TRUMP SPEAKS! First Press Conference Post Midterm Massacre

[0:00] It's a crazy day, and we're going to get to all of it. [0:02] We're going to talk about what happened last night. [0:04] We're going to talk about why the Democrats got so many seats, [0:07] why the Democrats got so many seats in the Senate, [0:10] why South Carolina is a blue state, why Texas is a blue state. [0:15] What's going to happen now? [0:17] We have to talk about Mike Johnson basically quitting politics. [0:20] He quit politics this morning. [0:21] Mike Johnson, who yesterday I was praising for being one of the most optimistic people, [0:26] literally today just threw his entire political career right off of a cliff. [0:30] So we're going to get to all of that. [0:33] But first, as I was preparing to hit go, I was literally, I had everything set up. [0:40] I have all of my clips. [0:41] I've got the wall of influence ready to go because we've got big news about that. [0:45] I've got everything here situated, and I'm about to pull the trigger. [0:49] Bam, we are about to start broadcasting. [0:51] All of a sudden, Donald Trump comes out and starts giving an impromptu press conference, [0:55] which is weird to me because all I read all morning long is Donald Trump locks himself in the residence. [1:03] Donald Trump refuses to talk to anybody. [1:05] I'll show you the headlines. [1:07] Donald Trump is paralyzed with anger. [1:10] That was literally a headline I ran. [1:12] I ran. [1:14] I read. [1:14] And sorry, I keep thinking of Iran because that's all people are talking about. [1:19] And all of a sudden, so I'm like, oh, my gosh, Donald Trump is paralyzed with anger. [1:24] He's locked himself in the residence, and he refuses to talk to anyone. [1:30] I'm going to be honest with you. [1:30] That sounds a lot more like what Hillary Clinton did. [1:32] But then I turn on the YouTube, and here I see the president speaking to reporters. [1:38] So I have to ask myself, is the media lying yet again? [1:43] Because this is a man that does not look paralyzed by anger. [1:47] In fact, he looks happy to talk to reporters, as he always does. [1:51] If you want a couple of questions while they're rigging it, how about having that in the background? [1:56] By the way, I should point out that I have not heard this just happen moments ago. [2:00] I've not heard any of these questions. [2:01] I don't know any of his answers. [2:03] He's at the ballroom construction site, and what he's doing is he was standing there. [2:07] You know, they sign, I don't know if you know this, but in construction sites, [2:10] they will sign one of the I-beams, or they'll sign something before they start erecting. [2:15] Sorry. [2:16] I giggled because I said erecting, and I giggled because I'm 12. [2:20] But no, they'll sign the I-beam so that every worker who worked on the project will be immortalized [2:26] with their signature on one piece of the interior of the project. [2:30] And so Donald Trump came out. [2:31] I saw him sign his big signature, and then he said, [2:33] let's take some, let's take some questions. [2:36] He wants to move so that the American flag is in the background and the I-beams. [2:42] Vice party for money. [2:44] We'll stay out of it. [2:47] We're going to be skilled. [2:49] You know, Jim, Jim was, I think he was really, all of them, everybody, everybody that we're, [2:56] we're dealing with. [2:58] But the speaker was fantastic. [3:00] The people under him were fantastic. [3:04] All good people. [3:06] I guess right now you have two candidates, right? [3:08] Did you ask this one? [3:09] Yeah. [3:09] So he's talking about, and again, this is, this is basically, what Donald Trump's doing [3:13] right now is he's basically hijacking my entire show, but that's okay. [3:16] He's the president. [3:17] He can do that. [3:17] He's talking about the speaker of the house position. [3:19] So Mike Johnson has now come out and Mike Johnson, in fact, I have it here. [3:24] Mike Johnson has come out and said he is not going to run for a minority leader. [3:29] He's no longer in the majority, so he can't be speaker of the house. [3:32] He could run for minority leader of the house, but that's nowhere near as cool. [3:36] And maybe he takes the blame for, or partially takes the blame for no longer being in the [3:41] majority. [3:42] So he's already said, we're done. [3:43] Guys, breaking just moments ago in Washington, Fox News Digital is told, speaker Mike Johnson [3:48] told his staff he is not running for house minority leader. [3:53] This comes just after we learned Jim Jordan is running for the position. [3:57] So that is going to be a big shift. [4:00] Very interesting. [4:01] We'll see who else wants to enter the race, but Mike Johnson, big, huge, historic losses [4:05] here. [4:06] Yeah. [4:06] And Steve Scalise, by the way, is also entering the race. [4:10] And this is, this is basically what we're seeing now here is a rematch of the race that [4:16] led to Mike Johnson becoming the majority leader of the speaker of the house in the first [4:19] place. [4:20] You may remember, and I remember it well, because it's one of the reasons why I entered [4:24] the congressional race last year. [4:26] You may remember that back when Donald Trump came back to power in 2024, I'm sorry, back when [4:32] the house of representatives, when they came back to power, they had a big vote and the vote [4:37] was to pick a speaker of the house. [4:40] It was in 2022, pardon me. [4:43] And what happened was the, uh, the Republicans got together and they voted for Jim Jordan, [4:48] a whole bunch of them. [4:49] Everyone was like, Jim Jordan's our man. [4:51] Jim Jordan's going to be great. [4:52] Jim Jordan's going to be the best speaker ever. [4:54] And there were about 10 Republicans who kept voting against Jim Jordan. [4:59] They kept voting for Steve Scalise. [5:01] And one of them was representative John Rutherford, one of the most corrupt individuals to ever [5:05] hold political office. [5:07] And unfortunately still does after yesterday's big win. [5:10] And so what happened now is, uh, Jim Jordan couldn't get the votes. [5:16] Steve Scalise couldn't get the votes. [5:18] They kept going back to the drawing board. [5:20] They finally settled on Mike Johnson. [5:22] He became the speaker of the house, who was speaker of the house for four years under [5:25] president Donald Trump. [5:26] And now look, he's stepping down. [5:28] He's not even going to run for minority leader. [5:30] And we're back to where we were before Jim Jordan versus Steve Scalise. [5:36] And unfortunately, many of those ridiculous, corrupt Republicans like John Rutherford are [5:43] still in the Congress. [5:44] So they're probably going to vote for Steve Scalise. [5:46] I don't know what's going to happen. [5:47] It may not be either of them, uh, when it comes down to it. [5:49] But Donald Trump is saying, I don't, you know, I don't know that I'm going to get involved [5:52] in that. [5:53] We've got two good candidates and that's up to the house. [5:56] Well, I think it's, uh, largely true because it drove the gasoline up a little bit short [6:11] term and probably that's, uh, probably it's true. [6:15] But at the same time, if I had it to do again, I'd have to do it again because this is an [6:19] interesting point. [6:19] Listen to this very carefully. [6:20] I know I've, like I said, I've never heard this, but I literally made the same point earlier [6:24] today. [6:24] Long-term, uh, it's the only answer. [6:27] You can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon. [6:29] Okay. [6:29] So President Donald Trump is saying, look, hindsight's 2020, right? [6:34] We, we invaded Iran. [6:35] We didn't want them to have a nuclear weapon. [6:37] They couldn't have a nuclear weapon. [6:38] So we took them out. [6:39] We did what we could. [6:40] It affected the midterms. [6:42] Gas prices went up. [6:43] The cost of everything else went up. [6:44] The democratic socialists, they grabbed hold of that. [6:46] They took it. [6:47] They ran with it and we lost the midterms, but I, nothing I could do. [6:52] I had to do it. [6:54] I had to do it. [6:55] Donald Trump literally saying, I didn't have a choice. [6:59] Here's a guy who, and let's be honest, there's people that know there's politicians that know [7:04] there's people that probably said to him, sir, Mr. President, look, I know you want to invade [7:09] Iran. [7:09] I know you want to protect people. [7:10] I know you don't want them to have a nuclear weapon, but guess what? [7:13] Um, we need to, we need to make sure that we save ourselves for the midterms. [7:21] We need to make sure that the midterms are intact. [7:23] And Donald Trump is saying, look, I understand that, but I can't get political. [7:27] I have to protect my people. [7:28] And isn't that really what we want in a leader? [7:30] Don't we want a leader who says, I know that by invading Iran, there's a potential that [7:34] we lose the house and the Senate in the midterms. [7:37] And I get impeached again, but as the leader of this country, I know in my heart of hearts [7:42] and my soul of souls that invading Iran is the right thing to do. [7:44] And he just confirmed that because he said he would do it again. [7:48] It was worth it. [7:49] I do. [7:50] Yeah. [7:50] I mean, well, you have no choice. [7:51] I mean, I thought the oil would go up a lot more and I did it on that basis. [7:55] You have no choice. [7:56] You have to do it. [7:56] You can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon or everything that you see here someday might [8:02] not exist. [8:03] And maybe this, but this building might be the only one that does. [8:07] So, yeah, I think that, look, I mean, I'll get along probably with the Democrats unless [8:13] they want to be destructive. [8:15] But they have the power of the veto. [8:16] So if we don't like what they're doing, they've already called and they want to talk [8:21] about things and that's fine. [8:23] But yeah, people, the Iran thing we had to do and we continue to do it. [8:28] We have tremendous oil flowing out of the hormone straightener. [8:31] At the beginning, there was none. [8:32] And probably that's the primary reason. [8:37] The price, not the war, the price. [8:39] Sir, you've known the rallies across the country. [8:42] You're fighting to switch to elections. [8:45] Do you have any regrets about the way you closed out the campaign? [8:49] No, look, I mean, if I were in the ballot. [8:51] She asked about the rally. [8:52] She said you did 30 plus rallies, states across the country, and it didn't work. [8:57] Do you have any regrets now about the way you closed out the campaign? [9:01] And Donald Trump's like, no, how would, why? [9:03] Why would I have regrets that I worked hard? [9:05] It's a dumb question, but whatever. [9:07] Well, let's hear his answer. [9:07] We would have won. [9:09] You saw the people. [9:10] There were thousands and thousands of people at every rally. [9:13] And if I was on the ballot, we would have won. [9:15] But they just, you couldn't transfer that love. [9:18] There was such love at those rallies. [9:19] It was incredible. [9:20] We weren't able to transfer the love to candidates. [9:24] Did you, did any of your aides try to talk about it? [9:27] It was going to write that speech on it. [9:29] Which one are we talking about? [9:31] The one at the reflecting pool. [9:32] Did any of your aides advise you to do something different? [9:34] I heard it was a very good speech. [9:36] Got great reviews. [9:37] They're asking about his reflecting pool speech. [9:39] And they're saying, hey, is, did any of your aides say maybe that's not the best way to [9:45] end the campaign? [9:46] He's like, it was a great speech. [9:47] I was at the reflecting pool. [9:48] We opened it back up. [9:49] I went over all my accomplishments. [9:50] So the press are trying to figure out who Donald Trump is going to blame. [9:54] This is, by the way, what they're doing. [9:55] They don't, they don't, they know that the speech at the reflecting pool had absolutely [9:59] nothing to do with the outcome of the election. [10:01] They're trying to figure out if Donald Trump is going to blame someone, if he's going [10:03] to throw someone under the bus, if he's going to say, yeah, some of my staff said I shouldn't [10:07] do it and I did it anyway. [10:08] So kudos to them. [10:09] Or maybe he'll say, you know, so-and-so said it was a good idea. [10:12] Maybe it wasn't. [10:13] Donald Trump's not going to do any of that because he knows, A, you can't trust the [10:16] media and B, he trusts his staff more than anyone else. [10:20] And C, I don't think he actually blames his staff for the midterm losses. [10:24] I think he blames, well, we'll get to that. [10:27] We'll get to that here in just a minute. [10:28] That was only a speech on the reflecting pool. [10:30] That had nothing to do with anything else. [10:32] That was a speech very much like this is today on this incredible place that we're building [10:38] at the White House. [10:39] It's going to be here for many, many years and serving our country well. [10:42] That was only a sort of a ribbon cutting because the reflecting pool hasn't worked since 1922. [10:50] It's, you know, over a hundred years it's never worked. [10:53] It's always leaked and was always a mess. [10:55] And we fixed it. [10:57] We made it great. [10:57] That was not a speech. [10:59] I was just talking about the reflecting pool and then a couple of other comments. [11:04] I mean, our speeches were really the speeches made at the 30 rallies. [11:08] And those speeches were, that was tremendous love. [11:11] It was, it was pretty amazing. [11:13] You have to think about this too. [11:15] I mean, here's a guy, 82, what is he, 80, 80 years old, 81, and he's going around multiple [11:21] different states over the course of a month, 31 different rallies, two hours on average [11:27] each. [11:27] That's 64 hours worth of speaking in the, in a month in front of live audiences. [11:32] And that doesn't even include travel time. [11:34] That doesn't even include the time it takes to do the little dance at the end and the [11:37] time it takes to throw the hats out at the beginning. [11:39] That doesn't even include the tele-rallies that he had to do. [11:42] That doesn't even include the times he's standing on the tarmac, yelling at fat, ugly, disgusting [11:47] reporters. [11:48] A lot goes into these rallies. [11:50] Donald Trump has been campaigning like, I don't think anyone has ever campaigned before. [11:53] And as he pointed out, he wasn't even on the ballot and it didn't work. [11:57] So you've got to be angry, frustrated, sure. [12:00] But look, he's back to work today and talking to reporters, answering questions, just like [12:05] he always does. [12:08] I can't tell you that. [12:10] They may tell you, but I can't tell you. [12:13] Donald Trump said he spoke to Democrats last night. [12:15] He said, I got five calls from Democrats last night and the Democrat, in fact, I think maybe [12:20] I have that one here. [12:22] Yeah, here it is. [12:23] This was Donald Trump. [12:24] Now, Donald Trump immediately called Fox News. [12:27] As soon as he was done, he called Fox News. [12:30] As soon as this election was done, as soon as they called it for the Democrats, Donald [12:34] Trump called Fox News and he talked to Brett Baier and Martha Raddatz. [12:38] And he said, and he said, congrats to the Democrats. [12:42] Congratulations to the Democrats. [12:44] They did a good job. [12:45] They've been looking for this one for 11 years and they finally got it. [12:49] But I don't view it as a hit on me. [12:52] I think we've done a, we've had the greatest two years in the history of the presidency. [12:57] And congratulations to the Democrats. [12:59] They did a good job. [13:00] And then he went on to say, he went on to say a couple of Democrats, like five Democrats [13:07] have already called me, a couple of senators, a couple of Congress people. [13:11] He wouldn't say who, but I have to imagine one of the senators and I would, I would bet [13:16] money on this. [13:16] One of the senators who probably called him was Chuck Schumer. [13:19] Why? [13:19] Well, because Chuck Schumer wants to be the majority leader. [13:25] He's right now the minority leader. [13:27] And a lot of people aren't happy with how he's doing as a minority leader. [13:32] So Chuck Schumer may have been one of the first calls to president Donald Trump saying, [13:36] look, I need your help. [13:37] You know, I need your help. [13:39] You and I can do some stuff together, but you got to help me. [13:42] You got to help me help you. [13:44] And the second one, I don't, you know, maybe John Fetterman, because here's the thing [13:48] in the last Congress where John Fetterman was, uh, I mean, John Fetterman has been an [13:57] outcast in the Democrat party for a very long time, but they don't like John Fetterman. [14:01] They consider him to actually be more of a Republican than they do a Democrat. [14:05] They don't like that. [14:06] He sides with the Republicans in many cases. [14:08] They don't like that. [14:09] He votes with Republicans. [14:10] They don't like that. [14:11] He calls Democrats, uh, dumb and immoral, and they don't like that. [14:17] He likes Israel and all these, and probably they don't like, they just don't like John [14:20] Fetterman. [14:21] And so what is happening now is I have to believe that John Fetterman is walking into [14:27] a Democrat party that is going to be even more, that is going to be even more, uh, hostile [14:34] toward him because now you not only have all the Democrats who already didn't like John [14:40] Fetterman, but you have this brand new crop of Democrats who are really going to hate [14:45] John Fetterman because he sided with Republicans and he likes Israel and all these other things. [14:49] So John Fetterman could have been one of the guys who called Donald Trump and said, Hey, [14:55] do you think I would now be a good time for me to switch parties? [14:58] And Donald Trump may be like, yeah, you know what? [15:01] There's probably never been a better time for you to switch. [15:03] If you're going to switch parties, I would recommend, uh, I would recommend switching the [15:08] party, switching parties right now. [15:10] And maybe John Fetterman, maybe John Fetterman is like, Hmm, that's something that's food [15:14] for thought. [15:15] Uh, if you will, anyway, that's, uh, but I, I digress. [15:19] Let's go, let's go back to president Donald Trump and see what else they're asking him. [15:23] No, no, no, not even a little bit. [15:28] I think it would destroy, I think it would destroy the Democrat party if they did. [15:32] I want to go back. [15:33] I didn't hear that question. [15:34] Let me put my headphones on. [15:35] For no reason. [15:35] What? [15:35] For having a success. [15:36] Oh, the impeachment. [15:36] It was a very good speech. [15:37] Got great. [15:41] No, no. [15:42] Are you nervous about impeachment at all? [15:44] He said it was the question. [15:45] No, not even a little bit. [15:49] I think it would destroy, I think it would destroy the Democrat party if they did that [15:54] because impeachment for no reason, what for having a successful country, our country is [15:58] more successful now than at any time. [16:01] Watch the beam go up. [16:03] Okay. [16:04] So now Donald Trump making an interesting point. [16:07] He's saying, I'm not at all concerned about impeachment. [16:11] I'm not at all concerned that the Democrat party is going to impeach me because I feel [16:14] like it would destroy the United States of America. [16:16] I feel like it would be the end of this country and they know it. [16:20] Impeaching me for what? [16:21] For having the most successful country? [16:23] For doing things for the betterment of the United States of America and all of her citizens? [16:28] Is that what they want to do? [16:29] Is that the precedent they want to set? [16:30] I mean, think about it. [16:31] This is a guy who has already been impeached twice before and now he's lost control of the [16:40] House and the Senate. [16:41] So are they going to impeach him again? [16:45] Most people believe, yes, they will. [16:47] But Donald Trump is saying that doesn't make any sense. [16:50] For what? [16:50] For what reason? [16:51] For what reason would they do that? [16:53] That doesn't make any sense at all. [16:55] And so we're going to find out. [16:57] We're going to find out if that happens or not. [16:59] I guess pretty soon in January, we're going to know. [17:02] But Donald Trump, look, he's answering questions, not as many as he usually does, but it's still [17:09] interesting to see. [17:14] I wonder if he knows he's on mic. [17:15] Middle to end of next year, depending on surfaces. [17:21] Oh, they're talking about the ballroom, maybe when it's construction is going to be complete, [17:25] that kind of thing. [17:25] He's saying hopefully middle to end of next year is what we're looking for. [17:30] So that's exciting. [17:31] That's exciting to know that that's the timeline. [17:34] But President Donald Trump pointing to the press. [17:37] You know, they're going to raise the beam. [17:39] Everybody pay attention while we raise the beam. [17:42] And that is that is where his focus is, because if you think about it, President Donald Trump [17:46] still is president of the United States of America. [17:49] And that's actually something that they they they they posted earlier today. [17:53] The official White House account said, hey, wait a minute. [17:55] Just so you remember, everybody, Donald Trump is still your president. [17:59] Just so you remember, Donald Trump still has two more years in this office. [18:03] Donald Trump is not going anywhere. [18:05] It's incredible. [18:05] Let's see what happens now. [18:08] They're raising the beam up. [18:09] They're raising the beam. [18:11] He put on a hat. [18:12] The American flag is there. [18:14] The beam is going up and it's going to be put into place. [18:19] It's going to be welded. [18:20] Is he done with questions? [18:21] All right. [18:22] It looks like there's time for more questions. [18:23] I knew he was. [18:25] I know how he feels. [18:26] Here we go. [18:28] Did you have another question? [18:29] The president was going to post that message talking so much about the results of the war [18:36] and how it impacted it. [18:38] Well, I knew the war was going to impact it, but whether it impacted or not, Iran can't have [18:44] a nuclear weapon. [18:44] No, but the vice president wrote a very lengthy post about how the war impacted the process [18:51] last night. [18:52] Well, I did. [18:53] I knew he was, I know how he feels about it. [18:56] I think it was, I think it was fine. [18:58] Yeah. [18:58] I thought it was good. [18:59] But we knew that. [19:00] I know that. [19:01] I knew that when I went in and we stopped them from having a nuclear weapon and they will [19:06] never have a nuclear weapon. [19:07] Have you spoken to Vice President Bansom? [19:09] Yeah. [19:09] Yeah. [19:10] Yeah. [19:10] About 2028 or what if? [19:12] I'm speaking about a lot of things, but I mean, we'll see what happens. [19:18] Everybody, I mean, you don't know who's talking about running. [19:22] You can have people running. [19:24] You can have a lot of people, maybe a lot of people running. [19:26] Maybe nobody's going to run. [19:27] Maybe he won't run. [19:29] I don't know who's going to run. [19:30] But I can tell you that as far as that war is concerned, I would have done nothing different. [19:35] We've totally broken their military. [19:38] The Navy's gone. [19:39] Their Air Force is gone. [19:40] Their anti-aircraft is gone. [19:42] I guess we're, sorry. [19:46] I thought something was falling, but apparently we're applauding. [19:49] President Donald Trump speaking about J.D. Vance saying, I don't know if he's going to [19:54] run or not. [19:54] 2028, there's been no mention of who's going to run. [19:57] There's been no mention of any of that. [19:59] But the fact of the matter is that the war in Iran had to rage on. [20:04] There was no... [20:05] It's a thing that they do, and here's the interesting thing. [20:10] Somebody will walk after we're gone. [20:12] They'll walk right across that, pick up the tree and walk. [20:15] There aren't too many people can do that. [20:17] You need very good balance. [20:19] Yeah. [20:20] So... [20:20] They'll leave that tree. [20:21] Well, we're gone. [20:22] A guy will walk right in that. [20:23] Take it. [20:24] Ron, you said that the war was going to be immediately after the election and that crisis... [20:30] Well, what did end... [20:31] No, I didn't say that. [20:32] I said their nuclear weapons will be destroyed. [20:36] That happened. [20:37] All right, they're still cheering. [20:39] President Donald Trump, he's getting a lot of questions about Iran because the Iran war [20:43] is what most people are blaming for the losses yesterday in the midterm. [20:49] And, of course, not only the media, but some Republicans. [20:52] Ron DeSantis, we have some of those clips. [20:54] We've already played a couple. [20:56] And so what we're seeing, what we're doing now, what we're noticing now is that the media, [21:00] the press, they're going to harp on Iran, especially since J.D. Vance posted that long [21:04] diatribe, and we'll get to that here in just a minute. [21:06] Keep in mind, the 2028 election does start right now, and so the media... [21:11] Whenever I want it to, but it's got to be done right, and we're never going to let them [21:15] have a nuclear weapon. [21:16] It's got to be done right. [21:18] But, of course, I knew that. [21:19] I knew the fuel would go up. [21:21] I thought it would go up two or three times higher than it is. [21:25] And now, today, it's coming down. [21:28] And yesterday, it dropped, or the day before, it dropped 10 points. [21:31] No, we've done a great job. [21:33] The Hormuz Strait is open. [21:36] It's producing the Wall Street Journal, cover of the Wall Street Journal a couple of days [21:39] ago. [21:39] It's producing more oil right now than at any time prior to the war. [21:44] So, are you considering replacing Secretary Hickson? [21:48] No, I think he's doing a very good job. [21:50] So, you don't want him to fill Marshall Black or the Senate seat, then, to be appointed to [21:54] be a senator? [21:54] Well, I think he's doing a very good job, and I actually think he'd be very popular if [21:59] he did that. [22:00] But I haven't heard that at all. [22:01] Do you have any advice on how he could keep on it ever? [22:05] So, now, after every midterm election loss, you're going to see some change in leadership. [22:13] And, of course, they want to shield, you know, Donald Trump is looking at his cabinet, and [22:18] maybe he's thinking of making some changes. [22:20] Maybe there's some people that are going to change, you know, they're going to make the [22:23] change themselves. [22:24] The media trying to give Donald Trump some outs, saying, hey, Pete Hegseth, that guy, [22:29] that guy's on the chopping block. [22:31] We all know Pete Hegseth. [22:32] We know that the Democrats are going to impeach Pete Hegseth. [22:35] Why? [22:35] They told us. [22:36] They gave us a list of people they want to impeach. [22:38] Guess who was on it? [22:39] Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War. [22:41] They called him Secretary of Defense, but he calls himself Secretary of War. [22:45] So, we know Pete Hegseth is one of the guys. [22:47] It's easy to say, hey, Pete Hegseth should be impeached. [22:50] He's in charge of the Iran war. [22:51] And, well, I don't know, that's just how the Democrats think. [22:54] It'd be easy for Donald Trump to say, well, the Iran war didn't go the way the media wanted, [22:58] or the Iran war cost us the midterms, so maybe I'll just get rid of Pete Hegseth. [23:02] It's a convenience that Marsha Blackburn won the governor's race and will be vacating the [23:10] Senate, which means that there will be an opening in the Senate. [23:12] And I guess, isn't it up to Marsha Blackburn to decide who fills that vacancy? [23:19] I believe it is. [23:20] And so, she could just say, I'm going to choose Pete Hegseth. [23:23] Although, she would say, I'm going to choose Pete Hegseth, because she's from Tennessee. [23:28] And then, he would vacate the Secretary of War position. [23:31] And then, I don't know who we would put in there, but it would be somebody else. [23:34] But, Donald Trump's saying, look, none of that's going to happen. [23:37] Pete Hegseth is doing a great job. [23:38] Look, when I said fast, we stopped them from having a nuclear weapon very early on, when [23:45] we did the raid. [23:51] There's, like, stopping for applause. [23:52] Big stuff, right? [23:53] They're stopping for applause. [23:55] Donald Trump looks up. [23:56] Everyone starts clapping. [23:57] Do you want to see the helipad? [23:59] Bring the cameras over there. [24:00] Let me show you. [24:01] Oh, Donald Trump's, all right, so now they're going to go look at the helipad. [24:04] Donald Trump's saying, all right, now we're going to go look at the helipad. [24:08] So, basically, this is exactly what we thought was going to happen. [24:12] The media is going to try to scapegoat. [24:13] They're going to try to find somebody to blame. [24:15] And they're going to ask President Donald Trump, who is it? [24:18] Who is it that you're going to put the blame on? [24:20] Who's going to be the first one to fall? [24:22] And you read all the stories about the aides who are running around. [24:25] Probably should walk through the men, right? [24:27] He's walking us. [24:28] Please walk through the men. [24:30] Jared, I think, Kyle. [24:32] He says, you know, we're not going to get rid of anybody. [24:35] We're not going to get rid of any of these people. [24:36] They're all here, no matter what, even though the media is reporting something totally different. [24:40] I can fast forward this a little bit and see if he gets back to any questions. [24:45] Or if they're just looking at the helipad. [24:49] Yeah, it appears. [24:50] All right, it appears over. [24:54] They're just looking at the helipad. [24:55] And that's it. [24:56] So we're going to dip out of the presidential press conference in front of the ballroom. [25:00] But look, he's right about a couple of things. [25:03] First of all, Donald Trump said the war had to happen. [25:08] And he's not backtracking. [25:09] And he's saying, and they're even saying, did the war cause you to lose the midterms? [25:13] And Donald Trump is saying, probably it did. [25:16] But guess what? [25:16] It had to happen. [25:18] It couldn't have not happened. [25:19] I would have done it again. [25:20] Why? [25:21] Because Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. [25:24] And Chuck Schumer, this guy's such a tool. [25:27] Let me find it. [25:28] Let me, Chuck Schumer. [25:29] I have so many clips today, by the way. [25:31] I may just be here for hours. [25:33] We did a great job. [25:34] We had so much fun last night. [25:35] We were on for hours. [25:37] And we were going through the big board. [25:39] We had the right pen election, pardon me, dashboard up, which was incredible. [25:45] It was so much fun. [25:46] But this guy, Chuck Schumer, I got to tell you, he's such a, he's such a turd. [25:52] Chuck Schumer, who again, wants to be minority leader. [25:55] I'm sorry, wants to be majority leader. [25:57] And has been, he's had his head so far up the Muslim Brotherhood's butt. [26:03] I mean, thank God those people, you know, use bidets. [26:07] Because Chuck Schumer's head would be in very bad shape. [26:10] But he's had his head up everyone's butt. [26:12] He's had his head up Al-Sayed's butt. [26:14] He's had his head up the Palestinians' butt. [26:16] He's basically become a Palestinian because he knew maybe we could get back into a position [26:21] of power, but I will never be the majority leader again unless I kiss the Muslim Brotherhood's [26:27] backside. [26:27] So that's what he's been doing. [26:29] And now he is flat out lying about the war on Iran and Donald Trump to try to gain favor [26:36] with those individuals. [26:37] And look, you can like the war or not like the war all you want. [26:41] You can blame the war or not blame the war all you want. [26:44] You can say gas prices and the war in Iran are the reason why Republicans got shellacked [26:50] yesterday. [26:50] That's fine. [26:51] But what Chuck Schumer says is just a bold-faced lie. [26:55] I don't know what the heck we're fighting for. [26:58] The American people don't know what the heck we're fighting for in Iran. [27:01] He's never made it clear. [27:02] He changes his mind day to day and minute to minute. [27:07] This war must end. [27:09] It must end. [27:10] Donald Trump does not change his mind day to day, minute to minute. [27:14] He just said it again nine times. [27:17] In fact, I've heard President Donald Trump say Iran can never have a nuclear weapon probably [27:23] 10 bajillion times. [27:26] I heard him say Iran can never have a nuclear weapon during his first presidential campaign. [27:33] I heard him say Iran can never have a nuclear weapon during his first presidency. [27:37] I heard him say Iran can never have a nuclear weapon during his second campaign. [27:40] I heard him say Iran can never have a nuclear weapon probably multiple times a day, every [27:46] single day for the last two years, especially when they started bombing Iran. [27:52] When Midnight Hammer happened a year ago, they said, what's up with Midnight Hammer? [27:56] And Donald Trump said, simple, Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. [28:00] What's going on with Midnight Hammer? [28:01] Did you really go and bomb Iran in the middle of the night? [28:03] Yes, it was very successful. [28:05] Why did you do it? [28:06] Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. [28:07] And you know what? [28:08] Democrats weren't mad about it. [28:09] Democrats were like, that's actually true. [28:11] Iran can never have a nuclear weapon because the Democrats know that if Iran has a nuclear [28:15] weapon, it's curtains for everybody. [28:17] It's curtains for the Jews and Israel. [28:19] It's curtains for Americans and Europeans. [28:21] And it's also curtains for a lot of Muslims. [28:24] Because as we saw when Iran got invaded the second time, they don't care about Muslims. [28:29] They have no brotherhood. [28:30] There's no Muslim brotherhood between Iran and Qatar and Saudi Arabia. [28:35] They don't care. [28:36] They were shooting missiles willy-nilly at everybody. [28:39] And if they had a nuclear one, they would have shot that at Saudi Arabia and not even thought [28:43] twice about it. [28:44] So Donald Trump has been very clear. [28:47] Chuck Schumer is lying. [28:49] He knows why Donald Trump went to war with Iran. [28:53] He knows why Iran has been invaded multiple times. [28:56] He knows what Donald Trump's objective was. [28:58] It's always been crystal clear Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. [29:04] And make no mistake, whenever Trump defies the will of the American people or the law, [29:10] we will launch investigations, take him to court, and entangle him in legislative razor [29:15] wire. [29:17] The days of Trump's supplicant Senate are over. [29:21] The supplicant Senate. [29:23] The days of Trump's supplicant Senate are over. [29:28] Now, President Donald Trump had a, and we'll get to Ron DeSantis and J.D. Vance here in [29:33] just a minute, because it is going to be a heated battle. [29:36] But since we're talking about the war in Iran, since we're talking about what happened yesterday, [29:40] before we get to 2028, before we get to who's next, who's next, who's up next, there's a lot [29:46] of people that want to be next, at least three of them that I can tell. [29:49] But before we get to that, we have to talk about what went wrong and where do we go from [29:53] here and how do we handle it? [29:54] And there are multiple different factions, sometimes in the, both, you know, in the [30:01] Republican Party that have different ideas of what happened yesterday. [30:05] In fact, there are multiple different factions, sometimes on the same Fox News show that have [30:11] a disagreement about what happened yesterday. [30:13] Case in point, Fox and friends this morning, where our good buddy Brian Kilmeade sat quietly [30:19] while Lawrence Jones, it's Lawrence Jones, right? [30:23] Yeah. [30:23] While Lawrence Jones and Ainsley Earhart, aka Mrs. Sean Hannity, went back and forth about [30:31] exactly what this meant for the Republican Party. [30:33] Listen to, listen, first up is, is Hannity Barbie, Ainsley Earhart, who's the ray of sunshine [30:40] this morning after one of the most massive, massive midterm losses in history. [30:45] Don't forget, if you're waking up disappointed, if you are conservative and you voted for Republicans [30:48] and you're looking across the map and you're saying what is happening, especially like [30:52] Michigan, where else I had one, don't be discouraged because this is normal. [30:56] This is what happens usually in a midterm. [30:58] Donald Trump has dominated the political conversation for 11 years. [31:02] And he even talked about that last night. [31:03] And the more dominant the personality, the bigger the backlash. [31:06] And so what we're seeing here is exactly what happened to Ronald Reagan. [31:08] He lost eight Senate seats. [31:10] He lost the midterm. [31:11] But then he came back after that and he won 49 out of 50 states. [31:15] Clinton, as you mentioned, Obama, same thing happened to them. [31:18] So you can think Donald Trump's policies are good. [31:21] You can think he's done a good job for the first half of this administration of the second [31:26] term for him. [31:27] This is a mid, a midterm report card. [31:29] And we still have to see what Donald Trump does over the next two years. [31:33] If the war ends, maybe the gas prices will go down. [31:36] Maybe the prices at the grocery store will go down. [31:38] But I think what's happening is people saw images of ice. [31:42] They were, they got tired of that. [31:44] I think they also go to the grocery store. [31:46] That's what we heard the most. [31:47] You go to the grocery store and things are expensive. [31:50] And so they want prices to go down. [31:52] And so they're thinking, if that's not happening right now, let's go a different direction. [31:57] So, and this, by the way, if you're listening to the podcast, let me just set the scene for you. [32:03] Fox and Friends has their white couch with Sixth Avenue in the background. [32:07] You can see the world, you can see the Radio City Music Hall, by the way, and the flags [32:11] and that kind of thing, Central Parkway in the background. [32:13] And in the middle of the scene, you have Ainsley Earhart in her pink, legally blonde [32:19] type business attire. [32:21] And then on one side, you have Brian Kilmeade in his dark blue suit looking down like he's [32:27] waiting to talk to the principal. [32:29] I don't know what's wrong with Brian. [32:30] I mean, I know what's wrong with Brian Kilmeade today, but he's very despondent and he's not [32:34] happy at all. [32:35] And he's looking solemn and he's looking straight down. [32:37] And then you have Lawrence Jones sitting on the other side of Ainsley Earhart. [32:40] And he's listening to her talk about how, if you're waking up, just remember, this is [32:46] just a midterm report card. [32:48] Just remember, this is just people saying, okay, Donald Trump, we'd like to see how you [32:52] act in the second. [32:53] This is not, this happened to Ronald Reagan. [32:55] And Lawrence Jones is looking at her like, woman, what are you talking about? [33:01] Wait, what did you just say? [33:03] I mean, the look at, he's at one point got his hands on his legs, staring at her like [33:08] he cannot believe the words that are coming out of her mouth. [33:12] And then when she finally wraps up, he jumps in with a completely different take on what [33:16] happened last night. [33:17] Direction. [33:17] I do think that Republicans have to look in the mirror, though. [33:23] You got to get connections with your voters. [33:26] I know people want to blame candidate quality like Ken Paxton. [33:31] But when you lose Texas, when the governor, longest serving governor. [33:34] And the most successful. [33:36] He's been great. [33:37] Voters are trying to tell you something. [33:38] And I'm sorry, it's more than gas prices and the war. [33:43] They're sending a message. [33:45] It's almost as if they're saying, you didn't act fast enough. [33:48] You didn't pay attention to my concerns enough. [33:51] And I think it does us no good to sugarcoat that. [33:55] You lick your wounds, you go back to the battlefield. [33:57] But if you change nothing, expect this to grow. [34:01] Now, the Democrats are going to be in a tough position, too, with these crazy radicals. [34:05] Okay, look, before we get to the crazy radicals, let's dissect a little bit with Lawrence Jones. [34:10] Lawrence Jones, by the way, I mean, literally just, he literally just stepped in Ainsley [34:16] Earhart's face. [34:16] He just spit in her Wheaties. [34:18] Because she's saying, look, you know what we're going to do? [34:21] We're going to just wake up and we're going to look at our report card and we're going [34:23] to say, okay, let's see. [34:25] Let's see what the next two years bring. [34:28] And Lawrence is like, lady, you cannot sugarcoat this. [34:32] And he's right. [34:33] You cannot sugarcoat this. [34:34] Because what this is, and let me find Byron Donalds here, what this is, is a complete [34:40] and total failure by the Republican Party. [34:43] Not Donald Trump, although he is the leader of the Republican Party. [34:46] This is a complete and total failure of the Republican Party. [34:50] Why? [34:51] Because they had two years to do what Donald Trump was doing and they decided not to. [34:59] They had two years to take everything on Donald Trump's agenda and codify it in the Senate. [35:03] They had two years to say, Save America Act. [35:07] That's a great idea. [35:08] Let's do it. [35:09] Make sure that only citizens are voting. [35:11] We're on board with that for shiz. [35:13] They had two years to say, oh, let's get rid permanently of men and women's sports. [35:19] Absolutely, we should do that. [35:21] There are all kinds of moral and ethical and constitutional and just downright decent and [35:28] American and Christian things that we should have done as a party in the House and in the [35:34] Senate, and we didn't do any of them. [35:37] Donald Trump got the taxes cut. [35:39] Donald Trump did this. [35:40] Donald Trump did that. [35:41] John Thune and the Senate is one of the most ridiculously worthless bodies in political history. [35:49] Our political history, European political history, Chinese political, I don't know. [35:53] I don't know. [35:53] I haven't even studied all of the political histories, but I have to imagine that this [35:58] Senate has been pathetic. [36:02] That's what they should call the Senate is what they've been horrible. [36:07] The House with a minor majority and with a bunch of upstarts who will, and Thomas Massey's [36:13] not innocent in any of this, right? [36:14] And I know everyone's like, oh, Thomas Massey, he was voting his conscience. [36:18] He was voting this, that he was voting his conscience. [36:21] He was also voting his ego. [36:22] And the thing that makes the Democrats so powerful is that they have big egos too, but they put [36:30] their egos aside and they vote as a content, as a, as a concise unit. [36:38] Why? [36:39] Because the Democrats hate the Republicans more than they hate each other. [36:45] And the Republicans hate each other more than they hate the Democrats. [36:52] The Democrats will stab each other in the back and lie about each other. [36:58] And they will, they will go out and they will work against each other. [37:00] And they will try to primary each other. [37:02] As we see, they will threaten each other. [37:05] Nancy Pelosi is a vindictive B word. [37:08] She is threatened to ruin people's lives. [37:10] If they don't vote the way she wants them to vote, she can caucus her caucus. [37:15] That lady had a big caucus and she know, she knew how to use it. [37:20] It was a, Nancy Pelosi's caucus was a big, hard caucus and nobody, she used it the way [37:29] no woman has ever used a big, hard caucus like she had. [37:33] The Republicans have a caucus. [37:35] It's tiny. [37:36] It's weak. [37:36] It's shriveled. [37:37] John Thune is the worst thing that has happened to the Republican party and the Republican [37:42] majority in the Senate. [37:44] We heard Donald Trump didn't even talk to him on the phone. [37:46] He wouldn't even talk to the president. [37:47] Donald Trump wanted the Save America Act passed. [37:49] That didn't happen. [37:50] He wanted the filibuster blown out of the water. [37:52] That didn't happen. [37:53] You don't think that the Democrats are going to blow the filibuster out of the water? [37:56] They won. [37:58] It's going to happen. [37:59] They're going to start bringing all of these things to the table. [38:01] They're going to start bringing up the statehood of Puerto Rico, of DC, whatever. [38:07] Donald Trump's going to be out there vetoing everything. [38:09] And Byron Donalds, the brand new governor-elect of the state of Florida, the first black governor [38:18] of Florida. [38:20] But guess who doesn't care? [38:21] The Democrats. [38:22] Man, they were thrilled to death when Barack Obama was the first black president. [38:26] That was historic. [38:27] History has been made. [38:29] Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States of America. [38:33] This is pretty historic. [38:34] The first black man ever elected governor of the state of Florida. [38:37] We've had a white man, white man, white man, white man, white man, white man. [38:42] We finally get a black guy to be our governor and the media, they're disgusted. [38:48] They wanted David Jolly. [38:50] They wanted a white guy. [38:51] How racist is that? [38:54] All these racist Democrats in Florida going out and voting for David Jolly over Byron Donalds. [39:01] When Barack Obama was running for president, I voted, unfortunately, for the other guy. [39:06] Both times. [39:07] I voted for the old white guy. [39:08] I voted for John McCain. [39:11] Not, I mean, I, I wasn't happy about it. [39:13] I voted for, who was the other guy? [39:15] Mitt Romney. [39:16] Wasn't happy about that one either, but I did it. [39:18] And you know what people said? [39:20] You're a racist. [39:22] Okay. [39:22] Why? [39:23] Because I vote, because there's a black guy on the ticket and a white guy on the ticket [39:26] and you vote for the white guy. [39:27] You're a racist. [39:28] Fine. [39:29] All, however many millions of Democrats it was, like 1.9 million Democrats or whoever it [39:34] was who voted for David Jolly, the white guy over Byron Donalds, the black guy. [39:38] Y'all all racists. [39:40] So don't even step, don't even come at me. [39:42] You, each and every Democrat who voted for David Jolly is a racist and they're not even [39:47] celebrating the historic fact that Florida, the state of Florida, the free state of Florida [39:51] has a black governor for the first time ever. [39:53] But that's not the point. [39:56] The point is Byron Donalds, who served in the Congress, I think said it pretty well. [40:01] Sounds great, but I got to give a thanks to the people of Florida all throughout the state [40:06] for supporting us. [40:07] The people in the panhandle, the panhandle once again kept Florida as a conservative state. [40:13] So we're very grateful to the voters in the panhandle. [40:15] But we also want to talk to all the people of Florida. [40:18] We have a mission. [40:19] The campaign was not talking points. [40:21] We are going to make Florida more affordable for the people of our state. [40:24] We're going to make sure that our kids can achieve their Florida dream here in Florida. [40:28] It was a tough fought victory last night, but we were able to win and be decisive. [40:34] And now we get to the job of making sure that our state works for everybody. [40:37] Right. [40:37] So what do you, what is your takeaway? [40:40] Because you're one of the few Republicans to have success last night in a statewide election. [40:44] And of course, Governor DeSantis had a very tough fight in his first term. [40:50] And then you had, same with Rick Scott, had a tough race his first term too. [40:55] So why do you think in the big picture, when your message got through, when we're looking [41:01] at the governor of Texas, also very successful, his didn't? [41:05] Uh, first of all, we did a lot of work on the ground in this campaign, things that were [41:09] not seen. [41:09] My campaign, we knocked over to focus on the issues that where's my, where's that's not [41:14] the clip I want every single day on the ground. [41:16] Why do you think so many people were unhappy? [41:19] Obviously with the first two years here, it is. [41:21] All right. [41:21] This is what we're looking for. [41:22] This is what, this is Brian Kilmeade finally get to it. [41:24] And keep in mind, Brian Kilmeade lives in Florida. [41:26] He lives in New York, but he's got a home right here down the road. [41:29] He lives in Florida. [41:29] He spends a lot of time in Florida. [41:30] He's very invested in the Florida race and he's very, and he's right about what happens [41:35] in Florida. [41:36] We'll get to that in a minute, but he's right. [41:38] What happens in Florida? [41:38] The governors have a tough first battle. [41:41] Uh, but then after four years of hopefully being good governors, it's really easy for [41:45] them the second time around. [41:46] Uh, we're unhappy, obviously with the first two years of the Trump term. [41:51] Um, I think, look, when you talk to people on the ground, gas prices are a major problem. [41:56] I think people were looking at the price of gas, the price of diesel. [41:59] Um, and, and I think those frustrations boiled over. [42:02] Um, I also want to look at, you know, in the United States Senate, there were some opportunities [42:07] I think that were missed, not passing a save America act, not getting some of the key policies [42:12] done, like, um, putting through president Trump's border security packages and codifying [42:17] that into law. [42:18] I think that's the frustrated, uh, Republicans. [42:20] I think if you not just look in Florida, but look around the country, uh, what I'm starting [42:25] to see is that we have a lot of Republicans who either, uh, did not vote or decided to [42:29] go and vote for Democrats. [42:30] And I think there's a frustration out there that we have a responsibility to address. [42:35] Um, and that's something I'm going to be talking about with my colleagues on Capitol Hill. [42:38] When I get back, uh, during, uh, this lame duck session, we're also going to be laser focused [42:42] on that here in Florida moving forward. [42:44] Okay. [42:46] Really well thought out remarks there about why the Republicans lost so badly. [42:52] Let me summarize it for you. [42:54] If you lost track, Republicans suck. [42:58] Republicans suck horrible things that I don't want to say. [43:03] They're the worst part. [43:05] It's probably the worst party in the world. [43:07] I don't know why I've been a Republican pretty much all my life. [43:09] Ever since I moved to this country at the age of eight, 40, a really long time. [43:15] Let's see 40. [43:16] I am not going to math. [43:17] 44 years of my life. [43:19] I've been a Republican and it's the worst party to be a member of because they just [43:25] shoot themselves. [43:27] They don't do anything. [43:29] And it's because, and again, it's, I don't know. [43:33] I don't, I know what it is, but it's because they have this sense of morality above all, [43:40] which is detrimental because if they really, if they really are led by their morals, if [43:45] we're like, we got to vote with our morals, we got to vote with our conscience. [43:48] We got to do this. [43:49] We got to do that. [43:49] We got to do everything else. [43:50] Well, guess what? [43:51] You voted with your morals. [43:52] You voted with your conscience. [43:54] You did whatever it is you thought you didn't like the way that Donald Trump talked about [43:58] the fat guy on the tarmac. [43:59] You didn't like the way that Donald Trump talked about the, the transgender guy trying [44:03] to do the, the, the girl trying to do the, trying to lift up the thing and the transgender [44:07] guy come. [44:07] You don't like any of that. [44:08] You don't like how Donald Trump yells at reporters and says that they're stupid and [44:12] liars. [44:14] That's fine. [44:14] So vote with your conscience. [44:15] Guess what? [44:16] Now you have communists and members of the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating the halls of Congress. [44:21] So by voting with your conscience, you've helped to hand the country over to people who hate [44:30] it. [44:31] Now, imagine if you just maybe put your conscience aside for a second or just said, you know what? [44:37] I'm going to have to compromise on this one because what the Republicans want to do in [44:44] the end is way better than the Democrats. [44:46] The worst Republican, the worst Republican is still better than the best Democrat. [44:54] John Rutherford is one of the worst Republicans we have, but if it comes time to vote for [45:03] him or any Democrats, you have to vote for him because the worst Republican is better [45:11] than any Democrat. [45:12] Although I'll be honest with you. [45:13] I don't even know anymore. [45:15] I don't even, you can't even really tell the difference half the time, but Ron, but [45:18] Byron Donald's hit the nail on the head there, which brings us back to Fox and Friends. [45:25] And now the silver lining, there is a silver lining with these crazy radicals, because [45:31] now with their, you know, socialist populist message, the voters want them to deliver too. [45:36] So if they don't deliver, they're going to be like, okay, put somebody else in the game. [45:41] Okay. [45:41] Uh, I did something during, and by the way, we had last night, we crashed the right pen [45:48] election dashboard. [45:49] It was amazing. [45:49] We had so many people. [45:51] Um, if you've, if you've gotten right pen, if you're a member of right pen in the right [45:53] pen community, we're going to take it. [45:55] It's still up there now, but I have to take it down, uh, later on today, but we crashed. [45:59] I think it's still, we're still having problems with it. [46:01] We crashed the election room, uh, the election night dashboard. [46:04] Where is it? [46:05] Open the election night dashboard. [46:06] Here it is. [46:06] Um, it's amazing how many people logged on and followed along with us and we were up [46:11] late and we were drinking bourbon. [46:13] And I mean, at least I was, I don't know what you guys were drinking and it was so much fun. [46:16] Look, we're still having, we're still having problems with it. [46:17] Here we go. [46:18] So, uh, the election night dashboard, it's got some, it's had some hiccups because like [46:23] I said, it was, it was a pretty crazy night, but everything here, South Carolina, big shocker, [46:28] Georgia, North Texas, big shocker, Michigan. [46:31] We're not at all happy about. [46:33] We kept Florida. [46:34] That was about it. [46:35] We're still waiting on Alaska. [46:37] We're still waiting on Mississippi. [46:38] Um, I feel like Alaska, even though they cheated, we'll be fine. [46:42] Mississippi. [46:43] I don't know what's going to happen there, but over and over again, Dem hold, Dem hold, [46:47] GOP hold, uh, G Dem flip, Dem flip, Dem hold, GOP hold, Dem flip. [46:55] It was over and over again. [46:56] Maine, Susan Collins is out of a job after like decades and decades and decades. [47:00] So we see this blue all over the right pen election night dashboard. [47:04] And we have to think to ourselves, this is horrible. [47:08] But I said this in one of our, one of our, um, war room meetings a couple of weeks ago, [47:14] and it was kind of difficult for people to understand, but let me kind of, let me kind [47:17] of break it down for you. [47:18] And what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually pull up a New York times house results, because [47:23] I want to explain this to you. [47:24] This is an important thing. [47:26] The worst thing, the worst thing that could have happened to the Republicans is for them [47:37] to lose the house of representatives and the Senate. [47:40] Okay. [47:41] The worst thing would have been for them to lose the house of representatives and the [47:45] Senate, but the absolute worst thing for them to have done would be to lose the house [47:51] of representatives by a slim margin. [47:53] What do I mean by that? [47:54] Okay. [47:55] Right now we have a 219 margin, which means we have one vote in the house of representatives. [48:00] When you have one vote in the house of representatives, you get the Thomas Massey effect. [48:06] That means that one person controls the entire Republican agenda. [48:10] When one, when all the Republicans in the party, when all 218 Republicans vote for something [48:17] and one Republican goes, you know what? [48:20] I'm not on board with this. [48:22] Because they have all the power and they can ask for amendments and, and new votes and money [48:29] and what a fame and fortune and hookers, whatever it is they want, they can ask for it and they [48:33] can get it because they're the one holdout. [48:36] So the smaller, the smaller your majority, the more power each individual member has with the [48:43] Republican party. [48:44] We saw that several times. [48:45] We saw it with Thomas Massey. [48:47] We saw it sometimes with Anna Paulina Luna. [48:50] We saw it sometimes with Matt Gaetz and people like that. [48:53] A very, you could have two or three representatives out of 435, just stop everything until they [49:02] get what they want and their agenda gets pushed through. [49:05] Now think about it on the flip side. [49:08] If the Democrats won the House of Representatives by a thin, slim majority, if it were 219 to [49:18] 218 Democrats, well, the inverse is true. [49:23] One Democrat could hold up the entire country. [49:28] One Democrat could demand their agenda be the one that gets pushed through. [49:32] One Democrat could gum up the works. [49:34] One Democrat could hold the country hostage and demand, demand whatever it is they want [49:41] or the legislation doesn't pass. [49:43] It gives one Democrat way too much power. [49:46] And the reason why it's good that the Democrats have a bigger majority, because that one Democrat [49:52] who could force through their agenda could be Ilhan Omar. [49:58] That one Democrat could be AOC. [50:00] That one Democrat could be Rashida Tlaib. [50:02] That Democrat could be any of the other lunatic Democrat socialists that they put in there. [50:08] They could have a, right now they have a, let's see, an 18-seat majority. [50:13] They're probably going to have a much larger majority. [50:15] Some people are saying up to 30 seats. [50:18] That's actually better for everyone. [50:20] Because if they had a two or three-seat majority, then the squad would be controlling the country. [50:27] Not President Donald Trump, not the minority leader, not Hakeem the Dream Jeffries, none of those people. [50:33] If they had a three or four-seat majority in the House of Representatives, the squad would be running the show. [50:40] The Democrat, socialist, pro-Palestinian, Israel-hating, America-hating, foreign-born squad, many of them, [50:48] would be running the country. [50:51] But because we lost by a lot more votes, it's actually better for us. [50:56] There's no way that 30 Democrats are going to come together and hold up legislation in favor of the Democrat socialists. [51:06] There just aren't that many of them. [51:09] If you're going to lose the House of Representatives, you want to lose it by a wide margin. [51:14] Because it just gives too many people too much power. [51:19] And so this is, what happened last night is not the worst case scenario. [51:26] It's definitely not the best, but it could have been worse. [51:28] We could have lost the House by fewer votes. [51:32] And that would actually be detrimental. [51:35] Look, one just flipped while we were sitting here, while I was sitting here screaming and yelling. [51:39] The Democrats just picked up another seat. [51:40] We could have lost the House by two votes. [51:43] And that would have been, then it would have been game over. [51:46] We could have lost the Senate by one or two votes. [51:48] And then you would have had, then, think about this. [51:50] If it were a 51-49 majority in the Senate, then Abdul Al-Sayed, the first Muslim, Egyptian-born, sympathizing with the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan Piker, BFF, wannabe, you know, jihadist, would have all the power in the Senate. [52:10] And would be able to stop or start anything he wanted. [52:14] So if you're going to lose, lose big. [52:18] And that's exactly what the Republicans did. [52:22] By the way, Donald Trump, not only, Donald Trump, by the way, he was not happy that the midterms went the way they did. [52:28] But he was really not happy with Fox News. [52:30] And he called into Fox News. [52:32] And I think half of his, half of his, I guess half of his motivation here was to complain about the midterms or to congratulate the Democrats and talk about how they're going to move forward. [52:42] But also, he really just wanted to admonish Brett Baier. [52:45] And then I read at Fox that I'm not popular. [52:48] You know, I mean, the Fox polls are terrible. [52:50] You ought to get yourself a good pollster because your pollster is the worst. [52:53] But tonight, actually, the results are pretty close to what the Fox polls showed. [52:56] Well, I don't know about that. [52:57] I can just tell you about speaking for myself. [53:00] And the results with Fox, with me, were wrong for 12 years. [53:05] I mean, they've gotten me wrong for 12 years. [53:08] But I don't care. [53:09] It doesn't matter. [53:09] People, you know, people see. [53:12] When you look at the pollster recently that admitted they weren't even doing polls and they gave the information to the New York Times and they weren't even legit. [53:21] It wasn't even a question of legit. [53:24] The one that just went out of business, they announced we never really did a poll. [53:27] Yeah, so anyway, bottom line. [53:29] But Brett's like, all right, let's just cut to the chase, Mr. President. [53:32] So I guess before we get to Ron DeSantis, a couple of things. [53:39] First of all, there is a race right now, as we talked about, in the House of Representatives. [53:46] And that race is for who is going to be leading the House of Representatives. [53:50] And we know that it's not Mike Johnson because it looks like he had a press conference. [53:54] It's about whether we're going to preserve and strengthen the American experiment or we're going to hand our country over to far left radicals who have captured the Democrat Party. [54:03] The battle for our country, that battle against this insurgent socialist movement and the battle to restore American greatness, none of that is over in any way. [54:13] In fact, I'm going to tell you right now, that fight has just begun for our generation. [54:17] Okay, we will win that fight for America. [54:21] Yeah, that's right. [54:23] That is Mike Johnson at the Team Johnson. [54:28] He literally, he's standing in front of a podium. [54:34] Forget that. [54:35] He's standing in front of a huge sign that says Team Johnson. [54:39] I don't know. [54:40] I don't know that I would have. [54:41] I don't know that Team Johnson would have been the way that I would have been the slogan that I. [54:46] Anyway, that was him last night. [54:47] He's not running. [54:48] He's already said he's not running. [54:51] And Jim Jordan is. [54:52] Jim Jordan sent a letter to his colleagues and the letter that he sent to his colleagues said, [55:00] Dear Republican colleague, this is a staggering day for our conference. [55:03] We are losing colleagues and friends who've been valuable members of our conference and leaders in our party. [55:08] As we look to the future, we must learn from these results. [55:13] In times like these, I'm reminded of the resilience and optimism of the American people. [55:16] When Americans get knocked down, they pick themselves up and get back to work. [55:20] Now, our conference must do the same. [55:24] In these next two years, our job cannot be merely to spotlight how radical this new Democrat party is. [55:30] Offense, not defense, wins elections. [55:34] Republican policies prioritize making Americans' neighborhoods safer, keeping more money in their pockets, [55:38] and protecting enduring American values and freedoms. [55:40] To restore our majority, we must restore voters' faith in our ability to deliver on these principles. [55:48] That is why I am running to serve as Republican leader in the 120th Congress. [55:55] And then he goes on and on to talk about why he would be great at that particular job. [56:01] Hakeem Jeffries, by the way, is lying about a couple of things. [56:06] He said that he was asked here, well, first of all, he took a dig at Mike Johnson. [56:12] Mike Johnson was correct. [56:16] The polls were wrong. [56:20] It wasn't simply a blue wave. [56:23] It was an American tsunami. [56:25] I don't know what that means. [56:26] I don't know what that means. [56:27] But then he lied because he was asked about impeachment. [56:30] And look, there are already articles of impeachment drawn up against Pete Hegset. [56:34] There are already articles of impeachment and discussions about impeachment regarding President Donald Trump. [56:40] And Hakeem Jeffries has asked about it, and he just flat out lies. [56:43] I'm trying to have a conversation with President Trump. [56:45] And how do you envision actually working with someone that you yourself called the dumbest person ever to hold that office, [56:51] and you're facing calls within your own caucus to impeach him? [56:55] I haven't had a single member of the House Democratic Caucus talk to me about impeachment. [57:01] That's a lie. [57:02] Nobody believed that. [57:03] He's starting off his career with a lie. [57:08] He's standing next to Ted Lieu, who has on multiple occasions talked about impeaching President Donald Trump. [57:16] Literally, the guy to his left has said publicly Donald Trump should be impeached. [57:23] And he expects us to believe that he hasn't had a single conversation with Ted Lieu? [57:28] I haven't had a single member of the House Democratic Caucus talk to me about impeachment. [57:34] We've been relentlessly focused on affordability and on accountability because the House is a separate and co-equal branch of government. [57:45] We recognize that we don't work for Donald Trump. [57:48] We don't work for J.D. Vance. [57:49] We don't work for the Supreme Court. [57:50] We work for the American people. [57:52] By the way, the House is not a separate and co-equal branch of government. [57:55] The Congress is a separate and co-equal branch of government. [57:58] And the days of the House of Representatives functioning like a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump administration are over. [58:09] House Democrats are going to lead a Congress that does serve as a check and balance on an out-of-control executive branch. [58:18] I have not heard from President Trump. [58:22] It's my understanding that Leader Schumer has not heard from President Trump. [58:26] I look forward to talking to the members of the House Democratic Caucus when we convene early next week. [58:34] I look forward to talking to Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats when we convene next week [58:41] and charting a path forward to bring about the type of dramatic change the American people are clearly demanding. [58:48] All right. [58:49] So that's him lying about a bunch of stuff. [58:52] So big loss, right? [58:54] We had a big loss here in the House and a big loss in the Senate. [58:59] And the thing about the midterms is as soon as the midterms are over, the 2028 election begins. [59:06] And, man, they are off to the races. [59:10] Before we get to Ron DeSantis, let me talk about the wall of influence for just a minute. [59:14] We had a guy jump on the wall of influence yesterday, Jeff Zapper, right before we went live for the elections. [59:21] And the wall of influence, this is one of my favorite things that we've ever done. [59:25] Because a lot of times, you know, what we do here is we have hats and we have T-shirts and we have merchandise [59:30] and we have opportunities for you to buy my books and attend my events. [59:35] And even though the election night war room was a great way for you to be involved in the election [59:40] and get insider information in the election, but it was hosted by me. [59:44] And the wall of influence for the first time ever is something that is all about you. [59:48] It is a way for you to put yourself in front of our very large audience. [59:53] It's a way for you to take your website, your social media, your ex, your Facebook, your Instagram, your YouTube, your podcast, [1:00:00] your real estate agency, your travel agency, your book, whatever it is, and say, [1:00:06] Hey, I have something that's valuable. [1:00:09] I have something I created that I'm proud of. [1:00:10] I have something I want other people to know about and put it in a place where people are going to know about it. [1:00:15] And you can do it in a very affordable way. [1:00:18] Right now, a square on the wall of influence is $91. [1:00:21] That's the lowest it's ever going to be because every brick goes up $1 in price. [1:00:27] $91 today, $92 for the next one, $93 for the next one. [1:00:31] And all of these people, we have 90 people already on the wall. [1:00:34] And all 90 of these people have already started seeing the value of having this kind of influence projected to the masses. [1:00:43] They are starting to take part in what is a cool experiment, a historic social media event, [1:00:50] and a great way to get in front of the thousands and thousands of people that we're going to be pushing toward the wall of influence. [1:00:57] Florida Fair Tax Education Association, Paul, is starting to see people coming into his website asking about Florida Fair Tax. [1:01:05] You're seeing people get more and more followers and subscribers and people interested in their products and their offerings. [1:01:13] Wallofinfluence.com is where you go. [1:01:15] Wallofinfluence.com. [1:01:16] You also get access immediately to the Get Seen Challenge. [1:01:20] And in the Get Seen Challenge, we further take your influence and your ability to promote yourself and your business even further. [1:01:27] You get a 30-day instant content strategy. [1:01:30] You get your own SI content producer. [1:01:33] You get live coaching from me. [1:01:34] And, of course, you get a place of honor on the aforementioned Wall of Influence. [1:01:39] So don't sleep on this. [1:01:40] Go right now to Wall of Influence. [1:01:41] And if you get up there today, I'll shout you out before the end of the show, [1:01:44] and we'll start driving people toward you so that you can grow your influence [1:01:49] and really kind of take off in 2027 as a member of the 2027 Wall of Influence. [1:01:57] All right, so speaking of influence in 2027, Ron DeSantis is 100% running for president. [1:02:06] And Ron DeSantis is trying to scare Republicans into voting for him. [1:02:11] Here's exactly what he said about the midterm massacre last night. [1:02:15] Let's just be clear about what happened last night. [1:02:19] This is close to an extinction level. [1:02:22] Hold on. [1:02:22] Let me play it again so that you can. [1:02:24] Hold on. [1:02:25] Let me play it again so you can. [1:02:26] Here. [1:02:26] I didn't have it up so you could actually see it. [1:02:27] Ron DeSantis is 100% running for president in 2028, [1:02:37] and he's trying to scare Republicans into voting for him. [1:02:41] Let's just be clear about what happened last night. [1:02:45] This is close to an extinction level event for Republicans in many parts of the country, [1:02:51] as we have seen probably in the last hundred years. [1:02:55] An extinction level event. [1:02:56] Ron DeSantis is saying, no, no, no, this isn't a report card. [1:03:00] This isn't a wake-up call. [1:03:02] This isn't a, hey, we're not happy with what you're doing. [1:03:05] This is an extinction level event for Republicans. [1:03:10] This is Republicans in many parts of the country disappearing forever. [1:03:16] What does he mean by that? [1:03:17] Well, let's take a look at the parts of the country where Republicans started to disappear. [1:03:21] Texas is a big one. [1:03:22] Texas, they lost their senator. [1:03:23] They lost their governor. [1:03:24] Why is that a big problem? [1:03:26] Well, because Texas is the border state. [1:03:29] Pardon me, the border state. [1:03:30] It is the one border state we have left. [1:03:33] It's got the longest border, and Greg Abbott was the best governor we could have had in place to keep that border secure. [1:03:43] Greg Abbott worked with ICE. [1:03:45] Greg Abbott made sure Texas wasn't a sanctuary. [1:03:48] Greg Abbott worked with Border Patrol. [1:03:49] Greg Abbott fought the Biden administration when they wanted to open up the border. [1:03:53] Greg Abbott put floating buoys with barbed wire in the Rio Grande so that people couldn't just swim across it all day, all hours of the day or night. [1:04:02] Greg Abbott was a border hawk. [1:04:05] And now Greg Abbott is out of a job, and he's been replaced with a Latina who is the first Latina governor of the state of Texas and is anti-ICE, anti-border, anti-immigration policy, pro-sanctuary state. [1:04:23] Pro-sanctuary city. [1:04:24] Everything that Greg Abbott did to fight with the federal government and to fight with Donald Trump, this woman is going to fight against. [1:04:32] The border is secure. [1:04:33] The most secure border we've ever had, thanks to President Donald Trump and also Greg Abbott. [1:04:39] But now Greg Abbott is gone, and it's very difficult to secure the largest border in the country if the governor of the state that that border's in is not a fan. [1:04:50] And J.D. Vance also has announced his candidacy for president. [1:04:56] He did so not with a video or a press conference, but with one of the longest posts on X I've ever seen in my entire life. [1:05:06] I have to imagine, and Donald Trump mentioned it in his press conference today, I have to imagine this was, of course, planned. [1:05:14] This statement comes from J.D. Vance on his official account, the vice president of the United States, [1:05:18] and it is a summation of why the midterms were lost and where we go as a party moving forward. [1:05:24] He writes, [1:05:25] So what he's saying here is the analysts, when they talk about turnout, were saying, [1:05:53] Hey, look, Republicans are turning out to vote. [1:05:58] The problem is they're not voting for us. [1:06:01] I asked the smartest data guy I know, how does that mean we're going to shock the world? [1:06:08] No, he told me, we might do better than the polls suggest, but the data is telling us that a lot of Trump Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. [1:06:18] Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us. [1:06:21] Well, that looks prophetic now. [1:06:23] Our voters did show up. [1:06:25] In Florida, for example, the electorate was nine points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. [1:06:32] Undoubtedly, there were places where we could have done better on turnout. [1:06:35] But the main problem is not turnout. [1:06:37] The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026. [1:06:44] There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. [1:06:48] One of the pollsters I really, really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn't sharp enough down the stretch. [1:06:54] I'm sure that's true. [1:06:57] But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone. [1:07:03] One of the smartest guys I know in politics told me yesterday, we'd lose the generic ballot by 13 points. [1:07:09] I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. [1:07:13] In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. [1:07:20] He asked those voters who had abandoned us, what would cause them to come back on our team? [1:07:25] The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses, were number one, end the war. [1:07:32] Number two, focus on cost of living slash inflation. [1:07:37] Number three, put America first. [1:07:41] Number four, change our relationship to Israel. [1:07:46] Our voters showed up and the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. [1:07:50] This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. [1:07:54] While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatics resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. [1:08:02] She's also a great person. [1:08:04] In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. [1:08:07] Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say, the solution to our woes is amnesty. [1:08:13] I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance, but anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you. [1:08:25] The reason we lost is the war. [1:08:27] The president himself said so last night. [1:08:29] If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next six years was worth it, then do so. [1:08:34] Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. [1:08:36] Agree or disagree, that's at least honest. [1:08:39] But everyone knows why we lost, and any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there. [1:08:47] I remain hopeful about our country. [1:08:49] To the people who are pissed off and want to say, I told you so, you're right, you did tell us so. [1:08:53] Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. [1:08:57] To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. [1:08:59] Let's take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country. [1:09:03] So J.D. Vance has now, with I assume the permission of President Donald Trump in the White House, declared his candidacy for president, and he's running on ending the war, focusing on inflation, putting America first, and changing our relationship to Israel, which is exactly what they ran on in 2024. [1:09:23] So if people don't think that that's where the administration is now, and it won in 2024, then this is probably going to help win in 2028. [1:09:35] Keep in mind that it's not just J.D. Vance. [1:09:40] It's not just Ron DeSantis, who, by the way, remember, he led the charge the other day on the Stephen A. Smith podcast. [1:09:49] And some of these Republicans are saying, oh, well, the gas, don't worry, you know, it's not a big deal. [1:09:55] Like, they're trying to blame Biden for it. [1:09:56] No, no, no, listen, we just got to be honest. [1:09:58] Gas is higher. [1:10:00] It hurts people, working class people, and it's higher because of this conflict. [1:10:04] That's just a fact. [1:10:05] If you can't admit that to voters, then you're gaslighting them, and they're not going to listen to you on other things. [1:10:11] All right. [1:10:11] Well, J.D. Vance just took his advice, and he admitted that to voters, so he's not gaslighting the voters. [1:10:16] Ron DeSantis is not the only guy running for president. [1:10:18] J.D. Vance is not the only guy running for president. [1:10:21] Marco Rubio. [1:10:23] Marco Rubio is going to be targeted by a faction of Republicans. [1:10:28] Pardon me, Freudian slip. [1:10:30] Marco Rubio is going to be targeted by a faction of Republicans who don't believe that J.D. Vance can win and don't want Ron DeSantis to win. [1:10:37] There are going to be Republicans out there who say, we don't think Ron DeSantis has what it takes because he failed once before, [1:10:44] and he can't get MAGA voters because, well, he ran against President Donald Trump. [1:10:47] And they're going to say J.D. Vance is vice president when Donald Trump was president, and this rebuke is as much a rebuke of him as it is of Donald Trump. [1:10:57] There are going to be Republicans out there, and I know there are because they're already saying it. [1:11:01] And those Republicans are going to say J.D. Vance has Trump stank on him, and Ron DeSantis can't get MAGA. [1:11:12] So if you've got somebody with too much Trump stank who can't get anti-MAGA, and you've got somebody who already went against Donald Trump so you can't get MAGA, who's left? [1:11:21] Well, let's go down the list a little bit. [1:11:23] Vice president, secretary of state. [1:11:26] There's Marco Rubio. [1:11:27] Marco Rubio, who's flying around the world, doing his best to put an end to wars, doing his best to negotiate peace. [1:11:33] It's Marco Rubio, who, let's be honest, nobody really blames for anything. [1:11:38] I've not heard anybody blame Marco Rubio for the war in Iran. [1:11:41] I've not heard anyone blame Marco Rubio for Ukraine and Russia not getting together. [1:11:46] I've heard nobody blame anybody. [1:11:48] In fact, I've heard people blame J.D. Vance for those things. [1:11:51] J.D. Vance was sent to go negotiate peace, and we don't have it yet. [1:11:56] Marco Rubio has been nothing but a shining light in this administration, and I have to think there's a lot of Republicans who take note. [1:12:02] Marco Rubio also is the only person in the conversation who has openly said, I will not run for president in 2028. [1:12:11] And almost all, almost every time, the person who does not stand up and say, I am running for president is the person that probably most honestly deserves it. [1:12:24] The person who stands up and says, I'm not running for president is usually the one that most people want. [1:12:29] Think about that. [1:12:31] It takes a lot of, in order for you to say, I mean, there's 340 million people in this country. [1:12:38] Think about what running for president is. [1:12:39] You're saying, look, there's one person in charge of this country. [1:12:42] Of the 340 million people in this country, of the 3 million, I'm sorry, of the 349,000, 40 million, of the 339,999,000 other people in this country, I think I'm better suited to run it than any of them. [1:12:59] You have to have a little bit of ego, but sometimes it's the person who doesn't who's best. [1:13:05] So we've got at least, and no one's formally said anything, but informally, I think we know what's happening. [1:13:11] Informally, behind the scenes, we know that this race has already started. [1:13:15] Informally, behind the scenes, we know that Donald Trump is going to work as hard as he possibly can over the next two years to make sure that he can get as much of his agenda done. [1:13:29] And, most importantly, to stop the radical agenda of the radical Islamic, pro-Palestinian, anti-American Democrats who are now going to be descending on Capitol Hill. [1:13:40] That's going to be what Donald Trump is doing. [1:13:42] And J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis and whoever else decides that they're up for the challenge, they're going to be vying to be the next president of the United States, and they're going to have to figure out the best way to do it. [1:13:54] But it seems like on both sides, blaming the war for the massive midterm massacre is the first step, and they've both taken that. [1:14:07] Listen, don't forget about the wall of influence. 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