BOMBSHELL: Trump Fires DHS Sec. Noem; Sen. Mullin Tapped as Replacement

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Andrew Egger, author of our morning shots newsletter, JVL,

author of the Triad newsletter, and editor, extraordinaire.

We're here to discuss Christy Nome's defenestration.

Christy Nome is out as the head of the Department

of Homeland Security.

The announcement has come as this is one

from Donald Trump on social media.

He's bleeding this, and he's bleeding it wild.

Christy Nome is on stage in Nashville at some conference.

Right now.

Yeah, we're out there.

It's gonna pull it up and watch that.

So you know that Christy Nome's been fired.

She doesn't know we would presume that she's been fired.

Maybe she's just keeping a straight face.

There's no other way for her to do that.

How would you know the difference, Tim?

I'm gonna read the pose from Donald Trump.

I'm pleased to announce that highly respected

United States Senator from the Great State of Oklahoma,

Mark Wayne Mullin will become United States Secretary

of Homeland Security, effective March 31.

The current secretary, Christy Nome, who served us well

and has had numerous inspectacular affairs.

I'm sorry, results, especially on the border.

We'll be moving to special envoy

for the shield of the Americas.

Blah blah blah.

They are gonna be announcing at Saturday in Dural.

She thanks Christy.

He thanks Christy for her service at Homeland.

So there we go.

You've seen this coming for a bit now.

Why don't we give us our initial thoughts?

Andrew, I noticed in the slack, me and JBL being negative

and always looking for ways things could get worse.

I think are not overwhelmed.

I guess I don't wanna speak for JBL, I'll speak next.

I'll speak for myself.

I'm not overwhelmed that things are gonna get much better

with this, but you had posted that you think

that it is certain that her successor

will be better than her.

So let's hear.

That's what I said.

That's exactly what I said.

It is an absolute guarantee.

Please write me letters when the eventual successor,

Mark Wayne Mullen, the Senator from Oklahoma,

turns out to be a nightmare.

You can hold me personally accountable.

No, I did not say this.

I did say that I do think that she has been uniquely bad

in some respects.

I mean, she is a force multiplier for obviously

what Trump has wanted all along at the border,

but she has added a lot of her own personal spin

in ways that have been particularly embarrassing

for the country and particularly hard on the people

who are getting the brunt of all of this stuff,

the way that she and Corey Lewandowski have run,

ICE operations have been always with one eye

on sort of throwing a lot of red meat content

to the megabase in terms of slick, sizzle, real video

of people marching onto deportation planes in chains

and ICE agents scuffling with protesters in the street

and, you know, Pepperspring.

And all these sorts of things have been,

have been not out of character with the way

that Trump has wanted all this to go,

but a lot of it has flown just as a practical matter

out of Nome and Lewandowski and the specific strategy

that they have wanted to implement.

And honestly, like to bolster her personal brand,

which is part of what's so funny about this

is like that is ultimately the thing,

not the, not any of ICE's, you know, horrible outrages

that we've seen in recent months,

but the thing that finally reporting suggests

got Trump to finally say, you know,

this is not the person for us, is the fact that,

she was in the Senate this week and a senator,

you know, John Kennedy, a Republican senator asked,

what's the deal with all those, you know,

the millions and millions and millions of dollars,

DHS is spending running these ads

that like make you look like the architect

of this deportation regime.

And she said, well, you know, you know,

the president thinks those ads are great,

he signed off on them, Donald Trump hears about this,

he says, I absolutely did not sign off on those ads.

What's going on here?

And that appears to have been ultimately the thing

that that broke it for.

Yeah, so not, not the murder of two American citizens.

That wasn't what broke it for Christie, you know,

but testifying that Donald Trump was involved

with something that he doesn't want to be associated

with, that makes that make sense.

Correct.

JBL point to you for people,

because folks are just kind of gathering in here,

the breaking news that Christie, you know,

has been fired as Secretary of Homeland Security.

And it happened either right before right as she began speaking,

that's her speaking to the Sergeant Benevolent Association,

major cities conference in Nashville.

And, you know, Trump loves to humiliate.

He loves to humiliate.

And whether or not she's in the dark right now,

as we point and laugh for whether or not she heard right

before she came on, it is a humiliation,

ritual either way for Christie, you know,

and we have to at least enjoy that element of it.

JBL, what's your top takeaway?

It's delicious and it is unlikely.

Here's my top takeaway, honestly,

because I think Homeland Security is unlikely to get better.

And we can talk about that a little more

because that's substance.

It, to me, is fitting.

And I think it's important for people to look at Christie

now and so they understand what it is they're signing up for.

This woman has dedicated her entire,

like the last decade plus of her life

to climbing into Donald Trump's shadow.

She's done everything he has for her.

She may have broken the law for him in addition to humiliating him.

Even before she had this out, she ran those ads

about how great he was doing.

This like, this South Dakota was running out.

I'm gonna put him on the, you know, Mount Rushmore

and that stuff.

And her thanks for that is that he absolutely humiliates her.

There are ways to do this perfectly normally, right?

Do it on a Friday afternoon with how you let her announce

that she, she's, you know, talked with the president

and she's stepping back.

She's got more time to that.

No time with her is with her special advisors.

And, but he doesn't do that.

He waits till she's on stage to announce this.

And I did have a question because he,

he announces that she's moving into his other role.

I do wonder if he's going to do that.

He's his other role.

I do wonder if he got her buy-in beforehand.

Good for me.

Or if he just is saying she's doing this

and now she can't even say no to it, right?

So she can't even, like she actually has to do

this other job now that he said.

Special envoy for the shield of the America.

Yeah, it's a, so, you know, like if you're signing up

for Trump, like you, you should understand

that this is what you're signing up for.

Yeah, this is reminiscent for me of the tarmac firing

of my former boss, Ryan Sprey.

Yes.

And, you know, in that case,

that showed like the cowardly nature of Trump

who has this year fired element.

He doesn't like to actually fire people.

You know, it's those kind of reminiscent of in the debates,

like you would insult jobs wife on stage

and then off stage back, how are you doing buddy?

Like this just trumps just a non-confrontational nature

when actually faced with a threat, kind of like the,

when the bird, when the eagle is next to him,

he gets scared, a little bird's coming for him.

And on the right situation,

Ryan's told me this, that he was like,

he had called Trump, they're on the phone together

and they were like planning something like 20 minutes

before, you know, like while he's in the car

waiting to get on the plane.

And they finish the call, you know,

it's like another call and he gets off to get on the plane

and it's like, no, sorry, you don't need to get on the plane,

Trump just fired you by tweet.

And it's like, they were literally just talking

his chief of staff, he wouldn't do it.

So I don't think you can put it past him,

how embarrassing it is.

Andrew referenced the video that put the exchange

from the hearing that put the final nail in the coffin

for Chris, you know, why don't we watch that?

We've got the video of John Kennedy,

my senator questioning her about how they're spending

their money on ads.

The president approved ahead of time,

you spending $220 million running TV ads

across the country in which you are featured prominently.

Yes, sir, we went through the legal processes,

did it correct?

Did the president work with OMB?

Yes.

He did.

Yes.

Okay.

And one thing, Senator, I think would be helpful

to know is how effective that communications has been

that not overwhelmingly.

In your name recognition, I mean, I personally just,

I mean, to me, it puts the president

in a terribly awkward spot.

And I just, I'm not saying you're not telling the truth,

it's just hard for me to believe, you know.

I mean, president, as I do that you said Mr. President,

here's some ads I've cut and I'm gonna spend $220 million

running them that he would have agreed to that.

It's crazy.

Like this is always, I was JBL, you're always on this

that it's like, you know, the, it can never be

the head of the gang that was wrong.

You know, he's always, like wrong is always done by him.

He's never done wrong.

And I just want to read it up.

Tom Redd Stalin only knew.

Yeah, exactly.

He would never have allowed this to,

he would never have put me in the gulag.

But this, I mean, this is the Cardinal Sin

from Trump's perspective.

We have seen this over and over and over again.

He doesn't care if you kill people.

He doesn't care if you steal or attempt to have a coup.

The one unforgivable thing is making money off of him.

Yeah.

And the way he views this, the federal budget is his money.

That belongs to Donald Trump and Donald Trump's family.

If you are spending that money to get something over for yourself,

you know, to get your beak wet,

then you're stealing from him.

And he doesn't count on it's that.

That's right.

And because it isn't really the spending.

I mean, maybe that matters to Kennedy,

but I just want to pull this up.

I mean, her spending was profligate and insane.

And it's not, and I think that this is more about

the front to Trump as JBL says,

not like any sort of fiscal responsibility.

I just want to read through some of these line items.

220 million for the ad campaign,

including some subcontract to that was,

maybe a sub subcontract was to affirm

that was our old spokesperson, Trisha McLaughlin's husband

was involved in 172 million for the private jets.

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Not exactly a doge-type operation over there.

Can I say one more thing on the Kennedy element of this?

Because this has been a fascinating thing to me.

One of the big through-line Trump critiques of Joe Biden

was this idea that his staff was really running the show.

He didn't know what was going on.

He wasn't calling the shots.

This looks to me very much like a Trump world version

of that exact same thing.

Chris Dino has had so many enemies

that she has made all throughout this administration.

There are constantly leaks coming out of DHS,

especially in the wake of Minneapolis

basically trying to scapegoat her as like the prime mover

of everything bad that's ever happened at DHS

in this first year of Trump too.

And then in addition to that,

she made a real enemy of Stephen Miller

as this was all coming out

because she tried to voice it all off on him.

And had reporting in Axios

basically saying, I was only ever doing anything.

Stephen Miller told me to do here.

And so when you see a line like this from Kennedy,

Kennedy is not some loose cannon.

Kennedy is not some like Heterodox Republican in there.

He is an administration ally.

He is doing this in some respect

to lay the predicate for this in the administration.

But it does not appear as though he was doing this

as a predicate like that Trump himself had put him up to it,

right?

Because he is creating the video content

that Trump is going to see.

Trump is going to react to with this kind of hostility

and then Trump is going to pull the plug.

So it's like, it's like this bizarre thing

where the White House is planning this with Kennedy

in order to like trick Donald Trump-

Okay, Faith.

Can I ask you guys to play in secret too?

Because I looked at this and I couldn't tell you why.

But to me, I thought, oh, Stephen Miller did this.

This whole thing was choreographed

from Stephen Miller's office.

They went to Kennedy.

They set Kennedy up for the, you know, you do this.

He is how you phrase it.

This is the question.

Then we'll get it in front of the big guy

and then we'll drop the hammer.

This just felt like a Stephen Miller operation to me.

Is that crazy?

No, I don't think so.

And Stephen Miller has always operated this way, you know?

I mean, say what you want about Stephen Miller

and I've said all the worst things in the world.

He is behind the scenes of an excellent operator.

You know, and he works Javanka.

You know, like Ivanka was like this, you know,

a person I was trying to put the softer face

on Trump 1.0 and Stephen Miller was the hammer

and yet he's still like stayed in her good graces, right?

Like he, he does this.

He works both sides of the street.

I'm a couple of the Q&As we have from our commenters

on Sub-Second Super Chat.

Kevin Harrington asked if, is this being perjury for her?

Can we go after her for perjury?

If Trump didn't approve the answer?

I don't think that's very likely.

I'm like, I bet Pam Bonney's gonna look seriously into that.

I bet she will as well.

Are we gonna have, here's another question.

We're gonna have a special election in Oklahoma.

That's from Andrew Hartley.

I, yes, is obviously the answer to that.

I think that it's not as if that really adds another seat

to the table for Democrats, Oklahoma's still Oklahoma.

But the timing, I can, it's notable

that Trump picked a senator in this sense, right?

It's like he has very narrow major.

He doesn't fucking care about Congress.

Like the Congress people to him are just like other characters

in his show that he can just move around the set

because if you are a traditional president

and you were like trying to think about

how you're gonna get your agenda passed

and you're too coming into the midterms,

like you wouldn't want another vacancy in the narrow Senate

where you're giving more power to Lisa Murkowski

and Susan Collins.

I just think that goes to show just how far away

we are from that kind of traditional type of politics.

Like Trump just, like Congress is really just an ornament

over there that can be used or abused for his own means.

Like what are they gonna have to vote on?

Well, he's a gender.

Funding for the Iran War and funding

for Merik Lane Mullins DHS.

Are we gonna have to vote on either of those things?

I don't know.

This was another interesting thing, by the way,

that was coming out of the Kennedy hearing

is this is some reporting Sam Stein had

that there was some chatter among Democrats

that Republicans were floating this as like the trade.

Like, well, what if we got Kristi Nome

would that shake you guys loose on DHS funding?

And as we have discussed, that would be an insane trade

for Democrats to take.

Democrats have given no indication that they want to

or that they find that plausible at all.

They're sticking to their guns on DHS funding.

But it does kind of add another interesting layer to this.

Like maybe some of these Republicans were hearing

that something like this was coming

and they're like, maybe we can kill two birds with one stone.

Maybe we can shake some Democrats loose on this,

while Donald Trump shifts, no.

But I guess that moment has kind of happened.

Yeah, and I guess actually, I'm correct.

I'm we're doing this live.

I guess Kevin stick to a point, a temporary person.

Also, that's also interesting politically.

Because he's been like the one governor,

Republican governor, Trump has butted heads with.

This stick has spoken out against Trump.

So again, you're kind of leaving this in his hands.

He could appoint somebody, at least temporarily,

that is not with Trump on DHS,

because stick isn't with Trump on DHS.

So that's not weird.

Can I give you one weird perk of that?

You know, the governor will appoint a replacement,

and then the replacement can't be the one

who runs this fall.

It's the whoever gets replaced is barred

from being the actual candidate, I don't remember.

Bullwork Republican, David Holtz,

the only good Republican mayor in the country

in the air bubble of the city.

Put it in there.

Put it in there.

Okay, let's do a little more shot in Florida.

The only reason Kristi Nome is on the screen

for new viewers coming to live stream

is for shot in Florida.

So we should all point to laugh and smile and enjoy.

She either was told right before she walked out

that she was being fired, or you know, and she doesn't.

Either way, very delicious.

She said she's so mad tonight, isn't she?

Like, she'll privately keep the smile plastered on

because she can't move her face,

but the time she gets home,

which is her own quarry.

Adults coming out.

I mean, they're gonna, she'll look like this,

and she might even, I don't know, shoot another dog.

Watch out, Corey.

Protect the crown jewels tonight.

Hegging happening tonight.

You don't know where she's going.

I wanna play another video in the spirit of shot in Florida

then we'll do more real political analysis.

And this was, some of you guys have seen it,

but we all enjoy it so much.

Let's just watch it one more time.

So the Democratic Congress woman from.

Can't tell Tim, is that feed of her frozen?

Great question.

Another joke.

Literally.

But literally, I had to stop and look at it for a second.

No, I saw a head move down here.

No, that's just her face.

Congresswoman from Los Angeles questioning

Christie about her relationship with her special boy,

Corey Londowsky.

Had sexual relations with Corey Londowsky.

Mr. Chairman, I am shocked that we're going down

in peddling tabloid garbage in this committee today.

Reclaiming one thing that I would tell you

is that he is a special government employee

who works for the White House.

There are thousands of them in the federal government.

So reclaiming as an advisor.

It has no authority to be questioned.

It is a joke.

I was a little upset we couldn't show the full screen

that it's Jared Moskowitz over her life shoulder,

left shoulder, and he has a justice for cricket pin on,

which is very, very cute for Jared Moskowitz,

good as to him.

So that's a tough week for her.

Her husband was in the audience there

as she's getting quizzed about her special

employee and then she's fired the next day.

That's a bad week.

Andrew, have you had a week that bad?

I have only had a week that bad

because all the stuff I want to write about

gets keeps getting pushed back

by having to write repeatedly about Christie.

No, but that's okay.

It's important stuff that's happening in the news.

Let's talk about anthropic.

It is amazing.

I mean, like the Democrats in this house hearing,

they went around and around on this yesterday with her.

And it was really, really good

because of course she has denied this affair

in the past.

She can't deny it up there.

She'll purge herself, right?

So, I mean, I guess that didn't really matter

so much with the Trump approval business.

But, but, but, you know, so she has to talk around,

I can't believe that you would pedal.

I think you would traffic in this disgusting tabloid garbage.

I can't believe how badly you think of conservative women.

I mean, it really was kind of a masterclass

in putting her on the spot up there.

Quick walk off there.

That was the defendant straight

at Department of Homeland Security,

Secretary Kristi, you know, I'm leaving the stage

to find out that she's been fired.

Let's do a little real business here.

At the top, Andrew made the case

for why Mark William Mullin must be an improvement

over Kristi, you know, because she was so awful.

Let's hear the counter case.

JVL, do you want to give that or reject me too?

I mean, up to you.

You go first.

You're the host.

You're just gonna be mad.

I didn't say this.

If I had asked you,

Andrew, to find a United States Senator

with the exact same IQ as Kristi now,

would Mark William Mullin, would he have been your first choice?

Because I think it'd be close,

like he would be in your top three picks

because he is not a smart man.

No, he's just not a smart man.

So we're gonna get somebody who is not smart,

who is utterly unprincipled and lies constantly,

who has said terrible things

about recently deceased American citizens

who died at the hand of their government,

who is fully and wholly committed to the Trump regime

who himself has threatened violence against witnesses,

testifying before the United States Senate

as he was sitting there and challenged people to a fist fight.

And this guy, who by the way,

John Fetterman already said he's going to vote for, confirm.

This guy is gonna be running DHS.

I was a little concerned that they would put somebody

who is highly competent but quiet in the job

and that it would be like what has happened in Minneapolis

where home and came in and changed tactics

and basically the same sort of stuff is happening,

but they've tried to smooth it over and pretend

that they've retreated.

I think that's not the case.

Yeah, I am.

I mean, he is kind of the man Christy

in some ways of Corey Lundesky was bisexual.

He could just stay, you know,

because they have a lot of similarities.

I want to put a little more meat on your butt in there.

Can I first contest a one quick thing there?

Sure, about the man Christy.

I just think that he does not have this psycho belief

that he's gonna be able to run for president,

which is unlike Christy, you know,

I'm Christy, you know, him has thought

she'd be a 28 contender.

And he's driven a lot of this stuff.

I sort of put a little more meat on the bone of J.V.L.'s point,

just like let's look at the record of what Moana said.

After the killing of Alex Prety,

it was on Fox, he called it Prety, not the killer,

but the dead, the deceased, a deranged individual

who joined the protest to quote cause massive damage

with a loaded pistol and an extra mag

that was completely loaded,

he blamed the Democrats for that.

After an egg good died, he said the fact is

that Renée Good was interfering with police activity.

There's no question about that right now.

They had the right to defend themselves.

On the DHS funding shutdown,

he said it was all political theater,

he said it was for it, he's for the masks.

So, you know, he hasn't showed an inch of daylight,

like at least John Kennedy,

we don't know if it was Stephen Miller,

you know, with his hand going up John Kennedy's butt,

like moving him like a puppet there,

and whether he was doing Stephen Miller's dirty work

or whether he really just doesn't like Christine L.

Evidence on the latter is that a couple of times

John Kennedy has been like the administration's

way out over their skis on this, right?

So, he named John Kennedy,

whose boobish in his own way to run DHS,

she'd be like, okay, like that's a sign that like,

you know, they're not going to Tim Miller's preferred

immigration enforcement policy,

but at least they're gonna put somebody in

who understands that there are excesses.

There's no evidence that Mullen believes

that there are excesses.

And on top of that, here's my other thing,

that I'd be interested in your push back to this, Andrew,

is Mullen's gonna have more money to work with than Nome did.

Like, even if they don't pass this budget, like,

you know, it takes a while for them to,

you know, get all the funding,

disperse all the funding, you know,

recruit the individuals, assuming he won't be spending

as much money as Christy Nome was on her makeup kit,

and all the other stuff that she was doing.

So like, it's not as if, you know,

some of this is like kind of happening on its own.

Like there's, there is a inertia to this,

that like the agents of the DHS

are gonna be all out there in the streets.

And Mark Mullen doesn't seem like the kind of person

that's gonna want to dial that back,

but that would be my argument for it not giving much money.

And let me, let me add one more thing.

At least Christy Nome had Corey Lewandowski,

who had a private relationship with Trump on his own,

which-

Papa Dickey.

Which could have possibly given her

a smidge of independence from a Stephen Miller.

Mark Mullen, I keep saying McMullen, I don't know why,

Mark Mullen.

It's fine here.

Actually, I kinda wanna keep doing it.

Mark Mullen has no independent standing.

And so he enters in the totally subservient position

to Miller, and so he will not have the ability

to like go behind Miller's back and say,

like Mr. President, I really think this is not a great idea

for you or anything like.

He's just gonna have to do literally everything

that Miller tells him to do.

I think that's true.

I think that's true.

And I also think that every piece of reporting

that we have seen about the way DHS has been run

under Christy Nome is that Corey Lewandowski did not need

permission from Stephen Miller or Donald Trump

to be like a tyrant and a psycho

and to go on constant purges of people who he thought were,

not sufficiently loyal to Trump.

I think that there genuinely is a faction in DHS

that thinks they are out over their skis,

that thinks that the Minneapolis was a humongous blunder.

There was so much reporting going to conservative outlets

from people close to the top echelons of even ICE,

like Administrator Todd Lyons, guys around him who are like,

this is crazy, we can't do this anymore.

It's gonna be a disaster, it's been a disaster

and Christy Nome is like kind of behind it all.

Now don't get me wrong.

I do not think that anybody should look at this news

and be like, oh, thank God, that's over,

mission accomplished.

And I especially do not think that Senate Democrats

should feel that way when it comes to this fight

over DHS funding.

But I do think that you can look at the way

that things have gone in the past year

and just like look at the way that the labor department

has been run, I don't know.

We're like, look at just any sort of like median,

even like Pete Hegseth's defense department,

where like he is constantly imposing lunatic stuff,

but like at least the sort of operation has been allowed

to run in sort of a professional way further down

and imagine a future where maybe DHS looks

a little bit more like that outside of the personal ambitions

of Christy Nome and the like true tyranny

of Corey Lewandowski.

I could totally be wrong, but that's what that's the way.

I agree with you, there is a faction at the top of it.

I worry that like the middle and lower level

of the people implementing them this way.

Oh yeah.

That's the barren thing too.

So I think that's different than military

in that sense.

The point that you make the most compelling to me,

is I do think that Christy felt like

performative sadism kind of benefited her politically

and maybe Mark Wayne Mullen won't feel

as passionately about that.

You mentioned Democrats in the confirmation.

I think this is kind of obvious,

so we don't have to spend that much time on it,

but there's no reason to think

that he will have trouble being confirmed, right?

And I think all of the Republicans

will support him and John Fetterman.

And so I think, well, Fetterman,

oh look at that.

John Fetterman's already said he's going to confirm him.

Yeah, can I ask a question for you guys,

just as per matter of politics.

Should any Democrat vote to confirm this guy?

Oh, because I mean, maybe I'm just a crazy person,

but as a purely as a matter of politics,

I think that any Democrat who votes to confirm this guy

owns everything that happens under HHS

for the next year or whatever.

Yes.

And like you would be an insane person.

This is John Fetterman basically saying

I'm not running for a election.

It is. And this is a thing.

It goes back to the period during the Trump one transition

where there were some Democrats,

I think a lot of people were like so shook by what happened.

And it's just like Jesus, like if people are going to vote

in fascism because our border policies are so bad,

like we need to make some changes.

And like it's show that we're going to meet them

in the middle on stuff, right?

And the result of that was the Lake and Riley Act,

which got passed with some Democratic votes

and a Kristi-no confirmation.

Let me pull this up where there were seven Democrats

for five abstentions.

Fetterman, Maggie Hassan, Tim Cain,

what are you doing, Tim Cain?

Andy Kim, Gary Peters, Jean Shaheen, Alyssa Slocke.

So I think that's down to one, this time seven down to one.

And I think that the Lake and Riley Act,

I didn't pull that up,

but whatever the number of senators voted for that was,

that would be down to one or two as well.

And I think that there was a theory of the case

that was not totally irrational,

but that was just kind of wrong, right?

That was like we need to meet them in the middle

on immigration because immigration's been so bad for us.

I think people that made that that did not contemplate

how bad the Trump immigration regime would be

and how much people wouldn't like that either.

And so they were kind of moderating on the wrong thing.

Sort of like the instinct was not wrong,

but like the execution was very wrong.

I think it seems like the Democrats have mostly learned

from that besides Fetterman.

I don't know, Andrew, what are you gonna say about that?

The next time a Democrat is elected president,

they should absolutely have in the back of their mind

the ways that Joe Biden's specific executive failures

sort of set the table on immigration for all this stuff fine.

They should not think that they have like carte blanche

to replicate his immigration policy, sure.

But that has nothing to do with this moment.

That has nothing to do with the fights

that are going on right now in the Senate

over whether they're gonna give money to this agency

as it has been sort of operationalized by this president.

As you mentioned, Tim, like all of the sort of meat heads

that they have swollen the ranks of ice

and a border patrol with in the last six months

with minimal training and then put them out on the streets.

I mean, they should and to their credit,

everything we're seeing right now

is that they are being very sanguine

about what they need to do here.

They're holding the line and they have not shown any weakness

and even all the people,

even all the Democrats who eventually voted

and the last shutdown are totally in a block here

about these demands and that is as it should be.

All right, I wanna show a couple

other of Mark Wayne Mullin clips

for people to just get a sense of who's coming in.

And we'll go to your questions, your super chats,

your comments on sub-stack

and then I've got a little treat for everybody at the end.

So let's pull up whatever we got of Mark Wayne,

the highlight reel.

The tough guy act and the Senate hearings.

You know where to find me,

any place, any time, cowboy.

So this is a time, this is a place.

You wanna run your mouth?

We can be to consenting adults, we can finish it here.

Okay, that's fine, perfect.

I don't wanna do it now.

I'd love to do it right now.

We'll stain your butt up then.

You'll stain your butt up.

Oh hold it, oh, stop it.

Say you should never pull it.

No, no, sit down, sit down, okay.

You don't know, you're a United States senator.

Sit down, okay, sit down please.

All right.

Can I be smart?

Hold it, hold it.

And they've never loved Bernie more, honestly.

You know,

that exactly demonstrating the kind of judgment

that you'd look for in a position

of the importance of Department of Homeland Security.

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But I don't know.

Any other Mark Wayne thoughts?

It's not the only time by the way, he put up a video

where he kind of implied that if journalists

and Senate and Congress people could have duels,

maybe there'd be less fake news, he did that.

I think there was another fight threat.

So I don't know.

You know, he is a, it's not good.

Go ahead JVL.

Well, I'm just, so I was very interested

in the Mark Wayne as MMA champ idea.

So I went looking, I was like, I'd like to go see you know.

I know a little bit about MMA, like the sweet science.

And I could not find any video of him.

So I went digging like, so okay, what did he do?

So he fought three times

and something called the Extreme Fighting League.

This is in 2006 and 2007.

He fought the same guy, Clinton bonds in two of them

and another guy named Bobby Kelly.

And that, so he, I mean, this is not even like a D level UFC.

This is a, this is a very, very, very, very pro junior

grade semi pro.

It's like a guy who likes to scrap

and like did it three times for grand total of,

I'm just looking at the time, a grand total of under five minutes.

Or we spent under five minutes total in the cage.

Anyway, I mean, I'm kind of an MMA fighter at that bubble.

I've, I've had less than five minutes fighting.

Well, like never has so much been made of so little.

Yeah, good Lord.

Andrew, do you have something on that?

I've got a, I've got another interesting wrinkle

about his confirmation.

No, the only other interesting Mark Wayne Mullen fact

that I know is he's one of only a very small handful of people

with some Native American ancestry in Congress.

So, you know, he will, he will bring, he will bring,

he will bring an interesting perspective on heritage Americans

to the Department of Homeland Security.

No, bachelor's degree.

No, bachelor's degree.

No, that's a wee lot.

We've failed out of college.

Appreciate that, though.

That's, that's kind of the median Americans.

So we're looking for Mark Wayne Mullen is hearing.

Will happen at the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

This is kind of interesting.

Do you know how the chair is of that committee?

Andrew, quick quiz.

Rand Paul.

Now, Rand Paul and our queen have a little history.

Mullen called him a freaking snake

and then, and also express sympathies for the neighbor

who had attacked, physically attacked Rand Paul in 2017.

Let me read the full quote here, actually.

Bernie, once again, makes a cameo.

This is the new, the nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security,

Mark Wayne Mullen.

I respect Bernie Sanders because he's an open socialist.

And you know that he's a communist,

so you know what you're getting.

Rand Paul's a freaking snake

and I completely understand why his neighbor did what he did.

And I told him that to his face.

It stirred up people like Cheryl,

who don't know the backstory.

And then that night, Rand sends out a fun,

raising letter on it.

It's a gimmick.

So that's an interesting subplot of the confirmation.

I can see a little tree.

And he still gets confirmed anyway,

but you can see a trade where Rand is a no

and Federman is a yes.

Is the implication there?

Is the implication there that Rand Paul,

like famously, the most libertarian member

of like the entire US Senate is a secret communist?

Is that what I'm saying?

I think it's that he pretends to support Trump,

but he doesn't really support Trump.

I think that's right.

All right, let's go to your questions and comments

and chats and may I have the privilege

of asking the first question of you guys?

For sure.

What does this do to Christy 2028

and or Corey Lewandowski?

Corey Lewandowski, whenever he's been exiled

head before has always been a good soldier.

Yeah.

Christy 2028 was never happening.

That was happening only in her own head.

Corey is a survivor.

I mean, Corey was fired from the first campaign, came back.

He was exiled after he hit on one of Trump's top donors wives

at an addiction awareness fundraiser at a Benihana.

While drunk.

While drunk.

He was exiled for a while.

He Trump got back into Trump's good graces,

he ended up inside not only the Department of Homeland Security,

but inside the bedroom of the secretary.

So I know a bedroom.

Corey will find a way.

Corey will find a way.

And do anything to add to that or should go to the viewer.

No, it's just going to depend on how good of a job he does.

Yes.

A special envoy to the shield of the America.

America's.

All right, this is nice to our boy, Andrew Hazlitz,

who's coming to shield of the America's

is a new competitor podcast, actually, to shield of the Republic.

Kristie LV, Kristie and Corey will be hosting

at versus Elliott and Eric.

It's kind of like how Dan Crenshaw is going to be my new

competitor in the podcast space.

Anybody that gets out of the administration, they try to come for us.

I don't think it's going to work.

Bradley asks, Pam, next.

No, she's fine.

She's doing what they want.

Sorry.

Hard to wait.

Hard to great.

Who do you have as a next?

There's a lot of controversy in the Secretary of Labor.

Have you been watching this story?

Yes.

It's a very sub story.

She is having, I think, a lesbian affair with her bodyguard.

And there's like, this is all allegedly.

I don't want to get sued.

And then there's some random expense.

So she has some random controversy.

Her husband has also been banned from the premises

because of supposed allegations of sexual harassment against

different labor department staff.

So it's all, it's a whole thing.

It is a lot of what happened at the Department of Labor.

Most transparent administration in America, I just put as a sleeper

for getting kicked out next is this headsets.

I don't think he's fine, but this war, man, you can imagine a situation

where he ends up being a fall guy, where Marco and JD both kind of positions

themselves to be like, hey, Mr. Trump, I was with you.

Yeah, I was with you.

So right, you know, we was going to be nice and clean,

but him over there, a clown.

So Marco wanted to do it.

JD didn't want to do it.

And so the compromise position for the two of them, if it goes wrong,

is, well, it was Hegseth's fault.

It was Hegseth's fault, right?

And Hegseth has been happy to be the face of the operation.

Like he has put himself forward into that role where the others have not,

and that will, if it goes badly, multiply.

We never close a loop.

A reago on it, let's go to the loop on how many demos we think we'll vote

to confirm Mullin won.

I really think it's won.

I'd put the over under one and a half.

I could see one other person.

Maybe I'd put the over under one and a half.

Let's see.

Grace G says she loves to see Christy go to sound, but all this means

it's the same brutal ice with better optics.

This is what JBL said is concerned.

I share that, but like, I don't know.

Mark Wade Mullin out in the streets threatening to fight some protesters.

The optics, I'm not sure the optics will be better.

I don't understand this reference, Jason, or JBL.

So I think it's for you.

Jason says Jack Swagger for DHS secretary.

I could see that Jack Swagger, former very mid WWE guy.

Kind of has a Mark Wayne feel about him, but blonde.

Vicki is happy to give the people of Minnesota credit for tossing them out.

We'll take it.

Oh, we'll give it to him.

Deserved.

Adam asked if Lewandowski is going to seduce Mullin now.

We're on the same page.

Hey, Mama, we already did that one.

And there we go.

One more Stephen.

How does Susan Collins vote?

Oh, she votes to confirm.

She'll confirm.

She'll vote to confirm.

Yeah.

She might express a little concern before she does so.

Okay, I think that's the livestream.

I do have, as mentioned, I do have the treat for everybody.

And you know, it's hard.

It's kind of a happy trail.

So Corey Lewandowski's brought us a lot of joy over the years and frequent viewers

of the channel know that I have particularly a favorite moment with Corey,

not the time that he hip-checked me with his horrible breasts in a debate spin room.

That did happen.

But the time that when he was out in the wilderness, I was trying to make some scratch

from his on cameo.

I was trying to help the mega youth with a little problem they had.

Let's watch Corey Lewandowski offering some fatherly advice to America's young.

Hey, this message is from Mickey.

Mickey, your daddy, Papa Dickey reached out to me and told me that you're a toilet training.

You must be a very special little boy.

But I hear that you're starting to use the big boy toilet.

So congratulations and you're doing a great job with your poopies.

Congratulations.

I know your mom is going to be so happy for you.

And I want to thank you in advance for being a Donald Trump supporter when you get older.

All the best from your daddy, Papa Dickey.

Well, Kristi Nome wasn't doing a great job with her poopies in the end.

And she's been asked to hit the road.

Any final thoughts from you guys?

Not that I can share this family podcast.

We've already made Andrew Blush Thrice.

So any more would be too much.

Thank you, everybody.

Subscribe to the feed.

Tell your friends.

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I'll tell you that.

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