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I want Hoko. I want the mayor of Chicago, the governor. All these sanctuary cities are speaking out against President Trump and myself running this deportation operation. I want you to watch that video and know how this young lady suffered, what a heroic death she had. I want you to listen to Lake and riley tape for 17 minutes. How she fought for her life. Yeah, that is Tom Homan. Thank God the incoming borders are. And it's kind of endemic of this week. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah. I certainly hope it has been for you, man. You take a look at the news cycle and what do you get? Something like the New York subway murder, the burning of a woman on a subway. Just go, wow, things are really broken. Wow. So much is. Is messed up. The good news is that sanity is 25 days away. So. Hey there. This is Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buck. It is an honor and a pleasure to be here with you. I am the host of the Brian Mudd Show, Hubbed out of my home station, WJNO in West Palm Beach. And the guys enjoying the holidays, like hopefully you and your family is doing. And it has been kind of that weird little vacuum because on one hand, you probably feel really good about where things are going. You know, a lot of the. Unless you're stuck in kind of like the family situation to where you. You've got the. The people that don't want to talk to you, and. And we're trying to avoid you over the holidays because of politics. If you have a family, it's pretty much on the same page with you. Probably felt pretty good. Talk about the future, probably about now, because a lot of times as we make the transition from Christmas over towards the new year, you kind of come out of it a little bit about now, and you start thinking about what's ahead, and you can feel so much better than you have generally about the direction of things. But then every single day, you get those reminders, like that horrific situation in New York City, everything that is just so incredibly avoidable. One of the things I was thinking about, you know, the words of. Of C.S. lewis, you know, he said, there are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. Holy crap. Is that true? Right? I mean, far, far better things ahead with the Trump administration than the dumpster fire that we are set to leave behind. But we still got to get there. We still got to get there, right? So as you take a look at what's going on right now, the news cycle that continues to be brutal. When you think about the current state of our country, the soon to be transition from this dumpster fire to Trump 2.0. There is a lot that is really important that is happening right now. A lot. You know that Trump has been working pretty much non stop. I mean, even yesterday, Christmas Day, Trump was working all throughout the day. And yes, truthing along the way too, and you know, having some spicy comments along along with his holiday wishes that ended up getting under the skin of the, the left. All true, by the way. But yeah, you do take a look at the news cycle and you got that New York City subway situation that is just kind of the epitome of everything that is wrong. You know, illegal immigrants that are coddled, provided with taxpayer goodies, and able to commit horrific acts like the burning alive of a woman on a New York subway. You get into taking a look at the dynamics involved there with what's broken as a society where you have people that are just kind of standing around going, oh my gosh, she's burning. I mean, seriously, what is wrong with you as a person on this planet to see a woman burning alive and not doing anything about it? That also speaks to so much of what's wrong in the human condition. Things that have been on the wrong track for an awfully long time. And a lot of what needs to be fixed, not just in this country, but also, I mean, even morally, for that matter, with us, along with some semblance of common sense as well. And then you take a look at some of the other news that's come up. Of course, President Biden commuting 37 of the pending 40 federal death sentences, which by the way, just as an aside, you know, and I'll drill down on this for a second because it really, in a nutshell, sums up the Biden administration. The lack of intellectual consistency and all the failures that come along with that lack of consistency. You know, if you take Biden's statement when he issued that executive order, he said, I've dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system. Wow. Dedicated. Dedicated his career to doing that, huh? Well, that, that pretty much says it all, doesn't it? I have dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system. How's that violent crime thing worked out? We doing well there? Oh, that's right. We've seen violent crime rise by 4.9% according to the National Crime Victimization Survey since he became president. Remember the FBI and their, their fake news, because you had the FBI numbers that were coming out and they're Saying, look, violent crime is down under Biden. Except no, actually you had the largest blue cities with the most crime that just weren't reporting to the FBI. So yeah, when you actually account for what's going on in cities like New York, Chicago, San Francisco, suddenly you say, oh yeah, it's up a lot since Biden became president. How about that effective justice system man who doesn't feel really good about the system of justice these days in this country, Always out there doing the right thing by you. Especially this Department of Justice. Right. That Merrick Garland man. You don't feel confident and comfortable with him at the helm. So yeah, the bottom line is that you have hundreds of thousands of victims of violent crimes, robberies, rapes, murders. They're only victims of these violent crimes because Joe Biden's been president of the United States, let alone the fair and effective justice system that does what continues to enable illegal immigrants to commit horrific crimes day in and day out across this country. You know, pretty much the only people at this point that I think are sick enough in the country to defend the policies that allow for crimes like that to happen. Pretty much the sycophants that root on the murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO. I mean, that's something else you talked about the broken human condition, some of what's been going on in the news cycle that he's got this cult like following just. And there's some things wrong. But then you take a look at it in perspective. And only 39% of Americans approve of Biden's hand handling of crime and, and his issuance of justice. Meaning that even 9% of the people that voted for Kamala Harris get it. Even 9% of them at this point go, yeah, no, this crime situation, ridiculous. The way that justice is being handled this country, ridiculous. So that is something that's realization even by 9% of Harris voters and the majority, solid majority of the American people that get it. But back to that Biden commutation statement for a moment because I do think it's illustrative of the bigger picture. You know, he continued his statement when he issued that by saying, make no mistake, I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts. Right. Think Biden's grieving for the victims of those 37 people and ache. He aches for all of the families. I have no doubt he's aching. I don't think it has to do with that, but ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable Loss, but guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, now President, I'm more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted. Okay, so there's actually a case to be made there. You know, for example, the Catholic Church poses the death penalty, argues that being pro life extends beyond pregnancy all throughout whatever stage of life, meaning that even for the evilest among us. The idea being that God will render judgment when the time comes. But yeah, the Catholic Church were for life, even for the people who are really horrible people, put them away, but don't kill them. Well, you can personally choose to agree or disagree with that stance, but it's a principled one, right? If that is your stance, it's a principled one. It's one that you could say is rooted in faith and you know, that could make President Biden's decision potentially defensible as he calls himself a practicing Catholic. But just as Biden has never seen an abortion on demand policy that he seemingly hasn't been willing to get behind or at least not get in the way of, there's absolutely no intellectual consistency with commutations either. If a faith based pro life stance is the argument, you got no justifiable delineation between 37 of the evilest people in society having their death sentences wiped away and the three who didn't. So why those 37 and then the three? Well, those, those three, I mean that was, they were really, really bad. Oh, okay, got it right. It's just intellectually, it's morally inconsistent, which is just the whole problem in a nutshell with Joe Biden, with his administration and with the left at large. Now you insert major policy failure the Biden administration. Here you see similar themes, you know, rhetoric that is completely inconsistent with outcomes. The American rescue plan. Right. The American rescue plan didn't exactly rescue this country when he cited into law, did it? He had the inflation reduction Act. Boy, that didn't exactly reduce inflation, did it? He had the civil immigration enforcement order. Now, probably not familiar with that by name, but that was kind of like the, the catch all name of his day one executive orders ending all Trump era border policies, including the remain in Mexico policy construction, the border wall ICE enforcement policies, among some of the other stuff. Didn't exactly enforce civil immigration, did it? Didn't exactly uphold the rule of law in this country that Biden said he has dedicated his life to now. To a certain extent, it's pretty true for every failed politician ever. I mean, after all, you, you never have had someone run for office, just kind of like explicitly campaigning on a promise of screwing you. Okay, you know, you vote for me, I'm really going to jack things up in this country, you know, I'm going to do. Yeah, I get into office, yeah, man, going to stink this thing up. You have never seen anything like what I'm getting ready to do with my policy. Although, I mean, you could kind of make the case that some members of the squad have kind of gone there, like, if you just take them at face value and pretty close to saying, yeah, I'm only looking to get elected so I can just kind of blow this country up. So. Also, while Biden is demonstrably one of the worst presidents in our country's history, he's of course far from the first to be a huge failure. But the bottom line is that if the premise of anything is false, anything you got built on that false premise that that's going to fail too. So Biden claims to have his faith as a guiding tool, as a moral compass, but then his decisions are consistently inconsistent with it. He's claimed he would improve the quality of life for Americans and then created the worst inflation in 40 years, the highest levels of crime on record. So, yeah, thankfully, in 25 days, what feels like the longest four years of our lives will mercifully come to an end. What won't? Your bloated, unaccountable, and frankly, un American federal bureaucracy that is left behind. The premise of that bloated BS bureaucracy. That needs to go, too. That needs to go too. And so we're going to talk about what is going to be happening, what needs to happen, and what the view of the possible here is over the next 25 days. I'm Brian Mudd, in for Clay and Buck. We'll be right back. Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton. MIC DROPS that never sounded so good. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. The Iran backed Houthi rebels fired another ballistic missile toward Israel, the fourth one in a week. Israeli officials say the missile was shot down, but fractured fragments of it landed in populated areas. With the regional war ongoing, this year's Christmas festivities have been subdued. Traditional parades and ceremonies were held in Bethlehem, including a midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity, though far fewer people were in attendance than normal. Fox's Trey Yinx there and, you know, again, you take a look at the news cycle, brutal. Constant reminders about the failures of the Biden administration. Everything around the world, less safe. Everybody around the world less safety, less safe. Why? Because Joe Biden, President of The United States, 25 days from now, we have sanity. And frankly, the only thing that might be holding the world together to the extent that it currently is being held together with some duct tape here and there, is the knowledge that Donald Trump is incoming and what he did when he was incoming the last time. You know, so many people kind of forget how incredibly successful geopolitically Donald Trump immediately was. Remember ISIS? ISIS was the example in 2017. So Trump on the campaign trail, he said, I'm going to bomb the blank out of isis. You know, they had established their caliphate, problems everywhere, committing terror attacks in the United States, around the world. And what happened? He became president in a matter of months. He bombed the blank out of ISIS and they went away. And so the knowledge that he is coming in and with even more resolve is huge, huge at this point. So there's no doubt about that. But yeah, as we take a look at what's going on right now, you take a look at our bloated federal government, you take a look at the Biden administration and the kind of false premise of all of this right now. When was the last time that you took a look at the federal government, thought, man, you know that Uncle Sam, just what a great guy. If only we had more things, things in life that simply ran as well as the federal government. Probably never happened, right? Guessing it's never happened. And if it has happened for you, wow, life must be interesting in your world. But the bottom line here is the status quo is our enemy at this point. The federal government as it's currently constructed does not serve your interest, doesn't serve the American people any better than Joe Biden's policies have. It's only gotten worse with time. You know, you could at least once upon a time take a look at the FBI and say, well, at least that one works. No, not anymore. So we have a lot to accomplish. The good news is Musk and Ramaswamy are on watch too. So we're going to start getting into what Doge needs to do. Also look to take some of your calls as well. Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buck. Clay, Travis and Buck Silver. On the front lines of truth. The House begins with 434 members. So Johnson must get 218 votes. Republicans only have 219 members. It's important to note that the person with the most votes does not win the speakership. The winner must secure an outright majority of all members. Voting for someone by name again. Right? We've heard this story before. We've heard it even recently. Fox's Chad Pergram breaking down, down the looming speaker battle yet again, as you have some House Republicans that are threatening his speakership. That could throw all kinds of chaos into the mix as we're talking about being 25 days away from sanity. Boy, one thing that Republicans cannot do is self destruct yet again. If you take a look at what slowed Trump down in the, the first go round, was it really the Democrats, as much as it happen to be Republicans? And so Republicans being their own enemy, being Trump's enemy, completely unacceptable here. If we're going to do what needs to be done, if we're going to have a transformation to bring the government back in line with the size that it should be, you can't get involved in this kind of nonsense. You got to get on the same page. You have to have, you know, some, some leadership that is ready to roll with Trump's agenda on day one. You can't have all this nonsense. Brian. Mud in for clay and Buck. I hope you have had a merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, wonderful holiday season. As we're talking about, you know, so much of what's crazy in the news. On the one hand, you know, hopefully you feel good, friends and family. Then you take a look at the news cycle and it's like, oh, yeah, we're not there yet. Things are, are really a mess. We got a dumpster fire in our hands here. Let's just hope we're not in World War Three by January 20th and kind of walking through what is really important right now. Because these days, each One of these 25 days is critically important to what's going to be in the Trump administration and the future of the country. If we're going to get the big changes that you voted for done, this is so, so super important. Now you take a look at what's happened with the creeping effects of government to get here in the first place. You know, we've had since the introduction of progressivism in our government, nothing but the erosion of your freedom. And it started before Woodrow Wilson. But, you know, that's what really put it on, put it on the, the front burner. The Wilson administration over 100 years ago, you just had the slow and steady eroding of your rights, of your freedoms, the establishment of countless government agencies founded on the false premise, the false premise Being, hey, this government agency, it's going to be great for you, going to be so good for you to use your tax dollars funding this government agency, and then what does it do? Screws you. Screws you in the long run. I mean, it's good for, you know, the swamp, good for the people that work in it. That's about it, you know, so we have been subjected to the boiling frog effect pretty much ever since. More agencies, more bureaucracy, less freedom. And most conservatives been frustrated for years, some for decades, about how Republican control of government seemingly at best, has only done what at best, it just seems to slow down the creeping crud, the erosion of your freedoms, the erosion of what makes this country great. And the reason is simple. You know, federal government agencies are no different than weeds, really. No different than weeds. Almost literally. Not quite, but almost. You know, if all you do is like, pull off the stuff you see and you leave the roots, they grow back, right? And if you allow the weeds just kind of do their thing, you don't even worry about trying to, you know, pull the. Pull the stuff that you see, man, you know, they take over, right? And so the most exciting thing I have seen in my lifetime in terms of government is an idea that we can get entrepreneurial about government again. And to do so, you have to think about it differently. That's what being an entrepreneur really is. So the first thing is that the idea that we have to continue government as it's currently constructed is a false premise. And so the reason that I'm the most optimistic about the incoming Trump administration, as I've ever been for any incoming administration, including this first, is due to the rejection of the status quo here, the establishment of doge. It is time to get back to this country and what it was founded on. The reason why the United States went from being a ragtag group of colonies to the world's leading Superpower in under 150 years was what? Because we end up putting in a bunch of government agencies? Heck no. Right? It's because our country was founded on God given rights. That's freedom. As opposed to government given rights. I mean, that is, there are a lot of differences between the United States and just about every country in the world. But the single greatest point of difference is rather than having a government that will say to its citizens, all right, these are the rights you get. In our case, we have, all right, we have God given rights. Government doesn't tell us what our rights are. And basically, from the premise of the founding of this country, we're Just not to do something that would screw with somebody else's rights. That's really what it gets down to. You have absolute freedom in this country as long as you don't do something that takes away somebody else's freedom with your actions. That's the point. That's why we became great and the reason why we struggle these days. Because there's not a whole heck of a lot of that, is there? Biden administration, not. Not exactly serving your interest. How much money does it take? And so how much freedom does that take away from you? So this is a little trivia time here for you. How many government agencies. How many government agencies did we have at the time of our country's founding? Do do, do, do, do, do you know? Yeah, you have a number. How many government agencies? At the time the country is founded, we only had five. Only five federal government agencies. How many do you think we have now founded with 5? We most recently have 430. 430. More government equals less freedom pretty much every time. You know, some agencies directly erode our rights. All agencies, to a certain degree, can erode personal financial freedom because you have to pay for them. You have less money in your pocket than it does. What? Yeah, it takes away your ability to engage and have that kind of freedom. And even for people are like, yeah, well, I'm not. I'm not really paying any federal taxes. You might be, but, you know, I got the free right over here. Well, it ends up coming back and hitting you in the form of inflation, among other things. So anyway, one of the best examples, our country went its first 137 years without a permanent income tax. You know, President Trump's talked about this. He's like, yeah, we're going to do the no tax on tips. We're going to do the no tax on Social Security, the no tax and overtime. We're going to work that into my plan. But no, we really should be rethinking about income tax altogether. Why do we have a permanent income tax? He's exactly right. Our country, 137 years. The first 137 years, no permanent income tax. So as you think about getting entrepreneurial, well, why are we just going to accept what we've been handed? This is the way things have to be done. How much are you forced to pay today? Yeah, I mean, the fact is, we obviously don't need 430 federal government agencies. How many of those 430 agencies you really think are operating every day? You got people going to work at These agencies every day thinking, you know what I'm doing, I'm being paid by the American taxpayers. I am in an agency that's supposed to make their life better. I'm going to go about my job today with, with that level of seriousness. How often do you think that actually happens? Do you think you could do better things with your money than, I don't know, say, hundreds of government agencies that you couldn't name if your life depended on it, or, I don't know, do you think all those government agencies are doing better things with your money than you could? You know, one of my favorite examples, you know, talking about just how nonsensical the current setup of the federal government is, as Doge is taking a look at what to do here, I would, I use this as an illustration, kind of as a joke, but I actually would like to see it happen. I'd really like to see the real world application of this example. Let's lock all 535 members of Congress in a room, no Internet for a day. Okay, so you got all members of Congress in a room, no Internet for a day. You give them all a pen, piece of paper, and you have them name as many government agencies as they possibly can. You just, I mean, if your government agency, if your government agency is named by even one member of Congress, just one, we keep it for now. But if your government agency can't be named by even a single member of Congress, you know, the people that actually fund these federal government agencies, at that point, it's gotta go. That point, your, your, your federal agency, it, it's gonzo because again, nobody could even tell us who you were, what it was that you were doing. So why are we funding that? Right, and that's, you know, all part of the baseline budgeting thing. Nobody actually reads it. We just continue with the CRS and everything else. And so it's funded at our literal expense. So the bottom line is we don't need all those agencies. It's choice. The fact is we don't need to be forced to pay a third or more of what we make in income tax. That is a choice. And we do need an entrepreneurial mindset when it comes to government. Meaning we shouldn't just accept the false premise that the way our bloated federal government operates is acceptable just because that's the way things have been done for decades now. We became the greatest country in the world in the history of the war because we didn't have, have government in our way. And now we have more of it in our way than ever. Progressivism, the federal bureaucracy, it all holds us back at our literal expense. And it does not have to be this way. You didn't vote to keep it this way. We don't need career government experts to manage the bloated bureaucracies. Maybe just a little bit better than before. You know, you take a look at, take a look at a little bit of the poo over there and you go, man, if I only massage that poo a little bit, man, it's going to be better. It's going to stink less. It's going to stink less. That's pretty much no. We, we need wholesale changes. We need change agents who reject the premise that we need many of these government agencies in the first place. And so, yes, when you have Musk, when you have Ramaswamy that are leading this, it's critical because, again, you don't create and do the things that they've done by thinking the way that everybody else has, by doing things the way that everybody else had before. So you leave it to one of our country's greatest entrepreneurs, Donald Trump, to align with perhaps the greatest entrepreneur of our time, maybe ever, but at least our time, to rethink and reshape the way the government is done, the status quo, the enemy. What Doge represents the greatest government change that we've had since the New Deal. But what's also critically important is that Republicans get on the same page, because it's not perfect. Mike Johnson, far from perfect. The continuing resolution, not good. But then again, Republicans have a narrow majority in the House right now in real time, do not have the Senate or the presidency. So, I mean, there's never going to be anything that's great in that kind of setup. 25 days needed needs to be the focus. Being on the same page, that needs to be the focus. There is so much that can be accomplished, but it has to be as intentional as Donald Trump has been every single day, right down to Christmas Day, when he's working to put this government into place and to really make America great again. I am Brian Mudd, and you can catch me socially at BrianMuddRadio and hope you do. And I would also love to invite you to join my wife Ashley and I on the vacation of a lifetime. Coming up next November, we are hosting for 35 people, just 35 listeners, a vacation to Ireland, where if you, if you've ever thought about Ireland and what you would want to do there, it's going to be part of this trip. Everything taken care of you can join us as well for a few days in London and then in Edinburgh. So really amazing experience. Again, just 35 slots that are available. You can go to wjno.com which is my home station, the the homepage right there and get all the information about it. Can also email me brianmudiheartmedia.com and again, would, would love to have you. I'm Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buck. We'll be right back. Two guys walk up to a mic. Anything goes Clay, Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. Let us get back in the process stop to stop the. Don't start the entire session with chaos again. Let us start it with orderly rule and let us rule. We have two years really to put in President Trump's agenda. Let us do this and not fight amongst ourselves. Yeah. Amen. That is North Carolina Rep. Greg Martin Murphy, Mornings with Maria and right on point. Cannot play this game. Cannot be a self destructing situation. You know, you're familiar with the expression perfect is the enemy of good. I'm not even going to say that the CR was good. I'm not going to say that all of Mike Johnson's decisions have been good. I'm not going to, you know, make excuses for anything. But you know what's not good right now? You have Republicans with a narrow majority in the House. Democrats have the Senate. Joe Biden still is president of the United States. That's not good. Right. So you, you're not going to get something good right now. And so trying to be perfect within your mindset, being altruistic theoretically is not altruism at all. It is the absolute wrong thing. And Republicans need to get their butts in gear. The people that are wanting to be problems and rather than, you know, naming names and just going after, you know, the few people that we know that are trying to torpedo Johnson and or just be a problem generally at this point for the Republican conference incoming. They need to, they need to get out of the way. We voted for Donald Trump to do what Donald Trump needs to do. We need leadership in place so Donald Trump can do what he needs to do, period. Now you take a look at, you know, this bloated government and this is again where I get excited because of all the things that we need to do. We need to get rid of most of the federal government as it's currently constructed. I mentioned that you only had five, just five federal government agencies at the time of our country's founding. No federal income tax. Now we have 430. Elon Musk. Remember when he took over Twitter, you know what percentage of employees he got rid of? The twits that were at Twitter when he took it over. How many are gone? 80%. Got rid of 80% of the Twitter employees. And Twitter's X is a better product now, isn't it? Think we could get rid of about, I don't know, say 80% the federal government and have something that's better, have something that's more accountable, have something that's closer to. I don't know what this country was founded on. Can be done, but we've got to be on the same page. Prime mud in for Clayne Buck. We'll be right back.