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Rob Maness: Rick Perry Pick as Energy Secretary Is ‘About Jobs’

Retired Air Force Colonel and former energy executive Rob Maness told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday he thinks “eliminating the radical regulations that have been put in place that have hampered the energy business across all sectors” is something “Governor Perry is going to tackle right away” when confirmed as Trump’s choice to head the Department of Energy (DOE).

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Charity Needs Help to Decorate Headstones of Fallen Heroes with Wreaths

The executive director of Wreaths Across America, Karen Worcester, joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday to discuss National Wreaths Across America Day, which is December 17, and to explain how people may get involved to help the deeply patriotic organization. She also thanked Breitbart News readers and listeners for being “instrumental” in helping the group meet its goal of placing a wreath on every headstone at Arlington National Cemetery last year.

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Bolton: Geert Wilders Conviction About People ‘Trying to Suppress Speech’

Asked about the news that a Dutch court has convicted populist lawmaker Geert Wilders of “inciting discrimination,” former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Friday that he sees the trial and verdict as “part of a phenomenon we see throughout the West of people who are really trying to suppress speech.”

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Rohrabacher on Bolton: ‘We Could Be the Dynamic Duo’ at State Department

California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher discussed with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam Thursday the possibility of a “dynamic duo” of himself and former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton at the State Department if both are appointed in some capacity by President-elect Donald Trump.

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Historian Patrick K. O’Donnell Recalls Stories of Pearl Harbor Veterans

Combat historian and bestselling author Patrick K. O’Donnell, who has written seven books on World War II, among others, recalled some of more than five thousand interviews with World War II veterans throughout the years during his interview Wednesday with Breitbart News Daily Sirius XM host Matt Boyle.

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Armstrong Williams: Dr. Ben Carson a Team Player Who Can Build Alliances to Succeed at HUD

Confidant and adviser to Dr. Ben Carson, Armstrong Williams, told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Matt Boyle on Tuesday, “Dr. Carson is a great student and a great teacher,” as well as someone who can foster relationships with the various factions with which he must work to succeed as Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary.

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Ted Harvey: Hillary Clinton’s ‘Fingerprints All Over’ Jill Stein’s Recount Efforts ‘to Discredit Trump’

Colorado state Senator Ted Harvey, chairman of the Committee to Defend the President, formerly known as the Stop Hillary PAC, told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam Monday that he does not believe Green Party candidate Jill Stein would be undertaking the various recount efforts she is “without the help of Hillary Clinton and her campaign efforts and her attorneys helping and advising … all the way along.”

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Caddell: Kellogg’s Doesn’t Support ‘Free Enterprise,’ Only ‘Crony Capitalism’ and ‘Sucking Up’ to Elite Opinion

Democratic pollster and analyst Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow on Friday, “The big secret that no one knows is that many of these large corporations operate out of a sense of fear, whether they’re being terrorized by a Jesse Jackson, or ACORN, or whatever,” referring to how Kellogg’s recently caved to a leftist-driven campaign to pull its advertising from Breitbart News.

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Scott Paul: U.S. Has Been ‘Adept at Negotiating Terrible’ Trade Deals Favoring Global Companies

The president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), Scott Paul, who had been a Donald Trump skeptic during the campaign, told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday that for decades, American trade agreements have been “essentially a corporate bill of rights for multi-national companies and that both national interests and the interests of workers tend to take a backseat” in them.

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Rohrabacher: ‘I’d Be Very Willing’ to Be Trump’s Secretary of State

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), upon being asked about critics who have called him Russian President Vladimir Putin’s favorite Republican, told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday, “Putin is not a perfect guy at all, but he is not Joseph Stalin or even Nikita Khrushchev.” Rohrabacher made the point that Communism, not Russia specifically, was seen as the greatest threat during the Reagan years, and it was, by and large, defeated.

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Caddell: Hillary Clinton Email Investigation Should Go Forward Irrespective of Recount Efforts

Asked by Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday if Democrats supporting a recount effort in certain states may have an impact in terms of putting another Clinton email investigation back on the table, Democrat pollster and analyst Pat Caddell said it should not. However, he also added, “I’m hoping that Donald Trump will allow Jeff Sessions as attorney general” to make the decision whether or not to go forward with a new investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.

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Darrell Issa: Trump’s ‘Drain the Swamp’ Mandate Biggest ‘Since Teddy Roosevelt’

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Matt Boyle Thursday, on the heels of the election of Donald Trump, “I am looking forward to draining the swamp.” He added, “Perhaps since Teddy Roosevelt … nobody’s ridden into town with that kind of a mandate to say business as usual is not going to continue.”

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Pat Caddell: Thankful Americans Re-established ‘Their Sovereignty’ over ‘Political Class and Their Media Outriders’

Longtime Democrat pollster and consultant Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Matt Boyle on Thursday, “The thing that I think we all should be thankful for is that the American people decided they were going to re-establish their sovereignty as the sovereign masters of this country and not the political class and their media outriders, who believed that the American people were pawns to be pushed around in some dynastic game between the Bushes, the Clintons, and others.”

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Corey Lewandowski: Most Americans Think Media Are Biased, Not Listening to Them Anymore

Citing a Media Research Center poll, GOP strategist and former CNN contributor Corey Lewandowski told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Matt Boyle on Tuesday, “Ninety-seven percent of the people said that not even was the media biased, but they weren’t listening to them anymore because of the propaganda they were espousing about these candidates” during the 2016 presidential election.

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Bolton: Interventionism vs. Non-Interventionism Debate Is ‘Very Unproductive’

While Former UN Ambassador John Bolton was careful to not discuss any potential role in a Trump administration, or take on recent criticism from Senator Rand Paul, he did tell Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday, “You hear a lot of debate about interventionism versus non-interventionism. I find that debate very unproductive.”

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Pat Caddell: Trump Transition Shake-Up a Part of Draining the Swamp

Pollster and analyst Pat Caddell challenged criticism of the Donald Trump transition effort in an interview Wednesday with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow by pointing out that forcing out former Rep. Mike Rogers was actually a part of Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” of Washington, as opposed to any snag or infighting with transition efforts.

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Nehlen: Paul Ryan Now Standing on Platform He Spent Millions to Tear Down

Paul Nehlen told Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow on Tuesday, “Paul Ryan spent 10.6 million dollars to tear down my platform against trade and against securing the border, and now, where is he standing? He’s trying to stand on the platform that I built to run against him in the Wisconsin primary.”

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