The Benny Show - Trump Emergency Press Conference LIVE Right Now In Congress As DOJ Launches Mass Fraud Investigation, with Guests Chief Steven Sund and the Lectern Guy Adam Johnson

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

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Today is Tuesday, January 6th, 26th, Trump is speaking live to the Republican conference inside of the U.S. Capitol building. I do love that song right now. My name is Benny Johnson, and this is Benny Show. Let's listen to the president, live, Chris, now. Special people, and I want to just say that, you know, I announced I was coming over here, and I said,

I love those Republicans. I meant that. I said, except for maybe a couple, a couple I don't love. But the people in this room, I don't know if those couple are here. I don't know. I don't care if they're here or not. But we love you, and you've done an amazing job.

You've done an amazing job. You love the country. You've done what's right for the country. And I want to wish everybody a happy New Year, the most successful House Republican majority in decades. And we did it with not a big majority. This was not a big majority, but it's a unified majority,

and it's people that know what it takes to make America. America great again. So together we had 12 months of unprecedented success in 20, 25, and now we're going to make history and break records with the epic midterm victory that we're going to pull off. It just doesn't seem to happen for people to win the presidency. It's an amazing phenomenon. You know, you win the presidency, and we sure as hell are having a successful presidency. I will say that. But even if it's a success. presidential presidency, and it's been nothing like what we're doing. We had a very good day, two days ago, too.

But even if it's successful, they don't win. I don't know what it is. There's something psychological, like you vote against. You can win by a lot. We won every swing state. We won the popular vote by millions. We won everything. But they say that when you win the presidency, you lose the midterm.

So you're all brilliant people. Most of you are in this business longer than me. That makes me smarter than you. because look where I am right no it doesn't but I wish you could explain to me what the hell's going on with the mind of the public because we have a we have the right policy

they don't they have horrible policy they do stick together they're violent they're vicious you know they're vicious people and they stick together like blue they don't have a couple of the people that we have a couple of people not too many

really very few And that's why I want to just say that before we go any further, I want to express our tremendous sorrow at the loss of a great, great, great, great member, Congressman Doug LaMalfa, who passed away yesterday, as you probably have heard. And he was the leader of the Western Caucus, a fierce champion on California water issues. He was great on water. He wanted to release the water, had scream out. and had wife, Jill, and his entire family.

You know, he voted with me 100% of the time. And by the way, he wasn't a 3 o'clock in the morning person. Do you know what I mean, man? Where the speaker goes, sir, could you call up? Could you call? I said, what time is it? Sir, 3 in the morning. Could you make a couple of calls?

How many? Nine. So I'd start calling. I'd start calling three in the morning. I said, like, I should. didn't use any name, so I'm just going to create problems. But hi, Jim, and I'm not talking about Jim, Jordan. They had never had to call three in the morning for him.

But I said, hi, Jim, how you doing? It just called to say, hello, you know, three and some, okay, sir. Sir, you haven't spoken to me in three years and it's now three in the morning, so I know what you want, you want my vote. And usually they'd almost always give it, but they wanted to be called.

And with Doug, I never had to call. He was with us right from the beginning. I love those guys. I'm going to say I probably love them the best, you know? The guys that I don't have to call, they know we're doing the right thing. I have a couple that are going to be with us all the way, but they just want the call. They want love. They need love.

They're more insecure than most of you. It's true. No, most of you are secure people. Don't you're all laughing? No, most of you are secure people. I had a couple say, look, I could have Trump call me all the time. I just have to break his ass a little bit. And he'll be calling, calling, calling.

But I appreciate those. We actually had a little party. We opened up a beautiful section of the White House in the Rose Garden and we had a party. For all of those people that I never speak to and vote for me. And, you know, I spoke to Doug, but I didn't speak to him about, I mean, I've had a problem. And I was really saddened by his passing

and was thinking about not even doing the speech in his honor. But then I decided that I have to do it in his honor. I'll do it in his honor because he would have wanted it that way. He would have wanted that way. He would have said, do that speech. Are you kidding me? Do the speech, big guy. But he was a fantastic person.

Man, that was the quick one. I don't know. I don't know quite yet what happened. But, boy, it's a tough one. He was just with us. He was our friend, all of us, every one of us. And I also want to send our best wishes to Congress and Jim Baird and his wife who are recovering from a car accident. They're going to be okay, but they had a pretty bad accident.

And we're praying that they get out of that hospital very quickly. He's going to be fine. She's going to be fine, but it was a bad accident. And I want to thank the man who has been central to so many of our triumphs. He really has been. He's the guy that would call me to make those calls all the time. always working and he's a nice person, you know, he's a very nice, he's a high quality person. But I wouldn't tell he's a very tough cookie. I've seen both sides. Not often do I have to see

the other side because he's just, by nature, he's a very fine religious. I like that. He's a religious person. I like that. I like religious people. It usually means they're more honest. Sometimes it doesn't happen that way. I've had some real religious ones that did numbers on me. I'm going to get them someday. They got me by surprise, but it's usually good, okay? Right? And his name is Mike Johnson, Speaker Mike Johnson. He has my complete and total endorsement.

Stand up, Speaker. So, you know, but it is true. A lot of times they say, I wish Mike were tougher, tough. He's tough. He's tough. Is anybody in the room, actually? But it can't be tough when you have a majority of three. And now, sadly, a little bit less than that. A little bit less than that, maybe.

But it can't be Trump. You can't, I want, you make 10 enemies, 20 enemies. That's the end of that, right? But everybody loves him. I would say there's one person he's given up on. I mean, I think he just gave up on this guy. He's so bad. He never votes for us.

But no matter how good, he won't vote for us. There's a sickness there. There's something wrong. You can have the greatest bill, the greatest for the country. Forget about for Republicans. Great, great, great, great for the country. I'm a no vote. We don't even bother calling him a three in the morning, do.

But I want to thank another guy who's as tough as they come, because he went through something that none of us have gone through. I went through a little shot, but I get that throbbing feeling every once in a while. But what he went through was incredible. And that Steve Scalise, he got hit hard. Where is Steve? Steve. He's a tough cookie.

He was dead. I went to the hospital. His wife was crying so much. She was a mess. Oh, yeah, she loves you. That's the only thing I learned about Steve that he has a wife who loves him. Because I've gone to hospitals where guys are in bad shape

and the wife couldn't care less. She's looking for the next guy. Who's the next guy down the bike? Who the hell is the next guy? He's died. I said, that's so bad. Oh, yeah, yeah. I had one where the dog died and the husband died at the same time.

I said, it's so serious. Yes, I love that. this dog so much. She couldn't give it. And the guy left her a fortune. Can you imagine? He shouldn't have left her anything, but she was much more concerned. It's true. Oh, the dog was devastated. The husband, he was like an afterthought. Your wife loves you, Steve. She's a great wife. Another one who has a great wife. Jackie, he's Tom Emmer, right? Look at you. You have a great wife, but you haven't been tested like these guys. You have it. We don't We don't want to test her, right?

She's incredible. She's a strong, beautiful, great person. She's a great person. She actually liked me at the beginning when we were having little fights. We weren't even having fights. We just didn't know each other. We didn't know each other. And I heard he said something negative about me.

He was sort of right about the subject, but you're not supposed to say ever, even though you're right. But Jackie was signed, I'm telling you, he's a great guy. he's good, he's going to be a great president, blah, blah, blah. She was fighting for me. And now I love this guy. He's great. Jackie's right about, she was right about both of us, I think, right? But Tom has been incredible.

It's incredible at what he does. He's a great team player. Your conference chair, Lisa McLean, is so strong and powerful and beautiful. Thank you, Lisa. Thank you. Thank you. And I think they're broadcast, you know, we said we don't care if the press comes or not. So when I say that, that means they're broadcasting all this.

And I'm letting my feelings out because it's true. I feel that way about so many people in the room. I can say it about many of the people in the room. Some I don't know as well, but many of the people in the room. They're incredible people. You're incredible what you're doing. We also have another one, Richard Hudson, Chairman, NRCC, Richard's always in there.

Always with a smile. No matter what's happening, Richard. He always has a smile. He's always just a positive guy, smart and positive. Thank you. I really appreciate it. You do a great job. Republican Policy Committee Chairman, Kevin Hearn.

Kevin, where are you, Kevin? Thank you, Kevin. Thank you. That a great job. Every one of you, you've got to be proud of yourselves. And basically, the entire House Republican conference, it's been really amazing what you've done. And we're going to give you some ammunition today.

I said, I'd love to make a speech. Speaker asked me, would you make a speech? I said, sure. You think Biden would do that? Would you make a speech? What? First of all, people wouldn't ask him to make a speech. Because it never worked out well, right?

You could never find the exits. You finished, look, stare here, stare at there, you could jump off the front if you had to. No matter what he did, got himself into trouble. So basically, they didn't ask him to, but if he did, it wouldn't be good. But it's good with me because, you know, we have so much ammunition.

We have ammunition. The problem is the fake news. That's why I like being on. I'd much rather do live television. and then do non-alive because, like, when they say, as an example, in my speech, peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol, peacefully and patriotically. Do you know that the unselect committee didn't report it, that I said those words? Do you know that the news never reported the words, walk or march,

peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol? You know, they never reported a scandal. The unselect committee never reported that. They never reported that Nancy Pelosi was offered 10,000 soldiers. National Guard, soldiers, whatever you want. No, I don't want them. And the mayor. The mayors weren't writing.

She was more honorable about it. But Nancy got caught when her daughter did a documentary. She said, documentary, yes. And she has her mother. saying it's my fault. I should have taken the soldiers or something. I saw that in the doctor. I said, whoa, this was a major story. Has she spoken to a daughter since that? But they just, you know, they are vicious people, even on the attack. And it was an amazing military feat that took place yesterday. They think of it, our amazing military.

The people are saying, well, thank you. You know, people are saying it goes down with one of the most incredible, it was so complex, 152 airplanes, many, many, talking about boots in the ground, we had a lot of boots on the ground. But it was amazing. of it nobody was killed and on the other side a lot of people were killed unfortunately i say that soldiers cubans mostly cuban but many many killed and they were they knew we were coming and they were protected and our guys were you know our guys are jumping out of helicopters and you're not

protected and they were but it was so brilliant the electricity for almost the entire country was boom turned off that's when they knew there was the problem there was no electricity Caracas said. There's no elections. It's not a, the only people with lights were the people that had candles. It was just off. So we sort of got him a little by surprise. But it was a brilliant, it was brilliant tactically. It was an incredible thing. But I watched where Schumer, he's such a bad guy. I mean, I've known the guy for a long time. And he's such a bad guy. You know, at some point they should say, you know, you did a great job. Thank you. Congratulations. wouldn't it be good? I would say that if they did a good job, their philosophies are so different, but if they did a good job, I'd be happy for the country.

They've been after this guy for years and years and years. And he's a violent guy. He gets up there and he tries to imitate my dance a little bit. But he's a violent guy, and he's killed millions of people. He's tortured. They have a torture chamber in the middle of Caracas, they're closing up. But he's tortured people. And now what they do, the radical left, they actually have people, and it's hard to get them. They're all paid people. Most of these

people are paid. You know they're paid when they have brand new, beautiful printed signs by like the highest quality printer. And you have a woman, free Maduro. And the sign is before we even did the attack, free Maduro, why do you want them freed? I don't know. He, but he should be free, oh, she reads a sign. What does that say? Says Freeman, well, that's what I believe. And you know, you see the sign. It's like, Lisa, we should all have quality signage like that.

The one thing I want, I want their sign maker, the guy is great. He does beautiful signage. You know, the old days was better when they used to write out their own sign, wasn't it? They'd make a sign in the basement. They'd have an old broken board holding up a sign and it's made with a magic marker, sloppy as hell, and it meant something. when you have that yellow and black they should use different colors a little bit but the yellow is a beautiful shade of yellow no i want to find out who that is i want to work for the republican

campaign he's much better than our guy whoever the guy is but the united states proved once again that we have the most powerful most lethal most sophisticated and most fearsome it's a fearsome military on planet earth and it's not even close you know i've been saying it for a long time nobody can take us nobody we don't want to have it we don't have a discussion but you read all and you see everything else nobody could have done that nobody has our weapons nobody has the quality of our weapons the problem is we don't produce them fast enough we're going to start producing a much faster we're going to be very tough on the companies we have the best weapons in the world but it takes too long to get them including allies when allies want to buy them and they have to wait

four years for a plane, five years for a helicopter. We're not letting that happen anymore. We're telling our defense contractors, you're going to start building faster. You know, guy makes, I have a big problem with it. I'm the king, I have sold more Boeing's than any human being on Earth. They gave me a award, salesman of the year. I said, what about salesman of the, in the history of Boeing? I've sold more Boeing planes than any man in history by, by four, probably over a thousand, over a thousand planes. I said, that's the goodness. But But why should they wait three, four years to get a plane? They should build them, get them immediately.

The F-35s, it takes too long to get them. The Apache helicopter. I mean, I had India coming to me, sir. I've been waiting five years. We're changing it. We're changing it. India ordered 68 Apaches. And Prime Minister Modi came to see me.

Sir, may I see you please? Yes, I have a very good relationship. He's not that happy with me because, you know, they're paying a lot of tariffs now because they're not doing the oil, but they are. They've now reduced it very substantially, as you know, from Russia. We getting rich because of tariffs, by the way. I hope everyone understands that. They hate to report. We have over $650 billion poured into our country or coming in shortly because of the tariffs. You know, they're finding all of these pockets of money a couple of

weeks ago. Sir, we're off by $39 billion. Oh, is that good or bad? Meaning, do we have it or are we short of it? Sir, it's $39 billion that we can't account for. That means we have an extra $39. Yes, sir. I said, well, what are you saying? We don't know where it came from. I said, check the tariff shelf.

Sir, that tariff doesn't start until September. I said, no, no. It started about a month and a half ago. Check it. Comes back 25 minutes. later, sir, you're right, I came from tariffs. This never happened to us before, where we find plus 39 billion, not million,

plus 39 billion, they were missing. We've taken a $650 billion or shortcoming, and that's because I'm being nice if I want to be, and we have national security because of tariffs. And frankly, we have a big Supreme Court case. I hope they do what's good for our country. I hope they do the right thing. The president has to be able to wheel and deal with tariffs.

Now, if you have the right president, it's good. You have the wrong president. If you have the wrong president, nothing's good. Tariffs are at least your problems. We found that out for four years. We had the worst president, did the worst job, had the worst policy. We have to even run against these people.

Now, I won't say cancel the election. They should cancel the election because the fake news will say, he wants the elections cancel. He's a dictator. They always called me a dictator. who nobody's worse than Obama and the people that surrounded Biden not Biden I don't think it's Biden he didn't know what the hell was going on okay the election was rigged he had no and he had no idea what happened he still doesn't the auto pen and by the way you were to make a big deal out

of the auto pen the auto pen the auto pen was your president because most of the things were signed by auto pen and you're not allowed to do that I signed very little now I just to sign everything because it's just so crazy. But you know, like I had the other day, we elevated a general to four stars. I think you should sign that. Yeah, that's a big deal. A general did a great job, was elevated to four stars.

And I had the general and I signed it in front of him, held it up. You know, you have signed it. You can't give it to an auto pen. And you can always tell an auto pen. One thing, it has two little tiny dots, you know that? Two little dots. You know what that's two pins.

They go, Bing, being, they're wonderful things. But you're going to sign it. And the law is you have to sign it. If somebody's, you know, telling the Oropen person, he has to be authorized by the president of the United States. Well, he wasn't. The guy barely knew the president.

How many times he just speak to the president, right? He said, too. And they just spoke about the weather. It was like, but he was never authorized to sign. And I think it's, what is it, 95% of the things were signed by auto? that. You can tell because the auto pen is a nice plain signature and his signatures a mess. The only thing he signed was, which is nice, was Hunter's pardon. No, that's the only thing that we can find that he signed.

Most of it he didn't sign. So somebody's sending papers to sign and he wasn't the president. First of all, the election was rigged. You want to have voter ID. You want to insist on it. You want to insist on it. Can you imagine? Can you imagine? In California, they not only don't have voter ID, but if an official at the voting booths, which they don't have, by the way, because it's all male, if an official, a voting official, even asks somebody for voter ID,

sir, I'd like to see your identification. Do you come from our country? They put them in jail for tampering with the election. Okay? We've got to straighten this out. before it gets too crazy. California is more corrupt than any place. California is more corrupt than Minnesota.

And I won Minnesota. I think so. Well, it's close. It can't be proportionately, probably nothing's more corrupt, right? Yeah, right. He says you got to win. I'll tell you what, I did great there three times. I was surprised three times that those elections are corrupt.

They got you one time too, but I heard. A long time ago, but they got you. But they got to straighten those out. But we have to have voter ID. And you know, when you confront a Democrat about voter ID, like in a debate or something, I said it a couple of times with Biden. They're very embarrassed when they say, we want voter ID, voter identification. The only reason somebody doesn't want that is because they want to cheat.

Our elections are crooked as hell. and you can not only win elections over that and not only win future elections, but you'll win every debate because the public is really angry about it. And you would have passed the Safe Act or whatever you're going to call. Are we going to save act or the Save America Act?

I think we're going to change the name a little bit. You're going to put that up for a vote? I think everybody in this room certainly should do it. And it's a bad vote for them because they're voting against things like voter ID and other things that are almost equal to voter ID. But when somebody says, no, we don't want voter ID, that means you're crooked. And the public understands it.

You win elections with that. But I think it would be really important, Save America Act, if you would put that up for a vote. It's got my total endorsement. And all of this is common sense things about the election. And they'll fight it like crazy because they cheat. It's the only way they can win. When you have policy so bad, when you have policy with men in women sports, men in women's sports, men in women's sports. and they fight like hell for it.

They still are. I saw the other day a person that you know very well, a congressman was fighting like hell. And, you know, I was out the other day with somebody. And I was with an ex-football player. The guy was massive. His leg was like this. And a young woman who plays flag football.

And she's very good, supposedly, as an athlete. She's smaller than this guy's leg. Okay. And if they were playing football together, He wouldn't even have to run. He could just keep walking. They couldn't take him down yet. He can't even believe it.

But there are so many that had a race along this and race. They had champion men, women, you know, one of those marathon deals. The man finished five hours and 14 minutes and 36 seconds sooner. He beat the champion woman by five hours. It's so demeaning to women. It's so ridiculous, right? ridiculous. The weightlifting. Take a look at the weightlifting records.

One record stood for 18 years and it was broken by 112 pounds. They couldn't get one eighth of an ounce, you know? They put, speaker, they'd put an eighth of an ounce on. Then she's going to break the record for her

mom who's sitting in the front with a fraud. I'm going to break it. And she's out there. We're adding one eighth of an ounce to each side. This record has stood, ladies and gentlemen, 18 years, but she's going to do it. She's looking to get into the Olympics, right? And she gets up, and they put a little tiny thing like this little thing.

And my wife, by the way, my wife hates when I do this. She said, you know, she's a very classy person, right? She said, it's so unpresidential. I said, but I did become president. somebody she hates when I dance I said everybody wants me to dance darling it's not presidential she actually said could you imagine FDR dancing she said that to me and I said there's a long history that perhaps she doesn't know because he was an elegant fellow even as a Democrat right he was

The attack by Japan, you know, he was quite elegant, but he wouldn't be doing this, but, but nor would too many others, but she says, darling, please, the weightlifting is terrible. I have to say this, the dancing, they really like it. She said, they don't like it. They're just being nice to you. I said, that's not right. The place goes crazy. They're screaming dance, please. But the weightlifting, but no, the girl gets up with it. And you see, I want to be more, but I have somebody watching. I want to be more effusive. Dropped the thing, walks off the stage crying, her mother's crying, her father's, guy gets up. He said, have you lifted before a little bit? And he walks up, being, he could.

would have gone, ding, ding, I think it was a hundred and twelve pounds, huh? It's crazy. Or the beautiful boxer, they have boxing, you know, and that they have a young gentleman who transitioned. He's a very good boxer, but he wanted to be a woman, which is, you know, to eat his own. He's on fire. Rose on fire. Yes. Liberal when it comes to these subjects. I'm trying to get that vote. It's not an easy. vote to get it's very tough for me to get it but he transitioned and he's he transitioned and the girl was a champion boxer from Italy remember she got up first round he hit a

boom with a left a left for those everybody in his mouth but a left Lisa knows better than anybody but a left is defense he goes boom she's like oh my She walked to the corner, remember? She didn't go down, but she did everything else. But she said, I've never been hit like that before. I don't want to go out again. You can do it. You can do it. Bang, you walked off.

He said, that's, he happened to win the gold medal, that young woman. He won the gold medal. There were two transition people. They both won gold medals. The whole thing is ridiculous. You have policy on your side. they don't have policy and you say right you have policy

and I saw this guy fighting like hell the swimming records is ridiculous when you look at the swimming any records it's crazy and it's so demeaning to women women are the you know and for a long time they refused to talk about they were embarrassed to talk about it

now they do talk about it they talk about it openly but they have the worst policy on everything open borders we want open borders you know they still want an open border we did the greatest job ever on borders and you know I think they forgot it my guy said to me today I have a great guy Ross he's greatest speechwriter he said sir let's not mention the border nobody cares about the border anymore can you believe it this was the biggest hello this was the biggest thing there was says to me nobody cares about the border

because it has a shelf life I fixed the border I fixed it in my first term but now I really had a fix it. It was much worse, you know, when I came into office. Millions and millions of people were pouring into our country. And I fixed it. And my guy who's incredible says, people don't want to hear it, sir, you've done that. The problem is people forget that I did it. They totally forget. They were talking about the other day. We don't like Donald Trump on this. We don't like Donald Trump on that. And somebody just out of the blue, so, well, he did an unbelievable job. Who cares about that? They're saying, like, you know, that's been done. What do we do? do about that, Mike. Everything you do. It's almost like what have you done lately is the way you

have to run your life. In other words, I could have the most unbelievable four years. And I guess they're not, I'm not allowed to run. I'm not sure. Is there a little something out there that I'm not allowed to run? But let's assume I was allowed to run. I could have, there's going to be a constitutional movement. No, I could have the most unbelievable four years. Everything was great, but in the last week, I made a little slip up in something and you lose the election.

It's like, so we can't let them forget that we did such a great job on the border. By the way, Venezuela, everyone, they're marching in the streets, they love it, except in New York. I mean, where they find these people? These people, they're not like, these it is ladies and gentlemen unfortunately something happened to the live feed we are switching the feed

right now one second where do they find these people now we're back up they're the worst looking people i've ever seen they really we apologize that are all afraid and we are like they're all paid they're they don't even know what they're talking when the people the reporters don't interview because they know that it's you know the reporters the press is so anti it's it's It's hard to believe the press could be so anti, because it's all common sense. You know, it's not, we're a conservative, we're concerned, whatever, it doesn't matter. It's we're all common sense people. It's not even conservative, it's common sense.

But the press has no credibility whatsoever. Think of it, I got 97% bad stories on one network, 93% on the other, and I won in a landslide. You know what that means? The press has no credibility. That's all it means. And we got to keep it that way. So I don't talk too much about the swimming, the weightlifting, the boxing. I don't talk about it.

You know why? I want to start bringing it up about a week before the election. Because I don't want them to correct themselves. I don't want them to say, you know, we've decided that we don't want to have men playing in women's sports. That would be a devastating blow for us. Because that's, you know, they say, it's an 80-20. No, no. It's about a 98-2 issue.

We've decided that we will not have open borders with the entire world from the Congo. Prisons from the Congo, these are extraordinarily tough people. These are people that make our motorcycle gangs look like fine young men. Our motorcycle gangs are wonderful people by comparison. No, they come in from prisons in the Congo. They come in from prisons from all over the world. But in particular, Venezuela, a Trend de Aragua. Trend de Aragua comes in and Trend de Aragua.

They say it's the worst gang in the world. It makes our gangs look like little sweethearts. It makes our gangs, you want to take them out to dinner, they're so nice. They cut off the fingers of people. One guy makes a phone call in Colorado. The governor stinks in Colorado. He's no control. So Trend de Araga, they don't want to do anything about it.

So ICE has to go in and take them out because the governor doesn't want to do anything. But they make a phone call. taken over my building. The landlord's calling. They took over his building. So the governor doesn't want to do anything. But he calls the police, the guy. They come in. Did you call the police? This is Trindy Irug. We're talking to the man that owns the building. Did you call the police here? Boom. They cut off his fingers. If you call him again, the next time your hand comes off. You believe? The guys walk around. His fingers were cut off. And these are the animals that we're throwing the hell out of here. Washington, D.C. is now the safest city in the

country. And you people know that better than anybody, because you were, I mean, think of it, you're in Congress, you're respected people, you're afraid to walk outside. Washington, D.C. Now, we had a terror attack four weeks ago, and one person's looking down from heaven, and the other one is actually recuperating and going to make it, I think. but really badly hurt, really badly hurt. Most positive mother I've had. No, my son's going to be fine, sir. The mother was telling me that the night of the attack,

I went just like I went here, I just, I spoke to this incredible woman. Sir, everyone sprang from my son, he's going to be fine. The doctors thought she was, you know, just hoping against help. There was no chance. And two weeks ago, he got up and started walking around. It's amazing, actually.

So maybe some really, it looks like he could be, okay, he's going to have pretty bad after effects. But that was a different, that was a terrorist attack on people that are doing a great job. And they could have been anywhere. But we haven't had a murder. You know, we would have, on average, two murders a week in Washington. I don't even like talking about it. Two murders a week in Washington. We haven't had one in seven months.

People can walk out now. You can walk down with your wife down to the restaurants, which are booming, by the way. I mean, if you go back to before I got in, and we did a pretty good job four years ago, but there was never this, you know, in my first term. So when we were during the first term, we're pretty good. But, you know, it wasn't like that big of an issue. It became a big issue because people were being mugged all over the place. We had a couple of people working in the White House that were killed.

We had one guy waiting for his wife in a car. They said, get out of your car. He said, well, I'm waiting for my wife. They blew his head off. The wife is walking up to the car. Animals. And then they get angry when I say, they're animals. Nancy Booth.

They're not animals. They're human beings. This is another thing. That's a 98-2 issue also. No, they're animals. And we've taken them out. We took out over 2,000 people brought them back to their countries from where they came or they're in prison now in Washington.

Because it's not just like, you have to take the bad ones out. 2%, 3% of the population causes 90% of the crime. Think of it. 2% of the population in Washington, D.C., causes 90% of the crime. So when you get rid of the 2%, we took out over 2,000 people, got them out of the country or in prison. Some were so bad that we didn't want to send them back to their country. because they'll come back in, even though it's hard now,

but, you know, they're pretty smart. They're sick, but they're smart. But you're now living in one of the safest cities in the country. It's a great thing. You can walk to the restaurants. Restaurants are booming. New restaurants are open. They were all closing.

You wouldn't have had a restaurant. And I don't know about you, but to me, those soldiers standing there look so good. I'm not going to feel safe walking down the street without them. I don't think you would either. Even though, you know, we took out all of us, so many criminals, I just feel better. To me, they're beautiful.

I look at these soldiers and you feel safe. You feel safe. I don't think if we took them out, even if the crime wasn't much, it would definitely be more. We did a great job in Chicago. They don't want to talk about it. Against all this, this slob of a governor,

this stupid slob, the family threw them out of the business. It was a dope and the Pritzker family. But they threw them out of the business. And the mayor, he's a low-eyed. person, extremely low IQ. We should give everybody, like these competency tests, right? The cognitive, they call it cognitive. You know, I'm the only president that went for cognatives. I think every president and vice president should be forced to take cognitive exams, mental tests, like, are they intelligent?

Wouldn't it be nice? Do you think Waltz could pass a cognitive test as an example? Do you think Kamala could? I don't think Gavin could. He's got a good line of crap, but other than that, he couldn't pass. And here's a guy, didn't want to have water coming down from the Pacific Northwest. Why? You know, they have a little tiny fish to speak. It's a little tiny fish.

Not doing well. You know what? No water. It's sending water. It's too much. It's killing the fish. So they cut it off. And then they have 25,000 houses burned down.

They don't know why. No, I think, I believe in it. I'm the only one that took a cognitive test. I do it's the worst. If I don't do a medical exam, because I've had times where I went longer, because I'm busy. If I don't do a medical exam, they say, Trump's not doing an exam. There must be something wrong with them. If I do the exam, they say, why did he do this?

Why did he do this part of an exam? He did too much. There's something wrong with him. Do you remember there was a period, Mike, where I had 32 days in a row, I did one press conference, two, three, sometimes four, I'd zoom behind the desk. Just do it, two press conferences.

But I do many press conferences. So in 32 days, and then one day, just one day, this is 32 days in a row. Must be some kind of a crazy record. Then one day, do you remember I didn't do one because I took Kai, my very brilliant golfer, beautiful young lady who swings the club so beautifully. She's a great scratch golfer and loves playing. Grandpa, would you take me to play golf? So I ran, you know, I play golf and like record.

I play speed golf. It's better than that way. You know the expression? Miss it quick. No, I play speed golf, but I'm a good golf. Everybody knows, anybody that I've beaten in this group. But I love to play golf, but I don't get to play much. But I took off two hours, and the press couldn't find me.

But they knew I was there because they, you know, they follow me. And I was getting, are you okay? Guys are calling me up. Some of the guys in this room. So are you okay? Yeah, what's the problem? there's a report, sir, that you no longer will us. Remember that?

No. The report was that I was no, I want to, I don't want to use the D word. It's such a horrible word. Dead. I don't like that. There's a report, sir, that you're no longer with us. I said, well, I just hit a 280-yard drive. This isn't bad.

and you know it's one of the and it took me a couple of weeks to get that one straight down the new one is they did a report in the fake news New York Times where I worked this day from early in the morning to late in the evening but we don't give out a full schedule it's like you go who the hell wants to give out a schedule to these people but it's all work and this in particular this day was brutal I never got to leave the seat I couldn't do anything. It was just one after another after another. And this went on from early in the morning

until late in the evening. And my people gave out a report. He had lunch. They showed a report lunch with somebody. And they did this story. Donald Trump is slowing down. He only had lunch. And then he went back up.

And they said, that's malfeasance. Right? No, it's terrible. I was actually more angry with my people than I was with the New York Times. But they wrote a story and it takes you a period of time to recover from these hits. And it's almost no matter what you do

but you have to keep a positive eye but we have a fake press. We did a thing that's so incredible on medicine that nobody has ever done it reducing favorite nations, most favorite nations We reduced the cost of medicine at levels that have never even been dreamt of before. We should win the elections on just that thing if we did nothing else and went home.

Go home. We did Favorite Nations, where we're bringing down the price of a pill. As an example, in London, the pill sells for $10. In New York, it sells for $130. That's 13 times as much. most favorite is I want to pay what the lowest nation in the world is paying

everybody knew about it but nobody had the guts or the stamina to do it or the respect from other nations but I do and then you also had to get the drug companies

the drug companies were not easy but they were much easier compared to the other nations so the other nations used to tell the drug companies we're not going to pay more you kept it for years the same price

we just kept going up up up And finally, I had the drug companies that I said, this fellow, you can't do this. Can't do it anymore. I'm not going to let it. We're going to do it. And you're not going to do it. And I did things to them that were brutal. But I really found out it was the nations that were so tough.

So when France was told that the pill will go from $10 to $30, that's a big increase, right? But it's not really. And that hours would come down from $12 or $13 down to $30. So theirs would go from 10 to 20 or 30, and ours would go from $13 down to, meaning $130, down to 20 or 30. So it's a huge drop for us. Now, depending on the way you calculate it, it could be thousands of percent down. It could also be 90 percent and 80 percent. You know, there's two ways of calculus.

I don't know if you know. They said, Donald Trump exaggerate. Now, there are two ways of calculating. but calculate it at 80-90 percent but the other way is more accurate like 900 percent because that's what it really is but there are two ways but use the be generous 90 percent the there hasn't been a reduction in 28 years except for the one year where i got it down one quarter of one percent and i had a news conference i was so proud of myself the drug prices prescription drugs are going to be down by

Thousands of points, thousands. When that one item, you should win this election. The New York Times barely wrote about it. The other papers barely wrote about it. Nobody even knows that the drug prices. Now, people will say, you don't mind if I don't read this crazy telepromp to do, because I have, because I have, it's called standard, But these things are so important because you guys got to get elected.

Because if you don't get elected, we have a country that's going to go to hell. So we can't play games. Ladies and gentlemen, the sun will rise tomorrow, and when it rises, we will all. We don't need this bullshit. We need to talk about favorite nations. And your numbers are coming down at levels that nobody's ever seen. We inherited high prices. We inherited a mess.

We inherited the greatest inflation in history. And you know what was knocking it down? The bad economy that we inherited. We inherited bad. We now have the hottest economy and the history of our country. We have $18 trillion being invested in the United States. You have every one of you have car plants, AI plants, plants of all different types of because of tariffs.

I hope we get the good ruling from the Supreme Court. I only hope we do because it's given us tremendous national security. So let me just finish up because, you know, I weave. I love to weave. If you ever weave and don't come back to the point, then that's a problem. Then you say, but when you weave and you go here and boom, boom, boom, boom, always coming back, then you're in good shape. But what's happening is by doing what I did, we're getting numbers.

that are so low, but what did I do to the countries? I said, France, your health care for prescription drugs is going to go up triple. It's going from $10 a pill, just as an example. I called it the fat drug. You could say the fat drug. Ozempic. Osempic is $80 in London, and it's $1,300 in New York, the fat drug. A friend of mine called me. up he said what the hell is going on a very rich guy but he I said the fat drug doesn't work on you why are you even taking it the drug has failed misery but he's a very loud boisterous he's not a bad guy not a great guy smart as hell but he's a very rich guy this this drug he could have paid millions for it it wouldn't

matter but he said in London I'm paying 80 bucks in New York I'm paying like many times more than that what the hell is that's because of what's happened because the nation's all those bad so the drug companies I had made a deal with them you're going to do it they said whatever the nations agreed to the nations were a bigger problem than drug companies so I said you tell me they were they'll never agree sir I said 100 percent they will 100 percent they said sir the smartest guy Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, all genius. They're all making numbers you wouldn't believe.

The defense contractors are making more. That's why I'm going to say, you know, you're making $45 million a year and you can't produce a freaking helicopter for seven years. We're going to talk to them about them. But I said to the France, I called up as an example. Francis is an example. I like him. He's a nice guy.

Emmanuel. You know Emmanuel, Macron, Macro. I love the French accent. Immanuel. They said, listen, you're going to have to raise your prices a little bit because we're paying 14 times more than you. That's a lot, right? We're paying numbers. In other words, we're making up for all of this deficit. No, no, no, no, no. I don't know. I will not be able to. Mr. President, please, excuse me. Most of people call me Mr. President, except for people that. don't respect me they call me back, which there are probably a lot of them too. But they said, no, no, no, no. Putin calls me, Mr. President. She calls me, Mr. President. Emmanuel goes, no, no, we will not do that. Yes, you will, Emmanuel, 100%. Because I was told they wouldn't do it. And this is, you can take Emmanuel and add to Hans. You can add

up Ludwig. You can add every name in the book. It's all the same. The end No, we're not going to double our drug prices. Not for you or anybody else. I said, yes, you are 100%. We are not going to do it. No, no, no, you never understand. 100%. You're going to do it and you're going to like it. They go, I don't understand. I've told you five times why do you keep saying you're going to do it because I'm always right about Trump is right about everything, right? I said, the hat. Trump is right about it. It had been right about everything. Gotta keep it going. Is there wood up here? Holder. Ah, I would like to, just in case.

Trump was right about everything. And I said, so you're gonna do it, Emmanuel? No, no. Said, okay, here's the story, Emmanuel. If on Monday you haven't agreed to every single thing that we want, I'm putting a 25% tariff on everything coming out of France, including your wines, your champagne,

everything else. No, no, no, no, you cannot do that. I said, I can do that, and I will do that. Even for national security, I'll do that, but this is for medical security. And 100%. Now, let me explain. The tariff I'm imposing on you is 42 times more expensive than what I'm asking for you in return. So you can either have a 25% tariff added on to you, like I did with China, on fentanyl. I put a 20% penalty tax on China, and it's drying up because the tax is far more than they make with fentanyl. But with the other nations, I said, you're going to do it. And you know what he said? You can't do that to me. He said, yes, I can. Don't worry about it. It's not going to be that bad. You just have to explain it to your people. You're 39 million people that, by the way,

don't vote by mail. They vote on paper ballots. They tried voting by mail, and there was fraud all over the country. We're the only country that votes by mail, essentially. You know that, right? You know, Speaker, that's another thing. We're the only country that's stupid enough to vote by mail. Even Jimmy Carter's commission said, don't do it. But just to finish so that you won't say he wanders.

Emmanuel said to me, Donald, you have a deal. I would love to increase my... Prescription drug prices by 200% or whatever. I would love to do it be such an honor. Whatever you want, Donald, please. Don't tell the population, please, Donald, I beg you. Every country said the same thing. No, no, no, we will not do this.

Some were strong, some were very nice, some were rude. But they all said one thing, no, we won't. And within, I'd say on average, 3.2 minutes, They were all saying, we would be honored to quadruple our drug prices. So we would be honored to quadruple our prices, if that's what you like. We want to make you out, okay. Therefore, I will not charge you a tariff, and you're going to increase your drug prices by three times what they were paying two days ago.

Right? And we have now Favorite Nation. You think Biden could do that? I don't think so. I think Biden never thought of it. Now, everybody's wanted Favorite Nation. but everybody knew it was impossible to get the countries to agree to it because they wouldn't have done.

And they've been doing this for 40 years or whatever it is. We were subsidizing the entire work. That's just one of the many things we're giving. But you should take that thing. That's going to say, now that also, when you add that to health care, your drug prices are much lower than what you've projected. So we're going to reduce health care by a lot. One other thing on health care, it's never been our issue.

It should be our issue. I got a very nasty vote from a couple of people. I guess, Collins, I guess Lisa Mikowski, and I guess a man named John McCain. Remember? Thumbs down. You remember. He said, I'm all for 10 years he campaigned. I don't want to be nasty, but for 10 years he campaigned on Obamacare, we're going to destroy

Obamacare. We're not going to do it. And then we're going to terminate it. And then it was a separate. rising. We could have had health care. Good health care. Obama care is bad. And the people understand it's bad. And the premiums are horrible. But one thing I've learned, I've learned a lot about health care. I found health care sort of like not of tremendous interest, but it was very important. And I made it of tremendous interest. So I made a statement a couple of months ago

because I saw the numbers. I said, boy, because I like to see what's going on. That's one of the reasons. By the way, we set an all-time record again today. We have the highest stock market in the history of our country by far every single month. That's another thing he should camp. You know, they like to demean that. You know what the Democrats? Well, that doesn't mean anything. That's just like, no, no. That means jobs and it means 401ks because a lot of people have 401ks. And they have, hello, best lawyer in the room, the best, have 401ks and they have 401ks and they have 401k's like. I had a young policeman. I told this story twice, but it was the same thing. This was a recent case. I had a case years ago, because I had a great economy. You know, we had the greatest

economy in history during my first term. My first term was a tremendous success. But again, nobody wants to talk about that. We rebuilt our military. We did things that nobody could have done. We did a great job. This term is blowing it away. It's blowing every term. There's never been a president that had a year like this, especially a starting year. And we should win based on that, too, all things. But the 401 case, so there's a policeman, and he comes up, and he was guarding me along with lots of other people. So I want to thank you. My wife thinks I am the worst investor in the world. And for the last year, I have, I have, she thinks now I'm Warren Buffett. She said, you're smarter than Warren Buffett.

You're a better investor than Mr. Warren Buffett, sir. I said, how's your 401K? It's doubled. It's going up. It's going up. I said, just relax. But 401Ks are through the roof. Those are us.

Those are the people. We have the highest stock market in history. 47 days out of 11 months, we have just a piece of the last month left. for the first year, 47 days out of 11 months, we hit a new record. Well, we hit one last night. We hit another one today, I understand. But we hit one last night, a new record, brand new record.

All exchanges, not just Dow, Dow is up, but all of them. We have another record, that's the 47th time in 11 months that we've hit an all-time high. And the future, because we have more money coming into our country that any country has ever had by far. The record was about $3 trillion many years ago by China. We've got $18 trillion pouring into our country. You know why?

Because of tariffs. Because if they build a factory, they don't have to pay any tariff. But if they make it in another country and they send it in, they have a very big tariff to pay. So they can't pay that tariff. So what they do is they come in and they're building. By the way, this is what China did to us for many years. It's just reversing it.

Other than we have a great product. We were losing our product now. Tell you what, if I had lost this election, if you had Kamala, it's the same thing, Joe and Kamala, I call them equals. If you had Kamala come in, I believe that our country would have been Venezuela on steroids. I used to say that.

during the campaign. If I don't win, we're going to have that as well. So we have 18 trillion coming in. I think we could hit 20 trillion by the time the year is up, right? Less than one year, 18 trillion. The record is $3 trillion. Three trillion dollars, a lot of money. 18 trillion is not even thinkable. That's all investment. That's building factories. That's building plants. You know how many car factories we have? Half of you guys are having car factories. Where you are, Louisiana is doing great. Georgia right next year is doing great. Hello, nice guy.

All nice people. Actually in this room, I can't see anything. Is there anybody I'm supposed to dislike in this room? I think that a couple of people maybe didn't show them. There's only one that I really disliked you. I really, the same person that Mike gave up on because there's something wrong with him. He's a sick person.

but there's only one you know the others i just have to you just have to understand them you know they have some problems too but you just have to sort of go with them and understand them feel sorry for them advise their family are they okay because what we're doing is right but 18 trillion dollars car plants being built i was in japan somebody admonished me he shouldn't be traveling. I don't like to travel. I don't like to travel. But when I travel, I make a lot of money for the country, not for me. For me, I don't make, I don't care. I have a much higher purpose. I have plenty of money. I don't need money. I don't want money. I want to make money for the country. And like I did with Intel, Intel came in. They had a problem. I said, I can solve

the problem, but I think you should give the United States 10% of your company. He goes, Whoa. I say, yeah, I think I can help you with a problem, but you've got to give the United States. Not me. Sometimes I'll say, give me. But when I say me, I'm talking about, I'd love to accept it, but I don't think that law enforcement would like that, right?

I'm very cognizant of law enforcement, perhaps more than anybody in history. Actually, a friend of mine who's really smart said, you know, you've got to be the most honest guy in history, because you have been examined your books, your records. I have a big business every record. I had these Democrats

hired the biggest accounting firms, the biggest law firms, the biggest I went through years of abuse and here I am. They didn't find anything wrong. Remember? We want his tax returns for years. We want

his... Finally, the Supreme Court shockingly, I'm the only one. This couldn't happen to anybody else. You have to give you tax returns, right? I gave my tax returns there from here to here. It's a big business. It's a great business.

And I built a great business, like much bigger and better than anyone even understands. But I gave my tax returns. They go from here to the ceiling, practically. They got him. Headline, Trump to give tax returns. Supreme Court ruled that and give my tax return. And you believe it.

Everyone said, you're not supposed to do that. And by fighting, they think you're trying to hide something, you know, naturally. I gave my tax returns. That's the last we ever heard. They hired the biggest accounting firm in the world, most powerful lawyers in the world. They spent millions and millions of dollars going over those returns. There hasn't been one story that I did anything wrong. So this friend of mine is highly sophisticated, rich guys.

smart guy, said, there's nobody that I know that could have gone through an examination like that and not ended up in prison. Nobody ever had a suffer like I did. Nobody ever did that to anybody else. You know, there was an expression. Andrew Jackson was the most abused president in the history of the United States. You know who second was? This before me. You know who second was? Abraham Lincoln but he had a civil war so we have to give him a pass but Andrew Jackson was treated horribly

he was a great general and a good president so bad that his wife died I mean his wife died they were horrible but I just saw a report came out the other day I blow them away I blow he never got impeached twice

got impeached twice or nothing on a perfect phone call remember perfect phone call Tim Scott, who's a great guy, great, wonderful guy, South Carolina, straight guy, right? He is a good guy, good person. He's an honest person. He read a transcript. Thank goodness I had a transcript.

Essentially, the call was taped because they taped calls. I didn't even know. So was that call taped? Yes, sir. I said, oh, well, bring it down. I don't even know. And we read the transcript. It was perfect.

It was so good. I told Ukraine not to cheat. And if you see any cheating reported to the Attorney General of the United States, that was my call. They said, he was trying to intimidate. I said, don't cheat. And we have a signed agreement that Ukraine can't cheat.

You know that. It's the only country we have actually assigned. They violated the agreement many times I would tell you. You'll find out. I was right about that, too. But nobody's gotten treated. But this guy said to me, for you to have escaped. But the one thing, and I'll just end it,

because Jim Jordan back there, world champion wrestler, 128 and 1, whatever happened to the one guy? The Russian, how dare you lose to a Russian? Do you know the more impressive record? for Jim, because I'm a big sports person. I love sports. Jim went to high school. In high school, he was considered like the top wrestler, but he was undefeated in high school. Now, what that means is that as a freshman, he was beating seniors. Is that true? Were you actually under, seriously? Were you undefeated in high school? That means as a freshman, he had to beat seniors to you.

Nobody could, because there's such a difference between a freshman. than the senior. To me, that's more impressive than anything. But I'm also impressed with his fight. Now we have to close the deal, Jim. We got to close the deal. Close that deal. But I, but the right, so, you know, I respect,

I saw Jim, and the first time I met Jim, I looked at him, I said, tough looking guy. But I noticed the ears, they were a little rough. They were a little bit of a rough. Some people would say a little cauliflower, on that ear. They said, Jim, have you wrestled before? Yes, I did. Where? Was it Ohio State? Something like he was an all-American at Ohio State. I said, yeah, I could sort of tell. I look at the ears and I can sort of tell. But have you had plastic surgery on your ears, Jim, no? Because they look better now than they did the first time.

They've healed over the years. They've healed. Actually, now you're wrestling with probably much tougher people. the radical left lunatics, right? But anyway, so I just want to leave it by this. I want to say that you are great people. We have all of the policy. We have wonderful. Just stay together. You got a few people that make life very difficult.

They don't have that. I used to say they don't have a Mitt Romney in their midst. I mean, Mitt Romney was very difficult. You know, he was almost like for them. It was a very, on the Senate side. But we have a couple of people that are really bad. I mean, they're bad, but maybe they'll straighten out. Maybe somebody in the room can sit them down and straighten them out

because what we're doing is the right thing for the country. We're not Republican or Democrat or we're doing the right thing for the country. If you look at what we're trying to solve the health care problem. We're trying to get better health care at a lower price. I mean, that's a good thing, right? and the one thing I learned in just concluding and I said it like a month and a half ago and it was the number one thing in the country

even the fake news covered it they tried to put a negative spin on it of course I said I read a story about insurance companies making a fortune a fortune their stocks were up 1,700 percent who invested recently in the stock that's up 17 and that's because the money that they're getting from Obamacare is massive and the government generally that means they're making a fortune and as

soon as that because I'm like I have a natural I don't want to say it again but I have a natural business instinct I do I've always done things I've done some things that people said you're crazy and I made a lot of money with I've done a lot of things that were good I have an instinct right somebody said he's got the best political instincts of any politician in 150 years I said no I don't I really don't believe I do. I think I have good instincts. I have common sense, but they said it was a very complimentary statement, but I don't believe that necessarily, right?

But I do have good policy. I have good common sense, and maybe they wield that into instincts. And I did become president, so it can't be that bad, and I never did it before. Don't forget. I ran for president. I had a politician telling me very strongly, they say, sir, I've run for office

20 times and I've won 17 and I know what I'm talking about this was at the very beginning of my first time I said well I've only run once and I won but I won for president he said you got me in that one

he's actually sitting in this room right now that son of a gun he knows who I'm talking about he was giving me a hard time but he's turned out to be a decent person not the best in the room but the decent person he's not my favorite it in the room, but he's these. But we have one thing that's really strong. Uh-oh. It's a fake news. Bullet surprise, right, Dad? Pulitzer surprise. He got one for the bullet. He had the bullet.

But he got, how many Pulitzer Prize? Three Pulitzer surprises and all talented guys. These are great guys. I don't like the people back there. These are the ones to take the pictures. Make me look thin for a change, Doug. You're making me look. a little bit heavy I'm not happy about it but one thing I did see and find out in the last two months when you tell the people that we want the money to be paid to the people so the people can buy their own health insurance and health care it is it's like and I just said it and I said it because I read a story in the front page of a certain paper that I don't even

I mentioned because it's so stupid paper, it's so bad. It's gotten so far off the Wall Street Journal. I don't mention. I refuse to tell you, which I refuse to tell you that it's the Wall Street Journal. They've lost their way. This is not the Wall Street Journal of old. But I read a story on the Wall Street Journal, and I said that the insurance companies are making so much money. They weren't demeaning them or anything, and I guess as an investor, you have me.

When I read that, I said, wait a minute, they're making things. That kind of money, and they're making it because of stupid politicians, I hate to say, that we allow them to make it. If you guys can get in a room, because we don't have that as one of our issues. It's the only thing they have. They're lousy at it.

They came up with Obamacare. We tried to fight it. We almost had it one, but we didn't get three votes. We should have gotten them. But here's, you want to turn this thing. You work on favorite nations, you work on border, You work on all of the things that we talked about,

but now you take the healthcare issue away from them, and they want to fight it. You know why? They're all owned by the insurance companies, and they cannot fight it successfully. There's nothing they can do. That's like almost the voter ID thing. When they try and fight, I watched the guy trying to explain

why we shouldn't have voter ID the other day, and the guy was a fool, he looked like an idiot. This is the same kind of an issue. Let the money go in a health care account or however you do it. Let the money go directly to the people. Now, you have to be a little flexible on Hyde. You know that. You've got to be a little flexible.

You've got to work something. You've got to use ingenuity. You've got to work. We're all big fans of everything, but you've got to be flexible. You have to have flexibility. I came out with a statement, let the money go not to the big fat cats and the insurance companies that made 1,700 percent over the last short period of time, let the money go directly to the people where they can buy their own health care. And I don't think, I'm not sure that I've ever said anything that was more impactful.

You know, I say a lot of things and have a lot of good ideas. And this was an idea that, I mean, the whole world went crazy, the whole country went crazy, the world went crazy with envy. If you can somehow do that, Mr. Speaker, Tom, all of you, Steve, if you can do that, you're gonna have, this is gonna be your issue. And the other thing is fertilization. They're trying to hit us on fertilization.

They were dead on fertilization. When I got a call from a very, very wonderful young senator from Alabama saying they had just lost a case and the case I've never been met with such scorn. Friends of hers were just going crazy. And I said, explain the issue to me. And it was on IVF, the fertilization. A judge ruled against and said all fertilization places have to be closed down like immediately. It would have been a disaster. And fortunately, I picked it up, and we became, we own the issue. But now I understand they're trying to make a case on fertilization.

You can't let them do this. Very important issue. All of these issues are very important issues. But you can own health care. Figure it out. Let the money go directly to the people. It goes in a health care account. There are numerous things you can do, but you have to let no money for the insurance company.

You know, I'm going to meet with the insurance companies. I said, I'm going to meet with them because I met with the prescription drug companies. And that's when I found out what was going on with the fact that we were paying 10 and 13 and 14 times more money than Europe and other places. I learned that at the meeting. Now, I'm going to meet with them in a few days. I'm meeting with them all, 14 companies. I'm meeting with them all. I'm also meeting with oil companies.

Let's go. You know, you know what that's about. We've got a lot of oil to drill. which is going to bring down the old presses even further. But if you can come up with health care, remember this, where the money goes to the people, you have just owned, they can't fight it. They're owned by the insurance companies. You guys don't get money from the insurance companies.

They do. They get a massive amount of money. It's their biggest donor. They're going to try and fight you, but they can't win the fight. If you explain it, the money goes directly to the people, that's going to be your issue. The other thing is energy. Your energy prices have come so far down since I've been president. And nobody wants to, I saw on television, energy prices are down 3%.

No, they're not down 3%. There were $3.50 and $4. It's now $1.99 a gallon in many stations, many stations, and it's going down further. And that's like a massive tax cut. And that's the other thing, tax cuts. No tax on tips. No tax on Social Security. No tax on overtime.

Now, think of this. No tax on tips. No tax for seniors on Social Security. No tax on overtime. You're allowed to deductive you buy a car and you take out a loan on the car. For the first time ever, middle income people,

all people can deduct but they never got a deduction before like this they never it's only for rich people they got them they have so many deductions you're allowed to deduct the interest against your taxes nobody thought it was possible it's going to be phenomenal for the car companies but it's even more phenomenal for the people it's like getting a you know it's like paying half for the car all of these things you have so much ammunition all of these things you have so much ammunition all you have to do is sell it. Taxes, but the one thing they know about the taxes, the great big, I caught the great big beautiful bill. I think it's even better, but the great big, beautiful bill is just that. There are so many goodies in the bill. You have to get the word out because the

people in the back of the room won't do it. That's why I love live television, because they can't, well, sometimes they'll turn the camera off, but they're embarrassed when they do that. You know, if we're going too strong and doing too well, if the lights go off, you know, you know, you you're doing well. If the lights are on, you've got yourself a problem, okay? I see that little red light. That light goes on. If that light, that's bad, isn't it? If that light goes off, you know that you're doing a good job because you're fighting the Democrats and you're fighting the fake news. And it's amazing that they can be so stupid and they don't have credibility anymore and you can beat them. I mean, it's the old thing that, you know, never fight the

news, but you have no choice because it's almost like they become radicalized, but you are fighting the news, but you can beat him. That's why I'm standing here. I mean, I had Kamala. I was beating Joe by 30 points, and then they changed him. That's like a fighter in the ring. He's losing and so let's put somebody else in to take his place. Very unfair. They changed in the middle of the election. They said, he's going to lose, so let's give somebody else. And fortunately, she was just as bad as Tim, probably slightly. I don't know. Would you say it's bad or worse?

Close, pretty close. But it took six weeks. It was a honeymoon period, six weeks. It took six weeks to find out that you didn't have what it takes. But you've got to win the midterms. Because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be, I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached.

We don't impeach them, you know why? because they're meaner than we are. We should have impeached Joe Biden for 100 different things. They are mean and smart, but fortunately for you, they have horrible policy. They can be smartest can be. But when they want open borders, when they want, as I said, men and women sports, when they want transgender for everyone,

bring your kids in, we're going to change the sex of your child, Just send them our way. In some cases, like in Minnesota, they don't even tell the parents, is that right? And nobody believes it when I said. I think we have six states. Nobody, am I correct? Okay, Tom Emmer said yes, so. But it's true.

Where the kid comes back, they keep the kid, they operate on the kid, they don't tell the parents. It's not believable. We have great, solid common sense policy. They have horrendous policy. What they do is they stick together. They never have a no vote. They impeached me. I never knew I was going to be impeached.

I get a phone call. You just got impeached. I said, what does that mean? It took them 10 minutes. They impeached the president of the United. Who did a damn good job? I rebuilt our military, space force. I got everything.

I did a lot. They impeached me for nothing. Twice. And nothing. Fortunately, you were on our side and we were unanimous. And the second time, the few people in this little group, like rice and this, they're all gone. Every one of them is gone, except one that we're going to sort of let ride with. Some guy that has a state that you might as would just let them ride.

But think of it, everyone's gone. Everyone's good. It makes me feel so good. I don't want to feel vicious, but I'm so happy that everyone. And they're seriously gone, too. They lost in the landslots. This guy named Rice, he lost by 48 points, right? Remember him?

Oh, no, there he is. What a job you did, Mr. Fry, Congressman Fry. I looked around for somebody. It's true. This was a good choice. We made some bad choices, too, because you have to do it. I said, who the hell can run against this guy, Rice? It was a Trump plus 40 district.

they had riots around his house that night you know he voted I vote to a beach and that night they had riots so they said who the hell just give me somebody a warm body and then and then

no no it has to be a living breathing person and then if I could get a genius it would be good and we got a guy who is so good he's been I think Are you happy with him? I think so. Stand up, bro.

He's great. I said, where does he come from? He's like a senator, state senator or something. I said, I spoke to him one time. I said, you're accepted. But little did I realize how good he was good. You did a great job. You've done a great job, and the people love him.

So he has done a great job. I just want to say this. I haven't read one word on this thing. Who the hell else could do this? And I think I gave you something. you something, it's just a roadmap, and it's a road map to victory. You have so many good nuggets. You have to use them. If you can sell them, we're going to win. Because we've won two races in like 50 years. It's, for whatever reason, I don't know why, but just don't fight it.

It doesn't make sense. They've been two, and they were unusual circumstances. So whether it's a Republican or Democrat, whoever wins the presidency, the other party wins the midterm, And it doesn't make sense because we've had the most successful year, probably in the history. They say, and now you add what happened essentially yesterday, we've had the most successful first year of any president in history. And it should be a positive and make it a positive. So with that, I leave you, I do. And I started by saying, I love you all. And I'll end by saying, I love you.

You're amazing people. What you do for this country is incredible. And thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. That was amazing. What is it?

It is 1135 a.m. We have been live with me speaking exactly 10 words for an hour and a half, 90 minutes. That's fine. Welcome to the Benny show. That was unbelievable. Trump. It's called The Weave. It's the Weave.

You got to get back to the point. President Trump, Caroline Lovett, saying, tune in this morning. We got bangers for you. You got the White House reaching out to us in the middle of all of this saying, get ready. We are going to be dropping some heaters today. We got so much going on.

Let's start with California fraud because we've got to jump in. And then President Trump talking a lot about January 6th. We've got a blast through the show here. We're going to have to make some cuts, make a few changes, but we got you locked in for the next 30 minutes. Let's just rock and roll. We are going to California next week. What are we going to be doing in California?

A lot, actually. We're going to be doing fraud investigation in California. California, based on all available data and based on the president's administration, which launched a California fraud investigation today on the DOJ, but then President Trump also posting on Truth Social about the fraud, please grab that asset, has inspired us to devote our. are significant resources on this program significant because of you to going and exposing this fraud. Now, this wouldn't be the first time that we've gone to California. We've gone to California

four, five, nine times. We got robbed in California. We've exposed the collapse of that society. We've exposed the collapse of what's happening throughout the state. And we've done it at scale. And it's worked. People want to track this because what happens in California, the way that that state goes is what the left has planned for all of us. So this, ladies and gentlemen, is what is inspiring us. Minnesota, obviously, they're getting gutted right now. Chrissy Noem, for instance, is on the ground in Minnesota today. She's doing raids today in Minneapolis.

So that story has been broken, and Nick Shirley did as good as any single individual can do. Nick Sotor, also a friend of the show, following up with the reporting there. So two Knicks, Knicks Squared, doing great work in Minnesota. We still want to do some work in Minnesota, but with Tim Walls' political career over, we don't feel the same level of urgency that we once did to get there. But here we go, ladies and gentlemen, President Trump on California this morning. And then Klein, you got to keep my tweet up, bro. We got to read through the tweet.

California under Governor Gavin Newscom is more corrupt than Minnesota. If that is possible, fraud investigation in California has. begun and thank you for your attention to this matter was president trump talking about our tweet sent at the exact same time 820 this morning i don't know i don't know but i can tell you this uh we are going to be going out there with some administration officials we will be going out there with the um well let's say the full weight and support of the federal taxpayer behind us saying we are going to stop the fraud because it's all of our dollars it's not just california dollars being wasted so much this money is federal money it's your money that's being squandered

in California. Some of the top line here, state auditor found $70 billion in taxpayer funds have been lost. That's the state auditor. That's a Democrat. This is a position that is elected and then staffed through the Democrat federal, to the Democrat governor of California. So if it's $70 billion from the Democrats, and they're saying they lost $70 billion, what's the real number? $24 billion was spent on a non-existent homeless program in Los Angeles, $18 billion poured into a non-existent high-speed rail. Maybe we'll just go there. We should just go to, we should go to that location. What's stopping us from driving to that, that like two mile or two feet stretch of high-speed rail that they built? Let's do that, killer climb. Let's go there. 32 billion in COVID relief funds

stolen. 2.5 billion lost in SNAP fraud. We got all of the friends in the federal government has these numbers. We know every head of every single agency and we are going to rock and roll. And of course, billions have been spent rebuilding after the palisides fire, but there's been no homes built so what exactly are they doing ladies and gentlemen our california tip line fraud at bennie johnson.com fraud at bennie johnson.com we this post has been up for like an hour 90 minutes this post has been up and we've already gotten thousands of emails some of them from high level state officials politicians members of congress and their staff fraud at bennie johnson dot com we are going to go into the belly of the beast and it's going to be biblical and this is how we

create a durable movement this is what this channel is set up for we have always done our uh our role our job our responsibility in independent journalism as best as we possibly can last year we exposed aOC and jasmine crockett and now nobody can even talk about jasmine crockett without talking about her fake accent and where she actually comes from in st louis it's been remarkable it's been amazing to see what just a little bit of effort to tell a true story and the truth shall set you free and so that's what we're going to do in the state of california god bless all of you thank you for supporting our show thank you for supporting our program we will be out here fighting in these streets for you taking the power of this channel the power of this audience

in making the country that we all wish to live in. That's how it's done, ladies and gentlemen. Okay, so that's the top line news for the day. I mean, we have so much more to cover President Trump talking a lot about January 6th. And more importantly, President Trump talking a little bit about what he's going to do to stiffen the spines of Republicans in 2026.

Before we get to our – before we get to our two honored guests today, and we had quite a show booked out, and we've been very thankful for the patience. President Trump, you never know if he's going to go 90 minutes without like even reading a single word off his teleprompter, which he just did. Remarkable. I got to tell you, it has been a wild new year for us. One of my challenges to myself in the new year is going to be to increase. the amount of protein that I eat. My wife is a nurse, and she is very much locked in on ensuring that instead of snacking junk, I am eating protein. Paleo Valley helps me do that with beef jerky.

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Use the code Benny at checkout for 15%. your first purchase, that's paleovalley.com slash Benny, use code Benny at checkout. All right. Somebody who didn't need any help, lifting a podium on January 6th, was the great lectern man. And we are honored, actually, to have, for the first time, I believe, on our program. Yeah, is that correct? Yes, for the first time on our program, Adam Johnson, otherwise known as lectern guy.

a client do you have the famous photo do we not have the famous photo in the script no do we not have the there it is right there it's in the script climb it's in the script climb it's in the script climb that's right anyway ladies and gentlemen lectern man is here to honor

January 6th with his I guess what we would call meme gold here something that has been turned into 100 million memes and so be it that It is January 6th. Let's go talk to electric guy.

Adam, what's up? Dude. Hey, Benny. How you doing? Yeah, I'm like, I'm sitting here going, wait a second. Why didn't we get like the top 50? Why don't we do a meme? Let's do a meme review. I am, I am demanding right now. We are the only show on that streams that has a full-time meme team. I want 50 memes of this that has been. made, and including the one of Trump walking away with Venezuela, which I just saw that was going viral. And we'll do a live meme review, a live lectern meme review. Okay, so this day has a significance to you, Adam.

And you've also had quite a ride since grabbing the lectern there. Some people say it was Nancy Pelosi's lectern. Was it, in fact, Nancy Pelosi's lectern? No, that is the people's lectern. We paid for that. We built that. It is ours. Yes.

And you now build lecterns, actually, right? I do. I do. I built them for charity. The DOJ had a stipulation in my plea deal saying that I could not profit off of my crime for five years. So I got permission to build these little lecterns here. And we sold them on eBay. We auctioned them off and we gave all of the proceeds to families who were wrongfully persecuted by the DOJ. Oh, that's unbelievable. I need to go buy one. Goodness. And I think it'll make for a great, I think there's great room in the studio for a teeny little lector. And this may perhaps we're all. put my coffee every single morning. Okay, so tell me, you heard Donald Trump sitting there railing on Nancy Pelosi. This got to make, like, this has got to warm your heart just a little bit today because obviously the tides have turned. You've gotten a commutation or a pardon by the president. And this is something that, you know, has been probably the most significant and drastic narrative shift over the last five years in American history.

right? That is absolutely correct. And I think that people are finally ready to hear the truth about this on the left and right. We came out of Fulton County a few weeks ago. I sent that to a couple of my friends who were liberals who basically wrote me all for five years. And I show them like, look, you know, I'm sorry it took so long to provide this for you, but here it is. And a handful of them did apologize, which was nice five years later, you know, but we are marching forward. I do believe the truth will continue to come out. And I'm just, I'm here for it. So you were talking about the Fulton County, they counted essentially fraudulent ballots, hundreds of thousands of them, right? $315,000 fraudulent ballots. That had to have gone at least 97% in one direction because Trump

only lost Georgia by 12,000 votes. So, I mean, people had a right to be upset on January 6th, right? Absolutely. You know, when my kids are doing something wrong and I suspect something is doing wrong, and they say, please don't go look in there. Usually means I should go look in there. When they're boarding up windows. I mean, that should have been just the number one reason why we should be looking when they started kicking out ballot watchers, when they said, we're having, you know, leaks and pipes. Where's the work order for the leak for the pipe? Right? We don't have any of these things. Everyone knew what was going on. Everyone. Yes, that's right. I do remember. I was watching from, I was watching from the Trump Victory Party. It was inside the Trump

hotel in D.C. And they closed down the party. They shut all the lights off because they said, well, we've all stopped counting. And it's like, wait a second. Dude, I'm in my 30s. I've seen a lot of elections. What do you mean you stopped counting? What does that mean exactly? That's never happened. I just stopped counting. No, it was definitely not the status quo. And I think they really wanted to continue with that product. And I don't think we're going to see that ever again. I think there are too many people that are invested in politics now because it really does affect their day-to-day life. I think it woke a lot of people up. And I think sending all of us to prison on misdemeanor charges really, really helped rally people understand that. The government is

willing and will come after you if you ever go to the ivory tower and say enough yes that's right okay so let's just talk really quickly i've been wanting you to come on the program we've had plenty of j-sixers on the program and talking through their stories but since yours is so iconic right here we got your post up i believe is from today um show up for the job you want uh why don't you talk me through can you talk me through that day like um you know this is obviously become a very popular meme template Absolutely. So I had never voted before in my life. I heard Trump was running, so I voted for him. 2020 came around and I voted again. I showed up to my first Trump rally. And, you know, we're all standing around.

It was pretty much just a little get together. We're all kind of frustrated with how things were going in the country and how things went with the election. We were told you can march down to the Capitol, continue to protest. So we did. By time I got there, everyone was just standing around. We were singing the national anthem. And then they started macing us and pepperballing us. When this happened, I don't particularly like being maced or shot at. So I walked away from that. I noticed that everyone was walking inside the building. So I thought, oh, that's where the protest is going. And historically, people have protested in that building.

I mean, it's happened a dozen times since January 6th. So I didn't think anything of it. I walked inside. We were going through velvet ropes. You know, police officers were taking selfies with us. The lectern, this is one of the biggest lies that they propagated from day one. They said that I stole it, that I broke down someone's door, and I took this piece of furniture home.

First of all, how? How can I have taken that home? And they had video evidence exonerating me of this that they actually hid from me while I was going through my trial, going through the process. So it never left the building. It was sitting out in the open.

I moved it 20 feet. This picture that you see, they were photographers there. They were taking pictures. So I smiled and waved. And that's the whole history. I set it down and left. So you, just moved it 20 feet there were people with uh cameras in place to capture everything from you

to jacob chansley it seemed like it was all a setup it seems like it was all design like you just said police officers were taking selfies with you and were welcoming you into the building what was yes adam uh well i can tell you that i got lost in the building because i'd never been to the capital before and an officer actually gave me directions how to leave he was very nice very polite, very friendly. You know, that body cam footage hasn't popped up anywhere yet. But I mean, everyone was just walking around. This was not the violence that we saw that day. And there was a hand, there was a little bit of violence outside. Those things did happen, whether they were, you know, push shoved or, you know, forced to do these things. And it's a different conversation. But inside,

people were not being violent. We were walking around. Now, for this photo, I was charged with felony theft because they said the lectern was over $1,000. It cost me $100,000 in, uh, you know, an attorney fees to fight this this this false felony and uh part of that too was uh the government said i couldn't raise any money to help pay for my attorneys wait how can they say that that seems like kind of a country do we live in because that's what biden's doj was ordered to do and that's what they were tolerated allowed to do i just don't even know how that's even remotely legal i mean are you even are you considering any type of restitution actions against a government But as you just said, clearly hid evidence that you were exonerated from these charges?

I have reached out to a handful of high-profile attorneys and no one wants to take the case. J6 is still kind of toxic for a lot of people in their careers. In the meantime, I do have a website. I did write a book. I'll make sure you get a copy. It is called Taking a Stand. And it's on my website at unlicensed Furnituremovers.com. I encourage you guys to go there and get a copy of the book if you want to hear what actually happened.

What is your parting message to Nancy Pelosi? You know, Donald Trump just did a number on her. But it seems like there was a concerted effort to destroy your life. And if that effort came from one person in particular, certainly it was Nancy Pelosi, the January 6th committee. And there was a considerable amount of fraudulence inside of those committees. And hiding of evidence, as you just said, you were a victim of that. parting message to quote the great lord mike davis justice is coming all right uh just to follow

up on that mike's talked with me a little bit and talked a little bit on the show about potential restitution from the doj uh you may not have to sue there may be wrongful conviction restitutions and there's a massive fund for that um have you heard anything about that or any potential because you know listen these what the what you just laid out is like the nightmare scenario that thousands of other J-6ers went through. They hid the evidence. They charged you maximally for minimal discretions, if any, discretions. You were the victim, actually, and turned into the villain that day. And it all seemed to be done for theater, right? Like, if you follow Jacob Chansley's story, it's like obvious. They just selected him for central casting. They took that photo of you,

and they like, that was a plastered never newspaper in the world. And, right? Like, this is the front of New York Times. And I mean, while that's like epic and funny, in retrospect, you had to go through it. I know you have a family. You have a beautiful family. How many kids you got? Five sons. Yes. That's right. That's right. So you're like you were facing prison time, right? Like, they were talking about 20 years initially. And you know, I heard all this on the news and I called my wife and I said, look, I don't expect you to wait around for 20 years. You know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't ask you to do that. And she told me I was being completely stupid that we, um, that we made a vow to each other, and she was going to honor that however long it would take.

We sat down and talked to the kids and said, you know, Dad may be going away for a little bit, but, you know, I will come home. I will be back. It was one of the most difficult things we ever had to do. We had a fantastic attorney, so we ended up beating the felony theft and the misdemeanor violent entry charge, and the government settled on, what was it, misdemeanor trespassing, and I got 75 days in federal prison board.

Misdemeanor trespassing. Oh, the team knows what the video. I want to play right now, but we're up against a hard out. It's the video of Nancy Pelosi saying trespassing at the Capitol. I've been waiting for this. Dude, it was like all a setup. Pelosi said it during January 6th. What speaker of the house says trespassing at the Capitol, I've been waiting for this?

You know, she said it in her own documentary. Yes, her daughter was filming a documentary that day at the Capitol. You know, she's on camera also talking about, you know, these people are going to get prosecuted, but they really shouldn't. Like, there's all this. There's so much to the story. It's wicked. It's wicked. I did, I did just want to pin down. Do you think that you will ever get restitution potentially from the government for a wrongful prosecution? You know, there's quite a fund for that. The government would first have to admit that what they did was wrong and they are not, historically speaking, that typically does not happen. So while it would be nice, it be a good windfall, we could definitely use it. I don't, I don't see it happening.

All right. Really quickly here, I've been wanting. to do this for a long time and i i hope that you'll stick with me uh adam my team has loaded up dozens of uh you dozens of you as a me so i just want to go through them very quickly here uh let's let's let's let's begin here um i don't really i don't really understand what the context of that is let's keep going okay i can do better there you go all right okay this is okay this is not again let's keep going all right here again there you go all right trump walking away with venezuela man trump in canada that's not bad yeah this is uh probably coming next i prefer greenland okay that's right here you are with maduro uh this is um i don't i don't know what this yeah put a bikini on it

grok i guess that that's the that's the joke here okay good okay keep going franklin takes a walk i like You're Franklin. That's an honor. All right. And so Mexican Hakeem Jeffries. This one's good. President Trump, what are you going to do with the oil tanker? He's just going to take him. See ya. Okay. Very good. You and Jimmy Kimmel. All right. Not bad. Ricky Jervase showing up to the Oscars. Okay. This is very cultural moment. I've not seen that one. Okay. And a final one here, Adam Kinzinger with his tissues. Okay. Very good. Crying Adam Kinzinger. Well, Adam, we just want to say on this January 6th, we say thank you for the me material. We are sorry for everything that you went through. Here's the website, by the way, on licensed furniture movers. I'm amazed in how you've gone through this with such spree decor and humor. It's an inspiration, quite frankly, to all of us.

We're glad that you beat the federal government, and we will do anything in our power to make sure that restitution is paid to people like you who were sitting there having to have a conversation with their kids. that you might be facing 20 years. I mean, the emotional toll of that man, I'm a father too, that's atrocious. What happened to you was evil. We'll do everything to support you and make it right. God bless you, man.

Thanks for you all, Betty. Thank you. Everyone follow the lectrin guy right here. He's got 120,000 subscribers. God bless you, Adam. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. is a long time favored and favorite guests on the program. He's getting ready right now.

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and sticking with us today i'm not sure if you picked up on president trump's lines about nancy pelosi in january 6th during his speech there in congress and but quite a difference in the way that this is being remembered and recognized, then the Biden era, Donald Trump, going directly at Nancy Pelosi and her documentary team and her hiding of evidence and Nancy Pelosi's actions on January 6th. I'm sure that must have been music to your ears

because you've been quite a critic of Nancy Pelosi. Well, for me, it's just all about making sure that we're getting the facts out and I'm sure he sees the facts as well as everyone else. And he, in corporate sentiment, to his speech as he always does, but yeah, it was quite a speech. That's for sure. But yeah, I'm happy he's mentioning it. I'm happy it's still out there and being investigated. There's still a lot of lessons learned to be taken away from January 6th.

And I'll tell you the guest you just had on, Adam Johnson. The one takeaway I'll have from his interview with you is everyone has a vested interest in politics. If nothing else comes out of January 6th, hopefully there's just a new, you know, renowned interest in politics. politics by the American people. Yes, that's exactly right because it changes, it can change everything. And there are thousands of Americans. And I want to always remember this on the program. There are dozens of Americans who committed suicide because they knew that the January 6th

committee and the commissions and the DOJ were coming after them. And this is something that destroyed lives, that harmed families, and was totally preventable. as you have detailed on this program. But at risk of sounding like a broken record, given the fact that today is January 6th, could you please go through really quickly here? How could this have been prevented that day? Yeah, and real quick, if I just comment on the suicide,

you know, this has been an impactful event, both on law enforcement and on the people that were down there. I mean, you had some suicides in law enforcement, but I still talk to officers that day that just, you know, they can't believe the situation they're put in. So yeah, absolutely could have been prevented. There's two key things that I talk about. One, hopefully, has been corrected.

The intelligence we were getting was bad intelligence. If we had gotten proper intelligence, it would have supported my advance request for the National Guard on January 6th. We would have had, you know, National Guard, unarmed National Guard around the perimeter like we've used many times before. I've used them with D.C. police. We've used them with the Capitol. We wouldn't have had the issue up there. Congress has already come out and said most likely if they had approved my request on January 3rd, the outer perimeter would have never been breached. we wouldn't be here talking.

That was number one. I think they corrected that issue, hopefully with the intelligence, with new people in there and handling it. The second was the politicization of security on Capitol Hill. You had a Capitol Police Board that all voting members were politically appointed. That still exists today with the oversight of four really politically aligned to oversight committees. That still exists today.

And I still think there's way too much politics that play a role in how security is handled on the Hill. You know, when you have a law enforcement chief that has 30 years of law enforcement experience and it's saying, hey, I want this type of fence or I want to put my officers in hard gear and you're having staffers, you know, override your decisions through the Capitol Police Board. That's unacceptable. You can't let that happen. Yes, that's crazy. That's actually the first time I've heard that. So there's politically appointed board that says what you can and cannot do. That's wild. Yeah, the Capitol Police Board, you know, they're the ones that, you know, when I went

to, I had to go to them by law to request bringing in any resources for my officers. That's why I was getting denied. That's a federal law. I'm happy to say that based on my testimony, that Congress now is now unanimously voted to change that law. They changed 11 months after January 6th and now it gives the chief that authority to bring in resources, but Congress, the leadership can still override. It's kind of funny.

But yeah, you do. It's way too politicized the oversight. So when you think of any law enforcement agency and you think of kind of the top of the pyramid as the chief, that's not. the case it is with Capitol Police. You have a Capitol Police board, you know, three politically appointed people that all have the votes. The one person that doesn't have a vote on the board is the chief of police, the person with the most experience and he doesn't even have a vote for how his own agency is run. It's just, it's crazy. Do you know Michael Byrd? Because there's some Michael Bird

reporting out this morning that I suppose shouldn't shock anyone, but he's now caught up in this whole fake daycare scandal. It turns out that he's gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars from the feds for running a daycare out of him and his wife's house. And this is after he killed Ashley Babbitt in cold blood and had also, of course, as we have noted, a very long record of leaving his firearm in bathrooms available to in areas where children were getting tours at the Capitol. This seems like a deeply incompetent man and somebody who is very unstable never got any punishment. Yeah, so someone had sent me some information about that new reporting coming out about the daycare other than, you know, the limited interactions I would have had with them with my time

at Capitol Police and the incident with the firearm being left was before I was chief up at the Capitol. So yeah, that's limited, limited knowledge of that. But yeah, it's interesting when you see some stuff that comes out. Hopefully this will be investigated. You don't know what, you know, what's out there. It'll be interesting to find out what happens. Based on your rules of engagement inside of the Capitol, I'm sure you've seen the Ashley Babbitt murder.

Should that have happened? Should Michael Byrd have faced actual consequences for killing an unarmed protester in cold blood? Or was that something that was by the book? So the one thing I'd ask is you got to understand. I think we've talked about this before, Benny. The fact is, you know, January 7th, you know, I'm literally forced to resign and stripped out of my office. When I say stripped out of my office, I literally was moved out of my office over that following weekend. So, you know, usually the chief of police is going to have, you know, involvement in an investigation, the use of force, what they call the Ufer investigation.

Then, you know, you were going to bring in D.C. police because it was a homicide to do the investigation. We would have worked closely with them. I had none of that. So for me to really go back and kind of, you know, really. re-litigate that or give my opinion without having the ability to look at what I think any chief of police would have access to to give that type of a recommendation or a comment on it. It's just, you know, having that stripped away from me, I feel, you know, not at ease at making comments on that. It's, my thing is, any death is bad. I don't like any loss of life.

It's sad that we had any loss of life that day. The, um, The fact that we had 1,700 police officers come in, and they all, you know, really used, you know, for the most part, showed a lot of strength in how they applied force. And especially when that evening, I had members of Congress screaming at me for why I didn't order my officers to open fire. I can tell you, I'm just, I'm so glad more, there wasn't more loss of life that day. And it's sad we have any loss of life. Just on the, let's just say, just given the details that we know. know of the Ashley Babbitt murder and not like using any names or, you know, any, any of the surrounding circumstances. There's, there's clearly rules of engagement, though, right, for armed

officers. Do you believe that those were followed in that instance? So any, any rule of engagement, every officer that uses lethal force is responsible for, you know, every round that leaves the barrel of their gun. So he has to somehow come out. and validate why he used that level of force at that time. Again, I don't know what his statements were to investigators. I believe there on this case, there wasn't a grand jury. So again, we don't have that to go back on. You look at it and you say, you know,

this is a protest that was going on or riot that was going on for approximately two hours when it finally had gotten to the innermost sanctum of the capital penetrating the last barrier down there before you get to some of the protective that he has, the members of Congress, it's a shame. One, I wish it had never gotten to that point. You know, if they had listened to me from the very beginning, and again, Benny,

I think about this on a daily basis. If they had just listened to me on January 3rd, we wouldn't be here right now. We wouldn't be dealing with that loss of life. We wouldn't be dealing with these injuries. We wouldn't be dealing with officers. I know that while I was friends with that have committed suicide. That's, you know, that's just a terrible thing. I wish we weren't here for that or those reasons.

That's right, and there were so many things that could have been done to prevent it. And you were the guy who was sitting there righteously asking for everything from the National Guard to Nancy Pelosi to pick up the phone, pick up the damn phone during January 6th. None of that happened. You were the one who was punished for it, which is very strange. Do you consider yourself a Patsy, Chief? No, I know, I don't. You know, I'm still trying to figure out why when, you know, know my officers are dealing with that stuff on the west front for 71 minutes. I'm repeatedly

denied by Pelosi's team. It's, you know, her Sergeant Arms that repeatedly denying me while he says he's, quote, running it up the chain. I repeatedly tried to get that. When I couldn't get that assistance, even though I was restricted by law to U.S. 1970, I went ahead and started calling every chief of police I knew to send in resources, even though technically it's probably a violation of federal law. So, no, I don't consider myself a patency. I'm going to do whatever I need to do to try to secure the building and try and protect my officers. It is a shame how it turned out that day. But again, if I was faced with that situation again,

I would have done the exact same thing. Oh, I don't, what I mean is, what I mean is like, do you think that they pinned it on you in order to cover up for their own malevolence or incompetence? I mean, it seems like you are one of the few people who actually was punished for something that wasn't your fault. You were the guy trying to do the right thing. Isn't that amazing how it works in Washington, D.C.?

You're only punished if you're the guy trying to do the right thing. If you're the person telling the truth, you get punished. If you're the liars or the criminals, you get promoted. And that seems to have happened. It's not just my word. Look at the video. And there was a time I was really angry at first. What was the, Alexandra Pelosi there filming?

I'm so glad she was there filming because some of that film has come out to support me in a number of cases. but you look at members of her staff talking to her about firing chief son, about calling for his resignation on national TV and a press conference, coordinating those actions, you know, behind the scenes with her as she's driving over the capital. 100%. That was a coordinated effort. Yeah, you're looking at the one guy that tried to prevent it in advance, try to prevent it while it was happening, and the one guy that was held accountable by the administration up on the hill.

And I do think it was a concerted effort. All you got to do is watch Alexander Pelosi's video to see that's the case. That's right. And as we've seen that and as we've played those clips, it's become demonstrable that Nancy Pelosi at the very least is guilty of gross negligence and incompetence and at worst, malevolence in wanting this to happen. As she said so herself on that day, I've been waiting for this trespassing at the U.S. Capitol. We have the clip right here. Give me sound on this for just one moment. They told him they don't have the resources to protect him here. So at the moment he is not coming, but that could check him. I'll be coming. I'm going to punch him out. This is my mom I'm waiting for this for trespassing on the Capitol ground. Anyway, I mean, obviously we've played that before.

In closing here, Chief Sunday, I just wanted to, people are looking for some type of accountability. for the cover-up of January 6, for the incompetence that led to all of this. As we have detailed and as you have so much documented evidence, it wasn't you. It was Pelosi's leadership and potentially Mariel Bowser, who stood and allowed the capital to be completely and totally overrun and a riotous mob to form. What would you like to see happen with Nancy Pelosi? just world, right? If you were the viceroy of D.C., what would be happening in Nancy Pelosi right now? Well, you know, regardless of it's Nancy Pelosi or who it is, I think what people

want, like you to talk about, accountability. They want a clear just accounting of what happened that day. Who did what? Who's that fault? Regardless of where the fault lies. I mean, for her, you know, it would have been great if she had just done a little bit of research before she went on national TV and destroyed a law enforcement career. So, you know, you know, I just, I wish she hadn't done that, but without knowing the facts. And even today, I know for a fact, she knows those facts and she won't correct the record. So I wish she would. But besides that, I think the American people just want a clear accounting of what actually happened.

Let's look at this, you know, from start to finish, come up with a good after action, why did it occur, how to prevent it again in the future. What are the lessons learned? I think there's many, you know, whether it's from leadership, you know, crisis management, communications. and that's what people want. They want an actual after action that they can stand behind that. They say, okay, this isn't political. We're going to actually prevent this from happening again. Yeah, I mean, I think that there's some major frustration even with the pipe bomber arrest

where none of that makes sense and nobody's come out and explained any of it. And so it's like that just doesn't make any sense to us. And it'd be nice to get that authoritatively and with the actual evidence. Oh, one hundred percent agree, especially when you find out the pipe bomber was arrested on evidence that has been in existence for years. All you got to do is ask yourself if there was never an administrative change at the FBI, would this case have been closed even today? Of course not. Absolutely. Of course not.

And Jay Sixers would all be back, would all be back in prison. And I'd probably be in prison, right? Because I went to Trump speech. And they were planning on just wrapping up anybody who was in D.C. that day that had a MAGA hat on. So, yeah, it is, we are thankful for God's grace and providence on this January 6th and for this new leadership. What a change leadership can make, you should follow a true leader, Chief Stephen Sonny, who's been completely and totally brave on this issue, spoken out and attacked for it, sacrificed greatly for it. He has nearly 100,000 followers here, subscribers on X.

You should be one of them, a man who's constantly speaking the truth and ratioing Nancy Pelosi. So God bless you, sir. We hope you ratio Hillary Clinton today. If I may, like, you should go and look at Hillary Clinton's timeline. She has this like wretched tweet up about January 6th. And you did this is this is ripe for the taking. Here it is. Here it is right here.

Yeah. Yeah, there you go. So yeah, if you want you if you if you're looking for some engagement, you should, you should send a banger. I guess Hillary Clinton today. I'll have to take a look at it. But again, thanks for all this, Fort Benning. And God bless you and your viewers. And good luck in California.

Thank you. Thank you. God bless you, Chief. All right, ladies and gentlemen, some good news that broke on our show yesterday. And just a really quick wrap up here. Despite statements, Minnesota Hilton is still banning DHS and ICE agents. The news broke yesterday that from Trisha McLaughlin on our program that DHS and ICE agents were being refused by a Hilton property and that is a franchise property and the Hilton corporate account first went to the property owners and said, don't do this. You're not allowed to do this.

It's also probably illegal, frankly. They also provided us with receipts here. and an independent journalist, Nick Sotor, went to the property and found out that after they had released a statement saying, no, no, no, we're sorry. This is just a mistake that actually there was still in place a policy to ban ICE and DHS agents. He released that video yesterday. That video, it's right here, clip D, Klein. That video went viral and then got the hotel in huge trouble. Now, Hilton is out with a new statement saying that the franchisees have lost their franchise.

Hilton is out with a new statement this morning. Nope, not that one. But the brand new corporate statement saying we are finished with the franchisee. It's in my timeline, though. Sometimes it's hard to follow the news of the news cycle, and there's a lot going on. So, ladies and gentlemen, the Hilton corporate account is, uh, again on my timeline.

Yeah. That's all right. There it is. Thank you. So Hilton out saying the franchise has been struck and stripped. And we are not going to be messing with people who ban Trump administration officials or law enforcement officials. So a very good move here by Hilton. I would think perhaps more to come from that brand.

Quite a bit of damage control to be done yesterday. And we're glad because I like Hilton. And I've been a Hilton, you know, you got to choose hotels to stay at and we travel a lot. And so I've been staying at Hilton's for a long time, and I hated to see this story yesterday. It made me very, very mad. And it makes me very glad that they are taking this kind of action and doing what is absolutely the right thing, right?

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And why don't we end on a happy note here? Polymarket, checking the polls. Rubio and Venezuela. Very interesting stuff here. Let's go. You will see here the Republican presidential nominee and still firmly in the grips of J.D. Vance, but Marco Rubio has come shooting up in the odds because of how successful his stint has been at the Department of State. I just don't think that there's a single overperformer that could take the

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