♪ ♪ ♪ just hear those sleigh bells ringing -- ♪ come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you ♪ pete: good saturday morning, everybody, welcome to our fourth and final hour. it is december 2nd, year of our lord 2023. and, will, rachel and i are here, glad to be here with you and the all-american christmas tree. rachel: isn't it fun to hear the christmas music? will: it is, i agree. just thinking the same thing. i'm not -- rachel: oh, i know. will: there's a slight chance you figured i was making fun of you, but i'm not. right? i'm serious. rachel: i believe you have christmas cheer. will: in my heart. pete: it's in there. will: it comes out after thanksgiving -- pete: and in the month of december. i still have some problems with that in-between time -- rachel: tomorrow is the -- will: is your tree up in. pete: tree is going up tomorrow, but i did buy two records, because i have a record player. country christmas, george strai- will: that's the sound of my childhood. wake up on christmas morning, put on -- that's from the 1980s or '90s, it's greatness. pete: and bing crosby. will there's a new kid in town? do you know it? pete: i got it. will: there's a new kid in town. pete: that's good. just when you turn that the record player on, start a fire, get things going. thankfully, though, all the decorations have gone up sin i've been in new york. -- since i've been in new york. i don't like bringing the deck decorations -- rachel: what? pete: jen loves doing it, my wife loves it, but with it stresses me out, all the byes -- will: me too. and i want it out after christmas. the house is junked up -- rachel: oh, i get so sad when i have to put it away because -- pete: i get so happy when i'm sweeping up all those last little bits -- rachel: we're just starting christmas. stop talking about that. will: you're right. pete: for now, we enjoy the war? a. rachel: we're starting today. the tree is going to get picked today. the advent calendars have all been bought, it starts tomorrow. first day. pete: you guys do it up right. by the way, we are debating when to cut down a pipe tree in our yard somewhere. it'll be a more imperfect if kind of tree, but just cut one down -- rachel: i vote for that. i think it makes it more special. pete: we'll see. we'll probably go to the tree lot. [laughter] but we'll see. rachel: there's always that. will: politics in iowa, just explaining to these guys nobody in iowa is actually thinking about politics today -- rachel: why in. pete: you didn't lost -- watch the last segment. will: i promise you everybody is paying attention to the big ten championship today -- rachel: are the politicians going to the sports eventsome if probably, right -- will: i don't know where the game is. it's got to be on a neutral site, so i don't know where -- pete: it's probably not in iowa. rachel: okay. will elle but while that's taking place, all the candidates are thinking about politics, trump, desantis, ramaswamy all holding campaign events because the iowa a caucus is six weeks away. pete: it's coming down, and it'll have huge implicationings. right before this hour started, we were kind of debating multiple different scenarios. if donald trump totally runs away with it, if one other candidate becomes the clear number two, what if all three of them, ramaswamy, haley and desantis, are all in the teens, you know? what does that tell you? it's going to give us a really good sense of the electorate, and the reason these candidates are there too is because with organization is really important in iowa. the caucus system is a whole other beast. you have to bring your people out to physically attend events where you debate and discuss the merits of candidates, and that's how votes are ultimately cast. it's the a very people-centric option. rachel: we had vivek ramaswamy on, and he has been in iowa bringing attention to what i call big green. he calls them climate cultists. pete: cult u.s.es, yes. rachel: or zealots, i agree with that as a well. but there's a big boondoggle going on with moving carbon through these pipelines, and one of the impacts of moving these pipelines through is that there's eminent domain issues. so they're, you know, taking over land that belongs to private, many of them private farmers, farmland owners. but in general, he's upset because a lot of people are making money, some of the people making money are donating to the campaigns of the politicians including the governor of iowa or so says vivek ramaswamy, and so he says nobody wants to talk about this, but i am. if here's what he had to say. >> what's happened is the global climate cult says that carbon dioxide is the enemy. so the u.s. government has created subsidies that pay people who remove carbon dioxide from ethanol plants and bury it into the ground. the problem is many farmers don't want that pipeline running across their own land, and so now iowa is on its way to authorizing eminent domain, taking the land of those farmers or easements across that the land without their permission. and that's created a real firestorm here in iowa. since we don't have consumer choice at the pump as a consequence of oil industry lobbying, i think the are renewable fuel standard, the minimum fuel standard set by the government, is the second best alternative. so for me, i'm principled. it's not -- i love iowa rans, but with i tell them -- iowans i'm saying this because it's the second best pro-market justification, and that's where i land. pete: it'll be interesting, you know, he has taken on a lot of issues that other people won't talk about. we see him speaking the unspeakable. this will be the first test as to whether or not that translates into support. and he dismissed the polls that we showed last hour, which are dated, he's right. will he, you know, that that's from october. but that's the most recent iowa republican caucus-goer poll that we at fox are using. tim scott's not. on in the race anymore. we'll see, could be in for a prize -- rachel: by the way, he said i've taken on, this is not the only topic i've taken on. he's taken on transparency on the funding in ukraine, ronna mcdaniels, he's taken on a rot of issues that people -- a lot of issues that a lot of people don't want to talk about, and it'll be interesting in in -- if that kind of courage pays off. in the end though, we all know donald trump -- we just saw a poll that had him almost 70% -- pete: he's the only avatar of trump, as he points out, an america first candidate, does that end up benefit him, or does it all go to donald trump and and an overwhelming victory. will and talk about this story, the biden ev mandate has something like 3,000 auto dealers have said, hey, this is not good, right? this is going to hurt. and joe manchin, senator from west virginia, has just gone off on the biden administration. now, i think it's important, joe manchin says he's done, right in he's not running for senator. not done, he's not going to rerun for senator. but he is one of the top names discussed when, the conversation over a no labels party candidate for president. so he could be involved in this whole general presidential election at some point. and so keep that in mind when you hear the following, this is what joe manchin had to say: the united states has never had to rely on foreign adversaries to build our cars and trucks. i do not understand why joe biden is allowing his administration to route our social supply chains through the china. the inflation reduction act cleary sates -- clearly states any -- if any of the critical minerals come from china or other foreign adversaries after 2024, but this administration is yet again trying to find a work around and delays that leave the door wide open for china to again point -- benefit off the backs of the american taxpayerings. ray you can't get the u.s. taxpayer subsidy if you have any of your critical minerals or inputs coming from, you know, foreign countries. and, like you said, they're i trying to find these leap holds. -- loopholes. and i spoke with one of these car dealers, car dealership owners who signed that a letter e. here's what he had to say about it. >> historically, dealerships have a, you know, 30 day to 90-day supply of invep story on the lots. and during can covid, obviously, a lot less, we had supply chain issues. but these evs, we now have over one year of inventory the on the lot, and china's going to own our transportation system. the administration has to step back, they have the tap the brakes on it. electric vehicles are real, they will be a part of our society. they need to grow through attrition the same way hybrids and any other vehicle does. and in the just force it down the consumer's throat. pete: consumers don't want it. rachel: yeah. pete: and i think this could be where this hints the end of the road. -- hits the end of the road. so we're going to sell out one of our most critical i haves to china without an infrastructure to actually back it up. no one wants the plug their car in for 30 minutes to refuel it, which is what it requires. midwest people don't live near -- most people don't live near where that's possible. 30% of these charging stations don't work. we're relying on an electrical grilled that can't supply that electricity -- grid. rachel: but someone's making money off of it. pete: people are making money on it and they're informed in it. hopefully, it is the dealerships and the consumers that put ap end to it. but it's not over -- i mean, new jersey across the river here in 30332 they're saying all cars have to be electric -- will: 2032. pete: excuse me, 3032? rachel: you're absolutely right. he said he went to capitol hill to talk about this with lawmaker, and he said can you guys charge near here in and they all laughed. they don't have evs there, you know, these members that he was talking to because they can't even charge right there at the capitol. and yet it's right there at the capitol that these policies are coming, hurting these leaderships. the consumers don't want it. and we're going to make ourselves more dent on china -- dependent on china. none of it makes sense. will: and i'm not saying joe manchin doesn't believe in all of this, i think he probably does finish. rachel: why didn't he say it before? will: well, this is my if point. when you think about the candidates who are going to run for president that we don't talk about meaning not republican, not democrat, rfk, joe manchin, as you look -- and all indications are they will run for president -- pete: it's getting late, will. will: -- and be on the ballot. well, no labels is on the ballot. pete: not every state, but in many of them. rachel: and what i heard about new labels, and this is the a rumor -- pete: i love a good rumor. will: it would be joe manchin, and if nikki haley doesn't do well, she might join that ticket. will: i've heard that as well. joe manchin, rfk pull from biden. that's what i'm getting at. like, i don't see how any of these other candidates right now hurt donald trump. if nikki haley's in it, maybe that's different. but -- pete: they may pull some democrat votes that may have otherwise gone to trump. some democrats are saying -- will: so they go manchin. pete: if i mean, i agree the majority of it goes against biden, but it's going to cut both ways, and it really does depend on the personality on that ticket. another big portion of what we're fight over is our nation's history and our culture and our heroes and our story, and now, of course, not just our anthem, but the guy who wrote our national anthem, francis scott key. remember? he was a prisoner. it was, it was as the harbor in baltimore was being bombed, he was seeing that the flag was still there, bombs bursting in air and our flag is still there. he wrote an anthem on it, and about a century later it becomes the official anthem of the united states. so francis scott key, what was the name of the fort again? my wife's going to kill me because she's from baltimore. i know it. if it wasn't sumter. i know it. we've got a paining of it in the husband. anyway, there's a middle school in maryland that wants to e name francis scott is key middle school because he owned slaves. francis scott key did own slaves. near the end of his life, he freed some and all of that. again, he was a man, unfortunately, of his time who was in -- but this school says it's time to take him off the building. >> [inaudible] pete: fort mchenry, that's exactly right. will what's the line in 1984, there's no history, something like that? nothing came before, nothing came after, just the party, just the moment. it's like just erase everything. pete: i mean the guy -- i'll. will: -- modern day standards. nothing. pete: nothing, you can never live up to the current -- we, in five years, we won't live up to the standard of whatever the left has decided it is there and, therefore, we must be rewritten too. that's exactly -- when you don't hold people to the standard of their time, then everyone's gone. rachel: well, i mean, you've got to get rid of george washington. and we used to joke about that, but those statues are already coming down too, lincoln, all of them are. it's just interesting because as they focus on, you know, what happened 200 years ago, right now, today, we have sex slavery, essentially, in our home -- in our country because of an open border. we have indentured servants, essentially, in our country who are owing their labor to the cartels who, you know, they pay -- couldn't pay to get over the border. there is already modern day slavery going on right now, it's not in other country, it's happening right here. and they're focused on making sure that they rewrite our country's history just like the 1619 project promised they would do because that's what commies do. pete: the idea of child genital mutilation 25 years from now will be seen as the cruelest thing we did to a generation of kids in our country. rachel: exactly. pete: will we be judged by that standard? pat o'neilling is a school board vice president on the decision to rename schools. not just this school, there's about a five others in the baltimore area they're looking a. we neededded to do this look and see if any school names had skeletons in their closet and know the background of the names we have. sometimes people forget who schools are named for, and it just becomes a name on a building. it's important for us to know what the names mean. will: i was just thinking when you were talking about the child genital mutilation thing, i don't know. the left -- pete: i don't know either. will: i was trying to think of something where you've looked back and go, well, that was -- eugenics. that was a movement of the left and you look back and go, wow, can't believe that was what their ethical morale was. the one i can up with -- pete: they've totally -- rachel: well -- will: i don't know what -- that we will in 25 years look back. pete: i hope. will i hope too. rachel: margaret sappinger is still considered a hero -- margaret sanger. pete: and planned parenthood is one of the most powerful lobby byes -- rachel: and totally started on a racist premise of trying to get rid of blacks. the whole thing is terrible, but the deal is this includes it's not just the person who wrote the star spangled banner, so many of our forefathers, as you said, pete, rightly so, were men of their time. and eventually, our country got rid of slavery, but at that time they were focused on freedom from, you know, the monarchy. and so we can't celebrate that. pete: no, we certainly can't. and they're going to the, as donald trump said is, he said, they're going for thomas jefferson and george washington, and they are -- rachel: and they are. pete: and the latest casualty is francis scott key in maryland. maybe they change the process -- rachel: one last point before we wrap this up, so many problems with public education -- will: this isn't one of them. rachel: yeah. all right, we're going to turn to your headlines. los angeles police officers believe the death of three homeless people this past week are connected. they're now warning people sleeping on the streets not to sleep alone. the lapd says all three victims were alone in a public area at the time. officers captured this aim -- image of the suspect. of they believe he left each scene in a dark sedan. house republicans are preparing to vote as soon as next week to formalize their impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. speaker of the house mike johnson telling us earlier on this show this morning that he's ready to get the ball rolling on this process. listen. >> -- impeachment inquiry vote on the floor will allow us to take it to the next necessary if step. and i think it's something we have to do at this juncture. the evidence is so clear, you cannot look away. and the constitution requires the house to follow the truth where it leads. we have a tooth to do this. we cannot -- a duty to do this. we cannot stop the process. rachel: the gop will need near unanimous sport on their side given universal democratic opposition is expected. yeah. they will not vote against joe bind on that. a minnesota middle school is banning cell phones the entire school day, and the principal of the school says it's having a very positive effect on students. listen. >> it has been night and day from what we have dealt with in the last couple of years. they're talking to each other, they're face to face at lunch. you're not seeing them on social media in the hallways, they're not taking them out during class. they just look happier. rachel: even parents from the school district say their kids are thriving in the classroom and are participating more in class discussions. and those are your headlines. no big surprise, right? pete: no-brainer or right there. rachel: literally, they've shown charts where mental health levels for children and the rise of social media and cell phones, it's just as that goes, mental health goes down. so take the phones away, kids are happier. pete: no doubt. all right, coming up, the world seems to be turning red. conservativism and populism surging across the globe. can it happen here in the u.s.? will and i will go off the walsh. will: plus, make your holiday president american made, the ultimate u.s. gift guide coming up. ♪ ♪ look who saved slider sunday again! here we go... 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