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In this special interview edition of "The Daily Signal Podcast," Rob Bluey interviews Jonathan Baron, founder of Baron Public Affairs and host of "The Political Risk Brief" podcast.

Baron reveals his firm's groundbreaking research on the conservative influencers who helped fuel Trump's electoral victory using a parallel conservative media ecosystem that bypassed traditional outlets. He details the three key groups of influencers—amplifiers, specialists, and mavericks—who shaped the media narrative.

Baron believes four major "betrayals" of the American public set the stage for Trump's rise. Since then, Trump has used his unique abilities to position himself as a "centrist" while still taking strong stances on controversial issues.

Listen to learn more about the new media landscape and how it will impact Trump's second term.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian, a pastor, an anti-Nazi dissident, and a spy who took part in an assassination plot against Adolf Hitler.

Bonhoeffer, an author himself, has had many books written about his life and now, his story is being told on the big screen. This Thanksgiving, Angel Studios is bringing “Bonhoeffer” to theaters.

“The beauty of Bonhoeffer's story is that it shows what a real Christian should be like, and it shows a failed church, so you see both,” Camille Kampouris, one of the film’s producers, told The Daily Signal Podcast. Because of this duality, Kampouris says the film should appeal “to everyone.”

Kampouris and her husband, Emmanuel Kampouris, set out to make a film about Bonhoeffer's life a decade ago with the famous last words, “how hard could it be.”

Camille and Emmanuel Kampouris join “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share about the long, and sometimes harrowing, journey of making the movie, and what they hope audiences take from it.

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Today's top news:

Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and prosecutor for nearly 20 years, is Trump’s new pick for U.S. attorney general. Trump specifically hailed Bondi as a force against the weaponization of the federal government against conservatives.

Trump scored a “decisive win” today in a New York courtroom. Judge Juan Merchan won’t hold a sentencing hearing next week as planned. Instead, today the embattled judge granted the Trump legal team’s request to file a motion to dismiss the case.

Senator Mike Rounds, a Republican from South Dakota, introduced a bill that would eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. It’s called the Returning Education to Our States Act, and it could serve as the legislative vehicle to carry out Trump’s promise.

Plus, coming up tomorrow our special Saturday interview edition, my colleague Virginia Allen speaks with Camille and Emmanuel Kampouris, producers of the new movie about German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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Nuclear power stands at a critical crossroads in America. With growing demands for electricity and a desire from the incoming Trump administration to bolster America’s energy independence, nuclear energy has the potential to transform our future.

So what’s preventing the United States from experiencing a nuclear revolution?

In a groundbreaking new book, Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Jack Spencer argues nuclear power can be a dynamic, market-driven energy source—but only if government gets out of the way.

“Nuclear Revolution: Powering the Next Generation” (Optimum Publishing International) makes the case that regulatory barriers have made nuclear power unnecessarily expensive rather than the economically competitive energy source it should be.

Purchase your copy: https://www.heritage.org/NuclearRevolution

Today, a maze of outdated regulations are stifling innovation while doing little to enhance safety.

Spencer spoke with The Daily Signal to explain the challenges facing the nuclear industry and how it could power America in the future.

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name as Trump’s Attorney General nominee. 
• President Joe Biden quietly awarded the ​​former CEO of Planned Parenthood with the nation's highest civilian award, according to Life News. 
• The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. 

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Laken Riley’s murderer was convicted and sentenced. 
• A new bill would ban biological males from all federal women’s bathrooms. 
• President Elect Donald Trump announced the nominations of Linda McMahon and Michael Whitaker.
• The majority of American medical societies have released statements infusing political ideology into their missions.
• The United States shut its embassy in Kyiv.

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Laken Riley’s alleged murderer is on trial for the third day. 
• President-elect Donald Trump nominated billionaire Howard Lutnick to lead the Commerce Department. 
• The far-left Southern Poverty Law Center has set its sights on Not the Bee, the real-news partner of the Christian satire site The Babylon Bee.
• New York prosecutors are requesting a stay until at least 2029 in New York v. Trump.
• President Barack Obama praised Trump’s border czar nominee Tom Homan in 2016.

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• President Joe Biden has given Ukraine permission to use U.S. made long range missiles to strike targets inside Russia. 
• Over the weekend, Trump announced that he has tapped Chris Wright to serve as secretary of Energy. Wright is the CEO of a fracking and oilfield company called Liberty Energy. 
• Trump confirms he plans to declare an emergency over the crisis at the border and use military assets to deport illegal aliens. 

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On this Sunday edition of The Daily Signal Podcast, we bring you a conversation with Hannah-Claire Brimelow on the Problematic Women podcast. It's a crossover episode!

“Well, I didn't see that coming” has been a somewhat common refrain on Capitol Hill this week as President-elect Donald Trump announces his picks to lead his forthcoming administration.

Trump has built his brand on breaking the mold of politics and continues the trend with his Cabinet appointments. 

Not every choice has been a surprise. Susie Wiles has long been on Trump’s short list to be his chief of staff, given her years of loyalty to the president and her success in managing Trump’s reelection campaign. Wiles will make history as the first female chief of a president's staff. 

And Tom Homan’s experience in Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, coupled with his positive relationship with Trump, made him an obvious choice for “border czar.”

But some of Trump’s picks were unexpected, though not necessarily in a bad way.

On this week's edition of "Problematic Women," Hannah-Claire Brimelow joins the show to discuss Trump's Cabinet picks and why some are so surprising. We also fact-check some recent abortion claims.

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It's a crossover! On this weekend edition of The Daily Signal Podcast, we bring you Bradley Devlin's interview with Rachel Bovard from The Signal Sitdown.

President-Elect Donald Trump’s picks for his Cabinet—Pete Hegseth, Rep. Matt Gaetz, and Marco Rubio, among others—have caught most people off guard. But there’s more than meets the eye to these picks. Rachel Bovard joins this week’s “The Signal Sitdown” to discuss the Senate’s leadership election, the Trump-Vance transition team, and more.

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