PBD Podcast
Insurrection Act, Trump's Nobel Peace Prize, Clintons Subpoena + Sinema Scandal w/ Ann Coulter | PBD Podcast | Ep. 719
16 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm supposed to take sweet victory. I know this life meant for me. Adam, what's your point?
The future looks bright.
A handshake is better than anything I ever saw. It's right here.
You are a one-on-one? My son's right there. I don't think I've ever said this before. All right, we got a special friend in the house, Ann Coulter. Great to have you back on. Good to be here. Yes, great to have you back on. Thank you. This is the interim set. We're rebuilding the other set. So next time we'll take you to the other set that we're building.
And Tom, for 20 years, still doesn't know how to turn off his phone. Get his phone away from his... Rob, can you do me a favor? No, no, do me this favor. Rob, please grab Tom's phone because he just watches the live the entire time, gets distracted. Can you please come and grab Tom's phone? Do me a favor and do that.
I do this at dinner.
Because it always makes noise. Grab it from him and set him aside.
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Chapter 2: What themes emerge as Ann Coulter joins the discussion?
Go ahead and grab it from him and set it aside. Thank you.
All right. Finally, we did this. Can I defend Tom for a second?
Because what did I do 30 seconds before the show? He said, hey, make sure your phone's off.
So he doesn't even listen. No, no. Remember, Tom has a rule of three. Here's Tom's rule of three.
First time you say Tom, he's still here. Second time you say Tom in his brain, he goes, Tom. By the third time you say Tom, he hears it. It's just a rule of threes.
By that point, the phone's already rang seven times. You know what that's called?
That's called when you are maniacally focused, you hear no noise.
Signal, noise. Make some noise for Tom for being focused on signal.
You know, it's also the myth of the married man, where after ten years of marriage, it's always, I'm sorry, I didn't hear you until the third time you called. Great defense mechanism. All right. Well, I'm sure Kim appreciates that. Guys, while this is going on, there's apparently this story about a lady
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Chapter 3: How do the hosts react to Trump's Nobel Peace Prize?
Tom, your thoughts on this? Well, you and I lived in Los Angeles at a time in 1992, which was also a time that the Insurrection Act was under the riots, Rodney King. And the city was being torn apart. The police were overwhelmed. And when the police are overwhelmed, that's when the National Guard comes in.
This is when, look, a hurricane or an earthquake happens and our governors say, hey, we have a disaster area. I need you to declare me a disaster area so that I can get federal funds. And by the way, can you please send relief people, troops, supplies, whatever it is? And so we'll ignore the failure of Hurricane Katrina.
But in Los Angeles, we had Korean shopkeepers that were on top trying to protect their own buildings. And it was invoked at that time appropriately. This is exactly when it should be invoked.
And it's interesting that everybody's clinging to the word insurrection in the media because that was a word they clung to on January 6th because they had to make it an insurrection because an insurrection is the operative term that was in the Constitution that they wanted to pin on. Oh, you've created an insurrection on Trump.
So when you look at this, I think not only is this appropriate, it is not appropriate. It's urgent. It's obligatory. It's not should Trump do it. It's why is he waiting for any opinion to say this is out of control here and I have to protect the people of the state because it's. The union. It's one of the states of the union. So I got to step in here. I think he's late.
This should have happened the day after the incident happened with Be Good, whatever, Rene Good with the pin wearing out. But can we just take a step back? Martyr du jour. Yeah, exactly. We're watching a state. Look at the timeline. A state that was just exposed for one of, if not the biggest fraud scandals in the history of the United States.
Scott Besson came out and said 10% of our money is going to fraud. $600 billion a year. And is it just a coincidence that all this stuff is happening here that they've They've energized these people. By the way, this isn't happening organically. You think these people with all the same signs, all the same movement.
Cash Patel came out yesterday and said, if you think this is just organic, you're insane. And they're going to go after all of them. He said $600 billion? $600 billion. $600 billion a year. This is it right here. Investigations. And these men and women, they are cool cats. They... They can take apart a balance sheet, and they can knock down a door and arrest someone. They go out on patrols.
They can make arrests. It's this very interesting hybrid force, about 2,500 of them, and they led the charge here. So it was IRS CIs who uncovered the initial fraud and the prosecutions. It's with that group, with other groups at IRS, and with the powers of the Treasury to track where the money came from, where it's going. We saw this very unsettling news yesterday that many
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the Insurrection Act in current events?
Then we have to stop the World Cup. Then we have to stop the games. And then who's going to be looking at the same thing? Oh, you know what? All that stuff you were doing on the streets, why didn't you do more of it? Trump should have cleaned house better.
You should have been more proactive.
Oh, now you're saying that? And the problem, I was in the insurance space for 25 years. When you sell life insurance, the average person you talk to with life insurance and you say, like I remember when I told my dad, I'm getting to the insurance space. He says, how does this work? I said, you pay $100 every month. But if you die, the insurance company will give you $250,000.
He says, you believe this America company pay you $250,000? So I pay $100 three months. That's $300. A company called AIG is going to pay me $250,000? You're crazy if you believe it, right? Of course. The average person. But the reality of it is, you know how many times we had a client that paid a couple premiums and they were dealing with $500,000 policy? So many times. Yes. So many times.
You don't buy insurance because you're going to die tomorrow. You buy in case. We have to be very proactive with this. I'm glad he's doing it, but I also get you can fall for the emotional videos and sit there and say, what an evil thing that we're doing. We don't have to do this.
I get that. To expand on your point,
Yes, the media is very powerful, and yes, a lot of people are, I think, falling for this. On the other hand, I don't quite believe the polls. I mean, the original polls from the New York Times and places like that were that the vast majority of Americans wanted Trump to deport all illegal aliens.
New York Times published this like six months... It was 60-plus percent of you, if I remember correctly. All, criminal or not. And as with life insurance, somebody dying... There are a lot of Molly Tibbetts out there. There are a lot of families who have been not only had children or relatives murdered or killed in drunk driving accidents, but victims of 9-11. That was an immigration problem.
Whose neighborhoods have been overtaken. Whose pets are being eaten or whatever. They're eating the dogs. And it goes out in concentric circles. It doesn't have to be you whose child who died.
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Chapter 5: What questions are raised about Trump's potential coalition building?
What set of questions you're asking? Are these guys walking out calling Trump saying, I think he's the guy, let's roll, he's going to get it done, you need to meet with him? That didn't happen. Why not? Because if you would have met with him, what would you have told me, Tom, if you were impressed with a candidate? Say you work for President Trump. Say you met with Reza Pahlavi.
Say you were blown away.
Chapter 6: How does the panel view the role of military support in political leadership?
Say your name is Witkoff. What advice would you give me if I'm Trump? I think we can support this guy because he can pull the coalition together and he's got the support of the military. He'll need some of our intervention, some of our support, but I think his arms are long enough to pull the coalition together. If you believed in him, how quickly would you say I should meet with him?
Mr. President, I think we should meet with him immediately now that he's met with all of us and we've got our stuff in order. I think we need to make the plan. Does that sound logical? Yes. And it didn't happen. So why it didn't happen? By the way, I'll change the names and listen to this.
Chapter 7: What insights are shared about the implications of the Insurrection Act?
You know who General Ver is? V-E-R. Very famous man in history. General Vare was the evil general henchman for Ferdinand Marcos. And General Vare pledged that he would support Marcos. So that's when the CIA said, OK, Marcos is our guy. Because for 20 years, General Vare supported Marcos in the Philippines.
And that's what kept the peace in the Philippines.
And the only reason that we selected Ferdinand Marcos, the CIA, was because he had the support of General Vare. So this has happened before in history where the—
Chapter 8: What concerns are expressed about the accountability of political leaders?
For the U.S., make sure that that leader can carry the coalition. And that's exactly what we have here, and he can't. Final thoughts.
I just want to thank you for your breakdown because it helped me come to this conclusion. Reza Pahlavi is the opposite of Donald Trump. Let me explain.
You talk about being battle-tested. We have one woman on this panel today who predicted in 2015 Donald Trump would be the President of the United States. But she did that when it was inconvenient and he was 1% chance. But what did Trump do? Get up on that stage and debate how many people?
Everybody.
20 different people? Boom, Jeb Bush. Boom, Marco Rubio. Boom, boom, Scott Walker. Bing, bing, bing. And he won it. Because in America, you know, we've been so focused on DEI, we still don't forget this is still a meritocracy. And Trump showed up and said, I'm that dude. And he took out Hillary Clinton.
The final point is here, just because your father was great doesn't mean that you're going to be great. Is Michael Jordan's son in the NBA? No. Is Magic Johnson's son in the NBA? No, he's wearing a dress somewhere. Okay? Did Bill Clinton's wife become president? No. Is Barack Obama's wife president? Wife becoming president? No. So there's a meritocracy is what America's founded on.
This monarchy, Iran, if that's what you're looking for, but America, that's not what we believe in. Yeah. If you have any thoughts, I'll give it to you. If not, we'll go to the next story. Let's go to the next story. She's dying to talk more about hero. All right, sounds good. Fair enough. All right, let's go to the next story.
So this story I want to get to is cartoonist Dilbert's final message before his death to his ex-wife, by the way. Have you guys seen this? To his ex-wife. And by the way, while this happened,
okay should i show what journalist victoria edel says or should i say that afterwards let's play the clip first rob play the clip of what the ex-wife is saying with a letter that he wrote rob if you got it pull it up very emotional i i had to retweet it i got this from um danny canal send it to me uh danny canal send it to me shout out to danny watch this clip here go for it everyone
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