The Benny Show - 🚨Trump Cabinet Meeting LIVE Now in White House As Somali Fraud EXPOSED, Third World Deportations, with Guest Senator Ron Johnson and John Rich

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

Treasury, House panel launch probes into Tim Walz’s handling of $1B food aid fraud — and they could make criminal referrals, Kristi Noem calls for 'full travel ban' on countries flooding US with '...killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies' , Senator Ron Johnson and John Rich  join the show Check out out partners: BEAM: http://shopbeam.com/BENNYSHOW , use code BENNYSHOW Go to https://hometitlelock.com/benny and use promo code BENNY to get a FREE title history report so you can find out if you’re already a victim AND 14 days of protection for FREE! And make sure to check out the Million Dollar TripleLock protection details when you get there! Exclusions apply. For details visit https://hometitlelock.com/warranty 120Life: “120/Life is a natural drink that supports healthy blood pressure. See better numbers in 2 weeks or your money back by saving 20% with code BENNY at http://www.120life.com/ ” Helix Sleep: Go to https://www.helixsleep.com/benny for 27% off sitewide.. Bon Charge: Go to https://www.boncharge.com/BENNY and use coupon code BENNY to save 15% Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Today is Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025. We're finally getting over the flu. We've had the flu. I've been very low energy. We've been a little late to the show. We've had a little trouble getting our head. It is like, oh my gosh, I think I had the flu and norovirus and COVID, whatever version of COVID we're on now.
Starting point is 00:00:24 Bird flu and Zika and all of those things together over the last week. So I spent all of Thanksgiving Day practically, except for dinner, like in bed. So I'm so happy to be feeling a little bit better. And it's you who give me a pep in my step. And we're going to start off with good Christmas news today, magical news. And then we're going to get to something a little darker, but also, you know what, a Christmas present for all of us. Finally, we're investigating the Somali fraud in Minnesota.
Starting point is 00:00:52 Not only is the Treasury investigating that, also the Small Business Association, also members of Congress, also the Department of Transportation, also the DOJ, also the criminal rights division, also the DHS. And ladies and gentlemen, that's what it looks like to have a whole of government approach to solving a problem. And we do have a problem in the great whites of Minnesota. Ladies and gentlemen, Tim Walls and his attorney general, Keith Ellison, on tape, proving that they knew about the fraud. This is going to be a bombshell story. Get ready. ladies and gentlemen, send them back. Christine Nome says there's going to be a full travel ban.
Starting point is 00:01:36 Amazing. Lock it in. And then also one of the most generous things we've ever seen in our lives. We're going to kick off the start of the show with that. And Melania Trump making Christmas great again, Senator Ron Johnson back on the show. Perfect guy to talk about this with John Rich on the show. Country music legend. My name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show.
Starting point is 00:01:58 Ladies and gentlemen, I want to start with Melania Trump's Christmas video. I just like, you know, I'm a sucker for these kind of things. It is a grotesque and harmful to the extreme what Jill Biden did to our nation. I'm going to show you what Jill Biden did. Why not? Because I want to show you that I want to show you the differences. So let's do, no, we're going to go Jill Biden first. So let's do the Jill Biden.
Starting point is 00:02:26 This is what the Jill Biden. So if you were to think, like, how do I insult all of Christendom? How do I make sure that the celebration of the birth of Christ is replaced instead by a bunch of transgender clowns? Damaging the floors in the White House, in the People's House. How do I make sure that Christmas, the spirit of Christmas and the message of Christmas, is the most insulted and the most denigrated and the most perverted. This is what Jill Biden produced for you approximately 18 months ago to celebrate Christmas in the White House.
Starting point is 00:03:12 And you know what? If that was your goal, then she succeeded. Ladies and gentlemen, and I'm ashamed to say that. But let's just give you this entire show is going to be a reminder in gratitude for what we have done to write this ship, the providence of God, saving us from, well, this. Here we go. And give some live commentary here. So first off, what the hell is that first off is way too garish?
Starting point is 00:03:44 Here, God, what is that? Okay, oh, like, what, like, is that a furry? They got either got a furry in the White House. Okay, great. Now you get, uh, somebody who's clearly, mentally ill. Not the first time we've seen it. Who's editing this exactly? What the hell is this?
Starting point is 00:04:02 What are you doing to the floors? Are you going to pay for that? These are wooden floors. These are historic wooden floors. Eisenhower put these in. You're going to pay for that? You're not allowed to tap dance on these things. What the hell is this?
Starting point is 00:04:17 This is probably actually, I think that's the Secretary of Defense for Joe Biden right there. What are you doing? This isn't even impressive, honestly. Are you filming this like a Nokia? Who's filming this? What the hell is this?
Starting point is 00:04:37 Oh, this is the DHS. This is the, this is the, this is the HHS secretary under Joe Biden right there. This is what they do. Oh, okay, here's you with your like 10 cent Walmart decoration. This is not impressive. It's so insulting. None of this has to do with what what does this have to do with Christmas? Like you can have your midsummer freak festival in the middle of Central Park
Starting point is 00:05:06 This is the birth of Christ we're celebrating and they're doing it they're trying to do it they're bringing in furries into the white house You're damaging the floors you got to pay for that Watch this jump cut Fine, you see that? Just like, seriously. Like, would we allow that at this company? You know, this is like the White House putting this on, okay? We like talk about this, like, transgender mouse.
Starting point is 00:05:42 What are you? What? I mean, not, enough, but not, but no, there's cool music, please. I've just, I've had it, I'm just, you know, that's where we've come from, okay? This was what, this was what Joe and Joe, Jill Biden, and more importantly, the godless globalists who backed them, who were actually running things. So let's just say, read Barack Obama.
Starting point is 00:06:02 This is what they had in store for our Christmas. Now, we as an American people exercised in a religious sense, I think, the White House. I hope that they brought in a priest. I hope that they brought in some holy water. I hope that they did a full room-to-room exorcism to get whatever the hell this is out of there and return it to what Melania Trump released yesterday. See if you can spot the difference,
Starting point is 00:06:34 and I do this simply as a demonstration to have you go like, yes, our work matters. Yes, yes, what we're fighting for does matter. Beauty, aesthetic, Christendom does matter. The birth of Christ does matter. culture matters. Christmas is central and magical to the American experience. It is actually America that is so hyper-accelerated Christmas as a holy day, not, I mean, imperfectly, but it is part of who we are as a people. It is something that is that we structure our lives
Starting point is 00:07:10 around. It is a true blessing in modernity, our reverence to the Holy Christ child and that ancient, Holy Night. Let me, let me ask which of these first ladies and which of these administrations actually tips their hat and gives that reverence to who we are as a people. Let's go with what Melania released just hours ago. It would be best is back. Fine with it. Some Donald Trump needle point. Alec Clenzer.
Starting point is 00:08:24 It's like I'm healing. It's like you can feel healing. Ah, there we go. The Christ Child. Thank you. It's like a pure exorcism for our nation. Thank you. That's a perfect side by side from our producer, Danny.
Starting point is 00:08:45 Yeah, Melania versus Jill Biden. A perfect side-by-side. The garish clown demon parade of freaks, lunatics, hermaphroditic, they-themes, prancing through the White House in their steel-toed shoes doing unspeakable damage to historic floors. You've got to pay for that. versus the simplicity and beauty of a turn-of-the-century Christian nativity. Oh, oh, it's wonderful. Ladies and gentlemen, that is what we are fighting for.
Starting point is 00:09:29 There's some small part, and we talk a lot about a lot of problems on this program. We have very, very dark shows, and we have some dark topics to talk about today, but it is good to remind ourselves as we sit in our own Christmas Wonderland here. Thank you, Klein, of what our work is for and what we are fighting for. Here is a channel and here as a program and here's a movement, you and me. And I saw something this morning. I just want to like buckle in one more time to dovetail in something just absolutely stunning that happened.
Starting point is 00:10:06 An act of generosity that I've never seen before from the American billionaire class. Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.2 billion to fund the Trump accounts for 25 million U.S. children. Wow. What an incredible thing. So what they're doing is they are taking their own money and giving it to America's kids. These are children who are born in America, have American Social Security numbers, and they are giving $250 to each child to be put away in an account and let compounding interest work for these children. You know, most families don't have $250 to put away for their kids.
Starting point is 00:10:58 Some families don't have $5 to put away for their kids. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a practice in pure Christendom, which is to say that every child has value, every child's life has value, and that every child is capable in the image of God and made in the image of God. Here's the Dell family explaining this, ladies and gentlemen, in a announcement video. And full disclosure, I didn't know that Michael Dell followed me, so I DMed him this morning, and he DMed me back. So maybe we can do some work with them. Let's go. This is really exciting. Absolutely. It's a very special moment.
Starting point is 00:11:36 We're making a $6.25 billion investment in a $1,000.5 billion investment in a America's kids through our charitable funds. Next year, every American child will be able to get an investment account powered by Invest America. We've seen what happens when a child gets even a small financial head start. Their world expands. The real power of these accounts is that anyone can contribute. Parents, relatives, friends, everyone can help shape a child's future. To philanthropists, companies, community leaders, if you want to be part of something truly meaningful,
Starting point is 00:12:09 for our kids, for our communities, for our country, join us. And to parents and caregivers, stay tuned and get ready to activate your child's account. Every contribution can grow over the years, just like your child. Together, we can make possibility something every child can count on. And that's a future worth investing in. Like more billionaires should do this. It's genius. As you know, we have a scheme on this program. We have a thought on this program that we've shared with you many times. And quite frankly, we were very close to executing it on it.
Starting point is 00:12:56 When everything sort of got thrown haywire this past September, this past September, we had to delay a lot of stuff and take responsibility. assume some further responsibilities for a friend. And so we are now, as things says, the dust settles, we are accelerating our plan for a foundation or a charity to simply do charitable work just for Americans. We're putting together an amazing team here. We love to see this.
Starting point is 00:13:31 There's so much wealth in this country. We want to see the act of true Samaritan, the act of true. Christian giving is to bless those around you, to bless your neighbors. We have zero interest in doing anything outside of the borders of America. Zero. And I'm telling you, zero. That will be the goal of the charity itself. And we will be doing good works for Americans.
Starting point is 00:13:54 That's what we're going to do on this program. And we have modest means, but even with a little bit, we've been able to prove on this show that we can create Christmas magic, bless the people of East Palestine, go to the poorest counties in America and do good works. And we're going to be doing that. We're going to be starting this Christmas season. I'm going to be setting up nativities in the Tampa area. We're going to just be buying nativities.
Starting point is 00:14:17 And if you want a nativity, we'll come to your house and we'll set it up for you. Little things like that, little projects like that. We're going to accelerate that. And then, well, I guess be the Mr. Beast of America, right? Mr. Beast wants to be the Mr. Beast of Africa. Fine. Have a great time. There's a lot of people struggling and hurting here in our country.
Starting point is 00:14:34 And we're going to be using our philanthropic. endeavors and energies for the people here in this nation to help our our brethren here in america so uh just i you know we've made this announcement on the show before we were accelerating this process uh got had to do some side quests uh and are and are reforming back at it we're going to see this vision through uh ladies and gentlemen and we're just really proud and proud to see this because this is exactly what we want to see in this is exactly what we want to see in our country this is what makes america great there's no other country that can do this no other nation has the capacity the wealth the generosity the basis of christiandom to actually
Starting point is 00:15:20 engage their countrymen like this and that is why i want to make sure that our country is our countrymen this why we're hitting the somali question so hard on the show is that we don't want fraudsters here taking advantage of our decency and our Christian empathy. And that's the way that you actually turn hearts cold is to see sort of the blackness of the human spirit from some of the worst places on earth, which is Somalia, come here and just defraud the generosity and charity of Americans. And so we don't want that.
Starting point is 00:15:56 We want to turn those stories into uplifting stories, and we're going to work really hard to do that while working hard to deport as many Somali fraudsters as we possibly can. Since we're talking about decorations and Christmas, it is like the time, frankly, ladies and gentlemen, for us to just shout out our Christmas ornaments. We'll do it quickly this morning. I know we have a lot to get to. Look at these beauties. Look at this. We will be heading to the White House.
Starting point is 00:16:20 We will be heading to some pretty famous Christmas trees. We will be placing our Christmas ornaments on those trees if you wish to order an ornament, the Benny Store. Ladies and gentlemen, Bennyjohn.com. Shop Bennyjohnson.com. five bucks for every single ornament. You can see them across Christmas trees. We have stacks of trees that people are sending us. I don't know if Klein has one ready,
Starting point is 00:16:45 but Klein does. Klein says he does have a tree ready. Why not give a... Oh, look at this. This is amazing. Someone has decorated the outside of their vehicle? Is that right? It's like something, some type of beautiful...
Starting point is 00:17:00 Okay, like a camper? I love it. Oh, that's it. Look at this in the abominable snowman. Come on. Klein's getting the emails. You can send your Christmas trees in to Klein at Benadjohn.com. He will put it up.
Starting point is 00:17:17 And this is from Rick. God bless you, Rick. Look at that. That's amazing. Beautiful, ladies and gentlemen, we promise to do a full Christmas tree rating tomorrow on the show. Okay, let's rock and roll. We've had enough.
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Starting point is 00:20:01 made that argument. If you want to make that argument, please do. You're welcome on the show anytime. We'll have any guest come on the show and make an argument as to how the importation, the mass importation of Somalis is good for the country.
Starting point is 00:20:17 And I'd be happy to counterfactual all of that with the data that covers everything from inbreeding, first and second cousin marriages, to cases of child rape, which is horrifying and have skyrocketed in Minnesota. Oh, and by the way, the explanation for that, the explanation, the legal explanation that they have for this recent child rapist in Minnesota, this is a, I know we have a recent tweet on this, is that he hasn't yet integrated from Somali culture.
Starting point is 00:20:49 That's, that's the explanation. The explanation is he isn't integrated yet enough. This is like a libs of TikTok guys. I know that I sent in the show notes, but yeah, yeah, I know. We have a ton of stuff going on. That the Somali, and please, I actually, I didn't know I was going to go here, but we got to show this. So there's this man who was arrested for child rape and an abduction of a 12-year-old girl. And the nonprofit defense from the Muslim nonprofit center of St. Paul, Minnesota, the defense for him is that he hasn't yet assimilated to American culture.
Starting point is 00:21:26 the of course negative the the poll the the what's not being said there is that this is just Somali culture that's being brought here and this is something that of course does happen in Somalia there is obscene amounts of child abductions that occur there there are child brides in Somalia this is a regular occurrence and so we got a mugshot and everything of this monster And the explanation is that he's just yet not integrated enough into American society. He's just following the old Somali practices of child abduction and rape. So don't you worry, guys. Really great, really great billboard for why these individuals must be brought into our country.
Starting point is 00:22:19 Why are they brought into our country? With every immigration decision, the question, the question. question needs to be asked why are you coming to america how will you integrate into western civilization what is you just pass you you pass it climb i know guys it's like i it's so it's so hard like it's it's so hard to do these things here i i could i'll be able to find it in like two seconds hold up hold up there you go all right there you go okay boom there it is islamic senator writes writes uh community support letter for somali convicted of raping a 12 year old and the support letter from the from them that
Starting point is 00:23:11 them they they back him they back his actions is saying he just he's just bringing somali culture to minnesota you understand just bringing it to minnesota this is what we're important I said it yesterday and I'll say it again. Yesterday is still very much flu like some symptom. So let me say it as clear as I possibly can. I don't want to be the daddy of the world. I don't want to be the police of the world. I don't want an American empire. I don't want America to conquer the earth. Okay. I don't want that. I like America as it is. What they do in Somalia and that God forsaken part of the earth is actually not. I mean, if they actually ran their country, it could be one of the most profitable countries in Africa, frankly. has this really pristine coastline they could do like enormous amount of shipbuilding and shipping out of there if they actually knew how to run a country if it wasn't just a massive criminal and terroristic enterprise in the third world because Somalis live there because there's
Starting point is 00:24:15 there's things that are like deep into cultures there are elements of the third world that make the third world the third world. And you mustn't bring them to our country because you'll get the third world. That's what's happening. That's what's happening here. I know that it's naughty to say that. But the reality is Somalia itself
Starting point is 00:24:42 is so beautifully positioned to be a central shipping hub for the earth where it is located could be one of the most profitable pristine and well-run countries in all of Africa. Instead, it is the single poorest and most dysfunctional, lowest IQ, highest coefficient for inbreeding, terroristic and piracy capital of the earth. Instead of choosing to engage in all of the trade that goes on right outside at its shores, Somalia chooses to instead pirate, piracy the ships because of their culture.
Starting point is 00:25:18 and so then you need to ask the question would we ever want to bring that nation here would that nation work as a state would that work nation work as a state in america would syria work as a state in america would afghanistan work as a state in america because that's what you're doing somalia isn't the land somalia is the people If you brought every Somali into America, let's say you brought every Somali, you snapped your finger, and every one of them was in Minnesota. That would be the Democrats dream. You would just bring all of Somali. If they wouldn't immediately become Minnesotans, they'd be, it'd be Somalia in Minnesota. The landmass doesn't matter. What if you could delay your next two mortgage payments? That's right.
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Starting point is 00:27:06 move them into Smalia, then that would be New Italy. It's the people, the culture, the language, the practices, the tradition, the religion most especially this is what you are bringing into the country when you're allowing open and forever and infinity immigration from the third world you are creating the third world in the first world denigrating the first world into second world and then eventually third world problems you can see that obviously in the crime statistics here this is what
Starting point is 00:27:39 happens. This is from Denmark, but it's reflective of every Western country that brings in people from nations that you don't want to recreate in your country. And what you can see here at the very top of this chart is the top 20 countries that commit all of the crimes in these nations are Muslim countries. That is a matter of fact. It is incompatible with the West. Islam at scale is incompatible with the West. Do not believe in freedom of speech. Do not believe in freedom of religion. Do not believe in separation of power, separation of church and state.
Starting point is 00:28:18 They believe the church is the state. And they do approve of and agree with rapes, abuses, criminal activity against the infidel. And against Christian populations. And that has proven time and time and time again in all of the data. It's empirical. And if that data offends you, then you need to really rethink your worldview. So you're not living in reality.
Starting point is 00:28:53 And so we ranted all day yesterday about these problems. There is no such thing as assimilation in these cultures. These cultures are so perversely different. from the Anglo-Europeans that founded America and that created the systems and structures that uphold our nation, there is no integration. There's a reason why they're in Minnesota. The reason why they're in Minnesota is because that's where 100,000 other Somalis are. And they're creating miniature Somalia there, along with their customs, which their customs are piracy. Instead of building modern architecture for ships, they would rather pirate
Starting point is 00:29:39 Chinese, Indian, American vessels that flow through the Straits of Hormuz. And that is this type of culture that they are bringing here to our nation. As you can see here, House, Treasury, Small Business Association, now launching probes into billions of dollars of fraud and criminal referrals set. There is a whole of government approach now to this. Every single organ of the Trump administration, this was just announced while we were live, Small Business Association, Kelly Leffler, who's been live on the show, multiple times in studio with us. Numerous individuals and nonprofits indicted in the $1 billion Minnesota COVID fraud scandal, including feeding our futures, receive SBA and PPP loans. In addition to other state and federal funding, and today I have ordered an investigation in the network of small organizations and executives implicated in these schemes.
Starting point is 00:30:36 Despite Governor Wall's efforts to obstruct it, SBA will continue this work. Department of Transportation now investigating Minnesota-Somali fraud. You know, this is like very much Saul Olinsky-style tactics. You must pick a target. You must pick a target. There's so much fraud in the criminal immigration system. You can't just have everyone just going all over the place and doing everything.
Starting point is 00:30:59 You have to pick a target. This is the target. Ladies and gentlemen, what they've done in Minnesota, Department of Transportation, please. Minnesota Audit, 33% of Minnesota's out-of-state driver's license were issued illegally. Secretary Duffy has put Minnesota on notice, massive public safety scandal in Minnesota. Keith Ellison, the Attorney General of Minnesota, has been caught on tape. Saying something that is remarkable that sort of like cuts directly to the point of all of this. Because again, as we laid out in our show for a straight hour yesterday, there are.
Starting point is 00:31:36 is a Somali immigrant costs the taxpayers of your state upwards of $30,000 per immigrant, net negative on your state's funding and infrastructure. They cost, obviously, in terms of criminality, as we have demonstrated. In Denmark, 62% of Somalis have committed a violent crime by the age of 30. 62% you're bringing in some of the most criminal element, some of the most fraudulent element. You're bringing in people who are a net negative and drag on the taxpayers who by all available numbers, they earn approximately $35,000 a year on average if they work at all. They are habitual renters.
Starting point is 00:32:22 They are not investing in property values in your state, buying homes, creating wealth, creating infrastructure, putting down roots. 86% of Somalis in Minnesota are renters. And they're committing hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars of fraud. Add to that, the inbreeding coefficient, the lack of English speaking, the inability to adhere or assimilate to cultural norms. And you're looking at like probably the last population on earth you'd ever want to bring into your neighborhood. The last.
Starting point is 00:32:57 I mean, you're talking the last, okay? You know, contrast that with like Japanese culture. We're like, you know, there's a lot of little Japan's all over America, right? Like, these people are never trying to, like, usurp our political system. Fraud and scam their way into or out of, you know, mass amounts of wealth. You never hear that. They like, they'll make, it's like a suit, you know, make like a sushi store. Like, like it's like, you never hear about that.
Starting point is 00:33:30 There are certain cultures where this is. something that is part of the culture. Piracy is part of the culture in Somalia. Funding of terrorism is part of the culture in Somalia. And that's what's been happening in Minnesota. So the point is that no, not all cultures are equal. No, that's not true. Not all cultures are created equal. All people are made in the image of God. That's what I believe in my religion. All people need to be treated with dignity. But that doesn't mean we need to be imbeciles or suicidal. not all cultures are created equal and so why would you bring this culture into your relatively peaceful snow-covered midwestern state there is no upside until of course keith ellison
Starting point is 00:34:18 literally says the upside on tape keith ellison caught on tape explaining that you know if somebody tries to to investigate you, I will protect you. You just need to make sure that I get enough votes. You need to make sure that you are voting for me. You need to make sure that I become eventually governor of the state of Minnesota. Keith Ellison famously, the man who was caught with an Antifa handbook, anti-communist, anti-fascist, Marxist handbooks, promoting them during the BLM riots, the man who let all of Minneapolis burn. There you go. There's the actual photo. I mean, it's like, well done, Klein. Man, that was fast. He's like, it's like they're not being shy about what they're planning on doing to Minnesota. Minnesota better wake up, man. Here's Keith Ellison
Starting point is 00:35:16 on tape explaining why would you bring so many smallies to Minnesota? Here we go. To stand up for each other and make sure that we get some things fixed. I do recognize there's a problem but what I really need to move to be effective on your behalf is to get specific and it's like you know this sister on this day is having this problem on this and then I can call up him like what is the problem and let me tell you just being able to say just getting the question just getting the inquiry from the AG is sometimes enough to make people knock it off it's like Oh, because they're doing this undercover of darkness. Ask us Somali on the street in Minneapolis.
Starting point is 00:36:09 What they think about the state. You know, we played it yesterday, the Afghan migrant who said he hates Dallas and he's just there to kill. You know, he says it on camera. It's one thing to think it in your heart. It's a totally different thing to have it metastasize and come right out of your mouth. Listen to this.
Starting point is 00:36:24 It's comfortable sometimes. Because when I'm dry, when I'm... city somewhere, no comfortable like before. She says the president's recent focus on the Somali community is unnerving. What he said, we've affected all communities. We know some people they make fraud, but not all. We know some people make fraud.
Starting point is 00:36:43 We don't report them or anything. Some people make fraud. That's just fine. I don't feel comfortable here. I don't feel comfortable. It's not America's job for you to feel comfortable. I don't feel comfortable here. Well, you know, that's probably because America is so
Starting point is 00:36:57 antithetical to your culture. And I mean, we're running out of like we're frankly don't have enough time in the show to go through the incompatibility with Somali culture versus Western Christendom culture. Let's just say we've discovered the reason, actually, why there are so many Somalis in Minneapolis. was. Minnesota was very, very quickly turning into a red state. You could see very, like, sure, sure as, you know, Minnesota was one of those funny little, like, you know, Democrat socialist blue states for a long time, much like a lot of the South was sort of like blue dog Democrat. They used to call it. Minnesota was, was teetering towards a 50-50 state and a swing state.
Starting point is 00:37:50 And Democrats couldn't have that. So Democrats bring in populations, import populations that can be fully controlled, that can be part of a fraudulent scheme and a criminal enterprise to turn and flip votes and even to create votes as this news report details from Minneapolis. Here we go. Allegations in a Minnesota voter fraud case that first came to light this summer. Two people pleaded guilty in federal court to being paid to help register voters in all five, to 600 fraudulent voter registration applications were submitted to election officials and offices in 13 Minnesota counties. Esmene Murphy has been following this case and she joins us now.
Starting point is 00:38:33 Esmey? Hi there, Frank. It was some sharp election workers in Carver County who realized the names and addresses on the voter registration forms did not match with any county residents. Prosecutors charged two people with one count each of voter registration fraud. According to the charging documents, the two were paid by an unnamed foundation to help register voters. The two defendants pled guilty this summer and have since moved out of state. The scope of the two-year FBI and state investigation was not previously known.
Starting point is 00:39:06 And it's very significant that they said today it was 13 counties between 5 and 600 fake voter registrations. And that's just from two of the independent contractors that worked with this group. The investigation involves scouring hundreds of records. On guidance from the FBI, the voter registration applications were mailed directly to the election lead, and instructions were shared to use gloves when handling the forms. In testimony before the committee, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon says the system designed to catch voter fraud worked. This is a case about individuals who conspired to submit false voter registration applications. This is not a case about fraudulent votes.
Starting point is 00:39:46 and this is ultimately a case of the system working. How many were in the system is challenged? Republican Committee Chair Kristen Robbins, who is running for governor, says she has additional concerns that the unnamed foundation that paid the two workers is funded by state taxpayer dollars. 99% of their budget comes from state grants. So this is a group that the state is funding and that then, went out and did these voter registrations. Now, the hearing left a lot of people, including us with
Starting point is 00:40:21 a lot of questions that were not answered. One of the big ones that we can go off on this forever. We could talk about, we could literally talk about this forever. Luckily for us, we have a neighboring state senator from Minnesota, state of Wisconsin, who obviously, obviously has their own problems with their election systems, a great Senator Ron Johnson joining us live right now to talk about. All of this, how worrying it is. Here we go. Senator, thank you so much. We could literally go off on this for hours and hours and hours,
Starting point is 00:40:59 but I think that we got it pegged. There is no reason to bring Somali populations to your state unless, of course, you want to commit voter fraud and have a block of a population that is virtually untraceable, be able to register fake voters in mass and at scale. and no one be able to actually have any accountability. And then that guarantees political power for one party. Do we have that pegged or what do you think, Senator?
Starting point is 00:41:24 Well, I think so. I think the biggest concern is this is literally just the tip of the iceberg. Whether you're talking about the voter fraud that was exposed there or you talk about the massive welfare fraud. It's just the chip the iceberg. It's not just the Somali population. This is across the board. And this has been Democrats' game plan. I mean, flood the country with immigrants from all over the world, set up these welfare programs,
Starting point is 00:41:50 don't check eligibility, and make people dependent on government. And from their standpoint, it's worked beautifully. And again, we're just scratching the surface here. That's my concern is when you hear, well, 500 illegal, but just illegal registration didn't impact the vote, are you kidding me? There's massive fraud. I mean, I'm listening to apparently a former CIA operative talking about how they shave votes, not in Democrat counties.
Starting point is 00:42:18 They'll shave a few percent using the machines in Republican counties where people aren't really suspecting it, where the vote total should have been 60 percent, but it's only 58 percent. Again, I don't know how they do it exactly, but I do know that we don't even come close to investigate voter fraud or welfare fraud. We don't put anywhere near the amount of effort that we should be putting into this. Senator, you just broke some huge news there. You're listening to a, do you have a CIA whistleblower that is saying that they're, and again, is this true? Can you hear all these things? This is on a podcast, you know, so apparently CIA operative who's, let's face it, I believe the CIA has doctored elections in other countries. That's probably indisputable. Those same types of operations. Do those occur here in America? My guess is they do. Do I have hard evidence? No. But again, we just don't invent.
Starting point is 00:43:10 The people, you know, we're all harmed by it, but the, for example, the losing candidate, they don't have the funds. We didn't have the time yet to certify these elections. So the election fraud goes largely uninvestigated. We uncover, again, in this, in your earlier segment, 500, you know, phony registrations. It's just the tip of the iceberg. Yeah, you have the Secretary of State there, straight-faced, saying, yes, saying, that doesn't mean they voted. Well, what do you think the voter registrar? which it is for. How do you get away with that? I mean, like, you know, at what point,
Starting point is 00:43:46 at what point, and we did this during the, we did this during the Bud Light, boycott, frankly, and the same rules apply. At what point don't you just like sit and target Minnesota and use Minnesota as an example and take Minnesota and just say, you know what? Yeah, we can't cover all the fraud in all 50 states. We know there's fraud in all 50 states. We can track all the fraud in all 50 states. We can see the filings. But let's just use, Minnesota and make them an example and show the American public that they can rigged elections, that they are rigging elections. They're doing so with criminal alien communities or with imported communities like the Somalis that have obviously no principles, no mooring, no allegiance to
Starting point is 00:44:25 America, except for using it as a piggy bank for funding Muslim terrorism. Like, why not just, it seems like they're doing that. It seems like the House is now doing that. There are four different organs of the Trump administration that are now investigating. Will we see a Senate investigation? Yes. But again, I think you're right. The strategy should be to fully expose, you know, one instance where we see massive welfare fraud. Once we have all that exposed, understand, okay, here's their game plan. I mean, this is how they do it. Then you start looking countrywide and try and uncover the rest of those schemes. So I think it's perfectly legitimate. You know, one of my concerns is how much money we flow into, for example, non-government organizations that then filter that money, down to eventually probably these vans that show up at these peaceful protests with riot gear or fund all these legal organizations, you know, people like Mark Elias and other folks that are engaged in the lawfare against ordinary Americans, you know, 38 Wisconsinites who just, you know, some of them were the alternate electors. They tried to destroy their lives
Starting point is 00:45:30 through these legal foundations and these legal firms. Again, where do they get the money from? A lot of it comes from American taxpayer funneled through non-government organizations. So again, This is massive. That's what I'm saying. This is just the tip of the iceberg of what the radical left is doing that it's literally destroying this country. Yeah. I mean, it is completely.
Starting point is 00:45:49 I go back to the voting and the voter fraud because there is no other explanation for bringing in 100,000 Somalis into Minneapolis. I mean, quite frankly, if you wanted to do something nice for them, like at the very least put them in a climate that reflects Somalia, right? Like put them in a desert somewhere. that like is more reflective of where they're, like, but there, but now, like, now you're starting to sort of like see the full game plan here. And it's just, it's so in your face.
Starting point is 00:46:20 That's just so blatant that it's impossible to ignore. And that's 100,000 Somalis approximately. What about the millions coming in through the Biden administration? Knowing for a well, there are census counts, non-citizens in the census count, which plumps up their numbers. of members of Congress that plumps up the amount of federal funding they get for their welfare programs where they don't check eligibility. So I mean, I've seen reports, $150 to $160 billion per year just supporting all forms of government funds to support the illegal immigration population that's coming under Biden. This is massive. Then, don't mean add to that the massive we're showing. I saw one report about $1.7 million of remittances from the Somalia
Starting point is 00:47:08 to diaspora, going into Somalia, which is more than the entire federal budget of Somalia. $1.7 billion. Now, a fair amount of that comes from the United States. Where's it coming from? Probably the federal government and state governments as well. So, no, this is just the tip of the iceberg. That's the most important point to make here. Yeah, target this, fully expose it.
Starting point is 00:47:29 But open up your aperture, though, and realize, no, this is happening across the board, primarily in large Democrat-run states. municipalities and cities, that this is basically done in Democrat strongholds because the Democrat Party has become radicalized and they have declared war on their political opposition. We need to wake up to that fact. This is a war declared by the radical Democrats. Yeah, we have a election map here of fraud, excuse me, from the Heritage Foundation that shows Minnesota effectively being like the fraud central of the United States. These are just active cases of all the election fraud. There's active cases in every state, but in Minnesota, there are hundreds,
Starting point is 00:48:15 thousands, actually, of active election fraud cases. It's a state that is clearly being run as a criminal enterprise, a lot of very shading, very dark things going on there. It just seems like a great opportunity for Republicans to isolate a target and then to dig in and to expose it for the American people. And there's a, I mean, I think it wins, it wins from a messaging standpoint, Senator, because there's not a lot of Americans that can really justify like having 100,000 Somalis that are not assimilating to our culture, that refuse to speak English, that have their own laws, that have their own churches, that have their own, like their own pretty
Starting point is 00:48:55 much separate institutions that are set up, you know, countervailing American culture entirely, and they're proud of it. I think the vast majority of Americans are disgusted by that, frankly. And, you know, even though we are a nation of immigrants, and it has helped build this country, the problem in the last few decades is the immigrants coming in here have refused to assimilate. They haven't accepted our Constitution. They want to, for example, the Somalis, they want Sharia law. Yes.
Starting point is 00:49:22 So that's a real problem. So, no, and we can expose the voter fraud, but you actually need to enact controls to prevent it from happening. We're moving exact opposite direction. Democrats want mail and ballot. We expand the use of absentee voting, even though the Baker-Carter, bipartisan commission said that was probably the greatest area of risk of voter fraud was absentee ballot.
Starting point is 00:49:44 We doubled it in the 2020 election. So we're moving the wrong direction. This was one of the reasons I support President Trump's call to end the filibuster to get control over election law. I don't want federal control over election law, but there are basic controls that we probably need to enact nationally and it's limiting voting time, it's limiting the, you know, again, absentee ballots, mail-in-balance, all these types of things that we know fraud is committed.
Starting point is 00:50:12 Our State Department goes to other countries and we give advice on how to prevent fraud and we don't follow on advice in our own country. So will Republicans end the filibuster? I mean, I'm seeing actually this, you know, it seemed kind of crazy when it was first proposed, just because I've been following the ping pong ball back and forth on this issue. But when you actually look at the logic of it, it makes an enormous amount of sense because you can see precisely what the left has planned. Eric Holder in a speech just last night talked about how they will be adding 12 seats to the Supreme Court
Starting point is 00:50:47 to ensure that there is a far left-wing progressive court forever in America. And where the hell is that going to, you know, when is that ever going to stop? You know, what's, so is there a stomach in there, is there a stomach in the Republican caucus in the Senate to actually do this? Well, first of all, it's always Democrats that have broken precedent that destroy the norms and take us down the slippery slow. But once that started, that really started with Harry Reid here in the Senate in terms of, you know, 60 bullets. You have to recognize reality. They purged the two members, Cinema and Mansion, who held the line and didn't allow them to to end the filibuster back when they had the chance to do it. Now every Senate Democrat has voted to do it, the people are here, and the ones that ran for office and any future candidates, I'm sure, are going to vow to limit the filibuster.
Starting point is 00:51:36 So, again, believe what they say. You know, understand they mean what they say. And we better preemptively act. If not, we're going to really be in trouble. So, you know, there was a real reluctance for us to change the rules to get President Trump's nominees through, but the Democrats were so obnoxious and so obstructionist that every Republican voted to change the rules. so he could at least staff his administration. I think the best chance we have for eliminating the filibuster is just watch the Democrats.
Starting point is 00:52:02 I mean, 42-day shut down. Completely unnecessary. Harned a lot of people. They don't care who they hurt and destroy. Watch the Democrats perform in the next couple of months. They will do nothing to help the American public. Again, they're not actually interested in fixing the failed Obamacare. They just want to use this as a political weapon.
Starting point is 00:52:21 So watch the Democrats obstruct any kind of good legislation to help our economy, help the American. public. Hopefully enough of my Republican colleagues will recognize the reality that they're going to do everything they can to make sure that Donald Trump and Republicans have no success between now and the election because all they want is they want to fail the economy so they win the election. It's all about power for them. Maybe enough of my colleagues will awaken to that fact and act before they do so that we can actually preserve this economy. So we can secure our elections, fully secure our border, have a prosperous economy, fix
Starting point is 00:52:56 Obamacare. Transitioner system that actually works. But again, that will require strong presidential leadership. It targeted exactly the things we would pass for 51 votes. A lot of planning has to go into this. But again, it's not going to happen overnight. There's a great deal of resistance. But I think it's possible. One last question for you, Senator, since you've been such a champion and a crusader on election fraud, this map, this heritage map shows that there's a considerable amount of election fraud cases going on in Wisconsin right now. Bit of a hotbed there, obviously a swing state and a state that the left is constantly doing, you know, running funny business.
Starting point is 00:53:35 I would argue, you know, I would argue to my last breath that you should be joined by a Republican senator. You should have been joined by a Republican senator in this last light. The only real chart that showed extreme screwiness and a massive spike at 3 a.m. which is, of course, the indication that there's some type of fraud going on was in the Senate race in Wisconsin. Given the fact that you are the king of whistleblowers, given the fact that you are sort of the king of transparency on these questions, you know, how much voter fraud is actually going on? Do you believe that it is incalcated inside of the machines themselves and that the machines themselves and the programming inside of the machines are capable,
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Starting point is 00:54:48 This is something that we've heard and that some of our reporting has indicated is completely true based on a number of conversations with people deep in the administration. Your thoughts on this, Senator? Well, where I vote in Wisconsin, we had paper ballots and optical scanners. I think that's true pretty much around the state.
Starting point is 00:55:08 There's, it's indisputable in 2020, there are all kinds of irregularities. Apsity ballots being cured in the county. We have central county, which is always a problem. They deliver the ballots late, and that leads to suspicions, but we actually have a pretty good, we keep our eyes on that pretty closely.
Starting point is 00:55:24 But again, I can't tell you how much fraud is occurring. They do it, obviously, under the radar. But there's a real problem with Wisconsin, and of course, the way the Democrats reacted at is, rather than work with Republicans, the legislature, helping the legislator pass laws to try and tighten up the controls, the Democrat governor, of course, vetoed it. And then they engaged in lawfare.
Starting point is 00:55:48 The lawyer, Judge Troopers, who defended President Trump after the 2020 election, a man of real integrity. They're destroying him. Probably a million dollars in legal fees. They've now indicted him, want to put him away for life, saying that the ultimate state of electors, which was the rational thing to do. What John Kennedy did was a felony forgery.
Starting point is 00:56:07 And President Trump has pardoned him on any kind of federal charges they may try and bring up, but these are state charges. This is the Attorney General Wisconsin. That office issued opinion that the ultimate state of electors was entirely proper. There was nothing proper with that at all. Then a couple of years later, now he's turning into a felony charge of forgery. So no, it's sick what the Democrats do, but they go on offense. And that's what I'm saying. Republican, we need to understand the radicalized Democrats are at war with us. They want to
Starting point is 00:56:35 destroy us. That's what Jack Smith's massive partisan dragnet was all about. It's not just after Trump. It's not just a few members of the Senate of House. This is, they want to bring down the Republican Party as the opposition party. They want a one-party nation, a socialist, communist type of nation that they have power forever. That's what they want to do. And we better wise up that fact and be as engaged in politics as they are. But that's the problem. Republicans, we just want government off our back. Democrats, government is their power. It's what they crave. It's their lifelong ambition. It's a huge advantage in political realm. Yes, that's right, because they eat, sleep, and breathe power, and they know the power emanates from the end of a gun,
Starting point is 00:57:20 which is an old Mao-Satan quote. And so they want to control the guns. They want to control the military. They want to control the executive. The Supreme Court and Congress forever. And they'll break any law and they'll bend any rules to do it because the will of the American people isn't behind them. It's just like how do we channel the will of the American people the best
Starting point is 00:57:40 into ensuring that they are the permanent minority, which if we counted the census correctly, they would be, right? They would have no electoral path. I mean, after 2030, you're going to see the maps change so significantly in the electoral vote. You're going to have 10 or 12 new seats in Florida and Texas alone. California and New York are going to bleed seats based on all available projections. And I think they're trying desperately. They're throwing everything they can at the wall to stop that.
Starting point is 00:58:08 And let's face it, the legacy media, they're populated by a bunch of radical elections themselves. So they provide cover for all this. So, you know, many Americans, probably majority Americans, I'm merely get the news still from the legacy media. And again, there's not the outrage that the media should be expressing based on what the Democrats are doing to destroy this country. Yeah, although to a counterfactual there is that the New York Times, shockingly, and we have the article right here,
Starting point is 00:58:35 the New York Times covered the Somali fraud at length. And I read this entire article, that's wild, senator. I know you talk about the mainstream media a lot, and I agree with you, obviously. But this was a damn breaking moment, I think. they've got to throw us a bone every now and again yeah it was pretty remarkable in the reputation but what what would be in conclusion since this is the top of the day show what what should what should happen to the you know some you know how do you fix a problem like this in minnesota well because of birthright citizenship which is a crazy law you know a lot of the population now are u.s citizens
Starting point is 00:59:14 but i agree with president trump i think he is canceled the temporary protective status And, you know, particularly the criminals, people convicted or fraud, I would just get them out of the country. I don't want to, you know, spend the money supporting them in jails, just deport them. Send them back to Somalia. Yep. Yep. I think the American people are with you, Senator. And certainly, we are with you on this program. Everybody follow Ron Johnson.
Starting point is 00:59:41 He's got close to a million followers, 700,000. Let's get the senator up to a million. The king of whistleblowers. of accountability and oversight in the United States Senate. If we had 50 Ron Johnson's, boy, we'd have a different country, but we're proud that we have one. Thank you, Senator. Have a great day.
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Starting point is 01:01:49 We don't want them, not one. Yeah, I mean, I think you have to ask the question, like, when you're doing importation from the rest of the world, first, why are we doing that? Like, is that even a good idea at all ever? Two, does the country that I am bringing the alien from, and that's what they are, the foreigner, look, does that country?
Starting point is 01:02:11 Would that country work as a state, as an American state? Does that country share a lineage of, let's say, the Magna Carta or of human rights, technological advancements that would sort of mirror where we are? Do they have indoor plumbing? Does that country have sanitation standards that we would? I mean, the reality is if you took the nation of India and you were to attach it to America right now, it would be the single least visited place in the entire country, not by little, by an enormous amount. Why? Well, just like to start off the sanitation standards there.
Starting point is 01:02:49 We're something, we're, we're something like tens of millions of Indians don't use toilets by choice. Oh, 419 million correction. They don't, they don't use toilets by, so what if there was a state where 419 million Americans decided to defecate outside or in the streets or in the drinking water? That's India. That's India today. It's based on the United Nations report. Many are such a racist. It's the United Nations. Deal with it.
Starting point is 01:03:23 Deal with reality. So would you like India as a U.S. state? No, you would not. Would you like to visit India? No, you do not. Like, so ask that question before the importation of people from those cultures. Because what you're actually bringing here is the culture. The nation is not the right.
Starting point is 01:03:43 rocks and the trees and the buildings. The nation is the people, their traditions, their cultures, their religion that you're bringing here? Is that compatible with Western civilization? Is that a neighborhood you like to live in? It's need to start asking that those are the actual tough questions. When it comes to Afghani refugees, the answer is unequivocally no. Like, no, you don't want to live under Sharia law.
Starting point is 01:04:07 You don't, man. If you do, then there's a ton of nations you can move to, 82 of them, in fact. And you can go there and you can do that. But you don't want to here. We're the exception, not the rule. No other country in the world is like America. There are a lot of countries under Sharia law. There are a lot of countries without safe drinking water.
Starting point is 01:04:30 Without potable water, without plumbing, without basic sanitation and standards of cleanliness and tidiness that we used to have in this country that's quickly deteriorating because of these practices. Because we import from places that are filthy, that do dump their garbage in the rivers, rivers of trash. It's parasitic. It's a disease on our body politic. You don't want that in America. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is a great American who I think well and truly understands all of this. His name is John Rich. He's a country music legend. It's got a brand new bangers. our out a song that is incredible called The Righteous Hunter. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now live, John Ritch.
Starting point is 01:05:27 John, welcome back to the show. Thanks, Benny. What up, bro? I'm doing good, brother. Doing good. You're doing a lot of good work, too. That was a great analogy you just made about foreigners coming to America. would you want their country to become the 51st state that really puts it into perspective as really a smart way to look at it i'm paraphrasing from elan musk here so i'm not going to give like uh you know i'm not going to claim this was my idea but elan says in a recent speech he goes you know if you took all of the italians out of italy and you put them in florida which is kind of shaped like italy you put all the italians in in florida florida becomes italy
Starting point is 01:06:12 All the traditions, the cultures, the songs, all of the religion, all of the parades, every, every cuisine that you associate with Italy, all that you associate with Italy. It's not the rocks and the trees and the old buildings. That's not Italy. Italy is the people. The old buildings are just like piles of rubble. The people are what make the culture. And so bringing all of the people, Italy would stop being Italy if you just took every Italian out. If you put a bunch of Somalians in Italy, it doesn't matter what the buildings are. That becomes Somalia, right? The landmass doesn't matter. It's the people that matter.
Starting point is 01:06:49 So you need to look at the people, you know, and look here. Here you go. Here's a map. Where do the majority of Muslims want or practice Sharia law? Here are Sharia law nations right here. I'm not saying these are all the nations we should be concerned with, but these are absolutely nations that you should look at and say, like, do. Do you want to live under Sharia law?
Starting point is 01:07:11 Should we be a lot? Like, should we be bringing in people that currently live under Sharia law to create those systems here? Well, no, actually. Like, and that, by the way, also goes for the, you know, lesbian, obese, lesbian feminist right at Columbia University. Um, the last thing she wants is Sharia law, actually, um, to live under. So it's, it makes a lot of sense to me, man.
Starting point is 01:07:37 but yeah the and so that that leaves the question then why are they doing it why are they doing this why are they flooding our country with cultures that hate our culture that hate america why what's the what's the end game there is some type of end game to this and i think it's the eventual um overthrow of the will of the american people plain and simple yeah that's it of course you know americans uh since day one we have not been easy to move we're the ones that dig our heels in and go we have a constitution back up the democrats and republicans and i think it's the overwhelming of our society that they're trying to accomplish yes because if there is no such thing as an american majority anymore or if you can disconnect us
Starting point is 01:08:25 from our past you know if the cowboy hat doesn't become a symbol of american ideals of independence and instead just becomes a prop like it is on you know on broadway in nashville right if it doesn't mean something if you can disconnect us from our past uh and you can make us a minority in our own country which is of course happened already or as quickly on the path way to happening then you can really like you could really run this place over um it does it does beg the question out Why are we so stupid? And I want to talk about this congressional race in Nashville because this is like actually a perfect example of this.
Starting point is 01:09:09 This is a race that's happening today. I'm not sure if you're in this district, John, or not. But Matt Van Epps, who is a American hero, Army veteran, graduated West Point, is running against somebody who, a Democrat who just hates Nashville and she says it. She hates Nashville. She hates country music.
Starting point is 01:09:31 She's on tape saying, I hate country music. you know that that seems like a personal attack john uh she says she hates the bars i know that you have a beautiful bar in nashville redneck riviera uh she effectively hates everything about the city where you live in a city that you love so much that you've given so much too and she is i mean running the very close race uh to represent nashville saying she hates country music what the hell is that john it is it's back to your to your earlier analogy of other cultures being injected into a culture they don't really belong in.
Starting point is 01:10:08 So in middle Tennessee, the Nashville area, we have such an influx of Illinois, New Jersey, New York, California, Oregon, Washington, moving here. They're moving here so fast, they're rebuilding the interstates again. The Nashville airport is five times bigger than it was five years ago. I mean, they're still adding to it.
Starting point is 01:10:32 So people are, flooding in here and they're like locusts you know they they they flee their state because the taxes are too high the quality of life is terrible everything's too expensive so they come to a place like tennessee and then elect somebody that wants to do exactly like what they did back in the state they just ran away from there they and they'll just eat you up until your state is now decrepit and then they'll move to another state and do it again it's the same principle as i look at them as uh they're not all this way i mean some of the people fleeing those states are patriots. They're getting out of there because they want to live in a state
Starting point is 01:11:07 that treats them fairly. But a lot of them hang on to that ethos that they had back in their former state and they bring it to the next state and then they elect those people. That's what you're looking at. What is your message to, I think I'm saying her name correctly, Affen Ben, who says that she hates country music. She hates it. And she wants to be your, she wants to represent Nashville. What's your message there? Again, that seems like a personal attack, John.
Starting point is 01:11:39 Thank God she doesn't like my music. I mean, I don't think I'd be able to sleep at night if that lady was jamming out to my music. I got no problem with that. But it is, it shows a lack of intellect, honestly. even if you do hate country music, why would you say that if you're running for office or, I mean, she was already, you know, an elected person. Why would you say that about a place that you want to represent? And so, God forbid, she actually wins, you know, if you put me or you put you in charge of
Starting point is 01:12:13 something that we truly do hate, what would be our agenda with that, Benny? Our agenda would be to destroy it. Great point. If we really hate it, I mean, we'd want to dismantle it, destroy it, turn it into something else. I believe Barack Obama hated the United States. And when he said, we're going to fundamentally transform the United States, that's like saying I bought an old farmhouse and no, I'm not going to remodel it and make it better. I'm going to transform the farmhouse. It will no longer be a farmhouse when I get done with it.
Starting point is 01:12:46 It's that attitude that the Democrats have. They want to come in and completely turning into something else that it never was intended to be. I see what you're getting out here with the farmhouse analogy. I see that that's a personal attack against Joanna Gaines. And, you know, I guess I'm just going to let it set. Oh, yeah. Me and her just like for a second. I didn't know you had beef, bro.
Starting point is 01:13:08 I didn't know you had beef. Here's the polymarket on this special and this special election here. The Republican is ticking up, up, up. It was getting kind of close there. This is a Trump plus 22 district, but Matt Van Epps is at 90% right now. However, goodness gracious, boys, get out and vote if you are in this district in Tennessee. Team, can you please get me the actual district? It's district seven.
Starting point is 01:13:38 District seven. Thank you very much. I do not have an encyclopedic knowledge of which district of the Tennessee district. But here we are. I do have an encyclopedic knowledge of. my request constantly that John Rich run for a governor of Tennessee, but we'll, you know, we'll keep that up. It looks like we'll, it looks like we're going to have a good, a good governor of Tennessee for the next couple of years.
Starting point is 01:14:01 Nonetheless, John, you do have a real pull and culture, and you are pulling for righteous hunters, your brand new song, you're not, brand new single out, an absolute and total banger. and is something that I cannot encourage enough. Everybody go download and listen to you will love it. Also, the music video is incredible. John, when you text me about this this weekend, I was literally sick in bed for days. I'm just getting over the flu.
Starting point is 01:14:34 And so we're so proud to be promoting this. This actually got me up and out of bed. It got me inspired, John. You resurrected me. Talk to me about this song. Good. Well, so this song, I wrote this song in a response to Sean Combs when I heard him say on television that I control your kids. I control what they listen to, what they wear. He said, I own your souls,
Starting point is 01:15:01 was his comment. And the arrogance of that level of wickedness to just come right out there and say that to all of us American parents that you control our children, you control their souls. It infuriated me to such a level that I said, you know, Sean Combs uses his music as a weapon. He uses it to program young minds. He uses it to move culture in a very bad direction. And I'm also a singer-songwriter. So music is also my weapon. So I thought his sword and my sword needed to clash.
Starting point is 01:15:37 You know, he needed somebody to push back against that. And as a father myself, the first thought that came to my mind was, If some predator came to my house and tried to take one of my sons, they would die. That's the end. It's the last stop you're going to make. But even that, I would pray that they give their life to Jesus before I pulled a weapon out. And so the line in the song says, you better give your soul to Jesus while I get my gun. It's a very aggressive lyric, but I believe it is representative of the American parents resolve and
Starting point is 01:16:14 wrath if necessary to these predators. 36 million reports in 12 months came to the DHS. Think about that number. Over 3 million a month. These are the reports of parents reporting that their children had been targeted online, whether it be through apps, the internet or video games by sexual predators, 36 million and 12 months. The problem is so massive.
Starting point is 01:16:40 How do you stop that? I mean, there's not enough law enforcement on earth. a hundred to stop that so I wanted this video to accurately depict what it looks like when adults purchase children it is disturbing to know and to look at it you're seeing a scene right now of these guys buying these kids but it is important for the American parent to watch this for a minute as disturbing as it is and realize this could happen to your kid if you don't take control of your house if you don't grab your kids phone
Starting point is 01:17:14 If you don't go start taking apps out of their phone, firewalling them on the internet, making their identities private, if you don't start doing those things, your kids are at risk too. And that's really the main point of this. I guess twofold. One, to encourage parents to get up off your ass. And instead of watching the news and the football game, look behind your recliner and see what your son is looking at on the internet. Go through his search history. see who he's who he's dialoguing with on his x-box okay start looking at it you own it you bought you bought the phone you bought the video game console you bought the iPad and the laptop it's yours
Starting point is 01:17:54 take control find out what's going on for their own good and put a defense around them and then secondarily i want this song to send the fear of god and the fear of the american parent to the predators that are running throughout this country we see you we know how you operate and you are not going to be hiding for much longer you bring up something uh that i think is critical for parents to understand that you know it's always been easier to just advocate parenthood to the state or to someone else and in a bygone era that might have been like a smut magazine and some cigarettes behind the barn or the garage. But today it looks like an iPad. And it's important for parents to understand that by giving your kid an iPad and access to the internet, while it zoinks
Starting point is 01:18:50 them out and they just, they stop annoying you. You know, like, what do you think you signed up for as a parent, right? What do you think God does to us every single day when we pray to him? We're, you know, we're like, we're like you're asking for things, right? We're needy. And that's the the nature of children, we are children of God, and then God gives us children as an allegory. But that's like parenting, bro, and you're going to have to sacrifice that. And by handing your kid something that exposes them, quite frankly, to demon energy, but to every darkness that the earth has, you are poisoning that child. And I am so anti-tablet and anti-smart devices for children.
Starting point is 01:19:31 It's wooden blocks all the way in my household. And I guess the best I can do is like preach against it. Like the early returns are in, John. And they are horrible. The new report about meta and how they did absolutely nothing to stop child predators when they knew that there were thousands on their sites and they knew with how they were operating. It's just critical for parents to understand this. Protect your children, man.
Starting point is 01:19:59 Yeah. So once this interview's over, and once your live stream is over, I want everybody watching right now to remember this. It's very simple. When this is over, at some point, go to YouTube and just look up John Rich DHS, as in Department of Homeland Security.
Starting point is 01:20:14 John Rich DHS. At the top of that page, you will see a 90-minute seminar that I did with the leading cyber predator agent for the DHS, and this is a step-by-step plan on how you protect your kids online. It's very simple. They say, if your kid has Snapchat on their phone, delete it.
Starting point is 01:20:36 If your kid's camera is set to public, make it private so they can't swipe down on it and see their location. And on and on and on. It's actually things you can do in about five minutes that make your kid a hard target, where a predator comes across them and they go, I can't get in that. I'm moving on to the next one. And if we can get millions of parents to just do those simple things, you're going to see these numbers decrease dramatically. And again, that's the point of the righteous honor. That's the point of this video being so graphic and so jarring and disturbing
Starting point is 01:21:09 is that an American mom or dad can't look at it one time and just forget they ever saw it. Like, it's going to stick. And I hope it bothers them. And I hope that they then take action and go in and do these simple things to protect their kids. If you don't, then you're not being a good parent. Period. I don't care how good of a parent. I don't care if you coach the Little League Soccer team and baseball team.
Starting point is 01:21:31 and you show up and bring cookies every single day to the teachers at school. If you are not taking your kids' devices and applying these measures to them, you are not being a good parent. How much of this? How prolific is this in Diddy culture, in Hollywood culture? You know, how much of this has maybe gone underground? Obviously, it's been, you know, well-reported. on, we've had multiple experts on the show that have talked about this in celebrity culture,
Starting point is 01:22:05 everything from a cult worship, from a cult worship to rituals, include involving children. It seems to be what Diddy was into. It seems to be what he's been protected against, like that coming truly to light. There are various whistleblowers inside of the Diddy trial, which was enraging John to actually follow because you could see that it was just the entire thing was just a snuff job. the entire thing was just a cover up job for what did he was true was really doing what he was really engaged in um how prevalent is this inside of celebrity culture how much more will be exposed or do we miss our chance here well we don't live in a righteous system the system we're
Starting point is 01:22:51 all forced to live in is not a righteous system it is a wicked system the whole thing now there are righteous people living inside of a wicked system. But the system itself, I believe one of its main objectives is to steal the mind, spirits, and souls of young people when they're standing wide open, when they have no defenses and their eyes are wide open and you can just program them. I believe that one of their main objectives is to derail as many of those kids as they can. Because why, Benny? Because if they can do that, then that's child will grow up into adult that will never follow God's laws for his life, that that child will never live out their life the way God intended them to live it out. They'll be basically
Starting point is 01:23:39 commandeered. They'll be subjugated. They will be lost. They will be placed in darkness. The thing about kids is when you hurt a kid, whether it's psychologically, physically, or any other way, if you really inflict damage on a kid, it sticks with them throughout their adult I believe a lot of the problems we see today in our country with adults that you and I see things and go, how on earth can any adult act like that? How could somebody do something like that or say something like that? If they told you the truth, probably nine times out of ten, somewhere in their childhood, some adult did something terrible to that kid, and they never got over it.
Starting point is 01:24:20 The Bible says that, you know, a wounded body someone can deal with, but a wounded spirit who can bear. No one can bear a wounded spirit. And I really believe it is a spiritual wicked attack that they are waging on the kids in this country and around the world. And music is one way they use to do that, that that's one of their tactics. And so as a musician myself, I said, I'm going to at least throw one song out there that pushes back against that to hopefully inspire people to at least throw up defenses around your kids. You're not going to knock all these people out. There's too many of them. 36 million reports in one year.
Starting point is 01:24:59 That's how many were reported. That's not how many happened. 36 million in a year. I don't know what we're supposed to do with that. We are completely overrun by them. But again, that's the point of the righteous honor, is for parents to wake up, be proactive in their own households, and then go out and find organizations like the Tim Tebow Foundation,
Starting point is 01:25:20 people that hire teams of people to go out and sting these bad guys. They set them up, they arrest them, they drag them off, one by one by one. I wish the federal government would fund many Tim Tebow foundations. We should have 20 to 30,000 full-time predator hunters, righteous hunters out there across this country. Maybe this song will lead to a conversation like that in D.C. I'm not really hopeful that that will happen, but it might. And we've got the right administration. I mean, Trump has said he's on record when he was running for president, that he's,
Starting point is 01:25:54 he thought pedophiles and anybody that sexually assaulted a child should receive the death penalty. But I haven't seen that come to fruition yet. Have you? There's a lot of things that haven't come to fruition yet in this country that we were told was going to happen. And I believe that what is happening to the American child right now is the biggest crime and the biggest sin of America today. Yeah. Imagine if we funded things like that, John, and not Somali fraud back to al-Shabaab Muslim terrorism in Somalia. Like, imagine if the American taxpayers funded teams to go out and hunt predators here. Righteous owners.
Starting point is 01:26:33 Yeah, I mean, if you had... Too busy funding transgender drag shows on military bases, John. Sorry, no money for that. No, I know. Trust me. Sorry, John. No, I mean, if you had... Listen, the people I've talked to that do this for a living, in that video,
Starting point is 01:26:49 there's actually a team that comes in and they get the guys and arrest them. They do that for a living. They go all over the U.S., and they work with DHS and others, and they put these sting units together. And I asked them, as big as the problem is, how many full-time people would it take to take this percentage of only 1% of kids that are trafficked or returned back to their parents? That's the actual true stat. Less than 1% wind back up with their parents. I said, how many guys do we need to get that to 50%? And they said, you'd need probably 25 to 30,000 full-time people that are experts in detective
Starting point is 01:27:27 work, tech work, former military intelligence. And I said, well, hell, there's millions of those people sitting around retired right now that would love to do that. They said, yeah, we just don't have the money. I said, how much money would it take to hire that many of them? They said, one to two billion dollars a year and we would have armies of righteous hunters around the United States. That's what I'd like to see. Wow. That's the same number as the Somali fraud. numbers out of Minneapolis, John. It's a miracle. Amazing. Yeah. How about that? Very sad, very sunken, but there are some bright spots, and I'd like to talk to you about one of them. We all know that rap was created by the CIA in order to destroy the black community and bring hyperviolence
Starting point is 01:28:06 and destruction to our nation, along with an enormous amount of demonic iconography and messaging. And so it is with that framing, John, and it is the true belief of my, of me and my program. the case that we are proud to report that there's no rap song in the top billboard hot 100 for the first time since 1990. That would be nearly 40 years. So that's like actually a very good thing. Do you agree? That wasn't aware of that. So you just popped that up. That's interesting. I wonder what caused that. Do you have any any theories? Yeah, that is unlistenable. That mumble rap You can't listen to it, that there's no skill involved, that it's literally the music of degeneracy and the opposite of, it's the opposite of creativity, actually. Yeah, it's redundant. I'll give it that. So as a songwriter, I mean, one of the, one of the worst things you can be as a songwriter is a redundant songwriter. Like you just, I tell people, people will send me music. They go, would you listen to my song and tell me what you think about it?
Starting point is 01:29:19 I'm like, okay, but get ready, because I'll actually tell you what I think about it. They'll send me a song, and I'll say, it sounds like you went to the school of redundancy school. And that's my sentence. And they go, what does that mean? I go, it's interchangeable with almost everything I've ever heard. There's nothing original about it. I mean, and that's probably the problem with rap. And I do think that the American youth, we're seeing this to the turning point crowd and others,
Starting point is 01:29:48 there is a mass shift happening in the young people in this country. I have two teenage sons. I see it with them. That they are shifting away from degenerate ideas. They are understanding there is no future in that. They understand that if I live my life based on the lyrics of this degenerate song, I wind up nowhere. I'm a loser.
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Starting point is 01:30:56 It's meant to have a positive outcome. It's meant to inspire people and get them up to move. And I think it will. But the shift in the American youth right now is encouraging. I know you see it as well. You know, it is in the top, you know what is in the top 100 is something like, It's something close to like the 80% country songs. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:31:24 I mean, that's inconceivable growing up in the 90s, right? That's inconceivable. What a change in church. What a shift in culture, John. You bet you got a front row seat to that. Afton Bain can only listen to 20% of the top 100 songs right now. Think about all that music she's missing. what a psycho what's your uh what's your final uh what's your get out the vote message for
Starting point is 01:31:52 tennessee seven john well today's the day to vote vote red vote red i mean unless you want this girl uh sitting in that seat and i will tell you that the uh the democrats that now live in this district they are riled up i mean they are ready to go it wouldn't shock me if they're not pulling school less is in the neighborhoods by the tens and 20s and 30s and driving them down to the polling stations to vote. I mean, they are not messing around. So if you can get out and vote today, go vote. All right.
Starting point is 01:32:26 Well, ladies and gentlemen, The Righteous Hunter is available now. Here is the Apple Music link, but it is one of those very special songs that come along once in a generation that really hit. It hits hard and we wish that Diddy was hit a little harder with the trial, but, you know, we're not, we're not in charge of that. And we are in charge of this program, though, and John Rich is welcome any time. You should follow John Rich. He has 1.4 million followers here on X, and he's just one of those patriots that needs that we need more of, frankly. John, I look forward to having another Nashville live from Mount Richmore sometime in the future when things calm down a little bit.
Starting point is 01:33:11 bit. And if I don't see, a Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family, man. Merry Christmas to you, sir. Thanks for having me on. Keep up the great work. We all appreciate you. God bless you. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you'd be able to. Funny little, I don't, I don't, you know, there, there are some things that I've become radicalized on. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you'd be able to, funny little, a little hair date. today. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you'd be able to find in my Spotify songs in a younger era, plenty of Kanye West and Jay-Z when I was growing up. And not anymore. That's not like a political thing, really. I think that really is like a realignment of the soul. And there are, There are very, very bad messages that get sent, I think, directly into your heart when you listen to stuff like that.
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Starting point is 01:35:29 Think of that. In four long years of the Biden administration, there were just one trillion. of new investments in the United States in 10 months, we've secured commitments of over $18 trillion. So they had in one year less than, they had less than $1 trillion. That's in a period of four years. Think of that.
Starting point is 01:35:52 Four years had less than a trillion. In 10 months, we have more than $18 trillion. Is that right, Scott? It's even going to be higher than that. And going up, and we're waiting for the Supreme Court case, and it's so important and so vital. for this country because we're not only respected again, we're putting out wars by our trade policies
Starting point is 01:36:13 and we take it in hundreds of billions of dollars and our country is wealthy again and secure again and it's part of national security and I hope that goes well. I think it's very important, but we're thinking of the number and we're gonna be over $18 trillion in 10 months and which is a record times probably probably eight or ten times, I think more than that, for any country.
Starting point is 01:36:39 There's never been a country that's had that kind of an investment ever in history. And there's never been a country that's had half of that. It's a tremendous thing that's taking place. We have companies moving in from all over the world, from Mexico, from Canada, from Europe, from China, from Japan a lot. had, Toyota is going to spend $10 billion they just announced on building new plants in this country. Our workers, they're going to be all workers, but they're spending a tremendous amount. So the stock market has set 46 all-time highs, and this last Friday, which is called Black Friday,
Starting point is 01:37:21 was the biggest ever online sales that there's ever been by a lot. More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country. I mean, these are the facts we have to get out. And, you know, there's this fake narrative that the Democrats talk about, affordability. They just say the word. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. Just say it.
Starting point is 01:37:43 Affordability. I inherited the worst inflation in history. There was no affordability. Nobody could afford anything. The prices were massively high. You remember when we took over, eggs. You did a great job on that, Madam Secretary, agriculture, Brooke.
Starting point is 01:38:00 eggs were four or five times higher than they had ever been we said don't order eggs for easter at the white house and we ended up doing it and we got the egg prices way down lower than what they were before but the word affordability is a con job by the day where some very low IQ congresswoman talked about uh affordability affordability affordability she had no idea their prices were much higher. As an example, energy, gasoline. We're now at about $2.50 a gallon. We're going to be, I think, at $2 a gallon. We could even crack that at some point. I'd love to do it. And we could do it more easily if we weren't building up the strategic national reserves, which Biden emptied out before the election so that he could try and get elected, meaning she,
Starting point is 01:38:51 he started it, then he got thrown out of the race. And she took over and she kept it going, and they emptied out these strategic National Reserves, which are really meant for something else. They're not meant to keep people happy with a gasoline price. They're meant for war. They're meant for problems, big problems. He emptied it out, and then she continued it during the process of trying to get elected. It didn't work out too well for them.
Starting point is 01:39:17 And they virtually brought it down to the lowest level, I believe, in history. And it didn't have much of an impact because the prices were very high. high, but our prices now for energy, but for gasoline are really low, electricity's coming down. And when that comes down, everything comes down. But the word affordability is a Democrat scam. They say it, and then they go into the next subject. And everyone thinks, oh, they had lower prices. No, they had the worst inflation in the history of our country. Now, some people will correct me, because they always love to correct me, even though I'm right about everything. But some people like to correct me, and they say 48 years.
Starting point is 01:39:59 I say it's not 48 years, it's much more. But they say it's the worst inflation that we've had in 48 years. I say ever. But whether it's 48 years or ever, it's pretty bad. We had the worst inflation that we've ever had. Since last January, we've stopped inflation in its tracks. And there is still more to do. There's always more to do, but we have it down to a very,
Starting point is 01:40:26 good level. It's going to go down a little bit further. You want to have a little tiny bit of inflation. Otherwise, that's not good either. Then you have a thing called deflation. And deflation can be worse than inflation. But we have it almost will soon be at a perfect level. But we inherited the worst inflation. But we have 20 states that are now selling gasoline at less than the $2.75. I think of that. $2.00. and 75 cents and it was at five dollars under sleepy joe grocery prices are down with the cost of Thanksgiving turkey this year down 33 percent it was lower than 33 percent lower than under the Biden administration egg prices are way down 86 percent thank you and mortgage rates despite
Starting point is 01:41:18 the fact that we have an incompetent chairman of the Fed a real dope who should reduce rates I saw Even Jamie Diamond said he should be reducing rates. I never saw Jamie Diamond say that. I wonder why he said that. But he really said it because he's right. But we have a guy that's just a stubborn ox, who probably doesn't like your president, your favorite president.
Starting point is 01:41:43 But they're gonna be coming down. We'll be announcing somebody probably early next year for the new chairman of the Fed. I talked to Scott about taking the job and he doesn't want it. You got the greatest job here. Yes, sir. Right?
Starting point is 01:42:00 He said, no, I want to stay chairman. I want to stay right where we are, Treasury. And I think we're doing really great, aren't we? We're doing great, sir. It's a great team to be part of it. Yeah, that's amazing. Under my executive order to lower prescription drug prices, which I think is the single biggest thing we've ever done
Starting point is 01:42:20 that nobody writes about because you fake news. I've made unprecedented deals along with Bobby and Oz and all of the people that work on it. A lot of people, a lot of people that you wouldn't even think work on it, but they do to slash drug prices by 200%, 300%,
Starting point is 01:42:40 300%, 400%, 500%, 600%, 700%, 800%, nobody's ever heard of it before because I instituted favored nations and no nation agreed to do it. And then I said to the nations, if you're not going to do it,
Starting point is 01:42:58 I'm going to charge you 100% tariff, which is more money than we're talking about. And they said, sir, we'd love to do it. Please, we would be honored to do it. And they agreed that they would go along with the whole thing. Nobody thought you could do it because they felt, number one, you couldn't get the drug companies to do it.
Starting point is 01:43:20 So we're paying as an example for, the, let's go with the fat drug, the fat drug, FAT for fat people. Anybody use it at the table, don't ask. But the fat drug was $135. Think of that, for certain people. $1,300 for certain countries, $1,300 in New York. So in New York it was $1,300, and in London it was $135. And a friend of mine called me, he said,
Starting point is 01:43:52 what is this why is it he got used to paying thirteen hundred dollars well now what we have it down to is Bobby what's the number like a hundred and fifty or something we have it down to a low number don't we have yeah it's one hundred one six twenty five hundred and think of that so we got it down from thirteen hundred dollars to a hundred and twenty five to a hundred and forty dollars depending on various countries in other words we're paying the lowest price tied for the lowest price in the world People said you could never do that because you couldn't get the countries to agree to it.
Starting point is 01:44:27 I did. Every country agreed to it because I said if you're not going to agree to it, that's okay. I'm going to charge your tariffs. And as soon as I said that, they said, we agree. And then we had to be a little tough with the drug companies, but they came along. The bigger problem was the countries. The countries just wouldn't go along with it, but they did, every country. So we have reduced drug prices by 500, 600, 600, 700.
Starting point is 01:44:52 800, 900%, depending on the drug, depending on the company, depending on all of the different factors involved. Nobody's ever even thought of drug reductions like that, price reductions. And I told you the story that in my first term, I was so proud of myself because I reduced drugs. It was the first time in 28 years that drug prices were reduced was one quarter of 1%, one quarter of 1%.
Starting point is 01:45:19 And I was so proud of myself, I said, It's the first time in 28 years that drug prices went down over the course of a year, over the course of a presidency. One year, one quarter of one percent, I had a news conference, I was so proud. Now I got them down, not one quarter of one percent, I got him down 400, 500, 600 percent and more. And the fake news won't write about it.
Starting point is 01:45:46 And it's gonna have a huge impact on healthcare because a big part of it's buying drugs. buying prescription drugs, drugs, it's going to have a huge positive impact because Obamacare is a disaster. I said it years ago and I say it now, and the money should be paid, take it away from the insurance company. ObamaCare was made to make the insurance companies rich. Their stocks have gone up a thousand percent in a short period of time because the money goes to the insurance company. I want the money to go to the people, that all the money go to the people. that the people go out and buy their own health care.
Starting point is 01:46:25 And I see on television, people are advertising now. We will help you buy health care. We will go out and help you buy. That's becoming like an industry because of what I said. So something's going to happen. It's probably not going to be easy because the Democrats, frankly, they don't want to make a good deal for the people. They just want to make a bad deal for the country.
Starting point is 01:46:46 They want to make a bad deal for the Republican Party. but the Republican Party is united and I will say that what I would like to do is the money doesn't go trillions of dollars get paid to drug companies and you still have lousy health care Obamacare's horrible health care we wanted to go to the people and then let the people go out and buy their own health care and they'll do great they'll do great so we're negotiating that now with the Democrats. Well, congressional Democrats want the largest tax hike in history. I proudly signed the largest tax cuts in American history with the great big, beautiful bill. The great, big, beautiful bill. The biggest piece of legislation ever signed, and that includes the extension
Starting point is 01:47:35 of the original Trump tax cuts. But it's the biggest tax cut ever signed, and it includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on social security. nobody's ever seen anything like it so think of that and in addition you get if you buy a car this is great for our car industry because we have a lot of car plans we're bringing back the automobile business 60% of it was stolen because we had incompetent presidents or incompetent trade people but 60% of it was stolen over the years and now we're bringing it I think we're bringing it all back I think we'll be bigger than ever than we've ever been in the auto business and
Starting point is 01:48:16 That's not even to mention AI where we're leading China. You know, we're leading China by a lot. They're not going to catch us. We have to be smart, but if we're smart, they're not going to be able to catch us. They know that. They told me that. Next year is projected to be the largest tax refund season ever.
Starting point is 01:48:34 And we're going to be giving back refunds out of the tariffs because we've taken in literally trillions of dollars. And we're going to be given a nice dividend to the people In addition to reducing debt, we as, you know, I inherited a lot of debt, but it's peanuts compared to the kind of numbers we're talking about. So we're gonna be making a dividend to the people. And additionally, we're gonna be able to reduce debt.
Starting point is 01:49:02 And as time goes by over the next two, three, four years, those numbers are gonna go up. And I believe that at some point in the not too distant future, you won't even have income tax to pay, because the money would take it in so great it's so enormous that you're not going to have income tax to pay whether you get rid of it or just keep it around for fun or have it really low much lower than it is now but you won't be paying income tax we've slashed one trillion dollars in costly job-killing
Starting point is 01:49:31 regulation saving americans an estimated two thousand one hundred dollars for a family of four the Biden administration was the exact opposite but times four they went up six thousand We went down $2,100. Think of that. To bring down energy, electricity, and utility prices, I ended the green new scam. They caught the green new scam. One of the greatest scams in the history of our country.
Starting point is 01:49:58 They talked about global warming and all the crap and what they've done to this country. What they've done by allowing 25 million people into our country, many of whom are criminals, many of whom 11,888 are murderers. and we have to get them out. And we're doing it. We're doing it. I think what the job that our law enforcement groups are doing,
Starting point is 01:50:21 Christine, you and Tom and everybody, amazing. What you're doing is amazing. I terminated the insane electrical, electric vehicle mandate. And look, some people that make electric cars weren't happy with that. But we have to do that because you have to have a choice, whether it's a gasoline-powered car. And we have so much gasoline. You know, China doesn't have gasoline.
Starting point is 01:50:49 We do. And whether it's a hybrid, which really are working really well, the combination of electric and gasoline-driven. But we, and everybody was supposed to, by 2030, everybody had to own an electric car under the Biden's stupidity. And not everybody wants to do that. I like electric cars. I like all cars.
Starting point is 01:51:12 They're all good, they all have reasons, but you want to be able to go and buy what you want. I have post-historic tariffs that are now bringing in so much money that we've never, nobody's ever seen anything like it. And countries that were ripping us off, including allies, but they were ripping us off for years. I won't use the names. I won't mention Japan. I refuse to mention South Korea. I will not mention names.
Starting point is 01:51:40 But they were ripping us off like nobody's ever been. ripped off before and taken horrible advantage of your country and now we're making a lot of money making a lot of money because of the tariffs that are pouring in and it's really national security among everything else it's national security we've also rapidly turned the worst border crisis in world history i believe we had the worst border ever in history i don't care if you had a fourth world country you know we allow third world country and we would would allow fourth world war countries in also. It doesn't matter.
Starting point is 01:52:16 There was never a border that was as bad as our border. We allowed anybody in with no checks, no vetting. So we've rapidly turned the worst border crisis in world history into the strongest border in the history of our country and probably one of the strongest borders in the history of the world because we have nobody coming through.
Starting point is 01:52:37 And I wanna thank our people, the border patrol is so amazing. ice, and I want to thank the military for the backup, because they're standing right behind them, and that was really nasty for a period of months, and now it's no longer nasty. Now they don't even come up. Nobody comes up, it's an easy job.
Starting point is 01:52:55 Made your job a lot easier, because they know they're not gonna get through. And we take people in, but they have to come in legally. For six months in a row, zero illegal aliens have been admitted into the United States. You believe that? Zero. We had millions of people coming in
Starting point is 01:53:11 year millions now we have zero the six months and these are given by radical left people that do the numbers I mean they're not doing many favor it's they're being out we don't have we don't have our net numbers are unbelievable but we had zero people in the last six months the legal border crossings along the US Mexico border have plummeted to the lowest level ever recorded ever recorded and nobody talks about that anymore you know it's crazy they don't talk about it they you think they'd say well Trump's had a great job in the border this country is being destroyed by the border but you always find
Starting point is 01:53:52 something new like is he in good health Biden was great but he's trump in good hell I sit here I do news four news conferences a day I ask questions from very intelligent lunatics you people I give the right answers. There's never a scandal, there's never a problem. I give you answers that solve your little problems. You go back and you can't find anything, but you do stories about Biden,
Starting point is 01:54:23 who's in wonderful health. The guy didn't do a news conference for eight months. If I go one day, I had one day where I didn't do a news conference, there's something wrong with the president. You people are crazy. I'll let you know where there's something wrong. There will be someday. That's going to happen to all of us, but right now I think I'm sharper than I was 25 years ago, but who the hell does?
Starting point is 01:54:44 I took, by the way, I took my physical, I got all A's, everything, but they said to me, would you like to take a cognitive test? I said, is it hard? They said, yes. I said, well, I'm a very smart person. Who is the last president to take one? No president has ever agreed to take one. Because when you get into the mid-questions, meaning, you know, 10, question number 10, 11, 12, 28, 30, they get harder and harder. And they said, would you like to do it?
Starting point is 01:55:21 I said, well, no reason to do it. Nobody's ever done it. I'll do it maybe, but there's really no reason. They said, sir, the problem is this is Walter Reed Hospital, and that's a military hospital. And that means that things are, you know, sort of open. private where you have if you do poorly we'll have to probably you'll you'll find out they said I won't do poorly I'm a smart person not a stupid person and as the doctor will tell you I aced it right Susie I aced I got every question right
Starting point is 01:55:57 and these are tough questions these are questions that I would say 99% of the people that I'm talking to right now meaning the people from the fake news would not do well in those exams. But I'm the only one that took it. I got every single question, right? And then I read in the New York Times, is Trump sharp? Trump is sharp, but they're not sharp.
Starting point is 01:56:21 That's why they're going out of business to New York Times. I hear that they're losing so much money, it's ridiculous. There are a bunch of fakers. But we have, we can never let another thing happen like what happened to us with a fake election, with a rigged election.
Starting point is 01:56:36 where a guy like Joe Biden assumes the presidency, because a man was grossly incompetent. And he was incompetent 30 years ago, but he was really incompetent for those last few years. And our country was put a great danger because of it. So for six months in a row, we had zero people, illegal border crossings along the US-Mexico border have plummeted to the lowest level.
Starting point is 01:57:01 Ever, ever, ever, think of that. And the net benefit to our country, is enormous, incalculable. America is strong and respected again. On the world stage, we're really respected. In fact, I went to a NATO, and they were calling me the president of Europe. We're doing very well.
Starting point is 01:57:21 We have a lot of respect. As you know, we have a problem with a war that our people are trying to settle now with Russia and Ukraine. We are not involved in the war monetarily anymore. Biden gave away $350 billion. like it was candy. That's a massive amount of money. And much of it in cash, a lot of it equipment. I don't give away anything. We sell the equipment to NATO. The European nations pay us for the equipment, a hundred percent price, and then they bring it to Ukraine, or whatever
Starting point is 01:57:54 they do with it. But we're trying to get that settled. I've settled eight wars. This would be the ninth, and our people are over in Russia right now to see if we can get it settled. Not an easy situation let me tell you what a mess it's a war that never never would have happened if i were president not even a chance and it didn't happen for four years we've renamed the department of defense the department of war and i thought that would be controversial and frankly i tell you what i haven't met one person there's not one person i've met that doesn't like it you know think of it we won world war one world war two everything in between everything before it And then we said, let's change the name.
Starting point is 01:58:39 So we change it back to what it was, Department of War and Pizza on a great job. We ended eight wars, thinking it, eight wars, but we're gonna do one more, I think. I hope, I hope. Every time I end the war, they say, if President Trump ends that war, he's gonna get the Nobel Prize.
Starting point is 01:58:59 So I end that war. Well, we won't get it for that war, but if he ever gets it for the next war, Now they're saying, if he ever ends the war with Russia and Ukraine, he's going to get the Nobel Prize. What about the other eight wars? India, Pakistan. Think of all the wars I ended.
Starting point is 01:59:18 I should get the Nobel Prize for every war, but I don't want to be greedy. Actually, the woman who got the Nobel Prize said, you've got to be kidding. Trump deserves the Nobel Prize. And that was very nice, I appreciate it, which is true, actually. But I don't care about that. You know what I care about?
Starting point is 01:59:35 I care about death. I care about all the people that are dying. And last month, 27,000 young people died, mostly young people, mostly soldiers, despite some missiles being shot into Kiev and other places. But think of it, mostly young people. 27,000 people died between Russia and Ukraine last month. What a shame.
Starting point is 02:00:01 So we were saw in law and order to our cities and towns. If you look at what's happened and I want to pay my deepest respects, that those two incredible people from the National Guard. In West Virginia they came from, I spoke to their parents. Sarah is gone. She passed away, she's looking down on us now and she loves her parents and they loved her. They were, somebody said, how are they doing?
Starting point is 02:00:26 I said, the word is devastated, doing. How are they gonna do? They're devastated. The rest of their lives, they're gonna be devastated. devastated. She was an incredible person. Highly respected. Top of her class, everything. She was like a perfect human being. 20 years old just started. She was like a baby. She was so proud. They were giving her a promotion. And she told the parents that she was getting her promotion. And they were so proud of her. Then they get a call that this happened. And we have one young
Starting point is 02:01:00 man who's fighting for his life. He's fighting very hard. I think he's probably. probably doing better than anybody. They said he didn't have a chance. I'll tell you, the one who said he's gonna live is his mother. Spoke to his mother. Sir, he's going to live. I spoke to her very soon after this horrible event
Starting point is 02:01:18 took place with this scum that was able to come into our country. I spoke to his mother. Sir, he's gonna be okay, I'm telling you. No doctor thought that, nobody thought that. He was hit in bad places and she was like, So positive, it was incredible. And it's possibly right, Pam, right? Possibly right.
Starting point is 02:01:39 Boy, it would be amazing. If he lives, it would be amazing. A miracle, actually. But we're very proud of those two people. We're very proud of the National Guard. We're very proud of our military and our police and our firemen and women. If you go back and take a look a year ago, a year and a half ago, They don't change, I think, on November 5th, the day of the election.
Starting point is 02:02:07 But you go back before that, you couldn't get people to join the military, right? They didn't want anything to do with military. They wanted nothing to do with joining the police or the fire. They wanted nothing to do with anything. They had no spirit, the country was, it had no spirit, nothing. And now we just had the highest recruitment in history and we're getting great people. We're getting great people. And I will say, despite what just happened,
Starting point is 02:02:37 Washington, D.C. has become a really safe place. And I guess this lunatic probably was upset that the National Guard is so effective because we were really, really effective, and we are. And Washington, D.C. is now considered a very, very safe city. We had crime numbers a year ago that was so bad, embarrassment that the city, the capital of this country, could be, have numbers like that.
Starting point is 02:03:05 And Washington now is, I mean, no murders, no this, it's been a miracle also what happened here. And now we're in Memphis and we're going to New Orleans pretty soon. Over then the governor called me, you'd like to have us go there. Governor Landry, great guy, great governor. He's asked for help in New Orleans and we're gonna go there in a couple of weeks.
Starting point is 02:03:28 And we're doing a real job. Even Chicago's down a little bit because of, We have a minor force there. We could knock it down within four or five weeks. We could bring it down to almost nothing, but we have a governor that's grossly incompetent. And we have a mayor that's even more incompetent than the governor.
Starting point is 02:03:47 He's a very low IQ person. And typically low IQ people don't make good mayors. So I want to thank all of our cabinet members. They're high IQ. Let me say one. Generally speaking, A couple of them are a little concerned about it. No, but I want to think we have a great cabinet,
Starting point is 02:04:09 an amazing cabinet, amazing people. All of them, you know, sort of have become stars. We're getting credit for the good cabinet, actually. And I just want to wish everybody a great holiday. We've, I think that a great job with the White House, bringing the White House back. You see the Palm Court that was redone. The Lincoln bedroom was redone.
Starting point is 02:04:31 The Lincoln bathroom is now gorgeous like it should have been. It was terrible green tile that was never the way it was supposed to be. It was done in the 1940s, actually, but it was not proper. And we're restoring the White House, just like we're restoring the country, and people are thrilled. But the First Lady's done a beautiful job with the Christmas trees and all the decorations. I see the wreaths on the windows. I've never seen that before on the windows of the White House. And you know, it's four stories I said, how did they get that read?
Starting point is 02:05:04 They had people going up in a little dangerous. I wouldn't want it to. But they put them up and we have wonderful people working in the White House and they're really proud to bring the building back. Because this building was a little bit like the country. It was mishandled. It was mistreated. And now it's being given love. And we're building one of the great, I think, maybe the greatest ballroom.
Starting point is 02:05:28 We needed it for 150 years. They've been asking, you see, the trucks and cranes and excavators in the background and you hear them and every time I hear them I love the sound to me I love the sound I wouldn't say my wife is thrilled she hears pile drivers in the background all day all night they go till 12 o'clock in the evening day night pile drivers darling could you turn off the pile drivers sorry darling that's progress but no we're doing We're doing great.
Starting point is 02:05:59 It's gonna be the, I think it's gonna be the finest ballroom ever built, and we're gonna have it here. They've wanted it for 150 years, think of that. So I will just end by saying, I wanna thank the cabinet. It's been a great cabinet. Our list, think of it, time flies,
Starting point is 02:06:15 but this is our last of the years, I said, and I just think you've done a fantastic job, and we're gonna go around the room, we'll go quickly, but we're gonna go around the room, and we'll start with Pete, and you'll tell us about some of the achievements, and some of you have achievements that are so big, I don't want you to go through the whole thing.
Starting point is 02:06:32 Family Matters amplifies the loudest and the proudest political voices in the black community today. There is so much energy being put into try to make black Americans speak up. Because when you look at the values of the black community, we're a community of faith of promise. Black voters, we just treat humans like humans. The moment we become reliant upon ourselves,
Starting point is 02:06:51 then we can actually vote for our interests. And once you see that truth, you don't go back because courage is contagious. That's why this moment matters. Family Matters with C.J. Pearson. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. But we'll start with Pete, and then if you want, we'll take some questions in the end. Please, Pete.
Starting point is 02:07:08 Well, thank you, Mr. President. As you said, it has been a historic year at the Department of War. Recruiting and retention over this year are at the most historic levels our country has ever seen. I had a chance to be on an aircraft carrier or destroyer over Thanksgiving. The spirit in our ranks since the election under president. President Trump is unprecedented. I've never seen anything like it as a soldier myself in uniform. And I know a lot of you feel the same way.
Starting point is 02:07:33 We've ripped out the DEI and the political correctness. It's all merit-based at the department. We're getting back to basics, accountability, training, readiness, lethality, and that's reviving that spirit. And Mr. President, we're rebuilding the military historic investments. I just took briefings on the Golden Dome and F-47, next generation capabilities that are going to make sure that for generations to come America has the most powerful most capable most lethal military in the
Starting point is 02:08:01 world which you have rebuilt once and we're rebuilding again and then we're reestablishing deterrents and credibility if you look at what happened we deal with every day the outcome of what happened in Afghanistan the debacle under Joe Biden we just dealt with it in the streets of Washington DC with those two National Guardsmen and then what happened on October 7th of Hamas what happened in Ukraine a war that never would have started under President Trump we're having to rebuild that so whether it's freedom of navigation and taking the fight to the Houthis, whether it's Midnight Hammer, those beautiful B-2s, going 37 hours back
Starting point is 02:08:31 and forth undetected, delivering with precision, and Iran not getting nuclear capabilities, Europe and NATO stepping up to 5 percent, locking down our southwest borders. It's been an honor to work with Christy and Tom and everyone else down there to lock it to zero, operational control of our border. And then it's getting after and going after narco terrorists and designated terrorist organizations in our own hemisphere. As I've said, and I'll say again, And we've only just begun striking narco boats and putting narco terrorists at the bottom of the ocean because they've been poisoning the American people.
Starting point is 02:09:07 And Joe Biden tried to approach it with kid gloves. And allowed them to come across the border, cartels takeover community, 20 million people, hundreds of thousands of Americans poisoned. And President Trump said, no, we're taking the gloves off. We're taking the fight to these designated terror organizations. And that's exactly what we're doing. So we're stopping the drugs, we're striking the boats.
Starting point is 02:09:26 we're defeating narco terrorists and we're standing you may say one thing that drugs coming in through the sea by sea are down 91% and I don't know who the 9% is I'm not sure either sir because but down 91% by sea we've had a bit of a pause because it's hard to find boats to strike right now which is the entire point right deterrence has to matter not arrest and hand over and then do it again the rinse and repeat approach of pre-refer administrations this is meant to get after that approach and I will just end by saying as President Trump always has our backs we always have the back of
Starting point is 02:10:05 our commanders who are making decisions in difficult situations and we do in this case and all these strikes they're making judgment calls and ensuring that they defend the American people they've done the right things we'll keep doing that and we have their backs mr. president good job thank you very much so we set out to stop the rip-off of the United States of America This is about global change of trade. We've been ripped off since 1945 when we set this policy. So we set out, and together with my partners, Jameson Greer and Scott Bessett,
Starting point is 02:10:38 we set out to change that. So we started, the first one was the UK deal, right? Asymmetric, they pay us 10%, and we get charged nothing. That allows us to export, and that began the process. Then we did the biggest, the European Union. 450 million people, 20 trillion dollar economy. They completely opened their borders to us, and we charge them 15%, that makes America
Starting point is 02:11:07 $100 billion a year and turns it back to where our economy is the best. And so it proved that President Trump's trade agenda was the right trade agenda. Then we go to Japan and Korea. They offer us 750 billion in cash, to build in America at the president's direction. And we're going to start as an example.
Starting point is 02:11:31 Nuclear, right? We need to have a nuclear arsenal in America of power, the generation of power. So we're going to build hundreds of billions of dollars, financed by the Japanese and the Koreans, meaning they give us the money. We build it here, and we split the cash flow 50-50. We're going to build ships,
Starting point is 02:11:50 $150 billion with the ships in America that changes the way things war. right after those trade deals then you go to how are we going to reshore right let's start talking about the auto industry right we've been competed against by Koreans the Japanese the Europeans were kicking our tail President Trump changed it 25% tariffs bring it all home this year General Motors of 40% Ford up 34% and on the same day that we announced we had set all the tariffs, Sean Fein, the head of the United Auto Workers, called and said, I can't believe
Starting point is 02:12:32 I'm calling a Republican Secretary of Commerce to tell the president that this is the greatest administration for auto workers in America. Stocks up and auto workers up. That proves that President Trump understands how to take care of the whole ecosystem, both the companies and, more importantly, the people who work there. Semiconductors. Right, we didn't build any, the Biden Chips Act was a $60 billion giveaway, right? We've now turned that. $300 billion is committed to America. That's going to go up to $750 billion in the next 60 days, right?
Starting point is 02:13:11 And then you go to pharmaceuticals, right, $250 billion being invested in America, and then working together with Bobby Kennedy, right, pounding away on that MFN working together as a joint team. They're coming to over $250 billion. pricing in half. We did the golden share of U.S. Steel to make sure the Mont Valley is protected. Intel gave us 10% of the company, make tens of billions of dollars. And the last thing I will say is a year ago today, I was working on transition with President Trump, right, to build the greatest cabinet ever for the greatest president ever.
Starting point is 02:13:46 And I, as I sit here today, I can't be more proud of how you did it, sir. You've created the greatest cabinet. It is a joy to be at this table. tape. You know, one thing we will mention. So they came to see me from Intel and they had a problem. I said, look, we'll fix you a problem, but I think the United States is entitled to 10% of your company. And the chairman looked at me and he goes, you have a deal. Tell how much money have we made since I made that deal? It's only $40 billion. We made $40 billion. That was, what, three months ago. Does anybody write about it? Nobody writes about it. That's okay.
Starting point is 02:14:29 Mr. Secretary, how we know with transportation? Well, Mr. President, so just quickly on aviation, many of you heard that we have an infrastructure made of copper. We have to transition to fiber. The last administration said it was going to take more than 10 years to complete the transition from copper to fiber. They had no plan to actually do it. We have already completed a third of this transition from copper to fiber now it's going to take longer for us to go from analog to digital by the way the rest of the world transition 20 years ago from analog to digital we are just going to do that at the FAA right now but we're buying new radios we're going to buy new
Starting point is 02:15:09 radar by the way those radar are going to be made in America mr. president this will all be this phase of the operation would be completed by the time you leave office it's three years I do need another 20 billion dollars Congress to start the second phase which is really important and we'll try to get that done also in that three-year time period but we need the money critically important with regard to commercial driver's license I think we've covered a lot the the crashes that have taken place around the country and what we found is there have been states that have issued commercial driver's license to foreigners
Starting point is 02:15:43 and they've gone through sham schools and they're not safe on American roadways And so in partnership with Secretary Nome, we have driven those numbers down. We've got California, Gavin Newsom, to revoke 17,000 unlawfully issued licenses. We've closed down half of the fake schools that give out these fake licenses, all critically important. Governor Tim Walts of Minnesota gave 33% of these licenses unlawfully. that should never have a driver's license driving a big rig on American roads, endangering the American people, shameful.
Starting point is 02:16:23 We've cleaned up Union Station here in D.C. per year directive. We're going to rebuild Penn Station in New York. We're going to break ground at the end of 27, get that project operational. And you know, Mr. President, a lot of us, I fly commercially, I fly back by the bathrooms. I don't know why that happens, they put me in the back. You know, we've asked Americans to bring their better selves, to bring civility back to travel, to say, listen, let's say please and thank you. And if you have someone's pregnant on your flight and you're as strong as Pete is, we'll pick up the bag and help or put it in the overhead band. Let's be nice to each other, is what we've asked.
Starting point is 02:17:05 Maybe not wear pajamas or slippers on the airplane. And I think it's been received fairly well, and I think we can all have a better travel experience when we do that. we do that. And just the last point I'll make is there was a big football game where the Merchant Marine Academy that falls under DOTA. Actually beat the Coast Guard with Kristine Oh, we beat him by one point and so we're very proud of that. So well done, King's Pointers. So a little bit in a nutshell, we're rebuilding the air traffic control under boot edge edge. grossly incompetent. You get in his bicycle right to work.
Starting point is 02:17:48 And he was just terrible. What they do is they take the fiber optics and they take fiber trying to hook it into copper. And fiber and copper don't mix, you can't do it. But people knew that for the last 30 years since they started doing the fiber. And they spent billions of dollars and it didn't work.
Starting point is 02:18:09 And you saw that by the helicopter crash. You saw that into the plane. and you saw that by a lot of things. So we're doing a brand new air traffic control system and it's gonna be the best and it's gonna be from top to bottom and we have the three top companies in the world bidding on it. And it's gonna be one bid
Starting point is 02:18:27 and we're gonna have one company responsible and it'll be the best system. And it's gonna be to say, look, our skies are safe otherwise we wouldn't let people fly. But we're gonna have the safest guys. We're gonna have the best system anywhere in the world. We're also going to rebuild Dulles Airport because it's not a good airport.
Starting point is 02:18:45 It should be a great airport. It's not a good airport at all. It's a terrible airport. It was incorrectly designed with a good building. Actually, it's got a beautiful terminal. Sarinanen was the architect, one of the greatest architects in the world at the time. A great architect.
Starting point is 02:19:02 And so they have a great building at a bad airport. But we're going to turn that around and we're going to make Dulles Airport serving Washington, in Virginia, Maryland, et cetera. we're going to make that into something really spectacular. We have an amazing plan for it and other things, but you're doing a really good job. I appreciate it.
Starting point is 02:19:22 The people movers of Dulles, we had a crash recently. So we're going to announce that later today, a request for bids on this. But again, it's not a great airport, which we can make great in this administration. We have a design that's amazing for Dulles. It's going to take Dulles and make it a really bad, it was a badly designed airport. we're going to make it into as good as there is in the country it'll be exciting okay please all all right well miss president it's good to be here at this meeting because in one year you can look around the table and see the change and i think one of the biggest changes is how this
Starting point is 02:19:55 the cabinet works together and i want to start there um this often been said i found out some things this year that i didn't know that the department of what was defense now department of war and the veterans department had never really communicated now we're fraternal twins in a way Pete and hour. He lives better. I'm better looking. But in looking at this, I mean, he brings them in. He keeps them for a number of years, up to 20 or longer. And then they come in to what the country is committed to our veterans. And if you don't have both ends working correctly, then recruitment lags, morale lags, and we've been able to work and fix a great deal of that. I didn't need to change our name, but I did do one thing. I put the veteran back first at the VA. And we did that in one year. year. How did we do that? We started taking things that been neglected for a long time and put them back. We had a backlog in which we've dropped over 160,000. We're not talking year-to-year change in VA. We're talking five, six years. We have to go back five to six year prior COVID numbers to see the change of backlogs that are now reduced. We do it in six
Starting point is 02:21:01 months instead of the long time it took. In fact, it grew under the Biden administration. It shrank over 160,000 under us. Champ VA, which the program we have is basically been back to day to day. It was at a terrible state, which delays and claims and everything's going on. We've got that back. We're doing things like taking a new look. I have one question that I asked when I go to my hospitals, which by the way, over 170 hospitals, 1,200 clinics. And I asked the people one thing, Mr. President. I said, what are you doing right now? If you were just honest and I wasn't standing here, you say, this is stupid. It's been amazing what we've gotten. And the feedback that we've had, we've been able to change how we do credentialing,
Starting point is 02:21:37 how we do privileing, how we do hiring. We're all working through that. and it's all made a difference for our veterans as we go for it. C&P exams for veterans out there listening if this is the one where disability claims where they say well let me send you to a doctor to make sure most of the time we have that already in the record we're working now to where those could actually be changed where we can just look at the record and not have to send them to the doctor that's almost a three billion dollar savings that we can let and also not taking what the veterans do we're also getting ready to announce here pretty soon they reorganization it's going to bring our hospital system organizationally in line with the 21st century we are the largest health
Starting point is 02:22:10 organization it's about time we acted like it mr. president you gave that leadership we're going to do it and also one thing community care contracts getting ready to go out is one of the largest contracts in the federal government but it does exactly what you and I've talked about before making sure that our veterans can get care in the system or in the community where if they want we're getting ready for that now I have one thing for all the press who really enjoyed the first of the year saying oh you know they're gonna cut all these jobs 80,000 this 80,000 at the VA mr. president every success that I just gave you
Starting point is 02:22:40 came after the fact, we had 30,000 take early retirement. Early retirement, no risk, although you reported it is loss and risk. You can't help yourself. 30,000 took the retirement. Every bit of the success that I just told you about came with a reduced workforce. There was a motivated workforce that said how can we take care of veterans. That's what this cabinet does, that's what we're doing for you. And you've got the highest approval rate we've ever had at the VA, so that tells you something.
Starting point is 02:23:07 You're doing a great job. Thank you very much. Jameson, please. Well, there's been some activity on trade this year. You know, for about 75 years, we had a system, global trading system that was premised on the United States, having totally open borders, right? Not just on immigration, but on goods and services. And everyone else generally kept higher tariffs, higher non-tariff barriers, et cetera.
Starting point is 02:23:32 Obviously, the outcome was we had a huge trade deficit. You took it head on. You gave all of us who work on the file, a lot of leverage. So we spent the past 10 months or whatever we've been doing now, just going around the world and flipping the script. So now we're in a situation where we've protected our industries. We have the tariffs and the other countries have decided to take their tariffs down and non-tariff barriers.
Starting point is 02:23:56 And we've done it in a very constructive way. We've achieved agreements on reciprocal trade, which are a new kind of trade agreement that's really focused on making sure we have balanced trade. We have reciprocal trade that we're treating each other fairly. And it's been embraced by the international community. And it's going to be exciting to see what it's like five years, ten years from now, because you've changed it. And that's how it's going to be now.
Starting point is 02:24:18 And I think you should be commended for it, and we look forward to seeing what comes to the next few years. Thank you very much. He's doing great. He's doing a great job. Thank you very much. Please. Thank you, Mr. President. Last time I was here, I said that the amount of dereg that we had for regulatory was 30 to 1.
Starting point is 02:24:36 Since then, it's up to 48 to 1. Your goal had been 10 to 1, which was in excess of 6 to 1 in the first term. It's actually much higher than that, but I made my team redo this, the threshold a little bit because it sounded so unbelievable. But the amount of work that's being done with this entire team is astronomical. And another detail in that is that when we propose a rule, some of the biggest ones that you care the most about, don't go into that count until they are finalized. So next year we should be even more eye-popping.
Starting point is 02:25:08 One of those to talk about is the federal acquisitions regulations, which you gave us a charge six months ago to dramatically reduce. In six months, we've lowered it by 25%, 500 pages, 2,700 mandates, which is a third of the mandates. That's going to lead to savings, competition, and speed. So probably $40 billion for the agencies and savings over the course of 10 years. When we get up and running, it'll be north of between $200 and $400 billion. Competition, about 45% of government bids only have one bidder.
Starting point is 02:25:46 So you've got no competition in that situation. That will now change. And then we're just getting faster. Months, and hopefully we turn it into years, which means you all around this table can buy things that you need quickly and that you have better vendors to come. Many of them small businesses who want to participate. in the federal procurement process. So making all sorts of improvements on that front, it's
Starting point is 02:26:10 very exciting. Thank you, Mr. President. We're giving the regulations. We're cutting them at levels never seen before. And I have the record from the first four years, but we're blowing that record away, so it's been really great. Scott? Yes, sir, Mr. President. Great to be with everyone. And, you know, when you were giving your report, which was fantastic, and I listened to the report of all my colleagues here, and those that will come. It reminds me when I played in the NFL. We had this thing called game film.
Starting point is 02:26:41 You know all about film. And we had a saying and said, The film, don't lie. The film tells a real story. And I hope that the American people, when they watch the film that's going on now in this time in our history, that they will see that America is greater today
Starting point is 02:26:57 than it ever has been. So I thank you for that. And thank you for giving us good stories that we can tell for the American people. We're saving our country. Yes, sir. Okay, and I don't want to be regadocious.
Starting point is 02:27:09 We're saving our country. Our country is going down and would never have been able to come back. We're saving all of us, but we're saving our country. Go ahead. So at housing and urban development and keep it with your executive order, sir, in making American streets safe and beautiful. Again, we've been very intentional about making public housing in our country safe. And I want people to know our colleagues,
Starting point is 02:27:34 but people in America know that we actually care about people that live in public housing around our country. A lot of public housing is wrong with crime, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, illicit drugs, illegal aliens living in public housing. But we've put them on notice to let you know that it's not lost on us. We care about the people. We're paying attention to it and we're going to root out crime in public housing. We've been very focused on working with the Memphis Safe Task Force, the DC's Safe and Beautiful Task Force, work with Pam and Christy and others and law enforcement. Our law enforcement is tremendous. Every single night, they go out and they go to public housing
Starting point is 02:28:13 to make sure that our people are safe. Mothers and children are safe. And so at HUD, you know, it's a different day. We're running a new place. The film was real bad when I came in. I'm going to be honest. But we are given the people to live in public housing and do assurance that they will be safe.
Starting point is 02:28:29 And we also announced a new crime hotline, sir, that people that live, people that live in public housing if they see criminal activity, if they see illegals living there, if they see drug trafficking. If you see it, if you hear it, report it. Don't be afraid. And so work with our Office of Inspector General. We've set up this crime hotline and also working with Christian Department of Homeland Security, making sure that everyone that lives the side of public housing is accounted for and that they are American people. And so I'll say that and I emphasize that to know that we prioritize American people and American people own.
Starting point is 02:29:06 Lastly, sir, in Atlantic City, we took over the Atlantic City public housing because the living conditions were deplorable. And they have people that have been living there for three generations, and they were been treated very bad. And so I took it so that we can now give people a safe place to stay. And working with the First Lady and to foster youth initiative has been a great. great joy for me and our team. So thank you for doing that executive order to make sure that our foster youth have a safe landing pad and have financial literacy as they age out of the foster
Starting point is 02:29:44 youth system. So you talked about affordability. HUD has supported over one million Americans in home ownership and affordability and over 560,000 a first-time homebuyers. So I hope that the press were right about that good news that a million people are able to own a home. and to refinance their homes and so we are moving our building from DC to Alexandria Virginia so thank you for your support we're gonna say to American people by 500 million dollars so that's my report thank you sir thank you Scott well coming off of Thanksgiving moving towards Christmas I think it's the season of Thanksgiving and two words for me are gratitude and joy gratitude
Starting point is 02:30:30 to you for, as Howard said, bringing this team together. I say it a lot, but I'll say it again, that this is like family at this point, and I don't know that there's ever been an organization like this, at least a government like this in the history of our country. These jobs are hard, but the joy every day in getting to fight for America and save the country is the privilege of all of our lifetimes, I believe. So thank you for that. At U.S. Department of Agriculture, Abraham Lincoln launched this department in 1862, but under your leadership, we have finally, again, put farmers and ranchers in rural America first in the last year. It's no longer DEI, climate change, sending out money based on the color of a farmer's skin. It's now about literally putting farmers back at the center of it. And under the last administration, we talked a lot about affordability. We'll continue to talk about that. But under the Biden administration, and the destruction of our economy and the cost of inflation. Interest rates for farmers and ranchers went up 73 percent.
Starting point is 02:31:38 Labor went up 47 percent. Fertilizer went up 36 percent. Fuel went up 28 percent. So when you think about the extreme economic strain that a lot of our farmers are under in our farm economy, these are massive, massive numbers that will take some time to get out from under. But we've already seen the beginnings of the movement toward more affordable food, housing, fuel, et cetera.
Starting point is 02:32:06 And that will only continue to trend as we work to solve those issues. My partners in trade, of course they do the work, but I'm constantly talking to them about selling more soybeans, selling more corn, getting more of our products out. But when we really think about how to solve for this idea that for so long our farmers, many of them have been farming for government checks instead of moving their product around the world, these trade deals change that forever. And it isn't one trade deal or two trade deals. It's dozens of trade deals. And so talking about rural prosperity and bringing the golden age back to rural America, which has been lost for too long. And we're going to focus on that
Starting point is 02:32:46 next year, hopefully with our vice president, many of our cabinet members, but the opportunity to do that under these new trade deals is unprecedented. And so just putting farmers first, our ranchers first, Mr. President, is such a huge, such a huge priority and an accomplishment of the last year. The second quick thing is lawfare, and I know you know this better than anyone in the country, when a government politicizes and weaponizes their power to go after average everyday Americans, well, from you, the top of the heapest president, but all the way down to the ranchers in South Dakota, the Maud family, who were facing jail time over a fence line dispute. that had been in their family for 130 years.
Starting point is 02:33:29 We fixed that. The family, the Henry family in New Jersey, who were facing their farm being taken away for eminent domain to give to affordable housing, we fixed that. So being able to completely change the trajectory of private property rights, but especially as it has to do with our farmers
Starting point is 02:33:46 and ranchers and our rural communities, changes everything for our country. And then the third thing, we have so much great things to talk about at USDA, but the third thing, which became very much a part of the national conversation during the Democrat shutdown was snap reform, food stamp reform. When all of America saw what so many of us know and have been working on, but when you have so much rampant fraud in a program that 42 million Americans participate in, now a big
Starting point is 02:34:14 good piece of news that I hope is written about since you became president about 800,000 of those 42 million have moved off of food stamps, which is hopefully the plan with better jobs, higher wages, et cetera. But still, when we found 186,000 dead people or dead people's social security numbers being used, 500,000 people receiving benefits more than twice. We had a couple of people receiving benefits in six states. In February of this year, we asked for all the states for the first time to turn over their data to the federal government, to let the USDA partner with them to root out this fraud to make sure that those who really need food stamps, are getting them, but also to ensure that the American taxpayer is protected.
Starting point is 02:34:58 21 states said yes, 29 states said yes, not surprisingly the red states, and that's where all of that data that fraud comes from. But 21 states, including California, New York and Minnesota, the blue states, continue to say no. So as of next week, we have begun and will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states until they comply and they tell us and allow us to partner with them to root out this fraud and to protect the American taxpayer. As Joe Biden was working to buy an election a year ago, he increased food stamp program funding by 40%. So now as we continue to roll that back. So the partnership in making America healthy again is also in food stamps, but a lot of what
Starting point is 02:35:45 we're going to, Bobby and I are doing together is really remarkable. But again, just gratitude and joy for this work. and so, so grateful to you. The final thing I'll say, a lot of gratitude to Secretary Marco Rubio for wearing his Aggie maroon tie as a reflection of Texas A&M beating Florida handily about a month ago. So Marco, I want to thank you and much gratitude and joy in my heart as well.
Starting point is 02:36:11 Yes. But thank you, we also have to say something about China with one of the largest purchases ever in our country, the soybeans. Yes, sir. And so I want to thank President Xi. We had a great meeting. We were in South Korea, and I went to a lot of other places too, but we met in South Korea
Starting point is 02:36:30 and President Xi was great. And China gave us among the largest orders in the history of your world, agriculture. That's right. And sir, may I say this is the remarkable result of real leadership and your real leadership. Just a couple of days ago, China announced that they were going to halt all purchases from Brazil because they had found some irregularities and some of the soybeans they're buying from Brazil and what that means is a continued signal that this country and our farmers produce the best highest quality soybeans sorghum etc in
Starting point is 02:37:04 the world and what you've been able to do is open those markets up and again move toward an era for our farmers are not so reliant on government checks but they have the markets to sell their product having said that we do have a bridge payment we'll be announcing with you next week as we're still trying to recover from the bite yes that's right to help the farmers they did not have that's right thank you very much thank you sir Scott mr. president's been a great year on the economy but the best is yet to come the tens of trillions of dollars that have come in in investment both the portfolio investment investment by
Starting point is 02:37:41 companies investment they have by countries that is turning into a cap-ex boom for the U.S. capital expenditures up 15% in history. When cap X is up, jobs will follow. The one big beautiful bill is an incredible, as you said, thanks to your leadership along with Speaker Johnson, Senator Leader Thune, we had that done on July 4th, which everyone said was impossible. And the great thing about that bill served for the American people. It's for industry, 100% expensing. Build your factory here. You can write it off. immediately, but you also insisted on the four benefits for working people. No tax on tips, no tax in overtime, no tax on Social Security, auto deductibility for American cars, and that is
Starting point is 02:38:32 retroactive. So as a result, in 2026, we are going to see very substantial tax refunds in the first quarter. So the best way to address the affordability crisis is to give Americans more money in their pockets, which is what this bill has done. We're going to see real wage increases. I think next year is going to be a fantastic year. Taxes, deregulation, energy certainty. That's why everyone with your leadership is coming to America. Bond market had its best year since 2020. Everyone said it couldn't be done. So we're going to have growth. We've had two, four percent quarters before the Schumer shutdown. We're going to go back to that. So not only we're going to have great growth, but it's going to be low inflationary growth.
Starting point is 02:39:21 And stock market obviously is following, but next year is going to be the year for Main Street as all this kicks in. And you came in, immigration, I called it the three eyes, immigration, interest rates, and inflation that were killing the American people, close the border, the promise kept. Interest rates are down and 10-year bond, again, best year since 2020, and inflation led by energy prices is going to roll next year. I think it's going to be a fantastic year that we can look back, be very proud of this year, but I think 2026 is going to be great for the American people, thanks to you. It's going to be great. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. President. It's an honor to serve with this great team that you've assembled, and I just want to pick up. on something you said, Mr. President, because you hit the nail on the head, that it is absurd that Democrats talk about an affordability crisis that they created and the people around this table
Starting point is 02:40:23 work every single day to address. You'll hear a lot of statistics today. You hear a lot of statistics in our political conversation. I think the most important statistic for the American people is that under the Biden administration, the average American family lost over $3,000 of household income. and under the first 10 months of this Trump administration, they have gained over $1,000 of household income. What that says very clearly is that we are fixing the problem that Joe Biden and the Democrats created in the last administration. If you look at every affordability crisis
Starting point is 02:40:56 that's confronting the American people today, it is traceable directly to a problem caused by Joe Biden and congressional Democrats. Why did Holmes get so unaffordable? Because we had 20 million illegal aliens in this country, taking homes that ought by right to go to American citizens. Why did tax bills get so unaffordable? Because Democrats were raising taxes,
Starting point is 02:41:17 while Congressional Republicans, under the President's leadership, we're now cutting taxes. Why did food get so expensive? Because we printed trillions of dollars and threw it into green scams that made our agricultural economy suffer while Americans were paying higher prices for food. On every single one of those issues, Mr. President,
Starting point is 02:41:36 I think we've made incredible progress. But it would be preposterous to fix every problem caused over the last four years in just 10 months. I think that we've done incredibly good. But what I see over the next year, and you heard Brooke talk about joy and gratitude, what I really think this season represents for me, and I think for the entire administration, is that we have now done incredible work to fix what Joe Biden broke. And I think the next year, an American growth and American prosperity could be the best year that we've had in the United States of America. It's going to happen because we're all working hard. It's going to happen because we have the greatest country in the world.
Starting point is 02:42:17 But I think for congressional Democrats in particular, if they want to talk about affordability, they ought to look in the mirror. We are fixing what they're broken. We're proud to do it. It's the job that we were elected to do. But I think 2026 is going to be the year where this economy really takes off. Thank you, very much. Thank you, sir. Great.
Starting point is 02:42:33 Yeah. President Trump, thank you for talking about Sarah, heartbreaks for her family. And Andy is doing well. His parents' Melody and Jason wanted me to tell you, and I was with him yesterday in the hospital. He's a miracle. I was there when the surgeons came in and they wanted you to know this. He's a miracle.
Starting point is 02:42:54 And if everyone in this country can continue to pray for that family, he's got a long road ahead of him, but he is a miracle. And of course, our D.C. initiative is led. by our amazing oh and the monster will be held accountable who did this our our marshals of course are leading the DC safe effort we have made over 7,000 arrest at your direction DC is safe again working with everyone around this table Pete and everyone Scott and I were in Memphis together last week and everyone and Bobby your HHS doctors and medics are on the ground to help
Starting point is 02:43:30 people in Memphis and DC in Memphis We've made over 3,500 arrests so far. And Homeland Security, Christy, you've been instrumental in this. But it's everyone working together as a team. We even have Treasury agents out there. It's unbelievable on the ground in D.C. and Memphis. Of course, law enforcement first. FBI, you know, Cash Patel has led the FBI.
Starting point is 02:43:50 We have a 100% increase in the arrest of violent criminals, thanks to your leadership. DEA, led by Terry Cole. Over 45 million fentanyl pills. all pills, 4,200 kilos fentanyl powder. That is the equivalent of 30, 347 million potential lethal doses. That's unbelievable that you've taken off the streets of our country. And the weight of all the drugs combined taken off by DEA is the weight of 17 full semi-trucks of the drugs just since you've been in office. The drug is the drug. The drug
Starting point is 02:44:31 that had flowed into this country under the previous administration. ATF, led by Rob Saccata, has seized more than 31,000 illegal guns. 31,000, unbelievable at your leadership. 19,000 of those were from trafficking cases. We've been sued on the legal front now. We have been sued 575 times. 575 times. More than every administration,
Starting point is 02:45:00 every administration going back to Reagan combined. Most recently yesterday, I was sued by an immigration judge who we fired. One of the reasons she said she was a woman. Last I checked, I was a woman as well. 24 Supreme Court wins, President Trump. 92% success rate. We told you it would take a while to get to the Supreme Court.
Starting point is 02:45:23 We're doing it at record speed, led by John Sauer, of course, Sarah and Hosh all working together. Immigration, we're winning, nationwide injunctions, ending DEI funding, working to secure that our federal workforces aligned with your America First Agenda, representing pretty much everyone in this room. We met with your general counsel yesterday, Doug, met with working with everyone. It's non-stop. ICE, of course, we're winning there with Christie. We're Brooks, SNAP benefits, one there. Marco, U.S. Aid, Pete, National Guard, of course, going nonstop. Our U.S. attorneys are fighting violent crime, working around the clock to make America safe again, which was your directive, our Civil Rights Division, suing Gavin Newsom, three times now,
Starting point is 02:46:15 Prop 50, keeping boys out of girls' sports and in-state tuition for illegal aliens. We've sued over election integrity. We are litigating major universities with Linda. Thank you, our Civil Rights Division, for everything that you've done to end DEI in our schools. Our civil division fighting sanctuary cities every single day. And, of course, our antitrust division with Google, major settlement. Our attorneys are working on terrorism, TDA, MS-13, Antifa, President Trump. We've charged more than 500 defendants with assault on federal.
Starting point is 02:46:54 officers, thanks to your directive. And also, we have dropped countless cases against Americans that were prosecuted under the Biden administration, including J6, COVID, Face Act, and more. And as everyone knows, we cannot talk about pending grand jury investigations, but no one is above the law, and that includes what happened in Arctic Frost. I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah and happy holidays. Thank you for fighting for our country. Thank you. Thank you very much. Please. Well, thank you, Mr. President. Thank you for allowing me to be at this table. When I came on board, I knew really none of you in this last year. And it's been a year, Mr. President, since I've had the pleasure to serve this country on the
Starting point is 02:47:48 workforce. Everybody said the Department of Labor would be quiet. Fly under the radar. You won't have to do too much. Absolutely not because you made the American people realize the American dream is real for the American workforce. And it's been under your leadership, Mr. President, that over two million jobs that has been created since you started have been native-borne workers. And that is the difference between this presidency, this administration, as opposed to the Biden administration were mostly foreign-born or federal government jobs and I think through the private sector over two million jobs of native born and so the Labor Department has wasted no time in putting that into action with our
Starting point is 02:48:30 Make America skilled again either grant dollars but the intentionality of the apprenticeship program one million active apprentices across this country we have done over 250,000 new apprentices so far in the first year and registered over 2,000 new apprenticeship programs. Why do we need the apprenticeship programs with the men and women in the trades because of the leadership of onshoreing and reshoring and have a lot of these companies reinvest in America? We have to build this country. We cannot do that without the tradesmen and women and the craftsmen of this country. And I think that, you know, Howard and I, we talked about that from the beginning. And we're going to have to lean in on that because we need the labor force, 700. thousand new skilled jobs with electricians construction workers machinists and so forth and as i traveled with the vice president as well we see that on the manufacturing floors of this country they're in desperate need the department of labor are going to get the workforce skilled again working with secretary mcmann as we move a lot of the education out to our respective states
Starting point is 02:49:37 we are now working together and we have deployed 86 million dollars in investments And a lot of that is in AI infrastructure jobs to have our new workforce proficient and literate in AI if we're going to continue to lead the AI race. And we're working on that. And the Department of Labor is now creating and will soon launch the AI infrastructure and workforce hub, which we will be able to track that metrics to see exactly if these dollars are going correctly. integrating education and workforce with obviously administrator Leffler and I are on the road a lot together because we're talking about Main Street as well as a lot of the manufacturing jobs and how we're being an ally to our businesses as opposed to an adversary for far too long under the Biden administration we were adversaries to our business owners and we want to give them a leg up always and make sure that we're paying attention and we want our workforce to be educated we do not need the numbers that we have seen across this country where our 4th through 8th graders cannot do read, write, or do any math, and they are our future workforce. We have to depend on the American worker first. Also, lowering health care costs in line with the executive order.
Starting point is 02:50:48 I'm working with Treasury and HHS, and rulemaking is underway to expand health care transparency and make pricing more affordable for our employers who offer these to their employees. Promoting retirement security, the department rescinded the Biden administration's guidance that restricted the use of crypto in the retirement investments. And we're seeing more and more of that, where we also rescinded the supplemental statement that discouraged the fiduciaries from considering the alternative assets for 401ks,
Starting point is 02:51:19 and that will also come through the Department of Labor, that rulemaking. Ending abuse of cheap foreign labor at the expense of the American worker. We launched over 200 investigations into companies who will have abuse and are fraudulently against the American worker. So Project Firewall,
Starting point is 02:51:37 was released thank you mr. president we want the trained workforce but we will root out the fraud and abuse and will protect the American worker first and slashing the job killing regulations the department has rescinded discriminatory DEI practices and I will tell you reducing compliance costs for businesses as it was for DEI has saved American businesses nearly one billion dollars this year by just getting rid of DEI for that compliance costs that they've had to do. So Mr. President, continuing to skill the American worker, the American workforce is going to be my mission. We have to do it faster. We have to do it quicker. We have to build so that the American people can realize that American dream that you
Starting point is 02:52:23 have laid out so elegantly. And it's an honor to serve under this administration and to talk to the American workers who believe in the American dream again, the pride on their face, the pride of the American worker, the skilled men and women who build with their hands. It's an honor. So thank you. Very Christmas. Very good job. Thank you very much.
Starting point is 02:52:41 Chris? Mr. President, I am honored and frankly inspired to sit at this table with this incredible team of leaders that work every day for one and only one constituency, the American people. Not this group or that group, the American people. The price of energy is very much on the mind of Americans. The biggest determinant of the price of energy is politicians. political leaders, and policies. That's what drives energy prices. Under your leadership, what we've seen in the United States is just a steady drop in the price of gasoline, a huge consumer
Starting point is 02:53:19 cost for Americans. As you mentioned early on, well below $3 a gallon right now and trending downwards. There are a number of stations in the heartland of America with $1.99 signs flying today. That's simply impossible without the leadership and changes you brought. Now, of course, you can go to California, where the average price of gasoline is between $450 and $5 a gallon today in California. That's just bad political leaders there and bad policies in California. In taxes. In taxes, they charge your gasoline are just insane, terrible. And electricity prices is a very parallel.
Starting point is 02:54:03 story but it's a it's a bigger moving chip so the changes are a little bit slower but Americans are outraged at you know roughly 30% rise in the average price of electricity across this country but everything we are doing together is going to reverse that not just stop the rises but start a downward trajectory and electricity prices and I can say that with confidence not because we think these policies will work we know these policies will work and I'll get to that in a second we're going to stop closing power plants we've already done that of course stop closing the coal power plants and natural gas plants that were shut down you've got over 30 gigawatts of
Starting point is 02:54:40 generators just sitting there today not allowed to run of course we're fixing that immediately we're going to bring on from our existing grid tens of gigawatts more capacity it'll drive down the cost of electricity but if we look at the last five years to see what works and what doesn't work the most Trump-aligned policies in the electricity sector were by, no surprise, one of your cabinet members, Secretary Bergam for eight years, governor of North Dakota. Over the last five years, production and demand for electricity in North Dakota grew 35%.
Starting point is 02:55:16 Think what data center boom's going to do, and what happened? Electricity prices went down. Didn't rise slowly. They actually went down those five years. That's the answer. Trump-aligned energy policies increased demand for electricity. Nebraska and Texas, more Trump. aligned states had significant growth in demand for electricity. They had electricity price
Starting point is 02:55:38 rises but well below the price of inflation. Unfortunately, Biden brought all of us a lot of inflation. If you look at the other end of the spectrum, California, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, I could go on. What happened in those states? Policies and politicians that force the building of unreliable electricity generation, which requires new infrastructure and transmission lines. And what happened? Today, they produce less electricity than they did five years ago. A lot of spending money and less electricity. What does that mean? Of course, much faster rises in the price of electricity. Blue states have had one and a half times faster rise in electricity prices than red states. Red states alone less than inflation. We need to bring
Starting point is 02:56:27 those policies. You are bringing those policies to the national level. We hope the blue states will come along with us but your policies are going to start the decline of electricity prices nationwide under your leadership by just bringing back common sense so thank you for allowing me to be part of this team for people here who are focused on winning special thanks to Howard and scottie who are there with me to see the Denver Broncos win on Monday night now we want nationwide wins on energy for three more years and we're doing more energy production than we've ever done by far records across the board that will continue to be reset every year you're in office thank you very much mr president thank you for giving me a very interesting job some days it's a little
Starting point is 02:57:17 controversial too but it's been an honor to work for you you are a great american the fights that you pick are the right fights and they're always on behalf of this country so i appreciate the chance to do this job heading up this department if you think about what joe biden did the Department of Homeland Security he used this department to invade the country with terrorists he opened up the borders let anybody come in that wanted to he put him on airplanes he let them through our airports but if they could figure out a way to get to our shores and in our country he just opened the door and invited them in so it's our job to get them out and i want to thank you for this team because i look around
Starting point is 02:57:56 the table and i think every single person here has helped me do my job over the last year. They've supported us at the border and given us resources. Marco negotiates all the travel documents and relationships with other countries to take their people home. Two million people have gone home already. The people that were here illegally, you've removed from our country and sent home. And we're going to send more home for the holidays too and make sure that they get to be with their families in their countries. Yes. Mostly the bad ones. That's right. Pam. Focus is the bad ones. And there are a lot of them. Terrible. Horrible people. Pam, make sure she's fighting for us in court so that we can get up every day and be bold.
Starting point is 02:58:37 We're going to hire our 10,000 ICE officer will be on the job within 10 days. So we have hired 10,000. We've had hundreds of thousands of applications. We've got within the department, TSA, went through this government shutdown without any delays. They all showed up for their shifts and worked hard doing security. And they have been absolutely fantastic. sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. And so FEMA, FEMA, even you kept the hurricanes away.
Starting point is 02:59:08 So you appreciate that. And FEMA is deploying resources and dollars 150% faster than ever before. So somebody does have something bad that happens to them. You are immediately there helping them and telling them they have the resources to get back up on their feet. So we have built and deployed hundreds of miles of border already. You have cut the fentanyl flow over the southern border by over 56%. You've saved hundreds of millions of lives with the cocaine.
Starting point is 02:59:38 You've blown up in the Caribbean. And, you know, you told me to look into Minnesota and their fraud on visas and their programs. 50% of them are fraudulent, which means that that wacko governor walls either is an idiot or he did it on purpose. and I think he's both, sir. He brought people in there illegally that never should have been in this country, said they were somebody that they're not, they said they were married to somebody
Starting point is 03:00:10 who was their brother or somebody else, fraudulent visa applications, signed up for government programs, took hundreds of billions of dollars from the taxpayers, and we're going to remove them, and we're going to get our money back, and we're going to, this next year,
Starting point is 03:00:24 make sure that we only put people in leadership positions in this country. country that love this country and have its back so thank you for letting us get up every day and have a purpose thank you very much next missy appreciate it mr president you're exactly right we are stating this country we're doing it one main street at a time and we're doing it at record speed and at record levels under your leadership small business optimism according to the u.s chamber index for small businesses has reached an all-time high in the history of that index So on Main Street, the economy is coming back thanks to your leadership.
Starting point is 03:01:00 Thanks to getting Biden inflation under control, small business is number one concern right now is finding skilled laborer. And that's why Secretary Chavez-Durima and I have entered into an MOU to get to speed that workforce to small businesses that under this administration are now at record levels. 36 million small businesses have now taken on board for the first time in the SBA's history, $100 billion. That's $45 billion in small business lending at 85,000 small businesses, most of that under your term, and $52 billion out to small business investment companies. So we are running this agency like the best run bank in the country. We are growing small businesses across Main Street, and we're deregulating to the tune of $100 billion working with all my fellow cabinet members. And thank you for putting together the best cabinet in history.
Starting point is 03:01:53 Iron sharpens iron. you for bringing such a strong leadership group together and then finally I've walked factory floors from Alaska to Maine and the workers the small businesses most manufacturers in this country are small businesses 600,000 of them they are so grateful to your fair trade low inflation deregulation agenda that is creating national security and economic security in this country like never before so I want to also finally thank you for bringing faith back to the White House to this administration.
Starting point is 03:02:26 I want to thank Brooke for hosting the Cabinet Bible Study and invite everyone tomorrow to Bible Study and making this country something that we can be so proud of under your leadership, and I am so blessed and honored to be part of this team. So thank you, Mr. President. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership.
Starting point is 03:02:44 I am truly grateful to be a member of your team here at this table to help support you in delivering on the promises that you made to the American people. You came in with a very clear mandate of taking on the rampant weaponization, politicization of the intelligence community and federal law enforcement, experiencing yourself, the deep state abusing their power as they have against you, your family, and so many of the American people. Bring out accountability, truly, for those who have abused their power, making sure that the intelligence community is supporting your efforts and keeping the American people safe, secure, and free.
Starting point is 03:03:24 and being the president of peace. I'm grateful to be in this position as your Director of National Intelligence to support you in these efforts. And I'll cover very briefly what we've done over the last year under your leadership and what we look forward to continuing to focus on next year. First of all, under your leadership, again,
Starting point is 03:03:43 we've taken on a historic effort for transparency, declassification, and exposing these abuses of power by these deep state actors. We've declassified over half a million documents, many of which had never been seen before by the American people, put them online to bring about this level of transparency. We formed a weaponization working group, again, to be able to go after a lot of these abuses of power that have never seen the light of day to support the accountability that under
Starting point is 03:04:12 Pambonty's leadership in the Department of Justice is coming about. Secondly, bringing about reforms to the intelligence community to make sure that we have the most effective and efficient and focused work for. force that's really working on bringing about the priorities you have laid out in ensuring our country's security. And lastly, Mr. President, working with many of our partners here around the table, is going after these domestic threats. We have threats coming from both Islamist ideology as well as Islamist terrorists, foreign
Starting point is 03:04:45 terrorist organizations, and those who seek to do harm to the American people, many of whom were led in across our borders under the previous administration. We are focused on these tasks and this imperative for the American people, and just appreciate your leadership, Mr. President, and empowering us to be able to conduct this service. Merry Christmas. Thank you very much. Merry Christmas. This is right. Merry Christmas. This ain't loud and clear. Thank you. Mr. President, your team at the Trump EPA has been crushing it all year to fix the big mess that we inherited and deliver amazing results for the American people. I've had the opportunity. I've had the opportunity. opportunity to visit all 50 states since confirmation earlier this year, and to hear from real people where they meet, where they live, and to bring their great ideas and their asks back to us to be able to deliver for them. At the Trump EPA, we have proven that you can both protect the environment and grow the
Starting point is 03:05:46 economy. On the environmental front, since you were sworn in earlier this year, we have averaged a big environmental accomplishment every single day. On the 100th day, the 200th day, the 300th day of your presidency, each time we release the list of our top 100 environmental accomplishments, that has included a historic LA wildfire cleanup that you ordered us to complete in record time, which we did. And the Army Corps, under the leadership of our great Secretary of War, did their part as well. federal government completely did all of the work needed to allow these
Starting point is 03:06:28 residents and businesses to be able to rebuild but poor leadership at the local and state level unfortunately still resulting in these property owners unable to rebuild this wrong we also were able to reach an agreement with Mexico to be able to implement a plan to permanently end a decades-old raw sewage crisis on the southern border with Mexico and And Secretary Rubio and his team, Chris Landau, Ambassador Johnson, they've been amazing to get that done on the deregulatory front. We have proudly launched a massive blitz that amounts to the largest deregulatory effort by any agency in the history of the United States to put some perspective on it. In one year, at one agency, we will do more deregulation than entire presidencies have done across all agencies.
Starting point is 03:07:21 it's incredible. You could go back across four-year terms, eight-year terms you've never seen this much deregulation. One agency, one year. In fact, when finalized, the proposed rescission of the 2009 Obama EPA endangerment finding amounts to the largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States of America. From fixing the agency's definition of waters of the United States, which is important for our farmers or ranchers and other landowners to the effort to end electric vehicle mandates and promote consumer choice eliminating regulations designed to eliminate entire sectors of our energy economy we're thinking big and we're delivering big we've reduced
Starting point is 03:08:08 terrible deraignments on diesel exhaust fluid systems we're getting water moving faster new pipelines and power plants built and we're helping to unleash energy dominance mr. president the operational front we have significantly reduced the size of the agency workforce and we are accomplishing more with less it's all about priorities our focus is on fulfilling our statutory obligations helping to fast-track project approvals that were taking way too long and closely following the law as well as key Supreme Court decisions like Loperbrite overturned the
Starting point is 03:08:43 Chevron doctor we inherited massive backlogs that we've been eliminating all year long we've been implementing your law we've been implementing your order to to end COVID-era remote work. We consolidated real estate, canceled expensive media subscriptions, and closed the Biden EPA Museum that none of you knew even existed. I'm sure none of you actually visited.
Starting point is 03:09:06 To put it another way, in 2024, the Biden EPA obligated and spent over $60 billion in one year, an agency with an operational budget of about $10 billion a year. In their own words, caught on camera, they were tossing, gold bars off the Titanic, wasting precious tax dollars to pay off well-connected Obama and Biden officials. And they were doing it without any apology or a regret. The Biden
Starting point is 03:09:35 EPA, in fact, was amending grant agreements just days before you came into office to reduce agency oversight. But this year, 2025 at the Trump EPA, similar theme to hear from everyone around this table. With our actions canceling wasteful grants and implementing other measures just mentioned, we have saved $30 billion. They spent over $60 billion. We have saved over $30 billion. The bottom line, by the way, is the Greenews scam is dead. It's a new day at the EPA where we will protect the environment and grow the economy. We will deliver on the Trump mandate every day and we will fight with just one constituency front of minds and that is the American people thank you mr. president for being willing to take a bullet for
Starting point is 03:10:29 this country and if you were to ask me what I'm grateful for whether it's a Thanksgiving it's a Christmas a Hanukkah New Year's any time of year the fact that this president after four years serving in office he could have just left in their rear view mirror and went on to really enjoy retirement but he is willing to take a bullet for all of you tuning in at home because he believes in his flag or freedom our liberties and to save the greatest country in the history of the world so i'm grateful this holiday season for you mr president you're willing to take a bullet for all of us and by all of us it's the american public thank you mr president good morning everyone uh well in spite of the fact that um
Starting point is 03:11:13 Your charge to me is to fire myself. We've really been incredibly hard at work making sure that we can return education to the states. And as I sit and listen to all the emergencies that we are addressing in this country from the economy to our borders to everything that we're doing, I would say, sir, that if we do not fix education in our country with this hard reset that... fix education in our country with this hard reset that percent of 12th graders 8th graders and fourth graders they can read at proficiency level that is an incredibly harsh statement to make about our country
Starting point is 03:12:09 and you told me when you first were elected president and you looked at that I think right after you took office, the first NAEP scores, which is a nation's report card, came out, and showed how far down we were in educational proficiency in our country. And not only the NAEP scores, but the international scores as well, showed us about a third from the bottom. You told me you were not only embarrassed,
Starting point is 03:12:34 but you were angry about this, and that we had to do something to change this in our country. And we took a hard look at it, and you absolutely said, said, the bureaucracy of education in Washington is keeping its thumb on preventing growth what we should have because it's best handled at the state level, letting states put their programs in place.
Starting point is 03:12:58 And some states are going to do it a lot better than others. But it's not going to happen from Washington, D.C. And when I hear things like, well, with no disrespect to any other country in the world that have really great programs, Germany, Sweden, you will hear about this all the time. Point of fact is, they're this big. The United States is this big. We can't do it from Washington, D.C.
Starting point is 03:13:20 It has to be done at the state level. So what we've been doing, as Rory brought up, Secretary of Labor brought up, we have a great working relationship. We have already signed and implemented one MOU or interagency agreement to handle the NOAA program and the Perkinson. grants to make sure it works. I call these, you know, these are programs, pilot programs that we're putting out there. And if these are going to work, we will be able to permanently transfer these programs to other agencies. They're working like a charm. We've taken some of our best
Starting point is 03:14:01 people in education. It still operates under the budget of the Department of Education and under the management of the Department of Education, but working with Lori's personnel. And when I hear pushback on that to say well how can this possibly work the education to put it in labor let's be efficient one example in order to draw down on a lot of the grants that they are helping us with we're using their grant system the grant system at the Department of Education is like held together in the bubblegum and rubber bands and it did not interact with any other agency now we have this really smooth operation already in labor so that is
Starting point is 03:14:43 prompted us to sign. Also, other interagency agreements, two more with labor, one with HHS, one with the Department of State, and we'll be moving other programs, but these are proof of concept. Let's make sure they're working and working smoothly before we ask Congress to codify these permanent moves. So that's kind of in the world of K-12, what we're looking at right now, but in the world of higher education. As Attorney General Bondi mentioned, we've been working really very hard to make sure that we've got anti-semitism and DEI out of their out of our universities and put some pretty stiff fines on work some good deals I enjoy working with Harmeet who just an incredible negotiator so we're
Starting point is 03:15:27 bringing all of that to bear as well so I can say sir that we are moving to return education to the states and to bring the level of education back up making sure our students can read are reintroducing the science reading in schools and going into next year I can honestly say you've got a lean mean machine operating at the Department of Education only half the workforce is when we started and we're more efficient and I think we're going to see better results as you move into next year so thank you for this incredible opportunity thank you very much thank you mr. president during this holiday season for
Starting point is 03:16:12 empowering us, HHS, me, Dr. McCrary, Jay Badachara, and Dr. Oz, the change the trajectory of this agency towards public health in a way, the tradition of serving the mercantile interests in the medical industrial complex and the big pharmaceutical companies. Two weeks ago, we ended under your leadership a 20-year war on women by removing the black box
Starting point is 03:16:39 warnings from hormone replacement therapy, The medical cartel was telling women on replacement therapy during menopause was dangerous for them. In fact, here's what the science said. It diminishes the risk of fatal heart attacks by 25%, cardiac disease by 50%, Alzheimer's by 35%, bone fractures by 50% to 60%, it improves appetite, improves sleep, and improves sleep, and improves energy, it improves happiness. We are now, there are tens of millions of women. In this country, we've been deprived of that therapy
Starting point is 03:17:21 because of scientific malpractice by the medical cartel. We are now remedying that, and this remedy will now be available to all women who wanted during one of the most difficult transitions of their lives. MFN is one of our greatest accomplishments. It would not have happened without you. You were the only person who believed in it. You drove us to get it done.
Starting point is 03:17:46 We've now made agreements with the five biggest pharmaceutical companies. We have 12 more in the lineup to make agreements. By the time this administration leaves office, 95% of the drugs in this country will be. We will have the lowest prices of any nation in the world. Americans are already getting the benefits from these. These companies are already lowering these prices dramatically, as you notice. And then this week, Howard at Department of Commerce and Jamison at the U.S. trade representative made a bargain with Great Britain to raise their drug prices and conformance with your promise that the Europeans would raise theirs to counterbalance us lowering ours, and therefore we would keep intact the ecosystem of innovation and protect innovation. Congratulations on that, Mr. President.
Starting point is 03:18:43 When I first, when you first asked me to take this job, one of the first contacts we made was with a leading economics professor, health economics professor at Harvard. And we asked him what's the one innovation that we could do that would most dramatically improve the health care experience for the average American. And he said there's no contest, it's to,
Starting point is 03:19:10 change to get rid of prior authorization. Thanks to your leadership, we were able to convene the largest insurance companies in this country and do something that every administration, every Congress has promised for the past 30 years. We actually got it done. We convened the insurance companies representing 280 million Americans and got them to agree most of them by January of 2026 for two months from now to remove prior authorization. for most of their procedures for all the procedures we want them remove from and that means that american patients at the point of care will be able to get an answer immediately if your doctor says you need knee surgery you will know before you leave that doctor's office
Starting point is 03:19:59 whether your insurance company will pay for it or not similarly health care records history has refused to share health care records. You asked us to change that. We convene the 60 biggest tech companies at a conference that you presided over about two months ago. We now did a secondary conference, which 400 leading companies all come in and agreed to remove any kind of blockages where individual Americans can get their own health care.
Starting point is 03:20:37 Americans own their health care records. were not able to access them and if you were lived in New Jersey and he moved to Oregon and you got injured you went to a hospital you would have to spend maybe 45 minutes filling out forms on a clipboard because your doctors there could not get your health care records they couldn't get your blood type your allergies all the things that they ought to know immediately so they can save your life now that is all change and I'm there all these companies have agreed to remove all the blocks on sharing health care records.
Starting point is 03:21:12 Every American will have their health care records available on their cell phones. And it's already happening in the last six months. There have been over 100 times the number of health care records shared by hospitals and during the entire previous administration. On deregulation, HHS Bradley is now leading the pack. And thank you for your help on that, Russ.
Starting point is 03:21:43 But today we announced the retraction, the revocation of the nursing home rule, which was overburdening rural areas across this country, Indian reservations, with regulations that we're gonna destroy the nursing home industry in those communities. And that is gonna be a $25 billion savings. Those are some of the things that we're doing
Starting point is 03:22:07 because of your leadership, President Trump, Thank you so much and Merry Christmas, Neil. Thank you, very much. Great job. Well, Mr. President, you assembled an incredibly talented group here. If you took a look at this group compared to any Fortune 500 leadership team, any group of startup folks, I mean, this is an amazing group in the breadth of what's being accomplished.
Starting point is 03:22:29 And the timing couldn't be better because with your leadership and vision, you've set us up for this age of abundance as we head into next year, the 250th anniversary of this country. And what are we heading into that year? As we've talked around the table, you've heard about massively lower taxes, massively lower regulation, abundant energy, record capital investment coming in, job growth. I mean, we are set up to really have something to celebrate next year. And I just again want to say thank you to everybody around the table. You gave us one big assignment in Interior.
Starting point is 03:23:02 Of course, Interior largest balance sheet in the world in the Department of Interior, if it was a standalone company, 500 million acres of surface, 700 million acres of subsurves over three billion of offshore from Guam to the Virgin Islands and you said We had to take care of that balance sheet. We got to develop those resources and what have we done across that? Producing record amounts of oil record amounts of gas And again we set out with a goal energy diplomacy sell energy to our friends and allies We're exporting a record amount of energy To all of our friends and allies around the world that's helping do that and you're getting a gift to America as we head into this You're giving us peace abroad, and you're giving us prosperity at home.
Starting point is 03:23:42 That bodes so well for our country. One small little gift that we're giving to all Americans from one teeny part of interior, which is the national parks, is that not only we're keeping prices low for all American citizens, offering 10 free days for our national parks next year to coincide with our holidays, but also a $100 surcharge for non-residents, that is going to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for our for helping restore and preserve all of our best parks so as we close out with it i want to also say a big celebration going on here in washington dc we've been thrilled to be part to the national park service the u.s park police part of this great effort across a number of us
Starting point is 03:24:23 on making dc safe and beautiful this will be the safest the most beautiful cap of the world we are doing so many things whether it's hundreds of homeless camps thousands of graffiti sites cleaning up ponds and fountains preparing this thing the united states is never going to be performing better economically it's never going to be looking better just like the white house has never looked better all because of your vision leadership so again thank you sir you've given an incredible christmas gift to americans by setting us up for an incredible 250th anniversary that's very nice thank you thank you mr president first of all this is a very talented team as you've seen and as you know because you picked every single one the time you deserve
Starting point is 03:25:05 to manage credit for doing that it's an honor to be in this role it's also an honor to be involved in and be a witness to what i believe is the most transformational year in american foreign policy since the end of the second world war at least and it's transformational because for the first time and a long time we have a president who basically puts america at the forefront of every decision we make in our relations with the world and that may sound weird to people like of course you always do know that hasn't always been the case until about a year ago and i and i think we've all witnessed in our own respective spaces how in every interaction the president has with the world the goal he has in mind is very simple does what you
Starting point is 03:25:43 want us to do or is it what we're going to is it going to make us stronger is it going to make us richer is it going to make us safer if it is he's for it if it's not he's against it if something's going to make america weaker or poorer or less safe the president's going to be against it and every single thing he has done in our foreign policy has been driven by the American people in mind. And I can go down the list. Why has he focused on mass migration? It's very simple because no country is safe if you can just walk in without us knowing who you are into your country. We've seen the destruction that that's wreaking, not just in our own country, but the impact that it's having
Starting point is 03:26:16 in Europe and in many other parts of the world. You talk about trade deals and the trade situation has been involved in. People, you know, all this reporting on it, it's very simple. The president views the last 40 years as an era of which American and American workers and American farmers have been ripped off. They've been ripped off. And what he's saying is, we want to have a trade with the world, but it has to be a trade in which American businesses and American workers and the products they make and what American farmers grow and produce
Starting point is 03:26:41 has a fair shot to be sold around the world. On issue after issue, that's been the case. You talk about foreign aid reforms. This is not our money. This is taxpayer money. When the president has said, we're going to do foreign aid, but we're going to do foreign aid for countries that are aligned with the United States and in a way that doesn't waste the taxpayers' money.
Starting point is 03:26:59 Mr. President, you deserve tremendous credit for that. Many of us, the Vice President, by the way, I want to acknowledge, has played an extraordinary world on our foreign policy, and he, too, has been a witness to all of this as it's been occurring, and he's been a big part of it as well. You talk about NATO. The President's not against NATO. He went to NATO and basically said,
Starting point is 03:27:14 look, you guys were paying all the money, and he got them to do the 5% commitment, which everybody said was never going to happen, it was impossible. Everything this president does is driven by the American people, whether you, you don't have to agree with the actual move, but understand the motivation. The motivation is always you, the American people, and what's good for you, for your family, for the country, and for our economy. But the president is also committed to peace in a way that all of us have seen.
Starting point is 03:27:39 He achieved in Gaza, and he does it, by the way, not just because he hates war and he thinks wars are a waste of money and lives, but because he's the only leader in the world that can't. No other leader in the world could have pulled off what happened in Gaza, and I can tell you, I can't get into the details. The vice president knows what I'm talking about. That deal doesn't happen without the president's direct interaction with the leaders that were involved in this decision-making. And everyone said that deal couldn't hold. And then the president shepherded through the United Nations of all places
Starting point is 03:28:07 to get a global coalition of countries to line up behind the peace deal, behind the board of peace. And it's still, every day is a challenge. But it's been driven personally by the president. It's the reason why we're involved in this whole Ukraine, Russia conflict. That's not our war. It's not the president's war. This war started.
Starting point is 03:28:22 It never would have happened if you've been. president but this war is going on and the president is trying to end it not because listen we got a million things to focus on in the world as a country but he's the only leader in the world that can help end it and that's why we're that that's why even as we speak to you now steve woodcoff is in moscow trying to find a way to end this war to save lives of eight nine thousand people mr president's you want to are dying every week more people are dying a week in that war than have died in the entirety of the u.s's involvement in afghanistan or Iraq. Just think about that, how bloody and destructive it is. The president's taken on this
Starting point is 03:28:55 issue of Sudan, personally, not send out deputies to do it. Again, far away from the United States because he's the only leader in the world that can bring about to an end, not to mention all the other peace deals, very dangerous ones like India and Pakistan or Cambodia and Thailand. And so on all these things, Mr. President, I think you deserve tremendous credit for the transformational aspect of our foreign policy. For the first time, in probably four decades, the American foreign policy is driven by what is good for America and Americans, whether it makes it safer and stronger and more prosperous. If it is, he's for it.
Starting point is 03:29:28 If it doesn't, he's against it. And that sort of clarity is transformational. I close with this. And I know I'm last, so I wanted to be fast, but there was a lot to cover. I do want to say this is the most wonderful, magical time of the year. By that, of course, I'm referring to the college football playoffs.
Starting point is 03:29:44 I just want to say, as a point of personal privilege, and I'm a Florida Gator, but at the University of Miami get screwed out of the college football. playoffs after going 10 and 2 and beating Notre Dame the whole thing should be scrapped and you're going to have to take over it next year that's great thank you all very much it wasn't too long but it was very concise and we've done a lot this group has done a lot everyone everybody at this table has done a fantastic and Susie thank you for doing the great job as our chief
Starting point is 03:30:18 first female chief of staff in the history of our country which is pretty amazing when you think of it right and she's the best thank you very much great chairman so after that do you want to ask any questions mr. president there's been a lot of speculation about who the next Fed chairman could possibly be you said you have somebody in mind. How many names were you given on the final list? And does that person currently work on the board at Federal Reserve? Well, I'd say that we probably looked at 10.
Starting point is 03:30:58 And Scott interviewed some people that I didn't know, but he knew. And a lot of people were involved in the process, actually. And Howard was involved. But I think we probably looked at 10, and we have it down to one. Can you answer to this? I want to ask about Elon Musk, if I could.
Starting point is 03:31:19 You talked about Elon Musk. You had him dinner here in the White House. Is he now back in your circle of friends? Well, I really don't know. I mean, I like Elon a lot. He was very, he really helped during the election with his endorsement. He felt strong.
Starting point is 03:31:33 We had one problem. You know, I didn't want to have everybody have to have an electric car. And he makes electric cars. And yeah, I think we get along well. Mr. President, Mr. President, thank you. When you talk about affordability, is going forward, are the American people, do you believe,
Starting point is 03:31:56 getting impatient with the reforms that you're making? They've talked about, it's about a... I think you're getting fake news from guys like you. Look, affordability is a hoax that was started by Democrats who caused the problem of pricing, and they didn't end it. when look they lost in a landslide we won every swing state we won the popular vote we want everything you take a look at districts it was 2,750 to 500 525 because that was an affordability problem we brought it down look at energy look at look at the gasoline press it's like the simplest and it's the biggest because if energy comes down everything comes down that's the way it works we're going to be at two You said $199 in some places in the country, right? You said it.
Starting point is 03:32:48 And they won't check you, they'll check me. So I'd like to use your number of $199 a gallon. Unthinkable if you go back a year and a half ago. It's unthinkable. So now we're bringing the prices down, way down. Beef is coming down now. We've done certain magic and beef is coming down. But we inherited horrible prices.
Starting point is 03:33:14 We inherited really the worst, again, the worst inflation in history. We inherited that. When I came in, that's what he had. And we fixed inflation. And we fixed almost everything, if you want to know the truth, including eight wars, we got one to go, but including eight wars.
Starting point is 03:33:34 But when they always say, I watch today where they have a race going on right now, Tennessee, and this woman goes, affordability, affordability. They're the ones that caused the problem. The prices were way high. We're bringing the prices down. But they're like scam artists, you know, they're con.
Starting point is 03:33:51 I call them con men and women. They come out, they say affordability, like, oh, oh, I see price. We're going to get prices down still further. But we brought them down from the prices they cost. The reason that they had the highest inflation and the history of our country is because they had the highest prices. But we brought them down.
Starting point is 03:34:11 And now we have normal inflation. Yeah, Mr. President, thank you so much for taking questions with your Assembly cabinet. I wanted to clarify something that you had said on Sunday regarding the boat strikes near Venezuela. You had said that you didn't know if the second strike on that one boat had happened, but you wouldn't have wanted it.
Starting point is 03:34:29 Now that your administration has acknowledged that it happened, do you support that second strike? And Mr. Secretary, I want to clarify something you had said in an interview back in September, I believe on Fox News. as you said that you had watched that strike live on television. In real time, did you know that there were survivors after the initial strike?
Starting point is 03:34:48 Well, look, all I know is this, every boat that you see get blown up, we save 25,000 on average lives, 25,000 lives. They've been sending enough of this horrible fentanyl and other things, like cocaine and other things, but fentanyl right now is the leader of the pack to kill our entire nation.
Starting point is 03:35:11 Because a little speck on the head of a pin can kill somebody. It's very dangerous stuff. I know so many people with their sons who are drug addicts. They had one little sample. And they died. They died, they couldn't believe it. As far as the attack is concerned,
Starting point is 03:35:26 I still haven't gotten a lot of information because I rely on Pete. But to me, it was an attack. It wasn't one strike, two strikes, three strikes. Somebody asked me a question about the second strike. I didn't know about the second strike. I didn't know anything about people. I wasn't involved. And I knew they took out of vote. But I would say this, they had a strike. I hear the gentleman that was in charge of that is extraordinary person. I let Pete speak
Starting point is 03:35:54 about him. But Pete was satisfied. Pete didn't know about second attack having to do with two people. And I guess Pete would have to speak to it. I can say this. I want those. boats taken out and if we have to we'll attack on land also just like we attack on sea and there's very little coming in by sea i think we've knocked out over 90% of it there's very little and i understand that there's very little we're saving hundreds of thousands of lives with those pinpoint attacks it's an amazing thing when you see a boat going along and you know a lot of the press would like to say they're not you see the book they're not maybe drugs you see these boats first Well, who has five engines on the back of a boat going in weird directions and loaded up with lots of white containers.
Starting point is 03:36:44 They're all their bags of things. No, they've done an amazing job. And Peter's done an amazing job. You could probably better answer the question. No, spot on, sir. I think you've got to start with the baseline, which Marco laid out, everybody's laid out, we've got 20 million people invading our country over four years. We don't know where they're coming from.
Starting point is 03:37:03 That includes Trende Aragua and cartels and violent criminals. They bring drugs, and you mentioned it, Mr. President, poisoning, an intentional poisoning of the American people, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. So the president had the courage to designate these cartels as designated terrorist organizations. A number of us here served in the military and spent 20 years fighting terrorists like al-Qaeda and ISIS on the other side of the world. How do you treat al-Qaeda and ISIS? Do you arrest them and treat them, pat them on the head and say, don't do you do it? that again, or you end the problem directly by taking a lethal kinetic approach.
Starting point is 03:37:39 And that's the way President Trump has authorized the War Department to look at these cartels. And I wish everybody could be in the room watching our professionals, our professionals like Mitch Bradley, Admiral Mitch Bradley and others at J Socom and other commanders. The deliberative process, the detail, the rigorous, the intel, the legal, the evidence-based way that we're able to, with sources and methods that we can't reveal, here make sure that every one of those drug boats is tied to a designated terrorist organization. We know who's on it, what they're doing, what they're carrying, all these white bales are not Christmas gifts from Santa. This is drugs running on four-meter motor fast boats or submarines that we've also
Starting point is 03:38:18 struck. No one's fishing on a submarine. And I have empowered them to make that call. Now, the first couple of strikes, as you would, as any leader would want, you want to own that responsibility. So I said, I'm going to be the one to make the call after getting all the information and make sure it's the right strike. That was September 2nd. There's a lot of intelligence that goes into that building that case and understanding that a lot of people providing information. I watched that first strike lot. As you can imagine, at the Department of War, we got a lot of things to do. So I didn't stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever, where all the sensitive site exploitation digitally occurs.
Starting point is 03:38:55 So I moved on to my next meeting. A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander had made the, which he had the complete authority to do, and by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat. He sunk the boat, sunk the boat, and eliminated the threat. And it was the right call. We have his back, and the American people are safer because narco-terrorists know you can't bring drugs through the water and eventually on land, if necessary, to the American people. We will eliminate that threat, and we're proud to do it.
Starting point is 03:39:30 So you didn't see any survivors to be clear after that first trial? I did not personally see survivors, but I stand, because the thing was on fire. It was exploded, and fire or smoke, you can't see anything, you got digital, this is called the fog of war. This is what you and the press don't understand. You sit in your air-conditioned offices, they're up on Capitol Hill, and you nitpick, And you plant fake stories in the Washington Post about kill everybody phrases on anonymous sources, not based in anything, not based in any truth at all. And then you want to throw up really irresponsible terms about American heroes, about the judgment that they made.
Starting point is 03:40:07 I wrote a whole book on this topic because of what politicians and the press does to war fighters. President Trump has empowered commanders, commanders to do what is necessary, which is dark and difficult things in the dead of night on behalf of the American people. We support them and we will stop the poisoning of the American people. And, Mr. Secretary, on the second strike, you said it happened more than an hour after the first. Did I hear correctly? The exact amount of time. You have nothing really. I already stated my answer quite clearly.
Starting point is 03:40:35 So remember this. We lost last year, I think it was more than that, but you know, people don't like saying it, because they always said 100,000, 115,000, the numbers we've been hearing for years. So we lost last year more than 200,000 people, dead people. ruined families beyond the 200,000. And those 200,000, that family will never be the same. But these people have killed over 200,000 people, actually killed over 200,000 people last year.
Starting point is 03:41:04 And those numbers are down. Those numbers are down, and way down. And they're down because we're doing these strikes. And we're going to start doing those strikes on land, too. You know, the land is much easier. It's much easier. And we know the routes they take. We know everything about them.
Starting point is 03:41:20 We know where they live. We know where the bad ones live. And we're going to start that very soon, too. Mr. President, thank you so much, Mr. President. You're going to start that. We're going to grab those things down so low. And then you're going to have families to be able to live without the fear of their son or daughter or just having a pill to have a little fun and ending up dying within a period of 60 seconds, right?
Starting point is 03:41:45 No, we're not going to let that happen. We're not going to let it continue to happen. What Biden did to this country by allowing us. all these people. And I call them animals in many cases. I think they're animals to come into our country and destroy our country and let all those drugs pour in. Let people just walk across the border like it was nothing. You look at them a lot of them, you know. You say, oh, let's not discriminate. I'm not talking about color. I'm just talking about you look into the eyes of some of these people. We're smart. And you see a killer. Come on in. Just come on in. 11,888 murder.
Starting point is 03:42:20 many of them committed more than one murder he allowed him into our country totally unvented totally unchecked but he also allowed drugs to come in at record numbers and hundreds of thousands of people a year died and we're taking those son of a bitch is out yeah thank you so much mr. president for thinking of oppression I think this is the most transparent the musician I have received I'm impressed by these people that I'll tell you how strong are you you been holding two hours you know they're There are very few physically.
Starting point is 03:42:52 There are very few people that I'm very proud of you. I have no idea who you are, but you're smart. Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, last week, militia groups in Iraq, I talked to the Christian region's gaspher, the largest gasp, which even the US companies invested in the energy sector in the Christian region. And the Christian Prime Minister requested the United States
Starting point is 03:43:12 to provide them some sorts of means and defense systems to defending their civilian infrastructure and US investment in the Christian region. Are you willing to provide providing them this support. And if I had this portion, tomorrow, the United States is going to open and integrate one of the You should be louder?
Starting point is 03:43:27 Yeah, of course. Is that possible? Yeah. You have the most gentle, beautiful voice back. You're a very gentle person. Just take fewer words and louder. Yeah, sure. I'll repeat my first question last week,
Starting point is 03:43:44 the Iraqi militia groups attacked one of the largest gas field in the Christian region of Iraq, which given the U.S. companies have invested in these gas fields. And then... Are you from Iraq? I'm from Kurdistan, Iraqi Kurdistan. Yeah. Working for Rubei Ann Airport.
Starting point is 03:44:00 And the Christian Region Prime Minister, he requested the United States to providing them some sorts of defense system to defending these gas fielders and U.S. investment in the Christan region. Are you willing to helping them? Well, we look at it. I heard about it. And I'm hearing about it more now, frankly. It wasn't at the top of my list.
Starting point is 03:44:18 It's a very unusual question, I think, but I assume they're from the area, and to you, it's a very important question, and to me it is also because people are being killed. I will say this, Iraq has been much different in terms of us than they were prior to us, taking out the nuclear capability of Iran. You know, Iran has gone down many, many steps in terms of its fear factor. They were the bully of the Middle East, and they're really not the bully of the Middle East anymore. And Iraq was being bullied by Iran. We had a president that thought it was brilliant to blow them up, and they blew them up, and all of a sudden, instead of having a power that was basically equal to Iran, they had Iran ruling the Middle East for a long period of time.
Starting point is 03:45:08 But Iraq, from the day we hit it with those B-2 bombers and knocked out and obliterated, because CNN said, well, maybe it wasn't totally, well, it turned out it was totally obliteration. It was every single one of those missiles hit its target. It was actually amazing, but it was wiped out, totally wiped out. I will tell you, Iraq has been a much friendlier place. They talked to us. The prime minister actually nominated me, along with about 78 other countries for the Nobel Prize. I'm the only one that was nominated by almost 100 countries. countries that didn't get it. But that's okay.
Starting point is 03:45:48 But I saved a lot of lives. I saved a lot of lives. But Iraq nominated us for the Nobel Prize, and that was a great honor. You know, we didn't expect that from Iraq. Iraq has been a much different place since the taking out of Iran, the nuclear capability. Yeah, let's get through.
Starting point is 03:46:08 Here we go. This guy's a beauty. Go ahead. Secretary Ruby, Legend of meetings on going in Russia today. Do you have any update from Mr. Wyckoff or Mr. Bushner? No, no, because I've been spending too much time with you. I mean, we're spending a lot of driving here. We wanted to do this very, you talk about being open and transparent.
Starting point is 03:46:27 This has to be the most transparent administration in history. He spent a lot of time answering your questions and giving you a lot of good, you know, good results. I mean, I think everybody here gave you good results, but no, I don't. I will have after I leave here. Or do you hope for a breakthrough, or is it not quite a I don't know, look, I don't know. All I can tell you is that we're trying very hard to save 25 to 30,000 people, mostly men,
Starting point is 03:46:58 mostly soldiers, every month. 25,000 to 30,000 soldiers. It's impossible. That's half a stadium. Take a big football stadium. That's, take half of those people in a stadium. And they're wiped out, they're killed every month. It's crazy.
Starting point is 03:47:18 That war is crazy. And it would have never happened with me, and it didn't happen for four years. And you just mentioned potential land strikes. Can you elaborate anything on that? Yeah, if they come in through a certain country or any country, or if we think they're building mills for, whether it's fentanyl or cocaine. I hear Colombia, the country of Colombia is making cocaine. They have cocaine manufacturing plants, okay?
Starting point is 03:47:45 And then they sell us, they cocaine. We appreciate that very much. But yeah, anybody that's doing that and selling it into our country is subject to attack. So not necessarily just Venezuela. No, not just that is well, no. That is well has been very bad. Venezuela has been really bad in something else,
Starting point is 03:48:02 probably worse than most, but a lot of other people do it too. They would send murderers into our country. They would empty their jails into our country. They sent people into our country that we don't want. They sent their drug dealers and their drug people into our country. They sent people from their mental institutions into our country. And we're getting them out.
Starting point is 03:48:24 That was bad. That was real bad. And they also sent drugs. Yeah. On Tim Walls, Mr. President. Do you think he should resign over the fraud scandal in his state? And who should? Tim Walls. Over the fraud scandal in the state. Look, I think the man's a grossly incompetent man.
Starting point is 03:48:40 I thought that man. From the day I watched J.D. destroy him in the defendant. I was saying, who was more incompetent? That man or my man? I had a man and he had a man. They were both incompetent. And I had a man and a woman. I thought she was very incompetent too.
Starting point is 03:48:58 But now she's leading the field. And I think she's leading the field at the nomination. Anyway, look, that's up to them. That's up to the Democrats. You know, the problem with them is they, they have really bad policy. And I'm not going to say what it is, because I don't want it to change it necessarily,
Starting point is 03:49:18 because I want to run against it, whether it's not going to be me, it's going to be somebody that's probably sitting at this table. Could be a couple of people sitting at this table. Could be a couple of people running together sitting at this table, you know? But I want them to win because we've done a great job
Starting point is 03:49:36 for this country, and I want that to be carried forward. And, you know, I think we have a tremendous bench, really a tremendous bench. But, no, I think that Waltz is a grossly incompetent man. There's something wrong with him, okay? There's something wrong with them. And when you look at what he's done with Somalia, where Somalia, which is barely a country,
Starting point is 03:50:01 you know, they have no, they have no anything, they just run around killing each other. There's no structure. And when I see somebody like Ilhan Omar, who I don't know at all. But I always watch her for years. I've watched a complaint about our Constitution, how she's being treated badly, our Constitution,
Starting point is 03:50:19 the United States of America is a bad place. Hates everybody, hates Jewish people, hates everybody. And I think she's an incompetent person. She's a real, terrible person. But when I watch one is happening in Minnesota, the land of 1,000 land of 1,000 or however many lakes, they have, they got a lot of lakes. But this beautiful place, and I see these people ripping it off,
Starting point is 03:50:48 and now I'm understanding, and you're gonna look at that's got, I hear they ripped off Somalians, ripped off that state for billions of dollars, billions, every year, billions of dollars, and they contribute nothing. The welfare is like 88%. They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you. Somebody would say, oh, that's not politically correct.
Starting point is 03:51:17 I don't care. I don't want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks, and we don't want them in our country. I could say that about other countries too. I can say it about other countries too. We don't want them to help. We have to rebuild our country.
Starting point is 03:51:35 You know, our country's at a tipping point. We could go bad. We're at a tipping point. I don't know if people mind me saying that, but I'm saying it. We could go one way or the other, and we're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Elon Omar is garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work.
Starting point is 03:51:57 These aren't people that say, let's go. Come on, let's make this place great. These are people that do nothing but complain. They complain. And from where they came from, they got nothing. you know they came from paradise and they said this isn't paradise but when they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch we don't want them in our country let them go back to where they came from and fix it thank you very much everybody
Starting point is 03:52:38 Thank you, guys. I can come this way. Sorry. Thank you. Thank you, guys. That was a great answer. Sorry, the flu coming back here. Nope, nope.
Starting point is 03:52:50 Ladies and gentlemen, our number four of our live today. Don't say there's any other channel on the great wide internet that works as hard as we do to bring you the news throughout the night, throughout the early morning, throughout the day, throughout the day and the weekends and the holidays, we never freaking quit, including on Thanksgiving. Including on the holiday weekend, we were there for you,
Starting point is 03:53:17 and we are now an hour four of our broadcast today, helped out by a two-hour cabinet meeting. But ladies and gentlemen, some of the top line headlines from that meeting in no particular order, because all of them, I think are really great. And the Secretary of Education says, I am this close to firing myself.
Starting point is 03:53:39 That's awesome. That was the job you gave me, Mr. President, and that's what I'm going to do. Brooke Rawlins, Secretary of Agriculture, says she's stopping effectively all SNAP payments and forcing all SNAP beneficiaries to reapply, including in Democrat blue states that refuse to hand over the numbers
Starting point is 03:53:58 for this massive fraudulent program that is massively important. Donald Trump says, that he's close to ending the income tax. Wait, what? Excuse me? And this is obviously something that is, I would argue, the biggest news made in that cabinet meeting ending the income tax. Well, what does that do? That chokes out and strangles on the vine, the organs that are used to torture us. That would be the federal government. What a incredible thing that would be. all these programs they need funding if they don't have funding if they don't have the money then you
Starting point is 03:54:42 de facto kill the federal government right like you you you eliminate so much of the problem by not having funding if it doesn't have funding that it just doesn't work it doesn't get off the ground nobody gets paid it's like the deep state can't operate and if you eliminated the income i mean that would be the that would be the first and most important thing that you could do because that income tax is the reason why all of the states have to operate effectively as subservient slaves to the federal government. It was never intended that way. So, of course, why this country was never set up with a national tax. There is no national tax. There was never a national tax on anything. None of that's in our Constitution. None of that's in our founding documents.
Starting point is 03:55:25 None of that's even in the thought process of the founders because every state was supposed to be its own independent country that could govern itself. And the federal government was simply there to enforce human rights. Not the tax people to death. That's exactly what's happened. The federal government takes 50% of everything that you earn and then hands it over to a Somali to send it back to a Muslim terrorist in Somalia to go pirate our own ships. That's the circle of life for the American taxpayer.
Starting point is 03:55:55 Are you sick of being humiliated? Yes. End the income tax. You ended the income tax and the federal government would have no stick to go to the states and say, oh, well, you know, that's that. That's what the income tax is. All this money goes to the federal government, trillions of dollars from your pocketbook. Then the federal government doles that back out to the states with a carrot and a stick,
Starting point is 03:56:18 saying you're going to do this. You're going to teach the kids transgender. You're going to allow men and women's locker rooms. Otherwise, you're not going to get funding. You're not going to get the funding that we stole from your residence. Now, a much better system would obviously be to let each state tax at their own rates and let people move. to the lowest tax environment or the tax environment that suits them in florida we have zero income tax awesome but obviously the fed still takes a giant bite out of your ass
Starting point is 03:56:48 and so this would be an incredible way to reverse engineer the federal government uh it's the best idea i've heard yet out of this entire administration ending the income tax i mean are you kidding me oh that would be so awesome the dilution of power that would have happen by just doing that. The de facto necessity of cutting, I mean, that would of course kill and choke out on the bind. Every NGO that is funding all the criminal aliens to come in. You know how hard, you know how expensive it is to get someone from Somalia here? It's like the Somalis don't pay for that. You pay for it. They're bludgeoning us with our own tax dollars. No, be done with it. No, be done with it. It's great. It's amazing.
Starting point is 03:57:35 Pete Hegseth, obviously dispatching, the fake news about him. And so all good. The one thing that I'm missing here is a JD Vance talking about housing, the housing crisis, something that, of course, is near and due to our hearts. J.D. Vance talking about how there, of course, are 80,000 homes in America, probably many more than that, 800,000 homes in America that are being occupied by criminal aliens. Those homes ought to buy right, by birthright, and by moral authority, go to Americans only. But the reason home prices are so high is that there is an entire
Starting point is 03:58:21 underclass, a parasitic underbelly that doesn't exist on paper that still consumes enormous amounts of resources. They're parasites. They're eating our homes, the costs of groceries, gas, health care, the times in waiting rooms for emergency care and hospitals. It is being consumed by an underbelly, a parasitic underbelly of criminal aliens. And so J.D. Vance is speaking directly to that, directly to housing. What I tell you all about, J.D. and housing, what I tell you all about what we're doing with the administration? Get ready to see a lot more, a lot more from J.D. ladies and gentlemen
Starting point is 03:59:03 an incredible and rowdy cabinet meeting boy I'm tired after just watching that I don't know how the president does it he apparently has some massive announcement I don't know Klein should we just roll into Trump is the massive announcement going to be broadcasts I don't know guys
Starting point is 03:59:23 should just like pop it up Trump's supposed to be making some huge announcement you could see he like popped up from his seat So who knows? They've been hyping this all day. So I've seen it. I don't know, chat.
Starting point is 03:59:37 You still there? I see you. We're still here. I mean, I don't know, man. I don't know how the guy has the... I'm going to let my producers roll through this. ALX. Do you have any idea what the announcement is exactly?
Starting point is 03:59:50 Let my producers dwell on this. Again, we are tired for the reasons aforementioned. I got the flu, man. I got hit hard with the flu, doing a lot of travel. So I've been sleeping. How many hours a night do I sleep? Eight.
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Starting point is 04:02:22 I mean, I don't know what else just, like I just freaking love that story. I don't know how long it's going to take the president to get set and to get rolling. We have a shot of the White House right here. I don't know. It's kind of a fun day to like maybe just like roll straight in to this. I think it might be worth covering just quickly. Pete Hegseth was a real homie of us in our show. And I'm just such a massive fan of what Pete is doing.
Starting point is 04:02:51 how Pete Hegseth was effectively exonerated by the New York Times of all places on a slander and a smear that has been rolling against him for the last couple of weeks that he ordered the killing of narco terrorists and that this would be considered a war crime. The New York Times has effectively exonerated him saying that this is fake and Pete Higgseth just spoke to it at the White House of all places. The New York Times, incredible. Even Don Jr. here saying that the New York Times is calling BS on the Washington Post story.
Starting point is 04:03:34 The New York Times is effectively saying that this is not true that he ordered the killing of two men who were splashing about after a boat was yeated in the great yeating of drug dealers. And I see absolutely no problem with the yeeding of drug dealers. It is the responsibility of our government to wield the sword. From a Christian perspective, you have to be in favor of doing bad things to bad people. That's the purpose of the government. To strike terror into the hearts of evil men. And there's no more evil people than fentanyl dealers. Fentanyl isn't like you picked up, you pick up a flower, right?
Starting point is 04:04:13 And then you heat it up and then you get fentanyl. No, fentanyl is a mix of 19 different. deadly chemicals. It has to be done in a laboratory setting. It has to be done by sophisticated technicians. It is a chemical weapon. It is a weapon of war. We classified as such, a weapon of mass destruction. And it's being piped into our country, of course, by these narco-terrorists. And so because they've killed hundreds of thousands, millions of Americans, for sure, fentanyl overdose, they deserve to be met with great force when they're trying to bring fentanyl into our country, obviously. Hakesh, I ordered a lethal attack, but not the killing of survivors, officials say, amid talks of war crimes,
Starting point is 04:05:00 the details of the precise sequence of the September 2nd attack on a boat in the Caribbean facing intense scrutiny. Ladies and gentlemen, this effectively says that the lethal attack was the first in President Trump's legally disputed campaign of killing people and suspected drug smuggling at seized at their combatants in war and started coming under intense bipartisan scrutiny. In recent days, I made questions about the decisions to kill. Survivors after a strike left to survivors. But it goes on to say that according to five U.S. officials who spoke separately
Starting point is 04:05:41 and on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter under the investigation, Mr. Hague, Seth, head of the September 2nd attack, ordered a strike that would kill the people on the boat and destroy the vessel, reported cargo drugs. But each official said that Heggsat's directive did not specifically address what should happen if a missile turned out to not fully accomplish those things. The official said that his order was not a response to surveillance footage showing at least two people in the boat survived the first blast. Admiral Bradley ordered the initial missile strike and several other follow-up strikes that killed the initial survivors and sank the disabled boat. The operation
Starting point is 04:06:15 unfolded, they said Mr. Heggseth did not give any further orders to him. Okay, so this doesn't go to Hegsaff. Morons. Great. Good to see, uh, good to see Pete. Defended by something other than a meme, although Pete Hegeseth did post this meme yesterday, and it is hilarious. Franklin targets, narco-terrorist. Boy, you want to talk about triggering the lives. 25 million views on this, 25,000 reposts, 172,000 likes. Hot damn. This is a hell of a meme. No, you catch a post,
Starting point is 04:06:52 Bremi, mame, mhm, leave the drug traffickers alone. Great. Great. All right. Cool, ladies and gentlemen. I'm glad to see Pete Heggseth eviscerate. this fake news and uh i think i'm just checking in with the producers i don't know when we're going to get trump that's my deal is like it could be another hour you know how these things go
Starting point is 04:07:22 it was supposed to be at two o'clock that's why i'm sitting there looking at the clock it's 222 right now 222 but unfortunately uh you know i'm not seeing any inclined are you see any feeds it's any check you see any feeds of this yeah i'd love to be able to to pipe in but it's like a you know we see like a there's like a photo of the white house they're like okay they're like playing old press conferences or whatever i mean we can just watch we just why don't just pop that up we'll show you guys what the AP is showing right now and this is the best that we got is a shot of the white house here And it was just like hustling.
Starting point is 04:08:16 That's what we're doing. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's what we're doing. All right. Let's hustle one more partner in here. It is gloomy and rainy and dreary at the White House, by the way, all over the country, but certainly here in Tampa it is as well. And it was cold this morning. And it was like sleet rain sideways.
Starting point is 04:08:38 I had perfect time for the bond charge. red light infrared sauna blanket these are the kind of days in the season when you get very little sunlight out there I leave the studio around 5 o'clock and it's like dark already outside I hate it you hate to see it but anyway if you have your bon charge sauna blanket you don't have to live in darkness I don't get enough red light anyway because I'm in this little black box yeah that's right that's right so it's not a blanket's very very helpful red light is necessary. Obviously for your skin, it's very, very good for your health. Great benefits to unwind and relax. The sun is very good for you. A lot of people can't get the sun
Starting point is 04:09:26 because we work, work, work in this country. But the sauna blanket provides all of these benefits at lower heat than a traditional sauna. It's a lot cheaper, too, by the way. And first, No one has room for a sign or room for a sauna. Who has room for a sauna in their house? If you do, good for you, man. No, hey. But anyway, the point is, you can release endorphins, feel euphoric. It's great for your skin.
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Starting point is 04:10:08 15% on bond charge sauna. I use one virtually every night. Okay, well, I guess President Trump's announcement is going to be about Michael and Susan Dell donating $6.25 billion to fund the Trump accounts. But I don't know, team, what do you think? Should we just sort of wait for that? I mean, it could be another hour, just never know. You absolutely, you know, you never know. So I don't know, guys.
Starting point is 04:10:44 Checking in with the producers. Maybe we'll just, yeah, there's just, there's no way to know. So, you know, instead of just leaving the whole thing up because we've got to get to work doing the rest of our recordings, a bunch of phone calls and everything like that today. We're traveling at the end of the week. So, yeah. Yeah, okay. All right. Yeah. I mean, I just, I just don't, we just never, you just don't know when you're going to, like, it could be another hour. And so I think that we're going to wrap this stream right now. And monitor this. And then move, we'll move into recording, obviously, and posting about it, when it happens. As much as we, you know, well, I've obviously.
Starting point is 04:11:38 taking these things live. It is the Christmas season. We're going to have plenty of time for that, and we are four hours and 15 minutes into this stream already. So let's let a rip with a beautiful word from the Lord in our verse of the day. The good book of Proverbs today, 1222. The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy. Make sure that when you're checking out the news. When you're looking at the people that you follow and the people that you are tuning into, that it's not the people who sold you out during COVID.
Starting point is 04:12:22 That is not the people who sold out the MAGA movement. That's not the people who sold out in America First. That is not the people who have been on the wrong side for the last eight years, 10 years. Goodness gracious. Ten years that President Trump has been running and that this movement has been building. It is a movement of truth,
Starting point is 04:12:42 and it is a movement of transparency. I know that there is no such thing as perfection in this business, but we have strong beliefs that they're just excellent people in charge. We know a lot of them. Ladies and gentlemen, the truth will set you free. A lot of Christians serving in this administration that understand that principle. And so the light and truth, right?
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