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Start the clock.

I appreciate you always coming back.

I miss you, too, including the guy who
yells, woo!

I miss all of you.

We have been off since Thanksgiving, and
nothing much has happened.

He said sarcastically, yes, I mean, got
a little dicey around Christmas, but we

defeated Venezuela, and we're free now.

Oh, also, Iran. I know this is big.
You're in L .A., big Iranian population

here. Largest protest ever there.

And, you know, they think this might
succeed this time, overthrow that awful

theocracy because Trump has promised to
help.

Iran is dealing with the protesters by
killing him in the streets. And Trump

said, we are watching, mostly for
pointers.

Now, these images out of Minneapolis are
just fucking ugly, are they not? I

mean, wow.

Including this, you see this one, the
five -year -old boy who was just taken

of, going to school.

But, you know, if you looked at his
penmanship, you can see he is the worst

the worst.

And, apparently, Minneapolis, only the
beginning. You know where they're going

into next? Maine.

that hotbed of crime, Maine.

This is Trump's shit list. Greenland,
Maine, and Minnesota. The axis of hot

chocolate.

Greenland. That was the other big story.

Greenland. I thought he forgot about it.
Remember at the beginning of the term,

it was Greenland, and then it was like,
okay, you know, sometimes the brain

farts pass.

But this week, the past week, it was
all, we're going to take it by force, by

force. Pete Hegseth, I'm so excited he
droned a dog sled.

Okay,

but then three days ago, Trump goes to
Davos, Switzerland.

You know, this is where the people who
run the world have the big meeting every

year. And he gives this big speech. He
kept saying Iceland when he meant

Greenland. He kept confusing Greenland,
which is...

So awkward when you're fucking one
country and you yell out the name of

Miracle of miracles.

He said in the speech, no, actually, we
don't want to use force now.

Okay, great. And not even the tariffs.
He threatened that. No.

All unneeded, because we are declaring
victory for a problem that wasn't there

until he made it. So it's... It's
like...

It's a little like... A little like when
the

dog throws up on the rug and then he
eats it. You know, it's... It took care

itself.

I always let him do it, by the way. I
was like, you know what, I could get up,

but just, yeah.

But this new Greenland deal, he just
says we have a framework.

It's just a framework, just really a
concept, no details, nothing written

It's modeled after the health care plan.

We get bases there in

Greenland. We get to build new ones. We
get to do mining. We get to keep Russia

out, all of which we had anyway.

But now everybody hates us.

what Fox News calls the art of the deal.

But here's something... Here's something
exciting. President

Trump... President... I've got an idea,
I call him.

He announced something very exciting. A
new board of peace. The board of peace.

Here's what we know about it. Step one,
give him a billion dollars.

I'm not making that up. That is step
one.

What, you got to know everything about
it? That's it, okay?

What are you, nosy?

And none of our traditional allies are
getting on board with the Board of

including Canada.

The prime minister there, ooh, he got
Trump mad. He made a speech, and he

you know, with America, we're not in a
transition here. This is a full -on

rupture. And then Trump got up, and he
said, you know what, Mark?

Canada lives because of the U .S.

Wow.

And then Katy Perry said, screw you
both, I'm still fucking Justin Trudeau.

We've got a great show.

We have Senator John Kennedy and Casey
Hunt.

The first up, he is a retired U .S. Army
Major General who is now Senior Advisor

for VoteVets and the Vet Boys
Foundation.

General Paul Eaton is here. General.

How are you, sir?

Welcome to you again. It's been so long,
I know.

Okay.

Thank you, sir.

Appreciate you being here. These are
very serious times.

So we needed a very serious person. But
Kaysernaut was busy. We got you.

But just tell us your background. I
mean, I call you General. I know you

probably like to be called Paul, but you
deserve that. And when I say thank you

for your service, that is completely
sincere.

But you've been everywhere.

You were a NATO soldier.

So in the beginning.

Oh, going that far back, yes.

No, I grew up in the United States Air
Force in a fighter pilot's house, and

that's a special place to grow up.

And I married a Marine's daughter.

My dad was killed flying a B -57 over
the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos.

And I went to West Point, and then I
became an infantryman.

And those are the highlights, but those
are the things that have an obvious

impact.

I mean, obviously, you're here because
the military is in your blood, and now

the military is in the streets.

This is what I want to ask you about
first and foremost. Trump says he's

sending, the Pentagon is sending 1 ,500
troops to Minneapolis.

You know, in your career, I'm guessing
this idea of the military involved in

civilian life was just always a non
-issue.

It's just something we never did. Am I
wrong about that? You are correct,

when there's a drama in a state and the
governor asks for

help.

From the Pentagon?

From the Pentagon.

That happened from the Pentagon. So I
went to Homestead, Florida, as a

lieutenant colonel, as the operations
officer for Army Forces.

And because the Army has excess
capacity,

We helped Florida recover from Hurricane
Andrew.

We caught fire in Wyoming in the park

system in Wyoming, in Yellowstone
National Park.

So when our governors have a dilemma and

it is out of their control, they're
done.

raiding their own resources, they can
act to go to Uncle Sam and

ask for a little help. Yeah, but
hurricanes and fires, this is different

fighting the people.

I feel like the mentality

of the military and the police, even
though there is a lot of crossover, I

a lot of guys get out of the military
and then they join law enforcement.

But I feel like...

They are somewhat fundamentally
different. I mean, when I think about

joining the Army or one of the branches
after 9 -11, I think that's a supreme

act of patriotism.

I think about people joining the police,
not that there aren't many, many, and

probably most, we don't know the
numbers, good police, but it's also when

give people a badge, it's sort of an
invitation to be a bully.

It's sort of like, okay, here's your
license to be an asshole if you want. It

looks like fundamentally they made the
mistake here with the ICE people of

getting a lot of people here who just
are there for the wrong reasons and just

want to fuck with people.

Is that your reading of it?

May I tell a short story? Tell a long
story.

You're the boss.

Yeah, you're the boss.

So in Iraq, we're there in Iraq. It was
a terrible decision going to Iraq, but

we're there.

And the 82nd Airborne Division has a
reputation for being the

macho, powerful, first in the fight
division.

Justified.

But we had a situation develop in a
small town outside of Fallujah.

I can't remember why the Iraqis were
incensed, but they were... Because

in their country, probably.

That has a bearing. And so we

have a battalion commander, a rifle
battalion commander, surrounded by young

in uniform, in battle dress, with their
rifles and a load of

ammunition.

And the Iraqis are very upset, a whole
lot of riot potential.

They're moving on the American forces.
The battalion commander directed

that the men take a knee, put the barrel
of their rifles in the dirt, and

smile. They thought he was crazy.

But in that stroke, defused the
situation,

de -escalated the problem.

And the Iraqis went, well, all right,
and nobody got hurt.

That's the quality of the men and women
that we see going into the armed forces

today who know how to tune themselves to
the event.

But going into the streets of America,
they didn't sign up for that.

No, and people didn't vote for it.

I mean, I was talking about this almost
a year ago when Trump started to first

send troops into Washington, D .C.

My view was that this is dangerous just
to have the military on the ground. Not

that I would ever suspect him of trying
to steal an election.

But if you do, it's kind of handy to
have those troops in place in American

cities.

It's intimidating.

My wife and I, we spend a fair amount of
time in Washington, D .C., and we see

these young men and women.

They're in groups of four.

They're carrying a sidearm.

They're wearing a soft cap, no visible
body armor.

And my wife raised three soldiers.

And she talks to them like, They're her

sons, her daughter.

And how are you doing?

Why are you here?

Just the normal questions a mom who is
also a veteran would ask young men and

women doing something that they didn't
sign up for, but are

doing because they're directed to do it.

And the two who are one killed, one hurt
terribly.

God bless those two, and it is a direct
result of going out

there. That brings me to the other
question that was a big issue while we

off.

Can soldiers refuse an order to go into
battle? Now, there's two senators. Mark

Kelly is one of them.

I forget the other one who Trump is
going after because they have told the

soldiers. this is after we fired on
boats outside of Venezuela, that it is

not your duty to follow an order that is
unconstitutional.

To me, this is a bit of a slippery
slope. I may not have been for those

but when you start to tell troops, kids,
that they have it in their power not to

obey orders, I don't know what happens
to your military. What is your view on

that?

We are in the greatest civil -military
relations crisis our country has had.

And it starts as an attack down from our
civilian leadership.

In the past, we've had problems,
MacArthur and Fallon and McChrystal,

which was a bottom -up attack on civil
leadership, on our civilian leadership.

But this is coming from Project 2025,
and it's directed down.

And the whole point of I will not go
there, I didn't sign up for

this. I had a soldier make that decision
back when I had to chop a unit, a

change of operational control, to a
Finnish brigadier general before they

in NATO.

He refused to wear the blue helmet.

conservative family in Texas, and we
laid it all out for him, and he got in

trouble because he would not wear it. He
said, I'll go.

I'll be the best medic you ever want,
but I can't do that.

I had an Iraqi battalion refuse to serve
in Fallujah as the outer ring, unlikely

to have any contact, because we
recruited our Iraqi soldiers, and we

you will not have to fight your fellow
Iraqi.

You are here for fighting enemies from
without.

Greenland. And I served on a panel three
days ago with 40

Democratic caucus congressmen.

And I made the comment, if Mr.

Trump chooses to put forces into
Greenland, you will have

soldiers.

who say, I didn't sign up for this.

It's going to happen.

And it will be a terrible event for the
armed forces of the United States. Well,

luckily, that's off the table now. He
says, we're not doing it. We have come

an agreement. We will not send troops.
But Greenland is going to redecorate all

gold. All right, sir, I thank you so
much for making time for us. Your

is very valuable. Your service is most
appreciated.

General Eaton, ladies and gentlemen. All
right, let's meet our panel.

Hey, guys.

How you doing?

Okay. Okay, she's the anchor of TNN's
The Arena with Casey Hunt. Casey Hunt,

course.

He is a Republican senator from
Louisiana and a very funny one, author

number one bestselling book, How to Test
Negative for Stupid and Why Washington

Never Will.

John Kennedy, your book is very funny.

Very funny.

So I have a suggestion for the people in
Minneapolis. How about this? It's so

cold in this country, the storm that
happened. How about it's too cold to

and use that as an excuse?

face -saving excuse for everybody just
to go home. Ice, you made your point.

You made your point.

Okay. We got into something with too
many illegals. Yes, that happened under

Biden. But these images, like I said,
really ugly.

I mean, when I think of some of these
things that we've seen, oh, there's some

of them. You know, the guy out in his
underwear, no clothes on in the cold,

kid. this pepper spray in the face, the
lady, disabled lady being pulled out of

her car.

John, I'm just going to say to you, I'm
not trying to pick a fight right away,

but my prediction is this stuff, your
party is going to get the dog shit

out of you in the midterms.

Because this is not what people voted
for, and they're going to hold the party

as responsible as they should.

Well, I'm going to give you my take on
it, Bill.

You don't have to be Einstein's cousin
or a senior

at Caltech to know that illegal
immigration is illegal, duh.

Those of us who believe that no one is
above the law have to concede that

folks who are in our country illegally
are not above the law either.

I support.

enforcing our immigration laws. Now, how
you enforce them matters. That's the

key. You have to do it.

You have to do it in accordance with due
process, equal protection, and Terry v.

Ohio. Reasonable suspicion.

It's okay to protest.

It's not okay to protest violently.

Violence undermines the morality that
you say your movement is built upon. But

that five -year -old was not being
violent. I understand.

You know.

But protesting violently not only
undermines your movement.

It's a 12 -piece bucket of stupid.

Somebody's going to get hurt. But is
anybody defending, and you cover this,

anybody defending the people who are
throwing things at the ICE agent? I

think so.

No, and I think if you listen to the
president and the vice president just in

the last couple of days, you can hear
that they can read the polls.

Right. They are seeing that Americans
are not behind these tactics. And

you have the president talking about how
what happened to Renee Goode was a

tragedy. And he also talked about how
her family were Trump supporters. But J

.D. Vance went to Minneapolis. A lot of
his critics thought that that was

provocative by itself. But he went there
and he actually did say.

Mistakes were made. The administration
was not saying that in the beginning.

And I think it underscores that they
know that people are seeing these

and they are not thinking this is what I
voted for. They voted to secure the

border. Well, I can read a poll and the
polls tell me that the president's

enforcement efforts are polling right up
there with with toenail fungus.

I get it.

But the question is, is it going to
change? And you know the president.

I can't tell you it's going to change.
That's why God made elections.

But I know this. Donald Trump, like it
or not, he's unrelenting.

He's like that one light in your hotel
room that you can't turn off

no matter how many buttons you push.

I'm not going to say he's going to back
up. But you know what? That's why God

made elections. But here's the thing.
Why, if that's true, do people say taco

about President Trump? Trump always
chickens out.

He just changed on Greenland. What's
keeping him from changing on this?

he's seen the polls.

Well, I don't know. I have no inside
information.

Well, he could. But he could.

But I wouldn't faint with surprise,
Casey, if he didn't.

Okay, but it is actually a good
opportunity for him because he is that

guy. That is one of his strengths, I
think, is that it is a cult.

I'm sorry, but manga is a bit of a cult.
And when

it is, I mean, so is Taylor Swift, but
okay.

And you're in it, okay.

And a cult leader can change on a dime,
as he often does.

So he could be the one, because he has
been so awful on this issue.

I mean, that woman, that was an
execution in the street.

I'm sorry, but it was. When I saw it,
you know what I thought of?

Because we're old enough to remember
this.

Show the picture. Okay, that's it.

I'm going to describe this first,
because this is from the 60s.

Remember Vietnam?

The Tet Offensive?

And that ugly picture that we saw after,
show the picture.

This is, everybody our age knows this.

That's the first thing that flashed in
my mind.

Just, okay.

So, okay, he made his point. He's the
tough guy.

It gives him the opportunity now to be
the guy who says, okay, I'm actually

going to do comprehensive immigration
reform. Because this has been on the,

long have you been in the Senate?

Ten years.

Okay, this has been on the table. In dog
years, it's about 70.

And before, Obama tried with a grand
bargain. But why couldn't Trump be the

to get this done? You talked to him. I
bet you you could put that bee in his

bonnet. Well, you know what the real
answer is?

The real answer is immigration reform.

That's the real answer.

Well, we did that. We closed the border.
No, no, no. I'm talking about not only

for illegal immigration, but also for
legal immigration.

And the truth is, Bill, if you're
honest, and you are.

We admit more people into America
legally every year than anyone in the

because the whole world wants to come
here.

When's the last time you heard of
somebody trying to sneak into China?

I mean, they want to come to America.

And we do, but we could do that better
if my Democratic friends would sit down

and talk with us. But when we sit down
and talk, the first thing they want,

amnesty, amnesty, amnesty.

And that dog's not going to hunt right
now. Okay, but couldn't there be some

sort of agreement on that? Because what
people are saying, even people from your

own party, is that, yes, we wanted to
get rid of the criminals. We all were

that. And there are some. It's not like
they have... About 47%. 47 %? Yep. I saw

numbers this morning.

About 47%. Sounds bullshitty to me, but
maybe.

I don't know. No, no.

That seems high.

It seems like, I mean, Obama, can we get
back to his policy? He was a bad ass.

Was he not?

Well, let's not get very unhappy. He
was. Let's not get very unhappy.

Democrats were very unhappy with the
rate of deportation under President

It's absolutely true. And a lot of the
people he deported did not have criminal

records. I mean, he did it too. He just
did it without this ugliness.

Okay, so it could be done.

Okay, let's get off this for a second.

Trump said, I think if he would just
stop voicing his interior monologue,

all breathe a lot easier. He's been
doing it for a decade. I know, but I

sometimes it's great we actually know
what he's thinking, and then it's too

much. He said, God is proud of the job
I've done, talking about the end of his

first year.

What parts?

Because I just want to, I said this to
you backstage.

You want to take that one, Casey? You
can have that one.

I do not have Trump derangement
syndrome. I know he's going to yell at

does it privately now, but I will get
yelled at for this. You know, Trump

derangement, you're with the left, the
lunatics. Okay, all that. No, no, no. I

don't judge everything just by Trump.
Must be awful. Okay, there's some things

he said even while we were off. He did
an animal rights thing that all my PETA

friends loved. He came out, pot.

It's not a schedule one anymore.

Thank you. You know, I mean, it's not
like he came out and said the Nick

Puente's wing of the party. We're not
with you. We don't want you. So and

Venezuela. Do I love everything about
it? No. But do I hate it? No.

Do I hate it?

When we get rid of a merciless dictator
who made a quarter of his country flee

and is inviting China and Russia and
Iran into the country, should Exxon

get the oil? Maybe not, but better than
that asshole.

So I don't have Trump's arrangement
syndrome.

I know, but to some extent, Bill, you're
yelling at the wind. Trump is just like

you are who you are. I've known
President Trump for 10 years.

He, like him or not, he exists loudly.

He grows anxious when he has an
unexpressed thought. It's all

Now, some people like that and some
people don't. I would think the media

love that. He talks to the media more
than any president I've ever seen. But

idea that President Trump is not
deciding which version of himself we're

to see is absolutely wrong. I mean, if
you know and you interact with...

President Trump in private.

I have over the course, the first time I
interviewed Donald Trump was back in

2013 when he was just thinking about
running for president. And he has one

setting when those cameras are on and
one setting when those cameras are off.

And if he wanted to make a different
decision about how to conduct himself in

public, he is absolutely capable of
doing that. He's not going to. But he's

going to. That is also correct.

And you can criticize it.

This is America. You can say what you
want.

Now, you know, he's not going to like
it. You might end up with a sombrero on

your head.

But he is what he is.

And the people who elected him. And you
know what? We're going to have midterms,

and that's why God made a election. But
even before then, we have a government

now, and you're in it. And you're in his
party. And what people are saying these

days is like, when is enough enough to
stand up to him? You know, that kind of

thing. I mean, here's a question I would
like to ask the people in your party.

Iran. I mentioned it in the monologue.
This is kind of a big thing. And I

thought, you know, we've seen these
demonstrations in Iran before. But this

bigger. and more people have died, but I
think maybe more people have died

because he said he was going to help.

This looks like a bay of pigs to me.
This looks like America's going to come

help you. Where is it?

Remember the Kurds in 91 when they
thought they were going to get help from

America? Vietnam could make the same
claim.

I mean, a lot of people have felt let
down by us. I thought Trump was

Where are you on this?

Because all these bodies that I see,
these body bags in Iran,

I think a lot of those people went in
the streets because they thought, oh, he

said he's got our back this time.

Where's the help?

Well, the generals have told us that
short of sending in a massive number of

troops, it will be another Iraq. Well,
then what did he mean when he said? I

don't know.

But if you look at it from a larger
perspective.

Because of Israel, this is one person's
opinion, because of Israel and President

Trump's backing of Israel, the Middle
East is safer than it has been in 20

years. Absolutely. Hamas is on its
knees, as Bob has on its knees. I gave

credit for that. Iran no longer looks
invincible. And you know who is

us every step of the way? Not out loud,
but the Arab countries.

Look, if Venezuela causes Cuba to fall,
If he somehow gets Venezuela,

Cuba, and Iran all to be not these
horrible places they were, he should get

Nobel Peace Prize.

But... The smartest people that are
coming through that I'm talking to

in commercial breaks will say, this is
the closest this Iranian regime has ever

been to falling. A big American concern
is that over -involvement on our part

could help...

help the support among the people with
the regime, right?

These Iranian people might not actually
want America to make a big show. They

want to be standing on their own.

But then there is this question of the
Israelis. And are the Israelis

in seeing us go in or not?

And right now it seems to be that they
have, and correct me if I'm wrong,

Senator, I'm sure you've been in these
briefings, they want to push pause a

little bit. Well, yes or no, what's your
gut? Will this regime fall from this?

My gut is it's going to take a little
bit longer than what we are seeing right

now, that it's not going to be
precipitous. But I also think President

been relatively unpredictable. If he
starts to talk about potentially doing

something like this, I think we've all
learned, you know, we got a lesson in it

in the first.

Trump term, right? And I think some
people forgot in the second Trump term

you know, we really should when he says
he's going to do something, actually

listen. And now he's emboldened. Why
couldn't he have just droned the

Ayatollah's ass or something? You know,
I mean, it seems like that.

If you want Iran to fall, here's what
you do.

You cut off their cash flow.

You double down on the sanctions.

We're still letting them sell all to
China.

And this would be dangerous. You embargo
their tanker.

You embark, just like we're doing in
Venezuela.

So, why don't we do it? Now, you better
be prepared to suffer or accept the

consequences. If you pray for rain,
you've got to be prepared to deal with

mud. We don't know what China will do,
because China buys a lot of that oil.

Yeah, not a problem.

So, his polls look like they're pretty
down.

I think he's suing the New York Times
for reporting that.

Interesting. But I don't go by the
polls. Polls can be right, polls can be

wrong, polls can change. You know what I
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No, they do. They sell MAGA merchandise,
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So, okay, so before we run out of time
here in the second half of the show,

let's talk about retribution, because I
know that when you voted for, and I

think you did, Bondi for Attorney
General and Kash Patel for the FBI,

I feel like you thought you got promises
that they would not indulge in

retribution, political retribution. Do
you think they kept their word to you?

Really? They're not involving themselves
in retribution?

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Look, there are those on both the right
and the left who think it is acceptable

to believe that two wrongs don't make it
right, but they do make it even.

And there are folks on both sides who
think it's okay to prosecute a political

opponent just because he's a political
opponent.

And I talked to him about that. To equal
degree?

And I told him that this is not America.
This is the sort of thing that happens

in countries whose powerball jackpot is
287 chickens and a goat.

That's not America.

Now, what has happened so far?

There have been three prosecutions.

Two of them the courts have thrown out,
James and Comey.

We never saw any of the evidence, so I
can't tell you whether they're

legitimate. The third one is Bolton, and
I just don't know enough about the

allegations for Mr. Bolton. I do know
Mr.

Bolton is one of the smartest people on
the planet, if you don't believe me, ask

him.

But other than that, there have been
some investigations. I push back on the

Powell investigation very vociferously.

Okay, this is Jerome Powell, the head of
the Fed.

Okay, so you're making the case that
both sides do it equally.

Trump is going after him for
redecorating.

Am I wrong about that? You are not
wrong. For spending too much money,

apparently. Like he's his wife.

You spent too much. Okay.

Redecorating. They had a new office.
Tell me if I'm wrong. They have a new

office building, the Fed. Okay.

Now, this is what I call a bar fight. In
a bar fight, you pick up anything.

That's Trump. He picks up anything.

You know, you've got the mortgage form
wrong.

That's the other one. He's going after
people for filling out the mortgage

for checking the wrong box, which
everybody does, including lots of

So you can't quite make the case, can
you, that it's equal?

I concede. But step back a second.

Good. Concede.

I concede those points.

Okay.

But it's undeniable. It's undeniable
that President Biden started this.

What did he do? He not only prosecuted a
former president, he prosecuted a

former president who was his former
opponent.

He prosecuted a former president who was
his former opponent and his current

opponent. But don't you argue in your...
And that unleashed spirit that he could

not control.

Is anyone surprised that Trump punches
back?

I'm not saying it's right.

But, Casey, please. I was just going to
say, right in your book, that two

wrong... don't make a right, but they do
make it even, and you take them to task

for it, right?

And, I mean, the facts you leave out
around Comey and Letitia James are that

Justice Department couldn't find a
career person in that office who looked

that evidence and thought, I'm going to
bring a case. They had to fire that

person, put in someone else.

Then it turns out that person actually
is illegally appointed, and now Pam

is trying to figure out a way, you know,
putting out statements defending her.

So are they not doing exactly what you
warned them not to do when you

them in that hearing? Those are fair
points.

But the only prosecution that I see is
Dr.

Bolton. And I don't know enough.

Democrats will admit as well that the
Bolton prosecution. I don't know enough

know it's bad. The investigation of
Jerome Powell, I have posed

Because when you prosecute someone, you
not only have to have a federal crime

and be able to prove it's beyond
reasonable doubt, you have to be able to

it's in the public interest. Okay, but
let's get out of the periphery here and

go right to the heart of it. Because
it's great, we agree, we shouldn't be

prosecuted for redecorating.

I'll give you this on the table.

Let me put this forward.

Show of good faith. I don't think they
should have prosecuted him over the...

There's a button here somewhere.

Yes.

I don't think they should prosecute him
over the hush money to the porn star.

Remember that one? Yeah, I do.

Okay. We could have let that one go. I
mean, I'm sure you could make the case.

She wasn't worth it, by the way.

Just one person's opinion.

Eskimo cousins, are you? Uh -huh.

Okay, but the big one is the one, now
Jack Smith, he's the one who was

prosecuting Trump for crimes of trying
to steal the 2020 election.

Okay, that's the real one.

And I get your point, that we don't want
to go into this spiral of lawfare.

That's what banana republics do.

Nobody ever really wins an election.

You win until the next people come along
and say, well, you didn't, and it

wasn't fair, and it wasn't right. Nobody
ever believes the election. This is

what made us so great for so long. We
avoided all that bullshit. We had a

peaceful transfer of power.

So this only... Thank you.

America looks beautiful.

Would this only work if the person in
office doesn't actually commit crimes

are egregious?

You see what I'm saying?

Should I read to you the quote from
Georgia where he says, I just want to

11 ,700 votes, which is one more than we
have, because we won the state.

I only need 11 ,000 votes.

Fellas, I need 11 ,000 votes. Give me a
break.

This isn't worth looking into.

This isn't something that you kind of
have to take to court. I'm going to say

again. And you may disagree, Bill.

But when you have an able prosecutor,
first of all, a prosecutor, you need

prosecutors who know.

who have prudential judgment and who
know a law book and a rule book from a J

.Crew catalog.

And if they're fair, here's how they're
going to proceed.

They're going to prosecute a federal
crime, only if it's a federal crime,

if they can prove it beyond a reasonable
doubt, and only if it's in the public

interest. If the prosecution, even
though you don't have to agree with the

conduct. But if the prosecution will
undermine the fairness of the criminal

justice system or the perceived fairness
of it, you don't prosecute. And I'm

just telling you, President Biden, for
the first time in this country's

prosecuted a former president, a former
opponent, who was his current opponent.

I understand.

And he unleashed spirits he could not
control. Well, but again,

it was the first time we did that.

It was also the first time that
something prompted us to do that. No.

No. Wait a minute.

Now, wait a minute.

They allege. I'm not defending the
president or his conduct. You can make

own judgment. Well. You make your own
judgment about it. Okay, all right.

like you. But you can be worried. You
can be worried about the president.

And not defend the conduct.

But wait, there it is that President
Trump defrauded the American people.

Okay?

What does that mean?

How about when President Obama said, if
you like your insurance, you can keep

your insurance.

Is that fraud? Not quite on this. No.

But is that fraud?

It wasn't the best thing he ever said,
and it turned out to be not completely

true. It's well within the realm of
political... How about the people around

President Biden, who hid studiously and
successfully the fact that he had

neurodegenerative disease?

Should they be prosecuted?

The 2020 election, did he win that one?

Here's what I see about it.

The issue is not...

The issue is not whether the 2020
election was manipulated.

Both sides did everything they could.

The issue is whether it made a
difference.

And the only way you can prove that it
made a difference is to go in front of

God, country, and a federal judge and
prove it. And that hasn't been proven,

the election wasn't legal.

What is he saying now?

You want me to repeat it? No, no, I want
her to translate.

So, the senator, and many others in

this party. Casey, you can call me an
ignorant slut if you want to.

I am more polite than that. I agree to
be more polite than that. No, no, no.

You're hardly ignorant. There are so
many layers here, okay?

He is in a difficult position when that
question is asked because of President

Trump and the way he commands loyalty
from all of the Republicans in your

I mean, let's be real about that, right?

But the reality is, I mean, you were at
the Capitol on January 6th. I was at the

Capitol on January 6th. I looked out the
window. I saw the mob, right?

We were there for hours, right? I mean,
I got into journalism because I thought

it was public service, right? We're all
in this democracy together. I wanted to

play a little bit of a part in it.

There are people attacking the building.

We find out later they've carved, killed
the media and other things. They're

hunting Nancy Pelosi. They're yelling,
hang Mike Pence.

The president's at the White House.

And for hours, no one comes, right?

No one.

Right. We found out later they were
called, but then the president basically

wouldn't let the call go through. It's a
little more nuanced than that. The

basic facts of the case, the idea that
then we're not going to say look around

and say, hey.

How do we hold people accountable for
that? It's kind of where we are now.

And I will say that in terms of lawfare
and the way the system... Do you think

he should be prosecuted for that?

Well, I mean, he was prosecuted, like he
was about to be, and then he won an

election. But if you were a prosecutor,
would you prosecute him for that? I'm

not a prosecutor. I'm not a lawyer. I'm
a journalist.

Well, I'm a TV host, and I have to say
that's all the time we have for the

final. Thank you very much.

It's time for new rules.

Okay, new rule. If you want to know why
ICE plays so rough, follow the money.

Who's getting rich?

It's obviously the auto glass industry.

Stop asking Trump about the Proud Boys.
We need to look into his connection to

the Pep Boys.

Since foldable phones are all the rage,
Apple must go all in and make the next

phone so flexible that Japanese kids can
turn it into a swan.

And by the way, if you're a young person
who pays a thousand bucks for a new

phone because it can bend in half, you
must apologize to every old person you

made fun of for still using one of
these.

Emmanuel Macron has to come clean about
wearing sunglasses everywhere this week

at Davos.

Just a minute, man.

Your wife is beating you up again, isn't
she?

I know all the folks who make mutton
bows. Jeans must admit that there's no

thing as anti -flat -butt technology.

If your butt is flat and then you put
the jeans on and then it's round, that's

not technology, that's padding.

The idea that denim can take you from
flat buns to badonkadonk is something

just pulled out of their ass.

New Rule, please don't make me feel
sorry for Stephen Miller.

The crew of the new Star Trek series
features a cast of three lesbian

performance artists prompting Miller to
retweet an ex -post calling it tragic.

Unlike being a 40 -year -old man
tweeting about Star Trek.

Although I must admit, when I was a
teenager, dreaming about space

This wasn't what I had in mind.

And finally, new rule, if you're still
looking for a New Year's resolution,

here's one. Get out of your media
bubble.

The most frustrating thing that happens
to me whenever I'm off is people I run

into want me to do my job, which I'm on
vacation from.

privately in restaurants and at parties
and, well, the bathhouse is a separate

situation.

But look, I'm happy to share my opinions
wherever except for this.

Everybody, left and right, is only half
informed.

So I'm constantly hearing, no, I didn't
hear that part.

News feeds.

They're like high -priced fetish
escorts.

They understand their whole job is to
give it to you just how you like it.

To my Republican friends, you know this
didn't have to happen.

You know she wasn't trying to run the
guy over. You know, I always do my part

and admit when the left has gone off
track.

Yes, Biden let in too many immigrants.
Yes, there are criminals among them.

Blah, blah, blah. But you never
reciprocate and say, OK, this is where

too far.

It's just my team fucked the truth.

You're not intellectually honest.

Stop asking me if I have the slightest
interest in joining your side.

I never did. You have no integrity.

You went apeshit about the corruption of
Hunter Biden, which in the liberal

bubble didn't exist at all. Although,
yes, of course, it really did. But on

a smaller scale than what Trump is
doing. Was it ridiculous that Hunter

got a job helping the Ukrainians look
for natural gas?

Of course.

especially since he was looking for it
in hookers.

But the Trumps are so far and

away more corrupt than that.

Don Jr.

owns a nightclub in D .C., for Christ's
sakes. Really, a private club called the

Executive Branch, where people pay a
membership fee of half a million dollars

because corruption now has valet
parking.

Tuesday nights, ladies bribe free.

Garface is there on Wednesdays. Look.

In the old Watergate days, the refrain
was, follow the money.

Well, now the money's in crypto, so you
can't.

Originally, Trump hated crypto, said it
was a scam.

And then he remembered, I love scams.

Hunter Biden made a few million. The
Trump family has made at least two

since he was elected as America's 47th
and final president.

And that can't all be from gold
sneakers.

It's not. It's from shady people like
crypto billionaire Justin Sun, who was

being investigated for fraud by the SEC,
but then he bought.

$75 million in World Liberty Financial.

And the case went away.

What, you ask, is World Liberty
Financial?

Well, it's the Trump's private company.
Wink, wink.

And it sells crypto, that is, monopoly
money, to guys who wear tracksuits on

yachts.

Who buy it with real money, which gives
them a friend in the Oval Office who can

do them favors when they commit crimes
and pardon them when they get caught.

Trump isn't draining the swamp, he's
bottling it.

Everyone...

Everyone

these days says he wants to be a king.

No, not a king. He's a prince from
Nigeria.

I see now why he doesn't want to leave
office. The money's too good.

Carolyn Leavitt says neither the
president nor his family have ever

will ever engage in conflicts of
interest.

And then her tiny cross pendant burst
into flame.

The Trump sons even launched a crypto
mining operation, which Trump may not

to discuss while the Epstein scandal is
ongoing, as he's very sensitive about

any connection to miners.

But yes,

by all means, Fox News, please tell us
more about the Biden crime family and

nothing about how Trump once promised to
put his business assets in a blind

trust.

Actually, that's what you gave him,
blind trust.

Speaking of which... Now, let me tell
you

about the story that liberal algorithms
locked out.

Her name is Thea Weaver, and if you ask
anyone in the blue sky bubble who that

is, they'll look at you like a turkey
looking up at the rain.

But she's kind of important in New York,
being Major Mondani's chief of the

Office to Protect Tenants, and since
Mondani's big issue is the rent's too

high, yes, he stole this guy's act.

It's a very key appointment in the most
important city in the country, which is

also our financial center. It matters
that the mayor stands by, and so I

stands with, someone who says things
like, If you don't believe in the

government's sacred right to seize
private property, it's over.

Seize private property.

Home ownership is racist.

Elect more communists.

Private property, especially home
ownership, is a weapon of white

Really? Even among the 20 million black
Americans who own their own home?

I mean...

These are the kind of utterances I might
forgive, as something a dumb white girl

said while she was at Brinoir.

Because it's the kind of privilege
-hating you can only learn for $95 ,000

year.

But these are statements made as an
adult.

Yes, for co -eds from elite private
colleges, you're only a lesbian until

graduation, but...

The communism lasts a lifetime.

Democrats seem to be having this debate
whether or not Mayor Mamdani is a

socialist or a democratic socialist.

Let me settle it.

He's a straight -up communist.

How do I know this?

Well, I'm reading between the lines when
one of his major advisors says, elect

more communists.

Which is fine.

It's fine. It's a belief system. He's
allowed to believe it, and people are

allowed to vote for it. But if liberals
deny it, like he's just going through a

goth phase, they're going to lose more
elections. This is not a communist

country. And this is the pendulum never
lands in the middle problem I'm always

bitching about.

Really, the choices we get here are
either the worst version of crony

or communism, Either a side deal for the
Trump family every time he does

business overseas, or the lady who says,
impoverish the white middle class.

Oh yeah, there's a great campaign slogan
for you.

Honestly, as New York mayoral races go,
I was left creeped out by Anthony

Weiner's dick.

All right, that's our show. I want to
thank my guest, Casey Hunt, Senator John

Kennedy, and Major General Paul Eaton.
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