given all of this, why did you associate with miss loomer? >> senator, as you can see, i took a photograph with an individual who showed up at a book event. i don't believe i'm guilty by association, and i certainly don't believe that an individual who is the first minority to serve as a deputy director of national intelligence for this country. >> is a. >> racist in any way, and i detest any conjecture to the contrary. >> are you familiar with the stu peters? does that name ring a bell? >> i'm sorry. what? >> are you familiar with mr. stu peters? >> not off the top of my head. >> you made eight separate appearances on his podcast. he promoted outrageous conspiracy theories and worked with a prominent neo-nazi. there are more ted nugent that goes on. list goes on. i'm just asking when it comes to your association with individuals, why are so many of them in this category? >> my association, as you loosely define it, is by appearing in media over a thousand times to take on people who are putting on conspiracy theories and to devour them of th

about the nature of his relationship with frequent travel companion, a q-caliber loon named laura loomer wants to make it very clear, that she is not a concubine to donald trump! >> as kamala harris likes to say, they ain't like us. right? she ain't like me. i ain't like her. i don't suck [ bleep ] to get to the top. that's what kamala harris does. >> jimmy: i guess those are the traditional conservative family values we hear about so mitch. [ laughter ] crazy as this laura loomer is, trump and j.d. vance, they are staying on top of nutjob mountain with this nonsense about haitians in ohio eating pets. they have now repeated this lie so much, a lot of their supporters think it's true. they did a poll. yougov found that more than half trump voters believe the pet-eating story is definitely or probably true. [ laughter ] which makes me wonder about the other half. [ laughter ] the half of trump voters who don't believe it. they're still voting for him? how can that be? i will tell you with certainty that if kamala harris told me mexicans were eating condominium chimpanzees, she would not g

and, you know, laura loomer, a far—right figure here who has obviously in the past been very controversialn he and vivek ramaswamy, remember, the two of them are heading up the new department of government efficiency, talked about the need for h—ib visas here in the us. so bringing in kind of the top—talent engineers and that clashes with some of the america first anti—immigration rhetoric that we're seeing from the maga world. so, you know, his position is going to be fascinating to watch. but it brings me, i think, to the point that i've been looking at this week, which is the new congress coming in the 119th congress. of course, you know, it's going to be very interesting to watch. and i've been thinking about what a challenge it will be about, will be, not only for, you know, the gop, also for the democrats. you know, courtney, we talked a bit about the infighting in the last pod and that we're seeing there over the post—mortem and what happened in the election. but there are already real questions about whether speaker mikejohnson can be re—elected, and donald trump, the president ele

giving all this, why did you associate with miss loomer? >> senator, as you can see, i took a photograph with an individual who at showed up at a book event. i don't believe i'm guilty by association, and i certainly don't believe that an individual who is the first minority to serve as the deputy director of national intelligence for this country, is a racist in any way, and i detest any conjecture to the contrary. >> are you familiar with a stu peters? does that name ring a bell? >> i'm sorry. what? >> are you familiar with mr. stu peters? >> not off my head. >> you made eight separate appearances on his podcast. he promoted outrageous conspiracy theories and worked with a prominent neo-nazi. there are more ted nugent. it goes on. list goes on. i'm just asking when it comes to your association with individuals, why are so many of them in this category? >> my association, as you loosely define it, is by appearing in media over a thousand times to take on people who are putting on conspiracy theories and to devour them of their false impres

and you've seen the wars already erupting between elon musk and laura loomer and other fox conservativesill be able to get anything done on immigration that is about reforming the system to make it work. that's what democrats are going to be ready to do. we will have real policies that show people what it looks like when we have a functioning immigration system. what could you do with those policies, however, in the minority in congress and with donald trump in the white house again? you never know when we can get enough republicans on farm workers, on dreamers. these are things that have been traditionally bipartisan, and if we have the opportunity to work on those things together, we certainly will. and i think we'll look for every opportunity to do that. a judge in new york set january 10 as the date for donald trump to be sentenced following his conviction on charges of paying hush money to an adult film star. it's a little over a week before mr trump is due to return to the white house as president. his lawyers had filed a motion for dismissal, arguing that having the case hang over

musk has gotten ire from bannon and laura loomer for his support of h-1b visas.n after donald trump took musk's side in the feud, bannon had this to say. >> don't come up and go to the pulpit and your first week here and start lecturing people about the way things are going to be. if you do that, we are going to get and rip your face off. because you can't beat us. >> you can't beat us. don't get fly up here. then there is the drama in the house. house speaker johnson barely managed to win re-election with one republican defecting congressman thomas massie and already johnson has the far right house freedom caucus breathing down his neck. they wrote that he has to prove he will not fail to enact president trump's bold agenda. johnson already has a slim house majority to deal with. if he didn't please the hard right liners like, well, we know how that resulted for kevin mccarthy. and so here we are. once again with one party in full control of government, or at least about to be. it's just that if only they knew how to actually govern and get along themselves at t

in september of 2023 you appeared with laura loomer an event promoting your book. this one here. shared a photo of yourself and her in which you held her book and she held yours. a few months before this event she posted on texts that the september 11th were an inside job. around that time she accused florida's first lady casey desantis of exaggerating her cancer diagnosis to gain voter sympathy and others have criticized her extremism and described her as a crazy conspiracy theorist who regularly utters disgusting garbage. another called her really toxic. giving all this why did you associate with her? >> senator, as you can see i took a photograph with an individual who at showed up at a book event. i don't believe i'm guilty by association and i certainly don't believe that an individual who is the the first minority to serve as the deputy director of national -- is a racist and detest any conjecture to the contrary. >> are you familiar with a stu peters, does that name ring a bell? >> i'm sorry? >> are you familiar with mr. stu peters? >> not off the top of my head. >> you ma

first woman chief of staff, she's the adult in the room this is the adult that couldn't keep laura loomer, a 911 truther on the plane on 911. this is not an adult. this is a, you know, facilitator. this is an enabler. so there are no grown ups there. this is, you know, not you know, so nobody can pretend to do this. this is just all a shakedown of everybody. and. exactly the middle finger, another one, the pit. hegseth the weekend anchor of fox has been nominated, couldn't even get a weekday and yeah, and he he had a video already that i, i sent to a senator who's interested in certainly defense issues. and it said he said one time on tv, we should just clear d.o.d. out by just asking, you know what are the some something to the effect of what are the last numbers in your social security number? and if it's like even numbers or say it was something to this effect of it's three, five and seven, you're gone like just basically go through and clear out. everybody. so this guy, you know, who's been a fox weekend anchor and who has made all kinds of outrageous statements, and i saw somebody wh

right- wing twitter trolls quickly turned on him, spurred on by the likes of benin as well as laura loomer, the fringe far right activist who spent much of the fall cozying up to trump before his campaign stepped in and pushed her aside. >> this is not a civil war because they're not tough enough. they're just not. >> i don't think that it's acceptable for george soros, elon musk, or peter thiel. it doesn't matter what side of the political aisle a billionaire is on. i don't think that it's acceptable for billionaires to have this much power and this much access. >> on the policy decision here, and there is a real one, trump actually took musk's side, coming out in support of h1 b visas in comments in the new york post., quote, i have many h1 b visas on my properties. i've been a believer in h1 b. i've used it many times, it's a great program. now i have to say i think trump might be confused here. i don't think he's probably ever hired a ton of software engineers off h1 b and the new york times reports trump has been a frequent and longtime loser of the similarly named but starkly differe

you know, laura loomer. >> for example, who, again, is like, you know, another person. >> in the. >>onetize on x, right? >> because she criticized. >> elon musk. >> over these. h-1b visa fights. so that's. >> the thing is that that's where the power and ultimately where the major influence is going. >> to be. >> it's the money and then the system on top of it. so there's going to be a lot of bloodletting and some fighting and some claws that come out. but i think there's a bigger thing here to keep in mind, and this is a little bit of a bright spot for the next few. >> months because. >> it's, you know, a lot of this is about the projection of power. and we just have to be mindful every day not to give trump and what he represents and project 2025 more power than it actually has. you know, and i think, mark, what you said before is right. they've been defanged. the republicans have. so they're not going to be a check. but i think to me, the. big takeaway is that. >> it does. >> show the bannon musk thing that there's a very tenuous coalition there. they're not the only two factions t