The Benny Show - EXCLUSIVE: Epstein Cell Mate Shares His Story LIVE! Trump Endorses Special Investigation FIRES Comey, with Guests Senator Rick Scott and Michael Franzese

Episode Date: July 17, 2025

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For the first time ever, we have defunded NPR and PBS. That happened just moments ago. And we should all cheer. Let's all cheer together. Yes, come on, roar with me. Roar! This is something that we've been promised our entire lives as Republicans that Republicans

would do. Why would Republicans fund media? Why the federal government doesn't give me billions of dollars? So why does it give my enemies billions of dollars? It doesn't make any sense. Our enemies. Maybe it should give me billions of dollars. It would be a better country.

But lo and behold, ladies and gentlemen, promise made, promise is kept. It's wonderful to see a former mobster who shared a cell with Jeffrey Epstein will be on our program today, telling us what's going on with that prison. Let's just put everything aside and look at the cold, hard facts of Jeffrey Epstein's suicide in prison.

Why not advance the ball a little bit? It's what we're here for. Ladies and gentlemen, there's also massive news for President Trump announcing a special counsel to look into the corruption around the government's deal with Jeffrey Epstein. Now that would be fantastic. And also firing another Comey from the FBI.

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We learned that this week that Elmo is a evil racist extremist. Elmo got hacked this week. You can look it up. It's something, let me tell ya. And so Elmo's crash out is happening because the federal government is cutting the funding to something that we don't need anymore. These are things like from a bygone era. Listen, when this stuff was like all created and PR and PBS, it was like 70 years ago.

And the argument there was that like poor people in the middle of nowhere can't get media and they need to know what's going on and boss shucks. Like it's a it's important for the government to tell them what's going on. We got to have government funded media. No, we don't. Maybe that like yokel garbage could have worked for a time gone by and for generations gone by, but not for us. We clearly don't need government propaganda. And if you need like a perfect example

as to why this is important, please grab me. Do we, ah, perfect, yes. Okay, Catherine Mayer. Thank you, ALX, perfection. The head of NPR has like explained it spectacularly. Here's like a good, here's like one great example that I think was promoted yesterday by Elon Musk, that NPR refuses to post on X, but they post constantly on Blue Sky, which is of course like smooth brain, blue and on, bot farming, left wing, psycho ecosystem.

But they refuse to post on X where billions of users, uh, break the world's news. It's not a news organization. It's a Democrat PR firm. Same with PBS. And it's incredible to actually see it defunded. It's something that Republicans have been, uh, talking about for a very long time, very fever, wet dream kind of thing.

Like, oh, we will defund NPR. No one's ever had the balls to even like try and do it. And now it's been done. Ladies and gentlemen, the rescission package passed the Senate is heading back to the house. So here's a Thune getting shouted down in the Senate. Here we go. You know, our country is $36 trillion in debt. We can't keep doing the things the way... $36 trillion in debt. Senate will be in order. $36 trillion in debt. We can't keep doing things the way we've been doing them.

1% of 1% of all federal spending. But it's a step in the right direction, and it's the first time we've done anything like this in 35 years. Mm-hmm, ladies and gentlemen, they also defunded USAID and made this permanent. Obviously, what President Trump can do from an executive order perspective is one thing, but what Congress actually does is tell the government how it can and cannot spend money.

Executive orders can be undone by the pen. They can be tied up in, obviously, in trials and lawsuits, but bills from Congress are totally different monster. It's actually how the government is supposed to run. The government is supposed to run by Congress writing, passing a bill and having that bill signed into law through the presidency and then judicial review. When you just circumvent all of that

with executive orders, it's not the best way to do it. This is the best way to do it. And this is for real. So we're proud, very, very proud of the Republicans in Congress. Some of them are on our show this week when we were up in Congress just a day ago, talking about this and well done Republicans, USAID fraud, USAID gave known con man $800 million contract to do commas work on root causes of migration. Look at this, just a couple of examples, $800 million contract to do commas work on root causes of migration. Look at this.

Just a couple of examples, $800 million. To these scumbags. What, like, have you gotten an $800 million check from the federal government? Like, do you understand the level of absolute and total graft and corruption that's going on here? Let me tell you what happened. The 800 million, he's $800 million. It's a lot of money. Let's just round it up to a billion dollars.

They take 500 million of it and put it in their own bank accounts like immediately. Right? That's just my fee. You're my fee. They take that, then they funnel that money through act blue in small dollar donations through a algorithm and an equation that they've worked out into the pockets of Democrats and maybe Republicans who will vote for more USAID funding. It's a self-licking ice cream cone. Do you understand how the fraud works? Yeah.

ActBlue busted and they're cornered and nowhere to run. This is the DOJ investigation that I so desperately want to see, obviously along with president Trump endorsing a Jeffrey Epstein special counsel. We'll get to that in just a moment. Uh, this is obviously where the Republican party needs to go next. And this is so easy to do, you know, because it's just identity theft. And there are such federal, there's such harsh federal protections for identity theft and all you need is one case and there's probably hundreds of

thousands if not millions of cases of identity theft through ActBlue. I personally know like 20 people who have had their identities stolen and then have donated as zombie donors for the Democrat Party. One guy lives on my block has Parkinson's and is this on my block, has Parkinson's, and is this kindly old Republican who has Parkinson's and doesn't really do much of anything. And I checked and that dude's like donating to Democrats in Maine and in Missouri. And that's not true.

I've checked it myself. So all it needs is like a couple of attorney generals with some balls to actually go in and like fix this. It's wonderful thing, ladies and gentlemen. USAID official and three corporate executives pled guilty to decades long bribery scheme over $550 million in contracts. How is this defensible?

It's not defensible. It is indefensible. You is, it is indefensible. You know, Politico, we're talking about like the funding of Democrat media, Politico received an insane amount of money from the federal government in the form of subscriptions. Oh, okay, got it. You know, well, we sell key chains, right?

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This is when Politico was carrying water. Look at the level of government spending on Politico subscriptions. That's when the Politico was carrying water for the Biden regime. Tell me that is not payola. Tell me that is not pay for play. This is when that spike, Politico ran the Hunter Biden laptop, Russian, like hall of the hallmarks of Russian disinformation

campaign that as soon as they ran that up for the deep state, look at that. Well that's a little payoff there, isn't it? It's being defunded. It's a beautiful thing and it's more important than ever. We really don't need any more government funded media. There are so many media outlets. There's so much dis disbursement of information. There's so much out there.

There's so many people that are doing great work and we're doing our very best level headed best to deliver for you every single day. That's why we'll be having one of Epstein's cellmates. I mean, it took us a second to track this guy down. We're having a mobster and an Epstein cellmate on the show. Just like explain what's going on in the, we're tired of speculating. Let's just, let's just do the real work, right?

These people don't do real work. Just a reminder on the Hunter Biden laptop thing. Was it NPR, ALX, that put up a tweet that's like, we won't be covering the Hunter Biden laptop because we only cover real news. Yeah, that was NPR. Here's the head of NPR, somebody named Catherine Mayer, who literally said that the first amendment is the biggest challenge in America because we don't actually want any more truth. It seems like that's just like an, like a slander from me against her.

And like, that's just like something I'm making up. Like it's a meme, right? The head of NPR doesn't want truth in America. She hates the first amendment, but it's on tape. Okay, it's on tape. Here we go. The number one challenge here that we see and is of course the first amendment in the United States

is a fairly robust protection of rights. And that is a protection of rights both for platforms, which I actually think is very important that platforms have those rights to be able to regulate what kind of content they want on their sites. But it also means that it is a little bit tricky to really address some of the real challenges of where does bad information come from

and sort of the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around. It's really not about, it's really not about truth. It's really not about the first amendment. Okay, it's really tricky because we shouldn't really be seeking truth, says Catherine Mayer in her Ted talk, here we go. So May, this is-

One of the most significant differences critical for moving from polarization to productivity is that the Wikipedians who write these articles aren't actually focused on finding the truth. They're working for something that's a little bit more attainable, which is the best of what we can know right now. And after seven years there,

I actually believe that they're on to something. That for our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and seeking to convince others of the truth isn't necessarily the best place to start. In fact, That lady gets billions of dollars of your money. You know how much money I get from the federal government? I get a gun to my head saying pay your taxes, otherwise we'll shut you down every year. That's what I get. I get no, I get nothing. Nobody, nobody gets anything. Did Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Steve Bannon, none of these guys

that I roll with get anything. Dan Bongino back when he was podcasting, he gets nothing. We instead, we all get like a target on us. Say if we don't pay every cent and more in taxes, then we're all going to prison. I'm, trust me, they're excited to send us. So yeah, I mean, the lady that says there is no truth, that we're not trying to find truth, and that our biggest problem is the First Amendment, she gets billions of dollars from a federal government run by Republicans, it's insanity.

It's suicidal, actually. You wanna talk about a suicide mission, metaphorically. Brandon Gill, who's a friend of our program, an excellent member of Congress, had Catherine Mayer in front of him in Congress. I've never seen a gutting like this and it's worth playing. It's worth playing a slightly longer clip for it because, uh, this is the most, this is the greatest humiliation I've seen in the history of Congress.

And we've covered, we watch hundreds of thousands of hours of congressional testimony. This, this is, this is the worst. Here we go. Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy. I believe that I tweeted that and I as I've said earlier I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade. It has evolved. Why did you tweet that. I don't recall the exact context sir so I wouldn't be able to say.

Okay. Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy? I Don't believe that sir you Referenced to a book you were reading at the time apparently the case for reparations I don't think I've ever read that book sir you tweeted about it You said you took a day off to fully read the case for reparations. You put that on Twitter in January of 2020. I apologize. I don't recall that I did. OK, no doubt that your your tweet there is correct, but I don't recall. OK. Do you believe that white people inherently feel superior to other races?

I do not. You don't. You tweeted something to that effect. You said, I I grew up feeling superior. Ha, how wide of me Why did you tweet that I think I was probably reflecting on what it was to be? To grow up in an environment where I had lots of advantages it sounds like you're saying that white people feel superior I I don't believe that anybody feels that way sir. I was just reflecting on my own experiences You think the white people should pay reparations?

I have never said that, sir. Yes, you did. You said it in January of 2020. You tweeted, Yes, the North. Yes, all of us. Yes, America. Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations. Yes, on this day. I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir. What kind of reparations was it a reference to? I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us. That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted.

Okay, how many how much reparations have you personally paid? Sir, I don't believe that I've ever paid reparations. Okay, just for everybody else. Not asking anyone to pay reparations. Seems to be what you're suggesting. Do you believe that looting is morally wrong? I believe that looting is illegal, and I refer to it as counterproductive. I think it should be prosecuted. You believe it's morally wrong, though?

Of course. Of course. Then why did you refer to it as counterproductive? A very different way to describe it. It is both morally wrong and counterproductive as well as being illegal. You tweeted, it's hard to be mad about protests in reference to the BLM protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression. You didn't condemn the looting.

You said that it was counterproductive. NPR also promoted a book called In Defense of Looting. Do you think that that's an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars? I'm unfamiliar with that book, sir, and I don't believe that was at my time. We did that. You read that book, but I don't believe that I did read that. This is exactly how you gut these swamp creatures. This is exactly how you gut a fish. I mean, in a congressional testimony,

you just take their words and you shove their nose in it. You just do it like a dog. You just take their face and you shove it. And it's perfect. It's just, I mean, if there's anything that NPR defunded, it was actually that testimony. The lady who says she doesn't believe in truth and the lady who says she hates the First Amendment

having to answer her own tweets saying, oh, I don't recall, I don't recall, I don't remember, I don't remember saying that. White people are evil, America's evil. We're giving these people billions of dollars. It's a slush fund for the people who hate us. And it's being cut off and thank God, I mean, it should be the lowest possible rung.

And I'm so proud of congressional Republicans for finally fricking doing it. Okay. So proud of the DOJ for doing this. Finally, something that we have been raging about for a very long time. They fired Maureen Comey. Good. Can we do another chance? Yes. Of course, James Comey's daughter.

James Comey's calling for the assassination of President Trump. James Comey is the deep state dark lord architect of so many of the hoaxes and frauds against President Trump. And James Comey's daughter, actually multiple family members of James Comey, including Maureen Comey's husband, James Comey's son-in-law, they all work for the DOJ, which is an obscenity, in fact.

And you shouldn't get rewarded for insurrection, and that's what this family's done against the country, and you can just go find work somewhere else. Now, Maureen Comey has blown the Diddy case. Diddy's probably not going to do any time in jail actually. Maureen Comey blew the Epstein case. She was on that and then she of course just blew the Maxwell case. What do I mean by that? Probably the reason why we have no Epstein evidence is because of people like Maureen Comey and because they were able to protect Democrat don't. Let's remember, like, this is a cover-up and a wrap-up racket. And we've said it from day one.

Like, why should the Trump administration have to suffer for the crimes of people that operated and protected this petrous ring for years, decades, actually, before they assumed power? They shouldn't. It's indefensible. It makes my blood boil. And it's why I want them all exposed. Maureen Comey has been fired. I think that's a great start.

Maureen Comey, again, is somebody who just botched the Diddy case, she's not good at her job. Maybe you should take her to the casino because boy, she sure is lucky. She gets all the high profile cases. Sam Bankman freed. Boy, what does Sam Bankman freed Diddy Epstein, Jelaine Maxwell? What are they all in common?

Well every single one of them was a Democrat mega donor. Every single one of them carried water for the deep state. Many of them were alleged operatives for intelligence agencies. And so the wrap-up operation needs to be completed by James Comey's emissary. I mean, this is just James Comey's proxy. James Comey might as well just still be the FBI director if you have his like little children burrowed like rats throughout the entire

federal infrastructure of law enforcement. So good. Thank God. I wish that it happened on day one. Maybe Diddy would be in prison or maybe Diddy would have been charged correctly. He was overcharged is what happened here. Something that the federal government does regularly. And of course it leads to a humiliation

for the federal government. We had multiple federal prosecutors on the program talking about that humiliation. How it's like, it's extremely embarrassing when the feds bring a case and then they lose, you know, the full resources of the federal government and the taxpayer resources being put against Diddy, being charged, being muscled against Diddy,

and then to lose, it's a humiliation is when the federal government doesn't typically do that. Federal government has like a 99% like win rate on all cases. So this was an embarrassment for the feds. And it of course begs the question, was this a wrap-up operation for Diddy? Notice that just like with Epstein, nobody else was charged with Diddy. Nobody else caught a case.

They were charging him with a grand criminal conspiracy theory, yet they charged no one else. The whole thing was an op. How can you charge him with a Rico charge? How can you charge him with racketeering? I can't wait to talk to our next guest about this because I believe he was caught up in a Rico charge. How can you charge Diddy with a Rico charge

yet charge nobody else down the line or in his eco sit? Like, how can you do that? The whole thing was a nightmare. And so thank God they're finally like getting rid of this and taking out the trash there They're the DOJ. On this issue, some massive breaking news. President Trump supporting now a special counsel, a full FBI investigation into what I believe to be the greatest sin with the Epstein saga, which is this.

And this is, we're going to play President Trump on Real America's Voice last night, John Solomon show, uh, Trump himself bringing up Epstein and Trump himself saying something went horribly wrong there. And there's one inflection point in this story that I can't get out of my skull. And Epstein never faced a trial, right? He was dead before trial. Dead. I don't know.

We're going to talk to our next guest about this. Megan Kelly says that Epstein is not dead. Luke Rudowski has been on this program says Epstein is trial dead. I don't know. We're going to talk to our next guest about this. Megan Kelly says that Epstein's not dead. Luke Radowski has been on this program says Epstein's not dead. And there's like video of him on his islands, you know, after his supposed death. I'll let the comment section debate that. But here, here is the one trial at Epstein. The one trial that Epstein did catch a case on was this, was the, was a diabetes type two, sweetheart level deal that almost make, push in a sugar coma from

the fed, from the feds. In fact, it's why Jelaine Maxwell is trying to get out of jail right now because, you know, she was granted protections by the federal government based on agreement that they made with Jeffrey Epstein to do 13 months, not really in prison with an ankle bracelet being in his home for underage sex trafficking. And this is the case that he caught in 2008. And what happened in that deal? This is of course the famous Alex Acosta.

He belongs to Intel deal in In 2005, this is well documented inside of the FBI documents. In 2005, Jeffrey Epstein was being investigated for 50 counts of underage sex trafficking. The FBI let him go because he started giving info to the FBI and who was the FBI director at that time? Got it, Robert Mueller, that's right. Who was working at the FBI at that time? Got it, Robert Mueller. That's right. Who was working at the FBI at that

time? Got it. James Comey. Yeah. So it all ties together really. It's wild, man. So this is something that president Trump is now out saying, we got to investigate this. This, you want to talk about a real incident of federal government corruption that can tie this whole thing up and put a bow on it. Let's go investigate that. Republican support rolls in for legislation to release Epstein files. President Trump taking a muscular tone change here and we have one little victory lap to do after this. Here's President Trump calling for a special counsel. All the things that have happened, there's the Russia collusion against you, there is

Jack Smith against you, there's all the things that happened in 2020, not investigating China interference in the 2020 election. What are the things that are most important that you would like to see the FBI get to the bottom of? I think they could look at all of it. It's all the same scam. They could look at this Jeffrey Epstein hoax also, because that's the same stuff. That's all put out by Democrats. And you know, some of the the naive Republicans fall right into line like they always do. They just don't have the they don't have the sustainability.

They don't have the something. They don't have that stick to it like glue. The Democrats, you know, they have bad policy, they have bad candidates, they have bad everything, but they stick together. The Republicans don't do that. But they ought to look into the Jeffrey Epstein hoax, too, because that's another hoax that's frankly put out by the Democrats, pushing the Republicans and put out by the Democrats. No, they definitely set the Republicans up. One big prosecutor look at it all, would that make you feel good you think?

Well I think it's in the case of Epstein they've already looked at it and they are looking at it and I think all they have to do is put out anything credible. But you know that was run by the Biden administration for four years. I can imagine what they put into files just like they did with the others. I mean the Steele dossier was a total fake. Right. for four years, I can imagine what they put into files, just like they did with the others. I mean, the Steele dossier was a total fake. Right. It took two years to figure that out for the people.

And all of the things that you mentioned were fake. So I would imagine if they were run by Chris Ray and they were run by Comey and because it was actually even before that administration. Right. They've been running these files. And so much of the things that we found were fake with me, but especially, you look at that Steele dossier where they paid like 14 or 16 million,

that's more than James Patterson gets paid to do a number one bestseller. And the thing turned out to be a total scam. So frankly, I love that they're looking at all this stuff, if they are, I hope they are. Yeah, we've definitely confirmed it. Good. This is what we said yesterday. But we want to like, just take a very quick victory lap here. Because what President Trump is saying is these are all hoaxes. The way to prove it is to release the evidence. That pleases everybody here actually.

And the way that we proved that everything from Russiagate to Hunter Biden's laptop to the SEAL dossier, all of it was a hoax, January 6th, COVID. We have raged against those hoaxes till our voice cracked. Why? Not because we had all of the evidence in front of us at all times, but because we knew something was wrong and we knew something was off. And there's something

that has been off about this Epstein case for a long time and people know it and they feel it in their bones. It's obviously a class warfare thing that animates so many people in this country. That's what polling shows. And so this is the way to do it, out with it. Now that we have more information on the J6 pipe bomber, on the Steele dossier, now that we have that information, instead of just believing the official story, now that we have all the information, we can put a constellation together

and people can think for themselves. And that's all we're asking for on Epstein, right? That's all we've been asking for on Epstein. We've been wildly consistent on that over the last decade. But we've also been consistent on this. And we got blown up on Monday for saying this. On Monday, our reporting, based on conversations with top federal law enforcement, was that there's going to be a marked change in the administration.

I mean, it's inconceivable that now the president is saying, let's do a special counsel and let's get to the very bottom of this corruption with Epstein. We predicted that on Monday. On Monday, we said, expect more disclosures, very powerful people inside the administration are now pushing for a special counsel

and a full press briefing on Epstein findings. And this is important because there are strong MAGA voices. Like it's wild, it's wild to me that people are somehow saying that, think about the people who are talking about this. Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Charlie Kirk, Laura Loomer, and a phalanx

of other people who have the president's back and who are as locked in with the MAGA base. Steve Bannon's war room is the beating red heart of the MAGA base, and they see this simply as an opportunity to reinforce the agendas of this working class party. And that is the non-protectionism of elites and the full-throated attack on the predators. And those groups are one and the same. This is a working class issue. We spoke about it at length, but I've reframed it like that in my head and it makes a lot of sense to me. This is about class warfare.

We in the working class watched pedophile elites cruise through trailer parks, find young broken women, which is how Jeffrey Epstein got his trafficked girls. That is well documented, well documented here in the state of Florida. You can go read the paperwork, abuse them on an island with his billionaire friends or members of the royal family, former presidents, and then those former presidents like Bill Clinton never even get asked a question about it. They never even have to answer for it at all. They get away

with it. And the working man says, I'm tired. And the working man says, I'm sick of this two tiers of justice. The working man says, for once in my life I just want to see a little bit of justice to the elite pedophiles. I want to see somebody brought in and somebody suffer for their crimes against us, the people who make America run. And their crimes, by the way, against us, are so numerous it is hard to count. But we've been taken advantage of by the elites and it is President Trump who is our hammer. That is why that man, the forgotten man, votes for President Trump. President Trump built his political dynasty on attacking elite pedophiles. You can check the tape. Some of the first speeches Trump gave

was, you should check in on Prince Andrew in Epstein Island. These people are filthy animals and reptiles. President Trump's first commentaries on this was, Bill Clinton's got a lot of problems on that island. It's 10 years ago. Donald Trump started his political dynasty by being the voice to fight against these people from the working class. And that is why we love him.

And this is on brand. And we simply say, President Trump, finish what you started here. Right? Yeah. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, before we get to our guest today that I'm very excited about, a former mobster who's shared a cell, who shared Epstein's cell, who's been inside of the prison, who's been inside of the prison himself,

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and doing a real reporting. I think that was the time for transparency. That is what the American people demand. And ladies and gentlemen, with that, please join me in welcoming former mobster Michael Francis, who was jailed in Jeffrey Epstein's prison cell, who has a lot to say on this issue. Welcome, Michael. Michael, welcome to the program. Thank you for being here.

Thanks for having me, Benny. I gotta say everything you just said, you just saw on point, you know, it was a delight to listen to you because you echo exactly what myself and so many other people are thinking right now. Please, the floor is yours. You know, we have you on here, obviously, as a subject matter expert. Part of the reason why everybody cares so much about this is that it just seemed too damn convenient that this living witness to so much of this corruption, whatever it ended up being, so much of this corruption, whatever it ended up being, just dies in federal custody. On its face, Michael, and I'm not, please, I don't want to go on a rant here, but on its face, isn't that like possibly the biggest scandal that inside of the federal government's custody,

inside of this maximum security prison, that he's able to kill himself? That alone is a horrible scandal. That has no answer. Well, yeah, Benny, and I don't believe that. You know, like you said in the opening here, I spent seven months on that tear in that cell. And I've said this since day one. I just don't see how he committed suicide. It's almost impossible to do.

You'd have to work so hard for so long, and you just, number one, you don't have the time. You got cameras that are, I don't, in my experience, I don't ever remember those cameras going out, number one. Number two, the CEOs are constantly walking the tier. I've said this, the times when, you know, you're trying to use the toilet and they're opening up and looking in on you, especially when you had somebody like Epstein that was on suicide watch prior to that.

They're going to watch them closely. And you know, inside the interior of the cell, there's just no mechanism for you to hang yourself. You know, there's a low bunk, there's nothing on the ceiling. You'd have to be a midget, a little guy to try to, you know, really work real hard. It just it's not possible. I don't see it. And I don't see the guy committing suicide anyway.

But Benny, it's really time. The federal government has just been so corrupt and lying to us about so many of these issues. You only go back to COVID. You only have to go back five years to see all of these major issues that they just continue to cover up. You know, I mean, again, without jumping all over, you go to the Diddy matter. I had three racketeering cases, three of them, three recall cases, one of them out of the Southern District of New York, prosecuted by Rudy Giuliani. First of all, you don't have a RICO with one defendant.

I had 15 co-defendants in my first RICO. I had nine on the second RICO, and I had 13 on the third RICO. You don't have one defendant in a RICO matter. And I said again all along in that case, this was not a RICO indictment. I don't see the jury convicting them on RICO because it's just not there. And the jury got it right. They were smart. They got it right. Did the federal government plan to have them get it right? Did they overcharge like they usually do purposely this time? I don't know. I think with the feds,

especially in the Southern District, they think that they're so elite that they can just do anything and get away with it. That's the problem in some of these prosecutorial offices. But, you know, I don't want to jump all over. You direct me where you want to go. But, you know, I'm just so fed up with everything that they're doing. You know, really, it's you know, and Trump is doing the right thing because now all the

conspiracy theories is, well, Trump is on the, you know, the elite on the Epstein, the Epstein you know client list and therefore that's why he's covering it up it's time to stop just put everything out there you know the bottom line is these are young girls that were trafficked you know I just recently had Paul Hutchinson I don't know if you know who Paul is you know he's the fellow from sound of freedom he was the guy that went over and rescued those 51 or 52, your underage women, your girls, I should say. And it was highlighted in the movie. Some of the things that he told me, I don't scare very easy, but it made my hair stir on it. Elite people in power that are abusing young women, and they're doing it consistently, and it's happening not only here in the United States, but all over the world.

How do you cover something like this up? I mean, I have five daughters. I have granddaughters. I would go back to my mom days if somebody ever tried to do that to one of my children. I'm going to be honest with you. How do we allow this to happen? It's just terrible, and it has to stop. These people need to be held accountable so that doesn't continue to happen.

Paul says it's happening every day. It's happening in neighborhoods. Young kids are being trafficked. Sometimes their own family are trafficking them because they're getting paid such money for it. And this guy was very credible. I'm going to have him on again. Might somebody who want to consider Benny because it's just, we have to put a stop to this.

Bottom line. So Michael, that actually gets to the heart of the issue here. And it's, that's right. Jeffrey Epstein is a dead pedophile. And I don't understand why anybody would want to protect a dead pedophile or anybody who enabled him. And, you know, is he still operating today? No, there are people who are sex trafficking today, but he is the figurehead of a sex trafficking

empire and a petrist empire. And so destroying at its very core, what that empire was, who was facilitating it and who was enabling it is a, will be a very strong sign for you to not do this for anybody engaging in this, that it can happen to you. And I think that's why the issue is so important to a moral nation. If we still have that, that we don't pay taxes to pederast protectors. I think that's like, that's just nor that's just the, the lowest possible bar, Michael, that you could ask, that you could ask for. Uh, okay. So let's talk about low bars. I would just like lowest possible bar, Michael, that you could ask for. Okay, so let's talk about low bars. I would just like to get into, maybe just do real quickly,

a breakdown, if you would, of the details of that prison cell. So you said you were on the L, were you on the L tier block? Were you in the same tier block as Epstein? Yes. So we have photos of the tier block, we have photos of the cell,, we have photos of the cell,

and we're gonna pop those up in no particular order, but maybe you could just explain what your experience was like in those cells and the perhaps physical impossibility of breaking, hanging yourself so severely that you would break your own neck bones, which is what they allege Epstein did. Again, you know, normally, I mean, I look,

I never tried to commit suicide, but you know what? I'll tell you this, when I was in there, I didn't see this ladder. I didn't have, I had a single bunk. You know, I didn't have a double bunk like this because it was a single cell. But even there, I mean, it's just so difficult that you have to work hard to try to strangle yourself.

This is not just an easy thing. That much I know. You got to work hard. I mean, you got to jump off something. You got to break your neck bone. You don't just hang there. You know, and in my, in that cell during my time, there was nothing to do to tie a sheet on that would enable you to do that. You just couldn't do it. You could. And these are these are not high bongs. They're low bongs. They're not high. But, you know, and again, you got a camera on the cell. You got a cat. You got a the the CEO opening the door constantly to look in on you, especially in a case where I was a high profile inmate for some reason

They looked on me all the time I don't know why but especially in a case of a Jeffrey Epstein who tried to commit suicide prior He was on the he was on suicide watch you're gonna watch this guy closely Unless they were told not to unless there was something else going on at that time I understand there was a minute or two of course you know these things always seem to conveniently happen that the the camera wasn't working you know I mean come on you know I mean what are we back in fantasy land these cameras work you know I heard somebody say well the bureau of prison is in such bad shape that things are not

working those things are working surveillance issues are working all the time. You don't get away with much in there. And again, Benny, I just don't see it without getting into greater detail. And look, I have no horse in this race. If the guy committed suicide, hey, more power to him, get rid of this guy. Look, I'm doing a deep dive on him today.

I really went into this guy. He was just a bad guy. I mean, basically he was blackmailing people. That's it. That was his currency. His currency was blackmail. He had, you know, in his island, in every bedroom, he had cameras on the bedroom.

They took thousands of tapes out of there. Who the heck knows who's on these tapes? But we know that they weren't poor people. They were people that went to that island for pleasure. It was Pleasure Island. That's what it was. And he was blackmailing all the, how this guy become so wealthy?

I mean, he was a school dropout. He wasn't even a smart guy. And all of a sudden he's rolling with all of these people. You know, look, I can't get into this. There's theories that he was part of Mossad. And Benny, I want to tell you this too this theory is that he was part of Mossad and, Benny, I wanna tell you this too. The CIA and the government, they will work with anybody, anybody that accomplishes their goals.

They worked with us three times. And that's a fact. They worked with Lucky Luciano, they worked with Maya Lansky. They worked with us when they wanted to to get to Castro in Cuba. You know, they work with anybody they can to to accomplish their purposes. So who knows what this guy did? But it's not good. And he was covering up for a lot of people. And again, this is innocent young girls that are being trafficked.

We should never in a moral society, in a civilized country like this, never allow this, no matter who it is, let the chips fall where they fall. Yes. So just a quick question on this photo that's pretty famous of Epstein's cell and all of the linens everywhere.

Why would he be allowed? I mean, were you just given piles and piles and piles of linens like this every night? Is this normal? People have often said like, wait, the guys on suicide watch, why does he have what looks like a laundry mat in his cell? Benny, absolutely not. You had a hope to get a blanket because it was cold in there.

You know, absolutely not. This is ridiculous. This is like a setup. What would he be doing with that? They only gave you one set of clothing. That's it. You had nothing in the cell. The cells were barren. They basically had nothing in there. And remember, this is not prison. These are jails. You know, you're awaiting trial or waiting something. This is a jail cell. It's not a prison cell. In a prison, you have a little bit more convenience because that's gonna be a-

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If you do get to it, it's like this thin, you know, to cover yourself. You have nothing in there. These are barren cells. So when I saw that, I said, what the heck is all of that? You know, and then this guy, nothing seems right. Nothing seems right here. According to my experience.

Michael, they said he hung himself from that little rope right there. They said that's where they cut him down from, right there on the lower bunk, actually. Not even on the top bunk, on the lower bunk, which I don't know. I've never been there, but it seems like it's only a couple feet off the ground.

Based on your experience in a rough and tumble crime environment and based on, I guess, what we've shown on this program, which is a lot of doctors saying that it's really hard to break your own neck, like under your own strength. Like it's really hard unless you're jumping off a building to really break your own neck. I mean, do you think that's possible to like shatter bones in your own neck from inside of one of these cells? No, no. I look I would state definitely it's not especially you

see who he's hanging from. What was he doing sitting down trying to choke himself? This was a he wasn't a short guy that short of a how you do that? Yeah, in order to break that bone, you got to jump, you got to work hard. And I hate to say this, but look, I came from the street. I saw a lot of things happen. You don't do it that easily. It's not easy to strangle. It's not easy to strangle somebody else. It's even more difficult to strangle yourself This is not it. This is this is a setup to have these clothes in there. It's absolutely ridiculous Somebody needs to explain what they were doing in there. Yes. I'm telling you Benny you get one thing to wear That's it. Nothing else. They don't give you anything else. So that's very that's obviously very strange can you just final question on this and here's the outside of the cell and what it looks like on the actual tier block,

the L tier block. And can you explain like, what do you think happened then exactly, Michael? Like, do you think that another, do you think that another inmate was allowed into Jeffrey Epstein's cell? We have some questions about like a serial strangler who was a bodybuilder who was housed with Jeffrey Epsteinstein seems seems like maybe we just asked this guy a couple questions

But nobody's ever and we never got a list of names of who he was with You know on the tear block. We've never gotten a list of people that he was bunked with They were inside the cell with him. We've gotten You know nothing that we don't even know the names the guards, right? It's crazy. No, yeah, we don't know anything and listen they could have let somebody in there. The guy here's the guy by the way just happened. He just happens to be a serial strangler who's being held with Epstein that night. Yeah, I don't think he had too much trouble in taking care of Epstein, but you know who knows two minutes of the tape are gone. You know again

it's everything is always so shady, Benny, always. You never get proper answers. And I'm so happy because I was a little... Look, I'm a Trump supporter. I support his policies, no question about it. But I was a little disappointed when I saw the remark he made from his... When they were talking to him that day,

that cabinet session that he had, and he said, why are we still talking about this creep? And I think just for a moment he forgot because this creep You know is involved in the trafficking of young girls and there are more people involved and they need to be held accountable for it That's the bottom line. So the fact that he's calling for a special investigation is You know, I'm so happy. I really am you You know, all of these things. I mean, all of these things, we never get the right answers. We don't know about Kennedy, you know, and look, I don't want to get into another session on Kennedy. But you know, there was stuff that happened there that I know for a fact, you know, and it's being hidden for what 5060 years now, we never get the right answers. But this one, more than anything else, we should. So Michael, since you brought up Kennedy, why not go there? Because we have some breaking news on Kennedy that happened over the last week that the CIA has finally clawed out of their cold dead

hands, begrudgingly admitted that they bumped Oswald, right? That the CIA was actively involved in surveilling and or interacting with Lee Harvey Oswald. And at that point, you just have to assume that Oswald was an asset for the CIA. And then of course, lo and behold, we get this article that was dug up from 25 years ago, where Jeffrey Epstein was bragging about being a CIA agent. Ha ha ha ha ha.

In the weekly standard here. And boy man, it just seems that all roads tend to lead to dirty Intel ops. A question ago, you said that the intelligence agencies have contacted you and your criminal organization back in the day. Here's the Epstein article, by the way, in black and white.

Epstein bragging about being a CIA agent. Of course he later denied it, right? Okay. Maybe you could shed some light on this style of operations of the Intel community using organized crime. Well, I can tell you this, and this is something I've heard my entire life and understand something.

My father was there throughout all of this. And my father was a pretty important guy. He was the under boss of the Colombo family at that time. So from my father to the boss of the family, to everybody that would have been in the know of an operation like this, I've heard consistently the same thing. And here's the thing, I've said from day one,

those classified documents, I don't think they'll ever be released. And if they are, they're gonna be highly redacted because we were involved in the assassination with JFK, and this government is never going to want the world to know that a sitting president was able to be assassinated in part by the mob. And I think they'll cover that up forever. And here's the key.

You know, Jack Ruby, I read something from the commission report that they said he had no connections to organized crime. Jack Ruby was connected to us from the days of Al Capone. He was connected heavily in Chicago. He was connected heavily in New Orleans. He ran strip clubs and places for Carlos Marcello in Dallas, Texas. He was very well connected with us 100% and that's how he got into that police station. Here's what happened. And this is and I know people are going to deny this and they're gonna say it's a conspiracy theory and it police station. Here's what happened. And this is, and I know people are gonna deny this and they're gonna say it's a conspiracy theory and it's not.

This is what I've heard consistently all along. The Kennedy Nixon campaign, Kennedy won that. It was razor thin. They absolutely came towards Joe Kennedy who was absolutely a bootlegger. No question about it. Frank Costello wanted to kill him at one time because of

some things that he did that were nefarious. Okay, they came to us for Illinois to help Kennedy win in Illinois. That was the swing state. We did that. The deal was that they were supposed to back off of organized crime. Robert Kennedy, forget it, he doesn't do that, he comes on organized crime even heavier, heavier than the FBI did. Because remember, the FBI for a while, they would never even admit that the mafia existed. J. Edgar Hoover didn't admit to it. All of a sudden, Kennedy goes on a rampage. So we hated the Kennedys because of that. They come to us, and here's the thing. I don't know what initially Started why they wanted to kill John Kennedy. I can't talk about that, but I will say this

They absolutely came to us to have Ruby assassinate Oswald and that's how it went down whose name I Believe it was a CIA because that's what I was told. Again, I don't like to repeat something unless I'm 100 percent, but I believe it was the CIA. It wasn't a name, but my father told me, look, the government's involved in this. CIA came to us. You know, Persico told me this. They all said the same thing. They were very consistent. At different times, I've heard this. And I didn't inquire. It was just in conversation that came up. We talked about it, you know, and look What's his name from Chicago's on tape saying we killed the wrong Kennedy. That's on tape

We killed the wrong Kennedy because Bobby came out at us. They cover that up. I want to hear that They killed the wrong. We killed the wrong Kennedy. It's on tape so those as the story goes and as the evidence points to Lee Harvey Oswald, who consistently claimed and screamed on camera that he was a Patsy and the near impossibility of JFK dying in the way that the official story portends. And again, you kind of, it's kind of the same elements, right? With Epstein, which is the official stories make no sense.

The evidence certainly doesn't point to the official story being true. And so you have to just assume that somebody with power is trying to lie to you. And now we get all this evidence, uh, that has been released about JFK. The constellation is starting to come together, but who then do you think killed? I mean, do you think that Kennedy was actually killed by the CIA and then the mob was there to cover it up? Yes, that's that's that's what I was consistently told. Yes. Do you know that they lost Kennedy's brain?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. The doctors, his entire body. Yeah. His body is not real. Like his autopsy is not real. Yeah. So why do they do that? Why would you do something like that unless you're covering up something? I mean, it's just common sense. How could you lose the president's brain? And you're like you said, the whole body being doctored up. Why? What are you what are you hiding? The doctor who did the autopsy still alive, it's very old. And he was in Congress. And he was

testifying before Congress and said that there was a bullet wound that he saw in Dallas from the front. It's clearly like an entry wound and an exit wound in the back. And you can't get, you can't, a guy in the Texas School Book Depository can't shoot from the front. That's just pretty basic,

like three-year-old can understand those physics. And so. So what does it say, Benny? It tells us that from going way back, as far as we go back in our generation, to Kennedy, to COVID, you just name it. We just never get the truth. Everything is covered up.

And you don't cover things up unless there's elite people involved that you're covering for. They're not gonna cover for me, they're not gonna cover for you. They're gonna cover for their own. Yes, and that's why I think this issue is so important because all these Kennedy guys, they're dead. They're not going to cover for me. They're not going to cover for you. They're going to cover for their own. Yes. And that's why I think this issue is so important

because all these Kennedy guys are dead and they're like the guys who did Kennedy, they're dead, right? And they can't be prosecuted or put in jail. They lived their lives out and got their pensions and their gold watches and they're done. You know, now 70 years later, their children are grandparents, right?

You can't charge anyone, right? But you could charge people still with Epstein. You know, Epstein was still Epstein plotted only a couple of years ago. And you could still technically like uncover some damaging things and destroy some very evil people. And that's what makes it so kinetic. I think. Well, listen, you know what?

If they continue to cover this kind of stuff up, uh, you know what, if they continue to cover this kind of stuff up, you know, I think every American citizen should be outraged at this, and we should just continue to put pressure on them and demand that there's accountability here. Because you know, again, I was, what Paul Hutchinson told me, the extent of human trafficking of young boys and girls, both. He said it's so out of control. And he had a lot of credibility when I spoke to him. He's dedicated his life to this for the last 10 years.

Guy's got a lot of money, he's very wealthy, he's able to do this. And it's a cause that's really become so important to him. And the extent of things that he told me, it's just, this is, it's horrific. It's horrific, Benny. There's nothing worse than pedophilia. I mean me it's just this is it's horrific yeah it's horrific then it is nothing worse than pedophilia i mean it's terrible do you know many do you know this do you know that when they have a menu the people that are doing this human trafficking they have a menu of sexual

services that would be formed by these young girls and how much you would have to pay for each service it's that disgusting how do you cover yourself how do you cover have to pay for each service. It's that disgusting. How do you cover yourself? How do you cover an Epstein up? You can't. And you know, it's not morally justifiable. And so you have to fight against it and you have to do your, you know, you have to live in a very simple binary. Luckily.

I'm not, I don't have a, I went to community college, Michael, so I'm not, you know, it's very easy for me to just see the simple binary and to say, you know, this is wrong. This is darkness versus light. This is good versus evil. And this is how we actually get to the bottom of it, right? By continuing to apply pressure. And I want to use Epstein as an example

for people to not do this. And if we can destroy Epstein and his entire network and punish them, then that's a good warning sign, right? Like that's deterrence on some level. And I think that's morally justifiable. Mike. I can tell you this, Benny. I think, you know, key person in here

is that Ghislaine Maxwell. They got to bring her in front of Congress and they got to put her under oath and she's got to talk. You know what I believe, I'm gonna go even further. I think they got ahold of her and told her, listen, you saw what happened to Epstein. You're going to do some time in prison, keep your mouth shut, you'll get out of here

and this will blow over. Don't put it past the government to talk to her like that and to scare her into keeping her quiet. They should bring her and they should put pressure on her because she knows a lot, obviously. Well, she had the row of honor at Bill Clinton's daughter's wedding. Very curious there.

She's photographed on the throne of the King and Queen of England with Kevin Spacey, which is so strange. And we'd sure like to hear why exactly. And she's a living piece of evidence. And I think that scares a lot of people. We hope that that happens. Michael, we hope that you join the program again.

You can follow Michael, of course, here a hundred thousand plus Americans follow Michael. He also has a great wine company. Michael, I look forward to trying some of your products one of these days. But Frans's wine. I'm gonna make sure we send you a case. You're gonna enjoy it for sure.

All right, my man. Everybody follow Michael right here and one day man I'm gonna have your chain game, okay? One of these days. Be a slightly different look for the show but I'm gonna go. Well Benny, there's significance. You know people think I don't wear bling but there's significance to each one of these and they're very dear to me. So that's the only reason I put them on. I promised I'd wear them and that's it. My man. We'll cover that one.

We'll do a full Michael Frances Bling segment soon, but we're out of time for today. Godspeed, man. Thank you for illuminating for our audience some of this darkness. Well, thanks for having me. Benny, please keep it up, man. We love your voice out there and just keep it up.

We need you. My man. Godspeed. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, a very unique series of events here today and a wild breakdown there from Michael Francais, who's been in the same cell as Jeffrey Epstein. Very interesting times. The Senate, of course, as we started off the top of the show, has delivered a massive victory

for President Trump. Joining us now is Senator Rick Scott from the great state of Florida, who's here to do a victory lap, a touchdown dance, and explain what happens next. Let's rock and roll. Senators, good morning to you. Congratulations. I hear you might've been up through the night.

Maybe you haven't had any sleep at all. Give us the lay of the land. Well, we got, I got to bed about 2.30 in the morning this morning, got up about 6.30. So didn't get a lot of sleep last night. I'd like to get to bed early and get about seven hours sleep. So not the best.

But we got something done last night. For the first time in forever, we did a rescission package to rescind some of the wasteful spending. Here's what we've been doing up here. I've been up here six and a half years now. We don't do budgets. What we've done is they'll say, oh, we worked really hard. We have to do a continued resolution on September 30th.

Then they have a spending bill about three months later that nobody's ever read. So what Trump is trying to do as part of balancing the budget with the rest of the vote is they can send a package to us and say, you can get rid of this. And it just takes a majority vote. So we didn't need any Democrats last night. So we got 51 Republicans vote for it. We got rid of wasteful spending out of, you know, Department of State. We got wasteful spending out of, it's, you know, Department of State. We got wasteful spending with regard to NPR, things like that. So we got a lot of work to do,

but this is a big, big, big start. We never, we haven't done this. I'm not sure that, I think the last time was Reagan or something like that. Genius move. So NPR, you can say officially defunded once the House passes this. in the next 10 hours, the house has to pass it, but that will happen.

We hear from our sources in the house. And so the Republicans in Congress have officially defunded NPR. Absolutely. We, it has to be done by Friday because that's the 45th day of when, uh, the White House sent it to us and so, but we're, I'm, I was with the house members, uh, last night for a little bit, they're going to get it done today. They've got a lot of stuff on their plate,

but they're going to get it done, get this accomplished today. That's a huge success. Senator, I've been hearing about this defunding NPR for, I don't know, decades as a Republican activist or somebody who's been following politics and nobody's ever had the guts to even advance anything on it, it's just always been a talking point

with nothing behind it. And so the massive win. Why we, you know, there's plenty of news out there, right? Why do we have government funded news? Does that make you feel, first off, does it make you feel good when it says it's government funded news? That won't be biased, right?

No, but it makes, you know, it's also like, it's also picking, you know, winners and losers because there are tons of shows. And I know you go on a lot of them, whether it's shows on Fox or whether it's Steve Bannon in War Room or whether it's Charlie Kirk or Tucker or Megyn Kelly. There's tons of people out there who have shows.

Or this show and who have shows. And, um, you know, if we don't pay our taxes, if we don't pay our taxes, of course, we all get put in prison and all of our taxes, our taxes go to fund our competition, which is insane actually and insulting. And it's, and it's government funded. So it's biased by the government. Yes. Yeah.

So thank you. So yes. Yeah. So thank you. So yes, awesome. And thank you. Can you please explain what else was defunded? The State Department, is that fair to say it's USAID defunding? USAID defunding? A bunch of it. Well, contributions to international organizations.

We got international peacekeeping activities, contributions to international, the USAID global health programs. Now, a lot of this stuff, it's not that it is, none of it's funded, but what they did was Marco Rubio went through and found these are the things where there's waste, where we shouldn't be doing it. We're still gonna be helping the right people, but some of this stuff,

some economic support fund, oh, you like this one, contribution to the Clean Technology Fund, that's what we should be doing, right? So, I mean, there's just transition initiatives. I mean, there's a bunch of it. But we're still doing good things. Marco Rubio went through this with a fine-truth comb and said, these are the good things we should do,

these are the things we shouldn't do. So it totaled, I think, right at $9 billion. I mean, that's a good start, right? And what you're saying is that this is a system- That's a start. That's a start, right? So it was $37 trillion in debt. We know that you yourself have run very successful businesses.

Of course, you would have been out of business and in debtor's prison if you'd run your businesses the way the federal government runs. And what's the next step? I mean, it's a start, but there's, you know, 37 trillion left. Yeah. So here. So first, here's, here's what I want to tell you how big a problem we have. Yeah. How much would every Americans income taxes have to go up just to pay this year's deficit?

What percentage? I have no idea, 50? 80%. That's insane. Now, okay, how about this? Then the Democrats say, let's just tax the rich, right? So at what income level,

what if we took all the money that people make more than $10 million, just take their income, all that, would that be able to pay off this year's deficit of $2 trillion? No. You know what you have to get down to all the income of anybody making more than $100,000 a year. That's how big a problem we have. So think about this, we've had a 53% increase in spending in since for since pandemic, we've only had 2% increase in population.

So we've got a lot of work to do. So we've got, we can do another reconciliation package. We've got the budget that's gonna come up at the end of September. So we'll have a continuing resolution. So those are opportunities. And then Russ voters committed to send us more rescission packages.

He was at lunch on Tuesday and he said, look, let's make sure we can start with this and then we'll do more. So those are opportunities to get this spending done at control. Trump's committed to it. I'm clearly committed to it. I balance the budget when I was governor every year. Florida had not balanced its budget. Most states don't. They borrow money. So we're going to get there. It's just, we got to, we got to keep doing it. So you're telling me that there are, there are unlimited rescission packages that can be sent? No, there's one more this year and there'll be one more year next year. You can only do rescission when you have the same party controls the house, the white house and the Senate. Okay. And that,

that point only takes a majority in the Senate, which is the big deal. Yes. So we can do one more this year and the precision can only be mandatory spending. Okay. All right. But then the budget can be everything. So you could actually make some headway in fixing this, like there are the tools, right? There are the tools if you have the willpower. That it's all about what you have to do

is you have to let your house members and Senate members know that balancing the budget is a big deal. Now, why is it a big deal? One, interest rates are not going to come down. We have to refinance just this year another $9 trillion of treasuries and sell another two trillion to who you right are you going to say, oh, I want to do it. I'm going gonna do it at lower or higher interest rates That's number one number two is inflation cannot ultimately be controlled Trump's doing everything he can to get this economy going All right, he's doing everything he can to get inflation down, but with with if it's rates go up

It's gonna be hard to get inflation down We have to balance the budget. Yes Correct. Well, I mean we have unified control to go. I know there's slim margins, but that it's just, it's just, it's encouraging to see something happen. I thought that I didn't know that Republicans could write laws anymore. I don't think it's happened in my lifetime. I didn't think Republicans could write laws. So it's remarkable to see actually, Senator. But Benny, we have to do it every day. And you as a voter, you as a citizen have to demand it.

You have to say, we elected you, we have expectations for you. Live up to what you told us you were gonna do when you ran. You're also on the committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. You must be, by the way, thrilled with the big, beautiful bill and the amount of funding that it has for ICE and federal law enforcement.

I wanna bring up a member of the Senate who did something really peculiar, strange, sad, and embarrassing. His name's Alex Padilla. He's from California, and he bum rushed Kristi Noem a couple of weeks ago and started screaming and flailing his arms like a lunatic. He got himself detained, I think.

I don't think it's actually an arrest, but he got himself detained. As somebody who's on the Homeland Security Committee, this seems like a wildly inappropriate way to act. Then he went on the Senate floor and started weeping about himself. What's your take on all this? It's wrong.

So first off, right now, you know, it's, it's, it's dangerous to be a public official, right? We have, we have, we're all at more risk. And so, so when, when somebody does that, when you're at a press conference and you don't know, you know, people don't know who this person is and they rush a public official. Yeah. Thank God there's law enforcement there that stop them. Like I, what, when I'm out publicly, I want to make sure there's law enforcement there to stop somebody that wants to do harm to me or anybody else that I'm with. Of course. And so he, this was completely wrong what he did. If you, if you want to ask questions, Kristi Noem comes to our committee.

She'll come to our committee and answer any question he has. So he has every opportunity to write letters. Has every opportunity, I mean, my experience with Kristi Noem and with the Trump administration, they return phone calls, they respond to questions, they come and testify, that's how you do it.

That's the appropriate way of doing it. It does, I just don't, I don't understand how you get away with it. Like, maybe this is my last question to you Senator, and this is something that has frustrated me, is we watch people like LaMonica MacIver in the House assault ICE. We watch the Senator do what we just showed you.

And I tell you what, man, if a regular American did this and rushed at Kristi Noem screaming and yelling and fought with her security, boy, you'd have some charges. You'd be arrested. You'd clearly be arrested. It seems like privilege. It seems like federal, it seems like elected privilege that's been granted to members of the,

you know, to psychotic members of the Senate. Now we have Axios reporting that like, they're being asked to do that, you know, that Democrats are trying to foment this, you know, and get arrested and get bloodied. That's according to Axios. You know, it just seemed, I would like, I would love to see some type of internal mechanism

to hold them accountable. Like, LaMonica McIver kicked off her committees or whatever. It just seems like an insane thing we shouldn't be allowing our federal officials to do. You should, I mean, you should have a higher standard version for yourself. You know, look, like I, I should, I have every opportunity to ask people questions. People have the opportunity to ask me questions. I travel the state, I meet with people, but be appropriate. Like, like, I don't know. You know, I always think about it is what would my mom think my mom would think what in the living daily are you doing?

Yeah, it's Yeah, seriously, it's it's humiliating. Yeah, it really makes you wonder how some of these some of these members of Congress, right, because they are acting like petulant children. Be nice to see some of them kicked off committees or whatever. Would you be in favor of that for Alex Padilla? So I don't think that makes sense. I mean, why would he be able to do this? So you know, you bring up a good point. I mean, he has every opportunity to do this when she comes to testify.

She comes and testifies. Right. So we didn't think about my orcas came and testify. He completely lied to me. Did I rush him? Yes. I was about to say that center. We're big fans of Senator Rick Scott. Massive fans. He's done such a great job for the state. He's like a hero down here in Florida. Senator, I'd have to disavow you if I saw footage of you bum rushing Kamala Harris

like that, right? If you were like flailing your arms and fighting with federal law enforcement and like attacking a member of the Biden administration physically, then I'd be like, this guy's, I mean, what happened to the guy? Is he unfetinal?

Like what the hell's wrong with him? You know? Yeah. But we don't see- If my mom was still alive, you would call my moml, like what the hell's wrong with them? You know? Yeah. But we don't see alive. You would call my mom and have her yell at me. It'd be nice. It just, it'd just be nice. Don't say who raised these people.

I don't know. Parents don't teach your kids to do this stuff. I don't, I, it'd just be nice to see it. Just be nice to see. Yeah. I, my, my producer's saying maybe we should put them on the UFC card for the white house, uh, Alex Padilla versus Lamonica MacIver. All right. Yeah, my producer's saying maybe we should put them on the UFC card for the White House. Alex Padilla versus LaMonica McIver.

All right, well, whatever. We'll wait and see. You know, if it was a Republican doing that, they'd be in prison at this point. Yeah, that's right. Okay, well, thank you, Senator, for your update. Yes, and here's, ladies and gentlemen, Senator Rick Scott's social media. He has 700,000 Fall actually he's just a few hundred away from 700,000. So let's get him there right now

Everybody pile in and fight with the people who fight for us the great senator Rick Scott. I see Benny. Have a great day. Bye. Bye Ladies and gentlemen, time to get our financial house in order, right? Time to make sure that we are managing our finances and what the treasure that God has given to us. And perhaps that would mean the federal government not funding transgender sex change operations in Guatemala, like that was part of USAID. Okay, that's insane. That's a horrible way to manage your fiscal house. The way to manage that's not what you would do.

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See the terms and conditions at aliocapital.com. Data and message rates apply. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, as we continue to rock on and own culture, I can't believe it, but there is a Epstein joke that was said at the SP Awards last night by Shane Gillis of all people, who's a fantastic comedian, and told some great jokes.

And it's just great to see comedy back, right? Shane Gillis is the guy who does a better Trump impression, like as good of a Trump impression as any human being on the planet. He's famous for it. And he gave a monologue that was pitch park fit. It went viral in my feed. Not only did he call out Jeffrey Epstein,

but he also called out January 6th, which is crazy. He called January 6th a stunt. He called January 6th staged. And then made a Jeffrey Epstein suicide murder joke right on stage here we go Donald Trump wants to stage a UFC fight on the White House lawn the last time he staged a fight in DC Mike Pence almost died Alright, alright. You don't have to do that. It was fine. I didn't write it. Actually, there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here, but as it got deleted... It must have probably deleted itself, right? Probably never existed, actually.

Let's move on as a country and ignore that. We own culture, man. We own culture. It's been good. It's been positive energy. I don't know if you follow sort of the Caitlin Clark. We do like, we do videos on Caitlin Clark here and there. Sometimes they hit, most times they don't.

I think most people don't care about the WNBA. In fact, the funniest thing that happened last night was, you gotta grab me that, with Shane Gillis making up a fake WNBA player and everybody applauded in order to prove that the WNBA isn't real. Guys, grab me that right away, please. But Shane Gillis' joke on Caitlin Clark

is probably the single most viral joke last night. Here we go. When Caitlin Clark retires from the WNBA, she's going to work at a Waffle House so she can continue doing what she loves most, fist fighting black women. Yeah! This is, I mean, this is similar to the Ricky Gervais roast,

who also, by the way, went hard at Jeffrey Epstein. Let's play that just for old time's sake, ladies and gentlemen, to give us all a little bit of a laugh. Let me know when you have the WNBA joke, though, loaded up. You got that? Okay, is that ready? This one's perfect. So this is Shane Gillis making up a fake WNBA player

and announcing her and honoring her, but actually just is his buddy's wife. And everybody applauds because they don't know what the hell is going on. And this is like, great, here we go. Max Crosby is here. Max, I hope you had a good Juneteenth, brother. Oh, that guy's weird.

Four time WNBA All-Star Brittany Hicks is here. Give it up for Brittany, everybody. Why you guys weird? Four time WNBA All-Star Brittany Hicks is here. Give it up for Brittany everybody. I'm joking around. That's my friend's wife. I knew none of you knew WNBA players. That's crazy you clap with it. That's perfect. It's the co-host of his podcast. There you go. Okay. There you go. Look, this is like the,

like nobody's really laughing. That was like the funniest part of last night. It was just like Ricky's your base. Nobody laughed. The, the, the actual, the funniest part was the reactions of the Hollywood elite when they got roasted for Epstein, for being friends with Epstein. It was very interesting. Kevin Spacey calling for the release of everything. You know, Kevin Spacey like traveled with Epstein and so on. Kevin Spacey's calling for the release

of all the Epstein files, very interesting. And ladies and gentlemen, here's a, this, I mean, just a throwback. This is like in the vein of, this is in the vein of Ricky Gervais. This is when of course you knew that this Epstein issue wasn't going away was when you could get this type of reaction in the year 2020. That's when this monologue was given and it's just one of the best things that's ever happened is without question the best

monologue ever given at any award show in human history. And I don't think that it'll ever be topped. Here we go. That's a show about a man who wants to kill himself because his wife dies of cancer and it's still more fun than this. Okay? Spoiler alert, season two is on the way.

So in the end, he obviously didn't kill himself. Just like Jeffrey Epstein. Shut up. I know he's your friend but I don't care. You had to make your own way here in your own plane didn't you? Oh man there's been a lot of darkness. Been a lot of darkness. We're doing our very best to provide salt and light. sometimes that comes in the form of simply covering these things when when there's a lot of, yeah,

when there's a lot of energy in both directions, right? And you're trying your very best to thread the needle. And the way that we're approaching this is the way we've always approached it. We've been rock ribbed consistent on this issue for a decade actually, and for our entire lives. But like since Jeffrey Epstein was sort of like vaulted into the public consciousness by President Trump

in some of his earliest political speeches. That it's evil, the predators need to be exposed and put away, and that we don't wanna pay taxes to pedophile networks. And that's not what we should be in the business of doing. It's pretty obvious. And that it's class warfare, ultimately, in its bones, it's class warfare,

and that's a worthwhile fight to have. These people have abused us and have insulted us over and over and over again, and it's a challenging fight, but it's worth fighting. Ladies and gentlemen. We'll have a press conference at 1 p.m. I think we'll be covering that. I think we'll probably be going live for that again they

But for now our verse of the day God is our refuge in our strength and ever-present help in troubles as Psalms 46 What a beautiful psalm One that perhaps you've memorized. I certainly have a refuge in our strength and ever-present help in trouble Our nation has always needed to seek God. It's always been in trouble because this is a nation that to the lowly and most humble efforts of man has tried in its inception to be a moral and honest nation of good people who are searching and living in the light.

It's carved into the faces of our monuments. In God we trust, it's on our money. And ladies and gentlemen, can a nation like ours long endure is the question, right, of Lincoln at Gettysburg? And that's our challenge. Only with God's help is the answer. So that is why we do a verse of the day,

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