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In fact, I will not. But spending the weekend in and around Mar-a-Lago, seeing the president, I have never been more hopeful for what this transition will deliver. The transition team is so focused from Stephen Miller to Howard Lutnik, the whole team. They're doing a phenomenal job from what I've been able to see. To fulfill the president's agenda. In every conversation that I've been able to witness, or I've been able to hear, it's, but do they believe what we believe? It's not did they work for John McCain.
It's not do they have a nice biography. None of that matters. It is a completely different transition than what I was able to witness back in 2016 and 2017.
That should give you a lot of encouragement everybody. There is this pace, this focus about fulfilling what the American people gave us. And what did the American people give us? Well, first and foremost, they rejected the entire mantra of the Democrat Party out of the gate. They rejected it.
They rejected what the Democrat Party believes, who the Democrat Party is, and they did a complete repudiation. But also, this is a realignment that puts the American people back in charge. That puts the American people back in the driver's seat of the nation that we own. We own this country. The American people are in charge. It's we the people, not we the plutocrats, not we the bureaucrats. It is we the people. It is we the people who got out of this state of power, in the 2020 election. Instead, we have been praying and we have a constitutional reset, and we received a constitutional reset. And I want to say again for all of you that worked and chased ballots, that registered voters, for all of you, you guys did it. The funny joke is people say Charlie, I can watch the news again. Which is very good for our program, mind you.
Left-wing programs and networks and YouTube channels are going down significantly. Understandably. Democrats really thought Kamala Harris was going to win. I still thought it was 50-50.
And you go through these numbers, by the way, it was far closer than some people realize. In Wisconsin, for example, or Michigan, Pennsylvania ended up being quite decisive, thanks to the work, obviously, of President Trump and Elon Musk. Fulfilling the mandate is going to be the new ethos of this program. From now until high noon on January 20, when President Donald Trump says, so help me God, and lifts his hand off the King James Bible, this program will be primarily focused on fulfilling the mandate. You, the American people, gave the president and gave his entire team, gave all of us, marching orders. We don't get to decide what happens. You told us that you want your borders closed, you want business as usual to change, that you want no men in women's sports.
And keeping the feet to the fire is incredibly important on this, but I have to say, I, being at least seeing, witnessing some conversations and being part of some, I was so encouraged that at least a week in, this is not the good old boys network that is rolling in. And let's look at just some of the picks that President Trump has made. Now mind you, the Elise Stefanik pick is not confirmed. It is not confirmed. So that is, if you have not seen it on President Trump's Truth Social, it is not confirmed. Okay.
However, Susie Wiles, amazing, she earned it. And then the one that is confirmed, Tom Homan, the beast, the man, officially the borders are. This is how important the border is to President Trump. Fulfilling the mandate, former ice director. I do a chief of staff number one and a borders are number two. That's pretty important everybody.
Think about that. Chief of staff, borders are right out of the gate. President Trump is obsessed with making sure that he does what the American people voted for, telegraphing priorities. You know, caravans are already starting to break up and go back to their home countries.
Caravans are already starting to say, you know, we've had enough. This is Tom Homan. Let's begin with his dialogue with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Play cut 336. And so the recommendation of the many that you recommended you recommended family separation. I recommend a zero tolerance, which includes family separation. The same as is with every US citizen parent gets arrested when they're with a child. Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated children from their if I get arrested for DUI and I have a young child in a car, I will be separated when also police officer in New York and I arrested a father for domestic violence.
I separate that Mr. Homan with all due respect. Legal asylees are not charged with any crime. When you're in the country legally is violation eight United States Code 1325. Seeking asylum is legal. If you want to seek asylum and go through the port of entry, do it the legal way.
Do it the legal way. Tom Homan is a wrecking ball into this open border scam that we are living through. This is a major power play by President Trump saying no, I'm not going to be manipulated by you a spine of steel. So number one is chief of staff. And before even all the deputy positions are filled before a national security advisor, I want you to know how rare this is.
Typically the standard operating procedure is chief of staff, the deputies, the clerks, and then you go into all the national security positions. But guess what the border is a national security position. Our open border being invaded every day we are being invaded by a foreign nation, the Mexican drug cartels, which will hopefully, God willing, soon be reclassified as a terrorist organization. And President Trump turns with his transition.
Number one, chief of staff, which of course you need to do, you need to make sure the air traffic control has some sort of regular order. And then boom, number two, straight out of the gate, borders are. We've never seen this in American history. In the final weeks of the campaign, President Trump kept repeating the border is his number one priority. And this is a clear message to DC, we're going to get this thing solved. I've never been more hopeful, even in the four years of the first presidency of Trump, that we are going to have a sealed and closed border. And you know who that's good for? It's good for the young girls that are being sex trafficked from the southern countries, good for all the kids that are dying from fentanyl.
It's good for the people that have seen their wages undercut, good for the people that have seen their communities overrun by illegals and foreigners. Tom Homan will solve this. The guy's a beast. He's as good as it gets.
Play cut 335 of him on 60 minutes. Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families? Of course there is. Families can be deported together.
It's as good as it gets. By the way, he served under Obama. This guy understands the issue at the border. He's going to be the field marshal. Think of this guy as the general patent of the United States southern border.
That's right. He is going to be the guy that calls the shots. And I think a military analogy is exactly appropriate, given the fact that we are being invaded as a nation. And we need that kind of lead, follow, or get out of the way mindset that George Patton would give.
Tom Homan, the George Patton of the southern border. He's been there. He knows every detail. He knows everything a border agent can do and can't do. He knows how to work with all the inner agencies. And he is an ice cold. I was going to say something else, but I'm not going to say it.
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Again, in my small little pieces here or there, you know, went to dinner, nothing too serious. And I want to get deep into the Senate leadership stuff, but I want to hold on that for a second. The Senate leadership thing is so incredibly important because it is a question of whether or not President Trump will be able to get his agenda implemented. But I want to make one other point here, which is, if you look at this from a God has a plan perspective, which as you know, on this program, we believe that God is sovereign and that God has a plan for all of us. If Donald Trump would have stayed in the White House uninterrupted from 2016 to 2024, I cannot say confidently that 2020 through 2024 would have this kind of urgency. I mean, the energy and the focus and the determination.
I mean, Suzy Wiles is just doing terrific from organizing everything. Does it fit in to what we told voters? In fact, I saw somebody with the transition team, they had something printed.
You know what it was? It was all the promises that President Trump made on the campaign trail. And he said, this is what we're focused on.
Boom, boom, boom. There's not some sort of other agenda like when Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, what you heard from President Trump in public is now getting executed in private. It's getting acted upon in private.
Accountability is incredibly important. And again, of course, I want to manage your expectations, everybody. There'll be good picks, and then there'll be picks that, you know, you scratch your head.
There, of course, gonna have to be some deal making because it's DC. However, the direction is just going to be terrific. It's just tremendous. It's terrific, actually. So the American people delivered a clear and resounding message heard around the world, the greatest comeback story in American history. Do we have John Carl from ABC News, by the way, this last weekend, saying that this has never happened before in American history?
I know I sent it yesterday. It's a terrific clip. And we can't move on, by the way. You know, somebody said, Charlie, when do I stop celebrating? There is no end to this.
I want to be very clear. You are entering a golden era for America. And yeah, look, they might try some big economic collapse thing.
They might try some sort. Okay, but bring it up. We're ready for it this time. This is a team of all stars that has been hardened by the COVID propaganda. I know myself, I am a better communicator, better person. I am wiser because of what I went through, through COVID. And a lot of people died. But you look back at that. And you say, you know what, we turned something really awful into something pretty good. With the enemy means for evil, God will use for good.
Genesis 5020, one of the last scriptures of Genesis. And so here we are with the table set to act upon all the things the President said. This is John Carl from ABC News, cut 344 please. In just 71 days, Donald Trump will be sworn in again as President of the United States. His comeback victory unlike anything we have ever seen in American history. Just take a look at the final results with Arizona now projected for Trump, he locks in a sweeping victory in every single battleground state. And Trump did more than that. He made big gains with young voters and with Latinos doing better among Hispanic voters than any Republican presidential candidate since the first exit polls were conducted in 1976. He even did better among women than when he ran against Joe Biden.
Even did better with women. Look, everybody, you guys did this. I every day I said, What are you guys doing?
And honestly, the emails that we've received are breathtaking. There is one man, I feel really bad about this guy. Because it's just it's he should sue. This one guy that drives a truck. What was his name again?
Mikey? He quit his job. Because his business, his truck driving business said you can't vote. He quit his job to go back to Arizona to go vote for President Trump. I mean, I just, when we say that people would crawl over broken glass, this guy quit his job.
I pray you find what this guy's name is Randy, I want to help Randy out any way we can. We should help him out if he gets in a financial issue there. That's what this movement is all about.
There's a grittiness, there's a hustle, there's a determination to the core of this movement. And you guys took the country back. And it's not as if you took the country back and all of a sudden, you got a bunch of stuff, you know, that is not going in the right direction. You voted for a secure border. You got the best the business has to offer.
Tom Homan. And the good news, I think is God willing is just gonna keep on coming. But you guys need to man the battleships these next couple of months.
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They say Mark Paoletta has got to run this and that and all that. So it's a great honor to you, sir. Mark, how are you doing? And I'm sure you're thrilled about the recent victory. Absolutely thrilled, Charlie. And thank you for everything you did to help re-elect President Trump.
Going out to the colleges day in and day out is just phenomenal. So thank you. In terms of the people who made this happen, you're in a very small circle.
Well, thank you. And so we are blessed and honored to be able to play a small role. So I want to just ask, what is the direction that you are feeling of this transition? I don't know how involved you are, but at least from what I've seen in my last couple days at Mar-a-Lago, I feel as if there is an urgency to fulfill the mandate. Your thoughts, Mark?
Yeah, Charlie, there's always silver linings, right? 2020 was just outrageous, right? But you had a whole infrastructure, right? The Trump movement that was sort of continued with all of these organizations being set up to push the Trump agenda.
And you had four years where they developed these ideas. And as you said, Charlie, President Trump was out there making promises and they're all collected up, right? That is the first thing everyone sees. Whoever's working on the transition team in whatever category is, this is what President Trump said. This is what we're delivering on. It's front and center. And so you have had, I don't think there's been anything like it.
That's why I'm so excited too. In history, where you had a president who was in, you had it back with Grover Cleveland, obviously. But coming back and having this whole infrastructure to really flesh out, right, his ideas and have people who are involved writing draft executive orders, writing all these memos and papers to support what he wants to do. And then when we're coming in and the American people vote, right? This was an overwhelming, as you said, closing some of the states.
I think you did put them over the top in Pennsylvania and other places, right, because of your work and those small margins. But it was an overwhelming victory in the popular vote. The American people want this agenda. As you said at the top of the show, it's a complete rejection of the left, the Democrats, woke garbage that has destroyed this country, right? And so this, everything that the president campaigned on, he has a mandate to implement. And so as you just said, Tom Homan being selected, all right, after Susie Wiles, both tremendous selections. But the president showing this is the most important thing for me, and we're going to get it done with a guy with a backbone of steel, right?
That one, is the right thing to do. And two, the American people, I think it's a 70% approval, right, of deporting illegal aliens in this country. And so, there's the mandate, and there's the experience of people who have been there working with President Trump, the first administration, some battle scars, lessons learned, picking the right people. So I think this could be one of the greatest administrations ever, from the experience, commitment, focus, and all that. I mean, and the people coming in, I'm very excited for the next four years.
I am too. So Mark, let's educate the audience. There are so many positions to fill. Let's just take one department that I care about. I know you do, the Department of Justice, which I think is going to be one of the most important agencies to fill and to staff. Can you educate the audience and walk them through? It's not just a matter of picking an attorney general or a deputy attorney general.
If you look at the flow chart, and they're all publicly available online, it's a monstrosity, Mark. And if you get one of these wrong, you have a sleeper cell that could undermine your entire agenda. Mark, your thoughts. I think the Department of Justice will be the tip of the spear in terms of implementing President Trump's agenda. The border, working on processing all these illegal aliens, asylum claims, and just getting them out of the country. That's all the Department of Justice that will be working with DHS. Helping to build the wall and all the legal proceedings and the eminent domain proceedings that were shut down under President Biden. So one of the things that will happen, Charlie, is that President Biden, on day one and the first hundred days of his administration, issued all these executive orders, rescinding everything that President Trump was doing.
That all changes on day one. President Trump has made it very clear. Those are the kinds of things that the Department of Justice will be working on. All the DEI, the woke, the transgender, the boys playing in girls' schools, all of those issues which involve the Department of Education or other agencies. The legal memos and the work that's going to support doing all those things comes out of the Department of Justice. So what you need and what the President deserves is a fully committed Department of Justice and their career employees. You're reading these articles about how some employees are going to try and resist President Trump.
They would be subverting democracy, in my view. The American people voted on this. The President won on a very clear agenda.
And that's the other thing. All of these things were laid out during the campaign like nothing else for the past four years and in the past year of the campaign. And that's what he has a right to see implemented. DOJ, across every, it's getting DEI out of the federal government, suing companies or universities that do DEI, investigating all the anti-Semitism that's going in and prosecuting people for those horrific acts against people, looking at drug companies and all the transgender surgeries and keeping it from parents, going after parents, looking at the January 6th defendants and issuing pardons and commutations for everyone who was persecuted, prosecuted by politically inspired lawfare. That's not just on the January 6th defendants.
It's other people, abortion protesters, who get thrown in jail for many years simply for just protesting. So that's the agenda. Those are the kinds of things that are going to happen at the Department of Justice. That's why it is the tip of the spear.
So how many of those positions in DOJ, for example, are able to be Senate-confirmed versus non-Senate-confirmed? And that's very important. I hope everyone understands this is why the Senate leadership fight is so important.
This is why we've been tweeting like madmen this last weekend. Because understand that even if you have good—yeah, please, Mark, please. Oh, sorry. I think at the top, there's the attorney general, deputy attorney general. Then there's an assistant attorney general on just about every single section, like the environment, civil rights, the criminal division, the civil division, the solicitor general. All of those are confirmed appointments. They're the leaders of the departments.
Yes, you're exactly right. We need to get these people confirmed immediately. President Trump talked about making recess appointments, which is when the Senate goes into recess for a period of time.
I think it's four or five days. That's the minimum. But then the Constitution provides if the Senate's out on recess, the President can make recess appointments that would last until the end of the next session, which would be basically two years of somebody serving in a recess capacity. But all those positions are extremely important. We need the right people. We need people who have backbones, experience, but really backbones. You may know from my background, I was involved with the confirmation of the greatest Supreme Court justice in history. That's Justice Clarence Thomas. He's brilliant. He's an originalist. But most important, he has a backbone.
He has never been. That's what we need from the appointees of President Trump. And there were too many people in the first administration who didn't have backbones, who thought they knew better than the President, who kept information from him, who tried to subvert him—political appointees. So there's this deep state of career employees, to be sure.
I dealt with them. We all dealt with them in the first term. But it's as important to get political appointees who are fully committed, as you said, to fulfilling the agenda. And that's a lesson learned, I think, from the first administration.
And I think, again, that silver lining, four years of campaigning, coming back, there is no doubt, right? I love the clip of Tom Homan with AOC, right, on deporting illegal aliens. This is legal. This is the President's agenda. And it's overwhelmingly supported by the American people.
So if she's opposing that, then, you know, she's subverting democracy and the will of the people. Let's play right here, cut 345, just reinforces this idea of the mandate. This is a Steve Kornacki. Have we tweeted this yet, guys? It's just terrific.
Let's play cut 345, please. Trump swept the battlegrounds, but the other big story this week has to do with the popular vote and how Trump pulled that off. Here's one answer. Big, blue states with very diverse populations. This new coalition that Donald Trump's assembled, it meant that he didn't win any of these, but he made some giant strides. California, biggest of them all. 29-point Biden win four years ago, currently only 18 for Harris, her home state. Look at New York, basically Trump cutting that Democratic margin in half. Go down this list and look inside those states and you'll see it. Blue collar areas, cities, metro areas with large Hispanic populations. That's where Trump made his big gains there.
11 points better in California. And I have to just say, we've been saying that there's something happening in California. Again, of course, it's still a deep blue state, but that kind of movement is a really big, big thing. Can you just summarize how rare it is for an incoming administration to have this type of mandate?
Not a squeaker, but this kind of mandate. It's rare and it's even rare, right, to have a battle-tested president who's been president, what he's doing, and he's looking for the right people. It's going to be magnificent.
I'm so excited. Again, out of bad, out of bad and evil comes good, Charlie. And this is what you're seeing right here. The American people embrace the president. He's battle-tested, he's principled, and he's hungry to implement this agenda, which the American people support. And there's no more question about that.
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Something that I'm curious about. So please, can you navigate those two topics? Sure. The weaponization, Charlie, awful, right? It was the Biden administration, kind of a long time, you know, sort of in the making with the left. But the Biden people and all of their allies around the country, right? You know, Fannie Willis, Alvin Bragg, just used the law to go after President Trump. They perverted the law. They twisted the law. This wasn't the case of somebody doing something wrong and enforcing the law. This was twisting the law to get their political opponent.
Absolutely despicable. The American people, I think that was on the ballot, and they rejected that. Here's the thing. The president needs to assert operational control over the Department of Justice, right? And the FBI, right? He is the president. There's only one head of the executive branch. That's the president.
They all work for him. And so there's been this notion since Watergate, sort of, that somehow the Department of Justice is independent from the president, and they get to look at what they want. And what we see is this deep state, even under President Trump, when they were going after him when he was president, of looking to sort of take out political opponents. And so the president needs to assert through his appointees and through his direct action, what the Department of Justice is going to look at, right? You know, what they're not going to look at, things that he's not interested in, he should shut down.
And I've written a number of articles on this, kind of the history where President Washington, Adams, Jefferson, lots and lots of examples of them saying, prosecute this person, don't prosecute this person. It's completely in the norm. And the left wants to make it norm-breaking. Why? Because they want to break apart the executive branch and make the president weaker.
Okay. So, and that includes the FBI. I think you should fire Chris Wray, obviously the president's decision, but Chris Wray at the FBI, send a signal. The FBI is out of control.
They work for the Department of Justice who works for the president. They need to look at what the president wants them to look at, because he's the head of the executive branch. It's just that simple, that constitutional, and there's history for it.
Okay. Moving over, sort of, and I'm happy to talk more about that, but in terms of the impoundment part, that's another law coming out of what I call the Watergate era, the post-Watergate era, which I think were all laws meant to undermine the presidency, to cripple him in the work he does. You had the Independent Council statute in 1978 that literally had federal judges setting up prosecutors to go after the president's appointees, and the president had no control over it. And the Supreme Court upheld it, I think, eight to one or seven to one.
It was a monstrosity, but it was all meant to weaken the presidency. The impoundment control act is the same thing. It came out of the Watergate era, and it basically says, hey, Mr. President, when we appropriate $100 billion or $100 million for a project, you have to spend every last cent where you are breaking the law.
All right. So, if you can build a tank, let's say it's $100 million, you can build a tank for $80 million, that $20 million, if you don't spend it, you are breaking the law. The only way you cannot do it is to actually go back to Congress and say, pass a new law rescinding that money. That's just insanity. It's stupidity. It's opened up the flood of spending over the past many decades, and it cripples the presidency from having agency, from kind of saying, I can run this thing more efficiently.
I can do a better job. Or these are programs that are not good, that are unconstitutional. And we sort of tried to go down that road during the first administration. We did try and rescind funds under the impoundment control act. We saw up front how it doesn't work, how it actually does undermine the president's constitutional authority. So, I think the president said it's unconstitutional.
But it's a great way for Elon Musk and his new commission to find savings and then go to the president and say, I recommend that you impound these funds. And I think we're ready for the fight. We've done a lot of work on this issue. Mark, great work. Thank you so much. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us as always. Freedom at CharlieKirk.com. Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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