Voter ID Won All Six States & So Did Democrats: Why Republicans Lost | Rod Martin & Stacy Washington

[00:00:00] For three months, Democrats talked about one thing, affordability, your gas, your groceries, your rent. Six days after winning, they're talking about impeachment. And the likely speaker to be, Hakeem Jeffries, says he's a hard yes on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. A left-wing group has written a list of American companies for a Democratic Congress to investigate, including Apple, Tesla and Trump media. So that's what affordability actually meant.

[00:00:27] This is The Jenny Beth Show. I'm Jenny Beth Martin. Welcome to The Jenny Beth Show.

[00:00:47] Before I bring in our guests today, I want to take a brief look around the country at some of the other races that happened because we did have a few things that were good when the rest of last week was pretty rough. In Nevada, voters elected a Democrat governor, Aaron Ford. Aaron Ford opposed voter ID. And those same voters passed voter ID with a 62% margin of victory for voter ID.

[00:01:16] Ohio passed voter ID with over 65%. North Carolina with nearly 60%. Ballotpedia looked at six states where voter ID and statewide races were on the same ballot. Democrats won all six. And voter ID beat the Republican in all six. Voters in those states want voter ID at the polls. They want to show an ID at the polls.

[00:01:42] And they made it very clear, even as they voted for and elected Democrats who will fight voter ID. And the left isn't waiting for 2028 to start. Mayor Mondami is already planning to meet with union bosses to help pick their candidate for 2028. Republicans still hold the House and the Senate for 55 more days. And President Trump still has his veto pen.

[00:02:09] Ted Cruz called this election a bloodbath. And he was right. We pretty much got slaughtered in the elections last week. In Texas, Ted Cruz is now the only Republican left in statewide office. There are a lot of lessons in what happened. And I want us to learn every one of them. I've got Robert McNeely and CeCe Washington with me today to discuss why we lost the pending investigations from the liberal left.

[00:02:37] And what Republicans might be able to do with the 55 days they have left in the congressional majority. And we'll talk about a few other topics as well. So let's get right into it. Rod Martin and CeCe Washington, welcome back to the show. Thanks so much for joining me today. Great to be here. So Ted Cruz says it wasn't turnout.

[00:02:59] He says voters who backed Republicans in 2024 came out angry and voted the other way over the cost of living, mostly. So CeCe, was it the economy, the hatred of President Trump or the Iran war? Or did the left just out-organize this? What do you think about the election results? Oops. For some reason, I can't hear Stacey.

[00:03:29] So we're going to come right now. There we go. There we go. Sorry about that. So traditionally, a midterm is about a reversal of power. This has been the case over many, many, many decades where we've looked at this. And so this wasn't the worst midterm election result we've ever seen for the GOP or the Democrats. So I want it level set there. When we call it a bloodbath, the language kind of indicates that we've never seen anything like this before. But this wasn't the worst midterm showing for the GOP by far.

[00:03:58] If you look at the last, I don't know how many years worth of election, 30 years. So let's look at it differently then. You ask about affordability. Affordability was the mantra that Democrats used because it was so effective against Biden. But President Trump has lowered the price of gas, the price of eggs. I know diesel is up, but for your everyday user of gas, Americans have cheaper gas today than they did under the Biden administration at the same time during his term. So that's not it. I don't think affordability was it.

[00:04:28] What I think happened is Americans who worked so hard to elect President Trump, I'm talking about the person-to-person contacts, the phones, the iPads, the calling, the door knocking, the interpersonal relationships that they worked on to get independents and their friends and relatives to vote for President Trump, for the deportation agenda, for the say-back, the voter ID, for a lot of different things that are very important.

[00:04:52] As you mentioned, those individuals saw the GOP Senate and the GOP House do essentially nothing to codify the president's agenda, especially when we talk about immigration reform that is now just pen and phone, right? It's just executive orders. And then, of course, how can we not talk about how we've now discovered all of this fraud in government?

[00:05:13] And all of it goes along with the fact that foreigners come here and they vote in our elections, they take advantage of our country, they rob us blind, and we haven't seen the GOP Congress do anything about that. So I feel like this was—and the voter responses, people online, the videos, everything that people are saying right now hinges on the fact that the GOP didn't do what they said they would do when they ran, and so they were punished at the ballot box by voters who are simply tired of this since the Tea Party era.

[00:05:43] Promises on the campaign trail, fiery speeches, great rallies, they get there, they work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and they don't get anything done. Okay, those are really good comments, Stacey. Rod, what are you thinking as we look at what happened in the election last week? Well, as usual, Stacey is spot on on much, if not all, of this. I would point out some things that stick out, as you did, Jenny Beth.

[00:06:09] We won on issues repeatedly across the country, even in places where you wouldn't expect to, like California, where voters not only rejected a wealth tax, but actually passed an amendment to ban any future wealth tax. That doesn't seem very consistent with a lot of the rest of their choices. They were mad at Republicans.

[00:06:36] They were not mad at Republican policy. So again, Stacey is right. Congress should have done its job. I would add, specifically, with respect to my friends in Texas, they should have done their job. The truth of the matter is, you know, by Texas Republicans losing the House to the Democrats, we're going to see virtually zero change in that body.

[00:07:03] Because the Texas Republicans in the House of Representatives in Austin have let the Democrats run that chamber pretty much since they took it over. If I were a Republican in Texas, I'd be pretty fed up with that. And that's something that nobody's really talking about. They don't want to blame Greg Abbott. They don't want to blame the Speaker. They want to blame Donald Trump. Well, wait a second. And that brings me to my second point.

[00:07:29] I'm sitting here on the Gulf of America in beautiful, beautiful free state of Florida, where we started the election with every statewide office. We ended the election with every statewide office. Started with super majorities in both houses. Ended with super majorities in both houses. Started with 20 U.S. House seats. Ended with 20 U.S. House seats. We didn't have to lose.

[00:07:56] It's simply not necessary that we have lost. And the fact that we did. And I've been saying from the beginning, you know this, Jenny Beth. I've been saying from the beginning, odds were against us. Another way in which Stacey is exactly right. This isn't even historically that huge a midterm loss. Both of Obama's midterms were worse. Certainly, Clinton's 94 midterm was worse.

[00:08:25] Reagan had terrible midterms both times. It actually just strengthened those presidents in a lot of respects because they didn't have to curry favor with rhino senators who wanted to water down everything they wanted to do.

[00:08:42] So I'm very encouraged that the president has picked Stephen Miller, is clearly doubling down, means to use his legitimate Article II powers in a country which most certainly does not have a parliamentary system. And he's going to govern, I think, very well for the next 24 months. The problem remains what you said. The Republicans in Congress sat on their hands, wanted to blame it on the president.

[00:09:11] The president didn't lose last week. They did. And they're gone. And honestly, the net result of that, because I believe the economy's about to pick up in a huge, huge way. We're already seeing the beginning of that. I think 28 has potential to look a lot like 1984 after the bloodbath in 1982.

[00:09:33] If that's all true, then we are going to elect a new crop of Republicans into a new majority, and they're going to look a lot more like Tea Party patriots and a heck of a lot less like John Cornyn. Okay, that is optimistic, and I hope that you are exactly right about that, Ron.

[00:09:54] So what do you both each say when—and I do want to come back to Stephen Miller, but let's get through this part first, and then we can come back and talk about Stephen Miller more. But what do you say to the people who are saying, oh, it was all because of the Iran war, or it was all because of the economy? I mean, you've answered what you think the cause was, but how do you answer those specific allegations from people? Well, Stacey, we'll start with you, and then we'll go to Rod.

[00:10:22] Well, I have covered the national security document that was issued in December of 2025. I talked about that on the show here with you, with both of you, I think. And it's worth pointing out that anyone who cares to do the reading, if you want to do the homework, it's on the WhiteHouse.gov website. Go there, read it. It's actually really well done, so I recommend it in any case.

[00:10:41] But what President Trump is doing in Iran is actually crippling China and redirecting the oil needs of most of the world back to the United States. We have amazing reserves. We have output that is unbelievable. And we have the ability to supply those nations. But they have been leaning more and relying more on Middle Eastern, Russian, the Chinese are in that same boat. All of those customers should be coming to the United States. It builds our economy.

[00:11:11] It builds our military strength. It's a part of a strategy that he has. And then I'll just say, you know, the Iranian mullahs have killed over 1,000 Americans. 23 of those Americans were killed in Kobar Tower the cycle after I went back. And we won't say how long ago this was, but I was on active duty in the Air Force. And my husband, then my boyfriend, recommended that I go in January because there was an opening that had come available instead of going in the next rotation,

[00:11:39] which was in the summer where the temperature would be 118 at night and 120-something during the day. So I went in the earlier rotation, came back. A friend of mine, a new airman across the hall, took that rotation, and he died. He literally died in the Kobar Tower bombing. So I feel like a lot of Americans have a close connection, even if it's secondary or in a third way, to Americans who've been killed by the Iranian mullahs. And President Trump hasn't forgotten that, and he's doing something about it.

[00:12:08] I don't believe in, you know, endless war, but I do believe in us exerting our prodigious military power to the benefit of our country and to preserve American lives. And that's what President Trump is doing. And Rod, Cece, I agree with what you just said there. Rod, what do you think? Yeah, I second all of that. I mean, the bottom line is the president is playing a longer game. And yeah, it's terrible that we lost the midterms, but we always lose the midterms when we're in the White House.

[00:12:38] Every president of both parties has lost the midterms every single midterm except two in the last 96 years. And we were saying three, but actually I remember that 1998, Clinton just didn't lose by as much as Newt thought he was going to. That's not quite the same thing.

[00:13:02] So, you know, we've only lost, we've only seen the president's party win two midterms in a century. You know, this was always going to be likely. The question is, what's he building? And there's, you know, the president acknowledges Iran absolutely played into it. Affordability absolutely played into it. All these things are true. It's just, you don't fix all that in a week.

[00:13:29] And he comes into power, you know, off of COVID, four years of O'Biden, you know, eight years of Obama before that. You know, they did all this damage for decades. And Donald Trump is supposed to wave his wand and give you 5% GDP growth in a week. I mean, it's just silly.

[00:13:50] But what is happening, as you know, is the gathering economic boom that we're seeing, partly from what Stacey just said about shifting the balance of power in the energy markets from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of America out my window. And second, this industrial boom that's coming, I know much to the consternation of many of our friends, from tariffs.

[00:14:16] Because the president puts these tariffs on, which opens up a bunch of foreign markets that were closed to us, resulting in more room for U.S. producers to export more stuff. At the same time that he tells foreign producers, we'll exempt you from the tariffs too if you'll build a plant in the United States. So we're in a CapEx boom. We've seen more capital expenditures in the last year than anybody can remember.

[00:14:45] You've got $18 trillion in outside investment recruited by the president. A bunch of that money has actually now been spent. Shovels in the ground. Factories going up. Some of them beginning to hire. You've got that $4.5 billion Audi plant in Georgia coming in. You've got the largest steel mill in the history of the country going into Iowa. You know, all these incredible things. Guess what? That's kicking in in the next 12 to 24 months.

[00:15:15] It's going to be undeniable. So that is the 82-84 contrast yet again. That's exactly Ronald Reagan's play. Cut taxes, slash regulation, get the economy building again. That destroys inflation. That solves your affordability crisis. And when people are making enough money, they're not going to care what eggs cost because they're going to be able to afford three times as many as they did before. Yeah.

[00:15:45] Yeah, I think that's exactly right. And we have, of course, after the elections, we had the jobs report from October. And we saw that 165,000 jobs were added, which was about 100,000 more than expected. And unemployment fell to 4.1 percent. The consumer price index should be coming out tomorrow. So we'll see what happens with that.

[00:16:11] But the point here is that it reinforces what you were just saying, Rod. The economy is growing. It just simply didn't grow fast enough for voters to see that growth before the election. But even if they had, I think that you're both right. We've seen history proves that you're not going to win midterm elections. And the pendulum always is swinging. It never just stops on one side or the other. Well, that's true.

[00:16:41] And I have to just point out one more little fact. GDP is at 3.4 percent, right? Inflation is below 3 percent. We're inching towards that 1.7, 1.9, which is what we call effective zero inflation. We had double-digit inflation through the entirety of the Biden administration. And we saw that primarily in the things, the durable goods that people purchase the most. And for families, expanding families, you have a teenager. You need a used car.

[00:17:08] You used to be able to buy a used car, a 10-year-old good car, a Toyota, for about $15,000 or less. $9,000, you could get one with higher miles. Now it's $20,000. If you find a $15,000 Toyota and you don't buy it the day you see it, it's gone. And forget about the Toyotas also because they're so hotly in demand because they go to 350,000 miles. So I point that out because the messaging surrounding the affordability was very effective,

[00:17:33] but it wasn't really true because I actually watch prices, chicken thighs, porterhouse steaks, and milk and eggs. And the price of all of those is lower. It's a dollar cheaper for the eggs. And some of these prices aren't going to go down because you live in a state where they tax it, artificially keeping the price high, California, New York. But everywhere else in the country, these prices are actually down. And it's not just me who's noticed that. I've seen all kinds of viral videos with millions of views of people showing their receipt

[00:18:02] from this time during the Biden administration and today in 2026. It's important to point that out because so much lying has gone on. And it's not just about Islam or the Middle East or oil or gender. It's about prices. They've been lying about that for a solid 18 months, and it's been very effective, unfortunately. And I wish that there were some means by which we could communicate the truth about that. I wonder if some viral accounts or some big influencers on the right could put this information out there.

[00:18:31] I wonder if anyone could possibly help with that messaging apparatus besides the White House. The comms team there kills it, but they need their counterparts out in media to do the same. And for some reason, everyone out there on the right with the biggest accounts just wants to talk about Israel and how we need a new relationship, which, by the way, dealings with Israel don't actually impact your everyday life. Our aid to them may be huge, but they purchase most of the money that we send to them. They use that to buy our military equipment.

[00:18:59] Yeah, it all comes here. Yeah, it all comes right back into our economy. Right here at McDonnell Douglas, I live in St. Louis. McDonnell Douglas, biggest aircraft manufacturer for the U.S. military. The huge headquarters here. I believe the F-15 is still here. That's where that money is going. So, I mean, I don't understand why our biggest accounts are talking about that and telling people to vote against our party when President Trump has delivered on at least 20 of the most important metrics that matter to Americans, which includes everything Rod said and more.

[00:19:29] We could do a whole hour on all of the promises made and promises kept. But, of course, President Trump doesn't get credit for anything. He's like a battered husband at this point. Well, and actually, let me interject just one more thing there in addition to what you said, Stacey, which is gasoline prices have been horribly manipulated by the Democrats directly. They have shut down three major oil refineries in this country just since the war began. You think that's not deliberate?

[00:19:59] I mean, it's certainly part of the Green News scam. It's certainly part of their general jihad on the internal combustion engine. We get that. But the timing is a bit much. And actually, if you look over the last 40 years, the Democrats have managed to shutter half of the country's refineries while blocking construction of any new ones. There's a new one going up in Brownsville, Texas, but it won't be online until 2029.

[00:20:28] So, look, if you're closing major refineries during the war, what do you think is going to happen to the price? And I promise you, Gavin Newsom knew exactly what it would do to the price, both his state prices where they're used to it, but it still jacks up the national average, and for everybody else.

[00:20:49] So, don't forget there was active sabotage by the Democrats that, unfortunately, those exact influencers you're talking about did not adequately point out. Some of us did. A lot of us didn't. And then you've got Tucker. Right. And so you said his name. I wasn't going to actually call him out by name, but, I mean, we're talking about millions of dollars. And for those of us who have his – I have a picture of Tucker Carlson and me in my book club when he was here in St. Louis some years ago.

[00:21:18] So, it's still on my piano because I can't give up. I'm loyal like that. Like, you want me to be your friend because I'll basically never give up on you. We can stop speaking. I'll still be praying for you and hoping for the best. And that's how I feel about Tucker, that he could still come back and be the Tucker Carlson we all knew. We have his books on our shelves. We watched him on Fox. We believe that's who he was. We hope he can come back. But Candace can't. She was never back.

[00:21:48] She was never one of us. I agree. No one listened to – our little voices were like – we were like, help, she's not who you think she is. And everyone was like, we love her. And I thought, well, she is kind of good. But she wasn't ever really one of us. Well, here's the thing. When you're watching all of these things online, you have to wonder – you have to figure out what is the motive behind the people who you're watching online.

[00:22:14] And a lot of the people online, they get clicks and likes and they're getting paid for their clicks and likes or they're getting offers for their clicks and likes or whatever it might be. Their business model is completely around the clicks and likes. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. But I know this. The emotions that sell the most are going to be that anger and fear.

[00:22:38] And so if you are trying to get more clicks and likes, one good way to do it is to scare people or to make them angry because that motivates people. And we've seen that with the Tea Party movement. We have also made sure that we don't have people – we've deliberately in our organization for – it's been – it's almost 18 years now. It's hard to believe.

[00:23:03] But we've made sure that we don't take people to a point where they think that there is nothing – there is no more hope. We are constantly trying to say, OK, take all that passion you have for the country, the love you have for the country that makes you so angry and so worried about it, and turn it into action. But when people are benefiting just from blackpilling people and getting people to doom scroll through their accounts, that's a problem.

[00:23:30] And we all need to be careful about that because what you're reading and what you're seeing online gets in your head, and what gets in your head can get in your heart. And you just have to guard both your heart and your mind. It's such a good point. And I'll just say, you know, the hopelessness that comes from that can also suppress voter turnout, and it can cause people to detach even further. I saw the study that came out – I think it was last week – that said that 40 percent of Americans actively avoid everything having to do with politics.

[00:24:00] Everything. And that's not a partisan thing. It's not 40 percent of – it's basically 40 percent of each group, independents, Republicans, and Democrats. So that's 40 percent of Americans. And if you look at the number of evangelical Christians who don't vote, we're talking about 90 million Americans. Now, are all of those evangelical Christians Bible believers who actually read the word and understand the ethos of pro-life from conception to natural death and the death penalty and all those other complex issues? Possibly not. Possibly not. Not 90 million.

[00:24:30] But we only need a fraction of them to swing elections and to permanently sideline the influence of Islam or any other malign, you know, impactor that is coming in and trying to take this country from us. You know, I just want to point out to people that while you're complaining about America, there are active factions from around the world trying to steal it from us. They're literally moving in here and trying to take over this place that you're complaining about.

[00:24:54] So, you know, pump the brakes, eject some of that hopelessness, and instead take stock of what you really have in America. Not just the freedoms, but the ability to do anything that you want without anyone stopping you, unless you're Donald Trump or someone who works for his administration. Those people are truly oppressed. But the rest of us are still very free. Yes, exactly right. Let me let me shift gears just a little bit.

[00:25:24] Rod, let's go back to what you were just saying about a few minutes ago about Stephen Miller. What do you think of the changes President Trump is making in the White House right now as we get ready for the next two years? You know, Susie Wiles did a fantastic job both on the campaign and in the administration. So hats off to her. And I guess she's probably coming home now and we'll be glad to have her.

[00:25:50] She also did fantastic work for Ron DeSantis in 2018, and then they got crossways and don't really speak anymore. So that's a shame. But nevertheless, maybe we can make amends now that DeSantis performed so well. I think Stephen Miller is fantastic. He is as hardcore as it gets. And it's quite a message.

[00:26:13] And you'll recall, Jenny Beth especially, after the 2006 midterm defeat, George Bush basically threw up his hands and completely switched sides. It was like, well, the people have spoken. The Democrats have their confidence. We're just going to get rid of all our people and replace them with Democrats and rhinos because that's what the people want. Well, if that's your attitude, you're going to get a 2008 that's pretty ugly.

[00:26:43] And he did. Donald Trump has taken the exact opposite attitude. When you've got Russ Vogt at OMB, Stephen Miller as chief of staff, we don't see Trump pulling the stunt Bush did, getting rid of his defense secretary, getting rid of his good cabinet members. We see him doubling down.

[00:27:04] That tells me he means to fight for the next two years, just like he did in 18, after 18, just like Obama did after 10 and 14, just like Clinton did after 94. We finally have a president who's a winner. He isn't going to win all the time, but he's going to fight like a winner 100% of the time. That's what Stephen Miller means. Also, he's brilliant. He'll do a great job.

[00:27:33] It'll be a lot of fun. Stacey, what do you think of Stephen Miller? He's so much fun. I've interviewed him dozens of times and oh my gosh, he's just so first of all, encyclopedic memory and a complete and full understanding of Western civilization and America's role in the advancement of that very important. It's a reality, right? It's a reality, right?

[00:28:00] So the Europeans have kind of abandoned that, but America can continue to push forward in that area and the Europeans can, as you described so perfectly, Jenny Beth, the pendulum swinging back and forth. The Europeans can swing back in the other direction. They're not completely lost. It looks bad over there, but they can come back. And if they were to at any point ask for America's help and we had a good, strong Republican president, they could actually smash the impact of Islam in their countries. But it's up to them.

[00:28:28] They have to make that decision and they have to ask for the assistance. So when you talk about Stephen Miller, there's a – I shared it on my Twitter feed. There's a speech he's giving where he talks about the beauty of the traditional family and how Democrats hate that and how Democrats hate beauty. And I mentioned in my retweet of that that I actually described that in my RNC ad, which I didn't know that was going to be an ad, by the way. They had us all come down. They interviewed us and then they took snippets of what we said and made ads out of them that aired during the RNC in 2020.

[00:28:58] And it was – I was describing the beauty of America and everything that is so wonderful about this country, the cities, the rural areas, the land, the natural resources, everything about America that is so gorgeous and how Democrats continually, incessantly try to tear that down. And Stephen Miller is saying much the same in that clip, and he also never shies away from a fight. A little-known fact about Stephen and his wife, they're four children.

[00:29:26] They've only been married since 2020, and they're young. They're in their 30s, right? Well, he just turned 40. But they live on a military base because their lives are under such constant threat. They can't live in a regular neighborhood like most Trump administration officials, like most – any presidential administration official. They don't automatically move to military bases. So he's sacrificing a lot to do this job. I loved him in the last Trump administration. I can't wait to see what he does here in this role.

[00:29:54] And I do think, Rod, you hit on something very important. Some presidents shrink back when they have a midterm defeat. President Obama did not. He went forward and passed – he got Obergefell through the Supreme Court. I mean, he did a whole lot of damage to this country after that shellacking. President Trump can do much the same but for the posterity of this nation. And I'm talking about generational impact because you said he's a fighter. He fights for today.

[00:30:22] But today's fights can be the generational legacy that my grandchildren, maybe my great-grandchildren, if I get to meet those, whether or not we'll get to have the impact of. But that's the importance of the Trump presidency, and that doesn't end because the midterms were bad last week. In fact, it should be a motivator for us. Like when you get on the scale and you see it's gone up a pound even though you've been working out and your calories and macros have been right, you've got to double down because it's going to go down. It's just a little rebound. Your body is fighting you. You have to fight back.

[00:30:51] That's what President Trump has to do, and that's what we have to do. Yeah, and there are some concrete things we have to do. And, Jenny Beth, you can make this happen. I'm counting on you. You know, we already have ICE funded through 29. You know, they're not going to be able to hurt us there. They'll pass stuff. Trump will veto it. Nobody cares. Okay, we've got a bunch of things like that, thankfully, because the President was foresighted. This isn't his first rodeo.

[00:31:20] He understood we were probably going to lose the midterms, so they set a lot of that stuff up. What they didn't set up is stuff like the NDAA. We've got a National Defense Authorization Act that should have been passed months ago that is sitting there for the lame duck to actually pass. By the way, that's not enough. They need to pass the reconciliation bill. The reconciliation bill has the additional funding necessary for Golden Dome.

[00:31:49] I would go one further, and maybe, Jenny Beth, you can go talk to Mike Johnson about this. We need them to repass the NDAA. I don't think the President has said a word about this, but I think we should go back, repass the NDAA with a two-year appropriation, not one. Two years being the constitutional limit on defense authorizations.

[00:32:15] Go back and repass that and the reconciliation bill in a way that actually gives us funding out to the end of Trump's term, and then he can cook. He can just do his thing for two years, and the Democrats are kind of toothless. One other thing like that, the governor of Texas has some pretty remarkable emergency powers. Greg Abbott needs to put his legislature into special session and repeal those tomorrow.

[00:32:45] We have a lot to do in the next 60 days. We need to get it done. Yeah. Yeah, I think that you're exactly right. Whether—I don't know whether they'll do it or not. They weren't even willing to do it when their power was on the line. Now that they don't have the prospect of power in January, I'm not sure how much can actually get done.

[00:33:07] But I think that we need to be putting the pressure on Congress right now this week and next week to try to get as much as we possibly can. I know that as of about three weeks ago, the Senate was working on the reconciliation bill, so they should go ahead and get that done. They really should get it done.

[00:33:27] They've got to make sure that they confirm as many of President Trump's nominees as they possibly can, including judicial appointments, because once January comes, I don't think a single judicial appointment will be confirmed for two years. Or U.S. attorneys or cabinet members, for that matter. So I guess we're going to have Scott Bessett and Marco and all that crew for a long time because he can't replace them. That's right.

[00:33:56] And he has to get—so there's all of that, but they have to—so you mentioned the appointments. They have to get those done because this is the time to get it done. But I've been so upset with them. They had the dog show where the little dogs wear the clothes in the U.S. Senate, but they couldn't get the Save America. You know, that is just—that is the epitome. That is the problem. They thought that the American—look, people have been suffering in this country.

[00:34:21] When gas prices have been high, when grocery prices have been high, when people feel like they can't take a vacation or they can't go visit their grandparents because they can't afford the car trip there because spending the money on the fuel means they can't buy as much food. They look at Washington, D.C., and they think that they're completely out of touch. I love dogs. Dogs are great.

[00:34:48] Don't have a dog parade in the United States Senate building. Stop already. Act like the freaking grownups you claim to be. Like we pay them to be, Jenny Beth. Yeah, exactly. Don't act like the grownups you think. Act like the grownups that we pay for. Yeah, and then we voted for you to be. Yeah. We supported them. We supported them. I brought them. Everyone who would come on, I brought them on my show.

[00:35:12] So I've supported them even in the face of people, callers, callers to the show saying, Stacey, he came on, but you didn't ask him why they haven't passed any of President Trump's agenda. We did have Dr. Bob Onder, who's in Congress from Missouri 3rd Congressional District. He did say 50 parts of President Trump's agenda, 50 bills have gone through. And I'm thinking, OK, if those went through without any fanfare, those aren't the ones we're talking about. We're talking about the Save America Act, right? And I love this man. He's a great guy.

[00:35:41] I've known him for 20 years. My husband and I have known him and his wife for 20 years. They're good people. But he's one guy in Congress. And they're not fighting for us because they don't have to. They get paid no matter what happens in D.C. And when they're in the minority, we're more motivated. And they have more speeches that they can get paid to go and give. More op-eds that they can write. More work for them, but no agenda for us. Well, when they're in the minority, they get to fight, fight, fight, fight, fight. And I am almost using that in quotes.

[00:36:10] Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight. But it's all hot air. What we want to see is that you're fighting for us and you have a strategy to win when you are actually in the majority. Like ending the filibuster, which Chuck Schumer says they're going to do. And also they're going to impeach Pete Hegseth. And I'll just I'll tell you why. They're going to impeach Pete Hegseth because he's a man and he has a testosterone count that is appropriate for his age or a man who's 10 years younger than him.

[00:36:36] They're going to impeach him because he's been running around the U.S. military flexing and doing pull-ups and push-ups and other feats of male bravery in front of the young guys and pumping them up. And our military is at the strongest, most testosterone laden. That's important because men fight wars. Men strategize wars. They have the tactics and strategy to win wars. Men have an aggressive nature that actually puts them ahead of women when it comes to wartime strategy.

[00:37:01] And their willingness to go all the way to the end, think George Washington and his troops marching through the snow, leaving a trail of blood because they had towels wrapped around their feet because their boots were worn out. And they still marched on. They didn't go home. Women would say we need to regroup, build an igloo, try to make some shoes out of tree bark. We can't keep going. And a man says we'll bleed all the way there, but we're going to win this thing. That's what he is engendering back into our military. He's taken the transgenders out.

[00:37:30] He's taken out the things that make it impossible for men to do the thing that they need to do when they've decided they want to make war. They want to be a part of the warfighter. This is so important. I just, as a woman who served, I'm telling you there's a difference between what women do in the military and what men do. And Pete Hegseth is righting that wrong. It's been bad. Even in the Bush years, there were signs of this rot. And he's driving all of it out, cleaning it out. And that's why they want him gone.

[00:38:00] We're going to have the best fighting force for real on the planet. That and they're afraid he'll run for president. He would be straight out of central casting. He's obviously a great future candidate for this party. But more than that, he is fixing Pentagon procurement. He's the only guy I can remember in my life who's even meaningfully tried. What they just did with Anderil is amazing. Oh, yeah.

[00:38:29] The difference in what Lockheed is talking about compared to what they were talking about two years ago is daylight and dark. We're letting long-term contracts where companies can actually put on staff, train them, expand production lines, do the deed. We're going to go just next year. We're going from 68 Tomahawk missiles constructed to 1,000 overnight. That's Pete Hegseth.

[00:38:57] That's the guy they've got to stop because that is messing up the cushy deals that certain defense contractors have had for decades, not least in this. He's fixing the price at which they must perform instead of giving them these cost-plus rackets. And that is absolutely hacking off Chuck Schumer. So, Rod, you're so dead on.

[00:39:20] And Jenny Beth, what he just described when he talked about Anderil and the shipbuilding, we now will have autonomous ships that are built in a fraction of the time it takes to build our destroyers. So it doesn't mean we don't have destroyers anymore. It means we have the autonomous ships that we can use as we begin to rebuild our large fleet. And also, Rod's talking about the procurement, the competition between the old contractors, the legacy contractors of which SpaceX is actually one because they're over 20 years old, and the new crop of individuals who are coming in these new companies.

[00:39:51] I was reading about it in Arena Magazine, and I was getting chills because there's nothing I love more than hearing about new military equipment and advances in military technology like that and new advances like you mentioned, and the new energy plants that are new oil leases, new drilling. I love that, too. If you told me that 20 years ago, I'd say, no, no, no, I'd like a new China cabinet. Well, I can have both. I have a new China cabinet, and we're getting autonomous ships. American taxpayers are getting autonomous ships.

[00:40:18] We're going to get new advancements on our aviation. Our avionics are being improved. Everything is – it's like a boom. But, again, who's talking about it? Wouldn't it be great if Tucker Carlson had a whole hour on these advancements? It's because they are real. Well, and – okay, hang on. I want to reply about that, but let's watch what Hakeem Jeffries is saying, because you are absolutely right. He wants to impeach Hegseth.

[00:40:45] Well, let me ask you about Pete Hegseth, because Thomas Massey, of course a Republican, tells me that he intends to introduce a resolution of impeachment of Hegseth as defense secretary as soon as tomorrow. Are you going to support that? Will Democrats vote in favor of that impeachment resolution? I'm a hard yes on the Hegseth resolution. The so-called secretary of defense has abused his power, undermined our national security,

[00:41:15] and engineered this reckless and costly war of choice in Iran, which has skyrocketed prices on the American people and made the country less safe. Pete Hegseth has got to go. So they plan to completely – they're planning to impeach him. Thomas Massey is trying to get that done this week. It's part of the reason why the House left in September and was not able to get other things done in September,

[00:41:43] because this was looming and they were concerned they would not have the votes to prevent it in the House, which is ridiculous because the rest of the Republicans should have had a spine and said, no, we're not doing this. We are not going to impeach someone who is part of this administration. If they just fought, they would still be in the majority. But Hegseth is also going to make sure – maybe you're saying this, and I'm just saying it in layman's terms, Stacey –

[00:42:13] he's going to make sure that we have the drones that we need in our military and that we know how to win in drone warfare and in AI superintelligence and also in quantum computing, because the nature of war – the nature of war, I guess, always remains the same, but the tactics of war are going to change, and we've got to be able to keep up with it. It's already changing.

[00:42:42] We're already seeing that it's changed in Iran. It's changed in Russia. It's changed in Ukraine. Ukraine is probably the best in the world right now with drone warfare. We need to be learning from them and making sure we know how to fight like this, because if we don't, we could have another 9-11 kind of moment. I don't mean 9-11 again, but I mean something that catches us completely off guard from within our own country. It's an appropriate analogy because that was a catastrophic failure on our own security apparatus,

[00:43:11] people's willingness to say something if they thought something was wrong, to trust their gut because of the accusations of racism that have been constantly the drumbeat of that going forward from the Democrats. And I just say, you know, so Pete Hexas has the same ethos. First of all, he served in the military. He served in combat, and he's written all of the books, so he's done the research, and he has the intelligence. He has a great education, and he was in the trenches at Fox News. One does not just simply fall into a job at Fox News and remain there for years and years and years

[00:43:39] without being a real serious operator. And so he's got everything that it would take for him to be on a presidential ticket for us, and he would repudiate the false, quote-unquote, good looks of a Gavin Newsom or any of these other candidates that they're planning on putting forward based on how much money they've spent on dental work. So what I'm really concerned with that you mentioned there, the asymmetric wins by the Ukrainians using our technology and our money, but it's in the arena of drones.

[00:44:08] We've learned a lot from that. If a Democrat is in charge of the Department of Defense or some other person who's not as interested, we won't learn as much from that. We can't use what they're doing there to advance our own military technology and knowledge base. So you're right, Jenny Beth, about the drones. And I'll just say, you know, you said something before about him being straight out of central casting. It's him and Rubio or him and DeSantis or any other combo. Think of the combos we have.

[00:44:36] We have Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who's been doing an amazing job as governor. We have a lot of talent on our side, and they have Timu Obama. You just showed Hakeem Jeffries. He's basically a shade of Barack Obama, a talentless hack who lies for a living and really only is satisfied if he's on television, which the impeachment hearings will give him lots of time on TV, but it won't do anything for us. It's basically gridlock, which could be useful for President Trump because while they're doing the stupid show hearings,

[00:45:04] President Trump can operate in the background unimpeded, which we want. And I'm with you. I'm going to be praying, and I'm back-channeling as much as I can to tell people, you have to stand firm on keeping Pete Hegseth. This is an imperative. Yes. He has to stay because this is – they want to take a scalp. This is their first attempt. First, they win the midterms. They act like it's historic. Then they take a scalp. They want Pete Hegseth. He's their number one person.

[00:45:31] If they're able to successfully impeach him or remove him, then they'll go after President Trump because they'll feel validated to work on that all the way through the election. But that's an overplaying of the hand, right, Rod? You gave all the receipts. You gave all the receipts decade by decade, year by year. They overplay their hand when they win in the midterm and go into a presidential election. And that's exactly what we want, actually. We want Americans to remember the Biden years but worse because have you noticed how every time they win the presidency, they're worse?

[00:46:00] And then they lose, and then they come back and win the midterm. And during the midterm, they're worse than they've ever been before. It's like some kind of, like, I don't even know how to describe it. It's that they're, like, erupting with rage at good things because President Trump has done so many good things, and so has Pete Hegseth, as you have chronicled here, and so many other administration officials. And I can't wait to see because they want TV hits. They're going to get a lot of TV hits out of Stephen Miller, and he's really good on TV. And he doesn't answer the question he's asked.

[00:46:29] He puts out the information he came there to put out. So we're going to get great hits out of that. There's going to be lots of clips, lots of things for us to share, and lots of learning that we can do because there's never a time that he's been on television or radio that haven't learned something from Stephen Miller. So this is a good thing for us that President Trump is like, yeah, I can go on 60 Minutes and talk about whatever I want, but my chief of staff is Stephen Miller, and the deportation agenda is funded through 2029. So thanks, Democrats. And that brings us back to the NDAA.

[00:46:58] We've got a couple things we have to get done. And it has to be done in the next 60 days, or it doesn't get done. So one of those, we need to make sure that the M1E3 tank gets done. It's brilliant. It's five years ahead of schedule. It is a phenomenal weapons system. And by the way, a beneficiary of some of that Israeli tech development we were talking about early in the show.

[00:47:25] Bigger than that, we've got to deploy Golden Dome. People don't understand the importance of missile defense, partly because most people think we already have one, which is a joke. That's not true. Golden Dome is essential because the Chinese have tripled the number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads in the last four years. They are on track to parity in rapid order with the United States and Russia.

[00:47:54] A three-way arms control problem is insoluble. That is a runaway nuclear arms race that will be ruinously expensive. The only good news in that being that it will ruin the Russians first. But it doesn't change the fact that without missile defense, we are going to be more vulnerable than we've been since the 80s, 70s, maybe even. It's got to get funded.

[00:48:21] And third, we have a 287-ship Navy in a world that requires at least 450. It is absurd how we have led our Navy atrophy. And yes, we need small combatants like frigates, and we certainly need to move forward with the DDX. All of that's good. But what we really, really need, we really need three more America-class LHAs, the lightning carriers.

[00:48:50] We really need, this is a stretch, but it's necessary, and it's Reagan numbers. We need five more Ford-class carriers, full stop. That means we need another dock that can actually construct nuclear-powered large surface combatants. And finally, we need all 15 Trump-class battleships.

[00:49:16] I know, you know, the media totally panned that just because Trump named it for himself. Wish he hadn't done that, perhaps, but doesn't matter. The point is, we are in an age where you need bigger hulls, not smaller. The idea that we're going to distribute it across a lot of little hulls, all that got us was a lot less of all of our hulls.

[00:49:36] The big hulls give you the capacity for nuclear power, which gives you the ability to power the new generation of directed energy weapons, which Dr. Evil would call frickin' laser beams. Yes, that's real, and it matters, and it's essential to the air defense of a carrier strike group, and also things like rail guns and things that nobody's even invented yet. You've got to have room to grow those systems in a 50-year hull.

[00:50:06] That's what the Trump-class battleship is about. It gives you the true cruiser rollback. It gives you impenetrable air defense for a carrier strike group. It also gives you the ability to send these things out as the center of their own surface action group. That's essential. Our entire defense strategy is built on choke point control. There are a bunch more of them than we have carrier strike groups to cover. We have to get that under control.

[00:50:34] That has to happen in the NDAA and the reconciliation bill in the next 60 days. Okay, so Rod and Stacey, how do you both answer the charge that people would say, well, you're just a neocon, or you want more wars? I personally think what you're laying out is how we have peace through strength. Right. You have to be strong in order to have peace. You do.

[00:51:02] And so one of my favorite things is you go to World Military Power. There are a number of these websites, and they catalog our numbers, raw numbers. Like we have over 14,100 aircraft. So we're the number one, number two, or number one, number three, number five, depending on how you tally up air forces in the world, because we have technically four air forces you could consider the Space Force a fifth. So what does that mean?

[00:51:29] Well, it means that in a conflict, the other militaries will calculate what they can get done. What could we strategically do? And as Rod mentioned, they have to take us into a three-front war in order to strain our resources. So we can fight two full wars at the same time with the manpower and troop strength and also the military assets that we have. But when we go to a third front, we become strained because we don't have those large ships that Rod was describing.

[00:51:58] And we're behind on shipbuilding. And so the Chinese are quickly trying to build up their naval fleet to not just rival but overtake ours because there are ways in which they could challenge us that would be crippling to us, but not in a straight head-to-head military conflict. It has to be something where they're doing cyber attacks and debilitating infrastructure attacks on American soil where the troops are unable to go out and fight militarily elsewhere because the homeland is basically burning.

[00:52:28] So they have those strategies.

[00:52:30] And Rod has described a strategy in which we never have to worry about them making those attacks because they would be attacking not only their money engine, their bread, because we buy so much from other countries where a consumer economy, but also because they would be unable to withstand us sending a carrier battle group into that region, another carrier battle group into the secondary region, and then a third carrier battle group and remaining carrier battle groups that could stay in our hemisphere to protect our entire hemisphere.

[00:52:59] Because we're talking about large-scale military deployment. And allies are supposed to help, but the Europeans have hardly no people and even less equipment. And they're buying from us finally again, but that's only because of President Trump. And by the way, I line out a lot of this stuff in Trump's New World Reorder, which just came out a week ago. Everybody go buy it. You need to buy six of them for Christmas presents. These things are awesome.

[00:53:26] But the point is you create a situation where you don't have to fight wars. And I understand that most people don't understand it, but that's a lot of what the Iran conflict is about. Iran was arming, funding, and directing every armed conflict in the Middle East. It doesn't matter which one you're talking about. If you don't cut off the head of the snake, you never get to peace. You can't do it. And it isn't a forever war.

[00:53:54] First of all, we didn't deploy anybody on the ground. Do you see a big land invasion of Iran? No, not now, not ever. But also, this already was a forever war. This has been going on for 47 years. Donald Trump is about to end it conclusively. And that, yeah, took a little longer than we hoped. Yeah, you know, certainly had some political consequences. We wish it hadn't had. But we were probably going to lose the midterms anyway. That's just history.

[00:54:24] And we knew, right, Rod? We knew when he said he'd be in and out in 30 days. He said three weeks, four weeks at the top. I just, I said right then, I was like, that's not going to happen. But I enjoy his, you know, he has a very positive attitude. I was, years ago, I interviewed Art Laffer in his office in Nashville. We were talking about markets. And I said, you're so optimistic. You're so upbeat. But, and this is, you know, obviously it's during the Obama administration where the markets were down. And he said, well, when the markets are down, it's an opportunity to make money.

[00:54:52] When they're up, it's a time to check your portfolio and see how much money you've made. In any case, you want to keep investing. Unless you're a large scale investor, you're going to be dollar cost averaging for most people. And I said, but where does it come from? And he said, well, what do you have if you don't have hope? Why do you get up in the morning if you don't have hope? And so President Trump is a prime example of that. In the down times, he utilizes those down times to accomplish goals and objectives, which would be unthinkable during up times. And in up times, he talks a big game, names everything after himself, sends most of his

[00:55:21] haters into a tizzy, and still gets more done. And I'm thinking about the ballroom, the helipad. I know people were upset about him showcasing those things, but he knew we were going to lose in the midterms. The White House had the data on how bad it would be weeks before the election. And they still worked, but they knew it was going to be what it was. And so why not celebrate him updating things? Because he's a builder and he likes to make things look nice. He's repaired over 150 statues in Washington, D.C.

[00:55:47] He's done so many amazing things to make our city, our capital city that we pay so much for, glitter and look like the capital city of a great world power. And he's having a good time doing it. And also his biggest flex, which is that he's married to Melania Trump. So, I mean, you can hate him and get more gray hairs and look old, or you can just recognize game and understand that he's not stopping, whether he's losing or winning, he's still winning. And that's an attitude we can all adopt. I try it all the time. I'll be thinking, wow, that's not. And then I stop myself.

[00:56:17] I'm like, but it could be. And so therefore, I guess I'm still winning. And it's amazing how much better you feel. You feel better when you have that attitude. It's very true. Well, Rod and Cece, thank you both so much for joining me. And Cece, happy Veterans Day two days early. I appreciate your service and your husband's service to our country. Thank you. It was a pleasure. And we still get cool stuff because I think we get to eat out on Veterans Day.

[00:56:47] We'll get 10% off. Hooray. I'll see you again. Seriously. Seriously. And everybody go buy Trump's New World reorder. Oh, my gosh. You need six of them for Christmas gifts. I'm totally buying it today, Rod. I'm ordering mine today. I didn't realize you had a new book out. I'm totally ordering that today because I want to read all of your analysis that you shared here. I want to read it in your book. You'll get a kick out of it. It's nothing if not entertaining. Oh, good. Okay. I can't wait. Very good.

[00:57:17] Thank you. Go to Amazon to check that out. And it's available on Kindle, Audible, and in hardback. So today we have a quick call to action for you. Well, two quick calls to action. First, I think it would make sense for you to call the House of Representatives, call your member of the House of Representatives, and tell them not to impeach Pete Hegseth. No to impeach Pete Hegseth. We might as well start making these phone calls.

[00:57:45] It's either going to happen this week or in January. So we need to be melting those phone lines. The other thing is that on Friday, Robert McNeely, my co-host, interviewed and did a whole interview about Delilah's law. If you did not check it out, be sure to check it out. Or I guess it's not a law yet. It's still a bill. And then we have a call to action on that on our website. So go to our website and sign the petition.

[00:58:12] Call your members of Congress and urge Congress to bring Delilah's law to a vote. And you can go to passdelilahslaw.com to get to that same call to action link. I appreciate you joining me today. I am not losing hope in America. We did not have a good election, but we are learning lessons from it. And we are preparing for 27 and for 2028.

[00:58:41] And we are not giving up. We cannot give up. We have 250 years of sacrifices for men and women like Stacey Washington, who are veterans or they lost their lives for our country to protect our liberty and to ensure that we had liberty passed on to us. And it is up to all of us, whether we are in the military or not, to stand up for our constitutional values and to make sure that we are passing liberty on to the next generation.

[00:59:10] Yes, it is much harder today than it was last Monday. But nobody ever said this was going to be easy. No one ever said life was going to be easy. We have to just keep on working and making sure we are doing all that we can. So today, your call to action is calling Congress saying no to impeaching the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, and bring Delilah's law to a vote. And we will have more calls to action this week.

[00:59:38] And we're going to be rolling out a plan of action for 2027 and 2028 shortly. We are making sure that we hear from all of you and that we're thinking about all the lessons that we can learn from what we just went through in the last two years before we finalize that call to action. We also have on our website a link to a survey. It's our post-election survey. If you've not taken the time to fill that out, please do so.

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