The Benny Show - 🚨PANIC in DC: Trump Mass Fires DOJ Prosecutors, Opens Investigation into J6 Prosecutors | Kash Soon, with Guests Sen. Mike Lee, Sen. Markwayne Mullin and Calley Means

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

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Today is Tuesday, January 28th, 2025, but before that, we have such good news to bring to you on this program. Trump purging the Department of Justice and the D.C. federal prosecutor now targeting the J6 lawyers. We're going to cover that off the top because that is a huge, huge D.C. deep state on life support story. Ladies and gentlemen, the deep state on suicide watch. Wait till you hear some of the reporting from Politico of what's going on inside the DOJ right now. House Oversight announces investigation into sanctuary cities as the, you're going to be shocked to see this, breaking footage of the DHS secretary actually going on ice raids. We brought you Dr. Phil on an ice raid yesterday.

Dr. Phil, you can catch him outside in an ice raid. Now, Chrissy Noem breaking right now is on ice raids. We'll cover it today. RFK advisor Callie Means is on the show to talk about RFK's nomination hearing tomorrow, which we will be live for, along with Mark Wayne Mullen and Senator Mike Lee, who will be talking to us about the new law and order administration and previewing Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard's nominating confirmation hearings.

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85545. Text Benny. Data messaging rates apply. Performance may vary. Consult with your financial professionals. Okay, here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Kristi Noem, breaking right now, just posted seconds ago. Kristi Noem is on the ground saying, yo, we are rounding up these criminal aliens.

Here she is inside of her, in her flak jacket there in an ice raid in new york city christy gnome wearing a gold bracelet and a ice bulletproof vest what can you believe you like the timeline that we were living in you're watching the dhs the the Department of Homeland Security actually protect homeland security. So this is Kristi Noem. There she is with the gold bracelet. She was the governor of South Dakota up until a couple of moments ago. She's sworn in this weekend. She passed nomination, flying colors, actually, in the Senate.

And she recorded a very short two second video for us, ladies and gentlemen, after, uh, briefing the ICE agents on their shockingly new role of actually collecting criminal aliens off the streets and d-d-d-d-d-deporting them to where they belong, which is their third world homes. Oh man, we have some very special news for you on all of this. The Law and Order Administration, ladies and gentlemen, here's Christy Noem. We're in New York City this morning. We're getting the dirt bags off these streets. We're in New York City this morning. We're getting the dirt bags off these streets. That's it. That's all she posted. Can you get the original tweet? She posted it from her new handle,

OnX. Her team's reached out and said, hey, can you tell your audience to please follow Christy? And I said, yeah, totally. Have Christy come on our show. And they're like, absolutely. We're drinking from fire hose. That's exactly what they told us. But yes, Secretary Noem will be coming on the program. We're locking it in right now. So this is Secretary Noem's new page. She just posted this video. Scroll down, please. And this is where you're going to actually see a lot of the action here, ladies and gentlemen. 7 a.m. in New York City, getting the dirt bags off the street. Over the last four years, the way that you've heard criminal aliens who were exited from their prisons and mental institutions and sent to America, you've heard them called migrants. You've heard them called dreamers. You've heard them called people who just want opportunity.

An opportunity to do what? Kill Lake and Riley? Yeah. Okay, bastards. No, you're going home. All of you. ICE has made it very clear that if you're a criminal alien in this country, and we use the term

criminal alien, again, because they broke the law. Their first act was to break our laws. They came here illegally. A lot of people, your grandparents, maybe your grandpappy, came here illegally. Your great-great-great-grandpappy, depending on how long you've been in this country. Maybe you came here legally, if you're watching this, we have a lot of people who watch from

international audiences. Maybe you want to come here legally. Cool. There's a system for that. If you throw a party at your house, it's like a nice little Christmas party. It's December 24th. You're throwing a Christmas party and somebody breaks your window and smashes into your house to like enter your property. You're like, no, and somebody breaks your window and smashes into your house to like enter your property. You're like, no, actually, that's not the way to enter my house. Somebody kicks in your door and graffiti is your front step. Do you think they're going to follow the rules of your home?

Do you want them in your home? I don't want any of these people in my house. This is what Danny Vance said this weekend. It's perfect. Pitch perfect. We don't have to explain through facts and logic anything to you people. You're demons. Demons aren't going to be persuaded by facts and logic.

They need to be exercised with holy water and searing hot light. You don't parlay with these people. You don't. You simply say, I don't want those people in my country, Margaret. I don't really care, Margaret. That's going to be the energy of this administration. Hot damn, ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you what. Donald Trump ain't effing around.

I'm going to get to Donald Trump's mass firings here in just a second, but I have to play you this clip from last night that made me scream. I don't often scream. The reason we weren't live for Trump's speech last night was as like a kind of like a, like a policy speech, right? And we, we like, we're going to have to pick and choose for president Trump coverage, but you got to see this from last night's speech, pretty short speech. Donald Trump just covered some basic policies of his administration, but you got to check this out. If there was news made on one single topic, it's this. Donald Trump is going to be bringing back exile. Stop yelling. I'm too excited. Exile. Do you hear me? You remember like the prison colony islands that he used to send people to like Haiti or I

don't know, a little place you might have heard of called Australia. You remember prison colony islands when, like, you are clearly unfit to live inside of a civilized moral society? And so we're going to literally ship your ass out of the country into exile? President Trump made these comments last night saying not only is it criminal aliens that need to be out of here, it's also the habitual psychotic offenders who have 50, 60 different criminal offenses on their records, violent crimes that keep being released through Soros prosecutors. These people are not fit for a moral, civilized society. We need to exile them. We'll exile them to the third world, to the prisons of the third world. Let's see how they like it.

Oh, oh, you're speaking my love language. I will crawl on my hands and knees myself with a chisel in my mouth to carve Donald Trump's face on Mount Rushmore myself. I will move my family to the foothills of South Dakota to live in tents so I can carve Trump's face on Mount Rushmore. I'll explain to you why this is genius in just a second. Listen to Donald Trump. They're very dangerous people. They're violent people. I used to say these are more violent than our criminals. In fact, the best part about them is they make our criminals look quite nice, actually, by comparison. They are very violent people. We also have many violent criminals in our country, however, that did not necessarily come here illegally,

but have been arrested 30 times, 35 times, 41, 42 times in a couple of cases, 25 times, 18 times, many for murder and other heinous charges such as pushing people into subways. As the train's coming along at 45 miles an hour, boom, you get pushed into the subway. They had it last week, getting them in the head with baseball bats while they're not looking, punching old ladies in the face, knocking them unconscious and stealing their purse. They even break into apartments and rape elderly women and beat up elderly men, beat them to hell. And I don't want these violent repeat offenders in our country anymore than I want illegal aliens from other countries who misbehave. And I say, and this is subject to getting it approved, but if they've been arrested many, many times, they're repeat offenders by many numbers, I want them out of our country. I also will be seeking permission to do so. We're going to get approval, hopefully, to get them the hell out of our country along with others.

Let them be brought to a foreign land and maintained by others for a very small fee as opposed to be maintained in our jails for massive amounts of money, including the private prison companies that charge us a fortune. Now, let them be brought out of our country and let them live there for a while. Let's see how they like it. You'll see crime all over the country dry up. Essentially, that's what Venezuela and other countries are doing. They're getting rid of their criminals and putting them into the United States of America. And their crime is down by almost 80 percent. We're going to restore law and order in America, and we want to bring back the death penalty for these horrible people that kill people.

They kill people. It's always a tough thing to say because I don't like it. Nobody likes it. But if you don't do it, we're just looking for trouble. Ladies and gentlemen, I did a little call in around last night. What is Trump talking about? Let me tell you. Let me tell you what I heard from White House administration officials. You ever heard of a place called El Salvador? You ever seen photos like these of El Salvador, of how criminals are treated there? Do you know the president of El Salvador, who's a dear friend and supporter of this administration. Nia Kelly is his name. This is how he was able to end the MS-13 scourge on his country. He locked up these animals

inside of prisons that look like, I mean, check this out. Yo, lock these people up. Got them off the streets. They released the data. By the way, this was sent to me last night by a White House official. They released the data. You know, you lock up the thousand worst offenders in any like metropolitan area. You pretty much reduce crime by like 99%. It's literally 1000 people in New York, Philadelphia, L.A., Chicago that are doing all the crimes. If you get those demons off the street, you create like literally utopias. And that's what they did in El Salvador.

What Donald Trump is talking about is potentially, this was teased to me, potentially sending our worst criminals to El Salvador. And seeing how they like it. Here you go. It's going to be this model. Donald Trump saying for a small fee, we could just send our, because in our federal penal system, these people, like they don't want these people in jails either. You know, in jails, there's order. There is a system.

And these people are not fit for even those systems. So why not exile, ladies and gentlemen? That's the world we're living in. Oh, baby, we are cooking this morning. So there's literal exiles with Donald Trump. Who's in favor of that? Who's in favor of that? That's why Trump's saying this, because if you got the 1,000 worst offenders, El Salvador is the proof of this. The test case, the data's there. If you get the 1,000 worst offenders off the street, you have no crime. And not only that, you have no contagion point for

more crime. Because when somebody sees a criminal getting away with it pushing someone in front of the subway when that creates more criminals when they see that criminal being deported and never heard from again in el salvador to get put into these maximum security like pretty much state like prisons the size of like moon base uh that actually reduces you're like oh maybe a life of crime isn't for me. I very much enjoy my job at McDonald's. Thank you very much. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen,

this is the law and order golden era. Very quickly here, and then we have our spectacular Senator Mark Wayne Mullen who will be joining the program in just a second. President Trump mass firing DOJ attorneys. Whoo, hot damn. Who's ready for this? Acting Attorney General fires prosecutors who work with special counsel Jack Smith.

Justice Department has fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked with Jack Smith into my veins. Into my veins. Ladies and gentlemen, DOJ officials are saying that they are living in literal fear day in and day out. The prosecutors fired Monday worked on cases brought by Jack Smith. One prosecutor alleged that Trump illegally retained a slew of classified information. Now they're gone. After Trump won the election in November, Justice Department effectively dropped the cases. These are something that is completely and totally different from Trump term 1.0.

Ladies and gentlemen, these are spurious terminations. The grounds are a hodgepodge of disinformation and distortion. Facts alike. Said Norm Eisen. Cry more, dude. Uh, the president and his appointees have the power to hire and fire federal employees. It has to be done within the rules of the law during the Trump administration. Uh, uh, first term there was, uh, absolutely none of this action. And this is the kind of action that you want. I guess we'll go over to the Julie Kelly. It's going over to the Julie Kelly post here real fast to get some really juicy, juicy quotes from the political article. And Alex, please grab me this political article. Career lawyers and staff at the Justice Department say the rush of charges in the first

week of the Trump administration make them feel like they're under siege. It feels like a nonviolent war. It's just wild. Everybody is sitting duck. These people have no power or control over the situation, said one DOJ career employee. People are just in a state of shock and devastation. It's unlike anything we've ever seen. Nothing that happened during the first Trump administration came anywhere near this. Oh, these quotes are just juicy. Here we go. Real fast. It's going to be among the most demoralizing moments in the history of the Department of Justice, says one former DOJ official, is a flat out purge of individuals who this administration view as either suspect loyalty or to have worked on matters they did not like. We are in the early phases of what to me is looking

like a wholesale politically inspired demolition of the Department of Justice. Yeah, okay. Yeah, it's Trump demolishing the Department of Justice. Final quotation from Politico here is so good. Fear has also set in among the prosecutors who handled cases of more than 1,500 charges in connection to the Capitol riot. Notice how they don't say insurrection anymore. They don't say insurrection because they know these people are going to sue. And anybody who called them insurrectionists are going to be caught up

in the largest class action lawsuit in American history. They already saw their work undermined by Trump pardons. However, the sheer number could be an obstacle to significant retribution. Oh, really? Try us. Try us. They can't fire everybody. Really? Try us. Oh, really? Ladies and gentlemen, we'll get a load of this. Here we go. Donald Trump, the new U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., is now turning his investigative power into the prosecutors of J6. Persecutions. Trump's new DCE prosecutor launches review to examine great failure of key charge

leveled against J6 defendants. The acting US attorney Ed Martin says that he wants to get to the bottom of why an obstruction charge was brought against more than 1500 pardoned Capitol riot defendants. Capitol riot. Amazing how they changed the language. No longer insurrectionists.

Would you look at that? Man, there are some lawyers chomping at the bit, by the way, to carry forward the largest civil liability case in the history of the country against the federal government. Washington, D.C.'s top prosecutor told the Justice Department colleagues on Monday that he's launching a special project to review the office's handling of federal charges brought

against 1,500 January 6th offended. Mike Davis has been on this program day in and day out saying the hunters will become the hunted, and you are watching it happen live right now, ladies and gentlemen. The DOJ getting cleared out, and now they're coming after the DOJ, the prosecutors from the D.C. federal prosecution office. Oh, oh, into my bloodstream, into my veins. Can't be a better way to start the day. Except for with our friend Mark Wayne Mullen, who is the great senator from Oklahoma,

who joins us live now to talk about this, these glorious moments of law and order in the golden era. Here we go. Senator, there's just like too much good news to get to. And I just don't know, you know, sometimes it's like drinking from a fire hose, man. But it's like a fire hose of champagne, bourbon, and there's no water in California.

So it's like we're here and we're locked in. And it's so great and so awesome. And so I just thank you for joining us. You seem like you're having a lot of fun. I had the privilege of watching your show for a while. And I don't know if I've seen you this happy. Typically, your shows the last four years, you've been a little grumpy uh and uh in kind of i don't know dooms type conversation never never always memes always uh always a happy spirit it kind of seemed like your glass was half empty and right now your

glass is like three quarters full it's enjoyable to watch it's overflowing okay so let's talk through let's talk talk through cash's talk, talk, talk to cash Patel. Cause they're already screaming and crying at the DOJ and you're already looking at J6 prosecution, like the prosecutors becoming the hunted here. Um, and cash Patel confirmations this week. Um, this is going to be real like DC deep state on life support at this point. Yeah. Cash cash is going to be fine. I have no concerns about Cash being confirmed. I'll tell you, what's interesting to me is it's the same playbook that the Democrats did in 2017.

They're doing it. They did it on Pete Hegseth. They're doing it on Cash Fatale. You know, not qualified, not trustworthy, conspiracy, all this stuff but what's interesting is everybody you have from tulsi uh to to uh bobby kennedy uh pete hegseth i don't care which one you name they're all focused on not dc insiders they're focused on people delivering the actual work like cash hotel he says openly the field operators inside the FBI, the agents out in the field, they do a great job.

What needs to be reformed is D.C., the seventh floor of Hoover Building. When we talked about Pete Hexeth, Pete Hexeth said, I'm putting the warriors, I'm putting the war fighters first and getting the bureaucracy out of DOD. As he said multiple times, we don't win wars with generals. If that was the case, we'd be undefeated right now.

The fact is we won World War II with seven four-star generals, and we have 44 today. When you start talking about Tulsi Gabbard, it's breaking down the bureaucracy within the DNI and getting back to what the intelligent agencies do, and they deliver information to the President of the United States and to Congress. When you start talking about Bobby Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy is like, why is bureaucracy telling our doctors how to do their job? Why is bureaucracy now in the offices and making doctors be clerical reporters more than actually

taking care of the patient. I mean, he's complaining all the time that doctors spend more time filling out paperwork than they do with the patient now because of what Washington, D.C. has done. And this is what's happening all the time. And yet the Democrats are losing their ever loving mind about this, about, hey, let's get it closer to the people and get it out of Washington, D.C. Wow, that would be something new, but that's what's happening. But cash is going to be great. I'm looking forward to cash being the FBI director and actually delivering the blow

to the FBI to bring back their mission focus. So every one of these, you predict that these companies, because you were coming on this program saying Pete Hegseth's going to be fine. Boy, that was down to the wire, Senator. It was, but I knew it was going to be down the wire, but I said he was going to be fine. We just need 51 is a win. I don't care which way it is. You know, when I, when I, when I, when I fought professionally, if I won two out of the three rounds, it was a win just because I got my butt kicked in one round. Doesn't mean that I lost. lost. And it's the same thing with the same thing with wrestling, the same thing with this. It's about numbers. The score was was was it was 51?

Was it 51 49? Or I forget what the final score was. But, you know, the VP had to had to break it and he won. He's confirmed. Yeah. So you predict the same thing for Cash and Tulsi? I predict it with Cash. I predict it with Bobby. Tulsi is still at work. Tulsi's still a fight. I was talking with her today, talking to a lot of members still yet. We've got work to do, but Tulsi's willing to do the work.

She's still meeting with people. She was having meetings today. I literally was talking to her at 540 this morning. And we're kind of going through some things that need to be done to get her there. If anybody can get over this hurdle, it's going to be Tulsi. But she's got a lot of challenges to go. She has two things that's going to take place on Thursday. She's going to do an open hearing and which will be quite different than the classified hearing that will take place immediately afterwards. The vote right now, the vote for the DNI has director of national intelligence has never been held open. It's been held private. And then they released the tally, but not who voted for who. And I think it's in her favor if it's possible to have that vote public and not and not private, although it's never been done. And my question right now that I've been asking, is that a rule?

Because if it's a rule, it takes a vote to to get it out to vote that way, which it would never pass because I forget the percentage. But I'm just going to use a use. I think it's two thirds. Don't hold me to that. But I think it's two thirds to bypass a rule and bring it and bring it to the open. If that's the case, never. It will never. The Democrats won't vote for it. And so there's no way for it to ever get to the open. And so it might, if it's just the call of the chair and the chair can do it, then that may be a different situation. And, you know, I've been talking to the White House a lot about this, but Tulsi's, I'm not, I'm not totally bullish on Tulsi. I think it can be done, but we've got work to do.

Wow. Okay. Well, we'll certainly be tuned in and watching. We have been watching this morning. You sort of joined us. You joined us on the crest of a wave here. We're so excited about these mass DOJ firings and the targeting of the prosecutors that went after 1,500 of our American countrymen with the most vicious and malign prosecutions in American history. This must be thrilling for you to see. This must be quite an attitude change in Washington, D.C. Can you explain?

Yeah, it is. And by the way, the left is losing their mind on this. The media is losing their mind. You can't walk through the hall about people are losing their mind about this. I want to point out, Biden did the exact same thing when he was sworn into office. In fact, I think he did it on day one. So this isn't unusual for this to take place. They like to say it's targeting.

Well, then you can say the same thing that the Biden administration targeted the Obama administration, the DOJ that was in there, too. The fact is these individuals don't represent where America is today. The DOJ was weaponized against a party, and that party was Republicans. And it was obvious it was weaponized against the party. It was obvious that they went after domestic terrorists, but they didn't classify actual terrorists as domestic terrorists. They just classified Jan 6 individuals as domestic terrorists. It was obvious that they weaponized the DOJ to go after President Trump. It was obvious that they treated President Trump completely different than they did Biden. And we have literally a case side by side, classified documents, side by side. And so you can't even argue the point that they were treated differently. And so it's obvious that the DOJ needs to be reformed and start working for the people. The Department of Justice is honestly the backstop

of our Constitution. It's a backstop for the people. When the government overreaches, either in the White House or Congress, the DOJ was there to hold them accountable. And it was supposed to be ran specifically on constitutional values. That's it. They were not supposed to be beholden to any branch. They were supposed to be separate by themselves and they have not been. And what the president of the United States is doing now, President Trump is doing what different. And in this great word, what's different than the former president of the United States, President Biden, isn't that word great, formal, if you can say that? To say that President Trump is now the new president,

what he's doing is he's restoring the DOJ for the people again because the people of America have decided they want government to work for them again, not a party. Wow. Well, that's what President Trump is all about. Yeah, I mean, we covered off the top that Kristi Noem is doing ICE raids along with, I guess, Dr. Phil now, which is great. I mean, imagine being deported by Dr. Phil. What an exciting story you would have to tell your friends in Guatemala. We'd give you counseling about that. Dr. Phil caught me outside. What a reversal, right? Dr. Phil catches me outside, deports me with his mustache.

And again, like when you're back in Guatemala, that's an incredible story. I mean, you're going to have a great time retelling that. You know, I was on the floor, Benny, just a while ago presiding because you have to do that now that you're in the majority, which I'm not complaining

because I'd rather be in the majority than minority. You have to preside. And I do, most of the time, I do leadership hour is when I'm presiding. So I get to hear Leader Thune talk, which Leader Thune is doing a great job. I mean, compared to Mitch McConnell, he is doing a phenomenal job leading the conference. He's articulating where we're at. You can tell he stands with the president and the mandate the American people put out. But unfortunately, I also got to listen to Dick Durbin, which is a Democrat whip.

And I've got to listen to Dick Durbin, which is a Democrat whip. And I've got to listen to Chuck Schumer, man. You can poke my eye out. And they were complaining about Dr. Phil being there in these raids. And I'm going, you know, I remember specifically CNN going on every one of these raids against president Trump and president Trump supporters. You remember that?

I mean, literally breaking news, CNN would have a freaking helicopter in the sky over these people. And how did they understand that the raid was going to happen if the White House didn't tell them it was going to be there? I mean, CNN would be reporting live as they were doing it. And now all of a sudden they're upset that Dr. Phil there and Dr. Phil literally can provide counseling for these individuals. I mean, it could help. So so my my, my, my, my question, I know we're up against a hard out, but very quickly here, Donald Trump made some very exciting news for us talking about exile for America's worst criminals, along with criminal aliens. What's

your thoughts on that center? You know, I literally was listening to you talk about that. And I was like, I know he's going to bring that up and I don't have an answer for it. Cause I don't, I had to speak literally. Right. And so I don't know exactly what his plan is. President Trump says a lot of stuff and we all support it. But it's like, OK, what is what's the details on this? So what does that actually look like? I don, legal permanent residence, but legal permanent residence can be revoked on certain things. And so that maybe that's considered exile. So I don't know the details are always important in something like this. But I think he's probably more referring not to American citizens, but those that are guests or illegals here inside the United States. All right. Well, we're bringing back letters of mark we're bringing back exile it's amazing we should restart the prison colony call it australia and uh man we just can't just get going man yeah fun it's gonna be a wild time so uh this is gonna be a really fun and exciting hearing uh up tomorrow with rfk and then cash and Tulsi on Thursday.

Senator, Godspeed in those hearings. Thank you so much for obviously fighting so hard in the Senate against some pretty goofy and malign forces, really pissed off at how the Pete Hegseth vote went. By the end of this week, I think we should have nine confirmed cabinet members in place or directors for the president. That's not the same pace we had when Biden was in office. Biden, I think, had 15 within the first two weeks, but we're way ahead than we were in 2017. We're moving at a very strong pace and we're way ahead where Biden was at the same time. Excellent. Excellent. Spectacular.

Everybody go follow the great Senator from Oklahoma. Congratulations on Oklahoma State wrestling, by the way. Doing great this year. They are. I know you're far. Got two boys on the team. Oh, do you really? I do, yeah.

How did I know that? That's amazing. Yeah, Jim and Jace wrestle for Oklahoma State, and then Andrew wrestles for the University of Oklahoma. So we kind of really have a house divided. That gonna it's gotta be a rowdy thanksgiving uh yeah they let's catch right let's catch a match sometime senator thank you so much yeah all right ladies and gentlemen we are rocking and we are rolling this morning. Too much good news. I can't.

Too much good news. And it's such a great place to be. The senator really wanted to join and say hello and what's up to y'all and preview the coming hearings. Now we're going to be having Callie Means, who is the RFK advisor, also previewing RFK, who will be up less than 24 hours from now in the chair. We'll be live for that. Also, Senator Mike Lee. First, ladies and gentlemen, here's CNN's report on what we

were talking about earlier, which is the mass firings of DC orcs and swamp creatures and goblins and lizards people. Oh, and watch CNN cry about it. Let's go. Jake, we have gotten so much news out of the Justice Department in just the past 30 minutes. Trump Justice Department officials doing exactly what President Trump said he would do, firing officials who worked on criminal investigations related to Trump, and also launching an investigation into the prosecutions of January 6th.

Now, let's start with that first news, and that is this move to fire, we're told, over a dozen officials who worked on criminal investigations related to President Trump. The acting attorney general sent out a memo earlier notifying them that they are being removed from their position, saying, quote, you played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump. The proper functioning of the government critically depends on the trust superior officials place in their subordinates. Given your significant role in prosecuting the president, I do not believe that the leadership of the department can trust you to assist in implementing the president's agenda faithfully. So that has happened just in the past 15, 20 minutes. And then earlier this afternoon, we learned that the Trump administration is also launching

what is being described as a, quote, special project to investigate certain charges that were pursued in the larger January 6th investigation. So this isn't related to President Trump, but this is related to January 6th prosecutions where individuals were charged with obstruction of justice. Now, the interim U.S. attorney, Ed Martin, sent out a memo today saying that he wants to review cases where this charge was used. A senior administration official notes the fact that the Supreme Court reviewed this charge being used in the context of January 6th, that it could not be used in this context. So now all of these cases are being reviewed. The senior administration official called this a huge waste of resources and said

this is going to be a fact-finding mission. But of course, there are enormous concerns about the Trump Justice Department going after prosecutors. Of course, this was the largest criminal investigation and prosecution in the Justice Department's history. Trump has just pardoned most of the people who have been convicted, all but 14 were pardoned. The 14 received commutations, other people having their charges dismissed. But two incredibly big stories. Ladies and gentlemen, that was a CNN clip on Donald Trump purging the Justice Department, mass firings of DOJ lawyers, and now launching an investigation into the January 6th prosecutor. But there's something that is breaking at this very second breaking news right now, ladies and gentlemen, from CNN. Get ready. Here we go.

CNN's Jim Acosta has been fired. Jim Acosta is out of the building. Out of here, baby. So exciting. Here we go. Donald Trump posting on Truth Social, and now it is official, this was rumored yesterday,

officially breaking this very second Jim Acosta has been fired from CNN. Wow, really good news. Jim Acosta, one of the worst and most dishonest reporters in journalistic history, a major sleazebag, has been relegated

by CNN's fake news to the midnight hour Death Valley because of extraordinarily bad ratings and no talent. Word is he wants to quit. That would be even better. Jim is a major loser who will fail

no matter where he ends up. Good luck, Jim. Jim Acosta now officially out at CNN. Jim Acosta officially gone at CNN. We have a special salt that lib for you, ladies and gentlemen, which is Jim Acosta's last mewling, bitching lecture from his anchor position at CNN, where Jim Acosta held up a sign even and broke down in tears on screen. This is the hours after President Trump was signed in, was sworn in as president and was signing executive orders. Ladies and gentlemen, please salt Jim Acosta

for the last time. I can't believe I'm saying this. I can't believe I'm saying this. Salt Jim Acosta for the last time. Our salt that live of the day, crying Jim Acosta, holding up a sign live on air, giving a little speech about Donald Trump for the last time. Here we go. I want to take a moment to talk about something President Biden said during his

farewell address. He warned the free press is crumbling in this country. I would add that's only if we the people let that happen. Journalists exist to seek the truth, to tell people's stories, to lift up voices that may not be heard otherwise, to shine a light on injustice and to hold the powerful accountable. We are not the enemy of the people. We are the defenders of the people. Walter Cronkite once said freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy. I want to take a moment to show you something. A woman sent me this sign eight years ago. She carried it here at a march in Washington. She wrote on the back of the sign, to me and the press here in D.C., you have our support. To Nora, wherever you are, right back at you.

Reporting from Washington, I'm John. I have this note that was sent to me in my lunch from my mommy today. I currently live in her basement. And it says, you are a bright, shining star. And I love you.'" Kissy face, kissy face, kissy face, snookums. It's so special I wear it on my shirt. Could you imagine the like listening to news

from these people? Actually listening to that man as like an authority on anything, somebody who's so infantile, so cucked, so beta that he keeps little signs and notes that people wrote to him. Weeping about the free press. Oh, that's a good one. Put that up. Ladies and gentlemen, we have some, like, just because this is breaking right now, we might as well have a little fun with it. Here's the office space meme of Jim Acosta.

Getting a move down to storage space B. I'm going to need your stapler, Jim. I'm going to need that stapler. Here's a moment when Jim Acosta was literally shouted down inside of a Trump rally while he was masking there. He's outside masking at a Trump rally. And the CNN sucks chant got so loud that Jim Acosta had to try and clap back. Here we go. But Iowa, North Carolina really states it should be in the bag for President Trump right now. That's an indication as to how much trouble he's in politically right now. Well, and as this crowd is chanting that there are members of the press here who

suck, I should also point out, well, what also sucks getting the coronavirus. Good one, Jim. Deep burn. Wow, bro. You really got us. Time to delete our accounts. Dude's entire career just got deleted Remember the White House pulled his badge Apparently according to all available reporting This is happening because of President Trump President Trump's back in office

And CNN is saying we're going to play nice with you And Donald Trump's requests for that nicety Was that Jim Acosta get either demoted or fired. And Jim Acosta has now been fired, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, did he quit on air? He quit on air? Oh, man. Okay, so here's the special first time ever in the history of The Banning Show.

We're going to do a Trump wins because this is because of Trump, because of Donald Trump. According to all available reporting, this is because of Donald Trump. We're going to do a Trump wins stinger with the dancing. Please join me. And then we're going to play you Jim Acosta's actual weepy, tear-filled sign-off on CNN that just happened seconds ago. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Drop salt on him, too.

We'll still keep the salt the salt flowing let's go just wanted to end today's show by thanking all of the wonderful people who work behind the scenes at this network you may have seen some reports about me and the show and after giving all of this some careful consideration and weighing an alternative time slot CNN offered me, I've decided to move on. I am grateful to CNN for the nearly 18 years I've spent here doing the news. People often ask me if the highlight of my career at CNN was at the White House covering Donald Trump. Actually, no. That moment came here when I covered former President Barack Obama's trip to Cuba in 2016 and had the chance to question the dictator there, Raul Castro, about the island's political prisoners. As the son of a Cuban refugee,

I took home this lesson. It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant. I've always believed it's the job of the press to hold power to account. I've always tried to do that here at CNN, and I plan on doing all of that in the future. One final message. Don't give in to the lies. Don't give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope. Even if you have to get out your phone, record that message. I will not give into the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear

from you too. I'll have more to say about my plans in the coming days, but until then, I want to thank all of you for tuning in. It has been an honor to be welcomed into your home for all these years. That's the news. Reporting from Washington, I'm Jim Acosta. Some D.C. therapist is going to make so much money off Jim Acosta. They fired me live on air. is gonna make so much money off Jim Acosta. Oh, they made me. They fired me live on air. What a, what a total and complete, could you imagine?

Could you imagine? You're like saving little notes from your mommy. You're crying about like the truth, always true, the truth. Don't give in to the fear. I got a chance to talk to the dictator. dictator you know what's weird is that we have something it's an incredible machine called the internet and we can go back in time and actually find clips of jim acosta like this one of jim acosta on the border with the border wall and if you uh countervail this against what Jim Acosta just said,

and you play them back to back, you'll notice that Jim Acosta is doing the opposite of what he just told his audience. Always speak the truth. Always talk about the reality of what's going on. Never have any fear. Okay, well, here's Jim Acosta on the border. The same border that, of course, has been the blight of American existence over the last four years. The same border that has led to the unspeakable carnage of the American people. Rapes, murders, untold, hundreds of thousands of children missing, the largest human smuggling operation, drug operation, an absolute poisoning of our American people and our American dream. And here's how Jim Acosta covered it. See if you can find any truth in this.

And here are some of the steel slats that the president's been talking about right here. As you can see, yes, you can see through these slats to the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border. But as we're walking along here, we're not seeing any kind of imminent danger. There are no migrants trying to rush toward this fence here in the McAllen, Texas area. As a matter of fact, there are some other businesses behind me along this highway. There's a gas station, Burger King, and so on. But no sign of the national emergency that the president has

been talking about. As a matter of fact, it's pretty tranquil down here. There's a Burger King. It's tranquil because the cartels are not actively torturing me and shooting at me it donald trump's lying to you it's a paradise jim why don't you just move there in fact why don't you move down to like i don't know one of these prisons jim how about you move here to this el salvadorian el salvadorian prison how about you move there see how tranquil it is, Jim. We've got a special bunk just for you. It's the last one on the left up top. Very special.

Very nice little bunk. Since everything Trump says is such a lie, why don't you go start living with MS-13 gang members? You know, it's amazing how you didn't see any more reporting from Jim Acosta on the border. Isn't that remarkable? He goes down one time to be like, it's so peaceful and beautiful down here. And it was amazing how you didn't see any more reporting from Jim Acosta on the border. Isn't that remarkable? He goes down one time to be like,

it's so peaceful and beautiful down here. And then nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, we've created a meme template by the way. Here we go. We have the meme template, will shill $4. Okay, great.

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It's amazing. Here's two things you haven't heard in the new Trump administration. The words climate change. Have you heard it? You heard the word climate change? No. You haven't heard anything like not once.

Here's Donald Trump talking about the Green New Deal yesterday because we're actually talking about serious problems in America right now, not made up problems, ladies and gentlemen. And Donald Trump making some jokes. Here we go. I terminated the ridiculous and incredibly wasteful Green New scam, one of the great scams in history. Actually, isn't it 12 years up? They gave us 12 years to live, right? I think that we passed it, right?

We're still around. Can you believe it? You know, the person that really came up with it is a person that never even took a course on the environment, was a you know, important Democrat leaders were starting, you know, they got sucked into it. And we've spent trillions of dollars on just like throwing it out the window. You could throw it out the window. You would have been better off. I withdrew from the one side at Paris climate accord. Wow. We were supposed to have 12 years and we made it. Wow. We're still around. Can you believe it? Donald Trump signed some new executive orders yesterday, removing transgender ideology from the military, building an iron dome, banning critical race theory and reinstating the individuals in our military who are discharged because of the totally illegal and unconstitutional therapeutic mandate on our military. Here we go. And in a little while, I'll be signing four new executive orders.

First is that I'm directing our new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, who's going to be great, by the way. Thank you for the support. Thank you very much for the support. You really did support him greatly. I think he's going to be fantastic. I know him very well. I think he's going to be fantastic. He's what we need to immediately begin the construction of a state

of the art Iron Dome missile defense shield, which will be able to protect Americans. You know, we protect other countries, but we don't protect ourselves. And when Ronald Reagan wanted to do it many years ago, luckily we didn't. We didn't have the technology then. It was a concept, but we didn't. And now we have phenomenal technology. You see that with Israel. We're out of 319 rockets. They knocked down just about every one of them. So I think the United States is entitled to that.

And everything will be made right here in the USA, 100 percent. And next, to ensure that we have the most lethal fighting force in the world, we will get transgender ideology the hell out of our military. It's going to be gone. In addition, we will stop our service members from being indoctrinated with radical left ideologies such as critical race theory. We're going to stop it. It's already been stopped.

It's already been halted, totally halted. And finally, we will offer full reinstatement to any service member who was expelled from the armed forces due to the covid vaccine mandate, and we will restore them to their former rank with full pay. The thing about Trump that is shocking the universe right now is not these specific actions. Because Donald Trump's been saying he's going, if you listen closely, and we've been either broad, how many MAGA rallies have gone to? Hundreds. We've gone to hundreds. We've broadcasted many hundreds of MAGA rallies, okay, over the course of the last couple years on this program. So it's not that these surprises us at all. This is not surprising to us because it does sound like a Donald Trump speech that he's been giving for a long time. Actually, it's that he's doing it. Do you understand? It's that Trump's actually

delete. He's a president that's straight up going there and doing what he said he was going to do. We had a great short about somebody who hates Trump. Great short. Go grab me that, Danny. I like this woman who hates, she doesn't like Trump, but she's like, you're getting what you voted for. I can't believe it. She's like a Trump hater. She's like, I can't believe a president's actually doing what he told you he was going to do. And y'all vote like we all voted for this and we're getting what we voted for. That's what's remarkable in this current moment. Now, I didn't know that Donald Trump was going to go hard in on the exile.

You saw the senator like run away from the exile question. We're asked Mike Lee about letters of Mark. Get ready. Letters of Mark. You ever heard of that? Now, this is something that Senator Lee's been big on. He's saying letters of Mark is effectively old privateering. Like the U.S. government gives you the capacity as a private contractor to go take people out, whether they are pirates.

This is the last time that we saw these properly used by our government. But Congress has the power to do this. You know, read the Constitution. Here we go. Letters of mark. Get ready. I'm going to talk to Senator to do this. So you can go read the constitution. Here we go. Letters of Mark. Get ready. I'm going to talk to Senator Lee about this. What are letters of Mark and the reprisal of how they could be used to weaken the drug cartels?

These are letters. What a letter of Mark is, is effectively the ability to say, no, no, no. The U.S. government gives you the right to go take out these bad people. Dude, our friend Eric Prince is like rubbing his hands together like this. Like, could you imagine if the US government said, no, no, no, these drug cartel leaders, here's a letter of mark. You have a, not only a right,

you have, we will get a big fat reward for destroying the drug cartels and the US constitution actually features it. Here we go. The legal basis, the US constitution authorizes these concessions. Article 1, Section 8, giving Congress the power to grant letters of mark and reprisal. Congress hasn't issued one in over a century.

The authority is still existent. Of course, the modern Mexican drug cartels are worse than any pirate ship. Using a letter of mark could be a novel and effective response to the threats posed by the drug cartels, especially in response to the threats. How could they be applied? Really quickly here. Authorization of Congress could use a letter of mark and reprisal authorizing private security firms, specifically trained civilians, to intercept cartel operations, particularly those involving drug shipments and human trafficking across borders. Targets would focus on disrupting supply lines, capturing high value targets and seizing assets.

Cash, gold, equipment used in criminal activities. Oh, come on, man. Oh, I love the golden era. I love it so freaking much. President Trump on deportations. Donald Trump came about this close to saying yesterday, like, I'm going to issue a letter of marque. I'm now going to say, no, no, no.

Here's a bounty on the heads of all you people, just like Osama bin Laden. He came this close. Listen to Trump bragging on what he's doing on the border. We showed you the dozens of deployments that are happening. There was a big story. It's like, no, there's 1,500 troops being sent. No, there's more like 15,000 right now, troops being sent to the border and more. The American military being weaponized to do exactly what is lawful via the Constitution, which is the protection of the homeland, which is what the commander-in-chief is supposed to do. So there's dozens of National Guard reservists and active duties being mobilized right now,

which is quite a bit of work, right, to get up and mobilized and sent in. And that's happening live. Here's President Trump, so proud of it. Let's go. I've also deployed troops to the border. And for the first time in history, we're locating and loading illegal aliens into military aircraft and flying them back to the places from which they came. And very importantly, America is respected again. We're respected again. Isn't that nice? After years of laughing at us like we're stupid people.

And as you saw yesterday, we've made it clear to every country that they will be taking back our people that we're sending out, the criminals, the illegal aliens coming from their countries. We're taking them back, and they're going to take them back fast. And if they don't, they'll pay a very high economic price. We saw that with Colombia. Colombia now waxing the presidential president of Columbia now licking Donald Trump's boots, giving Donald Trump a good boot polish with his tongue and waxing the presidential limousine. Two coats, Gustavo. Two coats, Gustavo. President of Columbia is now paying to take back his criminal aliens. We have photos of that from this morning. I'm not sure if we can store some, producers. Let's go grab them.

The people deserve to see it. We have the photos of the president of Colombia paying, p-p-p-paying to take back his criminal aliens. How great is that? Donald Trump promised 10 years ago that Mexico was going to pay for the wall. This is the first brick in that wall, and it's going to be so unbelievably exciting. Here is an exciting moment from CNN. Tom Homan

on CNN. Now, this is the moment we saw that Tom Homan was booked on CNN. We hoped it was Jim Acosta. Jim Acosta's quit. Okay. All right. We already celebrated that. But we saw Tom Homan booked on CNN. Ooh, baby. Ladies and gentlemen, wait for the fireworks to fly here. CNN crying, salty tears, mascara running down their face, being like, how many criminal aliens will you deport? Here's the answer. Now that you're officially in your position, you've been here about a week on the job. We spoke to you last before you would actually come in formally to the role. Do you have a better target number for how many people you want to deport overall? As many as we can.

My goal, I think, success is removing every criminal gang member out of this country, every public safety threat, illegal alien out of this country, every child trafficker, illegal member out of this country, every public safety threat illegal alien out of this country, every child trafficker illegal alien out of this country. Then that aperture opens, right? We got 1.4 million illegal aliens in this country who had due process, a great tax for expense. They were already removed by a federal judge and didn't leave. They became a fugitive.

They're next. So we're going to keep opening that aperture and enforcing immigration law. And for those in the country illegally, those who don't have a final order, those who have not been ordered by an immigration judge, if you're in the country illegally, you should leave. Because if we have to formally deport you, you can face anywhere from a 5- to 20-year bar from ever coming back, either as a student, a visitor visa, a tourist visa,

or be petitioned by a U.S. citizen child. If you're in the country illegally, you haven't been ordered to leave and come back the right way because there will be other opportunities. You're talking about going after public safety threats, national security threats first, but you just said the aperture is going to widen, meaning the scope of the people you're going to go after. How long do you anticipate before you're in that next phase where the aperture has gotten wider? Very soon. Asked this weekend, Tom Homan said, every criminal alien that is here illegally is on the table.

That's his quote, not mine mine on the table for deportation. Here are the Columbia flights. The except the accepting of the Colombian criminal aliens back. You can click on these photos and what you'll see here is one. Why are they all masked? Here's 2025 and then two. Wow, that lady, you know, she's got like a little, you know, bun on. They don't look like hardened criminals. Benny, how can you be so against like these people you know these people let me make

something very clear and it is the absolute and total authority of this program to bring to you the reality of criminal immigration it is been illegal for your entire life and my entire life based on a 1964 Immigration Act, but then going all the way back to an 1800s act as America was still like forming, that you are not allowed to criminal test trespass into this country. You must declare yourself at a port of entry if you want to come here and seek asylum. There is a process for that. And every second you spend on American soil, when you have entered illegally, you are you are a felon. It is a felony act against our government. And you don't let people into your house who've come in through

the window and have kicked in your door. What are the chances that those people are going to follow the rules of your house? Well, virtually none, because to enter your home, they broke your laws. They broke your window. So it is a good thing. It's resets the table. Here's another image of the criminal alien flights that Columbia now paid for. Get ready. Oh, is that Gustavo right there? Oh, interesting. OK, cross not cross-dressing in this photo very very unique you know it's like this guy has such like a super creepy very weird weird history it's almost like the world economic forum has a type right of people that they want to have that are capable of being blackmailed in positions of power right it's almost like they

know something like they they seek out individuals who have shady, dark, weird, creepy pasts. So they can use that as leverage to get the kind of insane policies that you see here. While Columbia got completely and utterly bitch slapped by the Trump administration and get ready is happening domestically too, to his absolute great credit, Mike Johnson is now calling, as a Speaker of the House, now calling for full congressional investigations into sanctuary cities. So he is now hauling the asses

of the biggest mayors in America into Capitol Hill. They've received subpoenas. Mayors of Philadelphia, Denver, Chicago, I believe, New York City have received subpoenas. They must come into Congress and they must testify. You know what happens when you defy a subpoena, right? Let me see. Let me check. My buddy named Steve Bannon went to prison. Peter Navarro went to prison. And so when Tom Homan was on our show saying that he'll arrest the mayors of America's largest cities, he meant it. Here's Mike Johnson announcing his plan to subpoena sanctuary city mayors.

F around and it's find out time. The House Oversight Committee sent four letters to the mayors of Chicago, New York City, Denver and Boston. The committee states while there are hundreds of cities and counties with sanctuary laws or policies across the U.S., these four cities stand out because of their, quote, abject failure to comply with federal law. Republican Chairman James Comer says sanctuary jurisdictions and their misguided and obstructionist policies hinder the ability of federal law enforcement officers to effectuate safe arrests and remove dangerous criminals from American communities, making Americans less safe. Congress must determine whether further legislation is necessary to enhance border security and public safety.

A hearing investigating these cities is scheduled for February 11th. Meantime, President Trump is digging in on his executive order blocking birthright citizenship. A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order to block it last week, calling it blatantly unconstitutional. We're the only country that has it and certainly the only country that has it to that extent. It was not meant for everyone to come into our country by airplane or charging across the borders from all over the world and think they're going to become citizens. And I hope judges will understand that. And it has to stop because it's really hurting our country very badly.

The president's hardline immigration tactics are already having a significant effect on the southern border. The number of illegal border crossings were already low in the 1,200 to 1,400 range per day in former President Biden's final week in office. Now the figures are even lower. Multiple sources tell our Bill Mellugian border patrol recorded only 582 illegal crossings at the southern border on Sunday, with not a single one of the nine sectors breaking 200. And tomorrow, the president is expected to sign the first bill of his administration, the Lake and Riley bill, which aims to crack down on illegal immigration. Freaking awesome, man.

Lake and Riley bill has been passed and it's on the president's desk. And not soon enough, right? Like can't happen soon enough. Get a load of this, ladies and gentlemen, Mexican cartels fired on U.S. Border Patrol agents in major escalation of the war on the southern border. They're now trying to kill us. They have already killed us.

Several Border Patrol agents conducting surveillance and enforcement activities in Texas came under fire from suspected Mexican drug cartel operatives on Monday afternoon. This is going to get worse. Count on this getting worse. Okay. Rio Grande Valley sector border patrol agents exchanged gunfire with cartel members who sought to cover as reinforcements were summoned. The agents did not sustain injuries during the initial exchange of gunfire. However, the incident is still unfolding. Very, very deadly right now on the border. We need the military right now. You can see the footage right here from a drone of these cartel. These cartels are paramilitary forces. They are

here to kill us. And well, we can't wait to talk to Senator Lee about letters of Mark because again, it is the eff around us of times and the find outingest of times, ladies and gentlemen. So it's a very it's it's going to be a wild and dynamic shifting landscape, all for the better. And there's one final update that I have to get to about President Trump's commentary last night. Again, another thing I want to talk to the great Senator Mike Lee about Donald Trump saying we're going to get rid of the income tax. Is this possible? Can it happen? It must happen again. I am willing to take, I am willing to take a chisel. I'm willing to take a chisel, hold it in my mouth, climb with my own hands on my hands and knees to the top of Mount Rushmore. And I will carve myself president Trump's face into the mountainside. If Donald Trump gets rid of the IRS, gets rid

of federal income tax. Do you understand you're looking at levels of being back levels of popularity unseen by mankind? Thank God Elon Musk is building a moon base because you will need to go that high for President Trump's approval rating. Here we go. Donald Trump last night saying, no, maybe it's time to just get rid of the income tax altogether. America is going to be very rich again, and it's going to happen very quickly. It's time for the United States to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before. Do you know, the United States in 1870 to 1913, all tariffs, and that was the richest period in the history of the United States, relatively speaking,

in other words, relatively. And they set up the Great Tariff Commission of 1887, and this commission had one function, what to do with all the money that we took in. It was so enormous that they had no idea. It was a blue-ribbon committee. It was set up in 1887, and what to do with all of the money that we had. And again, Teddy Roosevelt was a beneficiary because when McKinley was

killed, he took over this vast sum of money and he did all of those national parks and all of the other things. And I'm not knocking him, but he was given a vast amount of money. And that was all made through tariffs. We had no income tax. The income tax came in in 1913. As I said in my speech last week, instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens. Does that make sense? Could you imagine not supporting Trump right now? I mean, I get it like in 2016, right? 2015, like whatever you got PSY psyoped by the corporate press.

But could you imagine not supporting this right now? My team has also created quickly an image of me climbing Mount Rushmore in order to carve Donald Trump's face. You can even see his hair right there. You can actually see it. I'm looking at that rock right there. Okay, this is a photo

of me climbing Mount Rushmore personally to carve Donald Trump's face in the mountain. You can even see it. Ladies and gentlemen, Senator who does to carve Donald Trump's face in the mountain. You can even see it. Ladies and gentlemen, a senator who does a great Donald Trump impression. Did you know that? The great senator from the state of Utah, Mike Lee, joins the program live right now. Senator, welcome to the program. And my producer is in my ear saying,

you got to ask him to do the Trump impression. And so something I've never asked you before. Here we go. One of the best sculptors in the entire world, Benny Johnson. Folks don't know it, but he's going to carve me into Mount Rushmore. That's the best I could do. I love the graphic, by the way. I showed you larger than life, and it fed into something when you said, I will climb up there myself and carve myself. It sounded to me like you were going to be carving Benny Johnson into Mount Rushmore, which I would also support. As long as you're doing one sculpture, Benny, you ought to do two.

You deserve it. We're a humble servant of the Republic, and I'm just saying that I will happily lend my artistic services and our meme services to all of this. You put a Trump in there, you put a Pepe on the other side, and we'll be set, right? And maybe a Bennett Johnson in the middle of somewhere. Maybe a small one. Just think about it. We are humble servants of the Republic. Okay, Senator, we already went through your tweet thread about orders of Mark. I have to get there because I know there's so much to talk about.

You're on the Judiciary Committee. You're going to be here in the Kash Patel hearings. I want to get to all of that, but I must start with this. President Trump's talking about exile, exiling our criminals. He's talking about letters of Mark. Here's the thread right here. Talk us through it, Senator. The table is yours.

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10 gives Congress the power to issue letters of mark and reprisal. Letters of mark and reprisal are basically a hall pass issued by Congress in the name of the United States that entitles privateers, private actors, pirates, if you will, to engage in acts of piracy with impunity from the United States, with the understanding that any loot that they bring back, the spoils, the equipment, ships, cash, gold, whatever it is that they can bring back to the United States will be distributed among the privateers and shared with the government at the end of it. This used to be a fairly common technique used by sovereign nations. We haven't used it in a long time, as far as I can tell, not since the 1800s. But it's something that, as I explained on my at base Mike Lee account on X yesterday, it's something that we ought to consider that we could and maybe should consider in connection with Mexican drug cartels. hills. These are entities that have reaped a windfall of tens of billions of dollars in the

last four years alone, as Joe Biden has facilitated their human and drug trafficking operation by leaving our border wide open. So they've become even richer, even more powerful, even more well entrenched within Mexico. And letters of mark might be a means by which we could bring them under control, all without the risk and the expense and the uncertainty and the cumbersomeness that goes with U.S. boots on the ground. This is something we ought to consider as we're looking at the threat posed to American national security by these Mexican drug cartels. So in theory, somebody like Eric Prince, who has worked with the American government in very dangerous areas all around the globe, would be able to bring a team of a real slaughterhouse team there into Mexico without the ties of the diplomatic corps and the horrors of all the legal paperwork of a military operation, you'd just be able to, as the American, via the Constitution, the American Congress would be able to say, these bad guys, go get them. Yes, yes, essentially. But understanding that Eric Prince or anybody else who decides to undertake this effort and is granted a letter of mark and reprisal to do it, they're not acting in the name

of the United States, on behalf of the United States. It's not U.S. action. They're acting with the understanding that if they can take things, like I say, gold, cash, equipment, other valuable tools that can legitimately be sold and monetized when they get back, would be entitled to share in the profits, share in the windfall that comes from that. They would be awarded half of it, and the government would keep the other half. And I suspect many of them would take us up on it. Now, I'll let Eric speak for himself, but I know that there are a number of people out there who would eagerly welcome this opportunity and the risk that it entails so that the American people don't have to and so the U.S.

military doesn't have to get involved directly. There's a number of people out there that are very angry about what's happened to our people and what's happened to this nation and the poisoning that's happened and the horrors that have been wrought and visited upon innocent families all across America through criminal alien immigration, human trafficking, actually, which is facilitated by the cartels and the Bidens. And so I'm sure there's a lot of hot blood for this. One final question on this, Senator. When was the last time the U.S. government did this? It was piracy, right? They were they were allowing pirates to go after the foreign ships of other nations. Am I correct in that or or?

Yes. More prominent, well-known instances in which we've used them in the early 1800s against the Barbary pirates. And this was a means of bringing them under control. And we've got modern day pirates in many forms, including in the form of international drug cartels. Some of those based in Mexico have been on the front lines of human trafficking and with human trafficking, drug trafficking and all that goes along with that. They've gotten enormously wealthy, particularly over the last four years when this human trafficking business has just exploded. And they are now so wealthy and so well entrenched that it's causing a lot of problems. And so this would be one way of bringing that under control, all under control in a way that wouldn't require us to invoke the U.S. military and have a boots on the ground presence, which would be problematic for a whole host of additional reasons with our

southern neighbor. Very exciting. OK, so this would be something that would probably be very pleasing to Kash Patel, who worked in counterterrorism at the DOJ. Kash Patel's hearing in less than 24 hours, I'm sorry, 48 hours from now, Senator. You'll be there. What do you intend on asking Kash Patel? How's it going to go? Indeed, I will be there. And look, we really look forward to that hearing on Thursday. Now, few people know that on paper, Kash Patel will be one of the most qualified FBI directors in U.S. history, in the history of the bureau itself. But the media refuses even to give him that credit. Instead, they worry that he'll do what Chris Wray has done routinely, which is investigate his political opponents. They're transferring onto Kash what they know that Chris Wray has been doing. Now, I hope and fully expect that Cash will continue to share his life story with America.

But the bottom line is he's a hero, but he's often too humble to talk about it. If you want to get to sort of perpetuate the status quo of the FBI, Cash is not your guy. If you want aggressive reform, if you want transparency, if you want rule of law, Cash is not your guy. If you want aggressive reform, if you want transparency, if you want rule of law, Cash is exactly what you've been looking for, which is why I've been telling everyone, anyone who would listen, Cash Patel is among the very most important nominees

that President Trump has put forward. We've gotta make sure that we get him confirmed. Now, we can't assume that we'll get a single Democrat to go along with us. We will welcome that. We will undertake every effort to bring that about. But we've got to assume that we as Republicans in the Senate have got to carry his nomination across the finish line. And that's what I intend to help him do on Thursday. It was blood boiling for us to watch Mitch McConnell vote against Pete Hegseth. Are we going to get a situation like that, Senator? There are no guarantees. We can't be sure that we won't have any Republican defectors. Now, in the case of Pete Hegseth, it was unfortunate that we had three Republicans

who decided to vote against him. It was fortunate, however, that our majority has enough of a buffer in it that we were able to bring in J.D. Vance. We were able to make sure that he got confirmed with the vice president casting the tie-breaking vote, as is his prerogative in the Senate. I hope it won't be that close with Cash, but if it is, we'll be ready to pull that lever. In the meantime, I think there's still time for Republicans, all of them, all of us, to get behind Cash. He is well qualified qualified and he is exactly what the time, what this era requires. Senator, I know we're up against a hard out, but I really got to touch on this income tax issue with President Trump that he brought up last night in the most muscular way. I've seen him bring it up saying we should do tariffs. We should get rid of the IRS.

We should have the external revenue service and we should be done with the income tax. I know this is probably singing angels music to your ears and golden harps, but can you talk me through, is this something that's real? Is this something that could happen? I would love to see how it checks out mathematically, but I love the idea of scrapping the income tax system. It's become so perverted, so convoluted, so oppressive, and so hyper-technical that it really empowers a form of tyranny to which the United States of America and its inhabitants are not accustomed and never should be. So look, if there's almost any other means of funding the U.S. government that doesn't involve that, I want to explore that thing,

and I would like to see that thing work. At the end of the day, if we were to go in that direction, it would be very important to me to make sure that we undo the risk created by the 16th Amendment. In other words, if we can reasonably fund the government without the income tax system, I think we need to take away the power by moving to repeal the 16th Amendment, without which there can be no rebirth of the income tax code as we know it. One of the last things that we would want, we don't want to come up with a hybrid system where we figure out another way to fund it, but we leave that loaded gun of the 16th Amendment there, ushering in, heaven forbid, one day in which Democrats are in charge, the 16th Amendment's still there, and they reinstate the income tax system with

inventions alongside whatever other pay-fors that we've created along the way. That would be how they could ultimately get us to the point where we could be spending consistently more than, you know, 23, 24, 25 percent of GDP. Yes. OK, so in so definitely possible and maybe even probable in this administration that just straight up does things. You know, you could just do things, Senator. It's amazing. And it just is something you've come on this program year after year and you've told us these things could happen. And now they're they're really happening in quick succession. Maybe a parting message since you're about to go and talk to Kash Patel, which would be the future boss of some of the well, actually not the future boss. And so many DOJ lawyers have been fired now, many of them working on the Jack Smith, the parting your parting goodbye message to the purges that are happening inside of the DOJ and perhaps some of the prosecutors who are now being looked at by the district attorney in Washington, D.C., for their malign January 6th prosecutions.

Look, as President Trump said a week ago yesterday, the golden age of America starts right now. And already libs are freaking out over Trump firing the inspectors general. These are Biden appointed officials. There's nothing novel about replacing them with Trump appointees. In fact, he'd be crazy not to do this. Presidents should be able to fire everyone, every last person in the executive branch other than the vice president. And if you want to know why, just read Article 2 of the Constitution, which sets out the president's responsibilities. The very opening line of the whole article says that the executive power of the U.S. government shall be vested in a president of the United States. The VP is independently elected on the same ticket with the president, so we can't fire him. He ought to be able to fire literally every other person.

It's certainly reasonable. In fact, it's proper that he fire those people occupying prominent positions who might well prove to be an impediment to uncovering the truth about the bad things that happened in the previous administration and reluctant to bring about the reforms that President Trump was elected to promulgate. Ladies and gentlemen, if you appreciate the new hardcore America, the attitude era of America and the attitude era of Senator Mike Lee, who has the nice, freshly shaven dome. That'd be easy to carve into Mount Rushmore, actually. The hair is the hardest part. Please go follow the great, based Mike Lee. 500,000 followers here on X. Let's go give him a little extra boost. He's going to have a big week ahead of him. Godspeed, Senator.

Thank you very much, Benny. Good to be with you. Ladies and gentlemen, we have built into the show a Salt That Lib. And we can't believe it, but we had to actually do an emergency salt that lib for Jim Acosta quitting CNN. And lo and behold, we're going to be having a

White House press briefing live on the channel. And so you need to stick around for that. We are going to be live. The chat's already rolling. Everyone's already, we already got hundreds of thousands of people watching. We're just going to stick through the White House press briefing, which will actually happen in 30 minutes right here live. So why not? Ladies and gentlemen, Jim Acosta quits CNN and we have a briefing where of course is where Jim Acosta made his bones, right? So it's just this glorious moment that we are going to exist here on this program, the front seat to the golden era of America. Ladies and gentlemen, assault that lid for your viewing pleasure before we get to our next guest, Callie Means,

who is the intellectual backbone of the Maha movement with RFK, who will be in the chair less than 24 hours from now. Salt that lib. MSNBC sobbing on air over Trump's deportations. Let's go. As we come on the air, the old saying elections have consequences is playing out in very real time in a very real way in cities all across our country. As the Trump administration makes good on one of Trump's most controversial campaign promises, a promise that was immortalized in that sea of signs at the Republican National Convention. Mass deportations now. One week into Trump's second term, it's no longer an abstract idea or controversial campaign promise

or even a convention sign. The deportations are underway. Thousands. The ICE numbers from yesterday, the first day that the Trump administration cracked thousands of arrests. Here's Kristi Noem once more, just because we can't help ourselves.

Here's Kristi Noem once more. She's actively, she's the DHS secretary, sworn in. Here's Kristi Noem from this morning. It's 7 a.m. in New York City. She's wearing a black jacket and a badge. And she's saying, we're going to get these dirt bags off the street. Freaking cry more. Here we go.

We're getting the dirt bags off these streets. Play it again. It's just a two second video. We're getting the dirt bags off these streets. We're getting the dirt bags off these streets. Play it again. It's just a two second video. We're in New York City this morning. We are getting the dirt bags off these streets. We're getting the dirt bags off these streets. We went from being like, they're dreamers. They're unicorns. They live in, all they want is rivers filled

with chocolates and gumdrops. And they look at the gumdrop smiles. And they're so sweet too. They're dirt bags and we're getting them off the street, and we're putting them here. Here's where they're going. There you go. The coddling of these people.

Remarkable, ladies and gentlemen. Here we go. Yesterday, we did have some tears. We do talk about real tears, and here they are. Selena Gomez decided to film herself crying, which is always something very unique about the current state of billionaire woke women. She's a billionaire, you know that. She's an American, too.

She's born in America. Her American, her mother is an American. Her Mexican father abandoned them early in life to what should have been a life of poverty, but because she was born in this, the richest, greatest, most prosperous, most promising nation on earth, she was able to become a freaking billionaire. And so Selena Gomez, from one of her many mansions, we investigated yesterday, many, many mansions.

You can see the crown molding there in the shot. She's trying not to film like her pool and her like the mountainside that she lives on she's doing her best to try and film it like she's like just like just like you and me but no you can already see she's filming from a five million dollar mansions in the hollywood hills that was custom built for her and instead of being grateful for this country and thankful for a nation that saved her from poverty and a degenerate father who abandoned her. She is sitting here effectively saying, claiming to be the victim. Woke mind virus, totally ungrateful. We're so over it. Here's the billionaire tears of a woke Hollywood starlet trying to, I guess, convince us to destroy our civilization.

Not going to work, Selena. Here we go. I just want to say that I'm so sorry. All my people are getting attacked. The children. I don't understand. I'm so sorry. I wish I could do something, but I can't.

I don't know what to do. I'll try everything I promise. We investigated, actually. You are a billionaire. You have multiple mansions. You could house, you know, you could sponsor criminal aliens. There's something called a sponsor.

Americans can sponsor criminal aliens in the country. You have Selena Gomez sponsored like a single one. Have you done, have you ever reached into your back pocket and done anything to help anyone

other than yourself? They're coming after our people. Are you mean Lake and Riley who died? No tears for her. No tears for the hurricanes that devastated and slaughtered people. No tears for the natural disasters. No tears for the terrorist victims. No tears for anyone in this country. It's like a bunch of Americans, like 12 Americans were just killed by ISIS. Any tears for them? Any tears for any of them?

Like any that there are hundreds of Americans, thousands of Americans who've been killed by criminal aliens, hundreds of thousands of Americans who've been killed by fentanyl. You ever cried for them? Anything? No, no, no. They're coming after after they're attacking our people, she says. We've said this before and we'll say it one final time.

Hollywood doesn't like America, much less love America. They hate America. Do not go to these people's movies. Do not go and and give them money. Do not give them anything. Salt the earth. Be done with them. They hate this country. They're the only group of people that always promised to leave America. They're the first to claim they're going to leave this country because they hate it so much. If Kamala Harris won, God forbid, I'll tell you what, I'm staying here and fighting. That's what I do because Cause I love this place. These people are traitors to this nation. They hate America and they don't consider us. They don't consider themselves Americans. Isn't that remarkable? They don't consider themselves American. Here's her house. Here's Selena Gomez's house. Look at that. Look at how massive of a

migrant shelter you could make. What a beautiful place for a migrant shelter, right? Look at how massive of a migrant shelter you could make. What a beautiful place for a migrant shelter, right? Look at all this room. You could pack so many criminal aliens into this. Do you really need all that room for that couch and fireplace? Selena Gomez? Really? Do you? Go up to the top shot one more time.

Could you imagine, like, you could put the first shot, please. Yeah. Right here. Right there. See all that green space? So many tents could be packed in there. So many little burn barrels. You know, you could have burn barrels and smoke.

Tents. Look at that tennis court. That's right. How many lean-tos could you put into that tennis court? And look at that pool. I mean, that's like much, that's much less deep and wide than the Rio Grande. Right? It'd be beautiful. She's got a pool house.

Pool house, ladies and gentlemen. How many criminal aliens could fit in Selena Gomez's pool house? Yet she's sitting there crying in one of those rooms. One of those rooms, she's sitting there sobbing in one of those rooms about how she can't do anything. Well, stop crying, lady. You can do something, you see. But she won't. Yeah. Okay. Too bad, ladies and gentlemen. Too bad. It's unfortunate for these people that we have to, I don't know, have the internet and call them out on their BS. Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to be calling a lot of BS tomorrow during the RFK nomination hearing. And we're going to be hearing also live on this program that along with the first White House press conference in just moments here, ladies and gentlemen. So joining us to talk about RFK and to talk about the hearing

that will be happening in short order is Callie Means, who's a dear friend and somebody who's been working with RFK and Donald Trump. And he's going to be joining us in just one second. First, ladies and gentlemen, an advertiser and a sponsor, Leaf Filter. I've obviously been a... We're just too excited, actually, for this moment. Leaf Filter. A lot of need for that at Selena Gomez's mansion, you know?

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to preview RFK's nomination tomorrow. Let's go. Callie, thank you so much for being on the program, the author of Good Energy, and we need good energy. This week in the Senate, RFK Jr. taking the chair in 24 hours. This is an exciting moment for you. It's a big moment. It's a big moment for the country. I think the Maha Moms and the incredible coalition Bobby Kennedy and President Trump put together was really special. It's a spiritual movement, and we got to get them over the line. You were a key factor in connecting Donald Trump and RFK Jr., and this is something that I didn't know until I looked into it. Can you sort of explain that story in that nexus? Because RFK Jr. taking the chair, you had

a direct hand in that. Well, my sister and I came to this conclusion that we're being poisoned, that kids are getting sick at an exponential rate, that we're the sickest country in the world. And we started speaking out about that. And independent media picked it up. We chatted with Tucker, with Joe Rogan, with Megyn Kelly, and met Bobby Kennedy through that, and met the Trump campaign, and met Democrats. But Bobby Kennedy and the Trump campaign really picked up on this issue of chronic disease reversal. It's such a simple concept, but we're getting really sick. It's because of corrupt incentives. Let's take that on. I thought that Bobby was the most MAGA candidate other than President Trump. He's tapping into this corruption, this corporate cronyism, this swamp. take that on um i thought that bobby was the most mega candidate other than president trump he's

tapping into this corruption this corporate cronyism the swamp um and when president trump was shot and butler um called bobby kennedy who i've been talking to a lot um and the topic of unity came up and um and he called uh president trump that night uh tucker and i uh helped with that um but uh but they they bonded. And just from my small vantage point, I think this gets to the stakes today. There was, I think, a historical relationship that's been built between these two men. I mean, RFK's called President Trump a great man, and he really believes it. There's no candidate in modern American history that's willing to go up against the status quo, go up against corrupt interests.

You already see that in the first week in many cases. And there's no greater example of corruption than health. And they were really able to bond over that. That moment when RFK came out and endorsed Trump was the most electric political moment I've ever witnessed in my life. There was a real resonance with MAGA voters of this Maha movement.

And it's been very special to have a vantage point into that and see this movement around an existentialist, as we all know. But the fact that 38% of kids in this country have prediabetes, that 50% of teens are overweight or obese, and it's 3% in Japan, there's something uniquely wrong in America. And Bobby and President Trump tapped into that. Yeah. I mean, I'm not sure if you had anything to do with all of the sparklers on stage. That was Charlie Kirk. That was a hundred. This was a turning point. This was a turning point production. And that was a real iconic moment. I forget it. We are familiar. I mean, when we go out on the turning point stage, you have to dodge

fireballs. Actually, you had fireballs, you had smoke. I mean, I was jealous. You were pumped up when you were walking out. That was amazing. It was electric for you. Before we jump into more of the policy prescriptions of why we must have RFK in this chair at HHS, the two men really have a deep connection via assassination attempts and the hatred of the permanent state and these corrupt oligarchies that are trying to kill us. And they literally want these two men dead. And they were able to get away with it, I think, with RFK's family. Perhaps that was also a motivator. Can you speak to that? Yeah, in this campaign, I mean, the media delegitimized Trump every step they got,

but there was only one candidate talking about big ideas and there was only one candidate they were shooting at, and that was President Trump. And Bobby Kennedy knows that better than anyone. He knows about how when you really step up against the status quo, against the deep state, it's dangerous. And I'll tell you, I've never seen two men that are able to smile and laugh throughout darkness. I think that's a really special trait. I think they bonded because these men are very, very, very similar. I mean, I don't think two arrows have been thrown more at two people than, than RFK and Donald Trump and, uh, everyone around them is stressed, but they are completely calm and smiling throughout

it all. Uh, they're both, they're both warriors. They're both giants. They're both magnetic personalities. They're both devoting their lives to trying to draw attention to really existential issues. So I think they really bonded over that. Yeah. And over a line, perhaps you helped write this line. I wasn't aware of how integral actually you were in the nexus of this connection and the kinetic energy between these two men um uh that that has really been a vibe shift right since rfk saying that his wife would kill him if he ran with donald trump right on the red carpet somewhere to being in trump's administration it's like a really special change and everyone loves seeing it the line that i would argue is possibly the most powerful spoken in the 2024 campaign trail. And it might get me in trouble because it didn't come from Trump.

It came from RFK saying we have to we have to love our children more than we hate each other. And that's profound. I think there was an awakening on independent media. I mean, it goes back to COVID when Joe Rogan was being totally lambasted as a dangerous person. And all he's talking about is being healthy, eating healthy, looking at the sunlight, metabolic health. I think in a weird way that corporate media has been obfuscating why we're getting sick, our kids are getting sick, but it really was awakened this issue on independent media, you know, which, you know, propelled my trying to write a book, talk out about this. But there was a real movement.

I mean, there's been advocates in the medical freedom space for decades. And I think everyone in this moment has been given a voice. And you also hit on something huge. And I think it's really the stakes of this nomination is that Bobby Kennedy walking on that stage with Donald Trump, it represented that this is a new political coalition. This is not about left versus right. This isn't about marginal tax rates. It's not about what Medicare Part D policy looks like. This is spiritual. This is akin to President Trump. This is about true reform of our military industrial complex, of our education industrial complex, of, you know, the corruption that's, you know, led to our border being totally open and of our healthcare industrial complex that frankly profits when a child is sicker, fatter, more depressed, more infertile, and loses money when a child or any American is thriving. They were really able to channel that issue.

And that's what the stakes of really Trump's success and the RFK nomination specifically is about. I mean, are we going to really embrace this new political alignment? It's not about left or right. It's really about the uniparty verse versus a coalition that wants to take on corruption. Yes. And that corruption is so endemic. You have like Michelle Obama who claimed that she was for children's health and now she's selling soda at Costco. And it's like it's so utterly fraudulent. And this industry is so powerful. And the incentives in the industry are so utterly evil. I'm a father of four. And just to try and keep poisonous dyes or toxins from our children is like a day-to-day struggle.

And I think every single parent in this country vibes with that. And that's why what you've created is, I would argue, the most powerful wing of the MAGA movement is the Maha movement. It is baffling. And historians should study how the left gave up the issue of protecting kids. I mean, these are not complicated items. You know, this is a free country. This is America. We should be able to eat junk food, eat the Big Macs, drink soda, smoke cigarettes, whatever. But when our government institutions are saying that red dyes, which are petroleum, it's crude oil, and that's banned in every other country are safe because they're paid off. The FDA, which regulates that has totally paid off 75% of the FDA,

by some counts as funded by the pharmaceutical industry. When our institutions are so captured that the USDA guidelines, which recommend, you know, what food our kids should eat, 19 out of the 20 advisors are paid for by the food and pharma industry. And they say that added sugar for a two-year-old is healthy. And they say, just, just Biden recently announced that the panel that ultra processed food, it's not clear whether that's unhealthy for children. It could be a healthy part of a diet. You know, we we've got poison being recommended to us by co-opted government institutions. And then the medical system isn't talking about that because chronic disease, particularly childhood chronic disease, is the most profitable invention in the history of the American economy.

When a child gets sick and now 40% of teens are on a pharmaceutical product, they're not learning how to thrive. They're not learning how to be healthy. They're learning that their high cholesterol is a statin deficiency or their obesity is an ozempic deficiency or their high blood pressure is a metformin deficiency or the fact that they're a little bit sad is an SSRI deficiency. SSRI rates have doubled among teens. And that's robbing our human capital of actually learning what's actually causing the root cause of this depression crisis in America, of this obesity crisis, diabetes crisis, et cetera.

So there's real incentives at work here that are evil. And I think calling out those incentives, fixing them has been the foundation of President Trump's existence in public life. And I think what Bobby Kennedy has been able to do is show how health, the health incentives, the rigged incentives are a real proof point of that MAGA thesis. Yeah. I mean, as somebody who has four children, four and under right now, including a newborn, kids aren't born unhealthy, right? Like this is something that happens to them from the environment. I mean, obviously you have medical issues,

but like kids are born with what they need and with the desires and the inborn appetite to eat real food, to get real protein, to have nourishment, to run, to act to this morning, this morning, Callie, I'm like out. We got a bounce house for Christmas to best 200 bucks I've ever spent. And I'm like out I'm winded. They're running me. So at 8.00 AM on the bounce house, right? Like running around, chasing them. This is like the nature of children exercise, sunlight,

they're called to it. Like eating healthy proteins, they're called to it. And something in society has become so warped and dark, it breaks that then eventually, right? But that's the nature of a child. I mean, you are firing me up and you really just viscerally, I think, stating the stakes of this nomination.

Bobby and President Trump were not talking about nuanced policy ideas, what the Medicare page 300 of the recent bill should say. This is spiritual. The American people want to thrive. They want to be healthy. But that's being robbed from them. Children are born, I'd add, with awe and curiosity and wonder for the world. And what are we doing? The American Academy of Pediatrics is jamming pharmaceuticals into them from literally the first hour of birth,

from literally the first hour of birth. That's their first experience based on guidelines. We are jamming ultra-processed food down their throats. The American Academy of Pediatrics has ultra-processed food. Puffs are the first thing a child should eat, not whole food. We are poisoning them with our environment. And then they get into schools where instead of embracing that innate awe and curiosity those kids have for the world, we're force-feeding ultra-processed food down their throats. We're setting them down at desks in sunless rooms. I mean, if you put any animal into a box that is, that has no sunlight and they're sedentary, kids get less time outside right now in schools than a maximum security prison,

right? And if you force feed them ultra processed food, 70% of a diet for a kid is ultra processed food. Those, that animal, any animal is going to exhibit really, really bad mental and physical health signals. But this is what we're doing to kids through completely broken incentives. And fixing this, Bobby's getting now attacked by the Wall Street Journal editorial board. I think what Bobby's been really clear about, and I think has really come through, is there's nothing conservative about poisoning kids. And nobody is calling for bans or regulation. President Trump and Bobby have called for two things. They've called for resetting science to get to the bottom of what the hell is going on. Our science has been co-opted.

We've seen so many examples of that. Phase one of MAHA, as Bobby and President Trump have talked about, is just getting the NIH, getting the FDA back to foundational research. Right now, 50% of FDA studies that underlie our drug prescription paradigm can't be reproduced. They're bogus studies. So it's getting back to science. I believe that President Trump, if Bobby is confirmed, is going to win the Nobel Prize. I truly believe that. He is going to reset science. In these meetings with Bobby and the Trump campaign, I will say this, there is zero ideology. There is zero expectation that we're going to have predetermined outcomes for science. It is all about public policy to get

back to getting money to the best scientists in the world, to take away all this DEI and all these restrictions on what they can ask and encourage those scientists to ask fearless questions, taboo questions, and questions centered around not how to profit from the chronic disease crisis, which is what 80% of NIH funding is. It's a pharma R&D, but to ask why people are getting sick. This is the real promise of Maha. Why are people getting sick? Just a quick anecdote from my life. There was a moment where we had to take our son

to the hospital, he aspirated a cran, and when he was there, the food that was offered to him from the hospital was Oreos and ultra processed Uncrustables. This is what the hospital, the children's hospital was serving the children, Callie. Yeah. So my sister in the book talks about going to Stanford Med School. When you trace the money, more than 50% of Stanford Harvard Med School's elite med

school's funding comes from pharma. It's highly tied into government money that's highly problematic. And working for the food industry, and my early career was working for the food and pharma industry, it was a extreme priority to get the Oreos, to get the soda, to get this ultra processed food

into hospitals and schools to normalize those items. I'll say also, Benny, that those hospitals giving that ultra-processed crap is following the current USDA guidelines. Under the current USDA guidelines, as they read today, a two-year-old, it's okay for them to drink full sugar Coca-Cola. So it's totally appropriate for them to eat an Oreo. You know, when parents and giving kids all this sugar, you know, and kids are hopping around like meth addicts and, you know, it's just a crazy sight to see, they're actually following the USDA guidelines. One thing I think we lose, and I think conservatives need to understand is, again, let's not talk about any regulation, any bans,

any taxes. It is conservative. It's not conservative. It's just basic common sense. Our science shouldn't be corrupted. The USDA nutrition guidelines should explain to the American people and the policymakers what's an appropriate diet for children. And when there's a metabolic health, obesity, diabetes crisis among kids right now that's unique and very unique in America. You know, obviously, our scientific authority should be talking about the urgent need to stop poisoning our kids. So that's obviously we've set the table for the problem. Let's talk solutions. Now, you can see in any industry when the government gives the incentives, you can see it right now, the government giving incentives against harboring criminal aliens and criminals who have come into this country. Even sanctuary cities are now coughing up their murderers and

rapists, the darkest blue areas in the country. Talk about DEI. You've seen now the incentives shift neck snapping speed, Callie. Suddenly every corporation is abandoning all DEI, all wokeness, government agencies are right. All you need is like a a quick shift in the incentives from a federal standpoint. And you can change culture rapidly. Is this what's going to happen with RFK at HHS? I mean, we saw it. We saw it. There's the Maha moms, Maha dads, just Americans in general. Once you see you cannot see it right it. The best-selling books in the country, podcasts, content, it's all going to how we can unpoison ourselves and thrive as people. People want to thrive. There's this lie in the medical system that Americans are too lazy not

to poison themselves. We die 10 years less than our friends in Switzerland or Japan. We die seven years less than Italians. Americans are not lazier than Italians. There's an incentive problem. So I think you see that with how Trump handled the Columbia situation. It's just like, we're not going to have interagency policy reviews. We're not going to have all this bullshit. We're going to just get to the bottom of this. And that's the type of attitude for Trump and Bobby. As far as solutions, again, it's about trusting the American people. The two things of Maha, the two stages of Maha are get the truth and then trust patients and their doctors to make an informed decision. Right now, we have totally bogus science where at the FDA, which regulates our food chemicals,

we don't even know what's in our food. It's self-policing. We don't even have reports. Forget any regulation. We don't have a report on what's in our food. We have chemicals like atrazine, which Alex Jones was right about. It dramatically changes hormones and turns the gender of frogs when they drink the water that's with the atrazine. It's banned in right about. It dramatically changes hormones and turns the gender of frogs when they drink the water that's with the atrazine. It's banned in every other

country. It's in our food. Before even regulating it, let's understand and have a report on that so members of Congress and the American people can make a decision. Phase two of MAHA, as I said, is just with that information, let's just have informed consent and let people make a decision. Right now, Benny, all of our medical logic is made by the American Medical Association. We really have a top-down system where the American Medical Association, which is a pharma lobbying group, sets the algorithm for how we receive care. And what that algorithm is, is it waits for us to get sick and then manages. It doesn't reverse or cure it, gives us a pill. The American Medical Association to this day says that a two-year-old can receive

gender-affirming care. That's the type of judgment this organization has. So let's get the science right. And then let's untangle our medical top down standards, you know, from pharma lobbying groups and give people choice. This is the stakes here. And, you know, I got to say going into this week, there's some dark forces. I think what we're up against is Bobby and president Trump tapped into this incredible movement. It brought women, it brought independence, it brought youngents, it brought young people, brought different demographic groups, helped bring them to the Trump coalition. But now we've got really cynical and bad people like Mike Pence causing some issues with the confirmation. What's your message to Mike Pence, who I guess is incinerating his last

tinders of credibility with any base by going hard against RFK Jr. Mike Pence, you are bastardizing the life issue. Mike Pence is taking money from the pharmaceutical industry. That's who is funding his group. It was recently reported by CNN of all places. The pharma industry is funding Mike Pence, who is then putting out videos and press releases weaponizing the life issue, trying to tell people that Bobby Kennedy is insufficiently pro-life. Let me make one thing extremely clear. There has not been a more visceral and more resonant movement about the sanctity of life than what President Trump and Bobby Kennedy talked about during their campaign with our absolute crisis on what's happening to children.

When it comes to the life issue, Bobby has made extremely clear, the life community is an extremely important part of the Republican coalition that brought him and President Trump to power, and he is going to follow to the letter the pro-life policies of President Trump at HHS. FanDuel Casino's exclusive live dealer studio has your chance at the number one feeling. the pro-life policies of President Trump at HHS. Studio, exclusively on FanDuel Casino, where winning is undefeated. 19 plus and physically located in Ontario. Gambling problem? Call 1-866-531-2600 or visit connectsontario.ca. Please play responsibly. In deep consultation with the pro-life leaders, most of whom have come out and strongly endorsed him, for Mike Pence to accept pharma money and then weaponize

and bastardize this issue that he claims to care about is beyond the pale. Yeah. I mean, wait a second. Hold on. Hold on. Full stop. Like, isn't being pro-life having a life worth living and not being in constant hospital visits and needing a pill and needing drugs and being sick and having no future because you're chronically ill when you're eight years old like isn't that like actually pro-life like like supporting the life we're living benny you've seen the enthusiasm around this issue and how voters have been woken up i mean i won't mince words i think we're on the verge of a population collapse with what's happening

to our health and our food system i mean we have lost touch and any awe and curiosity through our broken incentives about the poisons that are percolating around our child's body from the over prescription pharmaceuticals to the toxins in our air and water to obviously what's in our food to the chronic stress of technology. And all these things aren't necessarily bad or good, but there is an unrelenting assault on our child's cells, their microbiomes, their health, and it's not good right now. It's not good right now. 40% of teens have a mental health disorder. Kids are going to not outlive their parents right now. You know, 40% of teens, as I mentioned, are on a pharmaceutical product. We are poisoning kids and drugging them. So I think what everyone needs to understand is there has not been a more pro-life

movement than Maha in a long time. This is about fighting for the spiritual imperative of protecting kids and getting the conservative coalition, frankly, hopefully this becomes very bipartisan, getting them back to asking before any other policy, you know, can we can we can we focus on not poisoning and then drugging for profit our kids? Yes. So I know we're up against a hard out, but very quickly here, your message to any senator that is especially a Republican who's deigned to vote against RFK's nomination. There's been three criticisms. I mentioned the bastardization of the pro-life issue with pharma funding Mike Pence. Bobby Kennedy is going to honor the pro-life imperative

of the Republican Party. I can say that right now. The second is vaccines. And Bobby Kennedy has said one thing about vaccines is that they should be studied like any other pharmaceutical product. Bobby Kennedy is not coming in with preconceived notions. He is coming in to restore science and win President Trump the Nobel Prize. And the third criticism of him has been farmers from the farming community. Bobby Kennedy and President Trump are committed to a golden age of American farming. Right now, it is absolutely not good that American food is so poisoned that the world's second largest market, Europe, won't even allow us to export our food there because they won't feed it to their children.

That's a problem. It's not the farmer's fault. There have been trillions of dollars of broken, corrupt incentives. What Bobby and President Trump want to do is have a conversation with stakeholders to accomplish the goal of a golden age of American farming and getting them out from under these broken incentives that are leading American food to be unhealthy food, which nobody disagrees with. So those are the three issues I'd address that are coming up. We have a generational opportunity. We have a shining light through darkness right now

to focus on children's health. And it would, and, and it would be an absolute crisis if we lost that opportunity. And there's just an incredible, incredible positive next couple of years on this issue that we can have when we get Bobby in there to carry out Trump's directive to figure out why kids are getting sick. Callie, it's been, I feel like we can talk for another three hours on this because it's my every living waking moment and myself and my wife spend as it is. It is as a parent. It's all you have. Right.

Yes. Your children. It's the first order issue. That's right. And it is it is the most single most motivating issue in the entire country. There's there's nothing that no no NFLfl team no red or blue team and no piece of electronics no job connects you more to the future of this country than your children so uh it's it's energetic it's energizing it's kinetic that you've seized on this we're so

excited about this and i think you're just getting started 100 i mean bobby's gonna get in there but let look we gotta push this week let's call let's call your senators give them that positive message um and um this is gonna be it already is uh clearly in the first week but this can be a We got to push this week. Let's call your senators. Give them that positive message. And this is going to be, it already is clearly in the first week, but this can be a revolutionary couple of years. So thank you. Yes. And in closing here, I don't want to ask you too personal of a question, but privately, when you opened up your cell phone screen and you saw this photo, what did you think? Because you did mention a Big Mac earlier in this interview. And the expression also on your boy Bobby. It's perfect, in fact.

Like, it's actually ringing like a bell. What the hell is Don Jr. doing? What the hell is he doing? Don, we've done. Is this a hazing ritual? You can tell us. Yeah, no, of course. This was a hazing ritual? He said that. He said this a hazing ritual? This was a hazing ritual.

He said that. He said that. It's like, we're trying to keep the train on the tracks here, Don. Don't haze too much. No, I mean, it's a key point. What went through my head is I'm like, oh gosh, what is Bobby thinking?

But you know, we're not trying to take, nobody's trying to take away. I mean, my friend Vani Hari said this, in Europe fries, McDonald's fries have three ingredients. Here they have set 15. I mean, my friend, Vonnie Hari said this, you know, in Europe, fries, McDonald's fries have three ingredients here. They have set 15. I mean, it's, it's not even about the food. It's about what we do to the food, but yeah, no, this was pretty funny, but Don Jr. Has got to stop hazing our guy. Shake shack said beef tallow. Now, I mean, you're already winning, you know, you have big fast food chain. Okay. So this is exciting. I really hope that we get a chance to sit down and chat for like three hours over this

topic. It's the best and most motivating topic on earth, certainly for somebody like me. And I know you and everybody needs to follow Callie. Please go and make sure that Callie, he has 253,000 subs here on X. Get in there and make sure that we give power to the people that are saving the future of this country. God bless you, Callie. God bless you. Thank you, sir. Whoa, ladies and gentlemen. Okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Here we go. White House press secretary. Go up, up, up, up, up, up. Here we here we go okay this is the room this is the

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will be called the New Media Seat. My team will review the applications and give credentials to new media applicants who meet our criteria and pass United States Secret Service requirements to enter the White House complex. So in light of these announcements, our first questions for today's briefing will go to these new media members whose outlets, despite being some of the most viewed news websites in the country, have not been given seats in this room. And before I turn to questions, I do have news directly from the President of the United States that was just shared with me in the Oval Office from President Trump directly, an update on the New Jersey drones. After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers

were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons. Many of these drones were also hobbyists, recreational, and private individuals that enjoy flying Jones. In time, it got worse due to curiosity. This was not the enemy. A statement from the President of the United States to start this briefing with some news. And with that, I will turn it over to questions. And we will begin with our new media members. Mike Allen from Axios, Matt Boyle from Breitbart.

Mike, why don't you go ahead? Thank you very much. Caroline, does the President see anything fishy about DeepSeq, either its origins or its cost? And could China's ability to make these models quicker, cheaper affect our thinking about expanding generation data centers and? MS. Sure. The President was asked about deep seek last night on air force one, when he gaggled for, I think the third or fourth time throughout the weekend with members of the traveling press corps. The president said that he believes that this is a wake up call to the American AI industry. The last administration sat on their hands and allowed China to rapidly

develop this AI program. And so president Trump believes in restoring American AI dominance, and that's why he took very strong executive action this past week to sign executive orders to roll back some of the onerous regulations on the AI industry. And President Trump has also proudly appointed the first AI and crypto czar at this White House, David Sachs, whom I spoke with yesterday, very knowledgeable on this subject, and his team is here working every single day to ensure American AI dominance. As for the national security implications, I spoke with NSC this morning. They are looking into what those may be, and when I have an update, I will share it with you, Mike. Carolyn, you say restore U.S. dominance. Is there a fear that the U.S.

either is falling or has fallen behind, and how would the president make sure the U.S. dominance? Is there a fear that the U.S. either is falling or has fallen behind? And how would the President make sure the U.S. stays in it? No, the President is confident that we will restore American dominance in the air. Yeah, so Caroline, first of all, thank you to you and President Trump for actually giving voices to media outlets that represent millions and millions of Americans. The thing I would add, I've got a two-part question for you. The first is, can you expand upon what steps the White House is going to take to bring more voices, not less, which is what our founder, Andrew Breitbart, believed in,

into this room where they rightly belong? MS. Yeah, absolutely. And as I said in my opening statement, Matt, it is a priority of this White House to honor the First Amendment. And it is a fact that Americans are consuming their news media from various different platforms, especially young people. And as the youngest press secretary in history, thanks to President Trump, I take great pride in opening up this room to new media voices to share the president's message with as many Americans as possible. In doing so, number one, we will ensure that outlets like yours, Axios and Breitbart,

which are widely respected and viewed outlets, have an actual seat in this room every day. We also, again, encourage anybody in this country, whether you are a TikTok content creator, a blogger, a podcaster, if you are producing legitimate news content, no matter the medium, you will be allowed to apply for press credentials to this White House. And as I said earlier, our new media website is whitehouse.gov slash new media. And so we encourage people to apply. Again, as long as you are creating news-related content of the day and you're a legitimate independent journalist, you're welcome to cover this White House. And secondly, Caroline, you said you laid out several of the actions that President Trump has taken. Obviously, it's a stark contrast to the previous administration, a breakback speed from

President Trump. Can we expect that pace to continue as the first 100 days moves along here and beyond that? Absolutely. There is no doubt President Trump has always been the hardest working man in politics. I think that's been proven over the past week. This president has again signed more than 300 executive orders. He's taken historic action. I gaggled aboard Air Force One to mark the first 100 days of this administration, 4 p.m. last Friday, or first 100 hours, rather. And this president did more in the first 100 hours than the previous president did in the first 100 days. So President Trump, I think you can all expect for him to continue to

work at this breakneck speed. So I hope you're all ready to work very hard. I know that we are. Zeke Miller. Thanks, Caroline. A question that we've asked your predecessors of both parties in this job. When you're up here in this briefing room speaking to the American public, do you view yourself and your role as speaking on – advocating on behalf of the President or providing the unvarnished truth that is not to lie, not to obfuscate to the American people? MS. I commit to telling the truth from this podium every single day. I commit to speaking on behalf of the President of the United States.

That is my job. And I will say it's very easy to speak truth from this podium when you have a president who is implementing policies that are wildly popular with the American people. And that's exactly what this administration is doing. It's correcting the lies and the wrongs of the past four years, many of the lies that have been told to your faces in this very briefing room. I will not do that. But since you brought up truth-seek, I would like to point out, while I vow to provide

the truth from this podium, we ask that all of you in this room hold yourselves to that same standard. We know for a fact there have been lies that have been pushed by many legacy media outlets in this country about this president, about his family, and we will not accept that. We will call you out when we feel that your reporting is wrong or there is misinformation about this White House. So yes, I will hold myself to the truth, and I expect everyone in this room to do the same. And, Caroline, just on a substantive question, yesterday the White House Office

of Management and Budget directed across the board a phrase for individual assistance, we understand, to federal grants. It's caused a lot of confusion around the country on Head Start providers among providers, services to homeless veterans, Medicaid provider states saying they're having trouble accessing the portal. Could you help us clear up some of the conditions, get some certainty to folks?

And also, is that uncertainty, how does that uncertainty service the president's voters? Well, I think there's only uncertainty in this room amongst the media. There's no uncertainty in this building. So let me provide the certainty and the clarity that all of you need. This is not a blanket pause on federal assistance and grant programs from the Trump administration. Individual assistance, that includes, I'm not naming everything that's included, but just to give you a few examples, Social Security benefits, Medicare benefits, food stamps, welfare benefits, assistance that is going directly to individuals will not be impacted by this pause.

And I want to make that very clear to any Americans who are watching at home who may be a little bit confused about some of the media reporting. This administration, if you are receiving individual assistance from the federal government, you will still continue to receive that. However, it is the responsibility of this president and this administration to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. That is something that President Trump campaigned on. That's why he has launched DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, who is working alongside OMB. And that's why OMB sent out this memo last night, because the president signed an executive order directing OMB to do just this. And the reason for

this is to ensure that every penny that is going out the door is not conflicting with the executive orders and actions that this president has taken. So what does this pause mean? It means no more funding for illegal DEI programs. It means no more funding for the Green New Scam that has cost American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. It means no more funding for transgenderism and wokeness across our federal bureaucracy and agencies, no more funding for Green New Deal social engineering policies. Again, people who are receiving individual assistance, you will continue to receive that. And President Trump is looking out for you by issuing this pause because he is being good steward of your taxpayer dollars. Thanks, Caroline.

Sure. How long is this pause going to last? And how is the Trump administration recommending that organizations that rely on federal funding make payroll, pay their rent in the meantime? It is a temporary pause. And the Office of Management and Budget is reviewing the federal funding that has been going out the door. Again, not for individual assistance, but for all of these other programs that I mentioned. I also spoke with the incoming director of OMB this morning, and he told me to tell all of you that the line to his office is

open for other federal government agencies across the board. And if they feel that programs are necessary and in line with the president's agenda, then the Office of Management and Budget will review those policies. I think this is a very responsible measure. Again, the past four years, we've seen the Biden administration spend money like drunken sailors. It's a big reason we've had an inflation crisis in this country. And it's incumbent upon this administration to make sure, again, that every penny is being accounted for honestly. Why oppose this pause with so little notice? Why not give organizations more time to plan for the fact that they are about to lose,

in some cases, really crucial federal funding, at least for a period of time? There was notice. It was the executive order that the president signed. There's also a freeze on hiring, as you know, a regulatory freeze. And there's also a freeze on hiring, as you know, a regulatory freeze, and there's also a freeze on foreign aid. And this is, again, incredibly important to ensure that this administration is taking into consideration how hard the American people are working and their tax dollars actually matter to this administration.

You know, just during this pause, DOGE and OMB have actually found that there was $37 million that was about to go out the door to the World Health Organization, which is an organization, as you all know, that President Trump, with the swipe of his pen in that executive order, is no longer wants the United States to be a part of. So that wouldn't be in line with the president's agenda. Doge and OMB also found that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza. That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money. So that's what this pause is focused on, being good stewards of tax dollars. Jennifer? This doesn't affect Meals on Wheels or Head Start or Disaster Aid? Again, it does not affect individual assistance that's going to Americans. To follow up on Nancy, do you think there will be a list of who is affected and how

much money is affected? How will these contractors and organizations know if they are actually having their funding frozen? And then secondly, if you're willing, can you just clarify, is the end goal of this to essentially challenge Congress or to prove that the president can withhold federal funding? In other words, is this an attempt to pick a fight to prove that he can do this? MS. No, absolutely not. As it says right here in the memo, which I have and I'd encourage all of you to read it, it says the American people elected President Trump to be the President of the United States and gave him a mandate to

increase the impact of every federal dollar. This memo requires federal agencies to identify and review all federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the president's policies and requirements. The American people gave President Trump an overwhelming mandate on November 5th, and he's just trying to ensure that the tax money

going out the door in this very bankrupt city actually aligns with the will and the priorities of the American people. Brian Glenn. Yes. Welcome. You look great. You're doing a great job. You talked about transparency and some of us in this room know how just transparent president Trump has been the last five or six years. I think you'll do the same. My question is,

do you think this latest incident with the president of Columbia is indicative of the global powerful respect they have for President Trump moving forward, not only to engage in economic diplomacy with these countries, but also world peace? Absolutely. I'll echo the answer that the president gave on Air Force One last night, when he was asked a very similar question by one of your colleagues in the media. This signifies peace through, strength is back. And this President will not tolerate illegal immigration into America's interior. And he expects every nation on this planet, again, to cooperate with the repatriation of their citizens who illegally entered into our country

and broke America's laws. Won't be tolerated. And as you saw, the Colombian government quickly folded and agreed to all of President Trump's demands. Flights are underway once again. Diana. Two questions on deportations, if I may. President Trump had said on the campaign trail that he would deport pro-Hammamas students who are here on visas. On his first day in office, he signed an executive order that said, quote, the U.S. must ensure that admitted aliens and aliens otherwise already present in the U.S. do not bear hostile attitudes towards the citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles.

Should we take this executive order as Trump's saying he would be open to deporting those students who are here on visas but hold pro-Hammaz sympathies? The president is open to deporting individuals who have broken our nation's immigration laws. So if they are here illegally, then certainly he is open to deporting them. And that's what this administration is hard at work at doing. We receive data from DHS and from ICE every single day. From what we hear on the ground, ICE agents are feeling incredibly empowered right now because they actually have a leader in this building who is supporting them in doing their jobs that they were hired to do, which is to detain, arrest, and deport illegal criminals who have invaded our nation's borders over the past four years.

That's what the president is committed to seeing. Peter. Just following up on the question on immigration first. President Trump during the course of the campaign in 2024 said the following about illegal immigration. He said they're going back home where they belong. And we start with the criminals. There are many, many criminals. NBC News has learned that ICE arrested 1179 undocumented immigrants on Sunday, but nearly half of them, 566 of the migrants, appear to have no prior

criminal record besides entering the country illegally. Is the president still focused exclusively, which is a civil crime, not a, not a, it's not criminal. It's a federal crime. So I'm asking though, he said he was going to focus on those violent offenders first. So is violent offenders no longer the predicate for these people to be deported? The president has said countless times on the campaign trail. I've been with him at the rallies. I know you've been there covering them too, Peter, that he is focused on launching the largest mass deportation operation in American history of illegal criminals.

And if you are an individual, a foreign national who illegally enters the United States of America, you are by definition a criminal. And so therefore you are subject to deportation. I apologize for interrupting. So to be clear, it's not violent. Criminals do not receive precedence in terms of the deportations. The president has also said two things can beat you at the same time. We want to deport illegal criminals, illegal immigrants from this country. But the president has said that of course the illegal drug, uh, from this country, but the president has said that, of course, the illegal criminal drug dealers, the rapists, the murderers, the individuals who have committed heinous acts on the interior of our country and who have terrorized law-abiding American citizens, absolutely, those should be the priority of ICE, but that doesn't mean that

the other illegal criminals who entered our nation's borders are off the table. Understood. Then let me ask you a separate question about the confusion that still exists across the That doesn't mean that the other illegal criminals who entered our nation's borders are off the table. Understood. And let me ask you a separate question about the confusion that still exists across the country right now as it relates to the freeze or the pause as it's described. President Trump, of course, ran one of the key policy items was that he was going to lower prices, lower the cost of everything from groceries, as he often said. But in many of the cases, it would seem that some of these moves could raise prices for

real Americans on everything from low-income that program child care programs will nothing that the president's doing here in terms of the freeze in these programs raise prices on ordinary americans what particular actions are you referring to that would burn to l heap right now that's the low income heating program for example we can talk about there's no clarity so i could refer to a lot of them we don't know what they are specifically can you tell us that that LHEEP, that LIHEAP is not one of those affected? So you're asking a hypothetical based on programs that you can't even identify. What I can tell you is that- Just be clear. Since you guys haven't identified, let's do it together just for Americans at home. Medicaid, is that affected?

I gave you a list of examples, social security, Medicare, welfare benefits, food stamps that will not be impacted by this federal pause. I can get you the full list after this briefing from the Office of Management and Budget. But I do want to address the cost cutting because that's certainly very important and cutting the cost of living in this country. President Trump has taken historic action over the past week to do that. He actually signed a memorandum to deliver emergency price relief for American families, which took a number of actions. I can walk you through those. He also repealed many onerous Biden administration regulations. We know over the past four years, American households has been

essentially taxed $55,000 in regulations from the previous administration. President Trump, with the swipe of his pen, rescinded those, which will ultimately put more money back in the pockets of the American people. So deregulation is a big deal. And then when it comes to energy, I mean, the president signed an executive order to declare a national energy emergency here at home, which is going to make America energy dominant. We know that energy is one of the number one drivers of inflation, and so that's why the President wants to increase our energy supply to bring down costs for Americans. The Trump energy boom is incoming, and Americans can expect that.

Please share that. Thank you. Carolyn. Carolyn. Carolyn. Carolyn. Carolyn. Carolyn.

Carolyn. Carolyn. Carolyn. Carolyn. Carolyn. this pause on federal funding. You've made it clear you're not stopping funds that go directly to individuals, but there certainly are lots of organizations that receive funding and then may pass along a benefit. Meals on Wheels, for one, they provide meals for over 2.2 million seniors. What is the president's message to Americans out there, many of whom supported him and voted for him, who are concerned that this is going to impact them directly, even if, as you said, the funding isn't coming directly to their wives directly to their I have now been asked and answered this question four times to individuals at home who receive direct assistance from the federal government you will not be impacted by this federal freeze in fact OMB just sent out a memo to Capitol Hill with Q&A to to clarify some of the questions and the

answers that all of you are asking me right now. Again, direct assistance will not be impacted. I've been asked and answered about this OMB memo. There's many other topics of the day. Jackie Heiner. But any direct assistance, Caroline, that's going to another organization and then trickling down? MS.

Direct assistance that is in the hands of the American people will not be impacted. Again, as I said to Peter, we will continue to provide that list as it comes to fruition. But OMB right now is focused on analyzing the federal government's spending, which is exactly what the American people elected President Trump to do. And one question on immigration, Caroline, on immigration. Of the 3,500 arrests ISIS made so far since President Trump came back into office, can you just tell us the numbers? How many have a criminal record versus those who are just in the country illegally? All of them, because they illegally broke our nation's laws and therefore they are criminals as far as this administration goes.

I know the last administration didn't see it that way, so it's a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal, but that's exactly what they are. But you're not going to avoid the worst first. They all have a criminal record? And welcome to the breaking of the law. If they broke our nation's laws, yes, they are criminal. Yes.

Thank you. And welcome to the briefing room. If they broke our nation's laws, yes, they are criminal. Yes. Thank you. On stripping security details for figures like John Bolton, Pompeo, Brian Hook, Senator Tom Cotton said that he's seen the intelligence and the threat from Iran is real for anyone who played a role in Soleimani's strike. He voiced concern it wouldn't just impact those individuals, but potentially their family, innocent bystanders, friends, anyone who's near them when they're out in public. Is the president open to reconsidering his decision?

The president was asked and answered this yesterday, and he was firm in his decision, despite some of the comments that you had referenced. And he's made it very clear that he does not believe American taxpayers should fund security details for individuals who have served in the government for the rest of their lives. And there's nothing stopping these individuals that you mentioned from obtaining private security. That's where the president stands on it. I have no updates on that. Is there any concern that this decision might jeopardize the administration's ability to hire the best advisors for these kinds of positions in the future? MS. No. In fact, I've talked to the presidential personnel office, who has told

me directly that there is such an influx of resumes for this administration that it's incredibly overwhelming. There is no lack of talent for the Trump administration. Reagan, Rae — And, Ron, would he take any responsibility if anything happened to these people? Would he feel at all that his decision was a factor in that? MS. The President was asked and answered this yesterday. I defer you to his comments.

Thanks, Caroline. MS. Caroline. MS. Reagan, since you're in the back row, I hear you. The back row hasn't gotten much attention in the last four years, so I'm happy to answer your question. I can project.

Does the President intend to permanently cut off funding to NGOs that are bringing illegal foreign nationals to the country, such as Catholic Charities? MS. I am actually quite certain that the president signed an executive order that did just that, and I can point you to that. One more, Caroline. President Trump issued an executive order on increased vetting for refugees in visa applications.

Part of that order was considering an outright ban for countries that have deficient screening processes. Has the president considered yet which countries might fall into this category, or countries like Afghanistan or Syria, under consideration for a full ban? MS. Yeah. So the president signed an executive order to streamline the vetting for visa applicants and for illegal immigrants in this country who are coming, of course, from other nations. It also directed the secretary of state to review the process and make sure that other countries around the world are being completely transparent with our

nation and the individuals that they are sending here and so the Secretary of State has been directed to report back to the president I haven't seen that report yet we've only been here for a few days on the freezing federal funding who advised the president on the legality of telling government agencies that they don't have to spend money? It was already appropriated by Congress. Well, as the OMB memo states, this is certainly within the confines of the law. So White House counsel's office believes that this is within the president's power to do it, and therefore he's doing it. Okay, so they disagree with lawmakers who say that they don't have the power to freeze this funding. Again, I would point you to the language in the memo that

clearly states this is within the law. And all that happened on Friday night, the administration fired several inspectors general without giving Congress the 30-day legally required notification that they were being fired. I think only two were left at DHS and the DOJ. And then yesterday, we saw several prosecutors, I believe 12, fired from the Justice Department who worked on the investigations into the president. As you know, they are career prosecutors, therefore they are afforded civil service protections. How is the administration deciding which laws to follow and which ones to ignore? So it is the belief of this White House and the White House Counsel's Office that the president was within his executive authority to do that.

He is the executive of the executive branch, and therefore he has the power to fire anyone within the executive branch that he wishes to. There's also a case that went before the Supreme Court in 2020, Scala Law LLC versus the Customs Bureau Protection. I would advise you to look at that case, and that's the legality that this White House was resting on. The Press So you're confident that if they bring lawsuits against you, the prosecutors who were fired, that they will succeed? Ms. We will win in court, yes. The Press And did he personally direct this,

given they worked on the classified documents investigation and the election interference investigation? Ms. This was a memo that went out by the Presidential Personnel Office, and the President is the leader of this White House. So yes, yes Thank you, congrats on your first time on the podium. Thank you President Trump ended funding for UNRWA and Also designated the Houthis a foreign terrorist organization. Both were decisions that the previous administration had reversed

So here's my question. Will there be an investigation into who gave the previous administration this terrible advice? MS. Well, that's a very good point. I haven't heard discussions about such an investigation, but it wouldn't be a bad idea considering that the Houthis certainly are terrorists. They have launched attacks on U.S. naval ships across this world. And

so I think it was a very wise move by this administration to redesignate them as a terrorist group, because they are. And I think it was a foolish decision by the previous administration to do so. As for an investigation, I'm not sure about that, but it's not a bad idea. Josh. Thank you for the question. I appreciate it. Can you give us an update on the president's plan for his tariff agenda? He a lot about this yesterday and there's a couple of dates coming up he's spoken to number one february 1st he's alluded to both the potential for tariffs for canada and mexico but also china to take effect on those days whereas what's he thinking about that yeah should those countries

expect that again he was asked to answer this question this past weekend when he took a lot of questions from the press and he said that the fe February 1st date for Canada and Mexico still holds. What about the China 10 percent tariff that he also had used last Tuesday going into effect on the same day? MS. Yeah, the President has said that he is very much still considering that for February 1st. Yesterday, he talked also about sectoral tariffs on, for instance, pharmaceuticals, as well as semiconductor computer chips dumped with steel, aluminum, and copper. What's the timeline on those? Is that a similar sort of coming days thing? Yeah. So when the president talked about that in his speech yesterday, that actually wasn't a new

announcement. That was within a presidential memorandum that he signed in one of the first days here in the White House on his America First trade agenda. So there's more details on those tariffs in there. As far as a date, I don't have a specific date to read out to you, but the president is committed to implementing tariffs effectively, just like he did in his first term. Finally, he also was asked on the plane when he gaggled about the potential for a universal tariff. He was asked maybe about 2.5 percent. There was a report about that. He said he wanted much bigger than that. Should we understand that these tariffs would add up? In other words, you might have country-specific tariffs like Canada, Mexico, China.

You might have sectoral tariffs like on pharmaceuticals, as well as a potential universal tariff on top of that. Could these stack on one or the other, or would one sort of take precedence over another? All I can point you to is what the president has said on this front. The February 1st date for Canada and Mexico, also the China tariff that he has discussed, he rejected the 2.5% tariff that he has discussed. He rejected the 2.5 percent tariff. He said that was a little bit too low. He wants it to be higher. I'll leave it to him to make any decisions on that front. Phil Weidman.

What the Mexicans and Canadians have done so far, do you have any comments on whether that is met with the bar? Thank you. MS. I won't get ahead of the President, again, on advocating to foreign nations on what they should or shouldn't do to get away from these tariffs. The President has made it very clear, again, that he expects every nation around this world to cooperate with the repatriation of their citizens. And the President has also put out specific statements in terms of Canada and Mexico when it comes to what he expects in terms of border security. We have seen a historic level of cooperation from Mexico. But,

again, as far as I'm still tracking, and that was last night talking to the president directly, February 1st is still on the books. Phil. Thank you, Caroline. Quick programming note and then a question on taxes. Programming note. Well, in terms of programming, should we expect to see you here every day? How frequently will these press briefings be?

It is a good question, April. So look, the president, as you know, is incredibly accessible. First day here, he wanted all of you in the Oval Office. You got a 60-minute press conference with the leader of the free world while he was simultaneously signing executive orders. I may add that's pretty impressive.

I don't think the previous officeholder would be able to pull such a thing off. So look, the president is the best spokesperson that this White House has, and I can assure you that you will be hearing from both him and me as much as possible. And then a question about tax cuts. The President has promised to extend the tax cuts from the previous term. I'm curious, does the President support corresponding spending cuts, as some Republicans have called for in Congress? And will the new Treasury Secretary be leading those negotiations with the Hill, as Mnuchin did during the first administration?

MS. The President is committed to both tax cuts and spending cuts, and he has a great team negotiating on his behalf. But there's no better negotiator than Donald Trump, and I'm sure he'll be involved in this reconciliation process as it moves forward. Caroline. MS. Sure. in this reconciliation process as it moves forward. The Press The Press

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to see how the United States can go about doing this, particularly the Department of Defense. When it comes to the other question that you asked about those specific programs, again, I would say this is not a ban. This is a temporary pause and a freeze to ensure that all of the money going out from Washington, D.C., is in line with the president's agenda. And as the Office of Management and Budget has updates on what will be kickstarted once again, I will provide those to you. Just to clarify for a sec what you were saying before on Medicaid, it wasn't clear to me whether you were saying that no Medicaid would be cut off. Obviously, a lot of this goes to states before it goes to individuals and so forth. So are you guaranteeing here

that no individual now on Medicaid would see a cutoff because of the policy? MS. I'll check back on that and get back to you. John. All right. Thanks a lot, Caroline. As you? I'll check back on that and get back to you. John. Thanks a lot, Caroline. As you know, in the first week that the president was in office, signed an executive order as it relates to birthright citizenship, trying to eliminate that. Now, 22 state attorney generals have said that this is unconstitutional. A federal judge has just agreed with their argument. What's the administration's argument for doing away with birthright citizenship? The folks that you mentioned have a right to have that legal opinion, but it is in disagreement

with the legal opinion of this administration. This administration believes that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, and that is why President Trump signed that executive order. Illegal immigrants who come to this country and have a child are not subject to the laws of this jurisdiction. That's the opinion of this administration. We have already appealed the lawsuit that was filed against this administration, and we are prepared to fight this all the way to the supreme court if we have to because president trump believes that this is a necessary step to secure our nation's borders and protect our homeland monica policy caroline foreign policy if i may the president's commitment to the nato defense alliance is it as strong as the prior administration is it the same as when he served as president in his first term in office?

As long as NATO pays their fair share, and President Trump has called on NATO allies to increase their defense spending to 5%. You actually saw the head of NATO at Davos last week on Bloomberg television saying that President Trump is right. And if Europe wants to keep itself safe, they should increase their defense spending. I would just add that there was no greater ally to our European allies than President Trump in his first term. The world for all nations in Europe, and of course here at home, was much safer

because of President Trump's peace through strength, diplomatic approach. Monica. Thank you, Caroline. And it's great to finally be called on as well in the briefing room. I appreciate that. You're welcome. Um of course, we know President Trump just got back from North Carolina and California meeting with victims of natural

disasters. Uh there's the two-year anniversary of the East Palestine, Ohio toxic train derailment. Does the president have any plans to go visit the victims of that toxic spill or just visit in general? Not no plans that I can read out for you here. Uh if that changes, I will certainly keep you posted. What I can tell you is that President Trump still talks about his visit to East Palestine, Ohio. That was one of the turning points, I would say, in the previous election campaign where Americans were reminded that President Trump is a man of the people. And he, as a candidate,

visited that town that was just derailed by the train derailment, no pun intended. And he offered support and hope, just like I saw the president do this past week. It was a purposeful decision by this president on his first domestic trip to go to North Carolina and to California to visit with Americans who were impacted by Hurricane Helene and also by the deadly fires, a red state and a blue state, both of which feel forgotten by the previous administration and the federal government. That is now – that has now ended under President Trump. He will continue to put Americans first, whether they're in East Palestine, in Pacific Palisades, or in North Carolina.

On North Carolina. Sure. Thank you, Caroline. On California, could you please clarify what the military did with the water last night as referenced in the President's social post? pressure on state and local officials in Pacific Palisades, including Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, to turn on the water and to direct that water to places in the south and in the middle of the state that have been incredibly dry, which has led to the expansion, the rapid expansion of these fires. So could you clarify what the military's role was, where the water came from, and how it got there? Again, the Army Corps of Engineers has been on the ground in California to respond to the devastation from these wild

fires. And I would point out that just days after President Trump visited the devastation from these fires, the water was turned on. That is because of the pressure campaign he put on state and local officials there who clearly lack all common sense. And I will never forget being at that roundtable with the president last week and hearing the frustration in the voices of Pacific Palisades residents who feel as though their government has just gone insane. Before President Trump showed up on the scene, Karen Bass was telling private property owners that they would have to wait 18 months to access their private property. So this administration, the president and his team that's on the ground in California, Rick Grinnell, who he has designated to oversee this great crisis, will continue to put pressure on Karen Bass and state and local officials to allow residents to access their properties. This is a huge part of it.

These residents want to take part in their own clearing out of their properties. They should be able to do that. It's the United States of America. What happened to our freedom? Clearly, it's gone in California, but not anymore under President Trump. April. Caroline, welcome to the briefing room. Thank you.

Several questions, one on the polls. Will minority-serving institutions, preferably colleges and universities, have those monies held back temporarily at this moment? Again, I have not seen the entire list because this memo was just sent out. So I will provide you all with updates as we receive them. Okay. Also, also, secondly, when it comes to immigration, there is this southern border focus. What happens to those who overstayed their visas? That is part of the Bocan immigration system.

In 2023, there was a report by the Biden administration, Homeland Security Department, that said overstays of visas were three times more than usual. Will there be a focus on the overstays for visas as well? If an individual is overstaying their visa, they are therefore an illegal immigrant residing in this country, and they are subject to deportation. And also, lastly, as we're dealing with anti-DEI, anti-woke efforts, we understand this administration could, speaking about celebrating Black History Month, have you got any word on that, anything that you can offer to us? As far as I know, this White House certainly still intends to celebrate, and we will continue

to celebrate American history and the contributions that all Americans, regardless of race, religion, or creed, have made to our great country, and America is back. Christian Day Talk. Thanks, Caroline. Just real quick, you mentioned the inflation executive order the President signed, but egg prices have skyrocketed since President Trump took office. So what specifically is he doing to lower those costs for Americans? Really glad you brought this up because there is a lot of reporting out there that is putting the onus on this White House

for the increased cost of eggs. I would like to point out to each and every one of you that in 2024, when Joe Biden was in the Oval Office or upstairs in the residence sleeping, I'm not so sure, egg prices increased 65% in this country. We also have seen the cost of everything, not just eggs. Bacon, groceries, gasoline have increased because of the inflationary policies of the last administration. As far as the egg shortage, what's also contributing to that is that the Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture

directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens, which has led to a lack of chicken supply in this country, therefore a lack of egg supply, which is leading to the shortage. So I will leave you with this point. This is an example of why it's so incredibly important that the Senate moves swiftly to confirm all of President Trump's nominees, including his nominee for the United States Department of Agriculture, Brooke Rawlins, who is already speaking with Kevin Hassett, who is leading the economic team here at the White House, on how we can address the egg shortage in this country. As for costs, I laid out the plethora of ways that President Trump has addressed saving costs for the American people over the past week. He looks forward

to continuing to doing that in the days ahead. Thank you guys so much. We'll see you soon. One more border question. Are Medicaid portals down in all 50 states? Hot damn. Hot damn. That, ladies and gentlemen, is a press briefing. Absolute flamethrower caroline lovett clearing out the room talk about a uh exorcism of the past curses that were brought upon us by cringe jean pierre the greatest upgrade potentially in american history is right here ladies and gentlemen look at her go she nuked him. Nuked Joe Biden. Just said Joe Biden was upstairs sleeping.

Was upstairs sleeping. Oh, man. Mic drop after mic drop after mic drop after mic drop for an incredible romp. No, put it back up, Clay. Put it back up. No, no, no. An incredible romp. put it back up put it back up no no an incredible romp we are back baby

so glad so glad we were able we were able to get uh to this so glad we were able to get to this moment caroline levitt with some of the biggest booms uh here we go loading up mic drop on illegal immigration if you break into this country, you are a criminal, period. I mean, it is, she's like, I know that the previous administration didn't actually understand our laws or how they work, but here's how they work. You need to be deported if you're a criminal. Everyone who breaks into this country is a criminal. Therefore, they're all getting deported. Just absolute fresh heat from Caroline Leavitt. Here we go. There are many, many criminals. NBC News has learned that ICE arrested 1,179 undocumented

immigrants on Sunday, but nearly half of them, 566 of the migrants, appear to have no prior criminal record besides entering the country illegally. Is the President still focused exclusively – which is a civil crime, not a – it's not criminal. MS. It's a federal crime. It's a – so I'm asking, though, he said he was going to focus on those violent offenders first.

So is violent offenders no longer the predicate for these people to be deported? MS. The President has said countless times on the campaign trail – I've been with him at the rallies, I know you've been there covering them too, Peter, that he is focused on launching the largest mass deportation operation in American history of illegal criminals. And if you are an individual, a foreign national,

who illegally enters the United States of America, you are, by definition, a criminal. And so, therefore, you are subject to deportation. The Press I apologize for interrupting. So to be clear, it's not a violent criminals do not receive precedence in terms of the deportations taking place. The President has also said two things can be true at the same time. We want to deport illegal criminals, illegal immigrants from this country.

But the President has said that, of course, the illegal criminal drug dealers, the rapists, the murderers, the individuals who have committed heinous acts on the interior of our country and who have terrorized law-abiding American citizens, absolutely, those should be the priority of ICE. But that doesn't mean that the other illegal criminals who entered our nation's borders are off the table. Freaking amazing to hear a White House actually defend the American people. Here's the clip, ladies and gentlemen, that is the most viral from this press briefing. Carolyn Leavitt, how many criminal aliens will actually get deported? All of them, she says, all of them will get deported because they're all criminals. You weren't told that for the last four years,

but that's what's happening here we go immigration of the 3500 arrests isis made so far since president trump came back into office can you just tell us the numbers how many have a criminal record versus those who are just in the country illegally all of them because they illegally broke our nation's laws and insane criminals as far as this administration goes i know the last administration didn't see it that way so it's a big culture shift in our nation's laws and they're full of criminals as far as this administration goes. I know the last administration didn't see it that way, so it's a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal, but that's exactly what they are. Oh, come on. They're not criminals. They're just beautiful dreamers who are coming here

to kill Americans. They dream of killing Americans. Oh, man. Okay. Uh, yeah. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, we're, we're, we're hearing the audio might need to be bumped on some of these clips. We'll, uh, we'll, we'll work on that. Thank you for letting us, thank you for letting us know that of course is a breaking news environment. Carolyn Levitt coming through over the top announcing the welcome to the golden age, the golden America, the golden age of America has begun. This is how she started her press conference, literally using the nomenclature of this show and of meme culture saying we are in the golden era. Let's go. And in keeping with this revolutionary media approach

that President Trump deployed during the campaign, the Trump White House will speak to all media outlets and personalities, not just the legacy media who are seated in this room. Because according to recent polling from Gallup, Americans' trust in mass media has fallen to a record low. Millions of Americans, especially young people, have turned from traditional television outlets and newspapers to consume their news from podcasts, blogs, social media, and other independent outlets. It's essential to our team that we share President Trump's message everywhere and adapt this White House to the new media landscape in 2025. To do this, I am excited to announce the following changes will be made to this historic James

S. Brady briefing room where Mr. Brady's legacy will endure. This White House believes strongly in the First Amendment, so it's why our team will work diligently to restore the press passes of the 440 journalists whose passes were wrongly revoked by the previous administration. We're also opening up this briefing room to new media voices who produce news related content and whose outlet is not already represented by one of the seats in this room. We welcome independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers, and content creators to apply for credentials to cover this White House. And you can apply now on our new

website, whitehouse.gov slash new media. Starting today, this seat in the front of the room, which is usually occupied by the press secretary's staff, will be called the new media seat. My team will review the applications and give credentials to new media applicants who meet our criteria and pass United States Secret will go to these new median members whose outlets despite being some of the most viewed news websites in the country have not been given seats in this room ladies and gentlemen not exactly the clip i was calling for but that's okay it's still a clip that makes me very excited probably the most excited of anything that happened that means that we are going to obviously be in that seat. We've already made some introductions. We don't operate out of Washington, D.C., like some of the reporters that were there, but we will have our day. We'll be going to D.C. very soon. We'll be going to D.C. next month for

a number of special projects, and we will apply and we will get into that chair as we have a much larger viewership than any of the corporate media inside of that room. Very freaking excited about it, ladies and gentlemen. Here we go. This is the clip that I was calling for. The golden era of America is here. This is the first thing she says from the dais. It's an honor to be here with all of you. A lot of familiar faces in the room, a lot of new faces.

And President Trump is back. And the golden age of America has most definitely begun. Yes. All right. So the new media seat for people to have more viewers than the original, than the old corporate dying media, we will be taking that chair. We're very excited about it. What an amazing White House, ladies and gentlemen.

In her last comment from the podium, Caroline Levitt, who did an unbelievable job, just absolutely killing it. Incredible energy just going in, savaging the press corps, saying they're not going to accept the lies. They're not going to accept disinformation from the press. They are going to accept the lies they're not going to accept disinformation from the press they are going to speak truth she said um joe biden was sleeping the majority of the time upstairs in the residence oh just savagery here we go what specifically is he doing to lower

those costs for americans really glad you brought this up because there is a lot of reporting out there that is putting the onus on this White House for the increased cost of eggs. I would like to point out to each and every one of you that in 2024, when Joe Biden was in the Oval Office or upstairs in the residence sleeping, I'm not so sure, egg prices increased 65% in this country. We also have seen the cost of everything, not just eggs. Bacon, groceries, gasoline have increased because of the inflationary policies of the last administration. As far as the egg shortage, what's also contributing to

that is that the Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens, which has led to a lack of chicken supply in this country, therefore a lack of egg supply, which is leading to the shortage. So I will leave you with this point. This is an example of why it's so incredibly important that the Senate moves swiftly to confirm all of President Trump's nominees, including his nominee for the United States Department of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, who is already speaking with Kevin Hassett, who is leading the economic team here at the White House,

on how we can address the egg shortage in this country. As for costs, I laid out the plethora of ways that President Trump has addressed saving costs for the American people over the past week. He looks forward to continuing to doing that in the days ahead. Thank you guys so much. Joe Biden, who spent the majority of his time sleeping upstairs, may not know this, but they killed all the chickens. And that's why eggs are expensive.

Idiots. Amazing how the press suddenly refound their balls and backbone after playing with helmet level kid gloves with cringe Jean-Pierre, knowing damn well they put up cringe Jean-Pierre knowing damn well they put up cringe Jean-Pierre because they know that people would feel bad asking her tough questions. She's this massive DEI diversity hire who was very low IQ, who could claim every single possible nodule inside of the victimhood matrix. And so the corporate media got their marching orders.

Don't you ever ask her a tough question. First, you'll break her brain. And then second, you'll be seen as meanie, right? This is our woke period. You're not supposed to be mean to every single victimhood class that Corinne and Jean-Pierre represents. To show you the slight difference

in what an unbelievable palate cleanser this has been, here's one of our favorite clips. Different topic. Is election denying a joke now? What do you mean? You have to say more than just make a random statement. Why did the president say, hello, Virginia, and the real governor, Terry McAuliffe? He was making a joke about Terry. He was making a joke. He was. I mean, The Press Well, I'm not going to say that. The Press Well, I'm not going to say that. The Press Well, I'm not going to say that. The Press Well, I'm not going to say that. The Press Well, I'm not going to say that. The Press Well, I'm not going to say that. The Press Well, I'm not going to say that. The Press Well, I'm not going to say that. The Press Well, I'm not going to say that.

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The Press Well, I'm not going to say that. The Press Well, I'm not going to say that. The Press Well, I'm not going to say that. The Press Well, I'm not going to say that. The Press Well, I'm not going not deny. He did not deny it. He congratulated Governor Youngkin. Matter of fact, when he won his election, he did it out of the gate, out of the gate. Really, truly, he congratulated the governor. And not only that, we've had opportunities to work closely with the governor over the past couple of years. And, you know, this is a president that works across the aisle. We've seen that many times, and he was making a joke.

One of many clips. We can play clips for the next three hours. We've already been live for three hours today. So, ladies and gentlemen, just one final meme in our show. Carolyn Leavitt activated. Carolyn Leavitt, somebody who's been a friend of our show and been on our program many, many times. We're so incredibly thankful for her and very excited to hopefully be welcoming her

to the show sometime very soon. I know that there's quite a bit of drinking from the fire hose right now in Washington, D.C. Big things planned on this program. Ladies and gentlemen, we have been live for three and a half hours. We're going to be live through the confirmation hearings of Kash Patel and RFK, and the front seat to the golden era is right here. Subscribe to our channel. Subscribe, subscribe, subscribe, subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. We will fight harder, and we will bring you better coverage than all of the corporate

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For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. That is what we are fighting for, the future for our children. And we will be hearing a lot of that tomorrow during the RFK nomination hearing. That will be live. ALX, when are we live tomorrow? Let me know. Let's tell everyone right now.

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