Welcome back to the weekend, folks. Were here, and House Speaker mike johnson is proving he is actually really good at one thing. Kicking that can down the road. Congress now has another week to avoid a partial government shutdown. But none of this is normal, and we cannot say that enough. If congress was actually functioning like it should, this would have been a done deal back in september. So, joining us have to discuss this and all other things happening with the governments Transportation Secretary pete buttigieg. Secretary buttigieg, welcome to the program. You are still in washington, d. C. Your colleagues on capitol hill, most of them, have gone home. Theres a chance that were gonna be here this weekend, figuring out if they can continue to fund the government. They kick the can down the road. They bought themselves about a week. Can you just give us a sense form your Vantage Point of what is at stake with the government operating in this way, with Congressional Republicans con
fox news alert. president biden just reacting to a damning special counsel report, a report that called him an elderly man with a poor memory. the special counsel released their findings today about their look into my handling of classified documents. i was pleased to see they reached the conclusion i believe they knew all along they would come of there are no charges should be brought in this case. [applause] as many of you know, this was an exhaustive investigation. going back literally more than 40 years. 40 years, when i became a united states senator, i was a kid. [laughter] i was a kid. 29 years old. bottom line is the special counsel, in my case, decided against moving forward with any charges. this matter is now closed. dana: the special counsel releasing his long-awaited classified documents report. robert hur is his name and he is not recommending criminal charges, but he laid out how the president willfully retained and disclosed highly-classified materials whe
not to do this. i can t use this, tell that story. happy monday. may not be jack kennedy, he is better, a jacked kennedy. let s go. greg: oh, yeah. oh, man. yeah. almost as ripped as me. that s obviously r.f.k. jr. looking les like presidential candidate. he posted this video with caption, getting in shape for my debate with president biden. here is biden getting ready for the same debates. yea. well. greg: yeah, r.f.k. jr. poll numbers are higher than his body fat. of course, i mean, the competition is not exactly fierce. last time chris christie took his shirt offgreen peace tried to roll it back in the water and gavin newsom, here is his workout. so you get it, r.f.k. jr. is different, the most muscular kennedy member since arnold bench pressed the maid. some look like this at 70 and some look like this at any age. r.f.k. comes at time when america needs it most, we re bouncing back from the pandemic. average american gained 29 pounds during the lockdown. i couldn t
wrote 20, 7 to 15 minutes to get off the plane. we should remind people, air travel, safe but that is a scary accident. it really is safe. i feel like it is safe. just that one was scary. you know, what it was. happy new year. happy new year. well, we have 307 days to go until election day. can you believe it? the ballot battle is warming up. tonight i m more coates live. well fasten your feet both everyone, buckle up as they say, this is going to be an election like you have never seen an hour history. i know we say that a lot about this all being a wild wild west, and we are barreling down the road towards a collision between politics and the quartz. donald trump and what may be the least surprising development ever, today asking a main court to overturn secretary of state decision to remove him from the ballot there, the primary ballot that is because of his role in the insurrection at the united states capitol the seat of our democracy on january 6th. now th
[inaudible] why do you ask such dumb question? jesse: it s actually great question. it s a question every single reporter should be asking. because, before we even knew joe biden was the big guy, before we even had the laptop a ukrainian businessman told an fbi informant that he bribed the big guy 5 million bucks. he used the phrase the big guy when joe was v.p., years before the nickname went public. and tonight we are learning the big guy was throwing his weight around. this alleged $5 million bribe wasn t so much of a bribe. it was more of a shakedown by the big guy, joe biden. he was shaking down the ukrainian. the federalist is reporting that biden coerced the ukrainian to pay the bribe. the big guy was strong arming a ukrainian energy company to wire him cash. the ukrainian told the fbi informant he hid the payments, never directly paid joe, just hid it in a maize of shell companies and said it would take at least 10 years to follow the money back to biden. well, it