Brian Harrison

That's what they voted for last November.

And I'm really thrilled that, you know, one of the silver linings of the Democrats total, I would say it's incompetence, but it's like willful malice, what they're doing with this Democrat-led Schumer shutdown.

I think one of the silver linings is my friend and former colleague and yours, Russ Vogt, getting to finally do some of the things that I think, quite frankly, Russ has been preparing for many, many years to get to do.

Because one of the things I think the American people now understand is,

is that the president is supposed to be the head of the executive branch.

Yes.

But he's constantly undermined by the hundreds of thousands of woke leftist Marxist progressives that in theory work for the president, but are in fact actually undermining everything President Trump is trying to do.

No, and I was in those fights with President Trump in the first term.

It's not just the career bureaucrats that make up the vast majority of the massive federal workforce.

But the president gets to politically appoint 1,000-plus people to come in and serve with him and make sure his agenda is carried out at all the different agencies.

But even keeping the people that are appointed by the president, they're explicitly at the appointment of the White House.

During the first term, I can tell you there were a lot of D.C.

swamp creatures that made their way into presidency.

President Trump's first administration, and it was even the political appointees that were undermining him.

But to your bigger point, Steve, if you work in the executive branch, if you're a bureaucrat somewhere, your ultimate boss, if you care about that pesky little thing called the Constitution, is the President of the United States, and the President is Donald J. Trump.

And if you're a bureaucrat in the executive branch, you're there to carry out his agenda.

I mean, that was a big that was one of the articles was part of the articles of impeachment.

One of the things that led to his resignation.

So if he sends that list over, I think there's a really good chance they actually do prosecute.

And we see this play out exactly the way we stopped it from playing out in the 1970s.