As President Trump declared on Truth Social, Three Great Weeks, perhaps the best weeks ever, and it honestly might be, at least when it comes to presidential politics, this morning, the Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services.
00:01:19.460There was one holdout on the Republican side.
00:01:23.920Again, former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
00:01:26.780Now he's gone against Hegseth, he's gone against Tulsi, and he's gone against RFKJ, even when here with RFKJ, Murkowski and Collins, and with Tulsi, those two, voted for her.
00:01:44.140So he's become the chief antagonist to Trump among Republicans, but nobody's following him.
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00:17:48.400I don't know why we're supposed to be spending American taxpayer dollars for a trans musical.
00:17:54.940And every single one of these things that the left is fighting, like the surgeries in Nicaragua, we don't need a sex change, pay for a sex change for Nicaraguans.
00:18:28.600Many outlets in this room have been fear mongering the American people into believing there is a constitutional crisis taking place here at the White House.
00:18:37.600I've been hearing those words a lot lately.
00:18:39.520But in fact, the real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch, where district court judges and liberal districts across the country are abusing their power to unilaterally block President Trump's basic executive authority.
00:18:55.360We believe these judges are acting as judicial activists rather than honest arbiters of the law.
00:19:02.040And they have issued at least 12 injunctions against this administration in the past 14 days, often without citing any evidence or grounds for their lawsuits.
00:19:11.660This is part of a larger concerted effort by Democrat activists and nothing more than the continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump.
00:19:20.540Quick newsflash to these liberal judges who are supporting their obstructionist efforts.
00:19:25.66077 million Americans voted to elect this president.
00:19:30.280And each injunction is an abuse of the rule of law and an attempt to thwart the will of the people.
00:19:35.500As the president clearly stated in the Oval Office yesterday, we will comply with the law in the courts.
00:19:41.560But we will also continue to seek every legal remedy to ultimately overturn these radical injunctions and ensure President Trump's policies can be enacted.
00:19:51.020Okay, now here's where I want to go on this point.
00:20:53.600There's over 50 lawsuits filed so far.
00:20:56.620Lots of these judges are Obama appointees, Clinton appointees who are Biden appointees who are far left activists who are just having some fun trying to thwart the Trump agenda.
00:21:08.600And I I do think at some point the Trump administration may be even though Trump saying I will abide by the rulings, I'm not looking to thwart the rule of law in any way, either directly with a written statute or if it's issued against me by a judge.
00:21:24.060But at some point, if this continues, it's almost like the Trump administration is not going to have a choice.
00:21:29.220Are they I'll give you another example.
00:21:31.400Over the weekend, the Treasury Department got issued a temporary restraining order, which you can get you get like that.
00:21:38.320You go into you don't even need opposing counsel.
00:21:40.300What happens is you go into court and you say Elon is letting big balls take a look at people's, you know, financial information.
00:21:49.440And big balls doesn't have the security clearances.
00:21:51.900And judge, you need to stop that right now.
00:21:53.560The judge doesn't say, oh, get Elon and Trump's and Treasury's lawyer in here.
00:21:57.620The judge just says, OK, I issue a temporary restraining order.
00:22:00.960You can always get a temporary restraining order without opposing counsel.
00:22:17.600But in this TRO, the judge said, OK, stop, stop letting big balls and anybody else look at the Treasury information and shred all documents you've gotten already.
00:22:29.280So this judge, who, by the way, wasn't even the real assigned judge on this case, just like a temporary filling and a lefty appointed by, I think, Obama,
00:22:36.500tells them you have to undermine all the work you've done and undo everything you've done by pulling records that you're going to use to figure out where we're spending the people's money before we even have a real hearing on the case,
00:22:49.740before your lawyers really had had any chance whatsoever to defend you.
00:22:55.080And in the why should the Trump administration actually be forced to start shredding documents before it's even had a lawyer appear before a judge like they're trying to create a constitutional crisis is, I guess, the point I'm making.
00:23:09.680So here's something that we've been warning about on the show for years.
00:23:13.560It's been widely reported that the left, Soros, you know, even overseas billionaire donors to the left have put in place prosecutors across the country,
00:23:22.860the Soros prosecutors that have been widely reported.
00:23:25.060But there's been a similar problem with judges.
00:23:27.420A prime example, one of the judges at the forefront of trying to subvert the will of the American people and fight President Trump is Jack McConnell in Rhode Island.
00:23:35.480Now, Jack McConnell was a major donor to both senators from Rhode Island, including Sheldon Whitehouse, who, after he donated the money, then nominated him to be a judge.
00:23:44.560So they have their own patronage system, and they've used that to capture a significant portion of the judgeships in this country.
00:23:51.360So when you see this kind of behavior, like you said, it's blatantly against the Constitution, what they're trying to do here.
00:23:57.700They're subverting the will of the American people.
00:23:59.480But that patronage system is almost like the failsafe that the Democrats have put in control, that if there's ever a Republican in office, if someone ever tries to stop the gravy train that we've been rolling with, we have this as our last line of defense.
00:24:13.900I mean, look, a big part of the progressive left's agenda and what they've tried to accomplish basically since 1960 is institutional capture.
00:24:21.400And it goes everywhere from corporate America, entertainment industry, higher education to, in this case, one of the three branches of the federal government.
00:24:31.040And this is why it was so important that what happened from 2017 to 2021 in terms of appellate court judges and the Supreme Court is ultimately what they've been trying to do at this federal court level, district court level, is have what you're seeing playing out in front of everybody right now, which is just a leftist agenda with no basis in law.
00:24:53.260Now, because of the work that Donald Trump did the first four years, this is going to run up against a real life problem for the left in that they've got a whole bunch of courts throughout this country at the appellate level that actually interpret the law.
00:25:09.120Right. And I think to your point, it's a good one, Megan. Like, yes, it just it delays the process in it.
00:25:15.540It makes everybody focused on the wrong things here. But I mean, your audience should have at least a little bit of confidence in that because of the first four years of work that the Trump administration has done, we will ultimately get to the right place.
00:25:29.420I mean, the idea that you can't actually look to see if one hundred and seventy five year old American is still receiving Social Security and not, I don't know, blow the whistle on that for fear that a 40 year old somewhere is probably not going to get their Social Security because they've been exhausted by fraud for generations before them.
00:25:47.100Like that is the kind of thing that is the reason you elect presidents. And it's going to be thrown out, actually, actually punted out of court at some level. But it doesn't completely alleviate the discomfort at the front end.
00:26:00.460And it's so annoying listening to the press coverage of it because they just say, oh, constitutional crisis, you know, because of that tweet and because they just don't like Trump and because Trump's not rolling over in these court proceedings.
00:26:11.260But what's what's really happened here is we've had a dereliction of duty and overstepping of the authority by the Biden administration and other, I'm sure, leftist administrations prior.
00:26:22.000We know that happened during Obama and Trump got smart by by, you know, Trump two point oh, when it comes to fighting the administrative state and bit by bit, he is undoing their soft power agenda.
00:26:33.660He's he now knows, like, where the soft spot in the belly is and he's sticking the knife in and trying to get back our funds and stop this crazy agenda that nobody voted for.
00:26:45.780That's been rolling forward. Administration under administration doesn't matter whether it's a Republican or Dem at the top.
00:26:51.480And man, are they pissed now? They're like, now it's on.
00:26:55.540You know, now you're you're actually going to things we care about, which is like our slush funds.
00:27:00.160So I think he will prevail prevail on the law front on the law fair.
00:27:06.440But man, it's going to be a slugfest. And in the meantime, they are staying on the offense, which is good.
00:27:11.680Like Pam Bondi yesterday, she announced on the heels of announcing they're suing Illinois for being a sanctuary state and Chicago as sanctuary city saying you you can't do that.
00:27:22.500There's you know, thanks to the supremacy clause, you actually do have to work with us on federal laws.
00:27:27.220You can't actively undermine us on housing illegals and not turning over illegals that, you know, are illegals.
00:27:33.280Now she filed a lawsuit against New York state, including Governor Kathy Hochul for similar reasons when it comes to illegals.
00:27:41.740In particular, she's taking issue with the fact that they're issuing illegals driver's licenses.
00:27:46.800And then when the feds call up saying, do you have an illegal immigrant by the name of whatever, Julio something instead of saying, oh, yeah, we have him right here at the Roosevelt Hotel, which is where Laken Riley's would be murderer stayed on the taxpayers dime.
00:28:08.160Instead of saying, yeah, he's at the Roosevelt will, you know, go ahead over or even in New York jail, you know, Rikers for having committed a crime.
00:28:17.640They say, we're not going to tell you. And then they notify the illegal.
00:28:23.380New York then calls the illegal at the Roosevelt or or notifies him at Rikers to say, hey, FYI, the feds are looking for you.
00:28:31.900So if they can flee, they do. And what happened with Laken Riley's murder?
00:28:35.700I don't know that that notification happened with him, but he was staying at the Roosevelt on our dime.
00:28:40.900And then on our dime, we flew him down south and that's where he murdered Laken Riley in Georgia, all funded by us.
00:28:51.120So she is trying Pam Bondi now to stay on offense.
00:28:55.000In addition to having she's the one who's going to have to defend all this bullshit happening against Elon, against Treasury, against all these programs that they're trying to look into.
00:29:02.500Now she's also trying to stay on offense by going after Illinois, by going after New York.
00:29:07.560And she's going to have these other battles on her hand on her hands as they continue in places like Maine and Minnesota.
00:29:15.620And there's a third state that I can't remember right now that are saying they're not going to comply with the gender executive orders or President Trump's California or even the federal district court judges ruling, which applies nationwide, that Biden's changes to Title IX are void and illegal, which means boys cannot play in girls sports in K through 12 education because it's a discriminate.
00:29:44.100And that's a statute that protects girls in sports and their right to equal participation.
00:29:48.100Anyway, what we have is open flouting of the law by the Democrats.
00:29:51.740I mean, it's ubiquitous flouting coast to coast.
00:29:55.500And I mean, it's I guess it's a great thing.
00:30:06.260Well, Megan, the worst thing about it is that these bureaucrats are continuing to flout the law.
00:30:13.100I don't know if you saw it, but there is a story about some people working in the FBI who tipped off a bunch of Venezuelan gang members in California that ICE is coming after you.
00:30:25.320They want to remove gang members from this country.
00:30:28.680Here is the date they're going to be there.
00:30:33.160Now, I'm telling you, like, for the Biden administration to do that, that is what we expect.
00:30:39.000But like the thought that people who are working for this government, working for taxpayers are are tipping off gang members in California and telling them that they should get out of there before ICE can move them out of the country.
00:30:53.540I mean, Pam Bondi has been unequivocal on this, and I hope to God she wins, and I hope to God she roots out all of these problems within our own government that exist today that are stopping the progress to keep Americans safe.
00:31:26.900If you just do these things, these are things that the American people want done.
00:31:30.380But when you have a vocal opposition, then the American people make a political choice.
00:31:35.160Right. And what you've seen over the first three and a half weeks of this administration is everything they've done from trans transgender sports to securing the border to deporting illegals to you name it.
00:31:47.140It is a 60 percent proposition in this country in terms of where the American people are.
00:31:52.740And I think you're seeing a real life realignment as a result.
00:31:56.300Democrats have always, always been able to rely on a split, totally partisan country in order to safeguard what they want to do.
00:32:04.400But now that they're having this fight, all these fights out in public, they're losing traction.
00:32:09.740And you can see it when you've got a bunch of public employees who are in the middle of a Tuesday out singing union chants about how they're being treated unfairly, being paid eight months for free to leave with a full retirement and everything else.
00:32:25.480Like that's exactly what the American people were talking about when they wanted this whole thing shaken up.
00:32:32.860It's in technicolor for everyone that creates political realignment in a way that I don't think we've seen, at least not my career in politics.
00:32:53.200Just to your point, DEI musical in Ireland is really now we're getting even closer to what we see on Riverdance.
00:32:59.880But yeah, OK, so that that covers like the landscape, which I hope the audience appreciates is a confusing landscape.
00:33:08.920But hopefully we've summarized it to a level you can grasp.
00:33:12.460It's hard work to figure out what's happening with the law fair and doge and all the cutting and so on.
00:33:17.700But the bottom line is Trump's winning.
00:33:19.720His executive powers will be affirmed, as they have been bit by bit in these lower courts.
00:33:25.040And I think if this thing goes up to the Supreme Court, any of these things, testing what Trump has the power to do, only in the most extreme cases are they going to slap his hand.
00:33:34.240Because the Supreme Court has no enforcement mechanism.
00:33:37.400This has been the truth about the Article III courts from the dawn of the Constitution.
00:33:41.740It they're all afraid because they really don't have any real way of making the executive branch comply.
00:33:49.120It's kind of like a because we said so a situation for a parent.
00:33:54.340And because of separation of powers, everybody has obeyed the courts since the dawn of time.
00:34:00.180I mean, that's for the most part, that's that's just the respect that we have.
00:34:03.740But all those Article III judges need to be very careful because if they push the executive too far, especially this executive, they they will trigger a constitutional crisis that will leave them feckless and powerless in a dangerous and provocative way.
00:34:21.240And while some of these federal district court judges are truly too stupid to understand that, I mean, we saw all these DEI hires under Obama.
00:34:29.980We saw some of these confirmation hearings that get through.
00:34:59.680OK, first, I wanted to say this because I'm about to go to McConnell, your your old boss.
00:35:03.880But I did want to make the point about the FBI leaking, maybe, according to, you know, Kristi Noem and Tom Homan.
00:35:12.040They think that was the FBI who leaked that they were about to raid that Colorado apartment complex, Ashbrook, that we were talking about and gave a heads up to gang members so they could get out.
00:36:38.860I mean, he's been on the show with us before, too.
00:36:41.760And there's never been a time, I think, in America's history that needed just a jarring shakeup like the FBI does right now.
00:36:51.540I mean, we've seen, obviously, how they handled everything during the first four years of Trump and then everything thereafter and all the lawfare that sort of sparked within the FBI.
00:37:01.080But it requires somebody like Cash, right?
00:37:03.320I mean, this is not like a bureaucrat job where you can go push some paper around and hope that it all turns out okay.
00:37:09.440You need somebody who's going to break some China.
00:37:11.420And that is very clearly what I think he's going to be up to.
00:37:14.780And I mean, I think he brings up a really good point is the incentive structure in D.C. is push paper around, gun for the next promotion.
00:37:23.120Why aren't those 7,000 people out in the field?
00:37:25.840They're in D.C. trying to, you know, work their little networks and be buddy-buddy by tipping off gang members in Colorado.
00:37:32.300They should be in Colorado handcuffing them.
00:37:35.780And I think Cash tells the right person to shake it up.
00:37:37.240And they're probably not prepared for it.
00:37:38.820I mean, they built the FBI in this current iteration under the wrong pretenses.
00:37:43.500I mean, we saw it play out during the course of the terrorist attack down in New Orleans where the first FBI special agent in charge rolled up and was like, well, there's no terrorism here.
00:37:52.640Yeah. And like 12 hours later, they're like, no, it's absolutely terrorism here.
00:38:16.600But I like I personally, I can't get over all the good he did for the country when it comes to Article three judges and the Supreme Court.
00:38:24.760Like we would not have the Supreme Court that we have if it weren't for Mitch McConnell.
00:38:28.780He is a true blue conservative, dyed in the wool Republican.
00:38:32.860He really but he hates Trump and Trump hates him.
00:38:36.960And this has turned into a problem for Republicans and Trump in the country.
00:38:41.280And now he's voted against Hegseth, Tulsi and RFKJ, which leads us where on Mitch McConnell, guys?
00:38:49.940I hate to put you on the crosshairs because I know, you know, you know, I mean, it's a fair question.
00:38:54.380I mean, first off, I should say the last time I provided him any advice on how to vote was in 2014, 11, 11 long years ago.
00:39:02.120But look, I think where this is, the first my first takeaway is the Trump administration and John Thune and Barrasso in the Senate have done an incredible job to get nominees who entered into the public discussion in a very controversial place where there was some concern inside of a traditional Republican Party about how RFK, for example,
00:39:29.180who've said, you know, sort of famously liberal positions on a whole bunch of health care issues would fare in that in that context.
00:39:36.800And throughout the course of the nomination process, these folks work together in a way that I don't you know, we haven't really seen a lot of even Democrats are really not as good as what I've seen over the last three weeks in repairing those, getting face to face conversations and getting people to a point where they're not going to lose any of these people.
00:39:55.260Right. I mean, every single piece of the confirmation puzzle has has come together.
00:40:01.280Now, where does that leave McConnell? I think that's more indicative of the change in the Republican Party and his sort of the lack of pressure that he feels personally.
00:40:13.440You have a whole bunch of Republicans. And this is for this is for real, like people don't know.
00:40:17.760There's probably a third of that Senate conference. There's a little concerned about the way that Tulsi has talked about intelligence apparatus over the last at her hearing 10 years.
00:40:28.000Right. And they're more than a little concerned. If she was a Democratic nominee, they would have voted to absolutely crush that nomination.
00:40:34.720Agreed. But the power, the political power of Trump and part of what he's done over the last three weeks in terms of picking issues and having 60 percent of the American people on side of it is forcing everybody to a position to reevaluate this.
00:40:48.320Ultimately, they work for Donald Trump. And that's what it is that they're voting to support.
00:40:52.400Do they have misgivings about Tulsi Gabbard or maybe RFK in the way that he's going to handle the question of abortion in HHS?
00:40:59.580Yes. Sure. They do. They're going to have issues with that. But ultimately, they trust Donald Trump.
00:41:04.920Where McConnell is comes into all of that is he's just sort of traditionally where he's always been.
00:41:11.320But the party has moved and the party is very much a Trump party. He is a Reagan Republican.
00:41:18.260And I think if you were to go back in time in some kind of like a Marty McFly DeLorean and look at the way a Republican Party, you know, 20 years ago would have evaluated these nominations.
00:41:29.540It looks very much like the way that he has. I don't think that he's doing what he's doing out of spite for Donald Trump.
00:41:37.900It's just a lot. He doesn't feel the same political. If it were spiteful, Holmes, if it were spiteful, he would have voted against Rubio.
00:41:45.600Yeah, exactly right. And he's obviously not going to do that. He thinks that Rubio is a terrific nomination from what I read in his statements.
00:41:52.920But but I also think he's going to be I think he's going to be a force for good in terms of the team as you get into these thorny issues of reconciliation and budget and taxes and all of these things.
00:42:03.760Because his ideology hasn't changed a lick. It is just not reflected when you get into that more libertarian area of defense and foreign affairs in particular, where a lot of Republicans still have issues with that.
00:42:19.020He just doesn't feel the same political pressures as everybody else who's going to vote.
00:42:21.880Yeah, he's more like a National Review Republican still like that's right. Those guys, that's right.
00:42:26.260They they don't they actually some have TDS, but like Rich Lowry, he's great. He doesn't have TDS.
00:42:31.420He actually can see Trump pretty clearly, but he disagrees with them on a few things and he's constantly defending him on many other things.
00:42:37.760But yeah, I don't think he's a Tulsi fan. I don't know. I actually don't remember.
00:42:41.360But I know the editors have not backed Tulsi and they have not backed RFKJ.
00:42:44.640So I take your point. I actually think that's pretty interesting. And that's a position he's allowed to have.
00:42:49.440I mean, he's he's how many years of public services the guy have.
00:42:52.020But when you get find yourself on the opposite end of Trump, especially as a Republican like he is, you know, the party will turn on you.
00:42:58.760That's what's happening to him. And I hate to see it because I think he's a good man.
00:43:02.760I think he's a principled man. And the party apparatus is just like turned on him because he seems like a Trump antagonist, even though like Trump said all the mean things about his wife.
00:43:15.680It's gone both ways. But but I think the story is not told yet, Megan.
00:43:19.700And I think what's going to happen very quickly is we're going to get into a legislative discussion where the the crux of the Trump agenda has to be litigated.
00:43:29.360And this is the hardest part. What he's done so far has been unbelievably great.
00:43:33.940But ultimately, you're going to need Congress to try to work some of these things through.
00:43:38.160And your taxes are going up five grand for your average American if they don't.
00:43:42.140So there's real consequences here. I think somebody like McConnell, ultimately, there may be a point where he actually does have a significant amount of influence in trying to get people on board for the big win on the things that we actually come to define.
00:43:56.580Thank you on that. We try very hard to avoid getting too deep into the budget here on the MK show for all sorts of reasons.
00:44:04.560I refer you back to my high school guidance counselors. College recommendation for me.
00:44:09.600It was my college recommendation. Megan does well in English and social studies.
00:44:15.300Math and science aren't Meg's thing in my recommendation.
00:44:20.140Who writes that anyway? So I try to avoid the math when I can.
00:44:24.520But what's going to happen with the budget is going to be probably the most consequential thing of the Trump presidency.
00:44:32.040And the thing about, you know, the reconciliation about budget reconciliation is the Democrats can't block that.
00:44:40.760They don't need 60 votes. The Republicans don't need 60 votes to get a vote on basically financial matters on the budget.
00:44:49.500They only need a majority of 51 and they have that. They have 53 Republican senators so they can afford to lose, you know, a couple.
00:44:58.800They actually only need 50 because they have J.D. Vance who could break a tie, but they've got a majority.
00:45:03.060So they should be able to get the budget through that the Republicans want unless some go rogue.
00:45:09.260And you're saying Mitch McConnell could be the stalwart that keeps because it will be controversial.
00:45:14.940They'll be shoving a lot into that reconciliation bill because they don't need a 60 vote, you know, 60 votes in the Senate to get cloture, meaning a vote on it at all.
00:45:25.300They have a low threshold to pass it. So they're going to shove a lot of stuff in there that they want.
00:45:29.340It's going to be controversial, which will cause some more moderate Republicans to try to peel off.
00:45:35.040And your point is, it's in that moment in which Mitch McConnell's true influence in the Senate could prove pivotal.
00:45:41.180Yeah, I think I think it is. I should warn your your viewers and listeners that the last math class I took was actually called math.
00:45:48.960So, you know, this is this is not my area of expertise, but I do know how the process works.
00:45:54.040And ultimately, any time you're you're working with razor thin margins, three votes in the Senate to until April in the House of Representatives, every single member that matters, matters.
00:46:05.860And ultimately, where these things get settled out is if you get somebody who, you know, look, they haven't been on the team.
00:46:11.240They're not like a partisan stall where they're always going to vote for the Trump agenda, no matter what's in it.
00:46:16.280When those kind of people end up coming to the rest of their colleagues and saying, look, this is really important for the country, it has added weight to it, particularly in somebody who led the Republican Party for, you know, years and years, the longest serving leader in history.
00:46:31.200So I think it is going to. And I and I also ultimately believe that he's going to dig his heels in and try to try to provide as much legislative heft as he can on issues like that, where at the end of the day, the Trump administration will be judged based on the outcome of those reconciliation bills.
00:46:50.100Hmm. Well, that is very interesting. Do you see? I don't really want to get too deep into it, but everyone's debating. Should there be two bills or one?
00:46:59.840I don't understand really what that's about. And I don't really want to. But could you explain it to me like I'm a third grader, what that debate is about?
00:47:08.620It's the difference in the two chambers, right? The House of Representatives views one bite at the apple.
00:47:14.200They think that in order to get a whole bunch of fiscal conservatives who are concerned about debt and deficits on board with extending the Trump 2017 tax cuts, which has a deficit number, according to how CBO scores all these things, in order to get them on board with that.
00:47:29.840They need extra incentives. They need immigration, border security stuff, probably need some energy provisions, certainly like, you know, all the way to things like spectrum.
00:47:37.740They need incentives to get on board with something that makes them a little queasy from a deficit perspective. In the Senate, it's a very different deal.
00:47:46.520They have more unanimity around the issue that you don't have to pay for tax cuts.
00:47:54.580Like every time we've made tax cuts in this country, our revenue has exceeded what the revenue was before you cut the taxes in the first place.
00:48:02.760And the way that Congress scores the thing, they always say it's a big deficit, never turns out that way, but they have a longer view on all of that.
00:48:10.180And so they're not as concerned about it. They can wrap their mind around taxes.
00:48:13.440They also believe that this administration, first and foremost, will be most successful if you have a good, stable economy where businesses can actually plan over the long term.
00:48:23.420And we can end up with an economic boom like the likes of which we saw in 2017.
00:48:28.700And the only way you get that is if you do the tax piece and you get that part done.
00:48:33.460The other piece is no less important, but they're very confident that that that is something that they can negotiate in and of itself because there's a lot of moving parts in it that have nothing to do with the core issue of taxes.
00:48:43.900So that's the two differences of views between the House and the Senate.
00:48:48.500Now, ultimately, they're gonna have to come together on this might end up being one big thing that the Senate takes two parts in.
00:48:54.560But because of what's happened with these confirmation hearings and because of the unanimous sort of Republican support within the Senate, I think the Senate's probably going to take the lead on some of this stuff because the House has been, you know, they've been arguing a little bit about amongst each other about how they go forward.
00:49:11.120Wow. There's so much coming our way. All right. I'm going to take a pause, take a break.
00:49:16.200We're going to come back. There's a lot to discuss. RFKJ confirmed this morning by the full Senate.
00:49:21.340He is now about to be sworn in as our Secretary of Health and Human Services.
00:49:26.920What a momentous event in our in our country.
01:15:19.160She was on the board of Time's Up, that organization, which imploded because it would only help women who'd been harassed by Republicans, but not anyone who'd been harassed by a Democrat.
01:15:33.160She's decided to leave, as has singer and songwriter Ben Folds.
01:15:38.580You guys might not remember Ben Folds, but he was the lead singer of Ben Folds 5, and he did sing a song, which I love, called The Luckiest, which I sang to Doug when he turned 40 at his 40th birthday party, believe it or not.
01:15:52.560I learned how to play it on the guitar.
01:15:54.240I had secret lessons in my office at night, and then I sang it to him.
01:15:58.680And I'm not a singer, but I loved Doug a lot, as I still do.
01:16:01.620And Ben is all about, you know, when you don't like something, get out of it, because he's been divorced five times, but really has a judgment on Trump's morality and is peacing out of the Kennedy Center.
01:16:31.200I mean, but you get the sense that all of these people who are resigning are the same kind of people that posted the black box on Instagram.
01:16:40.680Like, the interest in making sure that fine arts are preserved become very secondary to whether you can virtue signal your empathy for something.
01:17:49.440He got a big thrill because some of the crowd booed Taylor Swift when they put her up on the Jumbotron, which, of course, made Harry Conman Sr. very happy.
01:18:27.920By the way, I was there all the way through, and she was gone.
01:18:31.500Like, she was missing in action for most of the second half.
01:18:34.380So I don't know what he's talking about.
01:18:35.900Trump left at his previously designated time, which was, I think, 8.02.
01:18:39.980That had been scheduled, and that is when he left.
01:18:41.760And it's a little harder, Jimmy, when you're the president of the United States, because if you leave when everybody else is leaving, you completely F them over because no one can move anywhere.
01:20:30.840She ruined football and we're pissed off she got political.
01:20:35.560It's not just about the Eagles fans who are very vocal and do hate her, but it's beyond that.
01:20:41.020Well, incidentally, as a very famous person yourself, Megan, maybe you could tell us here at the Ruthless Variety Program who we need to call to get TMZ to show up and photograph us on a day-to-day basis.
01:20:52.360I don't know if you know, but we now have a White House correspondent sitting here at the Ares Dietz, a very famous man.
01:20:57.460I can't believe we haven't talked about that.
01:21:20.260It's like digital media, you know, independent media who now officially have a seat in the White House press briefing room, the most relevant seat there is.
01:21:28.160And you were the very first one there and the very first person in the seat to ask a question.
01:21:42.760And, you know, I wasn't nervous going into it because the entire time all I was thinking about was I cannot wait to see the looks on the reporter's faces when I walk into this room.
01:22:17.600The funniest part about it for your audience, Megan, is that this guy has made a 20 year career in Washington, D.C. as being the person that all of those journos have to call to get what the story is.
01:22:31.380It's like the first call of, all right, how do I start this story out?
01:22:35.160And then for all of them, you know, dedicated their careers to it, to have to watch him march into the White House briefing and do their job, too, was just hilarious.
01:22:44.500I mean, that is like what Ruthless is in a nutshell.
01:22:46.960And then to ask, is the media out of touch?
01:22:49.380So they're all just like, I got a lot of text.
01:22:54.000We'll drop the sod in for the podcast when I have it here.
01:22:56.540The media went after this administration for supporting illegal immigrants they claimed were not criminals.
01:23:04.840The question is, do you think they're out of touch with Americans demanding action on our border crisis?
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01:26:26.740And she's been very vocal about checking, having your skin checks and all that.
01:26:30.620And, unfortunately, this week she revealed that she was in the hospital, as of yesterday.
01:26:39.200She said, I'm in the hospital because I had very bad headaches.
01:26:42.160And it turns out they found five brain tumors, two of which they were going to remove surgically and three of which were smaller and they were going to attack with radiation.
01:26:53.640And they did not reveal whether these, and I think they just did the surgery yesterday or the day before.
01:26:58.100So they didn't say whether these are malignant brain tumors, but, you know, she's had 17 or 18 or 19 melanomas and they're going to use radiation to get the other three.
01:27:12.160And I guess I just wanted to mention it because I do think, like, skin cancer is one of the few cancers.
01:27:20.920There are a couple of others, but, like, you can potentially catch this one early with skin checks.
01:27:28.240And that's in no way shaming anybody who hasn't caught it early.
01:27:30.700I just want to remind people, like, it's so easy to get caught up in your daily life and you don't want to think about these things.
01:27:36.160Because whenever you think about these things, whether it's you guys getting a prostate check or us going to the OBGYN, you know, it makes you think about the bad things that could happen.
01:27:45.060And you kind of either skip it or postpone it or try not to do it.
01:27:48.460And skin checks are also compromising because you're naked and you're in front of some doctor who's checking out all your parts and, like, the really good ones really get up in there.
01:28:01.720And it's a little like, whoa, whoa, I think the doc and I are married.
01:28:07.180But it's important to do because that stuff, you really can potentially find it early and then you get it cut out.
01:28:15.900You know, when it's still localized, you can get it cut out.
01:28:38.440You know, the mother of three kids, very public figure in a profession that, you know, yes, contentious and sort of fun, but like kind of joyous.
01:28:46.540You know, I think she has generally a good life.
01:29:55.960We haven't invested enough in key man insurance, so we got to stay alive, you know?
01:30:01.860But, like, look, I guess what I'd say to your audience, anybody listening, is, you know, there's no better feeling than peace of mind, especially when, you know, you have people relying on you, like children and stuff.
01:30:13.660And so if you're not doing it for yourself, do it for them.
01:30:19.400So sorry to bring the room down, but all the best to her and her family and I'm 100% praying for her.
01:30:24.920And I hope that they can bring her back to good health.
01:30:28.320Even her messages this week have been positive and not woe is me.
01:30:33.340And, like, I just, I've always liked her.
01:30:35.940She just always seemed like somebody who was more on the sunny side and less vituperative than some of the women who get cast on that show.
01:30:42.280And her dad's brought us all a lot of joy in his songs, so on and so forth.
01:30:46.160All the best to her and her family in this journey.