One-on-One: Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune

The Bret Baier Podcast

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🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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As the Trump Administration prepares for a second term, Republicans in the House and Senate are also putting their heads together to start the new year off with strong initiatives that put Americans at the center. Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) explains what priorities Republicans are putting at the top of their agenda, his thoughts on President-Elect Trump's recent Cabinet nominations, and why, despite potential challenges, he feels confident Republicans will be able to get meaningful work done with the House, Senate, and President working together. Follow Bret on X: @BretBaier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Fox News Podcasts Presents the Brett Bear Podcasts with Fox News Chief Political anchor Brett Bear.
0:14.0	The Republican Coalition is broad and strong and growing.
0:22.6	As President, the American people handed President Trump and Senate Republicans a decisive victory.
0:27.7	And now the real work begins delivering on our agenda.
0:32.9	Well, Senate Republicans have selected South Dakota's John Thune to be the next majority leader
0:37.7	of the Senate, Thune serving as minority whip in the current Congress.
0:41.0	He joins us tonight.
0:42.3	Senator, congratulations.
0:43.3	Thank you.
0:44.3	Thank you with your bread.
0:46.3	So this is a lot happening.
0:48.3	The breaking news today was Robert Kennedy, Jr., being selected as the nominee for President Trump for HHS.
0:58.4	First year reaction to that.
1:00.4	Well, I mean, these are exciting times, obviously, right?
1:02.8	The president got a big mandate.
1:04.1	The American people want change in this country.
1:06.2	They're tired of the Biden-Harris-Schumer agenda, and they want President Trump to fix some things.
1:12.8	And he wants to get a team in place that can do that. And we're going to work with him to see
1:17.2	that he gets his team installed as quickly as possible so he can implement his agenda.
1:21.0	All these people have a process that they have to go through. All these nominees are,
1:25.0	it's, you know, advise and consent. That's the Senate's constitutional role when it comes to confirmation of nominations to the executive branch of the government.
1:32.9	And we take that role seriously.
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