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Thank you, Bill. It is Thursday, November 14th, 2024. Here's this happening today in America.

More appointments. New leader. Welcome back. And penny trial. It's all coming up. Then Bill's

going to be here with your message of the day. But first, the hits keep coming. Donald Trump has appointed Matt Gates to be the new attorney general.

He has resigned his seat from Congress, which starts the clock to refill his seat as per Florida

law within eight weeks by way of a special election, which would bring us to the very first day

of the new Congress being sworn in January 3rd. Perfect

timing. DeSantis gets to pick the replacement for Senator Marco Rubio. So no special election there.

It's just the governor's choice on who replaces that seat. Also, Tulsi Gabbard is going to be

the new director of national intelligence with the Senate confirmation. John Thune is the new Senate leader for Republicans.

He was Mitch McConnell's number two in the Senate for the last six years.

He said he will push through Trump's cabinet nominees quickly.

He said we will do the job that the founders intended us to do in the United States

and that the American people intended us to do.

And that right now, after this mandate election coming out of the American people,

is to work with this president.

Tim Scott will run the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

So that's to make sure that Republicans expand their majority in the 2026 election,

which strongly favors Republicans.

The Republicans in the House reappointed Mike Johnson to continue on as his role as

Speaker of the House. Donald Trump met with Joe Biden in the White House yesterday, in the

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