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00:06:06.000We may have taken a little bit of a break from it over the weekend with Bobby Kennedy at like 3 a.m., flying back with Elon Musk, Bobby, my father, me, Speaker Mike Johnson.
00:06:20.000Sort of an eclectic group, a total mix, but, you know, we had a late-night McDonald's run, and people, I think it's like my largest post on Instagram ever, and almost a million likes, people going out of their mind that Bobby may have had McDonald's once.
00:06:50.000Sometimes, sometimes you have to just live a little bit.
00:06:54.000I know I had perhaps the most famous McDonald's meal of all times.
00:06:58.000I mean, it I don't think it's quite as viral as maybe some of the meals that my father had, but since he wasn't actively eating McDonald's when he was a fry cook there, I'm gonna say that this is probably the most viral McDonald's eating session of all time after the fight on UFC. We promise Guys, I promise we are going to make America healthy again.
00:07:22.000But, like, every once in a while, you're a cheat day.
00:07:25.000I didn't know, you know, the last time that Bobby Kennedy had McDonald's and a full-sugar Coca-Cola, which is probably actually healthier than the diet version, in all fairness.
00:07:34.000I mean, I'm not a big fan of the excess sugar.
00:07:52.000I'm also not sure if anyone expected Speaker Mike Johnson to be taking selfies with Kid Rock and Jelly Roll.
00:08:01.000So there's a lot going on right now, but we are in the midst of a new MAGA cultural movement, and we are definitely making McDonald's great again, at least for the weekend, and now we're back to making it healthy.
00:08:19.000Also coming up, we'll be joined by former House Speaker, the great, the one and only Newt Gingrich.
00:08:25.000Obviously, a lot going on with the complexities of cabinet picks and how that plays out, especially with tight margins in the Senate.
00:08:32.000You know, you have tight margins in the House.
00:08:34.000How are we going to get this mandate over?
00:08:36.000The reason we have tight margins in the House, I spent quite a bit of time talking about that with the speaker, current speaker of the House.
00:08:41.000You know, this weekend on the way up to the flight, and it's basically because the Democrats, whether it's weaponized at Blue or whatever, spent, you know, on average three to five times more on some of these House races, so they were able to get some of their clowns over the line.
00:08:55.000But anyway, I'm looking forward to it.
00:09:46.000If you miss the show here on Rumble or if you know your friends get their podcasts that way, make sure they are checking it out.
00:09:53.000We're all of the top headlines here, you know, since we are in sort of the innovative business, the stuff we cover here, all on my news app, MXM News, if you want to get into the details of that, like minute by minute, MXM, where you can get the mainstream news without the mainstream bias.
00:10:08.000Guys like me, people always say, oh, you don't like it, XYZ? Like, go build your own.
00:10:32.000And again, it's how we grow the movement.
00:10:34.000Before we get into these top headlines, also remember to check out some of our great sponsors like Tax Network USA. First, you got to make sure you don't owe back taxes.
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00:10:59.000Hopefully, we can make them fair and equitable, but that's not the case right now.
00:12:03.000Let's just say, even the leftist media Even the leftist media could not say there was a single boo or negative comment in the house.
00:12:14.000Remember, this is Madison Square Garden in the heart of New York City.
00:12:17.000What they used to do was it would be an epic entrance.
00:12:20.000People would be screaming and they'd find like one libtard that would be sitting there booing into his phone while videoing it so it sounded like there were actually boos but no one else actually heard them.
00:12:33.000When was the last time you had the Speaker of the House and future Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, walk out into an MMA event together with the President-Elect?
00:13:02.000This is sort of the conquering Republican Caesar who's going into the Colosseum, and everyone's cheering, and he's got his political gladiators with him.
00:13:11.000That appearance isn't just about him enjoying the applause.
00:13:15.000He's sending a message to the Senate, like, not only are you entertained, but these are my people, and are you willing to fight?
00:13:24.000Are you not entertained, folks, to quote the great Gladiator movie?
00:13:29.000But honestly, I think it is an apt description.
00:13:32.000You hear all the stuff going on about the Senate, and the Senate, you know, sort of, generally speaking, the place where conservatism goes to die, or the stuff that we actually want gets killed.
00:14:31.000Maybe we'll fix that with RFK. Maybe we go back to the beef tallow rather than the seed oils to fry the fries.
00:14:36.000I almost thought the McDonald's fries of my childhood were actually significantly better and I'm old enough.
00:14:41.000Unfortunately, because I'm old as dirt, to remember the original McDonald's fries, and I remember there distinctly being a change, and it actually was supposed to be because it's healthier.
00:15:05.000Turns out I was poisoning myself and perhaps my kids, although I try to avoid giving that crap to my kids.
00:15:10.000Just don't forget to let the New York Times know.
00:15:14.000Because the New York Times, in their infinite wisdom and fact-checking ability, put out perhaps Perhaps the most ridiculous fact check in the history of fact checks.
00:15:28.000Maybe the most ridiculous one ever by like a lot this weekend.
00:15:32.000And it read, and I quote, talking about Bobby Kennedy and him talking about these things.
00:15:40.000Kennedy has signaled out Fruit Loops as an example of a product with too many artificial ingredients, but he was wrong.
00:15:48.000The ingredient list is roughly the same Although Canada's talking about roughly the same as Canada's because there's different ingredients in Canada and the UK because they won't allow poison in their food, back to the quote, although Canada's has natural coloring made from blueberries and carrots,
00:16:06.000while the US product contains red dye 40, yellow dye 5, and blue dye number 1, as well as Butylated hydroxylene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used for freshness according to the ingredient label.
00:16:53.000So it's basically the same as Canada, except for a few minor chemicals and dyes that are literally banned in Canada because they are poisoning people.
00:17:26.000But, you know, I was the guy that was a conspiracy theorist, probably also according to the New York Times, for being like, you think maybe the Wuhan lab virus started in the lab that studies the exact virus that became the pandemic in Wuhan, China, which happened to be ground zero.
00:17:51.000These are, of course, very minor details.
00:17:55.000It's like saying, you know what, the weather is basically the same here in Florida as it is in New York, except for, I don't know, snow and cold.
00:18:05.000Oh, and one state gets hurricanes, but it's basically the same.
00:18:09.000I mean, you know, other than that, other than those minor details, like, that are not so minor, they're basically the same.
00:18:16.000So what is the New York Times talking about?
00:18:21.000And speaking of delusional, the nonstop shrieking from the media and Democrats show that Matt Gaetz is ready to restore some credibility to the Department of Justice.
00:18:33.000In fact, CNN again reported that DOJ officials And I quote, I sort of liked where he was on policy.
00:19:38.000And too many people in Washington, D.C. did not stand up against what was happening there.
00:19:42.000And many Americans are upset about it.
00:19:44.000Matt Gaetz is one of the most effective people at fighting that Russia collusion hoax and other information operations, whether it was the Brett Kavanaugh information operation, The Donald Trump Russia collusion hoax information operation, or the one that is referenced here, which is something that the FBI and Department of Justice, which hate Matt Gaetz, looked into and cleared him of any wrongdoing.
00:20:04.000The idea that this is about, the issue is corruption.
00:20:08.000It's the Department of Justice's corruption, and people are sick and tired of people in Washington, D.C., Doing nothing as these people tried to destroy the country and getting upset at someone who actually might root out the corruption there.
00:20:19.000We don't have a Department of Justice.
00:20:23.000And that's why you get Matt Gaetz as a nominee.
00:20:25.000Guys, but the media hysteria didn't stop there.
00:20:28.000They're also worried about the future of the FBI, with CNN reporting that the Bureau is, quote,"...frightened of Kash Patel," writing, I quote again,"...he would be well-positioned to try to investigate Trump's political enemies, declassify sensitive information, and purge career civil servants." Oh, really?
00:21:35.000They have been functioning as political operatives of today's radical left.
00:21:39.000We also need a functioning DOJ so that Democrats don't just try to blatantly ignore the law.
00:21:45.000For example, Democrats have been openly breaking the law in Bucks County, Pennsylvania to try to cheat for losing former Senator Bob Casey's Senate seat.
00:21:55.000Senator John Fetterman was confronted about it and essentially said, who cares if they're breaking the law?
00:22:26.000Behind Dave McCormick, Democratic officials in at least one key county, Bucks County, voted to count about 115 provisional ballots that are missing a signature, despite the Pennsylvania Supreme Court previously ruling that those are invalid.
00:22:43.000I want you to take a listen to how one Democratic Bucks County Commissioner justified her actions.
00:22:51.000I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn't matter anymore in this country, and people violate laws anytime they want.
00:22:59.000So, for me, if I violate this law, it's because I want a court to pay attention to it.
00:23:05.000So the Washington Post editorial board called that, quote, corrosive to democracy, unquote, and said, quote, county officials do not get to decide whether a legal requirement is material and must be followed.
00:23:17.000Courts do, and they have spoken clearly, unquote.
00:23:21.000What's your take, what's your response to that Democratic official deliberately announcing that they're going to defy court orders and count these provisional ballots?
00:23:36.000Well, again, I'm not going to chase every kind of quotes, things like that, because I think you just pointed out that it refers to about 115 ballots, and that's not going to have an impact on this race at this point.
00:24:14.000If a Republican was doing this, remember it's, you're an election denier.
00:24:18.000All of these things that they called us.
00:24:20.000So when the Democrats are doing it, how come the media isn't outraged about it?
00:24:25.000It's like we've been playing different games for far too long, folks.
00:24:27.000But the good news is the Pennsylvania Supreme Court today put an end to this insanity, ordering that all 67 Pennsylvania County boards of election comply with their earlier ruling and shall not count misdated and undated ballots.
00:24:42.000This is a victory for election integrity and for the rule of law.
00:24:47.000And by the way, Remember last week how Tony Blinken promised to send much, as much possible aid to the Ukraine on their way out the door as possible?
00:24:55.000I mean, let's make it really hard for Trump to achieve peace.
00:25:00.000Let's just send them unlimited money so they can drag this out for years, and maybe you can get through four more years of Trump before you actually have to address any of this.
00:25:08.000Well, now, Biden has authorized Ukraine to strike Russian territory with American-provided missiles.
00:25:16.000Deep into Russian territory, they were talking about things that could possibly extend into Moscow.
00:25:32.000I mean, if you have peace, the military-industrial complex can't get rich.
00:25:36.000So let's make sure we can have as much war as possible.
00:25:39.000Let's literally try to start World War III and instigate it so a couple people in the beltway can get really rich while millions of people die unnecessarily.
00:25:49.000I mean, sounds like a great idea, folks.
00:28:03.000For the record, America First was always cool, but a lot of powerful people with a lot of money to spend and a lot of influence tried to convince us that it wasn't.
00:28:48.000I mean, for years we're getting dudes winning female beauty pageants, but perhaps Perhaps this is a sign, guys, that the world is healing.
00:29:00.000This was an objectively attractive, I will not comment further because I just get myself into trouble, but an objectively really attractive woman, and she was allowed To win a beauty pageant once again.
00:31:04.000They allowed the left to sort of pervasively take over education and pop culture and sports and even the upper echelon of law enforcement and the military.
00:31:11.000And we just sort of sat back there and were like, we're going to stand...
00:32:09.000Well, I mean, first of all, I think that the election really mattered.
00:32:15.000When you talk to people and you think, what if Kamala had won?
00:32:19.000This country would have been down the tubes.
00:32:21.000And second, I think that your father's sheer courage, nine solid years of campaigning, being shot, having lawsuits, being impeached, all that courage, just taking it and keeping on coming, has had an effect on a wide range of people.
00:32:39.000I just did a newsletter, Gingrich 360, which was inspired by you, by the way.
00:32:45.000I thought yesterday you holding the McDonald's french fries box on the airplane, it just suddenly all clicked for me that what you have with Trump is a different kind of cultural divide.
00:33:01.000It's a cultural divide of people who like sports, people who like winning.
00:33:06.000Remember, the big problem for liberals is if you're really into sports, you want performance, You want merit.
00:33:16.000You understand the difference between winning and losing.
00:33:19.000Now you go to a place like Georgetown University where they, when your dad won, they had special rooms people could go to where they could have warm milk and cookies and they could have a blanket and they could feel sorry for themselves.
00:33:38.000And that's why I think there's a huge difference.
00:33:41.000I made a point that when Kamala Harris went on Saturday Night Live, she had 5.6 million views.
00:33:48.000But because the Trump campaign came in so fast, NBC decided they had to give him equal time.
00:33:55.000And the equal time they gave him was Sunday Night Football, which has 20 million views.
00:34:00.000So he got four times as many people As the person they were trying to help, and by the way, the people he was getting are the people likely to vote for him.
00:34:10.000And I think that's a pretty simple formula.
00:34:12.000And I think we're right at the edge of a dramatic break with what has been a very long period of left-wing values and left-wing ideas.
00:34:22.000And I think your point earlier, which some people may think is trivial, but it's not.
00:34:27.000If you actually go back, for example, to women playing in women's sports, That's a big break from where the Left was trying to take us.
00:34:34.000And if you actually go back to the idea that America should be very careful and not just throw money around the planet, I don't know if you saw the picture today, which is a total embarrassment of President Biden in the back row While the President of China and the President of India are in the front row at this meeting in Peru, you couldn't get a more vivid example of how far the Biden-Harris team has undermined America and the world.
00:35:02.000And as you know, when they have the next meeting and President Trump is there, he ain't going to be back in the back.
00:35:08.000Yeah, I have a feeling that's never going to happen.
00:35:10.000But it goes to show you, and I talk about it all the time, and I think people don't realize that when America's not leading, when we exude weakness, the rest of the world sees it.
00:35:21.000I mean, for China, for everyone, for all of our enemies especially, but for even some of those emerging economies, if America is weak, They're going to pounce.
00:35:30.000They're going to take advantage of it.
00:35:31.000They have taken advantage of these last four years.
00:35:33.000I mean, I can't imagine a place where, you know, G7 countries and America's in the back row.
00:35:42.000And yet it's happening before our very eyes.
00:35:43.000Everything that we've been talking about, and you and I have spoken about this a bunch, everything that we've been talking about, it isn't hyperbole.
00:35:49.000It's 100% right, and it's happening before our very eyes.
00:35:55.000But you know, it's very interesting the speed with which President Trump is making an impact.
00:36:03.000You already have the President of Ukraine saying publicly that they will get to peace faster with President Trump than they ever would have with President Biden.
00:36:13.000Now, that is such a dramatic swing in two or three weeks' time, and I'm sensing it from friends all around the world, that all of a sudden they're being realized, oh, America's back.
00:36:59.000I mean, we're winning before we've even taken office.
00:37:02.000But I think for me and for the people that I talk to, you know, what I've noticed in the last two weeks since the election was, you know, I went to, you know, local restaurant here and I'm sitting down and the owner literally comes up to me.
00:37:43.000And we were literally waiting for November 5th, the outcome of the election, to decide whether we were just going to sit, cower in the trenches, and just try to fight off the insanity, or whether we're going to build.
00:37:53.000Before my father even took office, they were like, hey, we now know we have a chance to succeed, so we're just going for it.
00:38:00.000I mean, that's about as America as it gets.
00:38:03.000Yeah, and you know, Calista and I both had the experience of people who come up to us who felt like they were leaning over the abyss.
00:38:10.000That if Kamala had won, they couldn't imagine the America that would have existed.
00:38:15.000And the level of emotion that we have been experiencing for the last week, the number of people who come up to us who we've never met before, but they've seen us on TV, they know we've been actively supportive of President Trump.
00:38:28.000There's just this very deep emotional feeling That America has been saved and now has a chance to go out and create the kind of economy The kind of prosperity, the kind of safety, that's what America should be all about.
00:38:43.000I do think Jack Kemp used to this great line when they say, well, how fast will supply side economics work?
00:38:50.000He said, well, if you drop $20 on the sidewalk, how long does it take somebody to pick it up?
00:38:58.000I think what you're seeing start to happen both in the US and around the world is you have people looking up going, well, if President Trump's going to be back, Now, that's a different story.
00:39:09.000And that both means that we're going to have more friends.
00:39:12.000We're going to have enemies who are much more cautious.
00:39:15.000And you're going to see entrepreneurs all over the planet.
00:39:19.000I mean, you know, the Elon Musk of the world, and there are a bunch of them, are going to suddenly say, you know, the place I'd like to invest is the United States.
00:39:28.000And that's going to be, I think, a generation of prosperity that's going to run on for a very long time.
00:39:34.000Liz, I think you're 100% right with that.
00:39:37.000Now, I will say, you know, my father can't do it alone, right?
00:39:41.000He's going to need help from the House, where we have a slim majority.
00:39:44.000He's going to need help from the Senate, getting some of the people who can actually effectuate that kind of change into his cabinet.
00:39:51.000So you wrote the book, literally wrote the book, March to the Majority.
00:39:57.000I had a pretty stern message for the Senate in my opening, you know, about sort of the mandate that the American people gave.
00:40:04.000The only reason we have a Senate majority is because good candidates, but the incoming freshman class, you know, good candidates, I think they'll be great.
00:40:11.000But a lot of the guys that have been there for a long time, you know, may not get that message.
00:40:16.000Can you talk about the governing principles for Congress moving forward?
00:40:20.000What's your message to the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill?
00:40:24.000Because, you know, maybe you'll be a little bit More, you know, I don't know, gentle than mine.
00:40:49.000Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher.
00:40:53.000And there's a very steady pattern there.
00:40:56.000The key is to focus on the American people.
00:40:59.000The first huge test is going to be the tax bill.
00:41:03.000If the American people decide that their future, their family, their budget, Demands that that bill pass, you're going to see a bunch of Democrats, not just Republicans, a bunch of Democrats vote yes.
00:41:17.000I participated in 81 with Reagan when we passed that three-year tax cut, the biggest ever done up till then.
00:41:24.000We carried one-third of the Democrats.
00:41:27.000Because they'd go back home and a small businessman would walk up to him and say, you got to pass it.
00:41:31.000A local housewife would say, you got to pass it.
00:41:34.000And they got the message that these two futures, I get to vote yes and come back.
00:41:39.000I get to vote no and I'm going to get defeated.
00:41:41.000And I think the key for your father is going to be to triangulate Where he reaches and arouses the American people, Reagan's phrase for it was, he said, I turn up the light for the American people, then they turn up the heat on Congress.
00:41:57.000And you'll be surprised over a matter of six or eight weeks how many people who are never going to be for you, So they go, well, you know, I think with a little change here, a little change there, and then they get to the point where they say, I was really always with you.
00:42:12.000And I think that the first huge test is going to be the tax cuts because they're the heart between deregulation and tax cuts.
00:42:22.000It's the heart of The Trump program for relaunching the American economy, if we get that passed early enough in 25, we're going to have a chance to really win in 26 in a way which will resemble President Roosevelt back in 1934.
00:42:44.000I mean, I don't think the Republicans did us any sort of favors extending some of the CR like stuff into next year rather than letting it be on Biden so that we're stuck with the garbage of the last four years.
00:42:53.000I guess what does it come up in June or something like that?
00:42:57.000Because it sort of feels like that's a problem of the past that they're trying to stick with us like Mitch McConnell in the Senate trying to fund Zelensky for two more years so that we can't possibly do anything.
00:43:07.000You know, like maybe I don't limit the purse strings a little bit to get him to the table.
00:43:12.000You know, while the graft is rich on there, it feels like Republicans did a little bit themselves in allowing that to go on so long that hamstrings my father's ability to do some of the things that he needs to do.
00:43:26.000Because I think that's a problem as well.
00:43:29.000Remember, unless it's in the Constitution, Anything which Congress has passed and the President has signed can be repealed by the Congress passing it and the President signing it.
00:43:40.000So I would go through those things step by step.
00:43:43.000And in January, February, and March, whether I did it with a series of targeted bills or I did it with one big bill, I just go back to it.
00:43:50.000And I'll tell you, I've been talking recently with people who are going to put together the entire program for cutting spending.
00:44:01.000I am convinced that Vivek and Elon are going to come back very early with some proposals.
00:44:08.000And now you get to the American people.
00:44:10.000Gallup has reported that the average American believes 50% of all federal spending is waste.
00:44:17.000So you want to set up a series of votes and say, basically taunt them.
00:44:27.000By the way, the numbers that are out there, it's probably more than 50% when I hear about that.
00:44:31.000And when I hear that there's entire buildings, government buildings, where no one shows up to work, they're working from home anymore.
00:44:37.000I'd like to find out how many federal employees that have full-time jobs at the federal government that no longer show up to work are working from home.
00:44:43.000I wonder how many of them are making Extracurricular income.
00:44:47.000You know, maybe just saying, hey, you got to show up to the office five days a week.
00:44:51.000You can't just do it from home while walking your dog.
00:44:54.000I think you could probably get rid of half of the government just by making them actually do their damn job.
00:45:00.000Look, I've said for years, there's a very simple test.
00:45:05.000Every time there's a big snowstorm, they announced in Washington that only essential personnel need to show up.
00:45:23.000But it's going to be much deeper than that.
00:45:26.000If you look at the decision that was made by the Supreme Court that said that bureaucracies can't invent law on their own, and I don't think anybody's done this yet, and it's something- That was Chevron, right?
00:45:39.000What I'm hoping is that somebody is going to go through and say, given this decision, the following regulations are now no longer valid.
00:45:47.000Well, if those regulations aren't valid, why do we need the regulators?
00:45:51.000And you may be able to have literally a block elimination Of entire bureaucracies and entire sets of regulations overnight on a scale no one has ever seen before.
00:46:02.000And that's really the meaning of that Supreme Court decision.
00:46:05.000It reversed years of turning power over the bureaucrats and allowing the bureaucrats to make law even though they're not elected and they don't exist in the Constitution.
00:46:16.000Yeah, no, I think there's so much opportunity there.
00:46:18.000I know, you know, I've been talking to Vivek and Elon quite religiously.
00:46:22.000These guys, they just, they understand it.
00:46:27.000And, you know, I think they're going to be incredibly effective.
00:46:30.000That doesn't mean the swamp doesn't have teeth.
00:46:32.000But I think these are people that are actually willing To take those slings and arrows along with my father to get it done.
00:46:37.000And once they expose what's going on, you know, the transparency, once people realize how broken and corrupted is, that's when you're going to see real change because the people, when they have the knowledge, are going to lose their minds at how their taxpayer dollars have been wasted.
00:46:52.000There's a small group called OpenTheBooks.com and they actually go and they measure everything.
00:47:00.000And for example, they find out how many people are being hired under this diversity, equity and inclusion thing.
00:47:06.000And they list who they are, what their salaries are, what their offices cost.
00:47:11.000And they really have immense amount of information on just how much built-in embedded waste there is.
00:47:17.000And then you look at some of the contracts.
00:47:19.000Boeing recently was selling literally a coffee pot for the C-17 aircraft at 8,000% more than you could buy it at Walmart.
00:47:43.000So there's actually an incentive to have it cost more.
00:47:47.000And everyone in the military, if it's a military thing, no one in the military is going to negotiate that because they want the board seat at Boeing later on.
00:48:11.000But because we keep racking up, you know, sort of, you know, an insurmountable amount of debt almost, you know, there's never been that incentive.
00:48:20.000And frankly, remember, when you talk about things like defense, we're talking about life and death.
00:48:24.000We're talking about whether or not we can keep up with China and whether or not we can cope with all the different kind of dictatorships around the world.
00:48:31.000This is not just some pork barrel game where the lobbyists get to make money and the corporations get to make money.
00:48:38.000Every time we have waste in the Pentagon, we are weakening America and we are risking losing a future war.
00:48:45.000And I think that's a big, big decision.
00:48:48.000Well, the Pentagon also failed its seventh audit in a row.
00:48:53.000These are the people, they hired 86,000 new armed IRS agents to go after people.
00:49:00.000They say it's about billionaires, but honestly, there's not 1,000 billionaires probably in the world.
00:49:06.000You don't need 86,000 armed agents to go after them.
00:49:10.000They're going after people who spent $601 on their Venmo because that's the break line.
00:49:15.000How do these people talk about these things and try to manage them if they're incapable of doing it themselves?
00:49:22.000I mean, this is dark money slush funds.
00:49:25.000I'm sure most of that money went to Ukraine to keep the wars and the endless wars going or elsewhere.
00:49:29.000But if the Pentagon can't fail an audit, how can they have an IRS that expects everyone else to be above board?
00:49:36.000I mean, it seems quite hypocritical to me.
00:49:39.000Well, one of the nature of big governments everywhere in the world is that the rules never apply to them.
00:49:45.000I mean, given the way Elon Musk has saved enormous amounts of money at SpaceX and at Tesla and at X, I would not be at all surprised to have him suggest that they bring in all the auditors in the Pentagon and they say, guys, you have this great opportunity.
00:50:02.000Six months from now, we will have a completed Pentagon audit or we're replacing all of you with new people.
00:50:19.000I spent quite a bit of time with him this weekend and over the last few weeks in the transition meetings, and you hear him talk about it.
00:50:27.000What he's done with SpaceX privately in a few years, he's got capabilities that NASA, with a 75-year head start and probably an infinite budget essentially, isn't capable of doing.
00:50:39.000It's like, I want that guy Like, auditing all of these agencies.
00:50:43.000Imagine what you could do if you save a trillion or two in the federal government, where you could put that?
00:50:48.000Like, we could actually, I don't know, educate our children, or maybe take care of our vets, or, you know, have a non-crumbling infrastructure in our country.
00:50:57.000Instead, it's going to lobbyists and just being lost and wasted entirely, which is, it's an incredible opportunity.
00:51:03.000It is, and frankly, if you're sick with Elon for just a minute, Many years ago, Congressman Bob Walker and I introduced the first bill to create a reusable rocket, put up 400 million bucks.
00:51:20.000About 15 years later, Elon comes along and He begins to invent reusable rockets.
00:51:26.000He reduced the cost of putting a satellite in space by 90%.
00:51:31.000It's the most deflationary single development in the last 20 years.
00:51:36.000Now he's packaging all of them together into the Starship.
00:51:39.000And the Starship is going to have 33 rockets in the first stage, three rockets in the second stage.
00:51:45.000It'll be the largest, most powerful rocket ever built.
00:51:49.000And my hope is that he's going to stick to a timetable he's announced And in 2026, we're going to send the first two or three starships to Mars carrying cargo to begin the process of setting up the equipment we need ultimately for humans to be able to live and work on that planet.
00:52:06.000None of these things would happen without entrepreneurs.
00:52:09.000And that's the other thing I would say, Don, that so much fits your family.
00:52:14.000If we can liberate and arouse the entrepreneurial spirit of America, if we can get people who are excited to get up seven days a week and go out and invent and create things, the kind of future we can create for our children and grandchildren is literally unknowable.
00:52:32.000It's going to be so amazing And such a remarkable chance.
00:52:39.000You know, you want them to have the best future possible.
00:52:43.000And that means you need entrepreneurs, not bureaucrats, to invent the future.
00:52:48.000Yeah, I mean, it's been, you know, a huge part of my focus is creating some of that parallel economy, getting away from the, you know, DEI policies of corporate America, creating things that are based on merit and actually, you know, efficient and all that.
00:52:59.000I mean, that's what I've spent, when I wasn't campaigning, that's what I've spent my last few years of my life actually doing it all.
00:53:04.000Now that I'm done campaigning, I can actually spend a lot more time on that, but it's 100% right.
00:53:10.000And it's guys like that that are going to do it, but you can't, it was funny, in talking with Elon, he actually said, He was talking about some of the rockets and this.
00:53:17.000He goes, you know, it took me less time to think of design and create the rocket than it did to get the paperwork from the government to launch the rocket.
00:53:29.000I mean, the permit to launch a rocket that a genius came up with and built and actually made work.
00:53:41.000You could invent and build a rocket faster than you could get the permit to actually test it.
00:53:46.000I mean, that was the perfect example of how insane...
00:53:49.000That's something that should basically happen in about three seconds, maybe a day or two, but it shouldn't be a process that takes years and everyone has to chime in and a bunch of paper pushers who are doing nothing, making it impossible for geniuses like Elon to create.
00:54:04.000I mean, imagine Imagine what we've destroyed, that will for people to be that entrepreneurs because of the red tape.
00:54:10.000And if we can cut that, that's number one for me.
00:54:13.000Yeah, I think actually, if you go back and look at the Reagan years, cutting the red tape actually has a bigger economic growth impact than cutting taxes.
00:54:23.000I think cutting taxes is very important, but you can eliminate a lot of the red tape.
00:54:28.000And I think Because we know more now and because of the kind of leadership that your dad creates and the kind of people he's attracting, we're going to have a chance to have the greatest deregulatory experience and that is going to liberate the economy in ways that people will look back 10 or 15 years from now and they will think it was like a tidal wave of new ideas, new products, new services that raised the income and the quality of life for virtually every American.
00:55:02.000Now you have a team of people surrounding him that are on point, that are on mission, that aren't there to slow roll it so we can get back to business as usual.
00:55:11.000And to me, that's the incredible opportunity.
00:55:13.000So there's a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson that goes something to the effect of, to be yourself in a world that's constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
00:55:24.000I sort of feel like that sums up perhaps my father's relationship with Washington as good as it gets.
00:55:32.000They tried to change him, they tried to make him something that was what they wanted, and it didn't work.
00:56:25.000He could do whatever the hell he wanted.
00:56:27.000I mean, it was actually a pretty good life.
00:56:29.000And I'm like, you know, you didn't just go through four years of it in the presidency, and then there's four years of lawfare and trials, and they're trying to throw them in jail and, you know, fake accusations from decades prior.
00:56:43.000At one point, a couple of months back when it was really tough, I called and said, you know, this is really difficult and I'm really proud that you're, you know, sticking to it.
00:56:55.000And they said to me, for the funny tone, he said, What choice do I have?
00:57:00.000I mean, it wasn't like you said, let's create the hardest possible game because I want to test myself.
00:57:07.000But he was in the process of saving the country.
00:57:10.000And if that meant you had to risk getting shot, you risk getting shot.
00:57:14.000That meant you had to go into a debate where the two moderators would be on the side of your opponent.
00:57:20.000I mean, as you know, because you've lived through it more than I have, he has consistently gotten up every morning And thought about saving this country and done what he had to do every day.
00:57:32.000And I am convinced that for the next four years, we're going to get the same service, the same courage, the same dedication, and that he is going to continue to attract absolutely first-class people who are going to collectively create for the American people a real opportunity to have a better future.
00:57:51.000Well, listen, like when he got shot, fight, fight, fight.
00:58:01.000I was dying, and he's getting done with the second all-nighter after being up for 48 hours, and he's going on TV and then doing a whole day of...
00:58:24.000But, Nude, I'd love you to take us back to the, I guess it's the 104th Congress in the 90s following your first two years as House Speaker.
00:58:32.000You know, the Republican majority was reelected in the 1996 election.
00:58:36.000It's the first time the Republicans had done so in 68 years.
00:58:39.000What can current Republican leaders learn from your leadership then?
00:58:44.000I mean, I think you had a stronger majority.
00:58:46.000You didn't have a majority of three or four, whatever we're going to end up with.
00:58:49.000You know, they're still counting votes.
00:58:50.000I mean, two weeks later, they're still counting votes in some places because, you know, we're a third world nation, essentially.
00:59:56.000I don't talk about communicating to the American people.
00:59:59.000I talk about working with the American people.
01:00:02.000And if we would learn to do that, and by the way, one of the things that President Trump has done that is truly heroic, and I've been active for a very long time in the Republican Party.
01:00:12.000He brought in Latinos, African-American males.
01:00:17.000In fact, also a number of African-American females now.
01:00:24.000I mean, all of a sudden you have a brand new coalition replacing the Roosevelt coalition.
01:00:30.000And that means Republicans Particularly traditional Republicans, have to learn that they're part of a new, bigger, and different coalition.
01:00:42.000And for some of them, that's going to be very uncomfortable.
01:00:59.000I was saying, maybe not overall numbers, but per capita over the last few months, I was taking more selfies when I'm at an airport somewhere with African-American men than anywhere else.
01:01:16.000Certainly seen the same thing with Latinos.
01:01:19.000I especially saw it in some of the younger demographic that, you know, would never be Republican.
01:01:23.000And yet, you know, in some states we even won, but certainly on average across the country, getting 15% of the 18 to 29 would have been absolutely unheard of.
01:01:41.000One, we found that an awful lot of suburban women who on the surface would say that abortion was the biggest issue, as they thought through how dangerous the world is.
01:01:51.000I watched one of them on a program that I was watching that was interviewing people, and she said, look, when you start worrying about World War III and you start worrying about Russia And China and all these things, suddenly safety becomes the number one issue.
01:02:07.000And so we saw a much stronger vote among women for President Trump than anybody expected three or four weeks out.
01:02:15.000And I think it was largely whether the safety was from illegal immigrants, as we've been watching on this terrible trial in Georgia, or the safety is from foreign countries, but a real change in that sense.
01:02:26.000I think second, what we've learned is that you have younger people who on the surface will tell you that they're green, etc., until you ask them, can you afford to buy a house?
01:02:41.000And all of a sudden, the economy becomes a really big deal.
01:02:45.000If we can be the party, That delivers growth, lower costs, greater opportunities, that young people can afford to buy a house, that people in general can afford to live better, that people in the inner city are safer and don't have to fear what the weekend will be like in terms of killings.
01:03:03.000I think we could be a majority for a very long time.
01:03:07.000Yeah, I guess, you know, what does the Democrat Party do from here on out?
01:03:11.000I mean, they don't exactly have someone like a Tip O'Neill out there.
01:03:13.000I'm watching CNN in the days after the election, and I mean, they literally have people that are, I mean, I guess in their eyes, credible people saying, I don't, he's screaming like lunatics.
01:03:23.000I don't care if you can't afford your groceries.
01:03:26.000We need drive through abortions and we need three-year-olds to be able to decide without parental consent to get gender affirming care.
01:03:33.000I mean, do they learn anything from this?
01:03:36.000Because it doesn't seem like they're learning.
01:03:38.000I'm sure a couple of people will get it, but do they just continue to ostracize this at the level of the megaphone?
01:03:44.000Look, I think they have a big fight inside their own party.
01:03:47.000You're going to have the wing that can't learn anything because they're ideologically so fanatically committed to a world that doesn't exist.
01:03:55.000And then you're going to have a wing that's more rational, more moderate, and they're going to be constantly beaten up and intimidated by the people who are nuts.
01:04:06.000I think you have to understand when somebody walks up to you and says, I really don't know what a woman is, and I really don't want parents to have any role And their child deciding to change their sex.
01:04:18.000And I really don't mind if men compete in women's sports and win all of them.
01:04:23.000You're dealing with people who aren't in very close touch with reality.
01:04:26.000And then when you hear people say, for example, from the river to the sea.
01:04:32.000And the truth is, if you went into these college campuses and said, which river?
01:04:58.000But, Newt, earlier you mentioned Jack Kemp, and he once said, we want peace with all our hearts, but peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
01:05:06.000Talk about the global effects of that.
01:05:09.000I mean, I guess it's sort of that maybe even a Reagan-esque philosophy of peace through strength, which I think we've...
01:05:16.000Totally done without, you know, having the woke policies in our military, having, you know, the insanity that we've seen there.
01:05:22.000How do we achieve peace through strength once again?
01:05:26.000Well, let me say, first of all, we need a deep and thorough overhaul of both the Pentagon and the intelligence community.
01:05:33.000I think it's hard to overstate how much they've been weakened, starting with Obama and coming up through Biden.
01:05:39.000So I think that's a very important reform element for us to have any chance of survival.
01:05:45.000I've always told people that the key to understanding liberals is that they saw the Lion King.
01:05:55.000They thought that it was a documentary.
01:05:57.000They think that lions and zebras sing and dance together.
01:06:01.000And when you try to explain to them that in the real world lions eat zebras, they go, no, no, didn't you see the movie?
01:06:08.000And that's how you get people like our current Secretary of State who wanders around babbling to the Iranians, to Hamas, to Hezbollah, No idea about the real world.
01:06:21.000They have no idea about the dangers of Venezuelan gangs coming into America.
01:06:26.000They have no idea about the danger of flash mobs looting stores.
01:06:30.000And so I think you have to recognize that there is built into modern liberalism an inability to deal with the real world.
01:06:38.000Now, in the real world, I think it's pretty straightforward.
01:06:42.000If you have enemies, you better be stronger than they are, because if you're stronger than they are, they won't do anything and you will have peace.
01:06:50.000But if they think you're weak, you will have war and you may be conquered.
01:06:56.000People should look at footage of Beirut or of Gaza or of Ukraine and understand this could be America.
01:07:06.000We're not guaranteed that we get to sidestep history.
01:07:10.000And the only thing that will protect us is to be strong.
01:07:14.000And to be strong, we have to profoundly overhaul the Defense Department, the Homeland Security Department, and the intelligence agencies.
01:07:22.000Yeah, I mean, you used the example of the Secretary of State, who's an incompetent, you know, he's one of the adults that was supposedly going to be back in charge.
01:07:28.000But, you know, his actions clearly show that that wasn't the case.
01:07:32.000But you mentioned the DOD, and you're right.
01:07:34.000What about General Milley, you know, calling China, be like, listen, If there's ever anything, I'll let you know before America possibly...
01:07:43.000I mean, to me it seems just treasonous, but if it's not treasonous, it's certainly incompetent that you would warn your greatest adversary about anything that you're going to possibly do in the event that something happened in Taiwan.
01:07:54.000I can't even imagine that these people could possibly ascend to power, but that's how bad it's gotten.
01:07:59.000That to become a three and four star general, you actually have to be a bureaucrat and a politician, not a warfighter because they've been politicized and those roles are entirely political now, not anything to do with capability or military preparedness.
01:08:12.000Look, I think you've got to go back to setting standards and setting objectives, promoting people who achieve those standards and those objectives.
01:08:20.000In the case of Milley, I can't for the life of me understand how he's gotten by.
01:08:26.000First of all, he was in charge of Afghanistan.
01:08:28.000It was totally disastrously mishandled.
01:08:31.000Second, he said publicly he thought the Russians would be in Kyiv in three days.
01:08:40.000And third, as you point out, I don't understand under our Constitution and under the rule of law of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Can, without the president's permission, talk to the head of the Chinese military and reassure them as though he was on China's side against the president of the United States.
01:09:04.000I mean, I literally, I'm an army brat.
01:09:06.000My dad said- Yeah, listen, part of Trump's negotiation is that you don't know where he's coming from.
01:09:43.000I mean, I would imagine if someone did that under a Trump administration who was a conservative general and did something, you know, the opposite, they'd be court-martialed in about two seconds and they'd be out on their ass.
01:09:56.000Look, I think if people will just think through the concept that you have the senior general in the American military take it on his shoulders.
01:11:06.000The number one priority the very first day is close the border, period.
01:11:11.000Issue the orders immediately, have it happening by five o'clock that afternoon, and immediately people will be responsive and say, you know, he's keeping his word, we're getting things done.
01:11:24.000Second, I think they have to have, and I worry about this candidly, they have to have a strategic communications plan which recruits the American people and gets the American people engaged.
01:11:38.000For example, if virtually every American sometime in the next six to nine months sends in an idea to To Vivek and to Elon and says, here's a way we can fix this.
01:11:51.000And I hope they'll submit a whole series of rolling reports as rapidly as they can and not wait around to write some big report that nobody will read.
01:12:00.000I think then you begin to get a momentum.
01:12:03.000And then third, I cannot overstate this.
01:12:06.000You have got to get the tax bill done.
01:12:09.000But the other thing, and I'm not a lawyer, so I've been asking some people to study this.
01:12:14.000I believe That the Supreme Court decision about bureaucracy probably means that the president could issue an executive order the first day That says none of the following regulations will be considered binding because all of them are in violation of the Supreme Court.
01:13:09.000Again, I don't know if it's accurate, but it seemed accurate.
01:13:11.000There was a receipt, an expenditure that had to be a thing where the DOD bought an industrialized size shredder so they could shred whatever documents are out there.
01:13:20.000So I'd like to create an incentive system for the door kickers in the military, the guys that are doing the work that have been exposed to this nonsense, to...
01:13:28.000To be whistleblowers against the nonsense that was going on in the higher-ups so that we can actually, again, expose that to the American public so they can see what's actually been going on, because I think that'd be another important one for everyone to see.
01:13:41.000We want to just have the utmost transparency.
01:13:43.000Yeah, and I think it's very important, the principle that you have to educate and inform the American people, at which point they will render judgment.
01:13:52.000There's a great line by Joseph Paterno, who was a Democratic politician many, many years ago, wrote a book called The Election Game and How to Win It.
01:14:02.000And he said, never underestimate the intelligence of the American people, nor overestimate the amount of information they have.
01:14:12.000And his point was, you give them the information, they'll talk to each other, they'll reach very solid decisions, but they're not necessarily going to go out on their own.
01:14:20.000So I think a very big part of this administration for the first six months has to be making sure that the average American gets to realize how really, really bad it's been and how really much has to change.
01:14:32.000And if that happens, then we'll be riding a wave of public outrage And at that point, we'll be in a position, I think, to win huge victories in the Senate and the House, and we'll have a bunch of Democrats vote with us.
01:15:10.000He understands real people because, you know, while he may be a bit of a showman here and a little glitzy here when he's at home, you know, his happy place is sort of, you know, eating a burger and watching a ball game.
01:15:20.000Can you talk a little bit about that cultural shift in the Republican Party and how we can carry out this MAGA mission?
01:15:26.000Look, part of the reason you ended up with some never Trumpers was they joined the Republican Party to get away from all that.
01:16:12.000Perhaps, in many cases, much more so than some executive in an office behind an Excel spreadsheet.
01:16:17.000So that's how he knew how to communicate with those guys.
01:16:20.000That's how he was like them because he actually made a lot of money listening to them, taking their advice.
01:16:25.000And so he trusts their advice as much as the quote-unquote experts who, frankly, haven't exactly been expert in getting things right over the last few decades.
01:16:36.000So I think part of, and I've always felt this about him, I used to tell reporters when they were first trying to come to grips with him that if The Apprentice had been on PBS immediately after Downton Abbey, they would have understood Trump.
01:16:53.000But because The Apprentice was on a commercial station, not a single political reporter in Washington had ever watched it.
01:16:59.000So they had no idea that in 14 years He had mastered television at a level unlike anybody else.
01:17:06.000I mean, he understood television as well or better than Reagan understood movies.
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01:19:23.000I don't want to be a leaker, but I can give you some insight into what's actually going on and the decisions that are being made.
01:19:30.000And I think they're really good ones right now.
01:19:32.000I think we have a chance to do something that's truly epic, perhaps Definitely once in a lifetime, maybe quite a bit longer than that with the people that have been surrounded him.