WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.420 Mr. Speaker, I have to get your historical analysis first. 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:05.480 Let's just take an even greater step back and look more macro. 00:00:06.100 --> 00:00:10.260 On Monday, President Donald Trump took the oath of office in the Capitol rotunda in the 00:00:10.260 --> 00:00:12.720 most triumphant political comeback in American history. 00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:18.500 Put this into words in a historical context of what we, the American people, are living 00:00:18.500 --> 00:00:21.300 through and what President Donald Trump accomplished this week. 00:00:21.820 --> 00:00:24.300 You know when coast and I were in the rotunda 00:00:25.064 --> 00:00:28.860 Listening to the speech it hit me that it's the most revolutionary 00:00:29.384 --> 00:00:34.020 inaugural address in American history the next morning I went and read 00:00:34.800 --> 00:00:41.260 Jefferson's first and second inaugurals Andrew Jackson's first inaugural and Franklin Delano Rosso's first no wrong sure enough 00:00:41.904 --> 00:00:42.680 Donald Trump 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:49.180 on Monday gave the most revolutionary speech. If you read it and think about it, it's about 00:00:49.180 --> 00:00:54.680 cultural change, it's about political change, it's about economic change, it's about governmental 00:00:54.680 --> 00:00:59.780 change, and it's about changes in our role in the world. All of those in 30 minutes, clear, 00:01:00.140 --> 00:01:02.500 decisive, and then what's amazing is... 00:01:03.120 --> 00:01:09.380 instantaneously. He began implementing it with hundreds of executive orders. He has in the last 00:01:09.380 --> 00:01:14.580 five days, I think, done almost as much as Franklin Roosevelt did in a hundred days. 00:01:15.180 --> 00:01:19.380 And I thought, in fact, I told him that if he does, it keeps us up for 10 days, he will have 00:01:19.380 --> 00:01:23.980 passed Franklin Roosevelt's hundred days. And then he shows no sign of slowing down. 00:01:24.340 --> 00:01:31.300 And if you saw him speaking to Davos by television, he laid it out for the business leaders of the 00:01:31.690 --> 00:01:37.390 You want to create jobs in America? You're gonna have low taxes. You want to create jobs overseas and try to sell in America? 00:01:37.750 --> 00:01:44.010 You're gonna have a tariff. I think that was probably a huge sobering shock to many of those business leaders 00:01:44.010 --> 00:01:45.330 and you've already seen 00:01:45.870 --> 00:01:53.330 several groups come together to commit $500 billion for artificial intelligence. The head of Saudi Arabia has pledged 00:01:53.330 --> 00:01:57.930 $600 billion in investments in the United States, and I think Trump has decided 00:01:58.670 --> 00:01:59.690 he's gonna be 00:02:00.140 --> 00:02:02.260 probably the most consequential president 00:02:02.900 --> 00:02:05.220 other than Washington and Lincoln 00:02:05.630 --> 00:02:07.000 that we've had in American history. 00:02:07.140 --> 00:02:09.720 And he's certainly working at it pretty hard the first week. 00:02:12.140 --> 00:02:14.460 Mr. Speaker, I agree with all of that. 00:02:14.820 --> 00:02:18.560 I want to get your take on the lack of something. 00:02:19.380 --> 00:02:20.740 I expected more resistance. 00:02:21.460 --> 00:02:23.220 President Donald Trump signed an executive order 00:02:24.060 --> 00:02:25.680 challenging birthright citizenship. 00:02:26.160 --> 00:02:30.720 If he would have done that back in 2017, he would have been met with 500,000 protesters 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:32.800 in Washington the next day. 00:02:33.260 --> 00:02:36.580 President Donald Trump freed the January 6 prisoners, all of them. 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:40.260 And all we got were a bunch of winers on cable TV. 00:02:40.980 --> 00:02:42.480 Where is the rank and file? 00:02:42.660 --> 00:02:46.140 Where is the infantry resistance of the American left? 00:02:46.760 --> 00:02:49.540 Are they in hibernation or have they been eliminated? 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:56.680 Couple things. First of all, his nine-year project to get back here 00:02:57.440 --> 00:03:02.840 Is unlike anything in American history. They did everything they could to stop him 00:03:03.320 --> 00:03:09.300 and he's here. And maybe the most iconic moment was when he was shot and stood up with his 00:03:09.300 --> 00:03:14.660 fist up in the air yelling fight, fight, fight. I think it took something out of his opponents 00:03:15.100 --> 00:03:19.480 to realize that you're dealing here not with a normal politician, you're dealing with a 00:03:19.480 --> 00:03:25.220 citizen who has become a juggernaut of history. Second, the fact that he won by more than two 00:03:25.220 --> 00:03:30.880 million votes and that he carried every single swing state, all seven of them, I think demoralized 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:38.540 Here they they had thrown everything they could at him and here he is standing triumphant and then they're watching 00:03:38.540 --> 00:03:41.160 You know to go back to to general Thompson's phrase 00:03:42.460 --> 00:03:47.960 They're watching shock and awe. I mean he's hitting them from so many different angles every day 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:51.880 They're getting 20 or 30 things to be outraged about daily 00:03:51.880 --> 00:03:59.020 And I think they're just mystified and I think the elite media knows that they're in deep trouble. They're declining economically 00:03:59.020 --> 00:04:00.640 They're getting people laid off 00:04:01.100 --> 00:04:08.060 Frankly, programs like yours or like Joe Rogan or like Fox News, all of these have become 00:04:08.060 --> 00:04:11.840 dramatically more important than the traditional elite media. 00:04:12.260 --> 00:04:16.860 And the result is that their revenue is going down, their employment is going down. 00:04:17.300 --> 00:04:22.920 You look at the layoffs at places like the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times. 00:04:23.900 --> 00:04:25.220 This is a different world. 00:04:30.020 --> 00:04:35.360 All we got so far is a ticket to the dance. We haven't realigned America. 00:04:35.880 --> 00:04:41.200 We haven't won massive majorities like Franklin Roosevelt and so we've got to 00:04:41.200 --> 00:04:45.980 perform. We've got to do well enough to keep the house in 26. We've got to do 00:04:45.980 --> 00:04:50.720 well enough to elect another Republican president in 28. And until we've done 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:51.120 that 00:04:51.640 --> 00:04:58.220 I think we're still in a gray zone where Trump's personality is carrying us, but we haven't 00:04:58.220 --> 00:05:04.740 yet quite solidified the country as a new, MAGA-oriented, traditional American country, 00:05:05.020 --> 00:05:06.500 which is where Trump is taking us. 00:05:08.750 --> 00:05:15.750 I think that is extremely wise, and President Trump does have a Washington-like quality 00:05:15.750 --> 00:05:17.450 where Washington was larger than life. 00:05:17.590 --> 00:05:21.970 He would march straight into battle, as you well know, be shot at, and even shot. 00:05:22.430 --> 00:05:28.310 And there was almost an aura around him that made him largely culturally and politically 00:05:28.310 --> 00:05:29.010 invincible. 00:05:29.740 --> 00:05:35.360 You said something though that historians would scoff at in prior years and now they're maybe 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:43.880 reconsidering. You said he is attempting or on pace to be on in the same sentence as Washington 00:05:43.880 --> 00:05:45.860 and Lincoln. Please make that case. 00:05:46.570 --> 00:05:52.450 Well, I think Washington Lincoln will always be preeminent Washington and essentially created the country 00:05:53.156 --> 00:05:57.430 Lincoln held the country together through a four-year civil war. So they're in a little different class 00:05:57.430 --> 00:06:03.070 But if you go one layer below to Jefferson Andrew Jackson theater Roosevelt Franklin Roosevelt 00:06:03.630 --> 00:06:09.130 I have no doubt that Trump is going to end up if he continues at this pace for four years 00:06:09.130 --> 00:06:15.550 and keeps the house and Alexa successor. I have no doubt he will end up in a zone just below 00:06:15.550 --> 00:06:20.610 Washington and Lincoln and above people we've historically thought of as great presidents. 00:06:20.910 --> 00:06:26.930 And I think that if you watch his authenticity, I watched him last night on on on Hannity and 00:06:30.490 --> 00:06:36.010 he's so relaxed, he's so much comfortable with himself, that I think this is a very important 00:06:36.010 --> 00:06:41.730 moment. You know, Kliss and I made two movies, one about John Paul II, called Nine Days That 00:06:41.730 --> 00:06:46.490 Changed the World, where he went back to Poland, and the other movie about Reagan, called Runny 00:06:46.490 --> 00:06:52.170 Blue Destiny. And Reagan and John Paul II meet for the first time, and they've both been shot. 00:06:53.050 --> 00:06:56.490 And part of their conversation is, why did God spare us? 00:06:56.960 --> 00:07:00.520 and they concluded that God had spared them from the assassins 00:07:00.520 --> 00:07:04.540 so they could defeat the Soviet Empire, and they agreed on an alliance 00:07:04.540 --> 00:07:08.740 which worked to defeat the Soviet Empire. I think President Trump 00:07:08.740 --> 00:07:12.020 thought very deeply. I know Speaker Mike Johnson said 00:07:12.020 --> 00:07:15.200 after the second assassin was captured 00:07:15.200 --> 00:07:18.520 Trump realized how really deep a problem threat this was 00:07:18.520 --> 00:07:22.440 and he and Trump went off to a room and prayed for two hours 00:07:23.070 --> 00:07:29.670 Now I think you're seeing a man who has been profoundly shaped by realizing that God saved him 00:07:29.670 --> 00:07:36.170 and that therefore he owes a different quality of duty than he would have thought a year ago, 00:07:36.330 --> 00:07:43.210 and I've known Trump a long time. This is a more sober, more serious, more considerate person 00:07:43.210 --> 00:07:46.030 than he was before these assassination attempts. 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:56.020 think that's exactly right and he looks as if he has a centeredness that I don't 00:07:56.020 --> 00:07:59.640 want to say it was lacking in the first term but it is deepened and strengthened 00:07:59.640 --> 00:08:06.220 he feels present ready in total command and control of every room that he comes 00:08:06.220 --> 00:08:10.100 into there's almost nothing that can surprise you once you've been shot 00:08:10.100 --> 00:08:11.800 literally at that point 00:08:12.200 --> 00:08:14.640 what bad news article are they gonna write about you? 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:16.360 He's faced 700 years in federal prison. 00:08:16.440 --> 00:08:18.520 They tried to take his business empire away from him. 00:08:19.140 --> 00:08:22.540 And that word duty has been lost 00:08:22.540 --> 00:08:26.740 in American political virtue for quite some time. 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:30.600 And the media deep down almost knows 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:34.840 that not only they've lost, but he kind of won 00:08:35.260 --> 00:08:37.880 in such a way that no matter how much they complain, 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.400 they can't possibly stop him at this point.