Pete Hegseth Can Make The Military Win Again

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Charlie Kirk Show – Pete Hegseth Can Make The Military Win Again

Date: [Insert Episode Date]

Hosts and Guests:

• Charlie Kirk – Host of The Charlie Kirk Show, founder of Turning Point USA.
• Eric Prince – Co-founder of Unplugged Technologies, American patriot.
• Mike Davis – Guest discussing lawfare and political reforms.
• Additional Clips: Senators John Thune and Tim Scott, Pete Hegseth, and others.

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1. Introduction

Charlie Kirk opens the episode by urging listeners to support the show through donations at charliekirk.com to combat cancel culture and support the production team. He emphasizes the importance of grassroots activism in promoting conservative values across American campuses.

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2. Pete Hegseth's Appointment as Secretary of Defense

Timestamp: [01:11] - [02:55]

Charlie introduces the episode's main focus: the appointment of Pete Hegseth as the new Secretary of Defense. Eric Prince commends Charlie for his efforts in mobilizing support for conservative causes:

Eric Prince [01:11]: "Charlie, what you've done is incredible here."

Key Points:

• Pete Hegseth is portrayed as a non-neoconservative and creative thinker.
• His background includes military service and hosting television programs.
• The media is criticized for dismissing Hegseth's potential impact on the military.

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3. Assessment of the U.S. Military’s Current State

Timestamp: [05:05] - [09:19]

Charlie and Eric discuss the perceived decline of the U.S. military, highlighting issues such as outdated weaponry, ineffective border protection, and recent defeats against the Taliban and Houthis. They argue that the military is "sick to the core," a sentiment not adequately covered by mainstream media.

Charlie Kirk [05:05]: "The state of the US military is far more damaged and honestly infected than anything the media would tell you."

Eric echoes these concerns, emphasizing the bloated Pentagon bureaucracy and the need for reform:

Eric Prince [06:34]: "A sad comparison is to look at the bloat of the Pentagon and how overpriced the weapon systems are... Pete Hegseth needs to do."

Key Points:

• Comparison to historical military leadership under George Marshall.
• The necessity of culling outdated flag officers to streamline military effectiveness.
• Emphasis on defending the republic and securing national borders.

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4. Critique of 'Woke' Culture in the Military

Timestamp: [09:56] - [16:18]

Charlie Kirk vehemently criticizes the integration of LGBTQ+ initiatives within the military, exemplified by Pete Hegseth's participation in "LGBTQ spoken word night" aboard a battleship. He argues that such activities undermine military discipline and effectiveness.

Charlie Kirk [12:52]: "The military is not a place for touching and feelings... You exist to crush our enemies and defend the American people."

Mike Davis supports this viewpoint, highlighting the need to remove policies that divert focus from military objectives:

Mike Davis [12:51]: "... what I think the biggest issue was... the cost of something so very basic to us, just the cost of food."

Key Points:

• Pete Hegseth’s efforts to eliminate "Woke" policies within the Department of Defense.
• Implications of inclusive language and LGBTQ+ initiatives on military operations.
• Assertion that the military should prioritize combat readiness over social programs.

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5. Senator John Thune’s Press Conference

Timestamp: [21:12] - [29:50]

Clips from Senator John Thune, the new Senate Majority Leader, outline the Republican agenda focusing on border security, economic prosperity, deregulation, and energy dominance. Thune emphasizes unity within the Republican Conference and support for President Trump's priorities.

Senator John Thune [22:27]: "We will make sure that the president and his team have the tools and support they need to enforce border security laws."

Charlie Kirk engages with these statements, questioning the balance between Senate independence and advancing the President-elect's agenda. He probes Thune on potential use of recess appointments to expedite confirmations.

Charlie Kirk [28:31]: "Leader Thune, you said that recess appointments are on the table. That's a huge demand from President Elect Donald Trump. Will you move forward with that?"

Senator John Thune [28:56]: "We expect a level of cooperation from the Democrats to work with us to get these folks installed."

Key Points:

• Republican focus on reversing Biden-Harris policies.
• Plans to streamline government operations and enhance national security.
• Discussion on Senate procedures for confirming Trump’s cabinet nominees.

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6. Mike Davis on Lawfare and Justice Department Reforms

Timestamp: [18:30] - [34:37]

Mike Davis addresses the ongoing "lawfare" against former President Trump, advocating for the dismissal of politically motivated prosecutions. He criticizes Democratic judges and calls for comprehensive reforms within the Department of Justice to prevent politicization.

Mike Davis [20:01]: "This law fare must go away and it must go away forever."

He outlines specific actions needed:

• Appointing a bold Attorney General.
• Cleaning out the Justice Department's leadership.
• Investigating and prosecuting those involved in politically motivated cases.

Mike Davis [34:31]: "There has to be accountability. There has to be serious investigations and there must be consequences..."

Key Points:

• Call for dismantling the current prosecutorial approaches perceived as biased against Trump.
• Emphasis on restoring integrity within the DOJ and FBI.
• Advocacy for legislative and judicial actions to safeguard against future politicized justice systems.

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7. Conclusion

Charlie Kirk wraps up the episode by reiterating support for Senator Dennis Prager and urging listeners to pray for him amid an ongoing situation. He encourages continued engagement through freedomarliekirk.com and expresses gratitude to the audience for their support.

Charlie Kirk [35:21]: "Please keep Dennis Prager in your prayers... God bless."

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Eric Prince [01:11]: "Charlie, what you've done is incredible here."
• Charlie Kirk [05:05]: "The state of the US military is far more damaged and honestly infected than anything the media would tell you."
• Charlie Kirk [12:52]: "The military is not a place for touching and feelings... You exist to crush our enemies and defend the American people."
• Senator John Thune [22:27]: "We will make sure that the president and his team have the tools and support they need to enforce border security laws."
• Mike Davis [20:01]: "This law fare must go away and it must go away forever."
• Charlie Kirk [35:21]: "Please keep Dennis Prager in your prayers... God bless."

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Key Takeaways

• Pete Hegseth's Appointment: Viewed as a transformative leadership choice aimed at reforming a perceived ailing military structure.
• Military Critique: Strong emphasis on reducing bureaucracy, updating military hardware, and enhancing combat readiness.
• Cultural Battles: Opposition to LGBTQ+ initiatives within the military, advocating for a return to traditional military values.
• Republican Strategy: Focus on unifying the party around President Trump's agenda, with strategic legislative and executive actions.
• Justice System Reforms: Calls for dismantling politically motivated legal actions against Trump and restoring DOJ integrity.

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Transcript

[Charlie Kirk]

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[Eric Prince]

Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

[Pete Hegseth]

Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

[Eric Prince]

I want you to know we are.

[Mike Davis]

Lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

[Eric Prince]

Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

[Mike Davis]

I want to thank Charlie.

[Jackie]

He's an incredible guy.

[Mike Davis]

His spirit, his love of this country.

[Charlie Kirk]

He's done an amazing job building one.

[Jackie]

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[Charlie Kirk]

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[Jackie]

I am very excited about it. It is definitely a change of pace of the normal swamp dwellers that have led us to ruin over the last 25 years. I think a historical comparison is apt. When George Marshall became chief of staff of the U.S. army in September 1, 1939, the same day that the Nazis invaded Poland, he set to firing lots of flag officers and even a lot of colonels, many, many, many, because they were all prepared to fight the last war. And we have now we have the same amount of flag officers in the United States armed forces as we did in World War II, when we had 14 million people in the armed forces. Now we only have less than about 1.3 million, so 10%. So there is an enormous amount of culling and cutting and reforming that Pete Hegseth needs to do. And I and my entire network of friends are ready to help him in any way possible because the republic needs to be defended and we're spending. The Pentagon consumes a trillion dollars a year of our national wealth, and yet they cannot protect even one inch of the US Border with Mexico. And they've managed to be defeated consistently in the Babel Mandab off of Yemen, one of the world's major shipping ways, a choke point being defeated by the Houthis. So, yes, he steps into a very big job with enormous, enormous reforms that needs to be done. And I think he's the man for the task. And I'm also proud to know, to say that I've swam across the Hudson river with him, from New Jersey to the Statue of Liberty to Ellis island to Battery park multiple times. I was a seal. He's an army guy, and he did it magnificently. I am extremely glad with President Trump's pick.

[Charlie Kirk]

So I think what you're saying is really important. We have this false impression that the current state of our military is healthy and we're not indicting the heroism of the troops or the valor of the rank and file. But our military is sick right now, and it's sick to the core. We lose to the Taliban, we lose to the Houthis. We blew five years of munitions on Ukraine. We need key parts from China. A lot of our weapons are 20 or 30 or 40 years old. The state of the US military is far more damaged and honestly infected than anything the media would tell you. Eric, do you agree with my assessment?

[Jackie]

100%. A sad comparison is to look at the bloat of the Pentagon and how overpriced the weapon systems are. It's about the same as Mark Milley's level of fitness. Look, there needs to be a reinstallation of discipline across the ranks. Hard young people will join the military if they see hard leaders leading them saying follow me into battle instead of go there and sit in a, in a half assed deployment for months at a time without being allowed to finish the job. This idea of managed conflicts and half measures and the forward deployment of thousands of lawyers really becoming what Zompolitz were in the Soviet Union.

[Charlie Kirk]

What Eric is highlighting as we try to reestablish connection is. Wait, so you would rather have Mark Milley? You'd rather have Lloyd Austin? I want to remind you who had to be secretly hospitalized because this guy is overweight with two chronic conditions. Let's just look at the media backlash here. Let's go to Joe Scarborough. I think this is the media backlash around it. Let's go to 375. You know, the Pentagon is a massive bureaucracy. I served four terms on the Armed Services Committee and I can tell you that even the most experienced general, admiral, CEO that went into the Pentagon got spun around in circles. It's, it's a lot easier to say what you're going to do on a podcast than it is when you're actually over at the Pentagon and people that think that generals and admirals that have given their entire life to this country are going to just roll over is a serious misreading of the Pentagon. But we'll see what happens. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Eric, this is very important. I hope I still have you here. I don't know what's going on with the connection. Do we still have Eric? Yeah, Eric, and I'm just reading the biography here. So has Mark Milley for example, did he ever see frontline combat? Because some of these guys have never seen frontline combat. Some of these, I don't know him in particular. Can you please add that distinction where you know, Joe Scarborough says oh, these generals put their life on the line. Some of these generals went right again, perfectly admirable. They went through ROTC straight up to the officer corps and never had to man a brigade or a commander battalion front line. Eric, is that an important distinction? Because Joe Scarborough conflate Pete Hegseth lost friends and was in the front lines and took enemy fire.

[Jackie]

Eric Prince, you have a huge disconnect between a lot of combat vets which have seen real combat and lost friends and eaten a lot of foreign dirt in the pleasure of serving the country. While bureaucrats, senior officers may have wanted to serve in combat but didn't. And for whatever reason, you know, for a while in Iraq, we actually had 93 flag officers on the grounds, 93 general officers, all of them there, I would say, polluting the place because they had so many staff and so much bureaucracy with them. It prevented any kind of decisive decision making. Trillions of dollars, thousands of dead Americans. And we also know how Afghanistan ended. So it's a disaster. And Pete Hegseth, I believe, is the man for the job and a lot of people will help him get his job done.

[Charlie Kirk]

Eric Prince, thank you so much. Please come again soon. We really appreciate your time as always. And until next time, we love Pete Hegseth's appointment. Thank you so much. Let's play another piece of tape here. This is Pete Hegseth who, by the way, we're going to get rid of all this WOKE stuff in the military. No more gay poems. Can you guys get the gay poem clip? I used to love to play that like a year ago. It's so extraordinary where they're talking about how on our battleships they have lesbian poems that are being read. It's not an, it's not an exaggeration. They have gay poem hour on these battleships. Let's go here to cut 376.

[Mike Davis]

And this pick comes, and we should note it comes just hours after important reporting from the Wall Street Journal that says the Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order to establish a warrior board. Their words of retired senior military personnel with the power to review three and four star officers and recommend that they be deemed unfit for leadership, mostly over their support for DEI and WOKE policies. Per this reporting, this would allow Trump, who can fire anyone he wants as commander in chief, but this allows him this advisory board to give him cover to do so, potentially remake senior levels of the Pentagon. And Jackie, Pete Hegsest appointment would be a part of that if he does indeed lead the dod.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah, good. You guys haven't won a war in the last 60 years. There is not a single person there that's won a war. And let's stop conflating the heroism of the front lines combat vets with guys that have been at the top levels of shuffling bureaucracy. I thank everybody for their service, but you got to be very careful with that. Msnbc very, very careful because he lost friends front lines. You know, generals do not see combat anymore. They used to. That has been a tradition that has been sunsetted. Election Day 2024 is in our rearview mirror and conservatives are fired up that President Trump heading back to the White House in January. But our fight isn't over and I'm asking you for your help. Conservatives for lower health care costs are warning us that Big Pharma and the far left are scrambling to fast track a big government scheme to eliminate free market forces in healthcare before the GOP can take control of the White House and Congress. This pharma backed scheme called delinking would hand a massive $32 billion windfall to the biggest drug companies. And guess who would pay? Hardworking American customers, consumers, seniors and taxpayers. You can help stop Big Pharma's money grab from American seniors and taxpayers by going to pharma windfall.com right now, Congress must reject Big Pharma scheme to boost drug companies profits, keep drug prices high, undermine competition in health care and hike health care costs for American people. Please go now to pharma windfall.com to join this urgent fight. Portions of the Charlie Kirkster are brought to you in part by conservatives for lower health care costs. What is Peak Hegseth going to do? He's going to end the gay story time on battleships. Not an exaggeration. This is a naval officer. By the way, this is posted on the official US Navy page. The official US Navy page. What was the best time on your battleship? Oh, what best time? Wasn't learning the craft, reloading missiles? Spending time with my fellow soldiers. Note this officer posted by the United States Navy says the best time was gay story time. Play cut. 384.

[Pete Hegseth]

The coolest thing I did on board.

[Charlie Kirk]

Was to be able to participate in a LGBTQ spoken word night. And I was able to read a poem that I wrote to the whole ship. And that was probably the culmination of the whole deployment. The culmination of this individual's entire deployment. Deployment was being able to read an LGBT poem on a battleship. That guy's got to get kicked out of the military immediately. You're done. That's a joke. The military is not a place for touching and feelings. Touchy feelings. Nonsense. Okay? You exist to crush our enemies and defend the American people. Oh, they're really worried about Pete Hegseth, who is chiseled like a Roman centurion. Look at this guy. 388. Look at this.

[Senator John Thune]

No wonder.

[Charlie Kirk]

Why look. Put 388 up on screen. No wonder why he gets hospitalized. I've never even seen a mask set up like that. Not only does he have a mask on, he's got the full face shield. This is a joke. This guy is in charge of drone operations, I think.389. Obviously a dude. My pronouns are she or her. Kick this guy out of the military immediately. You are done. Go work for the Trevor project or something. Go put 387 up on screen. I mean, this is a freak show, everybody. You got Levine and the luggage thief. We're done with all this, okay? You want to go wear a dress in your private office if you're an adult, or your private room, whatever, in your residence? We are talking about the United States military. We're not going to put up with this anymore. And Pete Hegseth has a mandate to cleanse it out. Would you prefer this guy Mark Milley, who's worried about white rage? Mark Milley, who has all these medals? I'm curious. What are these medals from? Mark Milley? What wars do you have these decorations, or do you just get decorations for existing? Someone should ask. Mark Milley, can you tell me what all these are actually? What is this one? The red one and the blue one? What'd you do for that one? What'd you do for the yellow one? It just looks like a bunch of hocus pocus. Play cut 391.

[Senator John Thune]

And it is important that we train and we understand.

[Charlie Kirk]

And I want to understand white rage. And I'm white, and I want to understand it.

[Senator John Thune]

So what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the constitution of the.

[Charlie Kirk]

United States of America? What caused that, by the way? You missed the white rage, guys. It's like, come on, Ryan, you missed the kicker. He's like, you got right up to the one yard line and you fumbled the ball. White rage. By the way, getting rid of metal inflation would be good basic reform to the military. All right, here's another one. This is an official broadcast by the U.S. military. Official broadcast, day one. Pete Hegseth is getting rid of all this stuff. Day one. This is an official broadcast of your taxpayer fund of the greatest fighting force ever to exist. Play cut 390. Hi, my name is Johnny, and I use he, him pronouns. Using the right pronouns is a really simple way to affirm someone's identity. It is a signal of acceptance and respect.

[Senator Tim Scott]

If it's a signal of acceptance and.

[Charlie Kirk]

Respect, how do we go about creating a safe space for everybody that's a good question. A really good way to do that is to use inclusive language. Instead of saying something like, hey guys, you can say, hey, everyone. Another way that we could show that.

[Senator Tim Scott]

We'Re allies and that we accept everybody is to maybe include our pronouns in our emails or, or like we just.

[Charlie Kirk]

Did, introduce ourselves using our pronouns. Look, we've turned our military into an after school babysitting program. If you're trans, you get out of the military. You go figure out your problem somewhere else. Okay? No place for the military. If you're trans, I got compassion for you. You're not going to be anywhere near the military. Done. By the way, can we put up cut 392? Look at this. Dwight D. Eisenhower. He's got like three medals. One of the most complicated wars. He's got Mark Milley. What in the fresh heck did Mark Milley get to deserve that kind of metal inflation for existing? Pete Hegseth is going to fix it. Hey, everybody. Charlie, Kirk here. The story of Mypillow is a testament of faith and transformation. Mike Lindell, once battling addiction, found a new path when he embraced faith and began following Jesus in gratitude. Mike is excited to share an exclusive offer with our listeners. Right now, the standard MyPillow is available for $14.88. The savings? That's too good to pass up. There's a limit of 10 per customer, so don't wait to take advantage of this amazing deal now with promo code Kirk. Mike believes God gave him this idea for my pillow in a dream, and it's designed with your comfort in mind. The pillow holds its shape and adapts perfectly to your unique sleep position, helping keep your neck aligned for the best night's sleep. And there's more. Take home a four piece kitchen set for only $25 and enjoy their new mattress topper starting at $99.99. Or pick up the luxurious Mypillow bed sheets starting at $49.98. Visit mypillow.com or call 800-875-0425. Use promo code Kirk to unlock huge discounts. Don't miss out order today. Joining us now is Mike Davis. Mike, welcome to the program. Mike, you recently made some news about some comments about Tish James. Tell us all about it.

[Mike Davis]

Well, first let me say to you, Charlie and Andrew and the rest of the Turning Point team, congratulations for what you guys did on election day. You guys were a grassroots army, a turnout machine. And President Trump, I mean, you guys helped put President Trump over the top. So hats off to you guys. And I would say this. I made some pretty intentionally inflammatory remarks about Tish James after she held her jaw dropping press conference after President Trump won in a landslide on November 5th. Thanks to you guys in big part where she came out and said essentially, election be damned, I don't care if Trump won in a landslide, we're going to continue our law fare and election interference against her. So I came out with some pretty harsh words. I don't feel badly about them at all. We haven't heard her talk about this law fair since I came out with those harsh words. And I would say this to these other Democrat prosecutors and lawyers and other operatives. The American people heard all your evidence. They heard your allegations for two and a half years. And the American people rendered their verdict on President Trump on November 5th. This law fare must go away and it must go away forever.

[Charlie Kirk]

And so, so, Mike, let's walk through the current lawfare challenges. Is it fair to say that almost all the attacks against Trump are going to be dropped, including his sentencing date? And what is the status of that?

[Mike Davis]

It's unclear. I hope that this Democrat, Manhattan Judge Juan Marshan, who is a Democrat donor, donated to Biden, whose daughter, adult daughter, Laura Michonne, is raising money off of this case, whose adult daughter is a campaign consultant for Kamala Harris. I hope he drops this case next week on the 19th because if he thinks he's going to send President Trump to rikers island on November 26, when the American people put Trump back in the White House, that's not going to end well for our country. And so I hope that Judge Juan Merchandise, this corrupt judge, comes back from the brink. He has to dismiss this case. He has to declare a mistrial because the Supreme Court held in June that not only is the president of the United States immune from criminal prosecution for his official acts, not his personal misconduct is official. Courts also can't take evidence. You can go to Thune.

[Charlie Kirk]

So, so let me. Yeah, so is John Thune live. We're just going to break away just for a second here and hear from Senator Thun. Mike. So let's go to Senator Thune, please, the new Senate majority leader, the mess.

[Senator John Thune]

Left by the Biden Harris Schumer agenda. But also to deliver on President Trump's priorities. We will make sure that the president and his team have the tools and support, support that they need to enforce border security laws and to remove the violent criminals who are wreaking havoc in every one of our states. We will work to make America prosperous again. By streamlining the bureaucratic machine and overturning costly Biden Harris regulations. And we will work to restore American energy dominance. Not just our energy security, but energy dominance which will lower costs and bolster our national security. I'm excited to get to work with this team right away. And I want to thank my colleagues who placed their faith in me to serve as leader and to those who were supporting another candidate. I promise to be a leader who serves the entire Republican Conference. We will have an ambitious agenda and will take each and every Republican working together to be successful. With that, I want to turn things over to Senator John Barrasso, the newly elected Republican whip.

[Senator Tim Scott]

Thank you. On election night, America saw the remaking of the Republican Party for the better. This was election was about the answering to the question of are you better off now than you were four years ago? And the American people said no. Only one in four Americans thought that the country was heading in the right direction. And you've seen the Republican Party grow in terms of hardworking middle class families, in terms of minorities, in terms of young people, in terms of families struggling to get by. In the last three weeks before the election, I was all over the country with President Trump, with J.D. vance, as well as a number of our Senate candidates. One of the stories that stuck with me was a woman in Michigan who talked about the fact that she was embarrassed to let her husband know that she had to go to the local food bank in order to get by. Republicans listened to those stories. Democrats were focused on President Trump. Republicans were focused on the needs of the American people. People who wanted to get prices down, wanted to secure the border, wanted us to unleash American energy. People wanted to make America look and be strong once again around the world. That's what the Republicans listened to. That's what we're responding to. And we are now working together to make sure we can put America back on track.

[Senator John Thune]

The newly elected Republican Conference chair is is the senator from Arkansas, Senator Tom Cotton.

[Eric Prince]

Thank you, Senator Thune. I'm looking forward to working with Senator Thune and the rest of this leadership team. I'm very grateful for the confidence that my peers placed in me. We all remember what it was like when President Trump was in office and we had Republicans in charge of the Senate. We had low prices, we had high wages, we had a secure border, we had a strong military. We had a peaceful, stable world. Starting on January 3rd, that's what we'll all be working to build again with President Trump, with Mike Johnson and the rest of the House Republicans, on behalf of the American people, thank you all.

[Senator John Thune]

Thanks, Tom. The newly elected Republican Policy Chair is the senator from West Virginia, Senator Shelley Moore.

[Pete Hegseth]

Capitol thank you and congratulations to our new leader, John Thune. He will be a strong voice as he has been in the past as the whip. And I look forward to serving with him and with all of our leadership team. I want to thank the others that ran. We had a really strong, healthy discussion, and we've all come out united and friends. And one of the people that was in our discussion is one of the people that is going to, although he didn't say anything, his presence was very much felt, and that is the vice president elect, J.D. vance. I think the fact that he not only was a voting, a voting member of our conference, but also in there with us every step of the way to make sure that the direction that we're going to go is a united conference. And with me leading the policy issues and all of us working together, that we're going to have a united voice. And I'll say one thing about the election. I've said this on all my local stations, what I think the biggest issue was, and there are big ones, border and national security and others, it is literally the American family, the mom and the dad, the grandmother, whoever it is, going to the grocery store. We do it all the time, every week. And we could see, all of us could see the escalating costs of something so very basic to us, just the cost of food. And hearing from the vice president in her campaign. The economy is doing great, don't worry. And so we hear those voices. We hear them loud and clear. And those are the voices that we're going to respond to along with President Trump through the next several years.

[Senator John Thune]

The newly elected Senate Republican Conference vice chair is the senator from Oklahoma, Senator James Lankford.

[Eric Prince]

Hey, congratulations to John Thune. We're looking forward to his great leadership there. Republicans were asked a very simple thing. Can you get us back on track? Over 70% of the country right now believes the country is on the wrong track. Our task is going to be very, very simple, to defend our values, to be able to strengthen us as a nation, and to be able to bring prosperity to people that are really struggling right now. That's a primary issue for us. And all of those things are things that we're going to get onto immediately because the American people have spoken and said we do not like the direction that country is going. So let's get us back on a better direction. So this leadership team, President Trump, J.D. vance, we're headed in a direction to be able to get the country back on the track that she is looking for.

[Senator John Thune]

Thanks, James. And the newly elected chairman of the Senate National Republican Senatorial Committee chair is the senator from South Carolina, and he is already planning on expanding our majesty majority in 2026. So, Senator Tim Scott.

[Senator Tim Scott]

Hey, brother. Without any question, President Trump set out to make sure that Americans felt like this country and the American dream was alive and well and there for them. From the border to fixing the economy to solving the issue of crime and restoring confidence on the global stage, President Trump has been very clear on his agenda. Our goal with our leader, John Thune is to make sure that we achieve those objectives. My passion is making sure that we defend our current seats and expand the map and expand our majority so that President Trump does not have two years with a Republican majority in the Senate. He has four years in control of making sure that America's agenda comes home to each and every household.

[Senator John Thune]

Thanks, Tim. A couple quick questions.

[Charlie Kirk]

Do you have any concerns about President Trump's cabinet pick so far? And what advice will you give him when it comes to choosing nominees who will pass Senate confirmation?

[Senator John Thune]

Well, as you know, the Senate has an advise and consent role under the Constitution. So we will do everything we we can to process his noms quickly, get them installed in their position so they can begin to implement his agenda.

[Charlie Kirk]

Leader Thune, you said that recess appointments are on the table. That's a huge demand from President Elect Donald Trump. Will you move forward with that?

[Senator John Thune]

Well, what we're going to do is make sure that we are processing his nominees in a way that gets them into those positions so they can implement his agenda. How that happens remains to be seen. You know, obviously we want to make sure our committees have confirmation hearings like they typically do and that these nominees reported out the floor. But I've said this, and I mean it, that you know, we expect a level of cooperation from the Democrats to work with us to get these folks installed. And obviously, we're going to look at, explore all options to make sure that they get moved and that they get moved quickly.

[Charlie Kirk]

Legislative bill of us to remain unchanged under your tenure.

[Senator John Thune]

Yes.

[Charlie Kirk]

How do you intend to balance maintaining the independence of the Senate with passing the President elect's agenda?

[Senator John Thune]

Well, I mean, the Senate, as you know, is a by the founder's design.

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[Mike Davis]

Look, I've worked with all these guys when I was in the Senate doing Trump's nominations the first time. All of them are very good on judges. I think Thune's going to be very good on judges this time around. Thune is largely with us. I think that sometimes the staffs in the Senate are very risk averse, particularly leadership staff. So I think Thune just needs to make his leadership staff take trips with him back to South Dakota so they can get in touch with real Americans in real America and they don't get swamp brain from being in D.C. too long. And I think Thune, there was a lot of rumblings about Thune versus Rick Scott and Cornyn. The Senate has decided, I presume the Senate would go with noon just because they're a very conservative body and just in the manner in which they operate. And I think he's going to pleasantly surprise us.

[Charlie Kirk]

That's great. I have no evidence to support that. So I'll trust you, Mike, because this sounded just like a typical politician press conference, but I will take your word for it. So that is, that is great faith you have. So, so, Mike, let's close this. What can the, what can the Trump transition do to help reform the Department of Justice?

[Mike Davis]

There's a lot that the Trump transition can do. He needs to pick a bold attorney general. As I've said a thousand times for many years, it's not going to be me. I can't get confirmed to anything as the guy who ran confirmations. I would get one charity vote from Chuck Grassley and ruin his 65 year career. But Trump needs to pick a bold attorney general. Bill McGinley is a great White House counsel who we announced yesterday. I'm friends with Bill McGinley. He's a warrior. If Trump picks a bold attorney general to team up with Bill McKinley, they need to go in, they need to clean out the Justice Department. They need to clean out the leadership of the litigating divisions at Main Justice. They need to clean out the leadership of the FBI, including all the key field offices. They need to clean out the key U.S. attorney's offices like the D.C. u.S. Attorney's office, the Eastern District of Virginia, the Southern District of New York. These people who have been focusing on lawfare and election interference need to be investigated and if and if appropriate, prosecuted for conspiracy against rights under 18 USC section 241. There needs to be Inspector General investigations. There needs to be professional Office of Professional Responsibility investigations. There needs to be Criminal Division investigations along with investigations in Congress. House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan, Senate Judiciary Committee incoming Chairman Chuck Grassley, my former boss, House and Senate Appropriations Committees, House and Senate Oversight Committees. This is the most important appointment, the AG and the most important and the most important job is serious reforms to the Justice Department so we never have a politicized and weaponized justice system again. And this goes all the way back to crossfire hurricane in 2016. There has to be accountability. There has to be serious investigations and there must be consequences, political, financial, legal, including prosecutions.

[Charlie Kirk]

Mike Davis, excellent work as always. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.

[Mike Davis]

Thank you, Charlie.

[Charlie Kirk]

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