36 Burst results for "Oval Office"
Mark Levin
Saudi Crown Prince: If Iran Gets a Nuke 'We Have to Get One' Too
"Destroy their It's Ronald Reagan's approach to the old Soviet Union. How cause uprisings? Not to give them tens of billions of dollars let them sell their oil on the open market to support China of all countries as well as Russia to negotiate with Iran to beg Iran beg them Come back to the negotiation table and the reason for all this and it's been written about by people smarter than I about the Middle East is because Biden and and Blinken Sherman the other half wits knit wits and no they want to change the whole approach to the Middle East where are Arab ally countries in Israel no different than all the other countries that that it is a regional regional approach that we have to have and that we can persuade the Islamic Nazi regime in Tehran to participate like nice little terrorists in the region so they're trying to remake the entire Middle East and by making the entire Middle East we may have multiple nations that have nuclear not just power but nuclear weapons as I say I have I don't have all the facts nobody does it's possible to get them because they're doing all this in secret but the Biden administration has been put in the arm to the Netanyahu government now since Biden became or the occupant of the Oval Office they're still a pushing two -state solution which would
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh update on "oval office" discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
"Based on a healthy non -smoking 30 year old male with a 20 year term policy rates may vary rates may vary dance Dan Bongino Dan Bongino on 890WLS. Strap in for the high energy action -packed thrill ride of the Ben Shapiro show from 2 p .m. till 3. I want to talk for a second about transparency and about the fact that no one trusts the government right now because not only is the government not transparent with you but the media who are supposed to be the strong are not transparent with you if a Democrat is in the Oval Office they're not transparent with you if a Republican is in the Oval Office not only are they not transparent with you about the Republican they're fully non transparent about all investigations into the Republican. When did all of this happen? The Ben Shapiro Show from 2 p .m. till 3 on 890 WLS.
Mark Levin
Gen. Mark Milley Says He Never Received ‘Illegal Order’ Post-Election
"Never received an illegal order. You were in this building on January 6th. You saw what happened on January 6th. Are you nervous about that happening again? Can you honestly say you're not nervous about that happening again? I'm not nervous about it. No, I think that first of all, I think Do you worry about it? You will be long gone from the Pentagon. No, I don't worry about a lot of things, Martha, I don't get nervous about a lot of things. I've seen a lot of combat. So I'm beyond that actually. So, But I would tell you that the United States, the institutions of the United States are very strong and very silent. I just want to clear this up. Whatever words you use, worry, concerned, but are you confident that that won't happen again? I am confident that the United States and the democracy of this country will prevail and the rule of law will prevail. absolutely I'm confident of that. And these institutions are built to be strong, resilient, and to adapt the to times. And I'm 100 % confident we'll be fine. Isn't this amazing? I know you know liberal. It's even more than that. She wouldn't let him finish his thoughts. She was pressing him hard to give the answers that she insisted on. Because, I hate to say this in so many ways, but the man deserves credit. He was not going to accept her narrative. And he was in the Oval Office. When Donald Trump offered Guardsman the National to the Speaker of the House and to the U .S. and DC. And they said no. He was in there. The Acting Secretary of State was in there.
The Dan Bongino Show
Rob Smith: The Importance & Reality of the Black Vote
"Thoughts on that? Well, yes. So, you know, I got and I got a lot of pushback on Twitter last week because basically what I was saying is I'm seeing all these people talking about, you know, that Republicans, whether it's Trump, Defantis, whoever, is going to get thirty forty to forty percent of the black vote in twenty twenty four. And I said, look, guys, like you need to bring this down. This is virtually impossible, number one, because the infrastructure is not there in order to make this happen. OK, we heard a lot of this stuff in twenty eighteen to twenty twenty. I'm somebody that gained a lot of prominence as a that black conservative was basically saying, OK, I left the left. This is what's going on in the community. This is what could possibly happen in twenty twenty. And the thing about it is, is that it just didn't happen in twenty twenty. OK. And so my argument is not with people like you that are conservative commentators that are saying, you know, we want the black vote, we're welcoming the black vote. I think my argument is that the swamp will literally tell people that they're going to get 30, 40 percent of the black vote and they'll have all the little surrogates saying this stuff while they do absolutely nothing to get it. And so my beef is really with the swamp. It's a hustle we've and seen it all before. And so instead of saying, OK, what happened in 2020 is the black vote went from eight percent up for Republicans in 2016 to 11 percent in 2020. Right. So black people just did not show up for Trump in 2020. And I'm not saying that Trump was not doing things. Of course, he was doing everything. He did the platinum plan. I was literally in the Oval Office with Trump. I was on the campaign intro. There were some real things that were happening and black people still did not show up. And after 2020, when they didn't show up, none of that infrastructure remained there in order to say, OK, well, we didn't get it what we wanted in 2020. Let's make sure we get it in 2024. All of that stuff went away, Dan. Be black for Trump centers all across the country. That went away. All that outreach went away. And now these people are trying tell to me that there's going to be 30 to 40
The Dan Bongino Show
Why the Monica Lewinsky Scandal Did Not Ruin Bill Clinton
"It confuses people so often i could give you a thousand examples of this about really destructive and damaging political stories that did no damage to people at all but would have destroyed other people's careers i'll give you a perfect example bill clinton sometimes they use the example with trump as time i'll use but maybe if you're a democrat it'll make more sense when bill clinton came into office he had already had a reputation as being a womanizer you don't have to like it i'm not asking you're you a democrat or republican i'm just telling you it's true he had a bunch of women come forward oh we did this we did that we're all intelligent i have no idea it doesn't matter the point is the reputation was out there that bill clinton was a party boy went out on our senio hall was playing the saxophone bill clinton wanted to be the cool guy with the cool guy came this unwanted but built in part of the reputation that he has there too so when the story came out about bill clinton and monica lewinsky in ocean trinity oval office or whatever happened in there went down right everybody well i'm sorry but you just didn't understand the golden rule of politics the only damaging political narratives are ones that change your pre -existing notion of who someone is the fact that bill clinton did his thing in the oval office did not damage his reputation with a lot of people who had already kind of baked that product into the cake they already baked it into the political cake bill clinton left office love him or hate him with close to sixty percent approval that's just a fact now take that same story and apply it to a guy with pretty a wholesome image like a mike lee or ran paul it's over it's your career's always done you're finished it's not recoverable because your pre pre -existing
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Altcoins Set For INSANE Pump If This Happens! (SEC Will Lose Again)
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All right, Senator Lummis is backing Coinbase against the SEC. Just more arrows going against Gary Gensler here. She's a prominent advocate for cryptocurrency. She filed an amicus brief on the 11th to support the Coinbase exchange against the SEC's lawsuit there. She maintained that the responsibility for regulations lies with Congress, not the SEC. Here's her quote, I believe. Now this might be a Coinbase's quote. The transaction over Coinbase's platform and Prime are not and do not involve contractual undertakings to deliver for future value, reflecting the income profits or assets of a business. They're commodity sales, with the obligations of both sides to charge entirely the moment the token is delivered in exchange for payment, AKA talking about the Orange Grove case where the SEC says everything's a commodity depending on are you working towards its profit? Hey, then it's not a commodity, it's now a security. I think they're pretty clear. But yeah, now we have a lawyer, I mean, I'm sorry, we have a senator coming in filing an amicus brief on behalf of Coinbase against a governmental agency. I would say, call me crazy, I would say that's pretty bullish, pretty bullish for the court case there. So I'm rooting for Coinbase. So I think we're all rooting for Coinbase. All those coins, they got beat down pretty hard. I have a big bag of a lot of those coins. I think there's a little opportunity there. If you think Coinbase is gonna win against the SEC, I do, but you know, I'm not a lawyer. I mean, they have the backing of Larry Fink and BlackRock. So it's hard to bet against Coinbase. Yeah, do you wanna bet against BlackRock? Yeah. I probably don't. One more thing on the SEC here. Law expert says the brief filed by six law scholars absolutely shreds the SEC's theory, you know, where they go over what is an investment contract and whether it requires contractual undertaking, contradicting the SEC. Here we have someone with the same length of neck as Deasy there. So he said the amicus brief filed by the law scholars is devastating for the SEC. Murphy noted that the amicus brief absolutely shreds their investment contract theory. So this was followed by law professors and scholars who were experts in security laws and related fields and probably have a big bag of Bitcoin. They include UCLA, Boston University, Fordham Law University, University of Chicago and Yale Law School professors. They noted that after the Howey decision, there's a common thread in how investment contracts were defined. The thread was that investor must be promised by virtue of his or her investment and ongoing contractual interest in the income, profits or assets of the enterprise. When you have a token, you do not have those things. So good, good news for the SEC. No, sorry, for Coinbase. We're rooting, rooting for Brian Armstrong, rooting for the bald brother, the bald deployer there. I'm rooting, I think I feel pretty good about it though. How about you? Yeah, I understand that. I was a little worried before the tight relationship with BlackRock, I'm gonna be honest, but I just don't see Larry Fing and BlackRock being defeated here. I have a question for you. There's some coins, there's ADA was on there, Filecoin, Polygon, I think about 48 coins listed in the SEC versus Coinbase lawsuit. Coinbase wins, what happens to those 48 currencies? Well, it's gonna be interesting to see does the SEC try to go after everyone individually the way they went after Ripple and XRP? I don't think they can and Gary's even kind of alluded to, they're gonna pause new lawsuits with crypto, they're gonna go after AI. So I don't think it's gonna happen, but at the same time, I don't think there's a winning strategy for any of those things, especially with the XRP decision. Then if they lose to Coinbase and Ripple, what's the precedence to go after any coin individually that it'll be obliterated? Yeah, Sand is one of the tokens, I see someone talking about Sand as well. We're not gonna get 100 % pump is my opinion here. So when we had the XRP news with the SEC, all the crypto attention was on one coin. Now when we have a Coinbase win over SEC, I'm saying win, all the attention will be on 48 coins. And so I don't think all the dollars are gonna flow into those, not everyone's picking one coin and not everyone's gonna invest in all 48 coins. So maybe 20 % pumps, I'm gonna throw out a number here. The best time to get a great deal on a Jeep SUV is now during the summer of Jeep event. Visit jeep .com or your local Jeep brand dealer to find the perfect Jeep SUV for you. Now get 15 % below NSRP for an average of 6 ,300 under NSRP on the purchase of a 2023 Jeep Cherokee Altitude Lux. 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Mark Levin
David Trulio: Ronald Reagan Would Say 'It's Okay to Disagree'
"Intellectual forum. So guess what, it's okay if people disagree. It's okay to have policymakers and thinkers, thought leaders debate. That's the kind of I campaigned for Reagan in 76. I campaigned for Reagan 80. in I served in his administration from eight years from a relatively low position to very positions. What a fantastic man. I met him several times. I met him in the Oval office, as nice as can be. He was a very, very intelligent man, wasn't he, David? Very, very well made. Extremely well read, well traveled, thoughtful. He spent many years thinking and honing and doing public speaking that sharpened his thinking and his his delivery. He was a great man. Mark, I'm 49 years old. I was six when he took office or got elected and 14 when he left office. I feel very lucky that I grew up with Ronald Reagan as a of model what a president was and should be.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 08/03/23
"Kelly Clark with uh Kelly Clarkson with the MAGA theme I don't know what doesn't kill you makes you stronger Donald Trump it is it is the Trump theme it is the Trump base theme uh how you doing 24 hours down how was your I heard some of your show yesterday how did it go how did your day go I'm every bit as angry but it's channeled it's I'm not disjointed I'm determined I think people have eyes are opened Mike eyes are opened to this treachery people are running the gamut from anger and sadness and being perplexed that this is actually unfolding the way it is we're watching the pile on from people like Mike Pence and Bill Barr and you go down the list uh you know it's I had a mild disagreement yesterday look at the position that DeSantis is put in DeSantis wants to to win the nomination so he's competing against Trump by the same token he's got to acknowledge the horrors of a weaponized justice department and an attempt to interfere and well well they don't all I mean I know I know but but he's doing that and he and so I give him credit and Seb took me to task because he said that that DeSantis is being disingenuous so this is a what how how disingenuous how well he doesn't believe it he he says that he's only doing it out of political expediency so it seems to me and I listen you're not going to find a bigger Seb Gorka fan than me nor nor nor I but but that but come on and there's another interesting thing coming from the cauldron of maga ferocity and that is that when DeSantis came out over the last couple of days and said look when I'm president I'm you're going to get a new FBI director I'm going to bring the weaponization of law enforcement to an end we're going to root through everybody that does this to people and we're going to get rid of them and a lot of folks said huh what what a wimp what a weenie what a weasel there's nothing is satisfactory nothing is satisfactory short of an absolute pledge to pardon Trump it's like okay uh all right what whatever dudes I mean it's I mean which which Vivek has done and by the way and Vivek excuse me 30 seconds I'm sorry I'm yammering Vivek is evidence that you can indeed you can indeed run your own campaign and say I should be president while at the very same time say that Trump is getting unfairly screwed they're not mutually exclusive go ahead you know Ron DeSantis is viewed as the primary challenger to Trump and he really is in a damned if he does damned if he does in situation if he goes scorched earth like Mike Pence and Chris Christie are doing of course he completely alienates maga world it doesn't make any sense whatsoever and and incidentally he's got a win over I I've got to talk a real hard truth here and this is the hard thing to accept but I I think Trump is up to what 73 counts he could very well be convicted on many of them certainly some of them and guess what he you got you got a Fulton county sheriff uh look him up right off you tweeted this you tweeted this yesterday and I retweeted it go ahead this is awesome this is great it's it's this guy thinks it's it's clever to brag about taking a mug shot of Trump when the Georgia charges are filed and oh yes the Georgia charges are coming as well and of course you look you look this sheriff up he's a Democrat oh shocker you know you know so so this is the what I mean by the pile on I we may be helpless to stop a lot of this you get involved in somebody getting their mug shot and incidentally what a stupid thing to brag about the mug you're gonna take a mug shot of the most famous face in the world well you know he will smile he may give the thumbs up which they won't let him do but so there are some people uh tom delay uh maybe some other folks who have taken their mug shot as an opportunity to do an olin mills glamour shot and just smile and make it look like it was something they did on purpose and they turned the mug shot into a positive but we have to accept listen the only chance we've got is the supreme court listen this is what's going to happen and now you got this hand -picked judge who they're pretending was randomly selected she's an Obama appointee who worked in the boys law firm with David Boies who is a Democrat activist I mean you can't make this crap up so clearly she's been giving jail sentences to people that the government didn't even ask for jail time surrounding January 6th that's how off the charts she is so what do you think she's going to do to the uh to the to the man himself I mean believe me the only chance we've got is the supreme court how long will that take and how long will that take I mean the trial the trial the trials themselves are going to move at a glacier's pace probably and then you got to run it through it doesn't go immediately to the supreme court it goes to an appeals level first at least one and then so what does that do the voter but what does that do to the voter mark I'll tell you what it does to some voters it do you know exactly what it does to some it says you know what you're you're gonna I'm gonna make him president again and make you like it us ob's we are going to put him in the presidency we don't care if he's going to jail in jail in the yard doing exercise time eating grits for breakfast we're going to make him president united states and make you people make you people eat what you have done and you've you've perfectly articulated how you and I feel that's for sure frankly I mean but I guarantee you there will be people for whom that's going to be a bridge too far and and there's nothing we can do about that I I can try to convince people you can try to convince people Ron DeSantis can try to convince people that the weaponization of the justice department has to be stopped all those are well and good when you've got the system this goes back to Chuck Schumer you know you don't take on the intelligence community you don't take on the system and when you do they have a way to coming back and getting you and and and I don't know I don't I don't know where this ends the Supreme Court obviously could throw it all out it could be thrown out on on appellate review I mean this is a contrary to what the left is now trying to to to counter with this is about state of mind this is about free speech this is about go ahead and give me because I'm reading the New York Times Mark play play devil's advocate with me their argument is and Bill Barr's argument is oh yeah you have free speech you can have an opinion that the 2020 election was rigged but you're not allowed to conspire to stop right the transfer of power what does that mean like tell me about it what what do they think he did do do this do you think that they want to convince us that he had some secret network where he was telling people to go riot what he he literally told them to go peacefully protest how are they how do you but be bit but did you're a smart guy take their side what are they going to argue how do they say Trump conspired to do a criminal act on January 6th what did he do he marshaled every resource at his control using advice from attorneys who Mike Pence now refers to as crackpots to say look there is a way to do this to cast enough legal and constitutional doubt on the incoming electoral votes that they should not be brainlessly rubber stamped if Mike Pence wants to say I can't unilaterally brush those away okay but as the presiding officer he could have hit a pause button and said look we got 18 states banging at the door asking questions I'm not going to accept it I'm not going to reject it we're going to hit a pause button on this and let this play out Pence could have done that it is the constitution itself that provides the process for resolving an election where the electoral validity is in doubt and and it was Trump seeking to throw every hail mary he had in the support of his belief that the 2020 result was improperly tabulated that votes were counted that shouldn't have been and so he did nothing wrong he did nothing illegal he did nothing nothing unconstitutional and this that's you know I was hoping you could try to argue their side play devil's advocate how did any of that which incidentally is beautifully stated it's perfect it's exactly what we understand happened how is that conspiracy to defraud the united states okay I can chat I can play you you ask you a good question let me let me answer it because I had a nice speech there but here's the actual answer to your question thanks for pressing me it goes like this to channel them it is he lost he knows he lost which is mind reading they have no idea and so for him to call election officials for him to gather with attorneys to challenge this sacrosanct result is an assault on democracy it's an attempt to defraud the American people it's an attempt to disenfranchise those who voted for Biden it is an attack on the fabric of our nation because he was peddling a lie and he knew it was a lie well that's their argument and it makes my mouth feel nasty just saying those words because they are so false it's grotesque and let I mean listen they're going to have to prove it but the problem is with the dc jury and a democrat activist judge it won't matter it won't matter they they won't have to prove it I mean ostensibly they do and you know what that means they have to have proof that he somehow like the wizard of Oz could look into a crystal ball and know what happened with 340 million people in this country in 50 states he had to know that he actually lost the election and to this to this day most of America doesn't know if he lost the election exactly right to this minute and yet the guy who has been leading the charge of I got screwed the king the the grand poobah of I won is all of a sudden now identified in this indictment of somebody really if you if you if you hook him up to a lie detector he knows he lost they are high as a kite well the star witness according to Axios is Mike Pence he's the potential star witness he's coming out swinging and he supposedly took copious notes so can you imagine this I can see this coming no recording no proof he's going to say oh my notes tell me that in a meeting on whatever date in the oval office president Trump said to me I know that I lost you're not being honest enough Mike we have to lie and pretend that I won that I mean we're going to take Mike Pence's word for it and here's the dilemma he's a good man I don't know what happened to this guy I don't know what happened to this guy I guess he got like you often say Trump breaks people all this stuff breaks people and and Mike Pence is a broken man he is I don't I don't understand why and he hasn't been this way until really fairly recently I guess he thought that he said listen I am the Trump agenda without the Trump baggage I'm a solid conservative a solid Christian a patriot a wonderful person and I offer both a biography and a track record that conservatives can admire and the conservative response has been whatever the interest in him being president is close to zero so now it's like what's my plan b well I guess I gotta climb into this lonely treehouse with Chris Christie and Will Hurd start hating on Trump so that at least if I'm gonna get blown off a debate stage I can at least be spoken well of for a couple of days on CNN well speaking of the debate stage red state leads an article today saying it is unlikely that president Trump will attend the Milwaukee debate in a couple weeks says who and what do they know well I know that Trump meant with Fox news executives yesterday apparently had dinner with them they're trying to win him over no but they are well I don't know I mean I listen I at this point how can he not be on that debate stage that's what I think I'll believe he's not there when I see him not there I really would respectfully say that would be a mistake for him to not go because then because you know what will happen then well one of two things can happen let's let's go down this path right they'll either make Trump the content of the debate without him which means he'll be there without being there exactly or or they will shrewdly barely mention him and if they shrewdly barely mention him yeah then that becomes uh destructive for his campaign because then then the process begins of sort of forgetting about getting getting turning the page getting turning the page he gets lost in the shadows he's he's becoming irrelevant blah blah blah and that's so that's why he's got to go he's got to be there and you know we're going to be covering it extensively across our platforms you know here at Salem I mean what is it august the 23rd right yep here we go in Milwaukee Wisconsin and where our convention is next year yes that's exactly right got I've Ken Paxton's attorney coming up 805 and uh yeah speaking of people who a lot of people think are being railroaded so anything else real quick that you got coming for us today no no just thank you for the tribute to Rush uh you know I just want to quickly you know both of the both of us had the privilege and the honor of getting to know him a little bit I worked with him down the hall at WABC for in New York City and when you talk about when he talked about being humble that was one humble guy despite his massive wealth and his private jets and his mansion and the bravado on the show he was always he was nothing like that he was nothing like that braggadocious bravado it was all shtick on the air he was a humble gracious grateful human being and boy do I miss him I love because there's not a chance he'd be bailing on Trump right now not a chance not a chance all right we'll knock him dead have a great Thursday. Mike Gallagher with us soon as we're done at 10 on 660 am the answer.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 08/02/23
"We could use this every day for the M &M segment. I love it. Knowing me, there is a reason. This of course was sung by a jingle singer named Cynthia Fee for the theme to the Golden Girls, but written by this wonderful man right here, Andrew Gold, who did such great work with Linda Ronstadt and others, and wrote some pretty great records himself like Lonely Boy, the great Andrew Gold would have been. Gosh, it was his birthday today, and so there we go. Well, we need friends. Oh my goodness gracious me, we sure do. We have to have a community, and you know, I'm going to start out maybe riling you up a little bit. I'm not going to suggest you're mistaken by saying that when I say that people should be rallying behind Trump uniformly, I get it, we're going to let the game come to us, voters are going to get to decide, but boy, this would be a good time if you've been on the fence, and you have been sort of squishy about, well, I don't know, Trump, baggage, DeSantis, maybe an alternative, I kind of like that vague fellow. Now, this is a time to stand with a guy who is being unbelievably persecuted, not prosecuted, persecuted for his beliefs. You know, Mark, I've been thinking a lot about that, and first of all, I can't believe my level of emotion right now. I didn't expect to be this emotional. Me neither. Give voice to that, because you and I have done this forever, right? We have some decades, there have been presidents we liked, those we didn't. Policies we thought were great, policies we thought were horrible. There is something singularly horrid about this. Please, you go first. Well, the word is sinister. There's a sinister effort to stop the election process, to subvert the election. Everybody knows it, everybody's in on it. The Democrats are well aware of this. When Trump says, why did they wait two and a half years to throw all this at me? We know the answer to that, so I'm feeling kind of a combination. First of all, I'm surprised at how sad I am, and how fearful I am. I don't know how this is going to play out, but it's not good. It's not good for the Democrats, it will not be good for the Democrats. It's not good for Republicans, it's not good for this constitutional republic to criminalize political speech. And that's literally what Jack Smith, this guy, this scoundrel, is attempting to do. He's making the case that he knows that Donald Trump didn't believe that the election was suspect. Now, you and I are in a very unique position here on this. We hear every day from people from all walks of life. We hear people North, South, East, West, young, old, right, left. Is there any doubt in your mind that of the thousands of reactions you and I have gotten from people saying that Trump got hosed in 2020, that the thousands and thousands of people who have said this election was not on the up and up, COVID laws, they changed things because of COVID, they changed election laws in the middle of the night, all the suspicions that people have. Is there any doubt in your mind, Mark, that those are not sincerely held beliefs? None. Of course they believe it. And people can agree with it, disagree with it, and you can feel that things were squirrelly, or you can say, as Trump does, that we definitely won. You even have the right in America to be a little bit of a nut. You can go full Sidney Powell with the Hugo Chavez changing the Dominion machine scenario. Even that's not illegal. You can go to jail for saying, you can go to jail for saying, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the moon is made out of Swiss cheese. Come get me, put handcuffs on me, take me away. Now, here's though, but let's go apples to apples. The government, Biden's government, Biden's Justice Department, and of course that's the whole story, is trying to make the case that Trump's words and actions led to the riot on January 6th, and therefore disenfranchised voters. You were talking about this earlier. They're going to use that old gag, the disenfranchisement of voters. How are voters disenfranchised by sitting around saying, as far as I know, Trump didn't get into the White House in 2021. Nobody was disenfranchised. Biden's the president. He's in the Oval Office. Nothing got, who was disenfranchised? How can you even make that claim, Mark? What can you, what can you possibly, okay, so Trump didn't think that he legitimately lost in 2020. Guess what? Join the club because I've got a montage that I'm going to play not from 2016. But Mike, that's not possible because 2020 was the first year that anybody ever doubted an election. Surely you don't have audio of Democrats doubting results from the past. Go, go, do you remember the George W. Bush, Al Gore Supreme Court battle? Remember that one? You're old enough to remember that? There's a montage that everybody can now hear. It goes back to those days when prominent Democrats, one after another, lined up and said that George W. Bush is not the legitimate president of the United States. He was the president select, remember? Oh, sure. And the Supreme Court anointed him. And by the way, all of those completely untrue things that they said, they have every right to say them. They have every right to say them. Nobody came to their house and went, we're going to indict you and lock you up for the rest of your life for saying those things. You know, one of the most popular text message articles that I've received is when people text me the keyword Trump and we send back a list of Trump accomplishments. Because a lot of people forget what happened in the four years that he was president. So thousands and literally tens of thousands of people have sent that text message, the word Trump, to my text line, which is 800 -655 -MIKE. A close second, and now I think a close third, will be when people want to hear the montage of Hillary, of the late John Lewis, of Jimmy Carter. Go down the list. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, not only doubting the legitimacy of the 2016 election, but now you can hear the montage that the great folks over at Grabian put together questioning the outcome of the George Bush Al Gore election. If you text the keyword fraud to 800 -655 -MIKE from your phone, we'll send you back the video clip of the election deniers Hillary Clinton at all in 2016. If you text the words more fraud to 800 -655 -MIKE, we'll send you back the montage of all the election deniers from the George Bush Al Gore battle. I mean, it's complete hypocrisy. And Mark, there is a nefarious, diabolical, sinister, history -making chapter that was just begun yesterday. And I know where this ends. I think you do too. You're a smart guy. I've been listening to you all day. This is going to have to be decided by the Supreme Court. The judge that has been randomly assigned to the Trump case, wink, wink, yeah, some random assignment. Have you read about this Lulu? This piece of work? She gives people jail sentences for January 6th when the government didn't want jail sentences for them. She sent a couple to jail for taking a selfie on Capitol Hill that day, and the government wasn't seeking any jail time. But this judge, an Obama appointee, is going to hear—so listen, get ready, because she's going to throw—she will absolutely rule against Trump. We're going to see a guy that might—I'm not kidding you—brace yourself, wind up in prison next year. Jack Smith is asking for a speedy trial. And I'm under no illusion that this thing is going to play out nicely or have a happy ending until it gets to the Supreme Court. I don't think it'll play out quickly, though. Every concern you have is rock solid, but I don't think there's—the reason he wants a speedy trial is so that it's plunked right down in the middle of the primaries. And I don't think that justice is going to move briskly here. Did you catch John Law in the— Wait a minute, wait a minute, hold on, let me push back on that with love. Let me tell you why. They hold the cards. They're playing—this is their game, Mark. This is not Trump's game. Now, you're right, this could—in a normal world, it would play out forever. This isn't normal. They're breaking the rules. They're making up the rules as they go. Of course they want a speedy trial because they want to disqualify Trump from November of 2024. Because, Mark, hey, announce your voice. He's going to win. He's going to win. I am more convinced of that now than ever. Well, the nomination, surely it seems, and I guess on a future day we'll talk about whether this helps or hurts in the general, but what do these people want? One of two things is true. They're trying to destroy him so that he'll never be the nominee or the president. Or they're trying to—or it's an odd four -dimensional chess where they are trying to gin up so much support in the MAGA base that he's absolutely the nominee because they think Biden can beat him. Which of those is true? That's a great question because they are not oblivious to these crazy poll numbers. They worship at the altar of the New York Times. The New York Times is predicting that Trump's going to win, and the New York Times is saying he might win in the general election. The New York Times -Siena poll is looking at a head -to -head matchup. I mean, Trump's got the— He is, without a doubt, a formidable political opponent that is the—I believe—I'm going to say it right now, and I'll get in trouble for it because I'm trying to be neutral. And I will absolutely support whoever the Republican nominee is as decided by the voters. But I have a belief that I think is going to be shared by millions and millions of people. Trump's the only guy who can beat the Democrats. Trump is the only guy who can win. Trump is the only guy who can stop them. I don't like the chances of any other—look at any one of them. DeSantis is a vague— You think Biden beats the—if the half -court shot goes in and DeSantis wins the lottery ticket and somehow gets the nomination in Milwaukee next year— And he could. And he could. And he could. You think Biden beats him? I think that Trump is our best chance, Mark. No, I mean, listen, I'm prayerfully going to believe that any Republican is going to beat this infirm old man who's shuffling around asking who ordered the veal cutlet. I don't know, but I still believe now, more than ever, that Trump is the best chance. Everything about the deep state, the uni -party, the system, everything is coming to fruition. It's true, Mark. And they're doing it— And he's vindicated. And they're saying it—just Jack Smith demanding a speedy trial. I mean, you took your time for two and a half years. Now you want a speedy trial? Are you kidding me? No, no, no. They're doing it right under our noses. And let me talk about the final heartbreak of the last 24 hours. You've touched on it. Mike Pence. Mike Pence. I've interviewed him on a number of occasions. What a good man. What a good Christian. What a servant's heart. He's got a servant's heart. And listen, he's a former colleague. He's a talk radio guy. I know, radio guy. I mean, he loved talking to me when I interviewed him on a number of occasions about the business. You know, he was in front of a microphone.
Mark Levin
Mark Levin: What's Holding Back Republicans Against Biden?
"Outrageous cover -up deal that they cut with hunter biden's lawyers in order to quiet them to get this off the table so there's not going to be a criminal investigation of joe biden it's not going to be a criminal investigation of joe meantime we have nancy mace and others coming forward saying basically we can't do an impeachment inquiry or it's too soon to do an impeachment inquiry what do you need the murder scene you're not going to get the murder scene you've got tons of information here than in any other patient would trigger a criminal investigation and in any other president would trigger an impeachment inquiry so what exactly is the standard here what's it gonna take you've got we're saying well this will cost us the house if we go down this what you know what sometimes you you do the do right thing and you hope for the best in politics but you do the right thing when you have the most rock president in american history sitting in the oval office on top of being the most demented they're not even calling for a special counsel on capitol they're not even calling for a special counsel well let me tell you something there's not going be to a criminal investigation unless
Mark Levin
Mark Levin Favors Special Counsel, Impeachment for Joe Biden
"The incredible amount of evidence that has been uncovered circumstantial or otherwise by these very committees who've been doing investigations and even before these committees were doing investigations the New York Post others. The Biden laptop alone is enough to warrant an impeachment inquiry. There's more information on that laptop than there was ever available when they went after Donald Trump in the first impeachment. that's why they covered it up that's why the press covered it up that's why the FBI covered it up that's why the social media platforms covered it up with the urging of the Biden people that's why they had 51 frauds, unpatriotic anti -American former spooks and others, 51 them signed of a letter saying this must be a Russian plant knowing it The Biden campaign did that under Blinken and Blinken was rewarded with a big, cushy job Secretary of State and yet we're told impeachment inquiry might lead to impeachment we've got to be careful about that So the brave men and women who came forward, FBI whistleblowers, the brave men who came forward, IRS whistleblowers, is it to knock? So we can just get some cool editorials and columns and what? We have a corrupt man in the Oval Office, he's bought and paid for by Communist the Chinese among others and he's conducted himself that
The Dan Bongino Show
Karine Jean-Pierre Remains Silent on Hunter Biden Developments
"He is Dan bond Geno. So green jump years up there right now trying to do some tired old dance. I'm just not going to speak to that. is It an independent matter. Actually, ma 'am, it's not an independent matter. Your boss is directly implicated in the International bribery scheme of the nuclear -powered enemy the United States uses communism as a guiding ideology It's kind of not independent at all considering he's sitting in the Oval Office right now. It's not an independent matter. The woman is completely incompetent in way overhead. Apparently the president has nothing on the schedule today. Oh, isn't that a nice It's
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Does Trump Throwing Jabs at Political Rivals Surprise Anyone?
"Are going to get fired up over hearing Trump call DeSantis a loser, like he did last night in his clip on Truth Social. You know what matters? What he does in the Oval Office. I mean, and again, Derek was telling me the numbers the other day. Tens of thousands of you have texted Trump and more Trump to the 800 -655 -MIKE text line. Thousands and thousands of people, because when you see the list – and I'm going to tell you, it's a long list. I mean, it's many pages long. But from energy independence to the booming economy to tax breaks for the middle class to the Supreme Court and the conservative court to border security to cherishing life and religious liberty. He did more for religious liberty. I just talked about our Israel trip, moving the embassy from Jerusalem – from Tel Aviv, rather, to Jerusalem. Do you know how many – they all promised they'd do that, and they never did. Republican presidents, Democrat presidents, oh, yeah, we need to acknowledge and honor that Jerusalem is the center of Israel. We're going to move – no, they never did it. He did it. And the list is exhausting, safeguarding the environment of all things, educational opportunities, fighting the opioid crisis, the first step program. I mean, on and on and on. The list, again, you text Trump or more Trump to 800 -655 -MIKE, you look at that list, and then tell me about his name calling.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Was Kayleigh McEnany TOO Accommodating to DeSantis?
"-oh, former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, the former press secretary to Donald Trump, now a Fox News host, and she's interviewing Ron DeSantis last night. And Trump supporters are claiming that Kayleigh was very accommodating and affectionate and supportive of Ron DeSantis. They're trying to read the tea leaves here. Oh, does this mean that Kayleigh McEnany has turned on Donald Trump? And they've kind of butted heads, right? He's been critical of her, which is a little peculiar. She was a loyal soldier for a long time. Here's cut number four. Here's Kayleigh McEnany interviewing Ron DeSantis. She's holding down the 8 p .m. Eastern time slot for now until they name a permanent replacement to the fired Tucker Carlson, who incidentally has a new book, I think, coming out where he details his firing, which will be interesting because nobody really knows why he was fired. Isn't it wild that we still don't know? Anyway, here's Kayleigh McEnany with Governor DeSantis last night, which has a lot of people in Trump world unhappy. You mentioned COVID there, and I have this very distinct memory. I was in the Oval Office with Dr. Anthony Fauci in the Situation Room with him. I mean, this man made you think, like, your days were numbered. All of our days were numbered, all 323 million of us, you know. But then I go to Florida, I met you on a tarmac, and you were saying some pretty bullish things about opening the state. I was a bit taken aback because it was such a contrast to kind of the group think I was hearing there in Washington. But you earned the ire of the left on your COVID response. Now you're getting attacked from the right. There are a variety of responses to COVID. Why was yours the right one? Well, we made a decision to buck Fauci, buck the medical establishment, buck the media, the left, and some Republicans, and say, you know what? People in Florida have a right to work. The businesses have a right to be open. Kids have a right to be in school, and we're not going to impose mask mandates or the like or vaccine mandates. Now, you know, I'm going to get this out of the way. Let me just get this off my chest, and if you want to yell at me or you want to disagree with me, you have at it. 1 -800 -655 -MIKE. If Kayleigh McEnany has decided that Donald Trump, his time has come and gone, and Ron DeSantis represents the best chance for the Republican Party to win, that's on her.
Mark Levin
A Common Theme Among Democrats: Target Your Opponents
"Huey Long against Andrew Mellon against the owner of the Philadelphia all got away with it you look at what John Kennedy did with the IRS did with the FBI brother the other activities in Oval Office unbelievable and even worse than Kennedy was Johnson Johnson became extraordinarily wealthy somehow he succeeded in getting the single television license the capital of Texas single major radio there's a racism bigot right up to the time he decided he run want for to president and then tried to tried to flip just like Biden racist and a bigot you know I want you to believe he's he's greater Martin than Luther Martin King LBJ use the FBI and the SS his personal agencies and departments he was never charged he was never investigated nothing he made Richard Nixon look like a piper but Nixon didn't control the FBI he didn't control the Department of Justice certainly didn't control the media so they destroyed him now look what they've done to Donald Trump just look at it two preposterous impeachments an outrageous investigation criminal based on a Hillary Clinton Democrat Party
AP News Radio
House OKs debt ceiling bill to avoid default, sends Biden-McCarthy deal to Senate
"The house has passed a bill that veers the nation away from a debt default crisis. The compromise agreement between House speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden did not please most lawmakers, but still passed easily. Yeah, he's a three 14, the Nas are one 17. Tonight, we all made history. Immediately after the vote, McCarthy said it's the biggest spending cut Congress has ever approved. Still far right conservatives like chip Roy had vowed to block the bill. You cut a deal. That shouldn't have been cut. Saying the cuts were not nearly deep enough. Democrats said it was far better than the alternative, a potentially catastrophic first ever default on America's debt. The bill now goes to the Senate where majority leader Chuck Schumer said it would move quickly to the Oval Office. I can not stress enough that we have no margin, no margin for error. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
No debt ceiling agreement in White House meeting, though Biden and McCarthy call talks productive
"Debt ceiling talks continue on capitol, hill after the latest meeting between President Biden and House speaker Kevin McCarthy, as they began talks in the Oval Office. We're optimistic we may be able to make some progress. And afterward. I felt we had a productive discussion. We don't have an agreement yet. Both men called the talks productive and praised the other seriousness, but there are still basic differences. Make sure the wealthy pay their fair share. I think really matters. No, we're not looking at revenues. McCarthy says it's not a revenue problem. It's a spending problem. The time of spending just spending more money in America and government is wrong. The speaker said negotiators would work through the night and he and the president would talk daily with 9 days left until the Treasury Department says it's highly likely the government will run out of cash to pay the nation's bills. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
House Speaker McCarthy says negotiators still far apart after debt-limit meeting, but deal by end of week 'possible'
"Talks over raising the nation's debt limit and avoiding a first ever default to have moved into an encouraging new phase. We just finished another good productive meeting with our congressional leadership. President Biden was publicly upbeat after an Oval Office meeting with lawmakers, including House speaker Kevin McCarthy, who himself is encouraged by a shift in the talks format. The structure has changed so in a better process. Both sides have named top emissaries to negotiate a deal, meaning the talks are now largely narrowed to what The White House and McCarthy will accept, while he says they remain far apart for now. It is possible to deal by the end of the week. The president says staff talks will continue daily. There's still work to do. He leaves today for the G 7 summit in Japan, but underlining the urgency of the talks, he's canceled the troops back half and will now return here Sunday instead
AP News Radio
Biden and congressional leaders to meet in debt ceiling showdown as McCarthy pushes for faster deal
"President Biden and congressional leaders will meet again today in the debt ceiling showdown as the nation is just closer to a potential default. Treasury chief Janet Yellen says the country may run out of cash to pay its bills as soon as June 1st. Time is running out. The early outlines of a potential deal to boost the borrowing limit are slowly emerging but expectations of an imminent deal are low. House speaker Kevin McCarthy is urging President Biden to move faster, while still insisting on spending cuts to lower the nation's $31 trillion debt. I mean, how much is too much? McCarthy will be in the Oval Office today with among others, top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer. Nobody should use default as a hostage. The president says Republicans must rule out default to agree to raise the debt ceiling and then discuss spending cuts. Washington.
77WABC Radio
"oval office" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Joe Biden in the Oval Office, the surrender in Afghanistan, his efforts to appease China, Iran, Russia, of all created signs of weakness and provocation. His flat lining effectively, after inflation spending on national security and defense. In his mental state, have resulted in what's taking place now. I'm not saying China wouldn't be working at breakneck speed to do what it's doing. Because China's been at this for a while. I'm saying that China doesn't fear us. Not enough anyway. I hear CNN. Chinese fighter jet confronts U.S. Navy plane with CNN crew. As tensions simmer in South China Sea. The U.S. Navy reconnaissance jet flies at 21,500 feet over the South China Sea, which of course not communist China claims as its own. 30 miles from the contested parasol islands, a group of about a 130 small atolls, the biggest of which are home to Chinese military bases. A voice saying it's coming from the People's Liberation Army airport crackles over the radio of the U.S. Navy P 8 Poseidon as a CNN crew, given rare access aboard the U.S. flight lessons in. American aircraft that says Chinese airspace is 12 nautical miles. Not approaching anymore or you bear all responsibility, it says. So communist China's Lang claim to the entirety of the South China Sea, all the navigable waters, and all the airspace above it. In a few minutes, a Chinese fighter jet armed with air to air missiles intercepts the U.S. plane, nestling in just 500 feet of its port side. The Chinese fighter jet was so close. These CNN crew could see the pilots turning their heads to look at them. And could make out the red star on the tail fins and the missiles it was armed with. Lieutenant Nikki slaughter the pilot of the American plane, house the twin seat twin engine PLA aircraft PLA fighter aircraft, this is U.S. Navy, P 8 a, I have you off my left wing and I intend to proceed to the west. I request that you do the same over. There is no reply. No reply from the Chinese jet fighter. Which escorted the U.S. plane for 15 minutes before turning away. To a CNN crew aboard the American jet at stark evidence of the tensions brewing between the United States and China and the South China Sea. The commander of this U.S. Navy mission is a different day quote. I'd say it's another Friday afternoon in the South China Sea navy commander Mark Heinz tells the CNN crew in other words, we are constantly being threatened now. By the communist Chinese, constantly. Over the past several years, the South China Sea has emerged as a major potential flashpoint in the Asia Pacific. Islands in it like the paracels near which the U.S. Navy plane was intercepted today with a subject of overlapping territorial claims in part from China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. Not only does the strategic waterway hold vast resources of fish oil and gas. But about a third of global shipping passes through it worth about 3.4 trillion in 2016. It's worth about 5 or 6 trillion. China claims historic jurisdiction. Over almost the entirety of the vast sea, this is what Russia does. Claims jurisdiction of Eastern Europe. And since 2014 is built up tiny reefs and sandbars into artificial islands, heavily fortified with missiles, runways, weapons systems. The parasol islands called the ishi islands by China are the northern part of the South China Sea. East of Danang, Vietnam, south of China's hainan island. Surrounding them is 12 nautical miles of airspace that China was claiming as its own on Friday. Oh, this is our air space. Part of the southeast sits the spratly islands chain just a 186 miles from the Philippine island at palawan. Philippines brought a case to The Hague and they won, but China says no, those are our islands. And they continue, its military build up building bases on the spratlys as well. I'll be right back. I
Bloomberg Radio New York
"oval office" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Not take it with you. And they don't really have any sort of third party come in. And so basically what people are saying is that there ought to be sort of the equivalent of the guy at Costco who asks to look at your receipt, you know, before you leave the building, just like, hey, what do you got in that box there? This looks classified. Does it take that out? Hold on. Does that put that person then in an untenable situation? Because then you're telling your boss, essentially, you can't take that with you. Well, I mean, if they're the former president. They're turning out the oval before they're the former? Yeah, I mean, but I think that there's not really any. There's not really any political problem that this would create. I mean, you just have an archive this whose job it is that come over and sort through documents to make sure that none of them are classified. I mean, it's a pretty straightforward thing. The law that is pertains here dates back to the Watergate era when Richard Nixon was claiming that Oval Office records were his personal property. And was trying to destroy some of them because they revealed malfeasance. And so they passed a law that very clearly said, no, these are these belong to the public. And that you can't take them with you. I think because Congress was passing a law that was kind of taking such a bold stance there on the executive branch, they were a little bit hands off in terms of the enforcement part of it. They didn't want to seem like they were sort of grabbing all the powers of the presidency. So they said, okay, but you know, it's kind of up to you guys to follow the rules. And I think that they mostly work. I mean, I think that it's not like, you know, we don't know that any of these documents, even the ones that were found in Trump's case are damaging national security. We just know that they're classified and they're supposed to be treated with seriousness. And clearly, they weren't, and that's a problem. But it's not a huge problem. It's just a problem that clearly needs to be addressed because it's happened three times now. Now, you have a terrific story about this on the Bloomberg terminal that gets into all of the nitty Gritty. What did you learn when you did this story? I mean, one of the things that was really interesting to me and I think the over classification stuff, I don't know that that necessarily pertains here because it's just an interesting phenomenon but we since we don't know about these particular records. But that was really fascinating to me. Somebody said basically, you know, if you pull the side LBJ and you said, you know, this Vietnam War thing doesn't look like it's going too hot. Right, you know, like that would have stayed private until you wrote your memoirs. But these days, you know, it'd be an email, and at the bottom of the email would be automatically stamped. This is a classified material. And the response to it like hush, you know, maybe an emoji, like with a winky I or something. Would have also been classified. You know, yeah, like all of that would have been classified. And so something like a simple hallway conversation, you know, think about how many times someone said to you, this meeting could have been an email, right? We're just creating classified documents, right? And left now, because everything is classified sort of presumptively. And because we're creating such an order of magnitude more records than we did, even a few years ago, because of email and electronic documents and people working from home and so the system does need kind of a closer look. Bloomberg political correspondent Ryan Teague beckwith, that's what's going on in the
Bloomberg Radio New York
"oval office" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Controversial by some on Capitol Hill's big number. Also, approved today by the Senate. And we know that there are some naysayers in the Senate which will get you a little bit later on, but this of course just hours after president volodymyr zelensky was here in Washington. It was a ten hour visit. What a whirlwind. He went from the front lines in the Donbass one day through Poland and hours later is sitting in the Oval Office with President Biden. They did the joint news conference. We talked about it right around this time yesterday. In fact, and then he ended up on Capitol Hill in an historic address to a joint session, here he is. Against all odds and doom and gloom, scenarios, Ukraine didn't fall. You green is alive and kicking. Alive and kicking interesting that he did not use a teleprompter, and did speak in English the whole time. That's not an easy task, as he stood there in the olive green sweater that he's become so well known. Since this whole thing started 301 nowadays ago, the big message though, the resounding message really came down to support. He wanted to say thank you, but also to frame what the U.S. was actually doing and helping to support this war effort. Your money is not charity. It's an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way. And so we wonder what changed, if anything, and that's where we start with Daniel fried the former U.S. ambassador to Poland enough fellow at the Atlantic council, ambassador, welcome. It's great to have you here and happy holidays. I wonder your thoughts on the impact of this speech beyond it being a wonderful moment and historic moment will actually impact policy. It could impact policy that's speech brought on to a lot of members of Congress. That this is a real war and the Ukrainians are flagging back. Zelensky symbolizes their resistance and those kind of human moments make a difference. I remember when luck Owens has spoke to Congress in 1990, 1989, they increased U.S. assistance for Poland right at the beginning of its transformation. Now, Tommy is already gone when Vince was here and the fighting is still raging in Ukraine. But speeches like this by leaders who symbolize resistance or Winston Churchill coming to Washington right after Pearl Harbor. Yeah. So those are fair comparisons. I think it's fair. This is a big war. Putin started a major land war in Europe. We haven't seen this in Europe since 1945. And it's a war of conquest. So you bet it's a big deal and American interests are at stake. They're at stake now in Ukraine, the same way we had interest at stake in Europe during World War II. And for the same reason, by the way, the one sentence is it's not an American interest. I have dictators trampling other countries in Europe. It's not in the American interest. Roughly 85 House Republicans were in the chamber for the speech. We know that there were several of them not applauding or standing for the ovations ambassador. What's your thought on that? What would be your message to them? Well, what would Ronald Reagan say? He'd be applauding a fighter for freedom. He believed in those fighting for freedom. He didn't believe in caving to dictators. And I do understand the calls for a good accounting of the money that we've been spending on behalf of the Ukrainians. I think the Biden administration is ready to answer those questions. But for some, it's not some Republicans in minority I thank goodness. I think it's not in the American interest or a few are even on Putin's side, which is simply revolting. Right. Do you believe that money's been spent wisely? I think so. I think that Ukraine's resistance has been made possible. By the weapons, the Americans have sent that we have sent. That's a good investment. Your investing in freedom and investing in showing a dictator that Vladimir Putin that he's not going to win. And Americans should consider, suppose the Ukrainians win. That's a big deal. It would show the Chinese that democracies are not as weak as they may think. It will show that America is capable of performing its role as leader of the free world under tough conditions. This is a case where the Ukrainians are not asking Americans to fight for the nails do the fighting themselves. I think President Biden is right to draw the line, no American troops in Ukraine and we are complaints over Ukraine, but we're helping them we're helping defend themselves. That's the right role. I'm glad you could join us and I do hope you're having a great holiday season. We always learn something when we talk to Daniel free. Happy new year, former U.S. ambassador to Poland. Fellow with the Atlantic council, listen quickly to Josh hawley, senator Josh hawley. This is not just, you know, a couple of Republicans in the House on why he skipped the speech last night. I didn't go to the speech because I didn't want to be part of the photo op asking
Bloomberg Radio New York
"oval office" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Of power. The big story right now is in Washington and his prison's zelensky of Ukraine, who is now arrived in the capital, will be meeting with the president later this afternoon and then be addressing Congress to set the stage for us. We welcome now Washington correspondent Joe Matthew. He's host of sound on weekdays on Bloomberg radio. So set the stage. Joe, what do we expect? Well, David, here we are in the 300th day of this war. If you can imagine and it is believed that this is the first time president zelensky has left Ukraine in that time. He's due to arrive at The White House, roughly two hours from now, and there are a series of events planned for the day here. He's going to be sitting down with President Biden for a meeting inside the Oval Office. They will also move on to a joint news conference that will be carrying here at scheduled for four 30 p.m., Washington time. We'll see how close they come to being on time. From there, he'll make his way to Capitol Hill. He's going to be speaking to a joint session of Congress in person at 7 30 p.m.. That is the schedule at least. And David, I can tell you, Pennsylvania avenue is dressed up for the event with American and Ukrainian flags hanging from every other lamp post on the stretch between The White House and where I am here up on Capitol Hill. Before he gets here though, President Biden is set to announce almost $2 billion in additional Ukraine war funding along with the commitment to provide a patriot missile defense battery that has been long sought by Ukraine. And that brings us to the business at hand. President zelensky will not only be here to thank Congress, he'll be here to ask for more David, remembering $45 billion in Ukraine funding is included in the omnibus budget that we've been talking about the last couple of days, which is expected to pass, but a lot of Republicans in the House
Bloomberg Radio New York
"oval office" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Be the stickiest part of the inflation story and we're going to get into all of this coming up with the president's senior adviser gene sperling First the markets though we get an update from mister Doug Krishna Hey Joe inflation is hot that is clever writing by the way And as a result of the inflationary pressures that have been building we have seen upward pressure on market interest rates and we had a big move to the upside today with a ten year treasury gaining ten basis points to 2.84% and that in turn weakened the equity market We had the Dow weaker today by about 7 tenths of 1% S&P down 6 tenths of 1% and the NASDAQ composite weaker by four tenths of 1% On Monday in China the official PMI data showed a little bit of improvement and on top of that lockdown measures in some of the major cities in China have been eased so today in the U.S. we had a rally in some of those Chinese listed shares the NASDAQ golden dragon China index was up 3.7% I'm Doug prisoner that's your Bloomberg business flash But we thank you and thanks for being with us on the fastest hour in politics I'm Joe Matthew in Washington Rarely has so much been made of a single meeting huh Biden in rare Powell meet I see the headline on the terminal seeks to deflect inflation blame We did discuss this in the independent fed earlier this hour President Biden has not changed his too and I'm just not sure what people were imagining was going to happen You know they're going to sit there and sort of solve this today in the Oval Office Maybe light a fire I don't know what people thought would happen But the treasury secretary was there as well Janet Yellen and so we're still we're still moving forward here with the plan that the administration has laid out And there appears to be a much more focused conversation now coming out of the long holiday weekend which is why it's a pleasure to welcome gene sperling back to the program The White House American rescue plan coordinator more importantly senior adviser to this president And of course his third administration here Jean it's really great to have you back This kind of inflation is new to everybody I guess it doesn't matter how many white houses you've been in Maybe if you were running things back in the 70s but I know you're a much younger man That said the energy component here is of great concern Realizing the administration is deferring price control in the war on inflation to the Federal Reserve There's only so much you can do in a global oil market that seems to be shrinking Do you feel that way Well I think that when something is your top priority you do everything you can You're right This is quite a unique period right You've had you've had a Biden recovery that had the greatest job growth in the history of the country in 2021 Best growth since 40 years largest drop of in unemployment ever And yet that is not helping you to necessarily escape from what is a very serious global inflation problem We just saw at the Euro That's at 8.1% the UK is at 9% So and that's a little comfort to an American family who's here That is a global problem when they're going through the gas At the grocery line So I think that the president started today with basically saying that this was going to be a presidency that was not just going to say it respects the independence of the fed It was not going to be bullying them or trying to intimidate them publicly which is funny if I say that people think I'm talking about Trump But it's actually 5 different presidents since 19 60 four have participated in kind of trying to intimidate the fed So first of all you start and you make clear This is top priority I respect the independence of the fed because of course monetary policy is going to be the most powerful tool Secondly you recognize that one of the strong outgrowths of this recovery is that it's surge growth in revenues and it made it possible to roll off a lot of the emergency spending programs like UI and the economic impact payment So we're seeing one and a half $1 trillion decline in the deficit that dampens inflationary pressures And then the president you know and I could do it but I'll stop to get questions You know goes through all the different things from the historic release of the strategic petroleum reserve to trying to bring down prescription drug costs And so every single one of those somebody could say well that's not a silver bullet But it's important And you know that this audience hears about these steps gene and I hate to interrupt We have such little time but this audience is pretty sophisticated with exactly what you're talking about the stages and the steps that have been taken here It's a damned if you do damned if you don't in a way though what's your reaction to those who you know you've heard me mention the headline that the president was essentially deflecting inflation blamed by having Jay Powell on the couch The other extreme is is Donald Trump tweeting at Jay Powell telling him what to do with interest rates Is there something in the middle here we can find No I don't think this is about being in the middle I think this is about the importance of respecting the independence of the Federal Reserve particularly when they're doing something We understand that our Federal Reserve is independent and while they have the dual mandate at times we're inflation becomes the highest concern that they're going to take steps to dampen that inflation and that's going to be raising interest rates in the president is making very clear that he is going to respect that independence Respecting that independence as I've seen in my past presidencies whether it was with Alan Greenspan or Ben Bernanke makes it easier for presidents and fed shares to talk and to share insights so that we all understand the direction that we're rowing in Philosophical question for you About the economy here It's just philosophical question when it comes to fighting inflation We saw German inflation at a fresh record high You've made the point this is a global phenomenon The president and the administration have also made the point that it's driven by the war in Ukraine And then it's driven by COVID These are all completely different factors than the Federal Reserve has countered before with the sledgehammer of tightening of raising interest rates Do we need to not be more delicate with our response here if these are specific issues supply chain war in Ukraine If you fix those then inflation goes away no Well you know you're going to put me in a bind because obviously I just went and said that those of us in The White House shouldn't be commenting or trying to influence the Federal Reserve I would say the following I do think I don't think this is about deflection of blame This is a global crisis It is everywhere It's not any one head of state fault And there's no doubt that Delta and omicron made it harder to have that supply To correct some of the supply constraints And of course the war in Ukraine didn't cause all the inflation but it is true that gas prices were at $3 and 31 cents on January 17th when food moved troops to the border of Belarus So it's clearly a dollar 30 or more worse So that's just recognizing that yes I don't think this is the fault of any particular head of state But I think every head of state including Joe Biden feels it's their responsibility to do what they can Now I think it's just basic economics to know that the Federal Reserve's monetary tools are going to have a greater impact on dampening inflation than a lot of things that can be done by.
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"Thousand employees. It's gone up in as other new wreck and at eight to lay out a clear plan to actually solve the budget deficit darian but it was a cutting exchange between andrew yang. The entrepreneur turned former presidential candidate. And brooklyn borough president. Eric adams a former nypd. Captain that stood out adams went after yang for never voting in a city election leaving the city at the height of the pandemic and showing a lack of policy chops on key issues facing new york. You left the city during a very difficult time even during the time when i did not see my son over two months because i was in the street doing covert you did not vote in municipal elections at all. I just don't know how the hell do we. Have you become our mayor with this record like this. How do you govern a diverse city. Like this i just can't get it. Eric new yorkers know exactly what i've been up to the past several years i started an anti poverty movement that has helped millions of new yorkers in our time of need and i moved to georgia to help win the senate. Can you imagine what we'd be facing right now. If mitch mcconnell were still the senate majority leader instead of newark's own chuck schumer that has given us a life voters tuning in for the first time saw a glimpse of tensions that have been bubbling up on the campaign trail for weeks. Crime and economic recovery topped the list of concerns for voters heading into the june twenty second primary and despite their attacks yang and adams are largely aligned on policing strategy if the election becomes about crime adams may have a built in advantage as a former cop but if it's economic recovery yang's message of revitalizing. The cities tourism economy could carry the day. Not much to report on what the white house and congress is up to today. But here's what we do know about. Everyone's schedule the president has nothing listed publicly. But it is first lady. Jill biden seventieth birthday and the two are in rehoboth beach delaware today. The is reporting that the biden's plan to spend a quote quiet birthday at home and that the president's trip to their beach house was his first visit there since taking office in january. The two are expected back in. Dc on friday. Also according to the ap meanwhile at nine am eastern the white house covid nineteen response team and public. Health officials will brief with press secretary. Jen psaki later briefing at twelve thirty pm. One thing that might come up the white house's recent announcement that some retail pharmacies will offer extended hours this month to deliver corona virus vaccine shots as of early this morning just under sixty. Three percent of american adults have gotten at least one dose of the covid nineteen vaccine. Congress is in recess this week..
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"Is your politico playbook daily briefing. We're learning that. The gop is considering sending another infrastructure counter proposal to the white house. That's after president. Joe biden and senator shelley moore capito the lead. Gop negotiator on the issue matt for a one on one yesterday. Their public statements were planned. But here's what we were able to learn about what happened behind closed doors. After sitting down with biden in the oval office capital briefed the other five senate republicans in her negotiating group. That's john grasso. Reut blunt mike. Crepeau pat toomey and roger wicker and republicans weren't happy with what she had to say telling them. Biden wants one trillion dollars in new spending. If you're new here there's been a big debate about how much of the republican offers have been taken up by baseline spending that spending that would already occur if nothing changed and kern policy stayed the same but republicans say only a few weeks ago biden told gop negotiators that baseline spending could go towards meeting his goal of a one trillion dollar package. The latest republican offer by the way it's nowhere near a trillion dollars in new spending with an overall price tag nine hundred twenty eight billion dollars. Two hundred fifty. Seven billion dollars of which count as new spending. Meanwhile the last number of the white house had was one point seven trillion dollars so now. The gop is considering sending another counter offer to the white house as soon as friday when capital is scheduled to meet with biden. Again this time probably by phone but nothing is set in stone capital briefed her co negotiators last night. The group didn't reach a final decision about where to from here partly because we're hearing they're starting to feel discouraged one source put it like this quote. I have a hard time seeing this go ahead. because republicans plans always have baseline included. I don't think senate. Republicans are interested in one trillion dollars in new spending or changing the tax cuts or of raising other taxes. And that's been clear from day one. They added quote. It's a great dance but at some point than music is going.
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"Them into the Oval Office. Telling them to disenfranchise voters of their state, telling them to overturn the will of the American people. The House resumes his case tomorrow at noon Eastern, the former president's team gets there say later this week, the White House as president Biden has spoken with China's president, seizing Ping A White House statement says the president raise concerns about Beijing's economic practices, which it called coercive and unfair. President Biden's pick to leave the Office of Management and Budget has apologized for social media posts attacking well known lawmakers, Neera Tanden told the Senate Budget Committee. She regrets posting negative comments online. Some of them about senators hold aside. Whether she's confirmed is director of the Ownby as she worked to assure lawmakers. I can work with honors, and I look forward to taking that burden and I apologized Tol People on either the left or right, who are hurt by what I've said Dander once said of GOP Senator Ted Cruz. Vampires have more heart. She's also gone after progressives, including independent Senator Bernie Sanders socks is Rachel Sutherland. Wall Street of the close, major indexes ended the day mixed. The Dow gained 61, the NASDAQ minus 35. Americans listening to Fox News Finding great candidates, the higher Converium like well, trying to find a needle in a haystack. Sure you can post your job to some job board. But then all you can do is hope the right person comes along..
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"Back. Hey, Thanks a lot. J T. Thanks for having me on today. Always appreciated happy Wednesday to you as well. Yeah. Here we go. And we're getting close now. Yeah, the impeachment trial. Listen a week away starting next Tuesday, the ninth, I guess. And yesterday the President Trump's team. Uh, how their brief So what exactly is that? You're a lawyer when they found their briefs. Both sides did it. Well, that means that both sides are laying out the arguments that they will present during the impeachment trial. And so the arguments that we see being laid out by President Trump's lawyers shouldn't surprise us. I've spoken about this over the course of the past few weeks since the article of impeachment was voted on in the House of Representatives on We got an inkling in terms of what the argument would be from that. Procedural vote that took place in the Senate a few weeks ago. And that argument is primarily that the Senate lacks the authority to conduct this impeachment trial because President Trump has left office. He's no longer president. He's a private citizen. They also say that what President Trump said on January the six prior to the insurrection, eyes protected speech protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution, So that's the brief That was filed on behalf of the president yesterday by his two lawyers. House Democrats through the impeachment managers filed their own brief in which they essentially said in 70 pages. That former President Trump, in their words is singularly responsible for the deadly attack on the capital back on January 26, which is ludicrous, and I'm guessing the president's briefs were, what a dozen or so pages compared to the almost 70 or 80 page document from the Democrats. I mean, they're just throwing everything at him, including the kitchen sink in this one. Are. The brief that was filed by the president's lawyers was 14 pages. It was a 14 page brief, as opposed to Ah 70 plus page brief that was filed by the impeachment managers. All right. Well, let's talk about what's going on with these immigration orders that Biden signed yesterday, first two weeks in office now 28 executive orders and the latest aimed at our immigration system. What specifically did he sign yesterday in this area? Well. J T These were three major executive orders they reverse President Trump's immigration practice is one of them will create a task force to reunite Children who are separated from their parents at the US Mexico border under President Trump zero tolerance policy on the other two executive orders have to do With the idea that they will direct the State Department, the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security to review guidelines and policies were true implemented under President Trump. Determine whether they're in line with President Biden's desire to promote what President Biden is called integration and inclusion. So that was filed yesterday that was signed yesterday. I should say by President Biden and as it relates to today, no executive orders are expected to be signed by President Biden. It seems every day signed some executive orders. JT today he's meeting with some Democratic senators in the Oval Office just two days after he met with those 10 Republican senators in the Oval Office about that cove it relief bill and so we'll see what comes out of that meeting whether or not the President Biden is going full speed ahead in terms of what he believes is necessary. This $1.9 trillion covert relief bill, which has gotten a lot of pushback From as you know, Republicans in the Senate and I will have to wait and see what happens over the course of the next few weeks whether President Biden pursues that Well, let's talk about representative from George A lot of discussion happening now about Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mitch McConnell, Republican, obviously, and even he is breaking from the Republican support on this woman and it once again, the Democrats come together and support their folks and their leaders when it comes to Republicans. And that's so much they'll peel off in a heartbeat. So what exactly is your take on Marjorie Taylor Greene? I know she's controversial with some of these conspiracy theories out there and everything. But now it seems they want to barbecue her. Well as it relates to Senator McConnell, who's the leader for Republicans in the Senate. You're right. He put out a statement spoke about that statement on. He's concerned he's concerned about the future of the Republican Party. Ah, And you know, I think with good reason, you know, the question is the way he views it. How do you expand the Republican Party? How do you win elections? Is it the Republican idea, which has been pursued by senators like Mitch McConnell, who was so successful and Getting all of those conservative justices confirmed during the past four years, or is it Ah, Congresswoman, a freshman congressman, a woman like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has espoused these conspiracy ideas, and apparently is a follower of the Cuban on conspiracy. And so he's concerned. He's concerned about his parties that his whole life building the party. He's, uh Helped President Trump over the course of four years, moving far with his agenda that that tax cut that was passed in the first year. President Trump's Presidency as well as over 200 federal judges, So he's certainly done a lot for the Republican Party, and I think that this is sort of where the rubber hits the road for Republican which policies will they pursue? The policies of Mitch McConnell and Senator Cassidy of Louisiana has also supports what Mitch McConnell put out there or the policies that have been espoused. By Marjorie Taylor Greene. All right. John Decker, our correspondent, White House. Thank you, John. Appreciate your 8 19..
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"They went. Trump got into the Oval Office. The violence that we saw in the nation's capital. The violence we saw in New York the violence all over this country. Burning cars, busted store windows, the riots put out by Biden supporters. Then Hillary Clinton supporters. No talk of insurrection. No talk of deep platform in Twitter. No talk of deep platform in Facebook. The organizers of such hate and violence. No talk of that. And in the left wingers came out of the woodwork to sue every single time the Trump administration tried to implement policy. What the Republicans Nowhere to be found. So when I say Patriot Party What do you say? The Patriot Party has been speaking of Facebook. The comments. Sections have been disabled. On the Patriot Party. On Facebook. Because You get the impression that Facebook likes their Republicans just the way they are. Supplicant. Defeated And kissing the rear end off every Democrat socialist they confined. Unless your name is Cruz or Josh Holly. Telephone number is 800 to 80 w B a P 800 to 889227 when I say. Patriot Party. What do you say? Back in a minute. The Crystal Saito showing W. B A winter is upon us. And you may have found that.
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"It's a real short story. I'm gonna get back out to your phone calls here in a minute. Welcome to our two Saucedo show. Don't forget Rush Limbaugh, 10 45 and early look at this program will be a short Two minutes of who were getting In the Oval Office. And, uh, you guys know who Beijing Biden is. He's nothing new. He is. Unknown quantity, as they say. All the groping the rape allegations. The Being wrong on every foreign policy. Issue. The day. You know, I gotta I gotta marvel John Bolton. Was on MSN Bs because they're the only people who talk, too, because he hates trump. So, uh, that's that's where he goes. And he's the one that's been saying that Biden has been wrong for nearly a half century on every foreign policy in this country, and he's applauding Trump's departure. You know who on Lee ushered in historic peace deals in the Middle East? I mean, What a joke. What a joke. But here is folks this is a montage of who we're getting will tell you the truth. The press won't Here is what's coming in. To the, uh, the Oval Office. Listen. You have a problem figured out with your for mere trump. And you ain't black. No more. No, no fracking. And by the way,.
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"All these years later, there's the Hey God, what happened when it was, you know, 20 years ago today, Sergeant Pepper told the band to play. It was four years ago more than four years ago that meeting in the Oval Office where they were plotting against the Trump administration, the incoming Trump administration and that's still being investigated. That's what the Durham investigation is largely about. They're still looking at. It takes time. You know, these are government jobs. They take a long time, but lunch bucket Joe. He's going to make a beeline to the extent that he could make a beeline somebody you have to show him the way to the Oval Office, even though he's been there 1000 times. But Helen, get in there and sit down, kick his feet up on the desk and then 17 executive actions or executive orders to reverse Trump policies restore Obama era programs on day one and again, Iran has expressed their excitement that President Trump is living. They've called him a tyrant. No tyrants, abused intelligence agencies and law enforcement and fiza courts to target their political enemies. Tyrants bomb more countries than any Now we're restoring the military industrial complex here. You gotta understand President Trump operated completely outside of all of Washington's traditional and historical norms. And one of those norms is that you've got to be a part of the military industrial complex, and President Trump was not, and he was scaling down our presence and in the Middle East in in in Iraq in Afghanistan while not giving away the store. Also, he was not on Iran's side, like the Obama Biden administration was And, uh and I gotta I gotta you know, the military industrial complex is thrilled to have the Biden administration coming in and have the Trump administration going out corrupt people in the deep state as it is now not so affectionately known. And the intelligence and law enforcement federal communities. They are thrilled to see the corrupt Biden administration that I mean, look, they're already under invest investigation by the FBI. The cloud of corruption hangs over them, and the special counsel already hangs over them. So there's a little bit of returning the favor. But President Trump didn't have to do anything that's happened organically, You see, which makes it completely and utterly different, just by the way, so President elect Joe Biden will sign 17 executive actions and orders in the first hours of his presidency, not even going to the residents..
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"In Washington. The president is eight days away from leaving office and they are trying to impeach him. He will be now. The only president to be impeached twice by Congress. Whether he's removed or not, I don't know You can't make a common sense. Pragmatists kind of argument for he has eight days left. You don't like what he did. You can censure him. That's that's part of the rules that used to be a really bad thing. Now. It's just tell him What's really bothersome about this is the FBI. On all kinds of experts have all said. This will only make tensions. Hire this will only make things much worse. You are eight days away. What are you doing? Eight days away. I mean, if he barricaded himself in the Oval Office, I would be all for the National Guard or the you know, military going in. To remove him. He's not going to do that. This is about making sure he could never run again. This is what banana Republics do. And you don't have to like what he did. But you also don't have to like what Liz Cheney is saying. But let's not remove her from office either. Let's not try toe destroy her life, either. Liz Cheney. Has never been a fan of Donald Trump. This does not some of those like Mitt Romney coming out again. He's gonna vote for Beechman Shut up really? I mean, of course. Of course. I pray for the president and I pray for the incoming president. Um That everyone does the right thing and stops thinking about themselves and And what they want to accomplish instead do what's right for the republic do what's right. For our union. I don't know how we unite. I really don't If you're talking about re education camps for my kids. Because I supported Trump if you're talking about driving people out of the marketplace. Because they supported Trump. Right? Can't unite with you. But I wouldn't unite with you if if you were saying that, you know anybody who supported Joe Biden needs to be drummed out. Mm. No. No. That's fascism. And I'll stand against that. I'm not aunt if I but I am anti fascist. I'm anti totalitarian. I'm anti Communist. Ask the anti fog Roop if they're anti communist Ah! You know who started the Reichstag fire were the anti fascists. The ones who Aunt Afar came out of. They were also pro Communist. That's why they were against the.
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"Charlie. I'm Kevin Surreally, chief Washington correspondent for Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Radio, joined by Bloomberg politics contributors Jeannie Shan, Xena and Rick Davis, and we are also joined now by Congressman Dwight Evans, a Democrat from Pennsylvania. My neck of the woods. Philly Congressman, How are you? It's Friday. We gotta just exhale a little bit. How are you? How's your staff? What's going on through this fried these fried the way we have. Rather exciting time next week. To swing in a president elect Biden and senator like Paris excited for the country as we begin to try to build back better. And opportunity bringing people together. You know, we've had a rough week. Way got to begin to try to rebuild and get people to work together. So how do you mean? Just from takeoff the partisan hat for a second and just speak to us. Almost as a small business leader and the leader of Ah, small business, a k a. Your office and your staff. Just where do things stand right now? For Congress in terms of getting back together? I mean, I got to say I've been I've had the privilege of going around the world is a reporter. I have never anywhere I've been from the G seven to Saudi Arabia seen a security presence like I have in Washington, D C. It's you know, from your perspective as a lawmaker, how has the security presence weighed on the city? Is no question that the security presence has been really concerning, but but it is for the inches in the protection of the citizens who were there. No out. The This event comes every four years with the swinging of a new president and vice president, United States. No. We had an election on November 3rd. It was open. It was transparent. The voters and citizens decided now we will implement the new president. So it's clear to me that the military presence is something that's somewhat story, but Result for the interest of safety available out to see the theme the ride we had just survived. We could go individuals trying to Get on the national government was not the way we should be operating should happen on the basis of People get elected moving, but that's unfortunate, but we don't move ahead. We're gonna move ahead with the hold together. Way have challenges such as this virus. We still have to beat this virus. The vaccination way have to get that out to people. And since you said small business, we have to take care of the small businesses on I think when you see President elect Biden Produced a new package after they $1.9 trillion Small businesses of part of the agenda, so we're building on the things that we had cares that. We did that. We just did release a little bit. So, so we're trying to say this help coming? No, there's help come, so we must crush the virus for simple most And then they showed the small businesses on individuals and our schools have the funds that are never Congressman. I knew the panel. I know the panel has some questions about the economic stimulus, but I just I definitely want to get to that. But are you confident that there's enough security in place for for the inauguration next week? Are you confident that Capitalist, secure that the FBI, law enforcement and National Guard are all working together on that everyone is going to be protected. Well, I would say yes, there's been briefing Capitol Police Secret Service. All the other agencies working together. You know, there's always challenges and there will be investigations. But at the end of the day you have a 21,000 people from the national card, Various police organization working together I'm gonna be there. I had to sway and I wouldn't you know? Of attitude. Confidence. See, wouldn't be this so her you most looking forward to seeing perform. Um, there's only one answer. It's got guys national anthem. Let's go, Congressman, Come on, think that I think that I'd like to feel more like all summer like a politician won't even give me an answer on the music on a Friday we do. We need a lot of music these days. Congressman When I was prepping for the show, I was looking at the Pew Research Center's new poll that they came out. I was really struck by this. Donald Trump is leaving the White House with the lowest job approval of his presidency. 29% and increasingly negative ratings for his post election conduct the share of voters who rate Trump's conduct since the election is only fair or poor. Has risen from 68% in November. 2 76% with virtually all the increase coming in his poor ratings, this is this is the part that I that struck me. Trump voters, in particular, have grown more critical of their candidates post election conduct. A share of his supporters who describe his conduct is poor has doubled over the past two months from 10% to 20%. This is, according to Pew Research. I asked this question that I ask it, you know stomach Lee, but And truthfully, trying to understand you've got a major pandemic, the economy in crisis and then this attack on the capital. Yeah. Is this and I know you're in the house. But is the Senate able to to track this three track this in a way so that you're able Tol hold the individuals, not just you know the current occupant of the Oval Office but to hold all of the individuals accountable for what happened at the Capitol last week. In addition to addressing these incredibly incredibly important issues that are ravaging a millions of American families. Company this way. I hope so. Okay, This is a tiny more than hope. God, Well, there's a lot. You do not get only hope. I'm not in this hope they can do all those things. Such is the virus there would economic package deal with the issue about impeachment. You know, we have to learn no more different than constituency representing people do find a way to manage. We must do the same thing. We did it in out. I hope they will do it in the Senate, and then we'll do it. For the sake of of tam ability. No one is above the law. No one not President. Congress, not send it. No one is above the law. So the fact of the matter is this is a question of accountability. He must have accountability in our political process. Is we talking about making economic investments? We have to have that confidence. We cannot take that for granted. And we can't think about it like that. You know, here in the city of congressmen and brick, Davis, Thank thank you so much for being on today and I want to follow up something that's really a lot more clear. And dear to you, which is the House of Representatives. There's been a lot of discussion. Within the house about how to handle the conduct of some of the House members and their potential culpability in stoking the riot mean starting with obviously that denial of the election. But also some pretty heated words in advance of the attack on the Capitol that sounded like promoting the attack, and I'm curious if there are active discussions underway for Central resolutions and maybe worse. The answer is yes. All those things on the table. We need to review the behavior of members of Congress who acted in ways that have contributed it. They're not above the law needed. These members have to be hold held accountable and they behave as to be held accountable. So the fact that matters they too, It will be review were looked at it and we have these texts of discussion. But I've shared with you. Everything is on the table, and the fact of the matter is they have to be accountable. What's the key to this? Democracy is accountability that's very essential. So they must be helped gavel and they will be held accountable. Congressman Nevins. It's It's great to talk to you and I have to say, Kevin, I love Lady Gaga, but I'm also looking forward to John Legend and Bruce Springsteen. Bruce. I love the boss. Absolutely. But she's doing the national anthem, so I just kind of you know, because I hear you so, Congressman, I wanted to just get your reaction. I mean, you already talked about this a little bit too. What you heard last night from President elect Biden. And specifically with all your work and small business..
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"On Katya, Our news 92 3 FM and the K T A R news at all Right. Joining me is is Governor Doug Ducey again? Governor. Let's talk about what happened in D. C. You had a very good working relationship with the president. But when the challenge to the election happened, he went after you pretty hard. Well, uh, I did my duty. I I followed the light took an oath to uphold the Constitution. I had all 15 counties that have certified the election. So I did my constitutional duty as the governor and I certified the election. The vote in Arizona was was audited. Um, and it was accurate. Let's talk about what happened now. I won't want to say there were real legal challenges in other states. Other states do this differently. Other states experimented with male and voted they explored. There was an activist court in Pennsylvania. But by EL attribution on any number there were enough votes to overturn the election. But my role was for the state of Arizona. The people that I report to are the citizens of Arizona. So that that was my focus. And if you want to talk about what happened in Washington, D. C after November 3rd last week, I'd announced that in the strongest possible terms, I said there's no place for violence or vandalism and the people's House. The perpetrators should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And we should condemn that Mike and we should resolve that that never ever happens again In this country. It was disappointing to see faces that I recognized from Arizona. There shouldn't have been one Trump supporter in that building. It was made me sad. It almost felt like that kick in the stomach and 9 11 And these were these were Americans. That's how I felt that there was a dark day It was it was wrong. And there are gonna be consequences. And as there should be if we're the party of law and order Then let's be the party of law and order. There were a lot of people in the house of Representatives that voted to challenge Arizona's elections even though you certified it. Do you see when you you saw more than most ID? You stay were misleading people. They were misleading people. Arizona's vote count was accurate and it was audited and all challenges were heard in court, and none had any credibility. I do want people to have confidence in our system, and I think that any claim any discussion. I know people want to look into the system. I want them to have the The confidence that is necessary, and this erosion of trust in in our voting isn't new. Four years ago, the other side was saying that the Russians hacked a vote This year. You're hearing that there's some kind of Internet gamesmanship. That's that's happening with these things. I'd like to make sure that we let people understand what we do in Arizona. And I said this in the Oval Office in front of the president and the staff. I differentiated our state say then a state like Nevada that mailed out proactively ballots to everyone in the state. Many were deceased, and many had moved. That doesn't happen in the state of Arizona. We've been doing mail in voting since 1992. People can have confidence in our system here, but there were some some definite issues across the country. But by all indications they weren't enough to overturn the election. We're joined by Governor Do see. Where do you stand on the impeachment? You watching the proceedings? Where do you stand? The wolf first apparent President Bears. Some responsibility. I do think there is, uh, take that you can have on this that you could be for retribution, or you can have the wisdom of turning down the heat. The country is divided and healing. Maybe too high of an objective, But calming is something we can aspire to. In six days. We're gonna have a peaceful transition of power. I think people want to move forward. So you and that's I feel the same way We could go a lot further toward peace by not Impeaching is my my feeling that this we should be looking forward, Not backward. Well, this should be about tomorrow and the future and this should be about going forward. That's how I feel as well. Speaking of which you attend the inauguration of Joe Biden. I was invited to attend the inauguration. I intend to go to the inauguration off course events on the ground here in Arizona. Are always going to take priority. It's a historic event. It's an honor to be invited. I attended the last inauguration, so the plan is to go. You had a good working relationship with President Trump on economy on border issues, it was It was a pretty good relationship. The policies of Abide Administration problem going to be much different. What kind of relationship do you expect with that administration? First? I'm going to advocate for good policies. Part of the reason that I would go to an inauguration is to sit down with this homeland. Security nominee and to talk about what's worked in Arizona. I also had a good relationship with EJ Johnson. If you remember from the Obama administration, we worked together on the Super Bowl and that first month I was governor. And when we did our after action report, I've said Mr Secretary, if we would take that same kind of posture to the border, we'd have a safer border we've had, we'd have fewer drug cartels. And human traffickers. He agreed with me on that we didn't hear much from the administration. Beyond that. I met with John Kelly before inauguration last time, and I wanted I'm going to continue to advocate for what I think is best for Arizona. And that's that. We have good trade relationship with Mexico, but we do have to have law enforcement on the border for public safety. All right. So give me one policy hope for this session of the Legislature. We've talked about covert. We've talked about what happened in D. C. But here in Arizona from your state of the State of desk address and your policy list that you want your wish list. What do you want to see happen? Well, I'll give you a quick rundown first. Of course, we'll continue to focus and covert 19 making sure that our hospitals have the resource is continuing to communicate what people need to do from a personal responsibility standpoint, But folks have been Terrific. Also, I want to have the highest sense of purpose and urgency around vaccinations. Beyond that, let's get our kids caught up. Inside the classroom. They following behind we've got resource is tutoring after school programs, Summer school acceleration academies. Let's get them caught up. Let's get them back to grade level. Much have tax reform in our state so that we continue to be an attractive place where small businesses can scale and people continue to come. We're gonna do things like getting broadband out to our rural areas. We need some some training for our our police officers and equipment that they need. We're having a lot of discussion around criminal justice reform. There's a lot of things that we can get done together. We've been fortunate and somewhat lucky around wildfires in comparison to California we want to be on guard against that ever present threat. So I think there's a lot that we can get done and I met with both Democratic leadership and Republican leadership Speaker Rusty Bowers and Senate President Karen Fan Rebecca Rios and leader Reginal Bolding. I'm very optimistic about what's possible. This is not Washington D. C. Mike, We get things done in Arizona. We get things done at the state level. Always appreciate you coming and talking to us. Thanks for having me, Mike. That's governor Doug Ducey. I'll be back. Our biggest.
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"Of the show's 70 to 2575396 is how you win to the program We've been discussing, Of course. What else? The impeachment of Donald Trump. Isn't it funny? It's like deja vu. It's a year later, and he's impeached again. You know, a year ago when they were impeaching him instead of paying attention to the coronavirus, you know you remember you are my Nancy Pelosi said. Now I'm in Chinatown. Let's have some chill, man. Everything's cool hooking on everybody. Everything's great. Everything's great, right? Yeah. Preschool. It's cool. Yeah, Let's get it. Everything's cool. Dr Funk you say now go out to dinner. He freaking get out of here. What you say? Get out of here! Go out to dinner. Go to a theater. Go take in a show. This thing's gonna blow over in two weeks. Had Mayor de Blasio's saying. Don't worry about it. You're shooting, huh? Don't worry that they had actual normal business. They were so damn pressured to impeach the president. For quid pro quo, which, well, Joe Biden actually has done and I'll tell you there's going to be investigations coming on Joe Biden in his administration. It's not going to stop. Republicans are still alive. Just so you know, friends, I mean, they may have lost control, but there's still Republicans are on committees. You know, there's law enforcement. There's the CIA and FBI that are good people. They're not completely rogue. So you know the world hasn't stopped. It's gonna be a little tougher. But they were, you know, spending millions of dollars to get this president impeached and here it is a year later. With seven days to go until he leaves office, and Nancy Pelosi was so afraid for the country that he was going to incite more violence. More insurgency. That he just had to be stopped. Fact I heard Nancy Pelosi earlier thing. Oh, this just saddens me for the country and the precedent it sets boy, she sounds like a lush I wonder what she drinks Southern comfort. Sheri something bringing something Absolutely insane. And in the first hour Allowed you to listen to clips of their hypocrisy. We exposed the hypocrisy. I exposed the 10 Republicans that joined the turncoat Democrats to impeach this president. I exposed the lunacy of trying to silence those that object or feel that this election was stolen, which we do and we know it was and they do as well. Donald Trump spoke from the Oval Office today, though, did you see that spoke from the Oval Office didn't mention impeachment. I'm sure that drove the left nuts. And he spoke about the Capitol Hill violence, though he spoke and and he was very eloquent and everything that, he said, But some of the highlights in case you missed, it was was pretty pretty important. He talked about that no true Trump supporter. And knows true supporter of Hiss. Could ever succumb to the violence against Pops or people or Capitol Hill as we witnessed last week, and he's absolutely correct. He also spoke on the upcoming protests. He made it very clear that he's aware of the upcoming protests, and he wanted to make sure that people behave themselves that a true trump supporter a true Maga supporter that supports the agenda would not do the things that they saw last week because I agree with them. Those weren't really true Supporters and those that let's say supported Trump. And those were the anarchist that did that. Yeah, they should be held to the highest degree of accountability. Those really don't represent now. Some will get upset. Some will get upset that I said this and say, Don't you get it? We're angry. Hey, don't get mad at me have the same amount of guts to get mad at the president cause he's the one that said it. I'm just telling you what you said. But you don't have the guts to do that Many. They get upset with me. They go on Twitter, and they say things that they don't have the guts to call out President Trump. He's the one saying it and don't give me this cloak and dagger code stuff. I'm already sick of it. I've had so many people send me videos, obscure things that Blackhawks we're gonna stop it already. For God's sakes, Just stop it. The president himself is telling you He's going home. But it's not over. We're gonna discuss that a lot in this hour off. What's next for next for President Trump? He talked about being concerned about the lunatics. That's what they are that pretend to be Trump's supporters and many of them there were. I'm still convinced the remember of Sam T for their absolutely I'm convinced of it. He's concerned that those out there wanting to duel will will blame the maggot agenda and this is what the media is looking for. This is why the National Guard's been dispersed. This is why these things were happening. Isn't it interesting, though, that two thirds of Republicans said that they'd vote for Donald Trump in 2024. A new poll just came out today. Two thirds Of Republicans said they would vote for him in 2024 C. Look, Here's the deal. I told you And some got angry with me. That the president when he gave a speech last week was basically saying they've cheated. Want a peaceful transition. But my work is still not done. People got upset with me. So now there you say he didn't say concede. He didn't say concedes Steve. Don't you get it? Where are you now? Big mouths. You have the guts to call my show and apologized to me. Because all I did was tell you what the president was saying. I know that you think I have more power than the president. I am humbled by it, but I don't And I could only tell you what he's saying. And I could only tell you the facts here. The fax We were cheated and screwed over. I think anybody that has any common sense knows that I don't care what anybody else says. I don't care how they try to poke fun. Well, there's no evidence. Of course, there's not because it's not been allowed to be viewed. And no one tried to tell me that the Supreme Court basically viewed evidence they won't even allow it in So there is a hell of a lot of work that needs to be done. And this president is telling you he's telling you, he made it clear He's telling you exactly what's going on what he's going to do. And there's no doubt friends. President Trump was the most successful first term president in history. He did Maurin his first term than most presidents did in eight years. That's a fact. There is a hell of a lot. He did. What? What did you do? What did he do? What's his legacy? Well, he did tremendous amounts of things. Look at the Nobel Peace Prize. Look at the peace in the Middle East. Look at how he took on China. Look at how he took on the wall, exposing corruption. He put more conservative justices on the Supreme Court that in literally put you know backing Christians because Christians were attacked considerably under the eight years of Obama..
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"First news with that Ray is on the air. Land. A good Tuesday morning. America's first news continues on this 12th day of January, 34 minutes past the hour and knew of this morning President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence appear to have come to it a detente after nearly a week of silence, anger and finger pointing, the two met Late yesterday in the Oval Office and, according to a senior administration official quote had a good conversation. It was their first time speaking since last Wednesday when the president incited his supporters toe storm the Capitol building, as Pence presided over certification of November's election results. Pence and his family were forced into hiding Now. This comes as the House is prepared to cast a vote today, calling on the vice president to invoke the amendment on, of course, the subsequent to vote on impeachment. Meanwhile, lawmakers in the Senate Ted Cruz and Josh Holly, who voted against the certification of the election results. Even after the attack on the Capitol face center and possibly even worse at home, West Virginia Democrat Senator Joe Manchin, telling Fox News. He doesn't think lawmakers who voted against the results should be punished, he says. Constituents will make that decision. I understand. Senator is there's only 100 of us bread. You know how that the power that the Constitution gives each senator They were acting within the conference was bad. I think it was very, very, very bad judgment and those who held their ground. I could not believe it. You know, after we all gather them took us down that secure place. We were all there together. 345 hours I spoke to each one of my says, Please. You see what's happened? We didn't know the gravity of what had happened breath until we went down into that security area, and we saw the monitors. We couldn't believe what we were seeing because we had no idea it was at that level it all. So once we saw that, and then we heard about the deaths, and there may be more I talked to those people who were objecting and I said, I know you have the right within the the Senate to do is you're doing But look what you're doing to our country. Shouldn't you think about this? We're better than this, and I think five or seven of them did not. They change their minds, and I was proud to see that happening. But those who want to double down afterwards and We went over for the Pennsylvania vote vote, Bret we were in the House chamber and Pennsylvania congregation stood up and I think it had to be 50 60 70 Republican Congress, people stood up. Still doubling down, and John Johnson always stood up and confirmed by the Senate. So we went back over to the Senate. It was voted down again by over 90 days. But just to be clear, you're not saying that they should be disciplined for that they were operating within the confines of that vote. Right. They have to live with their conscience. They have to leave it with himself. I wanna they have Over their constituents know, several Democratic senators have called on Senator Holly and Cruise to resign Senators Sheldon White House and Sherrod Brown and called for them to be expelled if they don't Step down voluntarily. Meanwhile, the FBI warning of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in Washington, D. C in the days leading up to President elect Joe Bynes inauguration. It's Stoking fears of more bloodshed after the attack on the Capitol on internal FBI bulletin warned as of Sunday. The nationwide protests may start later this week and extend through Biden's January 20th inauguration. And in a report issued Saturday, the site Intelligence group warned that the Capitol attack is emboldened. Is Trump's supporting extremists. Meanwhile, the nationwide manhunt continues for those who attacked the capital leading to several deaths. Former federal agent Clint Watts said. The FBI has been deluged by more than 40,000 tips since the insurrection and is now under the most stress. Since the aftermath of 9 11. You could tell immediately from that the size of that crowd, which I think they were estimated around 8000 people. There were not near enough law enforcement there. Deal with that, and we should not be surprised if you watch the footage of the people that broke into the capital. They said. We did it, and then we were planning to do this and we were telling people Sunday. I think it was Saturday, Sunday before this was going on. My teams that do a lot of social media tracking. We were like this is gonna be huge deal. We we devoted more resource is from our own monitoring teams in our own analytical team's to this. Because it was so obvious that this was going to be a major scene. That's a number of 40,000 different tips that have been reported in. I cannot imagine an incident of this scale generating this may tip leads and this much evidence This many suspects on such a large nationwide sort of manhunt at any given time. And yet the inauguration is right around the corner, which means they've got to do two things they have toe. Cleanup and investigate the mess that has occurred around this tragedy last Wednesday, and they have to prepare for another mobilization potentially going in against the inauguration, and we have 50 state now. That all may have different variants of this on inauguration day, and they're just waiting to get appointed to buy one group or another. So I think it's probably the most stressful time for the FBI since 9 11. What's making the comments to CNBC. Meanwhile, law enforcement says it's ready for the inauguration. Biden says he's ready to and he says he's not afraid of insurrectionists. I'm not afraid of taking you. And we've been getting briefed, but I am I think it's critically important after being a real serious focus..