Brand spankin new polling from CBS news indicates that the majority of the American electorate does, in fact, like the way Donald Trump is handling his transition into the white House. But there might be trouble brewing behind the scenes, which we're going to give [00:00:16] you the details of in just a minute. But first, let's dive into this polling. So this new CBS poll from the weekend found that 59% of Americans approve of Trump's moves in the weeks following his election victory, while 41% disapprove. [00:00:32] Now, that was an interesting outcome of the poll. Like they're looking at his various appointments, they're seeing the way that he is handling the fact that he won the election and what he claims he's going to do in his next administration. And overall, nearly 60% of Americans like what they see. [00:00:47] However, this polling was taken from November 19th to the 22nd. So it's a snapshot of how the American electorate was feeling. You know, a little temperature check on them and remember that Matt Gaetz, who was Donald Trump's original attorney general pick, decided to withdraw [00:01:05] from consideration on November 21st. So, again, the people who were questioned or who took part in this survey were questioned between November 19th and the 22nd. Now, public opinion seems to differ a little bit when it came [00:01:21] to specific appointments by Donald Trump. So I want to give you some of those results, for instance, when it comes to some of the controversial picks. Let's start with Robert F Kennedy Jr. For HHS secretary, HHS secretary, 47%. Still, the majority feel that it was a good choice by Trump. 41%, though, [00:01:41] feel not a good choice. When you look at Marco Rubio. And I thought this was super fascinating, considering the fact that you have the, you know, America First crowd who do not favor the neoconservatives like Marco Rubio, you can see that kind of reflected in the results in the poll here because 44% say [00:02:02] good choice, 25% say not a good choice. So still, the majority favor Marco Rubio or at least say acceptable, but a lower percentage than you see for RFK Jr. And then finally, let's go to Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense. 33% say good choice, [00:02:22] 28% not a good choice. 39% of them say that they haven't heard enough about him to form any opinion at all, which I think is interesting. But that's where Americans currently stand on how this transition is going. What do you think, Jake? Okay, so I think that a lot of people in the establishment [00:02:40] are would be surprised by this poll and are surprised by this poll. Why? Because they've been saying, oh my God, Matt Gates disaster. You know, Hegseth disaster, this disaster, that disaster. Oh my God, RFK Jr biggest disaster there is. And so I'm sure that the American people, once they realize who Trump is nominating, [00:02:59] are finally going to hate him like we all do. Well, turns out, sorry. No, that's not how it's going. 59. 41. Right. So. And they saw all that. And as Anna pointed out, for half the people that answered this poll, gates hadn't even withdrawn yet. Right. [00:03:14] So, okay, so first of all, that should reassemble your mind in terms of what the American people actually think, as opposed to what the people on TV tell you that they think. Right. So. And whether you like it or you don't, by the way, that you just got [00:03:29] to be realistic about the facts. Now, number two, along those lines, just to be clear, and this is not being clarified in other places too. For the people saying, oh, well, that's it. The American people love Trump. And all of his appointees know usually what the American people do. And it's a kind of a wonderful grace that we have when a new president comes in. [00:03:48] Their poll numbers move up and everything about them moves up, because that's the American people going, give him a chance, okay. And Barack Obama, after his inauguration was at a stunning 83% approval rating. So that was the American people, including tons of people who voted against him. [00:04:04] Tons of people who are now MAGA who said, give the brother a chance. Okay. So that's part of what the American voters are doing now when in answering polls like this. Okay. But when you dive into the specifics, I think there's a second layer of interesting material here. So how unpopular Hegseth is, I find to be super encouraging, because I [00:04:22] think Hegseth is one of the worst picks. And a guy who talks about domestic enemies and the left is the enemies within, and we're going to get to it a little bit later in the show. But he even says that maybe we should use Israel to attack enemies within. So that's insanity. And so I'm surprised that many people know how out of control Hegseth is. [00:04:43] I doubt it. I think that they just see him as a Fox News host and maybe see that as too extreme or too biased. And so that's interesting so far that he's the worst polling candidate. But thank you America. You're exactly right. Okay. Now, when you get to the other two, that's okay. Marco Rubio I'm not surprised by at all. [00:04:59] He's a generic Republican senator that's gotten usually nothing but praise from corporate media. So you I would expect 4425 there, but they really know almost nothing about the specifics of Rubio. And by the way, he's a neocon establishment guy that actually even MAGA guys would hate. [00:05:16] The left hates. He's not a popular guy at all, but the media has hyped him up so much. I'm not at all surprised by these numbers. Now, finally, the most surprising of all the numbers. Whoa. Look at how well RFK Jr. Polls, right. And again there. I'm surprised by that. I'm not surprised by Rubio. [00:05:33] I'm a little surprised by Hegseth. Not surprised by the Trump numbers, but RFK Jr. Given this like the nuclear blast of he's going to kill us all with the vaccines and the fluoride and all of that for it to still come out as 47, 41 in favor given like that brother has taken several hundred million [00:05:53] dollars in negative media, maybe up to a billion in negative media. And he's still standing at 4741. Okay. Got to tip your hat to that whether you like it or you don't. For me, what this reflects is how much the American electorate has been wanting [00:06:09] change and wanting to be open minded in regard to Non-establishment players serving in these cabinet positions. But it's clear to me that they also have their limits. So once you get to Hegseth, which is not a traditional pick for Defense secretary by [00:06:26] any means, it appears that the electorate feels that Hegseth is a bridge too far. So we'll see how it plays out. But one thing that's also been clear to me, based on these various Trump appointees, is that he is really picking people. [00:06:41] Yes, based on, you know, the transactional nature that we see from Trump. So if you've done me a favor, I'm going to reward you with a cabinet pick or listen to you if you have suggestions for cabinet positions. But the other thing about Trump is he tends to, you know, listen to. [00:06:57] His supporters, which is a good thing. And he has people across the ideological spectrum. If everybody who's currently been appointed by Trump gets confirmed, I mean his cabinet. Would be pretty diverse in terms of their thought, right? [00:07:14] Diversity of thought, as opposed to oftentimes what we see from Democratic administrations, which is, you know, we have diversity in terms of race or, you know, identity with Trump. I mean, you've got Tulsi Gabbard, you've got RFK Jr. You have a neocon like Marco Rubio. [00:07:30] You have a hedge fund guy who he tapped for his treasury secretary. We're going to cover that on the show in more detail in just a minute. So I'm curious to see how this all plays out, because there are ideological conflicts among these people, and I'm very curious to see if they could actually work together [00:07:47] for a successful Trump second term. Yeah. So the Democrats often do. Well, to be fair, not just Democrats. The establishment politicians in both camps do like a fake team of rivals. Like Obama famously said, I'm going to do a team of rivals [00:08:02] and put one Republican in the cabinet who was a corporate Republican who agreed with everything the corporate Democrats said. So team of rivals, my ass. I never saw them disagree about a single thing. And in fact, in the in previous administrations, whether it was Bush or Obama or Biden, if you ever disagreed with the principal on anything [00:08:19] or the establishment on anything, you would immediately be removed from office. Team of rivals was such a joke, total utter joke and mythology put out by corporate media going, oh my God, they're so wonderful considering other people from other parties. [00:08:35] Same with Bush when he would pick one Democrat who agreed completely with them, right? It was always fake. This is an actual team of rivals, and I don't know which way it's going to shake out. So you've got a whole block of neocon warmongers in there Rubio, Stefanik, Huckabee and in walls. Okay. [00:08:52] And then a couple of others in there. You got a bunch of corporate goons like the Treasury secretary. Siouxsie Wiles is a very competent chief of staff and not a mad man. So that's good. But she's super pro corporate pro donors, etc.. So you got the donor wing. [00:09:08] The corporate wing, then you've got, you know, the labor secretary is flat out pro labor, nearly progressive. Whoa. Tulsi is is non-ideological, whatever the hell she is. RFK Jr is an actual former Democrat, actual former environmental lawyer, [00:09:26] and again, does not fit in any of the pre, you know, set ideologies that people have. So we've got people all over the board here. And then you got Bondi and Hegseth who have other problems like corruption and blah blah blah, but they're loyalists and that's what they're mainly known for. [00:09:42] Kash Patel might go in and he's a loyalist to Trump. And what I mean by loyal is they're all loyalists. But I mean, like, they're very core of their existence. The reason why they are here is that their defining trait is being a loyalist to Trump and nothing else. [00:09:59] Exactly. So how is that going to work? I don't know. I don't think Trump knows. I don't think anybody knows. Is the establishment wing going to win? Is the populist wing going to win which portion of the populist wing? Because there's great things in there and there's terrible things in there, right. So, you know, last week there was a lengthy piece [00:10:16] written in the Washington Post. I even referenced it when we were covering a story, and the piece was mainly meant to warn the American people that Donald Trump and his incoming administration is poised to essentially gut the Labor Department. [00:10:31] But then over the weekend, you get this nomination nomination for a Labor secretary. She's a member of the Republican Party. She's in the House. She narrowly lost her reelection bid out of Oregon, but she's one of three Republicans who voted in favor of the pro act. [00:10:50] She has done other things. They're on her record in regard to being very pro-labor. Her father is a teamster. So yeah, she's a conservative in some ways, socially speaking, which is why she's in the Republican Party. But I don't care. I mean, what I care about is a pro-labor secretary serving as the labor secretary. [00:11:10] Like, you know what I mean? Like, I want that and that to me, that was a clear signal that Trump isn't looking to gut the Labor Department, as the Washington Post was, was warning about. But nonetheless, obviously, I'm I'm not naive, but I also want to say [00:11:28] I feel cautiously optimistic in some ways. That's so interesting. You said. Yeah, I'm about to read one of our member comments who said something similar, and then I want to explain why I think we feel that way. First, though, Jenks left tricep and Fury wrote in, [00:11:43] was the polling done at a Maga rally? No no no, that's. Guys, I want you to understand that this is a real poll, and so don't ignore things that seem wrong to you because of the bubble that you're in or we're in together. Right? When you see a poll like that, you shouldn't dismiss it. [00:11:59] You should go, I wonder what I'm missing, right? If that's what the generally speaking, roughly speaking, where the American people are coming out, I wonder why I'm not there. Are they wrong? Am I wrong? Open up your mind in terms of that analysis. So now to Anna's point. [00:12:15] Jesus, take the wheel said, is anyone else strangely optimistic? Lately, the democratic establishment has never been lower than it is right now, and I'm here for it. And I totally agree. So before I explain that real quick, if you want to be one of our members, do the show with us. Hit the join button below. [00:12:30] If you're on YouTube or if you go to tight.com/team today, you get 20% off of monthly membership, so check that out if you can. Okay, now why I read Jesus Take the Wheels comment and I was going to go to that comment. Anna, before you even use the word optimistic, [00:12:45] I'm now hearing that over and over again from people who are truly on the left and who are truly populist progressives. Okay, why do we feel that way? When Trump won and we didn't want Trump to win? Because for the first time in my life, I feel like the wheel has been broken. [00:13:03] Right. Even when Trump won the first time around, he didn't really break the wheel. He brought in almost purely establishment guys, and there was some good parts of that, because they sometimes were a check on him when he wanted to bomb, nuke hurricanes and stuff and, and want to do things that were [00:13:19] totally wild and out of control. But the establishment was still firmly in charge. And what did we mainly get? We mainly got corporate tax cuts. Right. And you still couldn't dissent. You couldn't dissent in the Democratic Party. And then the Republican Party was kind of a mess now. You could dissent everywhere. Okay. [00:13:36] It's not just that the Democratic establishment lost. Remember, Trump earlier broke the Republican establishment. They're still there. But he broke them in half, right? And so now wait a minute. The Republican establishment is in big trouble. [00:13:51] The Democratic establishment just got humiliated in this race. And yeah, for their die hards, they'll never let it go. Blue anon will be is now talking about how Kamala Harris should run again. Okay. But those folks are I mean I love you guys. You know, we probably vote the same way a lot. [00:14:08] But if you think Kamala Harris should run again, you're nearly hopeless in your political analysis. Okay, so so that group still exists, but the majority of Democratic voters, I feel, are like, oh, you're going to tell me to vote for Hillary or Biden or Kamala Harris next time and tell me that you know what you're doing and that Donald Trump is, oh, this [00:14:28] time we're going to beat the bad guys. If you just pick another robot that we anoint for you. And I feel like that's not going to fly, man. That's like they're going to try that. They're going to put billions of dollars of propaganda into it between now and the Democratic primary. But I feel liberated. [00:14:44] I don't like so before, if you ever criticize Democratic leadership, the media and everybody would come crashing on you like a ton of bricks. How dare you say. That about Nancy Pelosi or the beloved Joe Biden. Or the beloved Kamala Harris? Well, they're not so beloved anymore. [00:15:00] And so, you know, I said it despite the fact that they came down on us like a ton of bricks. And so did Anna. Right? But it took tremendous courage to to say that now anybody can say it. I know it is. You're right. I, I mean, I felt liberated almost immediately after the election results, [00:15:17] mostly because everything that we had been saying, a lot of the things that I had been warning about, especially like ended up being validated. Whereas prior to the election, everyone thought, oh, well, you're just, you know, a secret, right winger, you're a secret MAGA person. [00:15:32] That's the reason why you're saying these critical things about the Democratic Party. But no, the Democratic Party. What Trump was selling, you know, the bill of goods that he was selling during his campaign didn't appeal to me. But the problem was I would look at the Democratic Party and what they were selling, and that didn't appeal to me either. [00:15:49] In fact, they were engaging in a lot of toxic, you know, culture within the Democratic Party that I thought really needed to be rooted out if they were going to ever be clear eyed about what the electorate actually wanted and where the American people actually [00:16:05] stood on a lot of these different issues. I don't know if they're going to reform or change, but I do feel happy that now there are more and more, you know, hardcore Democratic loyalists, certainly in the media who are willing to like, look at the Democratic Party [00:16:21] with a more sober perspective and call a spade a spade. That's so necessary right now. Right. And finally, and we'll get to this later in the program, too. Now, for the first time in my life, I feel like the establishment media monopoly is broken. [00:16:37] So. And that might be the most important part of it all, because before, there was only one funnel through which you got information, and that funnel was 200% corporate. And so it told you the corporate Republicans and the corporate Democrats like Marco Rubio and Nancy Pelosi, etc., were gods, demigods. [00:16:54] Amazing, wonderful. And if you said anything in dissent, they crushed you. They never allowed you on television. They never allowed you in mainstream media, and they sent you to the hinterlands of of the online world. Well guess what? Now the hinterlands are in charge. So now they're in our jungle and they hate it. [00:17:12] And my God, they're like, Morning Joe. As we're about to show you a little later in the show. Oh, he's furious about it that the online media might be stronger than establishment media. And now they can't keep our messages out. We just put our message on online media and it goes like wildfire. [00:17:29] Right. And before they had it all bottled up so you couldn't rebel against the establishment. And now we're in open rebellion. And in that open rebellion, a lot of things are going to move around. But guys, that's a wonderful thing. It doesn't mean that yay, Trump won. [00:17:46] It doesn't mean yay! He's going to do amazing things. No, he could still do terrible things. And we need to brace for impact on that. And we need to be clear eyed about it and not naive. But it does mean we're in the jungle now. And they might hate that. And it's unsettles them. But this is our jungle, okay? [00:18:03] This is our playing field. And in our playing field, the populists are going to win. And I think that's why we feel liberated, and that's why we feel optimistic. Even if we were not in favor of Donald Trump winning the election. Thanks for watching The Young Turks really appreciate it. Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. [00:18:21] You'll get to interact with us more. There's live chat emojis, badges. You've got emojis of me Anna John Jr. So those are super fun. But you also get playback of our exclusive member only shows and specials right after they air. 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