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00:01:18.480I was saying to my friend today, the news cycle right now is like you wake up every morning and you find out, I got a raise.
00:01:27.000And then the next morning you're like, I got another raise.
00:01:29.600It has that feeling like, yet another thing I really wanted that's going to improve my life and the life of my fellow countrymen has happened.
00:01:39.920And not just one thing, but a whole swath of things.
00:01:43.220The goodness just keeps on coming in droves.
00:02:49.340Rick Wilson, Lincoln Project, you know, Jennifer Rubin.
00:02:52.300But like, I don't know if he's got somebody worse, like masquerading as a straight news reporter in the mainstream media.
00:02:59.720Olbermann, obviously, he's terrible, but he's not masquerading as objective.
00:03:04.660Plus, we've got to spend a minute on the Oscar nominations.
00:03:07.900They didn't get the memo about the massive shift in our cultural landscape and about how we are done.
00:03:14.300We are done with the gender madness crusade.
00:03:17.280So we'll go over how they are sending their countercultural message to us with the fellas from Ruthless who are here today for the full show.
00:03:25.640Josh Holmes, Michael Duncan, John Ashbrook, and the man known to his minions as Comfortably Smug.
00:03:31.540You can find all their work at RuthlessPodcast.com.
00:03:35.380As President Trump begins his new administration, one of the top Democrats in Congress is aiming to undermine the Trump agenda.
00:03:43.240And his name is Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois.
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00:04:54.460He does not one, but two totally free, unwielding press conferences where he's asked and answered literally every question anybody could come up with.
00:05:05.600It's like the vigor is back in the White House.
00:05:08.160Not only did Joe Biden do the shuffle and the falling upstairs, downstairs, across a beach, but, like, then soars and J.D. Vance and Trump.
00:05:37.980There's something very odd about how this man is able to withstand enormous amounts of pressure and enormous amounts of time commitments and energy zaps without falling apart.
00:07:04.120Maybe I don't have to hate this fake Hitler.
00:07:07.140Maybe I could really enjoy covering this guy for the entertaining person he is, who clearly loves the country and has an agenda that now has wide swaths of report.
00:07:20.860I was just looking at the real clear politics average for Trump right now.
00:07:24.260His approval rating currently is at 53.
00:07:27.40053, you guys, this is, you know, three, four days into all these executive orders crushing DEI, crushing the gender madness, you know, crushing the green energy excesses there.
00:07:42.260I think, you know, you pointed out on X this morning, there was even an article in Politico where they said it's time to admit Trump is a great president.
00:08:37.020That kind of optimism had been completely crushed on the American people for four years.
00:08:41.440The American people are ready to be happy.
00:08:43.380I'm like running over to my kitchen table in the morning to see what's in The New York Times, what's in The Washington Post or what's in The Wall Street Journal, what's in The New York.
00:08:52.300I can't wait to see and just getting on X and seeing.
00:08:55.300And we'll go through for the audience what Trump did yesterday and all the greatest executive orders that are still coming and what he's doing.
00:09:01.560But let's just start with that political piece, because my jaw dropped smug.
00:09:05.580I'm like, what is what is this from Politico?
00:09:10.000Like, I thought it might be a spectator piece.
00:09:12.720You know, when I first saw the language grab from it.
00:09:16.020No, Politico's John F. Harris with a post this morning.
00:09:20.140He is the founding editor and global editor in chief of Politico.
00:09:24.740This is not some low ranking, you know, occasional columnist.
00:09:29.880This he kind of is Politico founding editor, global editor in chief.
00:10:04.560Great in this context is not about a subjective debate over whether he is a singularly righteous leader or a singularly menacing one.
00:10:11.620It is now simply an objective description about the dimensions of his record.
00:10:15.220He began a decade ago by dominating the Republican Party.
00:10:17.980He soon advanced to dominating every discussion of American politics broadly.
00:10:22.040Now, his astonishing comeback after his defeat by Biden in 2020 and the notoriety of the January 6th riot makes clear there are certain things he is not.
00:10:34.640He is not someone the American public somehow misunderstands.
00:10:40.240He is someone with an ability to perceive opportunities that most politicians do not and forge powerful, sustained connections with large swaths of people in ways that no contemporary can match.
00:10:53.740In other words, he is a force of history.
00:10:57.560There's more which we'll get to, but let's just stop there.
00:11:00.420What does it mean to you guys to see this kind of a piece in Politico?
00:11:06.340Well, John is one of the few and rare journalists, kind of the old school, who observationally understand, right?
00:11:19.620And I think if you talk to the people who covered Trump for a long time, they kind of all come to a similar conclusion, which is this guy won a popular vote.
00:11:43.000And the thing that I find so interesting about this one is his lack of fear and his lack of hesitation to pursue exactly what it is that he said he would do.
00:11:55.020There's no sort of sanding the edges to try to make things a little bit more politically nice for some edges of the electorate.
00:12:02.860He's just doing his stuff, and he's doing what he said he was going to do.
00:12:05.800And, like, there's a confidence that exudes from that.
00:12:09.900And, you know, with all of those executive orders, and we can talk about them specifically, but they all just basically are what the American people wanted to have happen.
00:12:25.040No, I think the headline is a triumph, and I think it is because Trump earned that.
00:12:30.680I mean, if you think about all of the ups and downs of the last 10 years, nobody in some, like, back room decided that they were going to engineer Trump into that job.
00:12:41.280No, everybody was against him the entire time, and he kept coming back, and he kept fighting, and now he's got the press basically crying uncle on the front page.
00:13:01.980Yeah, and that's how they covered him.
00:13:03.620But it's undeniable now, not just his comeback to the White House, but the way in which it happened, and Ashbrook alluded to it.
00:13:10.560I mean, this guy was indicted in three jurisdictions over 40 times.
00:13:13.720He was, you know, two assassination attempts, one that put a bullet through his ear, and he overcomes all of that to be returned to the White House.
00:13:21.380It's really a testimony to that old adage that the only way to lose is to quit trying.
00:13:28.620I mean, if you think about it that way, and in the context of everybody's lives, I mean, this guy had every reason in the world to walk away.
00:13:53.860I mean, it's becoming very clear that the great comeback tour is far more beneficial to Trump and the country than a straight eight would have been for him.
00:14:04.880Because he was able to flush old staff that was not working well for him.
00:14:09.580And bring in new blood and come in with, as Don Jr. said in this show, when he was predicting what would happen if his dad won.
00:14:16.580And, yes, people who are loyal, it's important to Trump, but also people who are competent.
00:14:22.820And he said, the first time around, we kind of just went for competence.
00:14:25.700And we forgot about the loyalty piece.
00:14:27.320And that's how you got deep state actors whose mission did not align with Trump's.
00:14:31.340You know, Rex Tillerson being one of them.
00:14:33.780You know, obviously there were others like Mattis, Milley, John Kelly.
00:14:38.840They had their own agenda and their own thoughts on how it ought to be handled.
00:14:42.340And nobody elected them to do anything.
00:15:23.540Even when Trump came to power just now, there was a bit of kind of like lowered expectations because you're like, I remember the first time there were all these people stabbing in the back.
00:15:47.480They learned so much from that first administration, how the media would treat them, how people that were brought in just because, oh, well, he's got the right resume.
00:15:55.180Not necessarily that they are 100% loyal to Trump and his agenda, which the American people resoundingly support.
00:16:01.580So there's no need to lower expectations now.
00:16:04.000We've seen in the first 48 hours breakneck speed.
00:16:07.300He's delivering exactly what the American people wanted.
00:16:13.580No better demonstration of competence with the fast start.
00:16:16.960I mean, those executive orders didn't just magically print and perfectly embossed fonts right off of the printer on day one.
00:16:25.240I mean, there were a lot of people who nobody will ever know their names who worked so hard to put that stuff together and thought about, oh, this is how the deep state is going to react against us.
00:16:35.420How are we going to structure this so that we can have the most success possible?
00:16:39.740You're never going to know their names.
00:16:41.400And withstand the legal challenges, Ashbrook.
00:16:43.420It's a great point because also clearly the person who wrote, well, it's a bunch of people, but the people who wrote these executive orders foresaw the legal challenges that were coming and wrote the appropriate defensive language right into the EOs.
00:16:58.180I heard the guys at Commentary talking about this.
00:17:04.140If you're taking federal dollars, whether you're a university or you're a subcontractor of the government, if you're pursuing a DEI agenda, you're out.
00:17:12.060We're not you're not getting our money anymore.
00:17:13.880And they had an exception on the universities for pointing out that to criticize the policy is totally fair game.
00:17:32.680We don't have to give our money to you.
00:17:34.020It's been done very, very cleverly, again, by people who learned from just not only those first four years, but then watching what the Democrats would do when they had power.
00:17:45.500I mean, look, there's something to be said about having a frame of reference and knowing what you would do differently.
00:17:50.960And I think you said it really well that this is a much better outcome in many ways than a straight eight because you can't like reset midterm, right, if he's elected to a second term.
00:18:00.700This way, I mean, not only did you get the separation of four years with people like Stephen Miller who spent the last four years thinking about how you would do all of these things a lot more constructively.
00:18:13.700Look, the stuff that he was talking about on the campaign trail, he didn't overpromise.
00:18:16.740He talked about a whole bunch of things that he knew he could do with the power of the executive order because he was there before.
00:18:22.220So when he talks about shutting down the border or ending DEI or all the various things that he's done over the last 48 hours, he knew he alone in his administration, if competently executed, could do it.
00:20:18.200It's perfect because he deeply understands it, right?
00:20:21.260I mean, it's one thing if you're some politician who's told this is very popular amongst the American people and you're just trying to figure, you know, okay, I got to check this box because I said I would.
00:20:30.220No, the way he explains it, he deeply understands it.
00:21:38.320Trump has already demonstrated some familiar signatures of the most consequential presidents.
00:21:43.760Like influential predecessors, his arguments have shifted the terms of the debate in ways that echo within both parties.
00:21:50.600In this case, on issues such as trade, China, and the role of big corporations.
00:21:54.240Like other large presidents, Trump has been a communications innovator and exploited technological shifts more effectively than his rivals.
00:22:02.680In that sense, his use of social media recalls FDR's mastery of radio, JFK's and Ronald Reagan's mastery of television.
00:22:09.800One more signature shown by the most consequential presidents, uncommon psychological toughness.
00:22:15.360Have you ever known someone who is facing legal hurdles?
00:22:19.100In many cases, even if people ultimately win the case, they end up being consumed and shrunken by the searing nature of the experience.
00:22:57.540Great presidents are unifiers, mostly in retrospect.
00:23:02.800Most great presidents, he later wrote, this liberal scholar, divided the nation before reuniting it on a new level of national understanding.
00:23:14.980This is the same sentiment uttered by FDR, quoting FDR.
00:23:18.320All our great presidents were leaders of thought at a time when certain ideas in the life of our nation had to be clarified.
00:23:28.920God, that totally encapsulates Trump, his rise, his movement, his popularity, his gut instincts, and why they resonated so strongly,
00:23:40.300especially on the heels of four years of Biden-Harris with this huge piece of the American electorate.
00:23:46.420Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, it's really well said, really well put together.
00:23:50.780I think, you know, there's one sort of lasting lesson that I think, you know, anybody who's interested in running for president anytime in the future should learn a lot from Donald Trump,
00:24:00.620is that in order to be a leader, you actually need to do all of those things, right?
00:24:04.320It's not enough to just sort of check boxes on a poll of who is, you know, what issues are above 50, and I'm for that.
00:24:12.560You need to create atmosphere in the American democracy where people identify with it and want to get on board with it.
00:24:19.820There's no way to make substantial change whatsoever unless you build a movement that moves a block of voters who you think are here to here.
00:24:28.860Because then the lesson is for people who are in, you know, an opposition category is, well, you got to wrap your mind around that too.
00:24:36.380And that's how change is made in this country.
00:24:41.480But Donald Trump has really led a movement to take a look at China, to take a look at DEI.
00:24:48.560I mean, look, we're four years removed from people being terrified to even say the letters DEI in a negative connotation for fear that they would be canceled.
00:24:57.940And now you got a president of the United States signing an executive order banning it, saying this is racist.
00:25:02.620Well, it's been racist all along, but it's everybody was afraid to talk about it until he did.
00:25:08.040I think the thing that's really interesting there on, like, DEI or, like, critical race theory or transgender ideology and all of these things, I think the idea that these were, you know, a divisive debate we were having in the country is entirely a manufacturing, you know, by academia and the media itself.
00:25:29.260I mean, I think Trump is uniting all Americans on these issues.
00:25:35.960The only people who are ginning it up were the media who are like, well, on this side and on this side, and we're going to, you know, and it's like, no, like, you know, I think we actually talk enough about the racial trauma in America in our history books and in school and stuff.
00:25:49.600We don't have to be, you know, having critical race theory, academic philosophy for legal scholars applied to kindergartners across this country.
00:26:09.400We're going to have to deal with that.
00:26:11.140CNN, reportedly the boss there, who is the former, a former New York Times guy, reportedly said to the staffers at some all hands on deck meeting, please try not to prejudge Trump.
00:26:22.360Like, let's just not do knee jerk trashing of Donald Trump.
00:26:27.320He would like his job to continue, which requires viewers, which is why he said that.
00:26:32.500Then Tom Bevin of Real Clear Politics tweets out the following with the headline, CNN has not learned a thing.
00:31:56.840This is, of course, on the heels of the Clarissa Ward report where they, you know, they used some guy who was apparently connected with Bashar al-Assad and pretended that he was in some prison.
00:32:10.620That's how it looks for months, and he came out, you know, clean fingernails, clean clothing, and did this whole, like, uh-huh, only to have it revealed that he was connected with the very people he claimed were imprisoning him and then wouldn't respond to CNN's calls when it came out that he had given a false name.
00:32:49.260I want him to have to go through that humiliation every single night because I think, I mean, I think complaining about your time slot on CNN is like complaining about which circle of hell you got sent to.
00:33:01.260I mean, he shouldn't be completely glum.
00:33:03.780He's got a shot of being number one in the demo in Hawaii.
00:33:36.100But, you know, but even if he didn't, you know, maybe it's a good rule of thumb for journos when somebody is wearing a pee hat and it's got your name that they're celebrating.
00:34:23.520There's some portion that's still crazy.
00:34:25.020But they passed the Lake and Riley Act, which really says, like, you must you must detain an illegal who commits shoplifting or something you consider a lesser crime, never mind the more serious crimes.
00:34:39.220You may not just return them out into into the into society requires ICE to arrest illegals who commit an offense of theft, burglary, larceny, shoplifting or, of course, something more serious.
00:34:53.400And mandates that these aliens are detained until they're removed from the United States so they cannot reoffend.
00:35:00.880Then on top of that, because keep in mind what happened with Lake and Riley was this criminal in New York City committed a couple of crimes here, including, I think, shoplifting was one of them, and then got released by New York City, which is a sanctuary city in a sanctuary state.
00:35:13.780And then he went down to Georgia and killed Lake and Riley.
00:35:17.040And if we had just done our job in New York State, well, I'm in Connecticut now, but I'm from New York, this guy would have been behind bars or deported, as he should be now under Trump.
00:35:27.820So they're trying to crack down on this.
00:35:30.120And then there's a second piece of the Lake and Riley Act that reads as follows.
00:35:33.920It enables state attorneys general to file lawsuits against the Homeland Security secretary if the government fails to enforce immigration laws.
00:35:42.700This is Trump saying, I won't be president forever, and I am empowering Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis and all border state governors to sue the derelict federal government if the next guy refuses to enforce the laws.
00:36:05.040And that's exactly what we were talking about is he's had folks around him like Stephen Miller, who had four years to get ready for this moment, who saw the kind of nonsense that the bureaucracy does to keep Americans unsafe.
00:36:20.380And so now they're hitting the ground running ready for stuff like this.
00:36:24.420Also, it's important to note this is a very American tradition, putting in checks and balances to ensure that America is a safe country of laws.
00:36:33.640It's a wonderful day for all Americans.
00:36:37.200And hats off to Katie Britt and others who are the champion of that bill for the last couple of months.
00:36:41.740I can't believe there was opposition to it.
00:36:43.660I mean, it just shows you how crazy people are.
00:36:46.540And you've got overwhelming Democrat support for this policy of deporting, never mind of punishing the criminals who are here and making sure they don't hurt more Americans, but of deporting all illegals, all of them.
00:36:58.980But before I get to Harry Anton over on CNN talking about that, let me show you AOC's reaction to the Lake and Riley Act.
00:37:06.000If a person is so much as accused of a crime, if someone wants to point a finger and accuse someone of shoplifting, they will be rounded up and put into a private detention camp and signed and sent out for deportation without a day in court.
00:37:24.980Without a moment to assert their right and without a moment to assert the privilege of innocent until proven guilty.
00:37:31.520That is what is inside this bill, a fundamental suspension of a core American value.
00:38:22.460Well, unfortunately, Smug, the Constitution does apply to people who are in the country, whether they're legal or they're illegal.
00:38:28.380But the point is what Josh just says, which is, if you're here and you get arrested, and I don't care what you get arrested for, we find out you're an illegal, you're out.
00:38:48.280It's not like whether you're going to get all your Bill of Rights once you actually get to trial.
00:38:51.820It's you're illegal and you got caught, and right now we're bending over backwards to accommodate you so that you don't have to leave, so that you can let your legal rights play out.
00:39:05.340Well, and not for nothing, but as far as due process goes, everyone who's come to this country over the past four years with some BS asylum claim has a court date in like seven years.
00:39:21.700On top of that, which is an actual law, those are the ones we like the best, right?
00:39:25.880They can't be undone by executive order by the next president.
00:39:29.820DOJ released a memo directing federal prosecutors – now I'm getting into the more executive actions.
00:39:35.240DOJ released a memo directing federal prosecutors to investigate and potentially prosecute state and local officials who do not cooperate with immigration orders.
00:39:42.820So once again, this is a crackdown on sanctuary cities that you could get prosecuted if you are a state or local official who's not complying with an ICE detainer.
00:39:54.240You know, there's an ICE detainer on some bad hombre who gets arrested for shoplifting, let's say, in New York City, and he's sitting behind a bar.
00:40:01.580And there's a detainer, which means New York officials are supposed to call ICE and say, hey, we've got this guy you're looking for, and they don't.
00:40:07.820Instead, they defy that, and they let the guy free, and he goes down to Georgia and murders a 22-year-old nursing student.
00:40:15.100So this is saying, you local officials who do that, you're going to get your asses prosecuted.
00:40:20.520It's not just about the act which mandates it with Lake and Riley.
00:40:23.760We're going to come after you criminally.
00:40:27.980And this is very necessary because there's a lot of already very troubling things that are happening.
00:40:32.900The other day it was reported that the Denver Public School System, taxpayer-funded, is sending out emails advising illegal aliens and their families how to avoid ICE.
00:40:42.820That's taxpayer funding that's going towards breaking the law.
00:40:45.500So things like this are incredibly necessary when you see across this country that institutions that we ourselves are paying for as taxpayers are trying to help individuals break the law, which can lead to things like innocent people getting murdered.
00:40:59.040So it's wonderful seeing how focused the Trump administration is on making sure that is dealt with.
00:41:07.460Let me give you a couple more on the border.
00:41:10.420The Pentagon announced it will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active-duty troops to help secure the southern border in the coming days.
00:41:17.800They will join the roughly 2,500 U.S. National Guard and Reserve forces already there.
00:41:21.760That makes 4,000 troops along the southern border.
00:41:24.480Reports out today it could go as high as 10,000 to make sure that they're not sending the military down there in a law enforcement capacity.
00:41:31.780You're not allowed to use the military like that.
00:41:33.580They're not going to be shooting illegals.
00:41:35.080They're just standing there, and they're happy to put the illegals in the truck and drive them back across the border.
00:42:17.220Texas reinstalled massive floating, the massive floating buoy barrier along the Rio Grande.
00:42:23.280Remember, there was that huge barrier down there, and Biden went down there and sued him to take it down because they said it was dangerous for the illegals who were trying to swim across the Rio Grande.
00:42:36.060Ultimately, the Fifth Circuit ruled for Greg Abbott, but they hadn't yet reinstalled it.
00:42:40.700And now it's going to be fully reinstalled.
00:42:43.540And Abbott plans to extend the barrier further.
00:42:48.760In Florida, there is new Coast Guard protection in response to Trump's executive orders.
00:42:54.340The Coast Guard is announcing it will immediately surge boats, cutters, aircraft, specialized forces to the southern border around Florida to prevent mass illegal migration from Haiti and Cuba.
00:43:04.180Number six, the Department of Homeland Security, in a memo, permits ICE to raid so-called sensitive areas.
00:43:12.980Trump's DHS issued this memo immediately rescinding Biden's 2021 through Mayorkas policy, which limited ICE from enforcing our immigration laws if they found an illegal near a, quote, sensitive area like a school, a church or a health care facility.
00:43:50.420And this is this is like just a couple a little bit of color because there's so much here.
00:43:55.040I'm drinking from the fire hose just to just to look into the effect this is happening, having as ICE goes to arrest a Haitian criminal illegal migrant.
00:44:43.940We we've been saying for a while when when there was a Democrat primary happening in 2020 and they asked during a debate, will you provide, you know, free health care, housing for illegal immigrants?
00:45:13.160That means that we were serious about this.
00:45:15.420The second important thing to point out is you hear all these nonsense rules that were put in place by Mayorkas of, oh, there's these sensitive areas.
00:46:24.660I mean, remember at the beginning of the Biden administration when Biden appointed the intellectual heft of Kamala Harris to identify the root causes of illegal immigration?
00:46:34.880And, like, you know, you never got any answer.
00:46:36.440She didn't even go to the border for, like, three years.
00:46:49.780If you're going to look for a root cause, it's when you put a green light at the border and you tell people you're going to fly them to up to the northeast and resettle them.
00:47:00.980The green light to the cartels, by the way, to traffic humans all the way up from Central America in order to do it.
00:47:07.000And they make a ton of money doing it with drugs, with human trafficking, all kinds of different things.
00:47:11.580By putting these things in place, remain in Mexico, solidifying the border, all this other stuff that he's doing, I think we're going to find out that people are like, well, maybe we can't go there anymore.
00:47:21.600And also beyond that, I know for a long time it's been a punchline and rightfully so, the whole self-deportation idea.
00:47:27.460But when you take away things like birthright citizenship, there's no longer a reason to stay here.
00:47:37.400If you show up here hoping to just have a child and that's a U.S. citizen and then they can get you a green card and you can play that game that's been going for way too long.
00:47:45.060You take that away and all of a sudden there is no point here because eventually the IT is looking for you.
00:49:43.700Right there, the data shows a drop of 95 percent, right there.
00:49:47.620The initial reaction from the media, I remember on Monday, you had 50 journos taking video of, oh, this is a migrant who's trying to get in and they're crying now.
00:55:20.520Well, and not only is he plain spoken about it, but I think he gains power by the outrage.
00:55:27.540So after that clip aired, there was a whole bunch, you know, take to X, the journos and everybody saying he can tell by somebody's a criminal by looking at them.
00:55:37.780You know, this, that and the other thing.
00:55:38.880But like that only builds power with Trump.
00:55:43.400And I think increasingly what we saw through his political prosecutions and all of these things, every time somebody just sort of winds up against Trump and tries to explain how he's a racist, a degenerate, a criminal, all these things, more and more of America is like, no, I heard what he said.
00:56:00.340It's like that Voltaire quote where he said, I asked God for but one wish that my enemies be absurd.
00:56:05.640And Trump has been given that in spate.
00:56:07.640The more that they try to sound crazy and say, just because someone's covered in gang tattoos and breaks the law entering the country doesn't mean they're a criminal.
00:56:14.940Actually, that's exactly what it means.
00:56:16.320And when you're wearing a flag that says, I'm a member of a gang, you're probably a member of a gang.
00:56:30.160Yeah, that was actually another line of the political article that the FDR said, I'd ask one thing, but to be judged by the enemies that I have made, judge me by my enemies.
00:56:40.780He's thrilled to have AOC out there saying things like that about him.
00:56:44.500OK, so moving on, there's a lot there's a lot of other stuff we've got to cover, including what they're doing to Pete Hegseth.
00:56:49.700So Pete Hegseth is, I think, still on his way to being confirmed.
00:56:54.520We've been watching McConnell, Murkowski, Collins and Ernst for Republican senators who should vote for him, but have reportedly been on the fence.
00:57:05.580Ernst, those first three have not said how they're going to vote.
00:57:09.720Ernst has said she will vote to support Pete, and she did vote him out of committee.
00:57:13.740So we're still question marking those three, but we don't really care because if that's the only three he loses, then it's a tie in the Senate, which J.D. Vance would cast the deciding vote on and Pete would get in.
00:57:26.520But as the Senate slow rolls the final vote, the Democrats are saying, we need more information, we need more time, blah, blah, blah on Pete.
00:57:34.580You get an 11th hour submission now from when I make sure I have it right.
00:57:45.860This is the lesser known brother and the brothers, not the brother's wife, but the brother's ex-wife.
00:57:52.560Pete, who is a far left Democrat, I've talked to people who know her, who never liked Pete, comes forward to say he was some sort of an abuser of Pete's second wife, who's not her sister.
00:58:17.240And I know that because my some eight years married to the brother mostly overlaps Pete's marriage to Samantha.
00:58:24.180And Samantha had it was to the point where Samantha had a code word where she would text it to me if she thought she was in trouble, like inside the house.
00:58:33.940And in fact, she did text me the code word one time.
00:58:37.000And so Pete and that signifies that she was afraid of Pete.
00:58:40.260Well, OK, like, let's hear the rest of the story.
01:49:11.860And don't take my word for it, because if you watch the thing, it's all about Stanley Tucci as a bishop who appears to be from New York or Cardinal,
01:49:18.900saying, like, I will not abandon my position, that we need more women's rights in the church.
01:49:24.760You know, he's one of these leftist Catholics who's trying to take a stand, and they lionize him,
01:49:29.840and they make a mockery out of the Italian cardinal who's more conservative and who's more traditional.
01:49:35.620And they make him into a fool, a buffoon.
01:49:38.000And that's what they do to the entire Catholic Church by making, surprise, their new pope into a woman.