Today on Triggered: Elon Musk is the latest victim of a cyber attack, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announces a major cut in funding, and Democratic challenger Nate Morris joins me on the show to talk about his campaign against Mitch McConnell.
00:05:24.000Welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
00:05:27.000Another day with another batch of big breaking news.
00:05:31.000And that includes an apparent cyber attack against Elon and X. Could this be retaliation due to the non-stop work exposing the grift and graft across the globe?
00:06:04.000And later, I'll sit down with Kentucky Senate candidate Nate Morris with all the behind the scenes.
00:06:10.000of what's happening inside the bluegrass state and beyond.
00:06:14.000Just so we're clear, Nate Morris is the anti Mitch McConnell candidate, a guy that came from a similar background really to JD Vance in Appalachia, grew up with nothing, was a recipient of food stamps with him and his family, went on to become an incredible entrepreneur.
00:06:31.000And now wants to get in the game and give back to the people of his home state.
00:06:37.000Last time I went out there on a limb, I think it worked out pretty well because I think you all like our incredible vice president.
00:06:44.000And based on the memes I've seen this weekend, maybe the most memed person other than maybe DJT, you know, in the entire world.
00:06:57.000If you're not following him already, check him out.
00:06:59.000We gotta do whatever we can to unseat the nonsense that is the McConnell machine, okay?
00:07:05.000With Republicans like Mitch McConnell at this point, you might as well have Democrats, and that's a no-no.
00:07:11.000So tonight, there's a lot to get into.
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00:09:34.000And now, guys, let's get into all of the top headlines.
00:09:39.000Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced that 83 percent, 83 percent of USAID funds have been cut, explaining that 5,200 contracts, yes, 5,200 contracts would be canceled because 5,200 contracts would be canceled because the program did not serve U.S. interests.
00:10:00.000And we will now save our country tens of billions of dollars.
00:10:06.000This stuff shouldn't have ever been happening, but now we know, and now we have people in positions of power who have the guts to put an end to the fraud.
00:10:17.000Remember, guys, USAID was the swamp slush fund that was paying for gender-affirming care in Guatemala, Sesame Street in Iraq, and circumcisions in Mozambique to the tune of billions of dollars.
00:10:47.000And the remaining programs will be overseen by the State Department, okay?
00:10:52.000So there will actually be checks and balances.
00:10:54.000Instead of USAID being its own agency, infiltrated by the radicals, funding whatever they wanted in their pet projects, probably all kickbacks to Democrats, and it will no longer just be another arm of the corrupt bureaucratic blob.
00:11:10.000But the waste doesn't stop there, guys.
00:11:14.000Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, Now, I don't know about you,
00:11:36.000but a kid under the age of 18 can't even sign onto a loan, and yet $300 million just given out to kids under the age of 12. I don't understand.
00:11:47.000Doesn't even seem legal, but it doesn't matter because there was no oversight.
00:11:51.000The loans were issued in 2020 and 2021 during COVID, and it's unclear what they were even used for.
00:11:59.000And like I said, we're still just at the tip of the iceberg, and there is much, much more to come.
00:12:08.000And meanwhile, guys, the Ukrainian first lunatics, they are truly ramping up their insanity, including Harassing a child of your favorite vice president, the most memed man in America, at least this week, maybe ever, J.D. Vance.
00:12:25.000It just makes these people look even more like the unreasonable fanatics that they truly are.
00:14:36.000What they should actually all be outraged about is all the fraud and the endless taxpayer dollars being shipped to Ukraine with little or no accountability.
00:14:49.000And how did all of this fraud go unchecked for so long?
00:14:53.000Well, for one thing, the last four years, we didn't even know if Joe Biden knew what he was signing.
00:15:34.000Notice you never saw Joe Biden actually doing that?
00:15:37.000Because it was done by a machine, and no one knows who was actually controlling it.
00:15:42.000And according to Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, if the widespread auto pen use turns out to be true, these executive orders, Pardons and all other actions are unconstitutional and legally void.
00:15:58.000That's a really big deal, guys, because you could undo some of the insanity that was being done.
00:16:04.000Like, remember when they let out, like, all of death row?
00:16:06.000They commuted the sentence of people who murdered young children and, I mean, some of the most heinous and terrible people in the world.
00:16:14.000Joe Biden just, eh, we'll let him out.
00:16:16.000Well, if Joe Biden didn't actually do it and didn't know whatever it may be...
00:16:20.000They could be legally void, and those criminals could be back behind bars.
00:16:24.000It's incredible to me, and probably to you, that this actually happened.
00:16:31.000Though, at this point, it shouldn't be surprising.
00:16:34.000There's literally overwhelming evidence that Biden's cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval, right?
00:16:45.000We've talked about this on the show for years.
00:16:53.000There's no way that the geriatric, somewhat senile, old Irish dude really thought that three-year-olds getting gender-affirming care was the social justice issue of our time, right?
00:17:05.000We understand that did not actually happen, right?
00:17:08.000So if anyone ever asks you what you mean by the deep state or the bureaucratic blob, this is a prime example.
00:17:17.000It seems like they just ran roughshod.
00:17:19.000With the presidency, unelected bureaucrats doing whatever their radical agenda wanted.
00:17:26.000Totally unchecked, totally unfazed, totally blacked out by the mainstream media, who probably knew exactly what was going on, but they're in on it.
00:17:51.000Imagine how the media would be losing their minds over this if Donald Trump didn't know what was going on, if he wasn't personally signing all of these things, if he wasn't reading it out loud to the public, because I think he's taken more questions in the first six weeks of this administration than Joe Biden took in his entire four years.
00:18:38.000And here was the scene just yesterday.
00:18:42.000So the Trump administration making good on his promise to crack down on pro-Palestinian students, causing chaos on college campuses across the U.S. ICE agents arresting the Palestinian activists who led anti-Israeli protests at Columbia University here in New York City.
00:18:57.000The Secretary of State, Rubio, warning we will be revoking the visas and or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.
00:19:10.000My father is also signing executive orders to revoke security clearances for major law firms who participated in the BS Jack Smith and Mueller witch hunts, making it clear that there are actually consequences.
00:19:26.000I know, I know, there are consequences for weaponizing illegally the legal system.
00:19:45.000But to regime media, to the scribes that write down whatever the radical Democrats want and pretend it's news, it's a Trumpian power grab.
00:19:55.000Watch this segment from none other than PBS. Yeah, public broadcasting systems.
00:20:00.000Yeah, I'm sure these guys are unbiased.
00:20:02.000I want to just talk about a few events which may have slipped under the radar this week, but seem pretty...
00:20:08.000So, Donald Trump signed an executive order stripping lawyers at the firm.
00:20:13.000Perkins Coie, which had represented Hillary Clinton in 2016, of their security clearances and other privileges, which follows a similar executive order, which he signed, stripping those same privileges of Covington Burling, who'd worked pro bono with Jack Smith.
00:20:28.000Then earlier today, the administration stopped a huge number of grants and funds that were going to Columbia University to punish them.
00:20:40.000What are we seeing when we see all these things lined up?
00:20:43.000Well, I mean, we're seeing what he promised, which is retribution.
00:20:48.000And some measure of revenge against the people that he thinks did him wrong over the last four years.
00:20:55.000They've been quite systematic about that.
00:20:57.000They've done it through the whole Justice Department in a variety of ways.
00:21:01.000And now they've broadened it out into the private sector, if you will, and into the universities.
00:21:07.000I don't think there's any doubt that Columbia is not the last university that's going to see funds stripped from them.
00:21:17.000Particularly elite universities feel that they are on notice.
00:21:21.000He's done things to try to rein in the press or to target the press, as we know, particularly the things that have gone on with the press pool.
00:21:31.000And all of this is part of his effort to dominate everything about the federal government and to accrue as much power in his hands as he can.
00:21:43.000You want to talk about a political power grab?
00:21:46.000How about trying to throw your political opponents in jail based on phony smear tactics?
00:21:53.000How about trying to take their businesses away?
00:21:57.000How about waiving statutes of limitations so that you can go after things for 30 years that no one can disprove or prove otherwise because no one even remembers any of it?
00:22:07.000Uh, guys, that sounds a bit more like a power grab to me.
00:22:46.000Of course, the media is melting down because deep down, they know the Trump agenda is working.
00:22:54.000For example, just look at this new report from Reuters titled, and I quote, companies eye U.S. expansion to less out the fallout from political and potential tariffs.
00:23:06.000Laying out a list of companies like Samsung, Apple, Volvo, Honda and many more who are now investing in America.
00:24:52.000Guys, they're going all in on Democrat insanity.
00:24:56.000For example, at a recent Bernie Sanders rally, a trans lunatic singer performed a song with the lyrics that read, Does God have a big fat D-I-C-K? That's the lyrics.
00:26:33.000I know it's probably embarrassing on TV. This guy dodged a bullet, okay?
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00:30:22.000And the fact that we have my two potential opponents that are, one's in the race, one may be getting in.
00:30:30.000They've said Mitch McConnell's their mentor, and they owe everything to Mitch McConnell, which I think is absolutely ludicrous that they would even think about running for office here in Kentucky, especially with the mandate that your father was given right here in the Bluegrass State.
00:31:01.000They're out there telling me that Karl Rove and Mitch McConnell's entire operation are literally doing everything they can to stop you from going forward, to stop you, period.
00:31:12.000And they're basically determined to stop anyone that is not entirely controlled by Mitch.
00:31:47.000And when you get the establishment like these folks threatening to do all these things and threatening to come after you, I think that's the right signal to us that, look, we're in line with President Trump.
00:31:58.000And they feared the change that we could bring.
00:32:00.000And most importantly, draining the swamp here in Kentucky.
00:32:03.000You know, McConnell has had a stranglehold on Kentucky politics for the last 40 years.
00:32:08.000And it's been sickening to me that he's opposed your father over and over and over again and made it his last mission of the Senate is to back up the truck for Zelensky in Ukraine.
00:32:46.000But think about in Kentucky, a state that we won by a lot.
00:32:51.000We want it bigly, so to speak, to use the Trump vernacular.
00:32:55.000It's hard to believe that a guy like that can be in the Senate and that kind of leadership, control the pork strings, and vote against virtually every Trump cabinet member.
00:33:03.000I mean, honestly, at this point, and I don't know if it's just that Mitch the Glitch, the circuit board is short-circuited a little bit, but that doesn't seem, that's not even MAGA, that's not even Republican at this point.
00:33:16.000I mean, honestly, watching the way he's voting, especially for the cabinet, the way he's just blindly funding Ukraine.
00:33:24.000And I've, you know, I've told the story on the show of thousands of times where, you know, I've surveyed every live audience I've spoken to for the last three years since the start of the war.
00:33:32.000After I heard Mitch McConnell say that Ukraine is the number one issue for Republicans across the country and.
00:33:37.000I've surveyed over 200,000 people live where it's like, I'll give you the mic.
00:34:04.000So I love that you're doing this, but I think it's important.
00:34:06.000You know, tell the audience maybe a little bit about your background, Nate, growing up.
00:34:11.000I mean, it actually, you know, when we first met and then even just following up, you know, last week and talking about it, I mean, you actually have a story that's really similar to another guy that we pushed into a Senate seat and turned into a rock star for the base and for the Republican Party, or at least for conservatism and for MAGA. Sounds a lot like J.D. Vance.
00:34:46.000He got locked up for not paying child support.
00:34:49.000And my mom and I were on food stamps when I was a kid.
00:34:51.000And like many Kentuckians, we fought, scrapped, battled for everything that we have.
00:34:57.00019 of my family members worked in an auto plant.
00:35:00.000And I'm proud that I was raised in a blue-collar, working-class home.
00:35:04.000And JD and I also share lineage in Appalachia.
00:35:08.000You know, my family descends from Morgan County, which is the county next to Breathitt.
00:35:12.000And you talk about tough and fighters.
00:35:16.000You can find in Appalachia all day long.
00:35:18.000And, you know, Kentuckians, we've been fighting since the very beginning, since our people came over the Cumberland Gap and established the Commonwealth.
00:35:31.000And I think that's one of the reasons why we were kind of kindred spirits because of those tough backgrounds and the challenges we had early on.
00:35:38.000But I think, look, Don, that's what shaped me to be an entrepreneur, to go out on my own, to stand up to the establishment, whether it be in business.
00:35:47.000And now as we talk about politics, you've got to be able to stand up to the establishment and fight.
00:35:52.000And I think that's what that's what people are looking for today.
00:35:54.000And I think that's what people get so excited about your father.
00:35:57.000Yeah, talk a little bit about the business side of that.
00:36:08.000He was able to break through that cycle, you know, create a successful business, then go on to become a U.S. senator and now the vice president of the United States.
00:36:14.000I mean, you know, what I loved about that whole story was that you had all of it, right?
00:36:19.000You had sort of that tough upbringing.
00:36:22.000You understand, like when you're voting on things, when you're pushing for policy, like when you've been the recipient of food stamps or you've had to go through that.
00:36:29.000I mean, I think that really frames that narrative.
00:36:31.000But then when you get through that and also know how to run a business.
00:36:34.000And have done so successfully for years, it's that breadth of knowledge that's so lacking in Washington, D.C., where basically everyone's just a bureaucrat.
00:36:44.000They were better at being a bureaucrat than anyone else.
00:36:47.000They've oftentimes never created anything.
00:36:49.000They've never signed the front of a paycheck.
00:36:57.000There's so much more to life than just being a bureaucrat.
00:37:00.000Talk a little bit about the business side of that so people understand that, because again, the similarities to you and JD are really astonishing.
00:37:07.000Well, look, Don, I was proud that JD and I were the hillbillies out in Silicon Valley when we'd go out there, and that made us stand out in a big way.
00:37:14.000But look, Don, I was in the waste management business, and I'm sure you've watched The Sopranos.
00:39:31.000And one of the first things I did when I left my company is I invested in Strive with Vivek.
00:39:37.000And I just said, look, this nonsense has got to stop.
00:39:40.000And Don, more importantly, it's radicalized me to say we need leaders in Washington.
00:39:45.000To get government out of business and get woke politics out of business.
00:39:51.000And you need somebody who understands how to take those fights to Washington.
00:39:55.000You know, a lot of these guys that are looking at this race, Don, they talk this big game about ESG. They're sitting in a cubicle.
00:40:01.000You know, someone like Daniel Cameron sitting in a cubicle, opining about all the pitfalls of ESG. He's never had a job, never been in corporate America.
00:40:09.000And yet he makes all these crazy statements.
00:40:11.000He has no idea what he's talking about.
00:40:13.000And I think that's the big difference is when you send business people, they know the pressures and they know what it's like to be under the microscope.
00:40:21.000And most importantly, how to fight this stuff and keep it out of our business.
00:40:45.000And I think, to your point, you're right.
00:40:46.000There are those that sort of have the stomach to actually become radicalized against What I think most people probably view as insanity.
00:40:56.000I think this last election was a mandate on much of that insanity.
00:40:59.000But it's easier to do it when you don't have something at risk, when your whole company's not at risk, when the loan that you need to expand your business gets...
00:41:08.000Pulled away in an instant because you didn't hire a purple leprechaun.
00:41:14.000Give us a couple of the stories because I'm sure people will love to see this stuff.
00:41:19.000Unless you're doing it every day, you may not even realize.
00:41:22.000You assume some of it's happening, but like all things, like Doge, like USAID, you assume there's some grift, there's some graft, there's some nonsense, but you don't realize just how pervasive it is and more importantly, just how bad it is.
00:41:53.000And some of these contracts, Don, $100 million contracts.
00:41:56.000You know, what am I supposed to tell our employees when they get laid off if I say, no, we can't do that, and they lose their job?
00:42:04.000Well, I'm not going to be in that business as the leader of the company saying, you're going to lose your job because we're not going to comply with what the customer wants if they control $100 million of our revenue.
00:42:14.000Or you've got an investor that's invested $200 million in your business.
00:42:20.000And look, I made the tough decision to say, look, I'm going to stand with our workers and make sure that they keep their job.
00:42:25.000But ultimately, we're going to try to fight and beat this back.
00:42:27.000And we ultimately were able to get them off the DEI and ESG train in many cases of what we had to report.
00:42:34.000But there were some tough calls and tough moments.
00:42:37.000And unless you've been in business and you have something very large, hundreds of millions of dollars to lose, you have no idea what you're talking about.
00:42:44.000And you're talking, you know, like you said, as an armchair quarterback, you know, some professor.
00:42:49.000Just, you know, given this hypothesis about what you believe can happen when you've never actually been in the fire and never actually stood up to any of these guys before.
00:43:00.000So I understand, you know, obviously you've grown a couple of great businesses, but, you know, multiple great businesses.
00:44:07.000It was the closest thing I had to a mentor.
00:44:10.000You know, a lot of people talk about mentors, the people that are looking at this race, and they both said Mitch McConnell.
00:44:14.000But my grandfather, who ran a union, who worked for Ford Motor Company for over 50 years, never missed a day of work, served as a janitor, worked on the assembly line, did all kinds of jobs for Ford, and ultimately was elected to lead his local 862 right here in Kentucky.
00:44:33.000You know, when people got laid off, we felt it.
00:44:45.000And I'm really proud that my grandfather taught me, number one, to value the American worker and what the American worker puts into our economy.
00:46:50.000And I think that's what really appealed to me, that blue collar grit that I grew up with.
00:46:55.000And I saw that DNA in the space and how we could make it better for all Americans.
00:47:00.000So, I mean, you took a company public at a $2 billion valuation, guys, just so you know what we're talking about, that you founded on a $10,000 credit line.
00:47:09.000What was it like to find so much business success that young?
00:47:14.000I mean, that's the American dream, man.
00:47:17.000It is alive and well if you're able to still pull that off.
00:47:21.000Well, look, I learned by watching my parents.
00:47:23.000My mother, she worked so hard as a single mother.
00:47:27.000In many cases, she worked two jobs to help support me.
00:47:30.000My grandfather, like I said, never missed a day of work.
00:47:33.000And I just took what they taught me as a kid to, you know, show up on time, overwork, spend as many hours as you can working nonstop.
00:47:42.000My grandfather's one of these guys that just never quit, Don.
00:47:45.000And he was always working, always doing something.
00:47:47.000And it was that determination and that work ethic that I just applied it, kept doing the next right thing.
00:47:54.000And you'd be surprised how much garbage is in America.
00:47:57.000So, you know, it was a great opportunity to build something from scratch.
00:48:01.000But I think also we were able to showcase a vision for an industry that a lot of people didn't see what it could become and how it could change.
00:48:10.000And, you know, I'm proud, Don, that we saved the American taxpayer, just in my last two years as CEO, over $70 million just by finding abuse and fraud and waste in local government.
00:48:20.000And these are the things that really inspired me that you could do great things through business.
00:48:25.000You don't necessarily have to be elected to do great things in the country.
00:48:28.000And I saw that in your dad as well growing up.
00:49:04.000And I think people in Kentucky have had enough of it.
00:49:07.000They've had enough of the career politician.
00:49:08.000We've had 40 years of Mitch McConnell.
00:49:11.000And, you know, we don't need 40 years of the same.
00:49:14.000We don't need 40 years of, you know, cronies, career politicians that continue to feed at the public trough.
00:49:20.000We need people to shake things up, stand with the MAGA movement, stand with your father.
00:49:26.000And I think as an outsider, that gets me really excited of the change that can be brought on behalf of Kentucky and on behalf of the country.
00:49:35.000And we've got to get rid of these rhinos and career politicians.
00:49:42.000And now we've got to bring something new to the table.
00:49:44.000So for those of you who are tuning in a little bit late, we're on with Nate Morris, who's considering jumping into the Kentucky Senate race to replace Glitch Mitch McConnell.
00:49:55.000Nate, what has the reaction been so far?
00:50:03.000And how rough is that sort of party establishment there?
00:50:06.000I mean, I know based on his votes versus my father's votes, he still puts it through.
00:50:11.000But again, you know, when you control the purse strings of the entire United States Senate, I imagine you're boosting yourself more than others.
00:50:40.000And I think we've seen an avalanche of courage and bravery, people standing up to his cronies and his apparatus after we called for him to retire.
00:50:49.000And the groundswell around this and what we've been saying, I think, is really exciting.
00:50:56.000But I've also had a share of really funny moments, Don.
00:50:58.000I'll tell you, on Friday night, I was at this dinner for the big donors of Republican politics.
00:51:05.000And, you know, all the Mitch apparatus was there.
00:51:23.000Crying about how much he's going to miss Mitch McConnell.
00:51:27.000And he looks right at me and he says, shame on you for the way you've treated Mitch McConnell on his way out.
00:51:34.000And I was thinking to myself, I was like, is this guy really sad about Mitch McConnell or is he sad about that his moment is over, his day in the sun is over because he owes everything to Mitch McConnell.
00:51:45.000And everybody in that room owed Mitch McConnell something except for me.
00:51:48.000I was there because I was standing up as a business guy.
00:53:19.000They've had enough, and they're glad that someone's finally standing up to this and finally taking on the McConnell machine and saying enough is enough.
00:53:34.000They're like, finally, somebody is speaking out and saying something about this.
00:53:37.000And, you know, a lot of people have been very terrified, Don, and I think people are now feeling confidence and courage to stand up and say enough is enough.
00:53:46.000We need to send somebody different back to Washington.
00:53:49.000So, Nate, how do you get through, you know, again, in the beginning of this, I talked about, yeah, I'm hearing, you know, the political world is small.
00:53:55.000Not, you know, even some of the regulars, the establishment folks, they still have inroads with me or their former establishment guys that have seen the light.
00:54:04.000And so, you know, if I'm hearing from people that, you know, the guys like Karl Rove are going through and the rest of the McConnell machine.
00:54:09.000You know, I imagine that goes down to a lot of the typical establishment media is going to be going after you.
00:54:26.000But as we saw with Russia, Russia, Russia, it doesn't matter.
00:54:28.000You still have to deal with the BS. How do you break through the things that we all know are inevitably going to be happening behind the scenes where, you know, the establishment, even establishment media, even establishment conservative media is going to be doing whatever they can to shank you for whoever Mitch's guys are?
00:54:45.000Look, Don, we've got to keep fighting.
00:54:47.000We've got to keep doing what we're doing.
00:54:53.000And continue this movement to stop Mitch McConnell and his cronies from occupying the seat.
00:54:59.000I mentioned the dinner on Friday night.
00:55:00.000Every one of these people keep standing up for Mitch McConnell every time he's mentioned, like he's some sort of god.
00:55:07.000And they're standing up for my potential opponents as well.
00:55:10.000And that tells you everything you need to know about this potential race here, is that you've got these guys that are owned by McConnell that are trying to get in.
00:55:39.000And everybody needs to realize that as we continue this fight and we continue to have this dialogue with Kentucky and bring the fight directly to them.
00:55:48.000And very few people have ever been able to stand up to this guy.
00:55:51.000Yeah, I saw that, I think it was earlier today, or maybe it was over the weekend.
00:55:56.000I read the Wall Street Journal article, you know, Daniel Cameron, who's like literally a Mitch's protege, he literally, when he ran, he ran as Mitch's protege, and he said there's zero light between Mitch and me on anything, ever, whatever.
00:56:07.000And then in the Wall Street Journal, it's like, you know.
00:56:11.000Daniel Cameron, he's going against Mitch now.
00:56:16.000If you're trying to win a primary in Kentucky, I promise you, if you're doing it for real, you're not leaking it to the Wall Street Journal that he's really taking them on so he's not just Mitch's guy.
00:56:27.000They understand it's probably harder to win being Mitch's guy right now, but like...
00:56:30.000You see the creation of the fake narrative in real time.
00:56:35.000Because I was like, I don't know, guys.
00:56:36.000It seems like if you're actually going to do it, call them out loud, call them out aggressively, do it at home, not in the Wall Street Journal where, you know, I'd say very few, you know, base Republicans will ever see even a little bit of this.
00:56:50.000But it's just such a setup, obviously.
00:56:53.000Yeah, I mean, look, Don, my family doesn't read the Wall Street Journal.
00:56:56.000The guys that worked in the factory, they don't read the Wall Street Journal.
00:56:59.000And look, I think they're not trying to speak to Kentuckians.
00:57:02.000They're trying to speak to the Washington establishment.
00:59:23.000And that's because we elected a Democratic governor.
00:59:26.000And I blame Daniel Cameron for Kentucky Fried Chicken leaving our state.
00:59:29.000I mean, if we had a Republican governor in there, there's no way that would have happened.
00:59:33.000And look, I think that it's really clear.
00:59:36.000Terry Carmack told, who's Mitch McConnell's chief of staff, told Trump to stay out.
00:59:40.000Of the general election and not come to Kentucky.
00:59:43.000I mean, how ludicrous of an idea is that?
00:59:46.000And so, look, and then you look at the other guy, Andy Barr, and look, this is a guy, Don, who said that Mitch McConnell was his mentor at 50 years old.
00:59:55.000This was several months ago, maybe five or six months ago, said that Mitch McConnell was his mentor.
01:00:00.000First of all, I don't know any 50-year-old men that still have mentors, let alone Mitch McConnell.
01:00:05.000You should be mentoring others at that age, right?
01:00:09.000Well, as someone who is a Kentucky colonel, myself, and a Duke of Hazzard, by the way, or spent a lot of time in Hazzard, Kentucky, I'm glad to see someone taking this on and putting an end to it.
01:00:24.000So, Nate, let everyone know where they can find you, because Nate's social game is...
01:00:28.000For a newcomer into politics, at least, really strong.
01:00:33.000So I suggest you follow him, check him out, watch the campaign.
01:00:36.000And more importantly, if you're from Kentucky, let's make sure we do whatever we can to make sure you don't end up with another Mitch Disciple in there, because America doesn't need that.
01:00:46.000And, you know, if you're not from Kentucky, you know, this is going to be one of those Senate races that we're going to have to really fight, because as we've seen, right, with, you know...
01:00:56.000Republicans like Mitt Romney or otherwise in the Senate, you might as well have a Democrat.
01:01:00.000So let's make sure we don't end up with a Mitch Democrat in the Kentucky Senate seat.
01:01:07.000That should be an otherwise, I don't want to say easy win, nothing's easy, but should be pretty much a no-brainer.