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So it's not official, but yes, the rumor is that President Trump is expected to appoint

Russ Vaught to be the director of OMB, which would be great if it actually happens.

It would be a huge, huge deal.

And he actually just sat down with Tucker Carlson recently to talk about the deep state.

Welcome back to the show.

Glad you're here, 855, 8, 9, 12, 10 on Twitter

at Rich Zioli. Thank you very, very much for being here today. I appreciate it. And I think that

you, we're going to be in for a big show today. I think there's going to be some big announcements.

I am feeling very good about this afternoon's drama level.

That's what I'm saying, in good ways.

In a good way.

So Russ Vaught did a, he sat down with Tucker Carlson the other day to discuss the deep state and how the deep state stands in the way of everything.

Just looking at him on social media, for example, and this is what Tucker said.

He said, Russ Vaught ran the Office of Management and Budget under Trump the first term.

And hopefully we'll again. Here's what he learned about how the deep state actually works.

And they talk about how, in that, the intelligence agencies overrule the president.

This is the fundamental thing I think everybody in Trump in trump 2.0 has figured out everybody has figured this

out in trump 2.0 which is that the intelligence community is way more powerful than the

president of the united states of america now, that is not something that should be happening.

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