Analyzing Trump’s Cabinet with Senator Mullin | 2.23.25
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How did Trump achieve rapid cabinet confirmations?
So far, President Trump is batting 1,000 on confirmations for his cabinet secretary nominees. Just this week, Kash Patel was confirmed as director of the FBI, while Labor Secretary Linda Chavez de Riemer seems to have secured the support of the Senate. This is the fastest pace since 2001.
In this episode, we sit down with Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen to discuss Trump's cabinet nominees, the Republicans' strategic approach to the confirmation process, and the significance of the GOP's big tent strategy. I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Sunday, February 23rd, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.
Who is Kash Patel and why was he chosen to lead the FBI?
Joining us to discuss the rapid fire series of confirmations and where the Trump cabinet and agenda stands now is Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. Senator, first of all, thank you so much for joining us. It's my honor. Thanks for having me on. So let's start with Kash Patel. You've been a strong advocate for Patel. Why do you believe we need somebody that's been called a quote unquote disruptor like him to lead the FBI?
You know, I wouldn't describe him as a disruptor. I would say he's someone that chases the facts and exposed the wrongs or the hypocrisy or the cover-ups that FBI was doing. He did this way before he was even being considered to be the director of FBI. He was a whistleblower before people were even looking into it. You take somebody like him who understands the intel system. system understands the mission of the fbi and has been concerned about them concerned enough back years ago that he was willing to expose it why would you want somebody like that because he's he's not there to destroy the fbi he's there to get them back on mission focus he's there to support the field agents and put them back on mission focus of protecting the american people not
taking directive orders from a Democrat party that's wanting to investigate students for showing up to school board meetings or classifying Catholics, and I'm not joking when I say this, as a possible terrorist because they disagreed with the Democrat agenda, especially at this time when it came to abortions. That was what that was all about. It's concerning that they had weaponized, the for political gain and political purposes. What Cash is going to do is put them back on mission focus. That means he's going to reform the seventh floor of the Hoover Building and take the politics out of it and put American people back in focus.
What role does GOP strategy play in Trump's cabinet success?
Thus far, all of President Trump's nominees have gotten through the confirmation process relatively smoothly. Is this simply due to GOP majorities, or do you believe that the Democrat opposition has been weakened by Trump's mandate?
I think you've got a little bit of both. I think the American people spoke very loud on November 5th when he won the popular vote and obviously electoral vote. I think the Democrat Party is trying to reorganize and find themselves and they can't. They keep reverting back to 2017 rhetoric. And I hope they stay there because they stay there. We're going to continue to win elections. But at the same time, what you've seen is a new leader in the Senate with the leader Thune. He is just 100% grinding the Democrats down. From the get go, he said we can do this the hard way or we can do this the easy way, it's up to you. And so once the president got confirmed and sworn into office on the 20th, what we did is we immediately started the clock on these nominees and these nominees haven't stopped. And what I mean by the clock Just explain to your listeners, after they get out of committee, which we already had people preset.
So first of all, Leader Thune directed the chairs of the committees to get started on the hearings early, even before Trump was sworn into office, which that normally doesn't take place. So he preset it. We came in on January 3rd. president wasn't going to get sworn until january 20th but we already started hearing so we could get them reported out of committee onto the floor for the hearing so starting on january 20th he started the clock on these nominees once they get reported out of committee it's called a 24-hour soak and then if they're a cabinet position meaning that a secretary is a 30-hour debate.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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How did Trump achieve rapid cabinet confirmations?
0:03–0:44
2
Who is Kash Patel and why was he chosen to lead the FBI?
0:44–2:37
3
What role does GOP strategy play in Trump's cabinet success?
2:37–5:28
4
How is Labor Secretary Lori Chavez de Riemer expected to influence labor relations?
5:28–6:29
5
What unique coalition has President Trump built?
6:29–13:48
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