Steve was going to join us in person but had some uh airplane issues uh maybe

something Steve you want to take up with the outgoing Transportation

Secretary um thank you Steve for being here we appreciate it Dasha [Burns] thanks uh and thanks for Politico for having me

let’s start with uh some of the headlines that you’ve been making recently there’s a new voice in President Trump’s ear Elon Musk you’re

not happy about it is President Trump too close to Musk I I did just to be you know it’s not

that I’m not happy about it I mean Elon Musk and I think I’m the first one that really built the narrative he came in in

basically in the spring and early summer and most importantly he backed our play

which was this was going to be a MAGA plus election uh you know a base plus

these uh dissonant uh moms at the school boards and people have been trying to moderate President Trump even on the

campaign trail so number one Elon Musk came in and totally backed kind of the populist you know MAGA play he then

wrote $250 Million worth of checks to back that play not to put in TV advertising which is extraordinary

that’s not over a whole cycle that’s in five months and I’ve said from the beginning both in the United States he

deserves a place at the table and in Europe I’ve said and I think Politico has covered it pretty well is that you

know he he holds the two tactical nuclear weapons of modern politics which is unlimited cash and a social media

platform that’s not just ubiquitous but also he can deem who who’s heard and

who’s not heard uh and there’s not many governments in Europe that’re going to

withstand that that being said and Politico today the piece by [Megan] Messerly and

ren I think laid it out the best this is a this is a new Coalition much broader

than [20]16 this is the beginning I think of a 1932 FDR type realignment in American

politics and clearly you’re going to have members of that Coalition that don’t agree on everything I do

fundamentally disagree with some of the basics of the Mark Zuckerberg Elon Musk Peter Thiel outlook you know

philosophy of of life and philosophy of politics and there’s going to be clashes

but I think the political article today is the best at summing it up there their President Trump is good particularly

about people arguing you know ideas and the best idea and the best policy wins

so going forward is going to be quite intense I actually think uh that we’re winning this round and we’re winning

this round pretty big he he’s already backed off the H1B visas he’s already said they got to be reformed we say they

have to be done away with I think we’ll get Elon there and as soon as I can turn Elon Musk from a techno feudalist to a

populist nationalist uh that that will start making real progress if you can’t turn him do you want him

out you can’t turn look he’s the the bottom line he’s not going to be totally out I mean there’s reporting today that

he is going to have some access I think to the EOB maybe an office over there uh particularly with um with DOGE so he’s

not going to be out look when you write $250 Million worth of checks when you’ve got uh when you’re that involved when

you uh have actually backed a ground game you’re you’re going to have a see at the table I’ve always argued it can’t

be at the head of the table and that table shouldn’t be the cabinet room in the West Wing so I’m a realist uh and

I’ve had this fight before you know people I think some folks remember back in 17 I Elon and I went back and forth

virtually every day about the EV tax credits which I told him at the time I said people making 32,000 bucks a year

are not going to underwrite you in these ventured capitalists uh on on a on a company that could be worth billions and

billions of dollars maybe hundreds of billions of dollars that was Tesla and I and I won that round so I’ve gone with

with Elon before we’re going to go at it again uh elon’s not going to go away

because he’s got like I said he’s got the two tactical nuclear weapons but do you think he has to much politics and

and he and he will use those tactical nuclear weapons do you think he has too much influence right now I mean he’s

been posted up at Mar a Lago he’s been in Trump’s ear non-stop since the

election as a teacher in Harvard Business School count of in the first year there’s power and there’s influence

what’s shocking to me is he doesn’t have much power um why do you say that if he gave it well because he because he doesn’t

have the ability to actually make decisions and inform those decisions and drive those decisions if you look at

even the time at at Marl Lago he’s come in he’s had some he’s had definitely had some influencing he’s had some influence

on on on pics but let’s go back over that he was adamant uh about Howard

Lutnick being Secretary of the Treasury actually trash Scott Bessent last time I looked uh Scott Besson’s hearing I think

is on Thursday or Friday for Secretary of the Treasury you know many of the pics that he wanted didn’t didn’t come to pass some of the pics did right so

he’s had some influence he’s had some influence over policy none of that’s really stuck yet as hard policy like for

instance the hb1 Visas the whole issue of uh of uh you know the business

Community particularly The Tech Community uh essentially importing indentured servants to take jobs of

American citizens he’s had some influence so far but he hasn’t those

policies haven’t stuck it’s going to be a constant it’s going to be a constant fight and a constant uh Clash of ideas

and if I uh you know I I would go long the populist nationalist positions on

these you know the hardcore American citizens come first America comes first so Elon’s not going to go away and quite

frankly he shouldn’t go away I mean uh you know I’ve been quite intense and part of that is to try to shift the

Overton window on this debate but Elon’s not going to go away and uh anytime soon

and there’s going to be a continued clash and continued fight over ideas how do you have that fight and how do you

have that Clash for those of us that don’t know the inner workings behind the scenes does that play out in public with

you you know sort of trashing him in interviews or or criticizing him on your podcast or is are there conversations

behind the scenes that are happening that we don’t know about you know it still it still it still kind of shocks

me that the political press it hasn’t really spent the time both on populist policies Andor even President Trump

President Trump to me is a McLane’s figure and what I mean by that he he he deeply believes at a at a very deep

level Marshall Mcluen’s ideas and Concepts about mass communications president Trump is about how do you

connect with a mass audience and how do you connect your ideas with mass audience and also how you read the room

from a mass audience that to me explains his popularity that he is he’s kind of

hardwired in to the to the Zeitgeist of working and middle-class people in this country and where they are and I think a

lot of that coming from his Queen’s background not his Manhattan background so the best way I have found to ever

fight for ideas is to do it very publicly and to do it using media and I think this is the reason

that war room is a has been such a it’s been such a powerful

platform you were one of the architects in the first administration of the shock

and awe strategy Trump’s different this this time around you’re not in the White

House this time around but is there going to be the same shock and awe Vibe

or is it something different altogether Ada Dasha I think it’s going

to be much more intense we we we we refer to it right now we refer to it

right now as As Days of Thunder and I think I think the Days of Thunder I

think these days of Thunder starting next week are just going to be incredibly incredibly intense I think you’re going to see 50 executive orders

you’re going to see a lot of legislation put forward you’re going to see you you’re going to see the beginning of it today with Pete Hegseth so um this is

going to be quite intense it’s going to be 10 to the 10th power more intense I believe than the shock Anda we did in in

in 16 and 17 because remember there’s been four years of preparation here you

know say what you will will about project 2025 and other projects like that at these other think tanks and

other groups but they we spent years people developing the policies developing the executive orders seeing

the direction of where we want to take this movement and also developing Personnel you’re going to see many more

people hit the beach uh many more cabinet people get uh confirmed much quicker uh you’re going to have much

more thought through ideas they going to be many more executive orders and most of these I think at the beginning or all

of them at the beginning the 50 I think hit right away will have office of legal counsel opinions on them so I I tell

people shock and awe was a was a 17 concept uh Days of Thunder I think are

going to be the concepts starting next Monday because I believe President Trump is going to hit it and hit it hard with

M what I call or Bartley at Wall Street Journal called muzzle velocity those types of driving force of policies and

Personnel to get things done and get them done quickly so Heritage Foundation, AFPI [America First Policy Insitute] these groups that have been

building playbooks like project 2025 you think that will infiltrate and have an impact on some of the policies of the

administration

Steve did we lose you uh oh this is this is the futuristic

uh excitement that I was talking about can you hear me

Steve D I’m afraid I didn’t hear you can you repeat that yeah can you hear me now testing one I he now all right excellent

thanks for bearing with this guy’s um uh I was saying you you mentioned um

project 2025 I mean Heritage Foundation, AFPI these groups that have been putting together some playbooks do you think

that will have an impact and and sort of infiltrate some of the policies coming from the administration all those it’s not 2025

has become become a a buzzword but it’s all these different groups over listen

over four years particularly people that believe strongly that the 2020 election

was stolen and that President Trump was the rightful president and would come back and win the primary and take the White

House again people dug down and started working these policies what did we not get accomplished the first time what did

we want to get accomplished now and people went to work over a four-year period and built the networks kind of

the subject matter experts in the in the networks needed to actually have the 3,000 people hit the beach right away

that don’t have to be Sate confirmed but also the other thousand that have to be Sate confirmed president Trump’s

Administration this time is 10 times more prepared than it than

when we came in the first cuz we were kind of a come from behind a victory as you remember we didn’t have a lot of

time to think through transition there wasn’t that deep bench of players that believed in president Trump’s philosophy

so not only is President Trump the most powerful individual politically in Washington he also now has a a a true

Army in back of him of of people that have spent years thinking through policies of people that have worked

together for years and are prepared now next Monday to hit the beach and I think you see it right now what I call the

flood the Zone Concept in the in the uh in the confirmations this week you’re

going to see people that are coming together that have great backup have thought through policy are prepared to

you know hit a a relatively hostile confirmation process uh both from a

little bit from establishment Republicans but particularly the Democrats and I just think I call it Days of Thunder I think people are not

prepared right now particularly uh the political press of how intense this is going to be but this is years in the

making you talk about the Army that’s behind him now the Coalition is quite

broad it’s so different I mean just looking at the events in this uh coming

inaugural weekend right you’ve got uh the crypto ball you’ve got young influencers you have the black

conservative Federation Hispanic ball all of these uh folks that weren’t engaged last time around but that makes

it a little bit more complicated right there are a lot of different interests I I I want to talk about some of that

particularly when it comes to Congress you have uh speaker Mike Johnson who will actually be on this stage later

today Johnson didn’t have full Republican support to be speaker you have Senate leader John Thune who’s a Mitch

McConnell guy are these the right leaders to enact President Trump’s

agenda let me just talk about your first part of that about this broad Coalition think about it for a second the the

Democrats or the established order in Washington had every source of institutional power they had the media

they had Wall Street they had the the the the technology in Silicon Valley they had the corporatist they had every

lobbyist this kind of populist nationalist movement and to show the power our new Coalition partners are not

maybe with us 100% ideologically but they understand the power of this going forward that the Democrats basically

because I come from a Democrat family basically abandoned working class people in the middle class in populism and they

see the power of populism clearly it’s a it’s a complicated Coalition we we have

the we have the broad right and you have hardcore you know populist nationalists

and so that Coalition going forward and you see the collapse kind of the democratic party that lost some of the

central parts of their thing particularly Silicon Valley and a little bit of Wall Street this is now coming together it’s going to be very

complicated you’re going to see it play out in the halls of Congress I believe because no one really paid attention to

this radical idea called modern monetary theory that right now in Washington DC

everything we do whether it’s the war in Ukraine whether it’s deportations whether it’s immigration uh even

deconstruction the administrative State everything is going to be within the framework that a lot of the easy

Alternatives of how to pay for things and the sustainability not of the planet but the sustainability of the economic

and financial model of our country and our government is going to be the number

one criteria it’s going to be the prism everything is looked through and these are going to be intense battles you can

see it already this this battle on Capitol Hill between the one and two reconciliations this is not simply a

process story this cuts to the heart of how one is going to govern in the future

and President Trump has this tension of have at the same time has a coalition

that really could end up being two-thirds of the American people have handled correctly he has to balance that

within this framework of this massive debt and the Really the refinancing of this debt and the paying for the finance

re-financing of this debt so no I think the I think right now in Capitol Hill it’s going to be very intense speaker

Johnson and he knows I’ve never really been a fan he’s got a he’s got a horrible job it’s a tough job he’s going

to have to put together you know coalitions particularly of people that want to have significant reductions in

deficits and I just think even the last couple days the mindset in Washington is still wrong uh people come up and saying

oh we we have a $5 trillion cut but it’s over a 10-year period we have to get out of that mindset it is what is the first

two years I put my investment banker head on this is like a restructuring forget 10 I’m not insuring 10 years I’m

not insuring the out years I’m not interested in years five six and seven I’m interested in this Appropriations

process I’m interested in this deficit I’m in this year and next year what’s the size of it how it’s going to be

financed and how you have dramatic moves of how to close it this is one of the reasons I think what Elon’s doing at

doge is so absolutely Central not just to deconstruction administrative state but to actually work with Russ vote and

Scott Besson and come up with a model that speaker Johnson and he could shepherd through the house and the

Senate to actually put something on the president’s desk that reinforces how do we get back to a sustainable financial

and economic model in this country but but to that point I mean there are ideological differences here so so are

Johnson and Thune the right leaders in this moment I think look they were picked uh

by their house members they picked by the Senate President Trump’s very comfortable with both people and I think that’s some very important because this

is going to be like going into combat right this is going to be so in the moment it’s going to be so intense and

decisions are going to have to be made you have to trust the Judgment of those people president Trump trusts the

Judgment of of speaker Johnson he trusts the Judgment of John th I Avis have

different opinions but I’m just one schmendrick in the crowd and we’re going to fight very intensely for these things

president Trump makes the ultimate decisions and that’s why I think the first most important fight right now is

on it’s not just a process fight it’s a fight about how we go forward that’s why I think that the the one versus two

reconciliations is probably the most important fight that we’re going through right now it will set the tone for not

just the first year of President of President Trump’s second term but I think we’ll set the tone for actually

how we Finance this country and this government going forward I mean on tax policy for example there’s a lot of talk

about lowering the corporate tax rate again these ideological differences do you think think that kind of focus on on

corporate tax rate risks alienating the the working class that you talk about

well this is why you know I’m one voice among many right I’m like I said I’m just another Schmendrick [Shmendrick is a Yiddish word meaning a stupid person or a little hapless jerk, so a self-depreciating remark by Bannon] however this is

quite critical this is why we’re fighting for two bills we want to take care of immigration deportations energy

and maybe some defense in the first bill that’s not Revenue generating and so it could start in the Senate we we agree

with Senator Thune and the 53 Senators who appear to agree with us to to do that in the tax bill look one things has

Disturbed me coming out already we want the populist Wing right are going to fight for not just uh no taxes on tips

but I noticed in in Jason Smith when I’m I didn’t I I missed the part we said no tax on social security no tax on

overtime no tax on bonuses we are those are critical campaign promises our our

wing of the party our wing of President Trump’s movement that’s totally supported President Trump want to go and

have much more tax cuts for working class people and for the middle class and if

the if the wealthy and the donors won’t get their lobbyists to support smaller

lower federal spending which they’re not they’ve been they’ve really been the class that’s driven This Modern monetary

Theory that’s got us in this Jam that deficits don’t matter well now we know deficits do matter because it’s the financing and refinancing of those

deficits that are killing us so in that regard to me corporate tax rates have to

come up and and the wealthy have to be taxed more simply for the fact that we have to close this gap on the deficits

on an ongoing basis now if they can turn their lobbyist and support Elon Musk and support particularly Russ vote on having

dramatic Cuts in in federal spending and I mean in years I mean in this year and next year don’t give me 10 years I’m not

interested when people tell you oh it’s $6 trillion of cuts over a 10-e period

they are lying to you this is how we got into the situation when McCarthy said oh they have all these Republican wins

these are not wins this is another way way to Kick the Can down the road this has to be addressed now we’re adamant

and and and and on the show and talking to people and presenting to president Trump that you have to have many more

taxes particularly the tax cut on Social Security that is a priority any tax cut

particularly even reinstalling the the tax cuts of 2017 for the wealthy as you know Dasha I had this huge fight with

Gary khoh and Jared Kushner and Steve Mnuchin in the Oval Office of President Trump and hey I lost I I lost and the

Wall Street Journal came out B has got to go I lost I lost that round but I think we’re going to win this round and

this is absolutely I think central to the to the to the vibrancy of the economy and really to the American

people so you talk about cutting at the federal level what’s the first agency that you would scrap or

gut okay first off you know I I spent eight years as a naval officer I spent almost four years as SE on a destroyer

my daughter’s a West Point graduate uh 101st Airborne served in Iraq so Bandits have a history of doing the five

years as citizen good citizens and then going to civilian life she’s actually in she’s been at the uh at the support of

Pete Hegseth today she’ll be in the audience as a as a former Junior officer to support female officer to support

Pete now that being said when I see an ndaa of $900 billion and I don’t really

see us in a real confrontation with the Chinese Communist Party either in capital markets and Technology the

defense budget’s too big I I I’m pretty adamant the defense budget’s got to be cut I think you start okay first off

would hex do that Steve would hex do that when people tell you that the

problem here is entitlements they’re missing the point we’re not going to get to entitlements entitlements right now is a contract

with the little guy they’re not going to give up their social security they’re not going to give up their Medicare until they see the political class and

the donor class actually get their arms around discretionary spending and and to get your arms around discretionary

spending you have to start with the defense budget we have to rethink we have to have a Revolution and Military

Affairs and this is why I think Pete’s so important a revolution and Military Affairs that then flows through how we

actually pay for this at $900 billion do and this is why I’m so adamant about n NATO’s got to pay more the Gulf Emirats

and and and the the situation we have in the middle EA have to pay more we can’t have two carrier battle groups in the

Red Sea keeping the sued Canal open for the Europeans in in uh in East Asia

Japan’s Got to step up to the plate our allies have to step up to the plate the defense budget is too big and I realize

people say we’ve for years haven’t done things well listen we got to rethink this if you’re going to cut discretionary spending it has to start

with a good faith effort to rethink uh the defense budget and to have an ndaa

that was $900 billion given the financial situation we have and given the reality of what we face now to me is

grossly irresponsible grossly irresponsible and that has to be addressed has to be addressed head on

and that’s why I think the Pete hexes of the world and the Young Warrior cast that fought these these horrible Wars in

Iraq and Afghanistan and understand what’s happening in Ukraine in the Middle East are the perfect leaders

today to really get the in back of significant changes in our defense

policy to keep us strong to make sure that we’re we’re the main thing is the main thing which is the confrontation

with the Chinese Communist party but are able to Think Through defense so that we can reorder defense and to get to then

the social programs that you’re going to have to talk about and there going to have to be some reorienting and some Cuts in that to then eventually have a

conversation with the American people of entitlements there’s not going to be a conversation there’s not going to be a

conversation where they’re willing to accept from the political class in Washington anything where they think the

political class is a bunch of conmen that are bought and paid for by the corporatist Wall Street and the donor

class which is exactly the situation we have today so I think we’ve gotten a couple new hashtags from you today we’ve

got Broar and we’ve got Days of Thunder and Those Days of Thunder I assume are in part going to come from those

executive orders right so what is the executive order that you are fighting

hardest for all the ones Steven Miller and and

Homan have got I think a a a great graphs on on both uh on both U uh the

deportations the wall security so that that I think is covered by very smart guys who know this the one I want that’s

not going to be the first day but eventually we get there I want to complete 100% moratorium on all immigration until we get our arms

including legal I say legal immigration that quotes there is no legal immigration in this country it’s all a

con it’s all a con against American workers every every part of it that

these programs have been so abused and so gamed I believe we need a 100% moratorium for a while to get this

sorted St in a country made up of immigrants you want a 100% moratorium on

all immigration just just for a while a moratorium until we get our arms around so then we can have a factual

conversation what we need is to go and show the facts about what these Visa programs have done the the the people

that can invest money here and get and get visas the whole all of it that the programs have are so obscure have been

done behind closed doors are so complicated we need we need a discussion on that and the American people are

thirsting for a discussion on that have you talked to president Trump about this I have not talk to president Trump about

this but I do talk I do talk every day on the show about this so I know that the that the base of our movement and

the base of our party support a moratorium and I didn’t say it’s forever

but a moratorium until we get our arms around so that that’s have you talked to Stephen Miller about it I’ve had disc

I’ve had discussions I’ve had discussions with a lot of people about this but I’ve not talked to the president the other one is to set up I

think a refocus like President Trump is talking about a new Monroe Doctrine from from from Panama to Greenland is also to

rethink all about taxes we have an Internal Revenue Service that was set up basically in what 1913 right when when

when we after the Panic of 1906 1907 uh one of the drivers I would love

to see in executive ERS has set up an external Revenue Service that we wouldn’t just look at tariffs but

because tariffs paid for everything up until the early 20th century but you wouldn’t just look at tariffs you look at everything about how you can charge

fees essentially whether that’s on investment whether that’s on other things of access to this

country this is this is America’s behind the golden door okay and this Market is

the most robust lucrative Market in the world and we shouldn’t just let people have access we shouldn’t let foreigners

have access to this market and to the American people and American citizens for free so I think I would love to see

something that set up an external Revenue Service in treasury that eventually took the burden off people on

Internal Revenue Service there’s no reason the American people American corporations even the donor class has to

pay for everything and I think we have to rethink that so things on Revenue uh other things on economics on on

immigration I think are important and not just illegal we’ve been focused so much on illegal immigration we tend to

forget that in the 16 campaign and particularly the 16 primary one of the biggest things president Trump had going

for him was talking about this whole concept of legal immigration which honestly is so gamed there is no legal

immigration in this country right now so you’ve got your perch here in the war room but you’re as far as we know you’re

not going into the White House this time around so who is the Steve Bannon in this Administration that’s going to have

Trump’s ear I think it’s a very different structure I think Susie I think Susie is a safe Pair of Hands

Susie has been Susie Wilds I hired her actually in the 16 campaign against the

recommendation of President Trump at the time she was fantastic we would not have won Florida in 16 if it had not been for

Susie Wilds we brought her in I think in in August right after I got there in September she’s fantastic she’s a safe

Pair of Hands she’s got a way she runs things I think you see a very different kind of White House staff and White

House going forward than than kind of the contentious the contentious in the open fighting that we had but they were

all for good reasons there was different policies I’m not so sure I think president Trump when you say Steve Bannon president Trump’s always been his

own strategist president Trump and particularly if you look at the way he’s managed his Coalition so far of how he

put it together for this great victory across the board this sweep of how he’s actually managed it in the transition

and how managed it going forward President Trump’s a deal guy and he understands how to how to I think juggle

uh opposing views and quite frankly strong personalities so one thing I will note that many of the strongest

Personalities in President Trump’s orbit are not going in the White House Cory Lewandowski, Dave Bossy, Jason Miller. Boris

Epstein, Steve Bannon there there’s I see some pattern recognition there and uh

and I think all of those people are going to be have be very strong voices on the outside and whatever vertical

they’re in and so uh I would look for President Trump to have a lot of support both inside the White House with a much

more smoothly running operation and also outside with allies who now have kind of

their as you call them perches or their own kind of verticals that can support the president in the policies that he’s

eventually going to want to drive Susie Wilds plans to be sort of a gatekeeper in the White House do you believe she

can execute that role and do you think that the right people will will be gate kept so to

speak this is Susie I think smart enough to know there’s one level of gatekeeping and then another look the failures of of

of John Kelly and and others president Trump’s president Trump you know he’s in

his 70s now he’s got a house style he and and one thing people should know he’s always trying to get input from a

wide variety of people people who the public doesn’t even know just to to bounce ideas off him he he’s always

seeing how it plays in the room he he’s very good at at judging what people are thinking and where the country’s going

this is one of his superpowers and so you and I think Susie smart enough because you’ve seen so already on the

campaign and and so far in the transition she doesn’t try to go John Kelly on you she doesn’t try to

hermetically seal the president because he can’t be hermetically sealed particularly now given he knows 2020 was

stolen he came back in 2021 in those first couple of dark years when when even rert Murdoch said we’re going to

make him a non-person president Trump has gone up the learning curve of confidence in his own judgment and

confidence in policies and also people that will have his back so there’s still going to be Total Access I think at one

level to President Trump because this is just the way this is his house style I think she is going to have a little more

management so it’s not maybe not quite so chaotic at the uh at the at the uh at

the staff level although I will say particularly in that first year all the benefits of the economy and foreign

policy the peace and prosperity of 19 those seeds were SE with Ry Pras and the

team with all the fighting that went on they were all sown in in in in 2017

that’s why this first 100 next week next the Days of Thunder next week the first

100 days the first six months and the first year to me are everything in this because the seeds of peace and

prosperity that President Trump is is dedicated to bring back it’s all going to be swn there that that will all be

where it’s either swn or where it’s not swn and so that’s where this fight the next year is going to be so intense now

to be clear I know this has been slipped in a couple of times there’s been no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020 but

I don’t want to look back let’s keep looking forward um hang on hang on hang on ho ho ho ho look at Jack Smith’s look

at there’s no thing of widespread fraud please hang on Dasher I understand you’ve got a you’ve got a legal thing

you have to do I appreciate that but why is the j6 committee having people go to the White

House and beg for blanket preemptive pardons right why is Jack Smith and his team quitting early and also talking to

people about pardons this has to be well they’re worried about political persecution in the same way that you

know you you have claim worried about the fact hey if they just start was political persecution they wouldn’t be

worried they’re worried this this has to be totally adjudicated you have to adjudicate 27 20 uh 2020 you have to

adjudicate j6 you have to adjudicate the vast criminal conspiracy against President Trump and on this one we’re

absolutely adamant president Trump needs to do this for this country not for himself you see last night that the the

Jack Smith things a nothing Burger total nothing Burger this President Trump himself has said he wants to look to the

Future so so let’s let’s keep doing that because otherwise we’re going to get off the rails real fast president Trump president Trump does want to look to the

future he says his retribution will be peace and prosperity that doesn’t mean that doesn’t mean that some of his

colleagues that understand what they not just try to do to him but did to this country has to be adjudicated and this

is going to be a big effort I think of of people try to get President Trump on board to do that like I said president

Trump is not a vindictive person president Trump is not someone that looks for Revenge but we need to do this for the country and you should know

there are elements of President Trump’s Coalition that are absolutely adamant that this has to be done this

weaponization has to be taken out root and Branch uh from this government so you say he’s not a vindictive person but

you do want to see some vindictiveness no no no no not vindictive this is not look I went to a

federal prison for four months I’m not vindictive about that at all that is what it is but I did it for I did it on

a reason to not bend the KN to Nancy Peli in an illegitimate j6 committee that’s now begging the White House for

for blanket preemptive pardons Benny Thompson the Chairman’s publicly and again today it’s in Punchbowl about

they’ve got a scoop about how they’re doing it so listen this is not about vindication it’s not about revenge this

is about we can never allow this to happen again and the only way that’s going to happen is you have to put forth

to the American people what the actual fact are what the facts are of 2020 what the facts are of j6 what the facts are

of this vast criminal conspiracy that came after President Trump hell he was indicted for what 92 felonies uh you

know he he he he uh this Kangaroo Court in New York is gu him for 34 felonies

that all has to be from New York City to Georgia to Washington DC that has to be

fully vetted investigated and adjudicated and I’ve strongly recommended a special prosecutor that

doesn’t report to the Justice Department the special prosecutor me should report right to the White House Steve you mentioned

your your stint in uh in prison in 2024 you’re also facing trial again in

February on charges related to alleged money laundering conspiracy and a scheme to defraud that’s something that Trump

can’t pardon you in that case uh how is that all going to impact your ability to

help President Trump enact his agenda it’s not it’s not going to impact it’s not going to impact at all first off the

we we’ll we the situation in New York I’m not not worried about whatsoever we will take care of that it won’t impact

me I no offense I was I come out of prison this time with more power more

impact more Focus than I had going in so I’m not afraid of prison I’m not afraid of any charges they put up I’m not

afraid of any kangaroo court I’m I’m simply not afraid of it so we’ll take care of the situation in New York another political uh uh uh persecution

but we’ll get through that and won’t impact me whatsoever and lastly I know you’re close with Don Jr the the Trump

family this time around there’s a different Dynamic Jared and Ivanka aren’t going to be involved but what do you

think will be the role of the Trump family and folks like uh Don and Eric I by the way I’m working very closely with

Jared I’m working very closely with Jared on prison reform Jared Jared Kushner met a year ago at the Jim ciso

film at Bedminster and made a PCT that we would work together to make sure president Trump was reelected that was

that imperative and I I am a big supporter of all the president reform and the first step act that uh that

Jared chrisan there’ll be some announcement think in the future about Jared and I working together on the first step act in prison reform we’re

we’re big Believers in prison reform I think obviously Don Jr who who’s a fantastic guy and we’re very close with

uh don Jr has taking more of a lead role but uh Eric and Lara Lara [Trump] did such an amazing job at the RNC so we’re working

very well with the family and particularly I’m working very well with Jared Kushner and Jared Kushner I’m telling you has done something to help

this country that’s very significant that is prison reform which we need dramatically all right Steve I know you got a show to record board thank you so

much for for beaming in here and uh sorry for the technical difficulties everyone Steve thanks so much Dasha

thank you and thank Politico for having me

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Part II

According to Fox News:

President-elect Trump will sign more than 200 executive actions on Inauguration Day—a massive, first wave of policy priorities focused on border security, energy, reducing the cost of living for American families, ending DEI programs across the federal government, and more, Fox News Digital has learned.

A senior administration official who is familiar with the executive actions and authorized to brief Fox News Digital said Trump on day one will end “Catch and Release;” pause all offshore wind leases; terminate the electric vehicle mandate; abolish the Green New Deal; withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord; and take several major steps to assert presidential control over the federal bureaucracy.

The official said Trump will sign multiple “omnibus” executive orders that each contain dozens of major executive actions.

Part III From the Daily Signal to MHProNews is the following.

Commentary

Republicans, It Is Time to Deliver Results

Ryan Walker@ryanlwalker

Ryan Walker is executive vice president of Heritage Action for America, the grassroots advocacy arm of The Heritage Foundation.

 

Part IV From the Daily Signal to MHProNews is the following.

News

Trump’s Big Agenda for First 100 Days

Fred Lucas | January 19, 2025

President Donald Trump will be sworn in Monday with ambitious goals for his first day in office and first 100 days.

The major focus will be on securing the border and combating illegal immigration. But restoring the economy, and curbing crime are also high on his agenda, based on his remarks as a candidate before November, as well as president-elect after Election Day.

“You are going to see something tomorrow. You’re going to see executive orders that are going to make you extremely happy, lots of them,” Trump told the crowd at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.

“We have to set our country on a proper course. By the time the sun sets tomorrow evening, the invasion of our borders will have come to a halt and all the illegal border trespassers will, in some form or another, be on their way back home,” the president-elect added.

Trump also pledged to repeal “within hours” of taking the oath of office, “every radical and foolish executive order of the Biden administration.”

“Somebody said yesterday, sir, don’t sign so many in one day, let’s do it over a period of weeks. I said, Like hell we’re going to do it over weeks. We’re going to sign them at the beginning.”

Trump will sign 200 executive actions, reports Fox News Digital, citing an unnamed senior administration official. “Trump on day one will end ‘Catch and Release;’ pause all offshore wind leases; terminate the electric vehicle mandate; abolish the Green New Deal; withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord; and take several major steps to assert presidential control over the federal bureaucracy,” the site reported.

The president has the advantage of a Republican Congress, though with a narrow majority in the House of Representatives and less than a filibuster-proof Senate majority. Trump also plans to take executive actions in areas where he doesn’t need congressional authorization.

“The people have given us their trust, and in return, we are going to give them the best day one, the biggest first week, and the most extraordinary first 100 days of any president in American history,” Trump said in an address days before Christmas to Turning Point Action.

Earlier in December, Trump gave a few more details during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

His first focus was on securing the southern border and on deportations when asked what he would do in his first 100 days in office.

“We have people coming in by the millions as you know. A lot of people shouldn’t be here, most of them shouldn’t be here,” Trump said during the NBC interview. “But we have jails being emptied into our country. We have mental institutions from all over the world being emptied into our country. So, we’ll be doing that.”

Some of Trump’s plans can be addressed through executive actions, reversing what his predecessor President Joe Biden implemented. This could include reinstating the “remain in Mexico” policy to adjudicate asylum claims; resume construction of the border wall thaat the Biden administration had cancelled; and terminating catch-and-release.

Trump has also said he would launch the largest deportation effort in history on day one. This could largely fall under directing the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to enforce existing immigration laws already passed by Congress.

To boost the economy, Trump vowed to extend the tax cuts from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act during the first 100 days, which are set to expire this year.

“We’re going to be extending within that period as soon as we can the Trump tax cuts because they are coming due and they are very substantial for people,” Trump added in the NBC interview. “I think it will anger a lot of people, quite frankly, if we don’t get an extension of that. That’s what led us to one of the greatest economies ever.”

Trump campaigned on tackling crime. And his policies page on the transition team website says a goal is to “rebuild our cities, including Washington, D.C., making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.”

Recently, his nominee for attorney general, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, vowed to “make America safe again.” Trump said he plans to reach out to Democrats on this front.

“We are going to be focusing on crime in the cities. We’ll work with Democratic governors,” Trump said in the NBC interview. “Most of them, as you know if you look at the 25 worst places, are just about all Democrat-controlled cities and states, and we are going to be working with Democrat governors and Democrat mayors.”

However, several Democratic governors including in California, Illinois, and Massachusetts, have vowed to oppose the next president and “Trump-proof” their states.

Trump’s designated deputy chief of staff for policy, Stephen Miller, also talked about a first-100-day agenda that would include a strong emphasis on energy independence.

“Let me paint a picture for you, Sean, of those first 100 days,” Miller told Fox News host Sean Hannity.

“Rapid, total, complete deregulation of American energy exploration. You are going to see an American energy boom starting right away. You are going to see all the regulations that are strangling job growth in this country and driving up prices, driving up housing costs.”

Trump’s Agenda 47 campaign document pledges to cancel the Biden-era electric vehicle mandate; and to “Make America the dominant energy producer in the world, by far.”

Miller added the border would be “sealed shut,” and “criminal aliens are going to be shipped back home, and foreign countries around the world are going to accept the gang members and the cartel members that are poisoning our families and murdering American children.”

The Wall Street Journal reported that the “Trump administration is planning a large-scale immigration raid in Chicago” this week.

Miller also made big promises on the world stage.

“You are going to see peace begin to restore to the world as the president works to bring back harmony in the Middle East, harmony in Europe,” Miller told Hannity.

Trump’s 20-point campaign document Agenda 47 included “Prevent World War Three, restore peace in Europe and in the Middle East, and build a great Iron Dome missile defense shield over our entire country — all made in America.

One campaign vow Trump seems unlikely to keep at this juncture is ending the Russia-Ukraine war upon taking office. Though after the election, Trump said, ”The Middle East is an easier problem to handle than what’s happening with Russia and Ukraine.” Trump played a role in securing a temporary ceasefire and hostage release in the Israel conflict with the terrorist group Hamas.

Agenda 47 also included, “End the weaponization of government against the American people.” Miller promised a more accountable government as well, that includes holding politicized federal employees accountable.

“You are going to see a government that is accountable to the people again. The swamp will be drained on day one,” Miller said. “Incompetent and disloyal people that are hurting this nation are going to be replaced with those who care only for the American people, the American worker, and the American future.”

Fred Lucas@FredLucasWH

Fred Lucas is chief news correspondent and manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal. He is the author of “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections.”Send an email to Fred.

Part V Additional Information with More MHProNews Analysis and Commentary

1) The reported expectation at this time is that most or all of Trump’s remaining nominees for various cabinet roles are expected to be confirmed. The sense from various reports is that last week’s Senate hearings went well for his nominees.

2) As problematic as the Biden-Harris (D) years have been they may have been a dark grace. Millions apparently are in the process of ‘waking up’ to what the Democratic Party has become. Curiously, Biden himself and people in the Democratic camp have provided evidence of the links between American Oligarchs and the rise of the techno feudal donor class.

 

 

Laura Hollis Op-Ed: Who Benefits from Dem Policies? Results of Voting Blue No Matter Who Obvious; ‘Homelessness-Fires-Many Worst National Problems Result of Democratic Policies’ MHVille Analysis

 

3) More manufactured housing specific items that are tied to Trump 2.0 are as follows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

4) Later this week, Trump is said to be scheduled to address the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos via video. It should be recalled that a year ago, MHProNews reported on Kevin Roberts of Heritage Foundation being invited to address the WEF precisely because so many thought even a year ago that Trump may win the 2024 election.

 

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