Will you investigate her? Do you plan on investigating? We're talking about over $200 million. The whole. Blanket thing. Do you think there should be an investigation launched into Kristi Noem? I do. And now that I have more of this information, you know, I think that we [00:00:15] need to go back to a potential subpoena for her through the oversight committee. There was one failed on, I guess, a day or two ago, but I didn't have all the information I would have. Now that I know what I know now, I would have voted to subpoena her to get at that. I don't think she walks away from this and she shouldn't because as Republicans, [00:00:31] we need to hold our own accountable. Damn. Wow. That is a several shivs in the back of Kristi Noem on her way out. So could Republicans actually hold Kristi Noem accountable for all the things that she did at DHS? [00:00:48] That would be a shocking turn of events, but we might be headed there. Let's find out why. Jordan. Tell us. Well, as you saw in the cold open, Republican Representative Nancy Mace is threatening to investigate former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. That's because Noem allegedly spent over $200 million on an ad campaign [00:01:08] without the president's permission. The firm that ran the ad shoot is called strategy Group. It has deep ties to Noem's political apparatus, per ProPublica. Strategy Group played a central role in Noem's 2022 South Dakota [00:01:24] gubernatorial campaign. Corey Lewandowski, her top advisor at DHS, has worked extensively with the firm, and the company's CEO is married to Noem's chief spokesperson at DHS, Tricia McLaughlin. [00:01:39] DHS invoked the national emergency at the border as it awarded contracts for the campaign, bypassing the normal competitive bidding process designed to prevent waste and corruption. Furthermore, DHS seemingly tried to keep Strategy Group's involvement a secret. [00:01:57] No one was questioned about the campaign earlier this week. Here's what happened when she faced off against Republican Senator John Kennedy. And you're saying that you're testifying that President Trump approved this ahead of time. Is that my understanding? [00:02:14] We had conversations about making sure that we were telling people. No, ma'am. I'm asking you. Sorry to interrupt, but the president approved ahead of time. You're spending $220 million running TV ads across the country [00:02:30] in which you are featured prominently. Yes, sir. We went through the legal processes. Did it correct with OMB? - Yes. - He did. - Yes. - Okay. And one thing, Senator, I think would be helpful to know is how effective that communications has been that overwhelmingly. [00:02:49] In your name recognition. I mean, to me, it puts the president in a terribly awkward spot and it, it it and I just I'm not saying you're not telling the truth. It's just hard for me to believe. And according to Kennedy, she wasn't telling the truth. [00:03:07] He posted this. According to this reporter. Kennedy on the gnome TV ads after the hearing, the president of the United States called me, and I'm not going to speak for him. You folks know him. You can ask him yourselves. Put it this way. His recollection and her recollection are different. [00:03:22] Later, Trump himself stated, I wasn't thrilled with it. I spent less money than that to become president. I didn't know about it. Now, Noam was fired not long after the hearing, but yesterday the Daily Caller published Noam's side of the story. An anonymous administration official told the caller that the white House was [00:03:40] aware of Noam's ad contract and said senior white House officials were even involved in getting the funds approved. That second administration official said Rubio and Hegseth respect Noam. A key reason she was reassigned rather than fully ousted. So who's telling the truth and who's lying to the American people? [00:03:58] Keith, what do you think? I mean, this is a this is an administration of liars. So I don't I don't know. I don't frankly, care, but, let them fight. Let them fight. And I, I just want to say too, can we just can we just acknowledge. [00:04:14] Alex pretty. Renee. Good. That was fine. It's ads and ad spend is what Kristi Noem gets fired for. That's crazy. It's crazy to me. - It's crazy time. - Yeah, but here's how it makes sense. Because they don't care about the average American at all. [00:04:31] Right. So the only thing Donald Trump cares about is Donald Trump. So I guarantee you that he thought, and you could sense it in that line that Jordan Brand, you I should have spent on me, that should be $220 million of me [00:04:48] riding a horse in front of Mount Rushmore. You could spend it on herself, Mr. President. She also killed Americans in the way that she can. Yeah. Shut up. Okay, back to the ads. It should have been about me. Okay. So guaranteed. Guaranteed. By the way, to the point of who's telling the truth. [00:05:05] Is it possible that Noam did get permission from the white House? And either someone else or Trump did give that permission, but now decided that it doesn't look good? Yeah, of course it's possible. Trump tells people to do stuff all the time. That doesn't make any sense. And then once they get in trouble for it, he goes with me [00:05:22] and throws him under the bus. So that's certainly. But Keith is right. Who cares? They're all like, like there's important issues where differences within the Republicans will make a big difference or might politically and policy wise. [00:05:37] For example, Split on war is very relevant and split on Israel is very relevant. Right? And split on Kristi Noem. Courier is irrelevant. Don't care. Okay. Except for the fact that it's fun that they're shipping around the way back out, right? And my God, John Kennedy, I mean, that was a that was a political assassination. [00:05:56] Okay. That was clean. Boom. Oh, so you decided to spend these ads on yourself and your name recognition? Are you sure the president knew? Because I don't think the president would like that. Because then even if Trump did know, he can't say he knew because Kennedy [00:06:13] just said, I'm sure the president wouldn't like that, because that's bad. So then Trump has to throw like a hot potato, even if he did originally authorize it, which I suspect he didn't, to be honest, if I had to guess. And it's irrelevant whose worst scenario, right? [00:06:30] But the Trump I know would be like, no, me. Those ads about me, right? So lastly, so what Jordan told you about the Daily Caller is very important because that's a leak from the Noam camp [00:06:47] against Trump and the white House. Politically, that is a very bad idea. Okay. What Noam should do if she cared about her career is. Of course, I'm an agent of Shield. I will now be the new Venezuelan vice president. [00:07:03] Okay. And I'll take over DHS in Venezuela, too. Okay, so that's what she should do. This trying to fight them. Where are you going to go? You going to be a Democrat? No. Okay, so there's nowhere else to go. You're not part of any principled opposition like Marjorie Taylor Greene [00:07:19] or Tucker Carlson is to the war. Your only home is in the land of the corrupt. And so if you start fighting with them. No, no, no, we'll never hear from Kristi Noem again. And to be. But to be fair to her, she has to be sitting there at home now thinking. [00:07:35] So this is where we drew the line on fraud after Donald Trump released all of the white collar criminals in the country after he took money into his freaking meme coin, right? And his nonsense cryptocurrency. You draw the line here on fraud. [00:07:54] Well, sad day for you. You know why? By the way? Because that wasn't fraud done against you guys. That was in Trump's mind, fraud done against him because he should have been the beneficiary of those ads. Yeah, yeah. Trump Media Company could have put those ads together [00:08:10] like he's fine with corruption. I don't I don't think it was about the actual process. It was, to Jack's point, who benefited? I mean, you look at Don Junior's portfolio and all of the federal contracts that he just happens to be the beneficiary of. [00:08:25] He just happens to get appointed to new board seats or advisors at companies that, just by luck, end up with Defense Department contracts. Wow. What are the odds for all that fuss about Hunter Biden not having the qualifications to be in a role that he was in? [00:08:40] Suddenly, they don't care. So I think that that's part of it. But there's another more superficial aspect here, because to Keith's point, they don't care that DHS agents killed American citizens, multiple American citizens. They don't care that multiple American citizens who had been illegally detained [00:09:00] by DHS were in the room staring her down, and she couldn't even turn around and acknowledge them and defended the violation of our civil liberties, something that the Republicans, the conservatives purportedly care about is so sacrosanct that they have to they have to die on the hill of the Constitution. [00:09:19] They don't care. That didn't matter. It was this. But I think the superficial angle here is she looked weak. And one thing that Donald Trump hates is people that represent him in committee hearings or in any sort of confirmation hearing looking weak. [00:09:35] Think back to Brett Kavanaugh's hearing, when we knew it was going to be about his alleged behavior when he was younger. And the reporting around that in the run up to it was Trump wants to see him fight. If he doesn't fight, he's out. So what did he do? Lost his temper and started screaming about how much he loved beer. [00:09:53] And that got him on the Supreme Court. It is so unbelievably vapid and superficial with him. And Kristi Noem got clocked by John Kennedy and Thom Tillis. That clip wasn't in there, but he hammered her. Yes, she got grilled by Democrats, but that doesn't matter. [00:10:09] When she got embarrassed by members of his party, even though he's at odds with Tillis, he's on fairly good terms with Kennedy. That was it. You can't look weak. Yeah. And if you're wondering. Hey, guys, are you sure that it wasn't because of the Americans that were killed? Yeah, they were killed weeks ago, and she didn't get fired, [00:10:27] so she survived that pretty easily. But when you, you know, take money out of Donald Trump's pocket, you're not going to survive that. That's way more important than American lives, too. I just thought it was interesting. Congress did its job for a second. [00:10:42] Yeah. - Great point. - Wait, you investigated something? And then there was a consequence that was kind of interesting. - Yeah, we should do more of that. - Yeah. That's why I kid around about Foghorn Leghorn, right? Because John Kennedy, when he wants to grill someone, he ends them. He ended one of Trump's, judicial appointments before he [00:11:02] was asking him like, hey, would you go to Bozo law school? Where'd you go? Right. And I don't remember exactly what he said, but he eviscerated the guy. - He wasn't a lawyer. - Yeah, he. Was a blogger that Trump nominated to be a judge. Yeah, he. And he made so much fun of him. He said that's why Kennedy is so hilarious and, like, politics is funny [00:11:21] because that same brilliant guy will then turn around and say the dumbest things on purpose to get more votes. Like, he'll pretend he's dumb, right? He'd be like, oh golly, gee, I don't know. Okay. I mean, that's my ass. That was my ass. [00:11:38] I told you. - Oh. Should we get into why we. - Have some beers? Thank you. Yes. 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