:45.180 And they felt good about themselves.

00:30:46.400 And then he did things that should make you feel good about yourselves.

00:30:49.460 You know, when it comes to changes in race, changes in the gender approach, he's the reason 1.00

00:30:53.880 we're doing these sex changes on these prisoners and so on.

00:30:56.280 Yep.

00:30:56.480 A hundred percent.

00:30:56.920 And then you get Trump the wrecking ball, you know, crass and impolite and a fighter.

00:31:03.220 And America's like, we want him.

00:31:05.760 And that was just never understood.

00:31:07.540 They thought it was all about the working class, which it was in part.

00:31:09.820 But it was also like, we don't want any of this radicalism.

00:31:14.360 And when Trump lost because he behaved badly around January 6th, the left thought it had

00:31:19.620 a new mandate with Joe Biden to just triple down and then some on Obama's radicalness.

00:31:26.280 And that's why he held his head in shame as he exited office today.

00:31:30.860 Well, there's some real differences between Joe Biden and Barack Obama, which is why I don't

00:31:36.460 think there's much love lost between the two.

00:31:38.520 You mean one is a sort of a sentient being.

00:31:41.020 His brain is functioning.

00:31:42.520 There's that.

00:31:42.900 Let's say Joe Biden at the top of his game and Barack Obama at the top of his game.

00:31:47.320 All right.

00:31:47.580 Let's just let's make that comparison, which is that Barack Obama is a genuine once in

00:31:54.880 a generation political talent.

00:31:57.420 And so is Donald Trump.

00:31:59.220 And they both tug on like real parts of the American character and things that the country

00:32:04.920 wants to believe it is.

00:32:07.180 And and now they're both two term presidents.

00:32:09.660 And I think you could see at the Carter funeral that these guys have like grudging, if genuine,

00:32:14.840 but genuine respect for each other as like political athletes.

00:32:19.920 You know, Obama, the country, I think, wanted to elect a black president.

00:32:24.300 And Obama played on those things.

00:32:26.180 But like he's a real rhetorical superstar.

00:32:29.480 And and Trump is, too, in a completely different way.

00:32:33.180 And America likes an underdog story.

00:32:36.800 And to Trump's credit, his genius was flipping so much of the conventional wisdom of the Republican

00:32:42.640 party on its head.

00:32:43.960 Yeah.

00:32:44.120 Oh, he remade the party and the country stuff you talked about.

00:32:48.920 That was not the position.

00:32:50.060 You know, when he ran in 2015, we were coming on the heels of and you were at Fox, Megan.

00:32:54.660 Yeah.

00:32:54.920 When I remember out of 2012, it was like comprehensive immigration reform.

00:33:00.080 And even, you know, I remember like the primetime at Fox was like, we got to get behind it.

00:33:04.960 Oh, yeah.

00:33:05.300 Oh, yeah.

00:33:07.340 And Trump was able to pierce through that and say, like, people don't want that.

00:33:14.420 That's by the way, I watched a little bit of CBS this morning, which is when I heard

00:33:17.900 Gail King, like, where are the people of color?

00:33:20.480 While he's rolling back the DEI stuff because of his mandate to do that.

00:33:23.840 Yeah, right.

00:33:24.480 She's still she's obsessed. 0.73

00:33:25.900 I mean, there's no getting her off of that horse. 1.00

00:33:27.580 But on CBS, that was how they were spinning the immigration reform.

00:33:32.080 Like, oh, well, the Republicans aren't going to get behind this, you know, because

00:33:34.820 they're Chamber of Commerce Republicans and they like these workers and so on.

00:33:37.920 And like, yes, there is still a small contingent of the Republican Party saying that.

00:33:41.780 But this is Trump's Republican Party, CBS.

00:33:44.020 Great job just trying to stir up trouble, you know, like find a way of saying he's going

00:33:47.280 to fail.

00:33:48.080 Trump's not going to fail with these immigration reforms that he has a mandate from Dems and

00:33:53.160 Republicans.

00:33:53.840 Look at those numbers we just went through.

00:33:55.180 But that tells me they're not listening to anybody who actually supports Donald Trump.

00:33:59.340 Like, that's what you hear if you're still talking to the Chamber of Commerce guys.

00:34:02.420 And that's your sort of Republican source.

00:34:04.020 Ellen Kinzinger, Mitt Romney.

00:34:06.820 Oh, no, no, no, no.

00:34:07.680 But I mean, this is the thing, like, even on the sex and gender stuff, Trump, of all people,

00:34:11.600 totally changed the paradigm.

00:34:12.740 This is the guy who was inviting Caitlyn Jenner to go use the bathroom at Trump Tower back

00:34:17.040 in 2015, I think that was, maybe 2016.

00:34:19.560 And yet I went back and looked at the new news coverage.

00:34:21.660 And no offense to Betsy DeVos, but she even reportedly at the time was wavering about 0.97

00:34:26.920 rolling back Obama's Title IX stuff on sex and gender identity.

00:34:30.380 I think this was according to The Washington Post.

00:34:31.740 And when you go back and you think to that time period, early 2017, yeah, it was really

00:34:36.980 tough to be an American who actually said what you thought, let alone in Washington,

00:34:41.340 D.C.

00:34:41.620 And so Donald Trump, of all people, was the one who, like, gave a shot in the arm to the

00:34:46.600 culture war.

00:34:47.420 I mean, it's incredible to think about.

00:34:48.980 Yes.

00:34:49.340 This is, this is like the point I was trying to make yesterday at the Capital One Arena

00:34:53.800 because they asked me if I would speak about culture.

00:34:56.300 Like, they give you an assigned topic so that they don't have the same topic being discussed

00:35:00.780 over and over.

00:35:01.320 And, like, maybe no more comedian snafus.

00:35:04.440 Oh, yeah.

00:35:05.020 I think, yeah, yeah.

00:35:05.620 I don't think they wrote any jokes about Puerto Rico.

00:35:07.280 Yeah, yeah.

00:35:08.440 So they asked me.

00:35:09.260 You should have slipped one in.

00:35:10.040 They know I'm into that, right? 1.00

00:35:11.200 So they're like, oh, shit. 1.00

00:35:12.740 Sorry, I lost my ears. 0.99

00:35:14.760 They said, can you talk about culture?

00:35:16.360 So I did.

00:35:17.420 So, I mean, this is obviously an issue near and dear to my heart.

00:35:19.680 But that, this is one of the points that I was trying to make is that, you know, the

00:35:22.980 DEI battle has been hard fought and it's gone on for years now.

00:35:28.220 But it took a lot of human sacrifice to get to the point where we're all, I mean, not the

00:35:34.180 entire country, but the majority of the country's back in the same place of, we don't want this.

00:35:40.000 We object to race essentialism. 0.78

00:35:41.920 We object to the trans mania. 1.00

00:35:43.800 We object to the trans activists who are the most ardent bullies in America right now. 1.00

00:35:47.800 And I went through some of, like, the people who sacrificed themselves to get us here.

00:35:55.840 I think they cut a sound bite.

00:35:57.680 Can we listen to some of that?

00:35:58.520 I don't have my ears in, but, like, let's play it.

00:36:01.220 And then you had Oprah herself.

00:36:03.640 Oprah, she'll interview you if you pay her a million dollars, too.

00:36:08.060 Yeah, it's a low, low fee of a million dollars to sit down with Oprah Winfrey, apparently.

00:36:11.580 That's what the Harris campaign paid her production company, she says.

00:36:15.420 And for that, you know what you get?

00:36:16.680 You get Oprah yelling at you, cover the Harris.

00:36:21.080 Why are you doing that?

00:36:23.740 Calm down, madam. 1.00

00:36:25.500 My favorite was the preacher accent.

00:36:28.300 Joy cometh in the morning.

00:36:33.100 She wasn't wrong about that.

00:36:34.660 It came at about 1.22 a.m. on election night when the election was called for Donald J. Trump.

00:36:41.980 All of you wearing the MAGA hats.

00:36:47.720 It used to be an act of civil disobedience, right?

00:36:52.780 Yes, sir.

00:36:53.700 Defiance of a registered order that didn't want to hear from you.

00:36:58.040 But wearing that hat for much of the past eight years has been an act of courage, too.

00:37:03.780 Those battles, one after the other, have been fought.

00:37:07.760 And this anti-DEI momentum has been built brick by brick, thanks to all of you.

00:37:15.440 And you, who listened to Donald Trump, who, when a reporter asked him at a presidential

00:37:21.680 debate in 2015 about some of the language he used, responded by saying, what I say is

00:37:31.180 what I say.

00:37:32.100 And if you don't like it, too bad.

00:37:36.000 So I thank all of you for being part of the Trump movement and for bringing these changes

00:37:41.660 upon us and for bringing Donald Trump back into the office.

00:37:45.320 And a reminder before I go, stay strong.

00:37:49.640 We haven't won the war.

00:37:52.260 We're winning.

00:37:53.880 We've won a bunch of battles.

00:37:55.520 But he's going to need all of you every step of the way.

00:37:58.860 We're going to have to be patient.

00:37:59.960 We're going to have to steal our spines.

00:38:02.860 Do not bend.

00:38:04.580 Never bow.

00:38:06.460 What I say is what I say.

00:38:10.140 God bless you.

00:38:11.480 God bless President Trump.

00:38:14.060 God bless the United States of America.

00:38:19.040 We finally figured out how to lower the screen in here so that we're not in full sun.

00:38:23.640 That was my point, right, is that it's been a lot of people.

00:38:26.700 And I went through in the longer speech of examples like Jody Shaw of Smith College, who

00:38:30.680 I think, you know, I don't know that she ever was able to rebuild her life because she picked 0.99

00:38:36.140 a fight with them over what they were doing on DEI.

00:38:38.240 And they tried to ruin her life.

00:38:39.540 And there's so many beyond her.

00:38:42.080 Part of me thinks that this this stuff started like in the 90s.

00:38:45.900 And it's taken a generation or a generation and a half that it's been that long that the

00:38:52.300 country's lived with this.

00:38:53.420 And it's trickled down from the country's most elite institution into the public schools.

00:38:57.940 And that was why that was when and why people really revolted against this, because when

00:39:03.020 it doesn't touch you, what does it matter?

00:39:05.140 You don't quite know what it is.

00:39:07.540 And that's also with the gender ideology that started to trickle down into the public schools. 1.00

00:39:12.400 Did you see that poll that showed that 67 percent of people under the age of 30 are enthusiastic

00:39:18.700 about Trump's term, about Trump taking off that more than any other age cohort, the young

00:39:24.680 people are the most enthusiastic about Trump.

00:39:27.620 And I do believe all of this is very much part of it.

00:39:30.180 Totally.

00:39:30.740 Those are the people who will pay the biggest costs in applying to colleges, applying to

00:39:35.520 jobs.

00:39:36.140 You know, like we're we're set up.

00:39:39.160 I mean, yeah, we've been through the ringer.

00:39:41.180 And I think about it, you know, with we think we look at our kids and think, oh, I at least

00:39:45.240 I do.

00:39:45.680 Like, I wouldn't want to be them going through all of this.

00:39:48.140 Good luck.

00:39:48.980 But yeah, sorry.

00:39:50.420 Best of luck.

00:39:52.100 But I mean, by the way, the free beacons hiring.

00:39:54.480 She does.

00:39:54.780 She's not as cold as she sounds.

00:39:56.580 Oh, no, she's way colder.

00:40:00.600 A great editor.

00:40:01.760 A great editor.

00:40:02.440 Amazing.

00:40:02.840 Everybody says it, too.

00:40:03.660 But, you know, I do think it was living with us for 30, 40 years.

00:40:08.220 Yeah.

00:40:08.640 Yeah, I think that.

00:40:10.200 And I mean, I worked in the conservative youth movement when I first graduated college and

00:40:13.760 I was like a college conservative myself.

00:40:15.740 And if someone had showed me those numbers when I was in college, my jaw would have been

00:40:19.640 on the floor.

00:40:20.100 I would have what happened.

00:40:21.560 Tell me what happened.

00:40:22.680 It would have been astounding because the tides, especially with millennials and then early

00:40:27.200 Gen Z, you looked across polling.

00:40:28.760 It was like everyone was with the far left in these generations.

00:40:32.380 And what's sad, making my favorite line, I was watching that at home, was when you said

00:40:36.040 it was brick by brick.

00:40:37.400 What's sad is that a lot of those bricks are people with real lives who had to go through

00:40:41.860 this over the course of years.

00:40:42.900 I think people like Chloe Cole, who she I had her in my draft. 0.99

00:40:46.900 I just forgot to mention her.

00:40:48.420 Unbelievable.

00:40:48.860 Yeah.

00:40:49.020 I mean, she's she's a detransitioner, as as we call people who, you know, go down that 1.00

00:40:53.420 path and look at like the physical changes to her.

00:40:55.920 She they're on.

00:40:56.900 They're irreversible, as Abigail Schreier said.

00:40:59.060 And by the way, Jeff Bezos is on the dais.

00:41:00.740 Because Amazon did not let Abigail monetize, put ads for that book on Amazon. 1.00

00:41:05.380 Exactly right.

00:41:06.220 Here's Jeff Bezos while Donald Trump is announcing the gender, like the sex men and women executive

00:41:12.920 order.

00:41:13.380 Jeff Bezos is right there.

00:41:14.540 Oh, Sundar Pichai is there, you know, runs Google.

00:41:17.520 Mark Zuckerberg.

00:41:18.660 Mark Zuckerberg.

00:41:19.280 Ladies and gentlemen.

00:41:19.880 Exactly.

00:41:20.260 No, I mean, it's like all these guys.

00:41:21.960 It's it's great.

00:41:22.680 They're coming on board because they bent the knee to Trump.

00:41:24.740 I'm totally in favor of it.

00:41:25.960 But they are absolutely hashtag part of the problem and how we got here.

00:41:30.480 Never mind what they did on COVID.

00:41:32.680 Right.

00:41:32.920 I know we don't talk about COVID.

00:41:34.540 We just don't talk about COVID anymore.

00:41:35.980 I don't know if you know that.

00:41:37.620 We really don't talk about it when it comes to Anthony Fauci, who's now free as a jailbird

00:41:41.060 just out on parole.

00:41:42.380 Yeah, we got to get to that.

00:41:43.360 We got to get to that.

00:41:44.060 But in any event, they were hashtag part of the problem.

00:41:46.420 So we'll see whether they change their tune now.

00:41:48.140 We'll see whether on YouTube now I can say they're mutilating the bodies of children

00:41:52.640 in the name of this pernicious ideology and whether YouTube will allow my video to live

00:41:57.680 and be and not be demonetized because that's you're not allowed to say that word on YouTube.

00:42:01.640 But I've said it now.

00:42:02.480 Trump is president and we'll see.

00:42:05.060 Let's do we'll go back to Trump, too.

00:42:06.720 But let's do go to the pardons because this is just egregious.

00:42:11.480 Everybody under the sun.

00:42:12.360 I mean, the J6 committee members, his entire family, right?

00:42:16.520 Mark Milley and Dr. Fauci.

00:42:19.080 And by the way, the pardons go back, especially Fauci, go back to 2014.

00:42:25.240 It starts in 2014 forward.

00:42:28.060 What the hell was he doing in 2014?

00:42:30.080 It's because he funded gain of function research. 0.99

00:42:33.540 It's because he was behind the problem that caused the damn pandemic. 0.98

00:42:37.720 I read it differently, actually. 0.98

00:42:39.620 I thought he was just trying to normalize the date he set for Hunter.

00:42:43.440 And he's like, oh, you know, Hunter's went back to 2014.

00:42:46.960 So like that's going to be the date for everyone.

00:42:48.560 Because I think his families did, too, for the crooked brothers and the in-laws.

00:42:53.640 Like that just became the date for it did.

00:42:56.100 But like the sister-in-laws, I don't really know.

00:42:58.760 But the statement that went with the pardons for his family.

00:43:04.640 I mean, I got to find it.

00:43:05.600 We got to assume like Biden didn't write this.

00:43:07.920 But we can't expect him to have any level of self-awareness.

00:43:12.080 But I just pulled it up on my phone where he says that he's protecting them against baseless and politically motivated investigations.

00:43:22.200 And he says they wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families.

00:43:28.500 Even when individuals have done nothing wrong and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage their reputations and finances.

00:43:40.120 You know, that is and he called it the worst kind of partisan politics.

00:43:46.260 You know, coming from the ostensible leader of a party that pioneered and used lawfare as its primary electoral strategy, it really is galling.

00:43:59.480 Yeah, it's just shocking.

00:44:03.520 And for them to think that.

00:44:06.940 They always said Trump was going to do it and he may have egged on his crowds to say, lock her up.

00:44:13.500 But he then actually didn't sick the Department of Justice on his political enemies when he got in there.

00:44:19.080 And I think said to advisers like, I'm not actually going to do that.

00:44:22.740 But now, what leg do they have to stand on if Trump wants to go in and preemptively pardon his entire White House staff and go after his political enemies?

00:44:34.740 He should.

00:44:35.300 He should do that.

00:44:35.960 But to me, that's not even the point. 0.92

00:44:37.720 The statements that accompany the Hunter pardon and this pardon are shockingly hypocritical. 0.83

00:44:43.260 Yeah, agreed. 0.92

00:44:44.140 Go ahead.

00:44:44.480 Well, I was going to say, Biden literally campaigned on not doing that.

00:44:47.080 There are soundbites of Joe Biden in 2020 saying, as he's being asked on the campaign trail, I will not pardon my family.

00:44:52.940 Donald Trump is going to do that.

00:44:54.000 I will not.

00:44:54.900 I mean, it's part of how he convinced Americans to vote for him.

00:44:58.080 It's just disgraceful. 0.98

00:44:59.100 It's disgusting.

00:45:00.620 Let's see. 0.81

00:45:01.260 Hold on.

00:45:01.480 We have in SOT 15, I think, some of that.

00:45:03.780 Yeah, here's Biden, December 2020.

00:45:06.720 President Trump is reportedly considering a wave of preemptive pardons.

00:45:11.680 Does this concern you?

00:45:13.820 All these preemptive pardons?

00:45:15.380 Well, it concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks at us as a nation of laws and justice.

00:45:29.220 You're not going to see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons.

00:45:35.820 You're not?

00:45:38.260 Really?

00:45:39.420 And they were all saying it.

00:45:40.240 By the way, Adam Schiff was on camera.

00:45:42.280 He got a pardon because he was on the J6 committee. 0.76

00:45:44.340 Liz Cheney got a pardon.

00:45:45.380 And all the staffers.

00:45:46.580 Yeah, all the staffers.

00:45:47.840 Kinzinger.

00:45:48.320 Right.

00:45:48.500 He was just out two weeks ago saying, I wouldn't take a pardon.

00:45:51.640 And by the way, they don't have to accept them.

00:45:54.200 That's right.

00:45:54.740 They could say, I did nothing wrong.

00:45:55.260 Oh, but there's a question about whether it's valid if they don't accept.

00:45:58.960 Right.

00:45:59.480 Yeah.

00:45:59.700 Right.

00:45:59.920 Like there's, I mean, there's a legal debate on whether you must say I accept.

00:46:04.240 And I think most lawyers say, yeah, you do.

00:46:06.140 You have to say I accept it in order for it to be valid for you.

00:46:09.380 And there's, but I really think, so the Fauci one is the one that has me most ticked off.

00:46:14.700 Because I really do think Fauci lied repeatedly to Congress.

00:46:17.840 And Rand Paul certainly thinks that.

00:46:19.580 And I think was preparing to go after him.

00:46:22.640 And I don't know what else Fauci did.

00:46:24.080 I mean, we've never been able to find the smoking gun evidence that he actually was behind the COVID virus, the one at issue.

00:46:32.000 But he definitely funded gain of function research, which is very dangerous, including in the Wuhan lab, through this Peter Daszak group.

00:46:38.120 And we just were never given the information to close that last loop.

00:46:41.440 It would be wonderful to get it under the Trump administration.

00:46:43.560 But now none of these guys can plead the fifth if they're called before Congress.

00:46:46.240 So that's the silver lining.

00:46:47.520 They all have to testify fully.

00:46:49.120 They cannot plead the fifth.

00:46:50.040 And by the way, it doesn't stop any investigations whatsoever or civil lawsuits.

00:46:55.320 And you know what else it doesn't stop?

00:46:56.540 Or state lawsuits.

00:46:57.020 State prosecutions.

00:46:58.220 State prosecutions.

00:46:59.780 You can be prosecuted by the state.

00:47:01.560 A federal pardon does not.

00:47:02.720 That was Trump's problem, remember?

00:47:04.260 Right.

00:47:04.600 We were saying, like, he could pardon himself, but only for the federal crimes, not for those state prosecutions in New York or in Georgia.

00:47:09.820 Well, guess what, Dr. Fauci and J6 committee members and General Milley, you're all in the same position.

00:47:15.380 And, you know, somebody was pointing out online, let's be real.

00:47:18.420 Well, if they were prosecuted by the feds in Washington, D.C., not a one would be convicted of anything, given the jury pool here.

00:47:25.940 Nothing.

00:47:26.780 So, I mean, it's galling.

00:47:27.680 I agree.

00:47:28.460 But realistically, they weren't going to get convicted.

00:47:31.060 Biden made the point that they wouldn't be convicted.

00:47:34.140 The process is the punishment.

00:47:35.880 I know, but in a way.

00:47:37.020 But, Mike, to your original point, so what did we really lose?

00:47:40.620 Because we weren't going to get convictions of any of those people.

00:47:42.900 And yet now Trump has cover to pardon all of the people who actually are in danger in this jurisdiction.

00:47:49.840 All of them.

00:47:50.820 Yeah.

00:47:51.180 And what's I think even just from a big picture perspective, we don't want to lose our sense of shock at this type of like banana republic behavior. 0.57

00:47:58.040 And James Biden, I had actually, like, in the Biden tornado of corruption over the last half decade, forgotten that he had completely—he's obviously lied to Congress.

00:48:06.980 And James Comer recommended that he be prosecuted.

00:48:10.040 He recommended it to Merrick Garland's Department of Justice, so obviously dead on arrival, but would have pursued it had James Biden not been pardoned.

00:48:16.500 Because James Biden said—he said straight up that Joe Biden did not meet with their business partners while they were seeking a deal with these Chinese businessmen.

00:48:26.000 We know that that is not true.

00:48:27.400 That is a lie.

00:48:28.120 He lied to Congress, and now he's pardoned for it.

00:48:30.440 But that was a lie to cover up corruption.

00:48:32.220 That was a lie to cover up corruption on behalf of the president, not just his relatives.

00:48:36.500 And, yeah, it's going on.

00:48:37.600 He didn't pardon himself, which is interesting.

00:48:39.640 And I'll tell you, the one thing that jumped out at me was Mark Milley, who issued a statement saying—hold on a second.

00:48:47.240 I have it here in part.

00:48:48.900 Okay.

00:48:49.400 He said,

00:48:49.740 My family and I are deeply grateful for the president's actions today.

00:48:52.680 After 43 years of faithful service in uniform to our nation, protecting and defending the Constitution,

00:48:57.360 I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights.

00:49:04.860 I do not want to put my family, friends, and those with whom I served through the resulting distraction, expense, and anxiety.

00:49:11.020 Really?

00:49:12.000 How are you any different from Donald Trump, who's 78 years old and really didn't want to spend the time he had left fighting for his freedom in four different jurisdictions?

00:49:22.920 Right?

00:49:23.180 All of these Democrats—I assume, I don't know what Milley is, but he certainly sounds like a Democrat, and he behaved like one at the end of Trump's term—want such sympathy for themselves.

00:49:31.200 Like, poor me, the evil Trump.

00:49:32.940 They have absolutely no empathy for him or take no responsibility for what they did, what they've been doing to him for years now.

00:49:40.600 And their own role in it, right?

00:49:41.680 Like, they don't—it doesn't occur to them that they may have contributed to the problem.

00:49:45.940 They're still unwilling to admit that, and that's what I saw from Gayle King, too, when she's out there waxing poetic about how she doesn't see any people of color at Trump's inauguration.

00:49:56.380 It's like, you're missing the entire point.

00:49:57.940 You were still missing the entire point.

00:49:59.400 The House of Celebrity Apprentice just beat you in an election twice.

00:50:03.660 Twice.

00:50:04.180 Yeah, how did that happen, Gayle?

00:50:05.060 And it didn't clock.

00:50:05.940 I mean, it's still not registering.

00:50:07.500 You know, you can't save—these people who are obsessed with race, you cannot save them from themselves.

00:50:12.120 Like, I don't think they can be cleansed of this illness.

00:50:15.080 The ones we're going for are the ones who are faking it just to keep their jobs and go along.

00:50:21.400 Yeah, the CEOs, right, exactly.

00:50:23.000 Or, like, those guys who work at the banks on Wall Street who just kind of went along with, no, I definitely want to hire another woman for sure, even though the three weakest people on my team happen to be female. 0.99

00:50:32.340 A woman driver, you say? 0.92

00:50:33.600 That sounds wonderful.

00:50:35.080 I mean, yeah.

00:50:36.880 Like, we are great at many, many things.

00:50:38.500 We don't have to be great at driving.

00:50:39.600 No, but honestly, like, that's why there was such a backlash to Caitlyn Clark owning her white privilege when she was recognized as Time's Athlete of the Year. 0.63

00:50:52.740 What I heard from everybody, my audience, my friends, my colleagues, was we don't have to do that anymore.

00:50:59.920 We won a whole presidential election and a House and a Senate so that we don't have to do that anymore.

00:51:06.220 And that's why Trump is just such a breath of fresh air.

00:51:08.700 He comes in and he's like, you know, he dropped some swears yesterday at the Capital One Arena. 1.00

00:51:14.940 I think he said bullshit. 0.99

00:51:16.500 You know, he infamously called Ted Cruz the P word. 1.00

00:51:19.520 He saluted the village people and the assless chaps. 1.00

00:51:23.100 Oh, incredible. 0.98

00:51:24.140 We have to talk about the village people.

00:51:26.360 What a moment. 0.96

00:51:27.640 Somebody tweeted out, it was a Democrat, we've officially lost the gays. 0.95

00:51:32.140 Like, the gays have officially lost the village people. 1.00

00:51:34.400 We lost those five gays. 1.00

00:51:35.720 And I didn't realize that the village people is like the globetrotters.

00:51:39.940 We're like, I guess they just keep getting replaced.

00:51:42.140 Because those guys were not, the village people came to fame in the 70s.

00:51:47.920 They're not 80.

00:51:50.380 These guys are young.

00:51:51.700 They were so entertaining.

00:51:53.460 My favorite was the Native American, but it was tight. 1.00

00:51:55.800 It was tight.

00:51:56.220 It was hard to pick a favorite.

00:51:57.140 And Trump dancing with the village people to YMCA, this is the most iconic.

00:52:04.240 That's the Doug Mills New York Times shot.

00:52:05.800 That is a good shot.

00:52:06.580 Doug Mills is a genius because that is gold.

00:52:11.100 That will live forever.

00:52:13.680 And for the listening audience, it's the Native American with a huge headdress coming down in the back of him. 0.98

00:52:18.280 And the huge Y, you know, his arms up in a Y.

00:52:20.260 And Trump in his, like, signature dance move, like, the fists out and his hip out to the side.

00:52:26.840 And, like, the Indian guy looks so happy.

00:52:29.380 Like, he just looks so jubilant.

00:52:31.800 It's so, I don't, like, what is it that's so attractive about that photo?

00:52:35.480 I just don't know how Republicans got the upper hand in the culture war.

00:52:39.140 Again, like 2012, it was the Republican autopsy was saying that you needed to moderate in order to win voters.

00:52:45.180 And here we are, it's 2025, and Donald Trump, a man who spent his life as a Democrat, has completely shifted the cultural tide to what Eliana was saying.

00:52:53.380 All of these, it came to be called wokeness, but all of this sort of cultural progressivism, some people call it cultural Marxism, had started stacking up slowly in our institutions.

00:53:01.740 It did come from the campuses.

00:53:03.580 It came from postmodernism.

00:53:05.080 And then it was slowly taking over society.

00:53:07.600 And then it happened all at once in 2020.

00:53:09.460 It felt like the snowball had rolled down the hill.

00:53:11.700 And it's Donald Trump.

00:53:13.020 It is Donald Trump in the year 2025.

00:53:15.180 It's not Mitt Romney.

00:53:16.240 It's not some conservative standard bearer.

00:53:18.220 No offense to Ted Cruz.

00:53:19.160 It's not Ted Cruz.

00:53:19.980 It's Donald Trump.

00:53:20.740 He was the only one who could come in and just melt the frost that had settled over the culture.

00:53:26.800 It's very, very honestly surreal.

00:53:28.640 When you think about what's happening on our college campuses, most of them do receive some federal money.

00:53:34.480 How are they going to stop all this, right?

00:53:37.260 Because the executive order can only apply to schools that accept federal money.

00:53:40.880 He can't control state schools.

00:53:41.980 And how are they going to deal with this?

00:53:46.360 Like the women's studies departments that have completely sold out to the trans lobby, how are they going to handle the fact that they can't insist on preferred pronouns, that there's an executive order saying there are only two genders?

00:53:57.760 He should have said two sexes. 1.00

00:53:59.040 But fine.

00:53:59.640 I'll give him.

00:54:00.300 I know where he's going.

00:54:01.060 I don't think he wrote it.

00:54:02.120 No, I don't think he did either.

00:54:03.100 But it'll be like how these things actually get implemented and the pushback legally and culturally and as a practical matter are still a big question mark for me.

00:54:15.000 Like that's going to be a big storyline over the next coming weeks and months as Trump actually gets to work.

00:54:20.760 And of course, the immigration thing is going to take top slot on the news channels because already today, already today they are showing and circulating videos, have you seen it, of the so-called asylum seekers, you know, alleged asylum seekers being told CPB1 has been shut down.

00:54:39.740 You cannot use that app anymore.

00:54:41.460 And the media is showing them crying like, oh, but I want to get in.

00:54:45.180 I'm sure you do want to get in.

00:54:46.380 I'm sorry it's not your country.

00:54:47.640 We have no right.

00:54:48.360 We have no obligation to let you in.

00:54:50.080 And this process has been so disgustingly abused by so many others before you.

00:54:54.160 You can't come in.

00:54:55.100 You're going to have to go someplace else.

00:54:56.340 There are people from your country who are in line who you're trying to skip. 1.00

00:54:59.840 Right.

00:55:00.060 I mean, there was no sense of order.

00:55:02.420 It was complete chaos.

00:55:03.360 It has been for like a decade.

00:55:05.180 And so there has to be a process.

00:55:07.060 Most Americans agree with that.

00:55:08.080 We just went through the new New York Times Ipsos numbers.

00:55:10.880 So those those images, I think they may ultimately have a little bit of you may see that showing up a little bit in public opinion polling.

00:55:17.880 We saw that back in 2017 during the kids in cages false narrative.

00:55:21.360 But I don't think it's going to work the way the media thinks it will.

00:55:24.600 I wonder is they are definitely not in favor of closing the border or finishing off the border fence.

00:55:30.700 But Trump didn't lose because he had restrictive immigration policies.

00:55:34.440 And in, oh, God, you know, in 2016 or 2020.

00:55:38.080 He didn't lose because of kids in cages.

00:55:39.880 And I think now he knows how important it is.

00:55:43.520 I'm not sure those images will be particularly damaging to him.

00:55:47.920 You said today at the after party.

00:55:49.580 They show he's actually doing something.

00:55:51.680 Yeah.

00:55:51.900 It's having a real impact.

00:55:53.100 He said today at the after speech, immigration was the reason. 0.62

00:55:57.200 It was the number one reason.

00:55:58.160 And he said, I know, I know, you know, inflation was important, too.

00:56:02.220 But he's like, immigration was huge.

00:56:04.860 And like he said, there's only so many times you can tell people what the price of bread is.

00:56:09.480 But, you know, you see what's happening at our border.

00:56:11.600 And look, you know, the reason I think somebody like, you know, Tucker Carlson, who's obviously a big fan of Trump, is so devoted to him is he expects to see that border closed.

00:56:23.780 Like his top surrogates and closest people to him and including his family members, they want that border closed.

00:56:31.920 And it's not just happening at the border.

00:56:33.840 As we've seen in the past four years, it's happening in New York City and it's happening in Chicago and it's happening in Colorado.

00:56:40.800 And that's why I think he got coast to coast support for this policy nationally is that like DEI and the gender ideology that trickled down to touch, you know, all Americans.

00:56:55.180 So did this immigration crisis where it was everywhere and continues to be. 1.00

00:57:01.260 And that's why the other piece of this is Tom Homan, who's heading up the deportation force.

00:57:05.620 He said that he there was a report that he was going to start in Chicago.

00:57:10.220 But the administration is being cagey about where they're going to start because they don't want all the illegals to flee from one city to the next.

00:57:16.940 I think they want some element of strategic ambiguity.

00:57:20.620 Yeah, right. Exactly. Like we used to have in Taiwan.

00:57:24.220 But I bet they're starting right now.

00:57:25.760 I guarantee you Tom Homan is either at his desk or in the field working on deportations at this moment.

00:57:30.080 That guy was chomping at the bit.

00:57:31.260 And I do expect the media to make a huge sob story out of this like, oh, poor.

00:57:36.980 But they're setting the stage, you know, Homan and others now have been rejiggering the narrative to there's no such thing as family separations.

00:57:45.720 The families are welcome to leave with the illegal.

00:57:49.040 It's not our obligation to leave the illegal here so that he or she can stay with their family who may or may not be here lawfully.

00:57:55.700 That is that's the choice of the family.

00:57:58.240 And I heard I think it was Kristi Noem say at her confirmation hearing when somebody gets arrested and they have to go into prison, we don't talk about family separation.

00:58:07.700 It's like, right, you you're going to have to leave your family because you did something wrong.

00:58:11.980 Like, that's on you, madam or sir.

00:58:15.140 And I think the media is going to they're not going to embrace that narrative.

00:58:19.040 They're going to be playing the heartstrings like, oh, look at the poor family separations.

00:58:22.440 And the rest of us who have hearts and may feel sorry for watching some of these videos have to remember why it's happening.

00:58:30.320 Yeah.

00:58:30.500 I mean, make no mistake.

00:58:31.580 All of these stories are heart wrench.

00:58:33.340 I mean, you talk to people at the board and it's like, my God, that is terrible.

00:58:36.220 I know you just want a better life for your child.

00:58:38.800 And they are really sad stories, but they also are encouraging more people to cross the Darien Gap.

00:58:44.200 If you let them in, you're bringing more and more people through the Darien Gap where women are getting sexually assaulted. 0.97

00:58:49.020 Young girls are getting raped. 0.99

00:58:50.000 They're being impregnated. 1.00

00:58:51.120 They are all trafficked by cartels.

00:58:52.900 Every single person pays.

00:58:54.280 Plenty of sources can tell you that if you actually talk to people on the border.

00:58:57.260 So when you see these sob stories, they are representing even worse stories when you let them in.

00:59:03.320 I mean, we have to have a process and Tom Homan is somebody who came out of the Obama administration to the conversation we were having earlier about just rolling back the clock to before Obama dramatically upended the way that immigration worked in this country via executive orders in particular.

00:59:18.400 But he's someone who's a great example.

00:59:20.240 Like the Trump administration isn't necessarily like aggressively devising these innovative policies.

00:59:25.560 They're literally just going back to a baseline.

00:59:27.800 Yeah, what it used to be.

00:59:29.480 My team has pulled a soundbite that they think we want to see.

00:59:32.180 It's Rachel Maddow talking to NBC's Jacob Soboroff, who is he's terrible on immigration.

00:59:38.780 He's very, very woke on immigration.

00:59:41.540 Let's watch.

00:59:42.940 Does it feel like an emergency where you are standing?

00:59:47.240 Feels no different than 20 minutes ago or 30 minutes ago or an hour ago when we got here early this morning, Rachel.

00:59:55.180 The one practical change that we do know that has gone into effect here is that that CBP One app that was put into place by the Biden administration, part of their efforts, stated effort to have a more fair, safe, humane, orderly process at the border has been discontinued by the Trump administration and President Trump.

01:00:12.540 So he said no change.

01:00:15.100 Like, it's fine.

01:00:15.580 She's waiting for him to be like, families are being ripped apart.

01:00:18.780 He's like, it's the same.

01:00:19.900 We're good.

01:00:20.360 Yeah.

01:00:20.620 But he'll get to it later.

01:00:21.820 But you know who you know who I want to hear from, who has I think has his finger on the pulse of, you know, all immigration changes is probably not him.

01:00:29.620 Not him at all.

01:00:30.380 By the way, he's subject of a defamation lawsuit at NBC over coverage of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

01:00:37.780 So maybe not him.

01:00:39.140 The uterus collector. 0.98

01:00:40.580 That's right.

01:00:41.520 I saw that and then I never followed up on that.

01:00:44.040 I'm thrilled to hear that.

01:00:44.880 But glad he's still out there, though.

01:00:46.000 I'm thrilled to hear that.

01:00:46.520 He's not a good person. 1.00

01:00:47.660 He's such a jerk. 1.00

01:00:48.720 He is one of the guys who was on my set the day of my blackface comments and couldn't throw me under the bus soon enough. 1.00

01:00:55.120 He was like, back it up over her.

01:00:57.080 Ten times over.

01:00:58.380 Semi.

01:00:58.740 I was like, and you went to Mexico.

01:01:01.200 So I hope you lose in your defamation case and I hope you have to stay at the border a nice long time.

01:01:05.880 You can meet my friend Tom Homan and see what he's doing.

01:01:08.980 We're going to take a quick break and we'll be back with the EJs right after this. 1.00

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01:05:14.020 Okay.

01:05:15.020 That was my favorite moment of the whole thing.

01:05:18.060 Yes, Mirabelle was adorable. 0.97

01:05:20.120 But what I loved about that was a couple things.

01:05:25.220 But number one, it was his mom.

01:05:27.580 Mm-hmm.

01:05:27.900 Mm-hmm.

01:05:28.280 His mom, Beverly, who just hit 10 years clean from her heroin addiction.

01:05:35.260 And I got to tell you, like, this actually kind of makes me kind of emotional.

01:05:38.280 But like, the way she looks kind of reminds me of my sister.

01:05:41.620 Mm-hmm.

01:05:42.340 You know, who was also an addict.

01:05:45.280 Recovering.

01:05:45.720 Like, Beverly.

01:05:47.080 But, you know, like, a little weathered.

01:05:50.500 Like, beautiful, but a little weathered.

01:05:52.300 You can tell this person's not had the easiest life.

01:05:54.780 And look at her, you guys.

01:05:56.580 It's so sweet.

01:05:57.620 She's there seeing her son sworn in as the vice president.

01:06:02.860 Like, if you know his story, and I know it's, you know, well now.

01:06:08.040 But like, he suffered.

01:06:10.360 You know, he suffered so mightily.

01:06:11.900 His dad abandoned them.

01:06:13.620 His mom had man after man in the house.

01:06:15.860 His mom had a history of abuse. 0.98

01:06:18.560 And he writes all about the time she drove him 90 miles an hour in a car and threatened to kill them both.

01:06:23.700 And he was terrified.

01:06:24.720 The police came.

01:06:25.920 He heard a lot of domestic violence in the house.

01:06:29.060 He never knew what pajamas were.

01:06:31.100 He slept in blue jeans, as he said, most hillbilly kids did, most of their upbringing.

01:06:35.260 He had Pepsi in his baby bottle.

01:06:38.320 So he had a weight problem most of his life.

01:06:40.420 He still struggles with it.

01:06:42.560 He had absolutely no signs that something wonderful would happen in his life.

01:06:47.220 None.

01:06:47.740 None whatsoever.

01:06:49.320 And he had the blessing of some strong women around him.

01:06:53.700 His mamaw, chief among them, who became a national figure when he wrote Hillbilly Elegy.

01:06:58.620 His sister, Lindsay, with whom he has a very close, loving relationship.

01:07:02.940 She's five years older.

01:07:04.720 Amy Chua, professor at Yale Law School, who really is one of the reasons he is up there today.

01:07:09.080 She saw him as something special and helped him, encouraged him to write that book, which changed everything.

01:07:14.220 Usha, who he met at Yale Law School.

01:07:17.600 And inside this abusive environment was a really smart, gifted kid.

01:07:23.740 And mamaw saw it. 1.00

01:07:25.200 She kicked his ass. 1.00

01:07:26.620 She was merciless on him. 1.00

01:07:28.480 She made him work hard and keep his marks up and so on.

01:07:31.800 And he wound up using the military to go to college.

01:07:35.560 Went to Ohio State.

01:07:37.000 And he did really well.

01:07:38.780 Like he crushed Ohio State in two years with a double major.

01:07:41.380 And the next thing you knew, he was like, you know what?

01:07:44.860 What the hell?

01:07:45.300 He applied to Yale Law School and got in.

01:07:48.040 And that, I'm sure, was the biggest game changer of his life, you know, getting into Yale Law School.

01:07:51.340 And he served.

01:07:52.300 And he served.

01:07:53.000 He served as a Marine for five years, I think it was.

01:07:55.600 And, like, to see him up there and to see his loving mother, who I'm sure this is by far the greatest accomplishment she's seen in her own life, you know?

01:08:04.360 I mean, her daughter Lindsay's great, too, but this is remarkable.

01:08:07.220 Be alive for it, you know?

01:08:09.940 Like, be able to take it in.

01:08:12.260 Because J.D. Vance is young.

01:08:14.720 J.D. Vance just turned 40 a few months ago, which is why he has toddlers up there with him.

01:08:19.920 And that's another piece of the wonderful moment, which is we're going to have him, for God willing, decades to come.

01:08:26.240 And if all goes well, he could be the person to whom Trump passes the baton in four years to keep this whole thing going.

01:08:34.100 So, anyway, for me, by far the number one moment.

01:08:37.380 You know, there's another aspect of that.

01:08:39.820 I looked at it and saw something different, which is interesting.

01:08:41.960 But there were a lot of storylines colliding in that moment, which is that he chose Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court Justice, to administer the oath to him.

01:08:54.500 And his wife, Usha, clerked for Kavanaugh, I believe, on the D.C. circuit.

01:09:00.620 And then she clerked for John Roberts.

01:09:02.200 So she was a clerk to the two guys who were up there administering the oaths of office.

01:09:07.140 And I had a conversation with J.D. way back when, before he ran for any kind of office, who relayed the impact that Kavanaugh's ordeal had on him and sort of the way he saw things.

01:09:22.900 Well, Trump played a big role in sticking by Kavanaugh and getting him elected to the court.

01:09:27.420 And Kavanaugh is also a longtime friend of Amy Chua's at Yale.

01:09:31.700 And her daughter, I believe, also clerked for him.

01:09:34.480 So he's sort of a central figure in all of this.

01:09:37.600 And it was really nice to see him up there sort of tying it all together.

01:09:43.800 Totally agree.

01:09:44.520 No, I thought the same thing.

01:09:45.860 And I thought both of those guys have come under serious fire from leftists who are out to ruin them.

01:09:52.820 J.D., there was a period where even the Republican Party was saying he's not going to make it, that they're going to pull him after Trump named him, that he wasn't going to survive childless cat lady. 0.99

01:10:02.460 And by the way, for the record, I said from the beginning, you people are fools. 0.98

01:10:05.480 That is not going to happen. 0.99

01:10:06.660 He will remain the nominee.

01:10:07.600 And Trump stood by him, too.

01:10:11.080 Trump did not waver on J.D.

01:10:12.240 He did not waver on Brett Kavanaugh.

01:10:13.940 And so there was a poetic justice to Kavanaugh being the one to administer the oath to J.D. today.

01:10:19.080 Well, and I think if you told venture capitalist author J.D. Vance that in 2025, Brett Kavanaugh, like tell him, you know, what year was that, 2018 when the Kavanaugh stuff happened?

01:10:30.220 And tell him in November of 2018 that in just seven years, you will have your hand on the Bible and Brett Kavanaugh will be the man swearing you in as vice president of the United States.

01:10:39.060 Oh, my.

01:10:40.240 I mean, J.D. Vance's story is so irresistible that even Ron Howard made a Netflix movie about it.

01:10:45.900 And as we were just before he was a known Republican Trump supporter.

01:10:49.060 Right. And it just it gave me chills as you were walking us through his background, Megan, because, you know, that doesn't get to have that doesn't happen to a lot of people.

01:10:56.860 It actually doesn't happen to a lot of people in our politics anymore because of the way upward mobility and things have gotten stagnated and he beat the odds.

01:11:04.280 And there he is. He has the story that I think the press would be slobbering over right now if he were a Democrat.

01:11:11.180 And we're hearing none of it.

01:11:12.520 Not to mention, he married a woman who happens to be brown and he has mixed race kids, which they would be celebrating, too. 0.95

01:11:18.160 But instead, they tell us he, too, is a white supremacist who is working for a white supremacist now. 0.92

01:11:22.100 It doesn't count.

01:11:23.100 By the way, I literally heard that on NPR as I was coming over here.

01:11:25.780 Oh, yeah. In the car.

01:11:27.140 They were talking about how Donald Trump stands for white supremacy.

01:11:29.640 Not a lot of people of color except second lady of the United States and the children.

01:11:34.160 Right. In fact, you guys, can we pull can we pull over the soundbite of J.D. Vance in my interview of him in 2017?

01:11:40.900 On when I said, are you going to run for office and his reaction to it?

01:11:45.840 I think you guys can probably find it.

01:11:47.200 We've played it before, but it's a great one when I interviewed him back then.

01:11:50.980 So I feel like I we can almost say exactly what he would have said.

01:11:55.500 He wouldn't have believed that, you know, there was it was clear when I sat with him in 17 that he was possibly contemplating a future in politics because he had just left Peter Thiel and working for him in Silicon Valley.

01:12:05.980 And he told me one of the reasons he left is here he is, you know, this Midwestern guy from Ohio who didn't have a lot of travel in his life growing up, if any, Kentucky, as we know, down in the holla.

01:12:17.120 But he goes out to San Francisco and he said people are openly defecating on the streets.

01:12:20.820 He's like, I got to get out of here.

01:12:22.840 Like, I can't survive in this.

01:12:24.820 If this is San Francisco, I'm out.

01:12:27.080 So he comes back home and he started, you know, this sort of initiative where he was going to help people like him get out into the workforce.

01:12:35.020 And it never really went anywhere, but it always seemed like a placeholder to sort of rejigger the next step.

01:12:40.760 Um, and he and Usha were just starting their children, their, their family.

01:12:45.220 She was super pregnant. 0.99

01:12:46.320 His wife was clerking too and had a newborn baby while she clerked for the court.

01:12:50.840 And he played a big role in helping, helping her out while she was doing something else.

01:12:55.640 That's why it's so insane when people are trying to say that he doesn't like women.

01:12:59.460 It's like how, what kind of a husband who's very accomplished in his own right and went to Yale law school and worked in Silicon Valley would be that supportive of his very busy wife.

01:13:09.060 Who's pregnant with their child, who then is clerking on the Supreme Court. 0.55

01:13:11.820 Obviously he's a very evolved man.

01:13:14.500 And, you know, again, if he were Democrat, he, they'd be calling him a feminist. 0.98

01:13:19.480 Oh, he would have gotten the Emhoff treatment.

01:13:22.560 Totally.

01:13:23.100 Oh, that's such a good point.

01:13:24.360 Yeah.

01:13:24.540 The wife guy.

01:13:25.700 Yeah.

01:13:26.100 Yeah.

01:13:26.280 The wife guy.

01:13:27.800 He's a girl dad.

01:13:28.760 He's a wife guy. 0.95

01:13:29.580 Without the cheating and abuse.

01:13:30.940 He's totally, yeah.

01:13:31.700 He's just like Doug and Pop.

01:13:32.900 We have it, Deb.

01:13:36.020 Oh, she's, she's looking for it.

01:13:37.460 Okay.

01:13:37.660 When we have it, we'll, we'll drop it in for, uh, for the listening audience.

01:13:41.100 Okay.

01:13:41.300 So that's, that's, uh, JD Vance.

01:13:44.120 I want to go back to Melania.

01:13:45.380 I have to say it's a delight to see somebody who is incredibly stylish and sophisticated and classy resume this role.

01:13:55.960 I am sick of the Vogue's of the world trying to make Corrie Jean-Pierre and her alleged style a thing. 1.00

01:14:03.860 Jill Biden, who I grant you, uh, you know, has been a lifetime partner to Joe Biden.

01:14:10.580 I can't say good partner given that she allowed him to run for reelection, but prior to now, she seems like she was okay.

01:14:15.760 But for his infirmity, trying to make her in a fashion icon, Melania Trump, an actual supermodel who is about six foot four in this, in this video we're watching now.

01:14:24.480 So never in Vogue, never on the cover of Vogue and man, just the elegance of that.

01:14:30.340 That my, my favorite thing though, we were like the memes about the hat because she, she, they were like, she's taking a list of all the enemies.

01:14:40.200 She's under that hat, like, and you, and you, and you, and then people went wild.

01:14:45.460 Cause Trump, when he came out to be sworn in, tried to give her a kiss and he couldn't get to her face.

01:14:50.560 Or maybe he was just doing the polite thing that sometimes our men do or like, you're all made up and they don't totally make contact.

01:14:56.000 But here, here it is.

01:14:57.180 That video.

01:15:00.740 He gets almost there.

01:15:03.280 It's very tough.

01:15:04.720 It was the hat.

01:15:05.760 It was the makeup.

01:15:06.660 But look at her, you guys.

01:15:08.180 She is stunning.

01:15:10.360 Unbelievable.

01:15:11.240 I'm curious.

01:15:12.800 Actually, we talked earlier in the show about how Oscar de la Renta was sort of openly posting on social media about how they addressed Usha and Ivanka.

01:15:21.000 And if I'm remembering correctly, it was only like Dolce & Gabbana that would dress Melania during the first term, something like that.

01:15:26.940 And now I'm so fascinated that these brands actually want to be associated with, right?

01:15:31.340 Like they're not just saying like, oh, hey, we did this, but don't tell anyone.

01:15:35.140 Like they're going out there and posting it to their own marketing platforms.

01:15:38.940 That's the vibe shift.

01:15:39.900 If I've ever seen one.

01:15:41.000 Who wouldn't want to buy a dress from the designer who does Melania's clothing? 1.00

01:15:45.460 What cracked me up was JFK's grandson or great-grandson.

01:15:50.160 I don't know how to tweet.

01:15:50.720 Oh, Schlossberg?

01:15:51.460 Yeah.

01:15:51.880 That was like, oh, she's more beautiful than Jackie O.

01:15:55.120 And somebody was like, that's your grandma, dude.

01:15:57.780 What?

01:15:58.820 Seriously?

01:16:00.300 That's weird.

01:16:01.380 That is weird.

01:16:02.160 That's really weird.

01:16:03.080 I don't know what that is about.

01:16:05.120 Okay, so while we're on the subject of fashion, you knew that Lauren Sanchez was not going

01:16:11.300 to make it through this show without a mention. 0.99

01:16:13.260 She dresses like a prostitute. 1.00

01:16:15.740 She looked like a hooker. 1.00

01:16:17.320 At the inauguration, she wore a corset and she had her boobs on display. 1.00

01:16:23.980 I can't with this woman. 1.00

01:16:26.260 They were, the girls were out.

01:16:28.340 She thought, look at this, look at this. 0.95

01:16:30.740 I can see the middle of her boobs. 1.00

01:16:33.000 I can see her underboob, like right there. 0.99

01:16:35.660 This is absurd.

01:16:37.780 She couldn't even keep them covered up for a day.

01:16:41.280 And all over at the X was a picture of Mark Zuckerberg sitting next to her, coughing, sneaking

01:16:48.400 a pee.

01:16:48.900 He knew where the action was at.

01:16:49.580 Sneaking a pee.

01:16:50.040 I don't blame him at all.

01:16:51.980 That's exactly what she wanted.

01:16:52.820 You can't look away.

01:16:54.200 You can't look away.

01:16:55.360 Oh, I can't.

01:16:55.720 It was like bombs out in the rotunda.

01:16:58.340 And we were joking before the show, like, are we going to get it?

01:17:01.360 No, Zuckerberg!

01:17:03.000 I mean, who can blame him?

01:17:05.860 That's why she did it. 0.99

01:17:07.160 Are we going to get it?

01:17:07.980 It is.

01:17:08.520 It is.

01:17:08.700 Washington Post style section coverage of the Lauren Sanchez.

01:17:12.920 Get up.

01:17:13.900 I'm going to guess no.

01:17:15.420 It's amazing.

01:17:16.000 The first thing that Megan and Eliana started talking about when we walked in was Lauren Sanchez. 0.92

01:17:21.180 It was like the headline out of-

01:17:23.240 No one could believe it.

01:17:24.520 It was the cheesiest thing ever.

01:17:26.160 I'm sorry.

01:17:26.940 It is.

01:17:28.040 Plenty of people will write about John Fetterman in his shorts, which is fine.

01:17:30.880 I don't agree with that either.

01:17:31.860 But how many people are going to write about her showing her breasts at the inauguration? 0.99

01:17:35.080 The Washington Free Beacon.

01:17:36.580 We'll be writing about that.

01:17:37.740 I love the Beacon.

01:17:38.060 Okay.

01:17:38.500 We had full fashion analysis.

01:17:40.520 No, woman of the year.

01:17:41.540 Can I tell you something?

01:17:42.620 They're vicious because Jeff Bezos runs the Washington Post, owns it, and owns Amazon,

01:17:48.180 of course. 0.99

01:17:49.000 And I will tell you, this is not my first time saying she dresses like a hooker because 1.00

01:17:53.200 she does. 0.97

01:17:55.560 And we called out- We had a call to deal with some Hollywood PR firm.

01:17:59.260 I can't remember who we were trying to get, but we tried to avoid those people, but sometimes

01:18:02.040 you can't.

01:18:03.100 And the PR agent went off on our booker.

01:18:06.500 They were so angry because they represent her or they do some business with her and

01:18:11.960 she had talked to them, whatever.

01:18:14.120 It's like those two don't like to be made fun of.

01:18:18.060 He's done a lot to change his look.

01:18:19.780 He looks nothing like he looked 20 years ago.

01:18:23.480 I don't think she's seen a doctor if she doesn't want to go under the scalp. 0.58

01:18:26.800 I mean, you tell me.

01:18:28.040 That's not natural.

01:18:29.880 And that's fine if that's your choice, but have some dignity and some respect for your

01:18:35.640 setting in your circumstances. 0.99

01:18:37.660 No one should be talking about your tits. 1.00

01:18:40.000 Sorry. 1.00

01:18:40.700 They should be talking about the inauguration.

01:18:42.660 Well, they're totally out of touch.

01:18:43.920 I mean, out of touch with the moment.

01:18:45.300 They're trying really hard to get back into touch.

01:18:47.300 I mean, this is the thing with Jeff Bezos, right?

01:18:49.020 Is suddenly you go from what we were talking about earlier, like censorship on Amazon, proud

01:18:53.000 censorship on Amazon, to flipping and being behind Trump as he denounces censorship at

01:18:57.640 his inauguration.

01:18:58.400 I mean, they're slowly trying.

01:19:00.780 I'm not saying their motives are good.

01:19:01.980 I hope to God their motives are pure.

01:19:03.500 I doubt it.

01:19:04.060 But I think what she was trying to do is actually make a statement like, I'm not of this city,

01:19:08.960 this, this, I'm not of this movement.

01:19:12.320 We picked up what she was putting down.

01:19:14.120 Yeah, we did.

01:19:15.020 It wasn't subtle. 0.84

01:19:16.120 Think about it because you look at, I mean, Melania Trump, she's, she's got a breast. 1.00

01:19:20.900 She's got, she's, she's, I tried to say she's not.

01:19:25.400 Just say it, Megan.

01:19:27.340 She's curvy. 1.00

01:19:28.400 Okay.

01:19:28.540 Um, but look how she dresses. 1.00

01:19:30.660 She's, she's the epitome of class. 0.60

01:19:32.800 Yeah.

01:19:33.080 Like she could wear that outfit and get even more attention if she wanted to, even, you 1.00

01:19:38.080 know, when she's not at the inauguration, she doesn't dress like that. 0.99

01:19:40.900 She does not run around showing off all the assets. 0.97

01:19:44.340 Yes.

01:19:44.620 Back in the day, she took nude pictures.

01:19:46.240 I know that Trump is reportedly the one who leaked them to the New York post.

01:19:50.260 Hell yeah.

01:19:51.700 This is a long time ago before they were in presidential politics.

01:19:54.220 And it certainly wasn't at a presidential inauguration.

01:19:56.400 I just feel like if you can invite her, remember Christy Teigen, who showed her underwear off

01:20:01.460 at the white house correspondence dinner.

01:20:02.740 And now you've got this woman who's shown off her breasts at the inauguration. 1.00

01:20:05.900 Like, please, for the love of God, have some respect for these institutions.

01:20:09.600 Who is Christy Teigen?

01:20:11.900 That's the right response actually.

01:20:13.900 Um, okay.

01:20:15.480 So before we end predictions for the next three weeks, um, what we're about to look

01:20:21.400 at, it's going to be a wild ride that, that applies the next four years.

01:20:26.160 Oh yeah.

01:20:27.860 No warning, by the way, Megan did not give us warning for our predictions. 0.99

01:20:30.620 So now we have stupid enough to make a lot of lawfare. 0.99

01:20:34.340 Yeah. 1.00

01:20:34.840 Yeah.

01:20:35.080 I agree.

01:20:35.500 I mean, I think the birthright citizenship one is the one to watch.

01:20:38.020 Um, I actually think some of the biggest fights behind closed doors in this administration

01:20:41.860 are oddly enough going to be over antitrust.

01:20:44.020 I know that sounds like a silly thing, but a lot of these young staffers spent the last

01:20:47.540 decade talking about how corporations like Amazon and Facebook were too big.

01:20:51.560 Meta were too big.

01:20:52.660 That's probably why they were there.

01:20:53.960 Yes.

01:20:54.380 And I think, yeah, exactly.

01:20:55.180 I think they know that.

01:20:56.080 And so that to me seems like one of the big battles to watch.

01:20:59.080 I think we're going to see some of the consequences early, but, uh, the birthright citizenship thing

01:21:03.100 is going to be tough to hold up.

01:21:04.220 I'm watching TikTok, um, because that was an executive order too.

01:21:09.060 That was a 90 day reprieve.

01:21:10.600 If, um, Trump wants to work out a deal where it's 50% us owned, you're already hearing

01:21:14.700 Republicans, uh, pushback Tom Cotton in particular, who is a Trump ally.

01:21:18.500 I don't know that you can undo a law that's been duly passed by Congress and signed by the

01:21:23.620 president by executive order.

01:21:24.760 Like that's like, I am not against TikTok necessarily, but I don't think you can undo a duly passed

01:21:30.600 law with an executive order.

01:21:31.800 Biden saying, I'm just not going to enforce this was another example.

01:21:35.920 You signed the law.

01:21:37.340 Wait, we didn't talk about Biden declaring a new 28th amendment.

01:21:40.720 Oh yeah.

01:21:41.600 Oh, right.

01:21:42.120 Yeah.

01:21:42.660 That, I don't want to hear it.

01:21:43.600 I forgot we're equal now.

01:21:44.740 By tweet.

01:21:45.240 Yeah.

01:21:45.820 By tweet.

01:21:46.580 And then the American Bar Association and Georgetown law celebrating it.

01:21:52.000 Like it was real.

01:21:53.080 It's insane.

01:21:54.120 States have rescinded their support for the ERA.

01:21:56.600 You know what I mean?

01:21:57.000 Like six of them have rescinded their support. 0.98

01:21:59.400 So it's like the most extra constitutional bullshit that you can imagine. 0.96

01:22:02.780 And yet there's, yeah, nobody cares. 0.98

01:22:04.280 There are only 20, 27 amendments.

01:22:06.140 That's, that's that.

01:22:07.200 There is, he did not, you cannot do a 28th amendment by tweet and they better, they better

01:22:12.460 accept that or Trump's going to start doing it every day.

01:22:15.180 Two genders and 28 amendments.

01:22:17.100 This is Trump's America.

01:22:18.420 27.

01:22:18.940 27 amendments.

01:22:19.880 Yeah.

01:22:20.020 Sorry.

01:22:20.860 It's crazy.

01:22:21.640 Okay.

01:22:21.820 Well, and the show on this, uh, my team did find the JD Vance exchange with yours truly

01:22:26.740 when I talked to them now, I guess it was, well, three, eight years ago.

01:22:32.600 Just, it doesn't seem that long, but he looks so different.

01:22:35.460 And in many ways he was so different.

01:22:37.520 Certainly his life was to watch.

01:22:39.760 What do you think?

01:22:40.560 Should he run for office?

01:22:41.820 I think someday if the time is right.

01:22:43.760 And if, if he really feels that that's the best way that he can contribute to his home,

01:22:48.700 then I think that would be a great idea.

01:22:50.320 Why do you get uncomfortable when that idea comes up?

01:22:53.340 I just, I think that, you know, when people ask me if I want to run for office, part of

01:22:57.840 me wonders like, do they think I just give off a used car salesman vibe?

01:23:02.360 Don't you think it's more born of hope that you could be a, you could be a real change agent?

01:23:07.660 Yeah, no, I think that's the optimistic take on it.

01:23:09.840 I'm very flattered when people ask me and you never say never, but it's just not something

01:23:14.360 that I think about doing right now.

01:23:17.320 Never say never.

01:23:18.960 That's our vice president.

01:23:20.940 Crazy, right?

01:23:22.100 He looks so different.

01:23:23.160 So different.

01:23:24.040 He's grown up in a lot of ways.

01:23:26.200 I had to say, I'm wishing him all the best.

01:23:29.380 I have like been praying a lot for those two, for the cabinet members.

01:23:32.860 I really hope the Senate does the right thing, gives Pete Hegseth a vote soon and doesn't

01:23:37.020 let him twist in the wind and that Trump's nominees get in there.

01:23:39.740 We have so much important business to do and it's, this is no time to jerk around in the

01:23:43.980 Senate.

01:23:44.320 You know, we need, he needs his full cabinet.

01:23:46.300 We all know, you know, he's going to push his agenda through.

01:23:50.400 If you guys don't want to vote for the nominees, you don't have to vote for them, but they deserve

01:23:54.140 a vote and we got to get going.

01:23:57.020 This country overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump and they support his politics.

01:24:01.300 Even the polls that I just read, like the New York Times showed, they support his policies

01:24:06.100 more than they support him personally.

01:24:08.480 Either way, you can't get in the way.

01:24:10.380 Stop getting in the way of those policies because the American people voted for them.

01:24:13.980 So prayers up for the Trump family and the Vance family and for the country, which I feel

01:24:19.760 like is on the right track for the first time in a long time.

01:24:22.040 Thank you both so much.

01:24:24.200 Dealing with like the traffic.

01:24:25.800 Just to get over here is like, you can't move in DC right now.

01:24:30.280 I don't know what's going to happen.

01:24:31.220 I've never seen anything like it.

01:24:32.280 Right.

01:24:32.520 And you know, there really are a lot of people here.

01:24:35.220 Prayers for everyone to get home safe because people have the time of their lives.

01:24:38.160 It's fun.

01:24:38.680 It's fun to see.

01:24:39.200 I don't even care if it's left or right.

01:24:40.600 Yeah.

01:24:40.740 It's just fun to see.

01:24:41.420 No, they're having a good time, including us.

01:24:43.700 All right.

01:24:44.120 Lots of love.

01:24:44.960 Let us know what you think.

01:24:45.800 You can email me Megan, M E G Y N at Megan Kelly.

01:24:49.580 We'll see you tomorrow with NR day.

01:24:51.320 Thanks for listening to the Megan Kelly show.

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The Megyn Kelly Show - January 20, 2025

President Trump is Back, Major Executive Orders, and Biden's Last Minute Pardons, with Emily Jashinsky and Eliana Johnson ｜ Ep. 986

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