Trump transition continues...

Inside the Trump transition…

Trump’s first White House Chief of Staff and my old boss, Reince Preibus joined me to discuss the inside workings of the Trump transition.

TONIGHT Alex Clark joins us at 6 pm…

We discuss the MAHA movement, how it helped get Trump elected, and how he’s going to execute it to Make America Healthy Again.

Next week we will be covering more of the transition with some great guests - don’t miss a show.

Don’t forget to tune into The Morning Meeting, every morning at 9 am…

We run through the day the same way every major new publication does, give you the overview of what will be driving the day and then we open it up to you the viewer for questions and comments.

Stories I’m Reading…

The DOGE Plan to Reform Government — Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, via Wall Street Journal

Comcast once regarded its cable group — with channels like USA, MSNBC, E! and Oxygen — as a crown jewel. Now it’s spinning off nearly all of them into a $7 billion venture. — via Wall Street Journal

For Minority Working-Class Voters, Dismay in Democrats Led to Distrust — via New York Times

Trump’s Signature Dance Moves Finds Its Way to the Sports World — via New York Times

Influencers Who Often Post About News, and Who Sees Their Content — via Pew Research

Behind the scenes of the transition

In 2016 President Trump met with many of the nominees at his Bedminister Club where he posed for pictures as they came in and out. This time around he is not as public chasing to issue statements on his Truth Social platform. I was looking through some of the never before scene photos from 2016 and thought I’d share some (I also have some on my instagram follow here).

A few more are behind the paywall below!

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Trump isn’t doing ANY MORE rallies…

But over the past few years, a production team and I went inside the rallies and talked to the group of people who went to ALL of the rallies: The Front Row Joes.

Check out the doc this weekend:

Let’s talk about the nominee’s “qualifications”

Much has been made of the “qualifications” of some of the Trump nominations.  I question though whether it is really about qualifications or rather personality and their commitment to shake up the establishment that so many in the Washington establishment depend on.

Many folks on Capitol Hill were surprised by President Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense and openly questioned whether he could be confirmed.  Let’s look at Pete’s background - Princeton graduate, leader of the veterans group Concerned Veterans for America, Army officer with deployments at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Iraq and Afghanistan and the recipient of two Bronzer Stars.   Sounds pretty qualified to me.

All of this got me thinking about the “qualifications” of Biden cabinet.  I wrote an entire chapter on the Biden cabinet in my book Radical Nation. Lets take a look at a few.

Denis McDonough is the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.  He never served in the military.  He has never been part of a Veterans Service Organization.  He has no background in the two largest functions of the VA - securing loans and health care.  Hmmm…..what exactly are his qualifications?  Oh yeah, he was Obama’s chief of staff.  Qualified?