PBD Podcast - The View MELTS DOWN, Kamala Harris Concedes, Zelenskyy Panics w/ Lara Trump | PBD Podcast | Ep. 504
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Alright folks this is the first podcast we're doing since the election night that we did, which was absolutely insane. What a couple thousand people in house
with 291,000 concurrent watching us for eight straight hours.
You guys were crazy who were with us on election night,
but we thought about who would be the right person
to be here to speak on Thursday
to give us a little bit of insight,
somebody that played a very, very important role that maybe the opposition us a little bit of insight. Somebody that played a very, very important role
that maybe the opposition feared a little bit.
Maybe, I don't know, I'm just thinking
because they couldn't do some of the stuff
that maybe they wanted to do.
The great Laura Trump is in the house.
It's great to have you here.
Hey, thank you.
What a nice intro, I appreciate that.
Anytime.
So, we got a lot of stories we're gonna cover.
Laura, we want some insight scoop on what's going on
I know Kamala gave her speech yesterday
Just yes, just yesterday. I think
The new the way the market reacted added one point six two trillion dollars of wealth
To folks in America just so you know with the amount of how Dow reacted
You know SMP is about to cross 6,000.
Tom, did you say the biggest plus minus post-election
ever in the history of America?
Donald Trump sparked the biggest single day post-pop
in the stock market in SMP in history.
In history.
In history.
Crypto, Bitcoin hit its highest ever.
There is some unfortunate news that we have to,
we can't just give all the good stuff.
What happened?
Jimmy Kimmel had a hard time last night.
I saw that.
That's not appropriate.
Bless his heart.
Yeah, I saw that.
He got me emotional.
That's not appropriate.
And Sunny made some comments about uneducated white women.
I don't know if you've seen this or not.
Sunny, which we have to react to.
By the way, she said these uneducated white women is why we have President Trump
in the White House. Then your guy who you love, Morning Joe, you know who he played?
He said Hispanics are racist. I can't even, when I'm listening to this guy, the amount
of like them losing their mind. So we're going to cover a lot of that stuff.
The media is having a coping pandemic.
Rachel Maddow couldn't wait till she blamed Russia for it.
Juan Williams, Van Jones said,
people who don't have papers are terrified tonight.
Trump sees a 50% boost in New York Jewish vote
compared to 2020.
There's one clip folks, you have to see.
I'm explaining this to my dad early this morning.
Brooklyn doesn't wanna go to school this morning.
She's up six o'clock, I don't wanna go to school today.
Three years old, she doesn't wanna go to school today.
So I'm downstairs and I'm explaining to Papa, I'm like,
do you know how many counties, not states,
Kamala outperformed Biden of 2020?
And I'm, I know you know.
And I'm asking him, I asked Jen, I asked Mickey, I'm like, do Mickey I'm like do you think 50% do you think 30%?
Do you think like County not state Rob? Do you have that clip? We have to show that we will show that here in a minute
It's equal to her IQ
Zelinsky
Pushes to congratulate Trump
Maduro had some comments
The Iranian leader tweeted something out which was interesting Houthis declare immediate ceasefire against the IDF.
I wonder why.
Tesla could reach a trillion dollars market cap under Trump win.
New York Times admits woke ideology is losing its grip in the country and there's a bunch
of different things that's going on.
And before I get into it, Rob, if you can pull up one thing guys, I want to show you
this first go to the numbers on what happened with us on election night.
Then I'll go on Manect and then we'll get
right into the podcast.
So this is us.
Just four years ago, we started a PVD podcast.
Our first live, Rob, if you can zoom in,
we have 57 people join us on the first live.
57?
We hit 57, this is what I said.
I said I just wanna thank all the 57 people
that are here with us.
So this was election lot of night, okay
That's PBD podcast concurrent
Associated press was number two ABC News Kirk
What a phenomenal job he did was awesome Penny Johnson Tim cast MSNBC election time Megan Kelly daily wire NBC News Al Jazeer
BBC you're talking everybody there and
PBD podcast was at the top,
and our peak that we hit was 291 on that night.
The energy in the building was ridiculous
on what happened, number one.
A YouTube insider reached out to us,
and they looked at all the data,
they said we were number one worldwide for all the lives.
So congratulations, by the way,
it wouldn't have happened with everybody
that's watching us out there.
You've stayed with us for four years. but whatever reason you like what we talked about. I don't know what it is
I maybe it's Adams looks
Maybe it's Vinny's when he gets angry patriot. Maybe it's Tom's knowledge and brain. Maybe it's the fights
Maybe it's the fact that we don't judge Adam
I don't know what it is could be the comedy
but most importantly the guests that have agreed to come on.
And in the Trump family, the last two weeks we've had the man Donald Trump came, Eric
Trump came, now we have Laura.
Cannot wait to get into the stories with you.
But also for those of you guys during election time that everybody's using the Manect app,
I want to say this before we get started.
We started the app four years ago.
28 completed Monex
questions answered. The entire year. 2022 was 551. 2023 completed questions answered.
2593, 2024 so far, 37,000 questions have been asked and answered. So for many of you, Cuomo,
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Who else you got Candice Dave Smith Ian Carroll Ryan Montgomery?
John Claude van Damme is on my neck right now. You can ask him questions. Literally. He just got him Emily awesome
You have so many different people and as well as the folks here Tom Vincent Adam myself
You can download the app and start manecting today.
With that being said, Laura.
Hello.
How's it feel now that it's over?
And at what point did you guys know,
I guess when you're at Mar-Lagos,
everybody's seen the pictures,
president's sitting there, Dana White, Elon Musk,
Elon's got his kid on his shoulder.
You know, we had a couple of people telling us,
here's what the energy is like in Mar-Lagos.
At what point did you know we're winning this thing?
I think look we knew we had one North Carolina
We were waiting for Georgia and we knew any minute they were they were gonna have to call Georgia and you know
We have all of our people on the ground in these places giving us their feedback
Pennsylvania looked really good and
It really seemed like from everything we were
hearing across the country, things were all going to trend our way. And I think it was
probably around what, like 1230 in the morning or something, that we realized we probably
should make our way to the convention center because there was a speech that was going
to be made at some point. But it was a little bit different than 2016.
2016, I feel like every state that came in, even states like Mississippi that you know
we're going to win, we're like, yeah, that's always good. But this time, you know, there
were the seven states that I mean, we killed ourselves and time and time again, no one
more so than my father-in-law. But it's amazing.
You know, it is so much sweeter in 2024 than it ever could have been in 2020.
And I actually think it's so much better overall for him,
and I think it'll be better for the country.
You know, I'm sure people have talked about this already,
but in 2020, had he won, there was obviously so much against him,
but he also would not have had a house and a Senate, right?
The Democrats were in control of that. We obviously have a majority now in the Senate,
we will, and the House feels pretty good. Looks like it's going to trend our way, fingers crossed.
But, you know, having gone through everything he has over the past four years,
seeing how bad things have gotten in this country, I think has awakened a lot of people.
And I don't think once you're awake,
you're gonna go back to sleep.
I think it's why we saw people come out and vote
in the numbers they did for Donald Trump
in these voting blocks
that have traditionally always gone Democrat.
I think that it is so much better now for America
and for the future of this country
that Donald Trump won in 2024.
I mean, all I can say is it's absolutely incredible.
I got a question for you.
So we're there.
We start at seven.
We end at 3.30, whatever the time was.
And I'm watching, we're all betting
after they announced Pennsylvania,
after they announced Georgia,
after all this stuff that's going on,
Donald Trump's headed towards the you know, the Convention Center.
Then you see the picture I think your husband posted. It's him reading the speech, right?
Those papers and the big picture, which is great. So then everybody's saying, when do
you think he's going to come up and speak and how long is the speech going to be? So
we're making a wager with everybody that's watching. Will it be less than five minutes?
No. Will it be less than 10 minutes? No. Will it be less than 10 minutes, no. We'll be less than 20 minutes, no.
We'll be 30 minutes now.
Everyone's like, it's gonna be over an hour, right?
So he comes up at 226.
At this point, I'm watching him on stage.
He's 78 years old.
He's been running and gunning,
and he's up there like having fun, telling jokes.
Hey JD, why don't you say a couple words?
Hey Dana, why don't you come on up here?
Gotta give congratulations.
Where's Bryson DeChambeau?
Somebody get Bryson up here.
Yeah.
So I mean, when you, and he went 26 minutes,
when you, you're around him,
and so he's your father-in-law,
but he's also somebody you're helping become president.
And you're married to his son,
but you're also somebody that's playing a role,
so, and you're playing a very important job. You don't have a light
It's not like hey, I'm a supportive spouse. That's not you
You have your own identity that you're doing what you're doing when you're watching this guy from all those different lenses
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Gosh, so I've known him for 16 years. Actually, my 10-year wedding anniversary is tomorrow.
Thank you. If you remember, that was election day in 2016, November 8th. So it was our two-year
wedding anniversary for me and Eric.
I've known him for so long. I've seen him go through so much. It's hard for me to see
him as anything other than my father-in-law, because that's how I've known him for so long.
But I have such respect for this man. You know, I've seen him go through the toughest
things imaginable that I can't believe he's actually endured and still stood up and kept fighting and never
wavered for a single second.
But it's, you know, this man, I believe, and I said this last night on with Sean Hannity,
I really believe when history looks back on Donald Trump, he will be one of the greatest
leaders this world has ever seen.
And you know, the reason that I think it was important for him to win in 24 instead of
20 is because now these people, people are starting to realize, look, the mainstream
media lies constantly.
All those people you're just talking about in the intro here, all the folks who are out
there melting down the sunnies, the whoever it is out there, Rachel Maddow, people saying
they're going to put you in camps.
I mean, this stuff is so outrageous.
And people are starting to see like, hey, they've lied to us about this man for so long.
And all he ever wanted was to do what's right for America and to save this country really.
And he does it because he loves this country.
And you know, I just think that I'm so honored to be by his side for all of these things.
And there was that moment I took a picture of him too when he was reading that speech
backstage the picture Eric took, because it's just he deserves this more than anyone.
He worked so hard for it.
He fought against everything they threw his way.
And I could not be prouder to be part of his team for this.
Why do you guys work so hard for him?
Why does the entire family work so hard for him?
Well, I think we know what his ultimate goal is.
And I can tell you, look, you go back,
and there was an Oprah interview in the 80s.
And she asked him, would you ever run for president?
And he said, only if I felt like my country needed me.
Only if I felt like things got so bad, I had no other choice.
I think he did it in 2016 because he knew the country
needed him. And I've seen him. Look I think he did it in 2016, because he knew the country needed him.
And I've seen him, look at what he did
his first term in office.
He had constant incoming,
people constantly fighting against him,
the left, the media, everybody.
And he actually did so many great things for America.
Don't forget, he never took a salary
while he was in the White House, he donated it.
The only president to come out of the White House
with less money than he went into the White House with,
he's lost zeros off the back of his net worth because he loves America.
And I know he knows that his charge is to save this country.
And I believe turn it around.
And I think whenever you're working for something that's bigger than yourself,
it's very easy to keep going, to hustle, to do whatever it is you need to do.
And I know him, I know his heart,
I know why he's doing this.
And for me, it makes it very easy to work very hard.
What's the first thing he said to you when he met you?
First time Eric brought to him, introduced you to him,
what was the first thing he said to you?
Well, this is an interesting story.
So I met him at the US Open tennis tournament.
Eric and I had been dating for a couple months
and in traditional Eric Trump fashion,
he did not tell me I was going to meet his dad
the day I met him.
Very little information.
Just, oh, do you want to go to like this tennis thing with me?
And I was like, yeah.
OK, I grew up in a very, like, middle class family,
not to get Kamala Harris on anybody.
You're from a middle class family.
Did you work in McDonald's also?
My parents were small business owners.
I won't go on the whole thing.
Did you work in McDonald's also?
I did not. I worked at a car wash.
Did you have a nice lawn?
People had nice lawns in my neighborhood, it's true. And they cared about those lawns.
But, so when you say you're taking me to like a tennis tournament, I think, okay, we're sitting in like the bleachers, like whatever.
So I come dressed for that. Then we roll up and we go into a separate parking area.
And I noticed we're not going to sit out in the bleachers.
And I was like, oh, these are,
these are like the nice suites that we're going to.
Okay, already felt underdressed.
And then the door opens
and then there's Donald Trump and Melania Trump.
And I was like, oh my God, you could have told me
that you were gonna introduce me to your dad.
You know, and the stakes are always pretty high.
What is he wearing?
Oh, he's in a suit.
He's in a suit and he had you just go.
Yeah, and I'm like, you know, I have sandals on, I look, whatever.
Eric's in a suit.
Eric's in a suit.
Eric was, I'm trying to remember what Eric was wearing.
I actually don't remember, sorry, honey.
But my father-in-law was in a suit.
You're always nervous when you meet
your potential future in-laws.
When the last name is Trump, it's a little bit more.
At this point, how long have you guys been together?
Like two months.
So he's fully committed to you,
he's bringing you to me.
Apparently.
Good for him.
He made me wait six years till we got married,
but I digress.
So we walk in and of course I'm like, oh my gosh, but maybe
it was better I didn't know because I didn't have time to get nervous or think about it.
And you know, he shook my hand said, nice to meet you. And then we sat down to watch
tennis and I was kind of like, oh my God, like, what do I do? And he looked over at
me and he goes, I'm going to get an ice cream. Do you like ice cream? And I was like, yeah,
yeah, like ice cream. And he was like, I'm gonna get you an ice cream. I was like, oh
my God, Donald Trump likes ice cream. This could all be okay. That was
sort of my intro. And that was the icebreaker. I was like, all right, he's gonna get me an
ice cream. We're all good now. But that was my first introduction.
And then when he came back to you guys, have a conversation, is he talking to you?
Yeah, he asked me about where I was from and where I'd gone to school and what I was doing,
what I wanted to... Why did I move to New York, all the common things.
But he was very honestly, the thing people will tell you about Donald Trump whenever
you first meet him is he's very disarming.
And he talks to you just like I mean, you guys know, because he came in here.
But he's not, you know, sometimes you find it hard to talk to people with the stature
that he has.
He's not like that at all.
He makes you feel comfortable.
He talks to you like a real person. And you know, I immediately was sort of at ease,
you know, talking with him. How different is he off camera versus on camera? How different is he
on stage going at it, the enemy calling him out, trolling versus he's on Air Force One or he's on,
you know, Trump, you know, you guys are flying around, you're in Mar-a-Lago, you're with the family,
how different is he?
I mean, honestly, he's, what you see with Donald Trump is pretty much what you get.
The only thing I'll say is he is one of the funniest people I have ever met.
There's no one who's going to tell a story like Donald Trump and make you laugh.
The things that he says and the stories he has are absolutely incredible, but I think
that's what people love about him is, you know,
oftentimes the criticism of him is we wish he'd be more
presidential, you know, more professional.
This is Donald Trump.
And that's why people love him because what you see out
there truly is what you get with him.
And he's, some people would say transparent to a fault,
but I don't know.
He just became president and won the popular vote.
And now, you know, he did it a second time. I wouldn't say transparent to a fault, but I don't know. He just became president and won the popular vote.
And he did it a second time.
So when did you get the job?
When did the market announce that you are running, you're responsible?
Was it right after what Vivek did with Ronna McDaniel?
Did you have any clue he was going to do that when he went up on stage or no?
Oh, that he wanted me to be the co-chair of the RNC?
He called me
so I got a call from him this is probably back in January and it was it
was weird because usually he just calls me but somebody from his office had
texted me and said could you take a call from your father-in-law in an hour and
I was like why wouldn't you just call me and then whenever the call came through
he obviously he called me but then there were several people there with him.
And the ask was, would you run for co-chair of the RNC?
Because this is not a position you're appointed to.
You have to run.
And there were 168 members of the Republican National Committee who actually vote you into
this position.
So had they not wanted me there, I wouldn't be here right now as the co-chair of the RNC.
He could say it all day long.
Interesting.
Yeah. So establishment, no matter what,
they have to select you to the end of it.
They have to choose you, yes.
And what percentage do you have to get?
Is it 60, is it?
Yeah, I mean, it's less of an official vote,
it's more of an everybody in favor say aye type of thing.
But he called and he told me that he thought
that this would be a great position for me,
and my immediate response was absolutely not.
Look, I knew the stakes in this election.
I've seen how much they fought against this man.
I've seen what he has to go through.
And I knew how hard they were going to make this election in particular.
And I have two young kids, I have a lot of other professional pursuits personally that
I have going on.
And I knew what it would take to win this election.
And I said, I don't know that I want to get myself into this right now, to be honest with
you.
And he of course goes, all right, honey, no pressure, but it's got to be you type of thing,
of course.
He's very persuasive.
It was a pretty good Trump.
It's not bad.
It's not bad.
I've worked on it.
But did you know this was going to happen?
Did you know Vivek was going to get up and blast Ronald McDaniel or no?
No, I didn't know this at all.
So this was a shocker to you.
Yeah.
Rob, we can't ever watch this enough time.
This is February and we're here, right?
We're there.
We're here.
No, no, we're at the event.
Go to the latest clip.
Swami, let me turn to you.
Please make your case.
Why would you, why should you be the nominee and not the former president?
I think there's something deeper going on in the Republican Party here.
And I am upset about what happened last night.
We've become a party of losers at the end of the day.
We as a cancer, the Republican establishment.
Let's speak the truth.
I mean, since Ronald McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017, we have lost
2018, 2020, 2022, no red wave that never
came.
We got trounced last night in 2023.
And I think that we have to have accountability in our party.
For that matter, Ron, if you want to come on stage tonight, you want to look the GOP
voters in the eye and tell them you resign, I will turn over my yield, my time to you.
Ready?
And frankly, look, the people there cheering for losing in the Republican Party think about who's moderating this
debate this should be Tucker Carlson Joe Rogan and Elon Musk we'd have ten times
the viewership asking questions that GOP primary voters actually care about and
bringing more people into our party getting the Democrats and we've got
Kristen welfare here the Democrats would actually hire Greg Gutfeld to host a
Democratic debate.
They wouldn't do it.
And so the fact of the matter is, I mean, Kristen, I'm going to use this time because
this is actually about you and the media and the corrupt media establishment.
Ask you the Trump-Russia collusion hoax that you pushed on this network for years.
Was that real or was that Hillary Clinton made up this information?
Answer the question.
Go.
Look at her face.
Sorry.
I don't know what to say.
I wanna go home.
We need accountability because this media rigged
the 2016 election.
They rigged the 2020 election
with the Hunter Biden laptop story.
And they're gonna rig this election
under the accountability.
Governor Christie, why you?
Wow.
Lester, your career is up.
Do you know what I love is whenever these people in the media who try to like savagely attack all of us get just a little
Taste of what they throw out there. They have no idea how to handle it at all
They are that that was a panicked face right there
Could you imagine if she had to be up on stage and answer that question? Oh, yeah, get it
So when that happened what happens next to you? Who's calling you?
So my father-in-law called with all these people.
Right after that, like that night?
What night was that?
I think this is February.
What I'm wondering is, is it like, hey, babe, you're taking over, right?
Well, I think he knew he was, before that, he knew that he wanted to make some changes.
And I think he knew that in order to successfully, you know, win this election
you probably needed a little bit of restructuring at the RNC and
so he called and asked me if I would run for a co-chair and I told him no initially and then
to be honest that it was that night I was putting my kids in bed and
thinking about how much time I would ultimately spend away from them and
How hard it would probably be on them that I was like
You know what?
I think I have to do this because I got to make sure that these kids get to live in the greatest country on earth
And I never won a second guess and say like what if I had done this so here we are
So it's a large quick question. What so you come in? What do you think was the biggest thing lacking?
I'm pretty sure the people were kind of telling you that Ronna wasn't doing, that she was overlooking. That's the first question. And then the second on
the days leading up, election day and all that stuff, because you were dispatching lawyers
and to Pennsylvania and all that stuff. What was the biggest thing that you saw yourself
doing in those days leading up to stop them from doing what they were doing?
Well, I think first and foremost, we got rid of quite a few people at the RNC. And I think first and foremost, we got rid of quite a few people at the RNC,
and I think the RNC was probably doing too many things.
You know, trying to be everything to everyone, you're nothing to anyone, right?
And so when Michael Watley and I took over, he's the chairman,
we said we need to actually pare things back and really focus on just three things.
We want to have a world-class convention, we want to get out the vote,
and we want to protect the ballot. And those three things are literally all we focused on. So
we put together this election integrity operation and we said, we've got to pull so much of
our resources into this and focus on this, get it structurally sound, set up, get people
in place now so that we're not playing catch up, get the rules of the road set up, making
sure that people are actually cleaning their voter
Roles in states we have sued Jocelyn Benson who's the Secretary of State of Michigan so many times
I never want to hear her name again my gosh, but it's because you have to have it set up
Right going into this election season
So the fact that that is really all we focused on I think was key and then you have to get the message out
Right, it's it's one thing to just do all this in the background, but we wanted to make sure people
knew.
And I said it every time I got an opportunity, I felt like a broken record talking about
our program, that we had a goal of recruiting 100,000 people to do the jobs of poll watcher
and poll worker around the country.
We ended up with 230,000, by the way.
500 lawyers in every battleground state. But we also had to
advertise it and we had to make sure that people knew that we were serious.
So every chance I got I said, if you're going to go out there and cheat, we'll
find you, we'll track you down, and we'll prosecute you to the full extent of the
law. And then when we saw issues happen in sometimes in the primaries, which is
when we tested this program, we saw them in the early voting periods, we addressed
them immediately. We did not wait. And I think that was key because anyone out there
who wanted to mess around knew we weren't playing. We were taking it very seriously and don't even
try it. So I feel like a mission accomplished. In primary, what did you test when you said we
tested it in a prime? How did you see areas of weakness that they were going to try to play games
there? What did you notice?
Well, it was really the program we put in place.
So we would have attorneys, every time a vote is cast and counted, you need eyes on it.
You need people in the room watching.
And so we would have our attorneys deployed to these various locations during the primaries.
And if they would see a problem, we kind of had a war room set up.
They would phone the problem back and then those group of lawyers would figure
out what's the best way to address it it was just we had to work out the kinks
and say is this the best process in place for when the actual you know
voting starts during early voting period teaching the people who we had
trained in these locations what to look for note that the machine should never
be connected to the internet how they should be recalibrated every single day.
If they saw a problem, how do they report it? How do we get things done very quickly?
Laura, how do you know this stuff? I've had to learn it all.
You've had to, that's what I'm saying, you've had to learn it like in the last year.
Yeah. I'm a quick study, turns out. So when the president calls you and says...
Another reason I said I don't know if I want this job.
There's a lot to do.
There's a lot to learn.
So all of this stuff is in the last year of learning.
Okay, so let me ask the other question.
So seven battlegrounds stayed, 500 lawyers in each, 1,500 the other places because the
numbers we've heard is 5,000.
So of the 507, how are you finding the right lawyers?
What is the filtering process?
Is there an ad saying we're interested?
Are you calling and saying, and then are they communicating with each other?
How are you filtering the hires?
So we had a website set up and we went around and we actually tried to go to local media
markets and do radio and television.
And we would host an opening of what we called our election integrity offices across the
country and all the battleground states and all the major cities.
And we wanted to get on TV and radio and say, hey, if you're a person who wants a free,
fair and transparent election, if you're an attorney, you don't need to be trained in
election law.
We will train you in terms of what you need to do and what you need to know.
Please go to this website and sign up.
And we had a whole vetting process, a team who vetted all these people and then put the
boots on the ground and got them in place.
Did you guys say what we can pay for this is this much per rate per hour?
Or some of the lawyers who were better than others could get more?
Most of these people were volunteer.
What percentage of the 3,500 was volunteer?
I would have to go back and actually look but look we had paid lawyers in the
states but I don't think it was more it was a very small percentage. I want to
say maybe 10% maybe 5%. And how much time did they volunteer? If you added each
of these 500 lawyers time volunteering to give in, how many hours did each give?
It was all different. It's whatever people could do. You know, if you could do one day
and that's all you could give, we would take you for the one day because that one day is
important. You know, you have early voting that usually starts three weeks or so out
from election day and we need people to cover these these locations. But if you could give
us more, we would take more. But people were so desperate
to know that they can trust our elections. They were so desperate. Why do we have the
disparity? 81 million votes in 2020 for a guy who campaigned out of his basement, and
now people are going back and dissecting it and saying, wait a minute, something looks
a little off here. Do you think you cannot have a country
if people don't trust our electoral process?
It's not the United States anymore.
And we had to do this to make sure
that not only did we catch people who were cheating,
but that we turned out our voters.
Because if you have people around the country,
imagine you're a guy who hasn't voted
in the past two presidential election cycles.
Why is it you would take your time to go out
and stand in a line if you're saying,
they're going to cheat anyway, I might as well not even bother.
So the reason we had to do this, obviously we want to catch anybody cheating.
We wanted to be a deterrent for anyone to cheat, but we also had to give confidence to our voters
that yes, your vote matters, your vote counts, and when you cast it this election, it will be worth it.
Who did you annoy the most? Oh, a guy Josh Helton I'm sorry Josh he's one of our
he's one of the top of our election integrity. But he's on your side? Oh yeah.
No what I mean is from the opposition who did you annoy the most? Who on the other side was
like oh my god they're a little bit too much they're in this you know.
Leave us alone. Like there was a clip I saw with this guy tall good-looking white
guy probably in his mid-20s.
He's telling the mayor, he's like,
you know what you're doing, why are you making him
go across the street to vote?
What county was this, Rob?
Do you remember this clip?
Oh yeah, he was outside because they were
stopping the Trump rally.
No, you know what you're doing.
You know what you're doing.
We've been asking for this.
This is not a safe area.
Who did you upset the most?
Was it more the Obamas?
Was it more the guys that know the games that
you're kind of revealing? And they're like, wait a minute, they're kind of not allowing
us to use the one card that we always use. Who was upset with you the most?
I'm going to say probably the DNC chair, Jamie Harrison, who tried to make fun of me and
joke about me and yeah, Laura, great job job, you're gonna pay off Donald Trump's league
really nasty and just condescending initially
sorry Jamie, looks like it didn't work out for you
Michael Steele who was also the former chair of the RNC
also didn't have very kind things to say about me so I imagine the fact that this has been very successful
is probably very annoying to him.
Michael Steele from the RNC was nice.
Yeah, but he's a never Trump guy. He hates us.
He was part of the...
And he was embarrassed by reflection.
Probably.
You're embarrassing him by the reflection.
Thanks Michael. Thanks for all the support and the encouragement.
Laura, staying on the RNC here, because I think it is important. I think it's almost
representative of who you are in terms of what Trump has done versus
the establishment.
I mean, the person whose job you took, Ronna McDaniel, her maiden name is Romney.
So she's a Romney.
So if you just want to use sort of symbolic measures, Trump shows up 2016, just gets rid
of the Bush legacy.
I mean, they're done. I would argue
that George W. Bush, probably the worst president we've had in terms of policymaking, maybe
certainly in my lifetime. Vivek basically dismantles Ronald McDaniel. Boom, you show
up. Here you are with a MAGA necklace right here. So there you go. It's truly symbolic.
The establishment is now done.
And the Republican Party is now sort of made up under MAGA and Trump.
What will the future of the RNC look like with you at the helm, Trump at the helm?
What will that look like?
I mean, I think it's just a lot of common sense.
You know, one of the things we did initially was we got rid of a lot of staff, there were
a lot of people there who were being paid and I'm not sure exactly what their job was but it
just seemed excessive and it's it's really the approach that Donald Trump
has had to when he's president and and you know I think you saw the proof in
the pudding. Comments and stuff and I think the thing that people are gonna
reflect especially on this election is how much he's expanded the tent in the Republican Party.
And that's my hope.
Like when I took this position, I said, I want every person to realize that the Republican
Party is for you.
I want people who have never considered this to be a party for them to come on over.
And you saw that in the vote totals.
You saw voting blocks that the Democrats thought they didn't even have to work for coming over
and voting for Donald Trump in historic numbers.
So my hope is starting in 2024 and going into elections in the future, we have people from
all walks of life, all backgrounds, all religions, whatever you do, whoever you love, whatever
you look like, it doesn't matter.
This is a party for you.
I want to go on a couple of clips.
I want to go on a couple of clips because we haven go on a couple clips because we haven't used these.
We had her put it on.
Her hair looks amazing.
I know.
Oh my God.
It still looks amazing.
Honestly, Rob, can you pull up the one clip?
The one clip I want to show is Jake Tapper.
This is the one that I'm showing this morning.
That by the way, this to me made no sense.
At all.
This, but I don't think there's a statistic that is more embarrassing than this maybe in the history
of politics to say you could not.
So folks, I'm going to ask you a question and I want you to see this if you haven't
seen it already.
Counties.
How many counties do you think Kamala Harris outperformed Biden in 2020.
Kamala Harris counties 2024, Biden 2020.
Watch Jake Tapper's reaction.
Go ahead, Rob.
Are there any places that the vice president
is overperforming Joe Biden in 2020?
So we can show you that as well.
We just bring that out here.
Harris overperforming 2020.
Holy smokes.
There you go.
Wow.
Let's go Ryan.
Not one.
In the east side there. Uh literally nothing. Literally nothing.
Literally not one county by 3% or more. Holy smokes. Not one
county. Bless their hearts. By 3% or more. Yeah. When it comes
to Kamala. Bless their hearts. She gave her wonderful speech
yesterday written by Obama but she gave her speech yesterday,
right? And she's saying what she's saying.
Is that, I mean, when I woke up this morning,
I'm like, who were the, yesterday,
who were the happiest people?
I ranked who the happiest people are
that Kamala didn't win.
I said number one is probably Hillary Clinton because-
By the way, I agree with you.
Yeah, I don't think she wants Kamala
to be the first female
She's not at Hillary's level. No, there will be a female president. It'll be a Republican. Yeah
Yeah, so that's one. Okay, too. I think the happiest is Joe Biden
Absolutely, oh because Joe Biden didn't even stay for whatever, you know sticking around with her She stayed two miles away from her, by the way. He may have voted for Donald Trump.
He may have voted for even Jill Biden.
Can you pull up Jill Biden?
The dress she wore when she voted.
Jill Biden's dress when she...
Her pantsuit.
Did she really wear red? Are you joking?
She wore red when she voted.
That's on purpose. Of course it is.
Oh, obviously.
So that's that better she's deeply better
Set than Joe that's not an accusation
There are people that know her that say she is deeply bitter by what she regards as a coup
so you got first is that number two is
Number two is you know
Biden three is maybe even Kamala.
I don't even know if she wanted a job.
She looked miserable.
I agree with that.
I think she was terrified.
I think she knew she was in over her head.
Look, let's be honest.
Kamala Harris really had no business being vice president.
Joe Biden's the one who said,
I chose her based on how she looked.
Are you kidding me?
What a dumb reason to choose anybody.
And by the way how insulting?
To women out there. This was our first vice president who did pretty much nothing. Did she do anything? Nope
Well, she left the border open. She just you know, yeah
Yeah, she did a great job of opening that border wide open. Well first she had to find the border which was a whole other issue
Yeah, she finally went went on down there during a campaign, right?
But I agree with you
I think that she was really kind of relieved that she didn't win because I don't think she knows what what the hell to do
What is she gonna do as president? That's terrifying. You were the leader of the free world. That is a very big deal
She probably had you know was worried about being vice president and she just kind of hid in the background and did those weird NASA videos
But do you remember the ones with the kids?
Space. Space. Space.
Space. Space.
The vastness of space.
I have my space.
Yeah, she was all over the place.
But I think then the fact that she did not win this,
probably she's a little bit relieved.
Yeah.
Yeah, and you know, you see the market reacting to this.
A part of it, they're like, well, you know, it's not fair.
I mean, if you can go, Rob, play one of the clips with the view, with what Sonny is saying,
okay?
Not the other one.
Play the one with what Sonny is saying.
And this is very weird, to the point that, you know, one of the co-hosts had to interrupt.
Rob, if you want to press play, go ahead.
It's kind of weird what to say.
I want to get further into the demographics, because black women tried to save this country again last night
92 percent of black women voted for the vice president
I'll dress as a you have latinas in the 70 percentile voting for the vice president
What we did not have is white women who voted about 52 percent, right?
For Donald Trump uneducated white women is my understanding you have Latino men
For Donald Trump uneducated white women is my understanding you have Latino men actually voting more for him And you have and black men was not the story
We're not the story here because they voted almost 80% for the vice president, right?
So why do you think that uneducated white women voted against their reproductive health freedoms?
And why do you think Latino men Latino voted in favor of someone that's going to deport that says he's going to deport the majority
of his community.
I don't think white women like being called uneducated white women.
I think the economy matters, national security matters.
But when you put people in these boxes, I think that's a takeaway from this race.
We have to look at the demographics of it.
Wow.
By the way, you can blame, so you can play identity.
By the way, play now the morning joke, because it's like the complete opposite, but
it's not the opposite.
He's going after, watch this one.
This is just as frustrating.
Go ahead.
...say really quickly too.
Democrats need to be mature and they need to be honest.
And they need to say, yes, there is misogyny.
But it's not just misogyny from white it's not just misogyny from white men.
It's misogyny from Hispanic men.
It's misogyny from black men, things we've all been talking
about, who do not want a woman leading them.
Might be race issues with Hispanics that don't want a
black woman, as President of the United States.
You know, the Democratic Party, I've always found when you're sitting around talking,
they love to just sort of balkanize everybody into these separate groups and say, oh, white
people don't like women and black people.
No, it is time for the Democrats to say, OK, and you and I have talked about this before,
a lot of Hispanic voters have problems with black candidates.
Right.
A lot of-
And with other Hispanics.
You've got some that don't like each other.
And some of the most misogynist things I've heard going on in this Get Out the Vote Tour
came from black men.
I mean misogynist things.
So you're absolutely right.
It's not simplistic.
And we've got to have real honest conversations about it.
Real honest conversations.
How do you react to that?
This is why they lost.
This kind of crap is why they lost.
Nobody wants this.
This is ridiculous.
You know what?
You know why people voted for Donald Trump?
He had a great track record for four years.
He did the things he said he was going to do the first four years in office.
Kamala Harris didn't lay out a single policy point that she could point to other than price
gauging.
It's price gouging.
I don't know what they wrote in her teleprompter.
These sort of tactics, I don't think are working on people anymore.
And by the way, for Sunny, I think it's something like less than 40% of the voter base in the
United States
has a college degree. So saying uneducated white women, I think all of this is gross.
I think the American people want someone who's going to deliver for them. I think they want
somebody who they know they can count on to give them a better economy, more money in
their pocket, give us our energy independence again, actually close the border. Donald Trump
built over 500 miles of border wall
This kind of stuff is disgusting and I think people I think this was an election where people are saying
Please don't do the identity politics anymore because it's gross. It's not working by the way
This is not that was shown yesterday. Yeah from Donald Trump 2020 to 2024 black men
Vinny from 15 to 34
to 2024 black men, Vinny from 15 to 34, black woman 8 to 9, Latino men 38 to 53, Latino woman 36 to 48.
Can I ask you a question Pat?
What, why?
Okay, so the black women, what, what is the message so hardcore anti Trump abortion?
What is it that makes that group so low that they can't?
That is the anchor, the base of the Democratic Party at this point.
And that's another the Latinos, they're not voting for Trump. You know why? Because they
don't want socialism. I hate go to Venice, ask Venezuelan Americans or Cuban Americans,
why they're voting for Donald Trump, because they don't want this place to look like their place.
But you know, you never hear I don't know, I don't know if you how often you guys watch
the Daily Show these days. But it's actually funny again, and relevant again, that john
Stewart is there. They have a they have a woman on, uh, Lydic. She's actually super talented
and she's in a humor kind of transcends just sort of, uh, speaking on mics, but she's like,
so you're telling me that, um, these people voted for Trump, but then also these people,
but also these people, but also these people. So everybody voted for Trump.
these people. So everybody voted for Trump. And what you never hear is maybe Kamala maybe was just a horrible candidate. Maybe she was just really that
bad. Maybe it wasn't misogyny. Maybe it wasn't gender. Right. Maybe it wasn't
race. It was maybe she's a really bad candidate and people are using common
sense and they're like, yeah, good. Yeah. On Kamala. That's right. Thank you, everybody.
Thanks for coming.
Or maybe it was the economy, stupid.
All of it.
Maybe it was people that were really respectful to her.
I don't think it has anything to do with her being a woman.
It has nothing to do with her being a woman.
It has everything to do with her being this particular woman.
Because we were talking about Hillary earlier.
She has a lot of negatives.
One thing you can say about Hillary is that she isn't smart, qualified. She knows what she's doing.
Forget about how you feel. If you just look at resumes, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris,
come on guys, it's not even fair. She had no chance.
I want to ask you a question though. Laura, I asked you and you guys could jump in. Do you think if post-debate Trump destroys Biden, they don't do the switcheroo and all
that stuff and they stay with Biden, how closer would this election have been?
If they just went, hold on, riding with Biden off of one debate, how close would it have
been?
Because this was ridiculous.
Would it have made any difference?
I don't think so.
I think it would have been the same.
I mean, they were already, that was such a disaster for him.
And the thing is it really exposed how much they lie
because everybody before that was like,
there's something wrong with Joe Biden.
For years, we were all talking about it.
And everyone was like, he's fine.
He's running circles around the interns in the White House,
like all that nonsense.
I don't think it would have made a difference.
I think people, ultimately when they get in a voting booth and they think about their life,
it's the kitchen table issues.
It's how is this impacting my day to day?
I may not love everything that Donald Trump tweets, but I sure as heck like the way my life felt
when he was in the White House.
I definitely felt like I could put more food on the table for my family.
There was a better trajectory, you know, in this country.
We're on, I think it's over 75% of the country thinks we're on the wrong track
That is what makes a difference. So whether it was Joe Biden who people obviously think is totally gone
I don't know who's running the country right now. He's still technically the president by the way
We forget we're Kamala Harris
I I don't think it would have made a difference and one of the things they set up there by the Sun
He said that I think is is crazy or maybe it was one of the other ones on the view
the idea that somehow Latinos in this country don't want to vote for somebody who's deporting
illegal immigrants, that has nothing to do with anything.
If you are a legal citizen of America, I don't care who you are, you don't want people coming
over our border illegally.
We have 350 people on the terror watch list right now in America, 15,000 people who have committed sexual assault,
13,000 murderers right now in America
that they've just let over the southern border.
We don't want any of that in our communities.
They want them out too.
So it's just like, it's the idea
that that's how they've tried to sell Donald Trump
for all these years.
People are realizing all of that is just fake
and nobody cares about it.
By the way, Tom, if you want to like, if you think about COVID, right,
just the one thing that we almost are not talking about anymore.
It seems like COVID was 15 years ago. Thank God.
Honestly, if you think about it, it was only four years ago.
And if you think about what they tried to do during COVID, the censorship, kids not going to school,
do during COVID? The censorship, kids not going to school, you know, non-essential essential,
you know, all this restaurants being put out of business, family-owned businesses that are gone, your grandfather started this business, now it's not there anymore. People losing their jobs because
they didn't get the, can't say the word. People losing their jobs, guys being kicked out of the military because they don't want to
take the vaccine, guys leaving states, California, New York, leaving the state, because they're like,
there's no way I can, and even with conservatives
leaving New York, New York still flipped 13%
towards Trump in the last four years.
I just think, yesterday I was on JNC
and Anna Kasparian's Young Turks,
and they're asking me a question about,
what do you think it is?
It's just, listen, I'm 46 years old. I got four kids
we got a family and
We watched the whole evolution of what happened when you're younger. Maybe you're you know, you're thinking in different way
You're trying to reinvest into the company. You're trying to hire more people
You're trying to you know school to leave your kids alone
Like if you have certain decisions that the most basic common-sense things
That people care about seem to go purely conservative and a lefty Obama's the establishment
Tried to really bully during kovat
I think everybody's like this and I haven't forgotten yet what you did and I don't want you to mess with me
Leave me alone. These other guys seem more sane
Rogan comes on this side. Musk comes on this side.
Dana White is campaigning in ways when we were in Dana's room a year and a half ago in his office.
He's like, you're going to see me running and helping this man like I've never helped him out
before. Watch what he did. He's on the stage with you guys just saying what Trump has done. Tom,
you're saying it's the economy. So Trump wins, Dow up, God knows how much,
crypto up, SMP up, 1.6 trillion wealth created.
Do you think it's as simple as the economy?
Yes, I do.
And I think what simply happened,
the word is freedom.
And I think the markets are feeling freedom because, and I get very emotional about this
because I think these underlying tenants and platforms of our country are so important.
And it's not about the money.
What you're seeing is freedom.
You're seeing markets saying, we're not going to be be regulated constricted and legislated against and you're seeing markets
Feeling that they're going to be free and they're going to be able to go conduct business and are going to be able to grow
And that's what markets want to do and it is the economy we complicated it
We when I say we the Democrats and the complicit media they complicated it
They turn what was a simple choice to make a life better tomorrow than it is today and a vote into
somehow there's something wrong with you and you're the sexist, you're the racist,
there's something wrong with you that you want to vote for freedom, prosperity, and
something more tomorrow than you got today. And somehow that's bad. And I am
really glad that there's another loser in all this and that loser is in the media
That has approval ratings and trust of American people that is now below Congress
We never talked about it, but Congress used to have the lowest approval rating of any institution in America
We pick on the president we pick on things like that
but it's Congress that all of us didn't trust and we we actually were
Bipartisan understanding of the citizenry hoping someday to just start over
How do we just erase this and start over and you see it and now you see the media losing and they're losing their contracts
Because their business is down. Why is their business down because we don't trust you
We don't want to watch you and we're watching other things and so so mainstream media is in the middle. It's not the cable and satellite conversion to online.
It's a movement of the American citizen to a source of truth or balance that they can believe.
And it just happens to coincide with a technological wave going from cable to over the top,
where we have the freedom to go anywhere and get it.
May I respond to that?
Tom, number one, Vinny, do me a favor, give Tom a hug for me.
I mean, I love you, Tom.
I just out of nowhere, Tom starts crying.
I love that.
That was beautiful.
Because he cares.
No, he's real.
I love it.
That was beautiful.
And I want to address that because what's happening in the markets is a reflection on
how the capital markets feel about Donald J. Trump more of a capitalist and certainly what
Kamala is doing over there.
But it's another thing.
It's also, it's not just Wall Street, it's
Main Street.
Cause if you're in the market, only half of
America is sort of in the market.
Look, don't look now you're probably richer
than ever.
Your 401k is higher than ever.
Your house is worth more than ever.
Your Bitcoin account is more than ever.
Things are good.
But if you're the working class,
if you're the blue collar guy or gal, you're looking at the last four years and you're like, what I thought this whole Bidenomics, the middle out top up, you know,
whatever top trickled. What happened here guys? And I think the, the base of the Trump campaign
is the working class and the blue collar workers.
You know, we watched the movie, the man you don't know.
What was it called again?
The man you don't know?
The documentary.
Yeah.
And you know, they started using a term that we've heard before and I'll say it again.
He's the blue collar billionaire.
So I totally understand why the markets are reacting to this.
But from your perspective, chair, co-chair of the RNC, how will Trump now get not just Wall Street but Main Street back to business
and defeat inflation and defeat this agenda and get America back to work?
I want to answer that but actually just to piggyback on the freedom, right before
I came on this show my friend who I've been friends with for like 20 years
texted me, she lives in Pennsylvania, she said, I feel so optimistic today. If I could sum it up in one word, I
think the Biden presidency gave me anxiety. I didn't even know was attributed to that.
And I actually think a lot of people probably feel that way. And the freedom aspect of it,
I don't think can be overstated. I think it's palpable. People are like, Oh my God, thank God. We are not
going to lose our country. We are going to close our borders. We are going to be the
leader of the free world and the superpower of the world again. And I think a lot of people
felt like if this election had gone the other way, we wouldn't have had that. But the economy
is important. And Donald Trump has been very clear about the first thing that Joe Biden
and Kamala Harris did when they took the White House.
The first executive order was shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline.
Absolute disaster.
Disaster for our economy.
It obviously made us, instead of energy independent, we're now dependent on foreign governments, foreign countries, Venezuela.
Look at Russia.
Russia got, was able to enrich itself because they now supplied all of Europe with their oil.
It probably allowed Putin the money and the funding to invade Ukraine and cause this war.
If you look at Iran, they were able to enrich themselves as well because they got the oil
pump in there and now they're funding Hamas and Hezbollah and all of the proxies there
in the Middle East causing that whole hornet's nest. But whenever you allow us to use the liquid gold, as my father-in-law says, it's right here in
America and we're not just energy independent, he wants us to be energy dominant, a net energy
exporter. That's going to naturally bring down inflation. That's going to naturally ease all of
the concerns that people have out there. You're gonna see prices come down naturally,
or the wages are gonna rise to actually meet inflation,
which is not happening right now.
And then I think bringing American companies
back to America instead of overseas,
having manufacturing here,
encouraging people to actually hire American,
buy American, made in the USA on things.
These are all ways that will make life a lot better, a lot easier, and economically really
bring us to a place that I think is going to be great for the American people.
PBD, can I ask you to weigh in on the economy for a second?
By the way, just to inject a little humor, did you see the trending thing in one of your
favorite documentaries of all time, PBD?
It's called The Hangover.
I don't know if you saw this.
And there's that scene where they're in the car and there's like, we're back, we're back, we're back, like, right,
the whole scene in the car. And there's a general feeling that America's back and America,
the economy is going to come back to work, inflation is going to go down from a businessman's
perspective. Why do you think people just feel so excited for America to be back. Regulation, low taxes.
To be honest with you, the tax Trump cuts from 2017,
I'll never forget when I had the meeting
and I told everybody for every month,
told all our employees for every month
you've been with the company,
I'm giving you a $100 bonus,
and they're like, what are you talking about?
I said, because this is how taxes works.
If the corporate tax goes lower
and it goes from 28 to 21, I say 7%, 7% on 10 million is $700,000,
hey, we can put that back into you
and we can put it back into the company.
No way, that's how business works.
It allows us to reinvest.
Oh, now I get it.
So employees that were making, you know,
45, $50,000 in Addison, Texas were like,
I never thought about it like this before, right?
So I think a part of this is also
on the business owners to make that be known,
that here's how this works to reinvest back
into the business, into the company.
So that's that part, the other part.
So a lot of people kind of sitting there and saying,
IPO, what happened to IPOs the last four years?
How many IPOs do we have the last four years?
Rob, can you pull up IPO by year 2024, 2023, 2022?
How many IPOs have we had?
Every year, how many IPOs have we had by year?
If you look up, IPOs by year, not SPACs, just IPOs.
If you think about IPOs by year,
see if we can see that right there.
Okay, 2021 is when? Okay, that's Trump right
there, right? 2020, well you got 2019, okay, that's SPACs when you're looking at 2021.
That's a lot of SPACs. 181, 154, 188, right? We dropped with IPOs. We're not doing a lot
of IPOs right now. Why? People are just thinking it's a bad time to go out there. What am I
going to go out there? How much money am I going to raise?
They're not like, hey, I'm willing to put back into the market.
You're going to see the IPO market in 2026, late 2025, 2026, I believe.
Tom and I talk about this all the time.
I think 2026 IPO market is going to go there.
I think the wealth creation of the next four years is going to be here, God willing.
Of course, it's on the individual,
but business owners are seeing an opening
that there's an opportunity now.
Low regulation, lower taxes to reinvest into the marketplace
and certain negotiations that he's gonna be doing
is gonna be different.
It's very simple for me.
When you're voting for your president,
you're asking someone to go negotiate on your
behalf. Do you want Kamala Harris to go negotiate on your behalf? Americans said no. Do you
want Joe Biden to go negotiate on your behalf? Or do you want Trump to go negotiate on your
behalf? I think people are saying, I want Trump to go negotiate on my behalf on all
the business dealings.
Well, that's right. And I always use this too, when I was out on the campaign trail,
you're hiring a person for a job.
The people in Washington DC work for us and people forget that.
This isn't a personality contest, although Donald Trump has a great personality and I
think everybody actually if they got to know him would really love him.
But you're hiring someone to go do a job.
Yes, you're hiring them to negotiate on your behalf.
And I think that that is what people ultimately kind of came to in this whole election.
They realize that it's bigger than, oh, I got to go with the person Hollywood tells me.
Like Lady Gaga told me, like Beyonce, Cardi B. Are you kidding me?
By the way, I think the American people are actually very insulted
whenever you have these celebrities who come out on stage and it seems very phony.
And like just, it's again, the word is gross that I tend to use
Because it kind of feels like the jail or not sell the jail or crying
Prompt or not make you please what you dated Diddy that was your judgment then and now you want us to trust your judgment
To make one of the most important choices
Bees not gonna get your vote like that when she goes like that? How you saying that Cardi B can't step up?
Can you pull up Cardi B's last video?
There's something insulting about it.
I'll tell you what's insulting about it.
What's insulting about it is that the Dems think that the, I don't know which is more insulting,
the Dems thinking that the American populace is dumb enough to follow celebrity, you know, uh, you know, popularity waves or that the Dems are as arrogant enough to force
it. That's the one Rob. This is Cardi B guys. She's pissed.
So please don't upset her. Go to play this clip Rob.
This is a rapist.
Go back. Go ahead.
So listen, I'm gonna let you know this right now. Okay. So you know, like, y'all won, I know you're happy, whatever the fuck, ain't nobody
acting like bitter losers.
However, y'all need to leave me the fuck alone, because I got one more fucking cigarette in
me before I start lighting your asses up, aight?
And that's where to the United States of motherfucking America.
Yeah, yeah.
She's that Target?
She's that Target. She's that Target.
Damn, it must be rough under Biden
that you're a freaking Target Cardi B.
By the way, is that the Cardi B
that admittedly used to drug men
and rob them while she was a stripper?
Is that the same girl?
By the way, I made a movie,
and you know who played her?
Who?
J.Lo.
Wow.
Played Cardi B. Wow, type cast. J.Lo played the other actress. J.Lo. Wow. Played Cardi B.
Wow, type cast.
J.Lo played the other actress.
Cardi B was in a movie.
And the whole story was about.
Weird.
The story about that one girl.
Hustlers.
She says, yeah, we used to do this as well back in the days.
Weird.
Yeah, she used to do this back in the days.
So that's what, everything that she says is credible.
Listen, they could have brought out.
The hell out of here.
Cardi B, Barbra Streisand.
Doesn't matter.
They could have brought out Liza Minnelli from the dead.
Whoever it is. I wish Harrison Ford wouldn't have ruined all the Indiana
Jones movies. Is anyone shocked at Hollywood, at the music industry, that any of the NBA,
any of these institutions are almost sort of mandated like, all right, get out there,
do your thing. It doesn't work. And it is, it's insulting. It doesn't work. And I do
think they think people are dumb enough
you just throw a celebrity out there
and they're gonna be like, oh, that's how I should vote.
Look, Taylor Swift, you kidding me?
She got right on board too.
Didn't work out.
Do you have Jimmy Kimmel's?
Childless cat lady.
We actually need a paper.
We need tissues.
Statistically negative impact.
Wait, do we have tissues, guys?
Because this is emotional.
Go ahead, Rob.
Donald Trump broke him.
Oh, wow, Kimmel. Here we go. Let's be is emotional. Go ahead Rob. Donald Trump broke him. Kimmel.
Here we go. Let's be honest it was a terrible night last night. It was a terrible night
for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard-working immigrants who
make this country go. Oh my God. Climate, science, for journalism for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors who rely on
Social Security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, and it was a terrible night for
everyone who voted against him. And guess what? It was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him, and guess
what, it was a bad night for everyone who voted for him too, you just don't realize
it yet.
Okay.
Let's be honest.
These people are absolute lunatics.
Wait, wait, wait, let's trap that.
Bad night, you just don't know it yet.
Let's look at that in a year, let's look at that in two years, let's see what's going
on.
Hell, let's look at that in two quarters after inauguration.
This is what I want to know, this is is what I wanna know. There's certain moments,
like I'm wondering if this was a moment.
The whole Barry Goldwater 64,
that all of a sudden,
from 64% of African Americans voting Democrat to 92%,
and the Democrats owned the African American vote
for 60 years till today, right?
Will 2024 be one of those years where New York's
gonna be like, listen man, this shit is not working.
Illinois also flipped, I think Illinois flipped what,
five points or so, four and a half points,
some number like that, I know New York was 13.
Can you show those numbers?
I'd like to see it, yeah, show it to us.
Donald Trump is demonstrating already
in the election results what a uniter is.
Take a look at this.
Is the company, is the country getting closer
or farther apart?
So, Illinois, Joe Biden, look at that one million,
just a touch over a million votes in 2020.
2024, barely 400,000.
Look at that difference.
The people are getting closer together.
You got the next one, Rob?
We got the blue states here.
New York, we were just talking about New York.
You know, 2 million now.
900,000.
900,000.
And then we got California, my favorite.
Look at this, 5 million with the turnout year of 2020.
And whether it was people that were-
Is that amazing? And by the way, I don't And whether it was people that were- Is that amazing?
And by the way, I don't know whether it was people,
it's P or P that turned out.
Either people turned out or palettes of ballots
mysteriously appeared.
It's one or the other, but we'll leave it alone.
Five million in 2020.
And look at this year, 1.7.
That's it.
And I think we also have Virginia.
Look at Virginia, the stronghold Virginia.
Look, it was 500,000 last night, under a quarter million.
New Jersey was very close too.
Jersey was close.
These are the ones.
Yeah.
New Jersey was actually a bit of a sweat lay.
And then look at the pollsters.
Florida, Florida, Florida, Florida.
Maybe she's got a chance.
Oh my God, Texas, Iowa.
It was a 13 point beat down.
Okay, so let me ask this when you see something like this.
You have to always respect your opponent
and not be too, what do you call it?
Like, oh we got it, just done, it's ours.
They're not gonna sit around and do nothing.
I'm willing to bet they had an emergency meeting yesterday,
they have an emergency meeting today on what they're going to do and what they're
anticipating the Trump administration to do when they get in. So a part of what
I was processing a couple weeks ago when we were talking I said as of November 4th
Trump is enemy to state number one. I think November 6th, in their mind, Trump's only got one term.
So they're going to try to find a way to hurt others more than Trump, my opinion,
because Trump's not going to run again.
So that bogeyman is going to go away very quickly, my opinion.
I think they're going to target to find a way to divide you
guys. I think they're going to try to find a way to put a wedge between Trump and JD.
I think they're going to try to find a way to go after Elon. I think they're going to
try to find a way to do a whole different thing and all those games that they're going
to play. I don't know if a pandemic is going to work. I don't know if it's going to be
all the EG and Carol. I don't think that's going to work. I don't think if the pandemic is gonna work, I don't know if it's gonna be all the E. Jean Carroll,
I don't think that's gonna work, I don't think any of those,
I don't think Mar-a-Lago's worth $18 million,
I don't think those things are gonna work,
that stuff is done.
What are you guys sitting there wondering,
hey, if they do this, we're gonna do this,
if they do that, we're gonna do this,
kinda like a football coach,
if they do this, we're ready for this,
if they do that, we're gonna do this part.
Are you guys sitting around thinking
about all the possibilities and if it happens,
we're ready for it?
Or is that just starting now?
Yeah, I mean, honestly, I just needed a breath yesterday,
truly, so we haven't really thought of that.
And it's funny because people were asking me,
so many people in the past couple weeks are like,
what are you doing for Thanksgiving?
I said, I don't know what I'm doing on November 6th.
I'm not even kidding. I Thanksgiving? I said, I don't know what I'm doing on November 6th.
I'm not even kidding.
I actually, yesterday morning, I woke up and I was just like, oh my God, it's November
6th.
Like I had thoughts and just focused so solely on November 5th for so long.
So I haven't thought about that.
But you're right.
Look, they have, they box themselves in to a really bad position for their party.
And I think they're, they probably did have an emergency meeting.
Yes, they're always going to use some nefarious tactics
to try and divide people and go after people.
My God, no one more so than Donald Trump himself.
Look at what they've done to this man.
Our family, they've subpoenaed my husband,
I don't even know, 111 times or something.
But, you know, they as a party have to start reflecting
on what's not working.
And the idea that you can run a campaign on fear mongering online to people, the things
that Jimmy Kimmel, by the way, was crying about, Donald Trump was in the White House
for four years.
That's what I don't understand with people.
And they say, he's going to block people up.
He's a threat to democracy dictator on day one.
Excuse me.
He was there for four years. He never did any block people up. He's a threat to democracy, dictator on day one. Excuse me. He was there for four years.
He never did any of that stuff.
And so I think they're going to have a real problem when he does go in there.
People start feeling better about their lives.
Success is actually coming back to America.
And he says success will unify us.
I believe that's going to happen.
They as a party need to do some deep reflecting.
They have moved so far left and have gone so off the deep end on so many of these issues
that the average person in this country really cannot relate to it.
And if they want to win elections in the future, they're going to have to figure out how to
come back a little bit more to the middle.
OK, so then I agree.
I fully agree.
And I don't know if they're going to do that or not.
I do know I've never seen Obama this miserable, this unhappy, and it's not even anxious.
He looked like he was worried that the world
is gonna find us something weird.
By the way, today I got a very weird manect from a guy
says, hey, I just wanna tell you what I think
is gonna be happening.
I said, what's that?
I don't know if it's true or not, okay?
He says, I think there's gonna be a lot of people taking their lives. I said, what. He says, I think there's gonna be a lot of people
taking their lives.
I say, what?
He said, I think there's gonna be a lot of people
that are in there the last four years
that they know they're gonna be exposed
and you're gonna see a few suicides.
I said, what are you talking about?
By the way, that thought has never crossed my mind
until he sent me this maniac this morning
and I'm responding to it.
That's awful.
And I said, where are you going with this?
So he's saying, look, if, if the truth comes out of what they did and who was involved
the last four years, that becomes public.
How do you face your wife?
By the way, this is kind of like what people did in the stock market a day after 9 11.
How many people were jumping off?
You saw that they're like, oh my God.
What was that margin called?
The movie where some of these guys were selling short
and they're like, oh, how many of these guys
that were relying on margins and all this stuff
and all of a sudden, boom, they lose everything.
You go from being worth 600 million,
you owe 300 million, boom, you're jumping.
That's money.
You lost everything, right?
Here, if any of these guys, the look they gave,
when I watched some of their faces,
it was a look of somebody that's worried
about something being exposed to the world
and their legacies being affected and their kids, family,
everybody who ever supported them,
knowing you did something dark.
That part, I think, they're still gonna sit there
and not give that up.
So that's what that guy was talking about.
But for me, team-wise, you know, I talked to a lot of people.
A lot of people reach out to me.
I have certain people, hey, I think this is the guy
that's gonna be the chief of staff.
This is the guy that's gonna be doing this.
That guy's gonna be doing this.
Here's this guy's gonna be doing this.
Here's that guy be doing this, that guy's gonna be doing this, here's this guy's gonna be doing this, here's that guy's doing this.
You know, during this season of President Elect,
you got 75 days, whatever the amount of days it is, right?
How many interviews, people you're talking to,
people you're sitting down with,
do we bring this guy, do we bring that guy?
How strategic are you guys being right now
in choosing who to bring inside to help you with these jobs? And the people that are in the inside, is
it all family? Is it some that are not family that are just trusted advisors? Is
it some from free market? Is it some from politics? How are you guys filtering
those people out today different than 2016 and 20? You know, obviously 2016.
I mean, everything is different.
There was so much to be learned by all of us, but certainly by my father-in-law.
You know, he himself admitted when he went in the White House the first time,
he really didn't know.
You know, no one expected him to win.
All the polls said this was impossible.
And having never been in politics before, he had no transition team set up, nothing put in place. And honestly, our 2016 campaign
was so small compared to what traditional presidential campaigns look like, that normally
what you do is you take your campaign staff and you say, okay, you guys can apply. There's
like 5,000 positions that need to be filled. You guys apply for these jobs. We want to
plug you in, in good spots. And you know those people because you've worked with them to a
certain extent. We couldn't do that in 2016. So he had to outsource and he had to listen to other
people. And he'll be the first to admit that's one of the mistakes he made. And he wishes it had been
different. He understands this so much more now in 2024, even maybe more so than in 2020, which is another reason that I love that that he is
President-elect right now. And
it is the most important thing to make sure you have great people in these positions, but to have people
like Elon Musk, like, you know, the vague Rama Swami potentially, Tulsi Gabbard.
These are people who really get it and who are so aligned. RFK Jr.
These are gonna who really get it and who are so aligned. RFK Jr., these are going to be such powerful movers in this country and do such historic things, I believe, during this administration.
But every position does matter.
And I think we've all learned enough to know how to judge people.
And you're never going to get it 100%.
There'll always be, you know, kind of bad people out there with bad intentions but I think we've
we've learned a lot and Donald Trump certainly has learned a lot and that's
how strategic this process is. Is there a filtering process for you because for me
you know how when you're looking for a wife and you know certain data you look
at lowest percentage of marriage working
out dating sites then the next one at a bar and then the next one is you know
whatever at a church and the next one referred to you by a co-worker then the
next one is from a friends and family then so percent that's how you look for
a wife no but this is the percentage of you know more about who,
let's just say Vinny is looking for a girl,
you introduce somebody to Vinny,
you may say this is Mary, I've known her for 19 years,
she's this, this, that, there's credibility there
with the introduction being made versus here we go.
I don't know who this guy is.
Is there a filtering process of people that you trust
to say this guy you can vouch for, that guy,
because there was rumors saying the fact that JD Vance was someone that Don
Jr. was very much supportive of and you know Peter Thiel was a big fan of JD a
lot of us didn't know who JD was we had heard of JD but because not necessarily
positive things it was more negative things that you know was shown by the
media in the past and then all of a sudden everybody says, JD Vance, VP?
Yeah.
Huh.
So not Tulsi?
No.
Not Vivek?
No.
No.
Who is this guy?
And they were like, who is this guy?
Right?
Now you get it.
Now you get it.
And you're like, this guy's a stud and a half, right?
Good for him.
So now he moves up to a top draft pick
for 2028 being president.
Great choice.
Credit to the president for deciding
he's got to pick at the end of the day,
but people are bringing names to him.
Who are you choosing as people to give feedback
with credibility on who they should pick on the team?
Well, there's a transition team
and there's a whole process they go through.
Howard Lutnick and my husband's involved, Don's involved, Linda McMahon along with Howard,
I think are the two kind of heads of that.
And there's a process.
I think, you know, the people like Linda McMahon, by the way, who's been around forever and
she's been part of the team.
She was in the administration in 26 or throughout the first term in office.
These are trusted people and they know what needs to be done.
And they have a great vetting process.
I'm not personally part of the transition team directly.
But I know that, again, all of these people have learned so much.
We know what we need to do.
We know what to look for.
And I think most importantly, we know what we don't want in there and those people who
are going to keep out So when when when we think about couple power
You know in in politics a lot of times couple power is
Wow
John F Kennedy and his wife Jackie. She's so beautiful. She dresses so well
awesome, you know
Oh my god couple power
Well, awesome.
Oh my God, couple power, Ronald Reagan and Nancy. True couple power.
I had Ken Hachikyan here who was a chief speech writer
for Reagan and he worked under Nixon.
He said Nancy was feared by everybody.
She was tough behind closed doors.
And she would do the firing for everybody
because Ronald didn't like to fire people.
It was Nancy firing.
Get it girl.
Yeah, that's right.
So that's Nancy.
So that's a couple power, right?
Bill and Hillary Clinton, love them or hate them.
That's a couple power, right?
If you think about it.
You know, you and Eric are a couple power now, right?
The two of you.
And I asked Eric this the other day,
and I know Eric had alluded to it before in the past as well.
It's kind of interesting that you guys are both,
now you're getting your experience in this,
the last 12 months, and he's getting his experience
with everything that's happened with the 111,
what was it, 111, 112?
Supinas.
Supinas, you know, no one
in the history.
Now you guys are experiencing that part, which means your skin is getting thicker.
I don't think it gets much thicker than all of us in the Trump family at this point.
I'm saying outside of Trump.
I'm saying outside of Trump.
So is there any desires later on for you guys to want to possibly consider running?
And by the way, I know it's like, oh, it's too early to tell.
Pat, give us a day.
We just, I get that.
But I asked this from Eric and he's talked about this.
Is there any that if there was the opportunity that come up, you guys would consider it?
I would be crazy if I said no, of course.
Look, I think the interesting ride for all of us in this is we've actually gotten to
go out there and experience the entire country.
And this, and by the way, even three days ago,
I was doing interviews and people were saying,
what do you feel out there?
What's going on?
And I said, this is, it feels like 2016 to me,
but on steroids, which is what I said about this election.
When you go out and you're among the country
and you're among the people of the country
and you actually interact with people,
not only do you get a sense of things going on,
but you actually get to know people and hear how their life has been impacted,
either negatively, like what's going on right now, or positively, like I heard from so many
people when my father-in-law was president.
And I think it's really powerful to know that you can make a difference in people's lives.
And it's been such an honor to be a part of like a small part of all of this for me.
I never in my wildest dreams would have first of all expected the last name Trump
Let alone all of this and so yeah, I mean I am I am open
I think Eric is open to whatever the future holds. Yeah, when you think couple power
I'm a I love competition. I just to me. It's like anything that's kind
When I think couple power on the right,
think couple power.
Think couple power.
Don't think an individual.
There's a lot of power in couple power.
A lot of power in couple power, okay?
If you think couple power,
I don't know if I have anybody ahead of you guys.
Wow. That's very nice.
Yeah. I mean, who else would it be?
No, no. But by the way, a big part of me saying that is because of you.
Oh, well thank you.
Eric is formidable, but you and Eric together, dude, you're talking about managing the 500
lawyers in seven states and understanding these games that are gonna be played again?
Because if you're going into this world
and you don't know the games, what are you gonna,
so that part of it, very interesting.
Just right here while we're sitting here together,
I'm just thinking here saying,
I'd say I can't think of, think about who was on the stage.
I mean, obviously, listen, I don't wanna take anything away
from Chris Christie and family.
No, no, no, no, no, don't do that.
But I don't wanna go that far away from Chris Christie and you know, family. No, no, no, no, no, don't do that.
But I don't want to go that far.
But if you really think about it, this is so so then that to me means and I'll put this
and we can go to the next topic.
That to me means is what is the level of protection because remember, remember what the fear what
the family was the
Kennedy family and I'm using that case study because you can't use the Bush
family as much I think the only case study that we can go to truly right I
think it's only Kennedy family true we're they have invent roles right our
first lady right create relevance like we did now there was legitimacy in W's wife because education
She was her career teachers
She cared deeply about it, but to care about something and have a background in it
It's much different from someone who has stepped into the arena put on the gloves and actually
Accomplished big things in the bloody reality of the fights of this world, and I think you have done that
Even reluctantly at first we hear.
Yeah.
But let me tell you where I'm going with this.
Let me tell you where I'm going with this.
We build an insurance company
from 66 agents to 60,000 agents.
We've licensed 60,000.
We sold the company two years ago
and it was a great success.
But I tell you when the breaking point was
when the company took off is when,
let's just say I'm working with Vinny
and Vinny's by himself, but I'm working with Eric,
and then through Eric I meet you.
And let's say Vinny, for this case,
is more capable than Eric, individually.
But he's not with you guys together.
The level of outgrowing Vinny individually
is not two to one, it was five to one.
And then we said, guys, are today top 50 earners in Vinny individually is not two to one. It was five to one.
So and then we said guys,
today top 50 earners in the company.
In the company, 45 out of top 50 earners,
husband and wife build a business together.
45 out of 50 do the business together, okay?
So to me, I think when that happens,
the place where I was going was
the protection of the entire family.
Because you guys are now becoming a, I just looked looked at your age I had you late 30s I saw you're both
Libras your October October 18th okay and by the way that guy steel guy you
just showed these October 19th I don't I can't believe he's a Libra I'm very
disappointed yeah like a little more balanced, but that's okay. Yeah But but the point being if you guys are all young
That's 30 years of threat. That's not good news for them
So to me if I'm thinking dark enemy what they're thinking
I'm thinking Trump to them is like no longer their number one priority and I'm not saying it in a disrespectful way
I'm saying it from the standpoint of
there's gotta be somebody behind closed doors
that's sitting there saying, hey guys,
Don, you can't go do this anymore by yourself.
These two gotta go with you.
Eric, boom.
Hey, what's the granddaughter, Ava?
What's her name that she's on stage?
She's a rock star.
Oh my God, she's a rock star.
She's ridiculous, right?
Barron, the amount of articles talking about Barron
is the reason why Trump got elected
because of all the podcasts.
And all the podcasts on all these roles.
I agree with that by the way.
That made a difference.
You guys here made a difference.
I love it.
It makes a difference.
What would you say about Barron?
What's, listen, I've hung out with a few of you.
Barron's been very unique of a guy to be.
I'm sitting there for an hour and a half,
I'm like, this guy's so entertaining.
Talking crap, telling jokes, telling stories.
Bunch of 30, 40, 50 year olds are sitting there
listening to him, control the table for an hour and a half.
How is Barron?
He's so cool. That's the one word I I'll use for Baron. He's very cool. He's like the sleeper
a little bit. You know, he's kind of stayed out of the spotlight. Probably intentionally.
It's very hard to do so when you're 6'10", by the way.
It's a little hard to do.
Yeah, you kind of stick out.
It's funny when I saw him on stage, I'm used to my husband and my father-in-law,
like being the tallest people. And then I saw like a clip of us all walking on stage the other night and I was like, God,
Barron makes us all look so little, which is okay with me because I'm 5'11", I don't
mind taking a little bit off.
Yeah, he's really smart, he's very cool, very entertaining, he's his father's son, there's
no doubt about it.
And he's going to do really incredible things.
I think you've already seen so
far he's he's really come in and there have been many times I've been traveling
over the course of the campaign with my father-in-law in the car with him going
places and Barron will call and he'll say dad I have an idea as to how you
can get more votes and it'll be you know you need to go meet you know go to this
baseball stadium or do this whatever he's always throwing ideas out there and
so yeah we got to give Barron some serious credit.
But by the way, just to go back to something
you were saying about, I guess, what somebody wrote into you,
the idea that there could be a lot exposed,
I fully agree with that.
I think there, you know, if you have a completely dark room
and there's an absence of light,
even if you put a little pinprick in
and you get a little bit of light in,
soon you start to see a lot more.
I think people are starting to see a lot more.
I wonder why Letitia James felt like
she had to come out yesterday and say a little something.
I think a lot of these people know,
they know what they did was wrong.
They know that there was some sort of illegal collusion.
They know that if it is all exposed,
they are gonna look horrible. And I hope we learn all of it because, they are going to look horrible.
And I hope we learn all of it because what they have done to my father-in-law, what they've
done to our family is egregious.
It should never happen in the United States of America.
The only rationale I have honestly at so many times is that God was such a part of this
election and had my father-in-law's back, whether it's the Butler, Pennsylvania rally, where he almost got killed, whether it's all of these court cases and, you know,
34 felony counts. Are you kidding me? All of this stuff, any other person would have just been defeated day one,
except him, and I give him so much credit for him, and I have so much respect for him.
Thanks, man.
Right, Rob, I agree, Rob. Can you pull up that picture, Rob?
The picture of Baron 2016 versus 2024.
I know, what a difference.
That's the best picture people would.
Makes me feel really old.
You gotta see this,
because they're sharing this.
If you can pull this up, Rob.
So it's a picture of him in 2016.
Go to the first one on the left.
Look at him.
Look how cute Baron was.
And then look at him now.
I know!
Jeez. But do you see?
I'm used to my father-in-law being pretty much taller than everybody.
How tall is he by the way?
Is he 6'8"? Is he 6'9"?
I think he's 6'7".
Yeah, because Eric is 6'5".
Eric is tall.
Don't discount one thing about Barron Trump.
I mean, you guys all kind of were novices.
You came to this, you know, in 2016.
You guys were in real estate. You came to this, you know, 2016, you guys
were in real estate, you guys were in other businesses.
He's been watching the whole time.
Brian Trump was raised in the White House. He's the only Trump kid, child that literally
grew up in the White House.
So his perspective is vastly different from probably everybody else's.
That's true.
And Pat, just real quick, and Laura, you guys made a point, I just looked it up on Drudge Report, the DOJ is moving to wind down Trump criminal cases before he takes office. The
steps complies with long-standing Justice Department policy that a sitting president can't be prosecuted,
two people familiar with the matter told NBC, that's the story right there. And you're right. And
there's so many, I mean, in all different avenues too, Laura. It's not only just the corruption from,
crossfire, the hurricane, COVID,
everything that they did,
he's going, and we hope,
because that's what he says,
I want him to slowly,
and I was on a peers yesterday,
and they were like,
well, what can you do to bring peace?
And I go, peace is fine.
I want to bring people together,
but we want accountability for every single person that for the last eight years Fauci everybody that was trying to destroy
him illegally and we got to the point with lawfare with everything right now we want meat person I
think our viewers and Americans want accountability to hold these people's feet to the fire and even
when Elon was talking about why all these billionaires were backing Kamala
because they know if Trump is in, he's exposing all of them for everything and that's what
we want.
Yeah, and by the way, you know, you go back to 2016 and the Russia collusion hoax, which
was, I mean, I can't tell you how the first time any of us heard any of this, we were
like Russia?
We couldn't have even colluded with Iowa, Russia.
But you know who did collude with Russia was the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC.
And you know what their punishment was?
$83,000.
That's it.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
There were so many people, good people who really believed in Donald Trump and what he
was doing in 2016.
These are campaign staffers who had their lives ruined because of a lie, because of
bad information and a purposeful amplifying of bad information.
And it is, it's, it's so gross what these people did.
Someone deserves to be held accountable.
The Russia lie is still a thing.
They're still constantly, we're trying to bring that up.
That stuff should not be happening.
Let's just start choosing people based on policies and what they're going to do for the country and not peddling these lies and ruining people's lives
It's awful these people how much money they had to pay in legal fees. They can't afford those things
It's been horrific. Well, the air cover is over
Yeah, the air cover is over because this is why Leticia James is saying things
This is why Jack Smith is staff members were concerned about malicious prosecution if
Suits coming the other way if Trump was elected. Oh damn that just happened, huh?
Yeah, so that's what's going on here and I look at people like Lena con, you know
the chairman of the FTC an absolute anti-business
Anti-capitalist and she has a seven-year term and now, you know,
Trump needs to use, in my humble opinion, his effort and might of the office to
remove her because there are, there's not just Letitia James, it's not just Jack
Smith, there are people that are heading three-letter agencies such as Jessica
Rosenworcel of the FCC that just allowed George Soros to buy 200 radio stations on an accelerated decision.
How do we unwind that? But there are people that are like Chairman and they have those odd tenures.
Sometimes you get appointed for five years, sometimes you're appointed for seven.
It says, is the president, does he have, in addition to having the filter right now during
transition much different than before to keep the suits and all the K-Street guys from coming
up and pushing their angles, what about the ones that are in place, like Lena Conn of
FTC that's got a seven-year term?
Is there some muscle going to be put behind that to remove the bad apples that have been
appointed?
It is, I think, probably going to be his favorite thing to do. You know, if you go back and
listen to him, James Comey, he says, I should have fired that guy day one. I knew he was
a bad guy. I knew that he shouldn't have been there. But I listened to the people around
me in the White House, a lot of these people, these suits, these, you know, these swamp
creatures from DC. I listened to them.
They said, sir, you can't do that.
He's, believe me, that will be his pleasure to get rid of these kind of people because
he saw how badly it hurt, not just him, but the entire country whenever he was in office
and post him being in office.
Those are the people who are really ruining our country.
And bad apple is a very nice way to describe them.
There's a lot of better words you could probably use.
If we thought the S&P popped yesterday after the election, wait till you see what it does
when they see Lena Kahn walking across the parking lot with a cardboard box.
Or Gary Gensler, because there's a lot of people in the crypto community that are super
excited to see him exit stage left.
But by the way, again, that's what I'm saying about the fact that this guy sent me this
message.
It's a little weird to say it, but I believe him.
I do too.
I believe him.
Of course.
That's if Trump, because there's a part that, remember when people were like, well, Bobby
Kennedy is going to take voters away from Trump or Biden.
That was just six, eight months ago, six months ago.
Bobby Kennedy is gonna take voters away.
Who's he gonna take more voters away?
I think he's gonna take more voters away from this or that.
I think he's gonna play a very important role.
Do you think he has a chance of becoming the president?
Why do you think so many people want Bobby Kennedy?
Because they want to get and find out
what the hell happened with Fauci, NIH, CDC,
all that stuff, right?
He's in there?
Oh my God.
They can't stand this guy.
They hate Bobby.
The establishment cannot stand anything about Bobby
whatsoever and you're gonna give them a little bit of power
to go and say, I'm sorry, let me see.
Oh my God, no way, right?
This is going on.
Then some of the other guys that are gonna come in,
I don't know, I think the part I'm excited about
where, you know, law and order,
we're talking law and order and justice and all this stuff,
you know, guy says,
PBD called 2024 the year of investigations.
We called that December of 2023.
I said 2024 is gonna be the year of investigations.
He said, I think 2025 is gonna be the year of justice, right? He called 20, I like that be the year of investigations. He said, I think 2025 is gonna be the year of justice, right?
He called 20, I like that, the year of justice.
But I think if it does happen,
it'll give a lot of people hope
that there is such a thing as accountability.
If it does, okay?
We still don't know the side effects
of what these seven-year-old kids went through in 2020
when they couldn't go to school for a year.
We still are not gonna see that for 10 years, 20 years.
We're not gonna see that.
Like imagine the most traumatic thing you went through.
I'm in Iran, the bombing war.
You see that later on, the anxiety, the fear, the panic, right?
Oh my God, what is this all about, right?
You don't know what's gonna happen with some of these guys.
Now you need some hardship to be tougher
and have a thicker skin.
But I would love to see accountability,
not in a using the DOJ to go after people.
Actual proof, what did you do?
Actual proof where Mark Zuckerberg comes out,
dear honorable Chairman Jim Jordan, the $400 million that I made,
I regret that the Biden-Harris administration
was asking us that we should have never done this
and the buck stops with me, right?
And he's publicly saying this five months ago.
Man, if they go and do this Twitter files,
if you guys do the FBI files, the DOJ files,
if you guys do the CIA files,
you guys start doing stuff like that,
America's gonna start believing in law and order again.
And you're gonna say, yeah, you guys can't,
that's why I think some of those guys,
when the guys send a message in the morning,
some people are walking on exiles today.
Some people might be flying to move,
like a billionaire Reid Hoffman might be thinking
about leaving the country and going somewhere else.
No, what do you mean?
And you nailed it, Pat.
Those kids that were masked, we saw the videos where their teachers are putting masks on
these little three-year-olds. Remember that, Laura? The kids crying and bawling. Besides that, Pat,
what about those seven years old that were jabbed with this thing that they have no idea what's
going to happen? A lot of this myocarditis having. I want accountability. I'm going to be selfish
because we want it. We've suffered for eight years of what they've been doing to us ridiculing us lying to us using lawfare
It's time and I get it. He wants a he wants a legacy and everything
But we want I want I want accountability and I want people like you I love that
You said that that Fauci that yesterday, you know, Fauci is like, oh god if he puts RFK in there RFK wrote
The real dr. Fauci that I cannot that if he puts RFK in there RFK wrote the real dr. Fauci
that I cannot that I'm happy you made that point those people need to be held
accountable for what they did to America. There's also little voices that I'm
loving I saw a post on X yesterday from a woman that's not in the United States
she says you know if Trump wins I'm moving to the United States. Should I
live in Miami or should I live in New York?
What are your suggestions? I sent her a note back and I said you should move to Miami, Florida's
Is a Miami Dade County's red
Thank you mayor Francis Suarez again for your leadership, it's a red county baby. This was RFK's tweet yesterday
Did you see this?
I mean this is war on public health is about end. This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics,
peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin,
hydroclam, vitamins, food, sunshine, exercise, and anything else that advances human health and
can't be patented by pharma. If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system,
I have two messages for you.
Preserve your records and two, pack your bags.
You know what number one is?
Because if you don't preserve your records,
in addition to prosecution,
we're gonna go after you for obstruction of justice.
If RFK, let's just say hypothetically,
whose job would RFK take?
Who do you think it would be?
Rachel Levine?
Could you show who's in charge of America's health right now?
Can you show?
RFK's ripped, jacked, he's old.
That's who he's going to take the job from.
She's still serving as director of whatever she does.
Let me explain something to you.
That's the job.
He's going to take that person's job.
I hope to God.
That's who's in charge of America's health.
Period. Do I need to say more? No, no. There's an expiration date on her resume and it's job. I hope to God that's who's in charge of America's health. Period. Do
I need to say more?
No, no. There's an expiration date on her resume and it's here.
Yeah, good.
That's all we needed.
That's it.
I just thought of that.
Rob, show the last clip before we wrap up here. Can you show some of the highlight reel
of people losing their minds?
I haven't seen any of these yet.
Oh, Lord, I sleep to these.
Go ahead, Rob.
Okay. This is not okay. This simply will not do it.
And this is not okay.
Laura, it's not okay Laura. What you guys did.
Just... devastated.
Another mother. Probably with kids.
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You voted against me
This is my favorite
What?
You voted against all the women
Batman
I hope you enjoy your cheap fucking gas. Oh, I personally think they're voting
to take our rights away. They don't deserve to touch a woman for the next four years.
Don't worry they won't. You're gonna be thought that through you guys. I think you're a safe
baby. I think they're gonna live. It's gonna be okay. Oh my god. Oh man. This is, this is amazing.
Laura, I do have a question on this because, you know, what do they say? What's the famously
the three stages of truth at first? It's ridiculed. Second, it's violently opposed. And then third,
it just becomes self-evident. I think that's what basically happened with Trump. No way.
2016 house. No way. Violently opposed COVID. And now it's just like, come on guys, common sense is here.
But you, Erin Elmore, our friend Elizabeth Pipko,
Sage Steele, you guys really catapulted Trump with women.
You guys had the whole women for Trump.
You're going on TikTok.
I see you're doing your thing.
For the women out there that are so scared
that they're never gonna have rights again.
As a woman, as a mother, child of two, you're about to have your 10th anniversary, talk
to the women out there. What should they expect from the Trump administration?
Well, I hate to break it to them. They've been lied to by the mainstream media, by the
Democrats, by Kamala Harris herself. Donald Trump has always said he's never going to
sign a federal abortion ban. Everyone says they're taking our rights away.
No, no, actually the most democratic of things happen, which is that it left the
issue of abortion has left the Supreme Court making a decision.
It's out of the hands of the federal government and it is now in the states.
And we, the people in our respective states have an opportunity to decide on
it so you can vote in your state for whatever you think is best for you.
And it has been an issue they've obviously weaponized for decades, but they specifically
tried to do it in this election.
And I think the idea for them was we have to scare people.
If your goals are just to scare people into voting for you, I think you're losing.
And clearly they did because Donald Trump won 52% of the women vote in the country in
this election.
Was that the number?
Yeah.
And so 52% of the women voted for Trump.
But guess what he is going to do?
He's going to make sure that if you're a woman who's looking for a better job, you got a
better job prospect out there.
If you're a mom out there, you're going to have more money for your kids.
You're going to be able to buy them some better clothes for school, whatever it is.
Your life is going to be exponentially better because Donald Trump is in the White House.
And you can go back and look four years ago.
And by every quantifiable metric, he actually did that for people, whether it was the southern
border, whether it was peace through strength, first president in 82 years with no new wars.
Those are good things.
If you've got kids who are, you know, military age, maybe you're a, you know, a woman who's
got an 18, 20 year old kid, you're probably going to be happy that your kids are not going
to be shifted off to fight in a war right now because Donald Trump wants to end them.
Thank you for that explanation, especially the second part, because I think what often
gets overlooked is that when it comes to women, it's like, oh, they do they have the right to kill their child or not? Yeah, it's like, guys, hold on,
we get it abortion. But women, they also actually want to buy a home. Yeah, they actually have jobs.
They need money that they haven't fled. They're dealing with everything else that we all are.
It's not just can we remove babies, because that is so important that women have other issues too, other than abortion.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, I sent Rob this clip, Rob.
You played the CNN one with the guy.
I don't know if you saw this, I know we're closing up.
But it was the guy on CNN, a male Kamala Harris voter, starts to cry because he's upset, Laura,
that he's like, my daughters aren't going to be able to kill my grandkids in the future.
This is a look at how emotional these low T people, these men, these are the soft
Jimmy Kimmel men Pat, they are soft.
Look at what he's what he was sad about.
God, I voted for Kamala Harris.
Why is that?
Uh, I have three daughters, uh, four children overall.
And, uh, women's rights is pretty important to them and my daughters. Sorry,
I'm getting a little emotional about that. I didn't think that I was going to do that, but
just their bodies, their choice type of mentality. I want them to grow up in a world that's welcoming
to everybody. What I'm trying to find out is, let's say you are for that.
Nothing wrong with different ideas that, I'm a Christian, my position is very clear where
I'm at.
We got four kids.
I would keep my wife pregnant for 20 years.
She's not having it and I'm happy to have the four, but she would say pregnant.
She would have a three month break every year and I would be pregnant the other nine months.
Thank God your wife stood up for herself.
So by the way, Eric Trump would love another kid,
but we're all tapped out.
I think we're set.
I think you guys got one more.
I think I can do one more.
I think you got one more than you.
Well, let me tell you, Jen, my wife,
we had our last one at 43.
Wow.
40 to 43, yeah.
Well, this isn't helping me, go ahead.
She's like, next, next, next story.
But let me tell you this, like even if you're this, okay?
Okay, let's just say you're pro-choice.
What are you telling your, like,
let's have the conversation at nine,
honey, let me tell you why.
Do you realize, one day, when you go have
so much unprotected sex and you're diagnosed.
Yeah, dad, keep going, dad.
And then, after two, three, four months,
you change your mind, you don't wanna have it.
I'm gonna be there for you to get that abortion.
God, I love you, God.
I just want you to sell me to dream.
But honestly, I understand the idea of saying,
my body, my choice.
But for father, like Lebron James posted a picture,
I don't know if you saw this or not,
I will always be there for you.
Bro, you're not gonna be there when she's hooking up
with another guy, she's gonna do her decisions.
But I'm trying to visually,
like you're having a conversation with your kids,
you're trying to teach them a lesson.
Actually role play, talking to your 12 year old daughter
about what this policy means.
What do you tell them? See, but I think this guy, this is an instance where these people have bought into the idea that
they should feel guilty and that they're going to feel like morally superior voting for Kamala Harris.
They think Donald Trump is a bad person. They believe the lies about him. And they've been told,
if you vote for this woman, you're going to feel better about yourself.
I think that's what happens with some of these people.
It's a shame because it is.
It's just that they've been getting their information from bad sources and they have
no idea what they're talking about.
But you know, sad for him it didn't work out.
Tom, Tom, Tom, remember yesterday we were talking about this and you brought up the
whole you know, abortion and you know, Margaret Singer and all that stuff and you got it was
it was deep. Oh, it's very deep. Yeah, we can we can go really deep on that. Yeah, maybe another time. There's a lot
There's a lot to it as a woman. I
Are you identifying today? I'm in my mentor cycle right now. No be really bad having cramps by the way
I mean we do the podcast Tuesday night. Okay, we start at 7 we go till 3 o'clock Tom
Do you know when's the last time in my life
I went eight hours straight, no bathroom?
That's the only time I've ever done.
You didn't get up at all.
If you look at the light, I sat in the chair
for eight straight hours.
Look at this guy, look at this.
Not even two hours, Laura.
I'm gonna be right back.
Laura, she's here, what kind of?
Must've been something I said, gotta go.
Bob, notice as soon as you start talking about
women's rights and abortions, he has to leave.
He's actually emotional.
As soon as you start talking about this stuff, he starts thinking about men's prostate health
and all of a sudden he's running down the hall in a panic.
I was making a list of flag carriers for 2024 campaign.
Actual flag carriers, people that played a big role for this to happen because this time around there was a lot of solid
alliances that was made if you think about flag carriers
You have to put musk there for sure top ten maybe on the one list outside of president because he's number one
He's doing the work. You got musk you got Dana
You got Rogan you got a lot of these podcasters that he went on, you got the family, you got
the Viveks of the world, the JD Vances of the world. I think Charlie Kirk is top 10 to be
honest with you. I think Charlie did an amazing job. Oh my god. He's incredible. I told him the
other day, I'm constantly going to tell him, I don't know if he likes compliments, but I told
him, I said you're playing a very, very important role.
But I also think you played a very big role for this one.
I really think you played a very big role
because when you were up there like,
okay, go ahead and try, see what's gonna happen.
Our lawyers will get ahold of you.
That strategy of playing offense
and holding their foot to the fire and say,
go ahead and try to see what's gonna happen if you do this.
Applaud you guys for the victory.
Thank you.
Seriously, when I watch you guys on stage and I watch and saying,
we've gone on stretches of working our tails off when you're building a business family.
My wife's a very hard working person, you know, we have traveled and she's always,
she's always got an office next to my office. She's in the office five days a week.
She's outside right now.
She's waiting to say hi.
No, she specifically came from the other building just to say hi to you.
Oh, I'm so honored. She came from the 12-mile gate.
She made fun of me when I used the restroom.
She said, get out there.
Good for you, babe.
Please keep doing that with this guy.
We gotta toughen him up.
But it's great to have you here.
We're excited to see what you guys do next.
Congratulations on the victory.
Thank you.
In a major way.
And I guess we'll see what's gonna happen next
because you guys got 75 days to put that team together.
And then there's the inauguration
and then it's time to get to work and get everything going. And we will get to work,
don't worry about it. We believe you, we believe you. Guys, I don't think we have another podcast
we're doing this week and next week I think we're doing only one because we will be in DC,
we got to do some things in DC next week for those that are going to CXO, you know where
we're going next week and we'll be back again. God bless everybody, have a great weekend, take care,