The Dan Bongino Show - A Shocking Revelation About What's Coming Next | Episode 35

Episode Date: May 2, 2025

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We've got a lot of great topics to jump into, but we have news right now out of this trade war between China and the United States that is starting to definitely go our way. I will break down all of the latest developments there and how the president of the United States does have the Chinese Communist Party in a headlock right now.

Pretty good stuff, including some things that your media, our media not talking about at all. I will get into that. Also, Tom Homan, have you seen what he's up to? He was asked a really important question and the look on his face gave us some really amazing answers this week. We've got that.

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Hey, let's talk about what's going on in the world with China right now, fellas, because China, there's an amazing piece of information coming out overnight that China is now ready to start talking. China is ready to start talking. Here's what we have from China. China says that they want to make a deal. As of this morning. They say that they're assessing US talks now,

and they're hinting at a possible thaw. Look at this from Bloomberg this morning. China says it's assessing US talks, hinting at possible thoughts. China said it is now assessing the possibility of trade talks with the United States, the first sign since Donald Trump hiked tariffs last month, that negotiations could begin between the two sides. China's Commerce Ministry said in a Friday statement that it has noted senior US officials have repeatedly expressed their willingness to talk to Beijing about tariffs

and they're now urging officials in Washington to show sincerity towards China. The ministry saying, quote, the US has recently sent messages to China through relevant parties hoping to start talks with China. China is currently evaluating this. Now you can tell by the way they've written this statement, they're making it seem like that it's America who is desperate to come to the table here. We are desperate to get a deal going with China. That is not the case.

It is China who has so much more to lose here in this relationship, so dependent on access to the US market. And now China is begging to get to the negotiating table while trying to save face in a statement like that. They want relief. And here is why. We are watching the economic indicators this week leading to massive, massive upset in China. China is having trouble.

I told you earlier this week that China's factory activity has slowed down to 16 month lows. Take a look at this. CNBC report, China's factory activity has dropped to nearly two year lows in April in the midst of these trade tariffs that the president has imposed on them,

has reciprocated on them as a result of China's war on the United States. China's manufacturing activity has fallen more than expected to a 16-month low, sliding into contractionary territory in April, as the escalating trade war with the United States hurts bilateral trade. China's factory activity has contracted beyond even expectations, meaning right now, things are slowing to a dramatic halt inside of China, which has a massive, massive population of people who work for ungodly low wages at these factories inside of communist-run China,

and they've got nothing to work on, and they're not getting paid. China and they've got nothing to work on and they're not getting paid. The money's not coming in and nothing is being built. Something really, really big is happening right now in China. So big that it includes angry Chinese workers now taking to the streets of China. China daily caller headline. China erupts furious workers riot as factories collapse under Trump's tariffs. So, so listen here.

What is going on in my head? Fellas. Hold up a second. Okay, I don't know what the hell's going on in my ears. Can the audience audience is not hearing feedback here, right? I got, okay. I don't know what the hell's going on in my ears. Can the audience, the audience is not hearing feedback here, right? I don't think they are. It was just me. Okay.

Sorry about that. I just need to apologize. I'm getting weird feedback loops today. Here we have workers throughout China are flooding the streets in revolt as US president Donald Trump's tariffs slam the fragile Chinese export economy. From the cramped streets of Sichuan in the southwest to the cold outskirts of inner Mongolia

in the northeast, furious workers are demanding back pay and protesting mass layoffs as factories shutter under pressure from Trump's tariffs. Outside an LED light manufacturing plant near Shanghai, thousands of unpaid workers shouted furiously at company managers over wages that have not been paid since January. In central China's Dao County, a similar scene has unfolded outside of a sporting goods store after the company abruptly shut down last week without paying its employees.

And that continues to other sectors of China where you have construction workers climbing onto rooftops and threatening to jump if their wages are not paid. This comes after a huge drop in China's exports, now at their lowest since the COVID lockdowns. Goldman Sachs is estimating up to 16 million Chinese jobs could vanish like that as Trump's tariffs bite deeper into the

regime's weak underbelly. The tariffs placed on China are having their intended effects in President Trump. So you're watching now as the workers are beginning to revolt, threatening suicide in China. You think this is good for Xi Jinping? You think this is good for the Chinese Communist Party? This is not good for them. Their tenuous hold on power is made all the more tenuous

by the people in their country now revolting at least at their places of business over their circumstances all of a sudden drying up. China has to figure out a way out of this. They've got to navigate out here. And this is an area where the United States has immense leverage. Understand how these purchases work.

I just want to give you a sense of this. I'm going to play some Scott Besson audio for you in a moment to help you here. The Christmas season in China, in terms of American purchases, starts right now. All of the goods that are purchased in the United States that are manufactured in China, in order for them to get to us by November and December,

those goods need to be purchased, manufactured, and shipped right now, because that process can take anywhere between four to five months to occur. That is the pivotal season for manufacturing in terms of American imports from China. And right now those factories are dormant. Right now those factories are getting crushed.

In fact, here's the New York Times this week. They're already talking about China. Now pay attention to this story because what's happening right now is the media is representing this as Trump's war on Christmas. No, this is Trump defending us in a trade war. And this is how you get the media to talk about it at all because they think they can use this as a cudgel against President Trump. Retailers fear toy shortages as Christmas tariffs, at Christmas rather, as tariffs freeze supply chain, the New York Times reports.

Toy makers and stores are freezing their holiday orders, predicting shortages and higher prices. Some are consulting bankruptcy lawyers, fearing their firms won't survive. See what the New York Times is playing with here is they're trying to make this a story about how Trump is screwing over toy sellers here in the United States, when in fact it's about President Trump sticking it to China that's been sticking it to us and our economy for far too long. President Trump's China tariffs are threatening Christmas, the New York Times ludicrously says. Look, just once again, to reiterate, Christmas, which is the recognition of the birth of Christ, is not threatened by holding China accountable for its wrongdoing, obviously.

Toy makers, children's shops, specialty retailers are pausing orders for the winter holidays as the import taxes cascade through supply chains. Factories in China produce nearly 80% of all toys and 90% of Christmas goods sold in America. The production of toys and Christmas trees and decorations, usually in full swing by now, this takes four to five months to manufacture, package and ship products to the United States. Mr. Trump's 145% tariffs have caused a drastic markup in costs for American companies. Look at the game they're playing. They're not on our side. The New York Times is not on your side. have caused a drastic markup in costs for American companies. Look at the game they're playing. They're not on our side.

The New York Times is not on your side. This is supposed to be an American newspaper and they are on the side of rooting for the CCP here, attacking Trump and saying this is hurting Americans. Most of the entrepreneurs that have shared their plans with the New York Times have not yet canceled their orders. They hope the president will back away from the tariff brinksmanship. But the alarm in the industry is palpable, with the companies predicting product shortages

and higher prices. Some business owners, citing how crucial holiday sales are to their bottom lines, are now consulting bankruptcy lawyers. Bankruptcy lawyers. So this is hitting China right between the eyes, this particular move. So the president having some early success here in obtaining some leverage over the Chinese Communist Party in order to force them to the table. And I began here talking about how all of a sudden China is now begging for negotiations. Please talk to us. We'd like to make a deal. Please, please, please. Scott

Besson, the Treasury Secretary, was on the Fox Business Network this morning and he was talking about this very thing. What is China up to? What do they have to lose? Take a look here from Scott Besson. A couple of weeks, a couple of months. What's your timing, Mr. Secretary? Well, again, Maria, as I said, the Chinese need to de-escalate these high tariffs because there is the equivalent of an embargo and the Chinese business model is built on selling cheap goods to the U.S. They sell us about five times more than we sell them. So, you know, their factories are closing down as we speak, we're going into the holiday season. Orders are placed for that now. So if those orders aren't placed, it could be devastating for the Chinese.

It could be devastating for the Chinese. It could be devastating for the Chinese. These orders are placed right now, right now. And we've got another announcement from the president yesterday that our media are not detecting, are not detecting at all as being super consequential for China. The president is about to pull off one of the most amazing triangulations I've ever seen him pursue.

Take a look, this post from Truth Social yesterday. President Trump saying the following, alert, all purchases of Iranian oil, pay attention to this, this is Iranian oil or petrochemical products must stop now. Any country or person who buys any amount of oil or petrochemicals from Iran will be subject to immediately secondary sanctions. They will not be allowed to do business with the United States of America in any way, shape or form. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.

Who buys oil from Iran? For the chat, who is the biggest single purchaser of oil from Iran right now? Does anyone know? Anyone know the answer to that question? There it is, Vincent LaGuardia Gambini, first in China. China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China, China. Now, the president of the United States is not saying China.

Did you notice that in this truth social post, the word China does not appear once in it. It just says anybody who purchases Iranian oil, anybody who purchases petrochemical products from Iran must stop now. And if you keep buying that product, you will not be able to do business in the United States of America.

Let me put a number on this for you. 90% of all of Iran's oil exports are to China. 90%. What does China, what does Iran do with the money that China sends them? What does Iran do with that money? They commit acts of terrorism. They pay all of their terror proxies to continue to wage war all across the planet and certainly in the Middle East.

That's what Iran is doing, harassing our ships, harassing the shipping lanes, attacking Israel, attacking Americans who are out there. Iran is doing all this, funding all of this terror, funded by China's oil imports from them. And so what can be achieved here? What is the president saying in this message? This deeply consequential message. He's saying one, China, you want to keep doing business with the United States?

Stop buying Iranian oil. Two, if you're going to stop buying Iranian oil, guess where you might have to go to purchase energy from now on? How about the United States of America? How about you come to us? How about you start importing a lot of energy from the United States? And if you do that, then maybe I could drop some of these tariffs on you. Maybe we can come to a deal. Maybe we can figure out a way this works out for everybody. This is the president working, I think, very smartly right now to give China a path out. He's not saying their name. He's letting them, he's almost letting them leave with their dignity here. He's not threatening them directly by name, but China gets the message,

90% of all exports from Iran go right to China. So what is China going to do with this information? Well, if they're smart, they're going to look at it and go, okay, let's stop buying, let's stop buying energy from Iran. Let's start buying it from the United States. Let's make this let's structure this as a part of a deal so that these tariffs that Trump has imposed on us drop, so that we can have some sort of relationship restored that works to our benefit and to the benefit of the United States. President Trump is triangulating multiple events all at once.

He's convincing China to come to the table. He's allowing them to keep their dignity in the process. And he's cutting off Iran from their chief financier, which is China. And he's gonna slow down the terror attacks and bring about a peace in the Middle East if he can pull off what is clearly built into this truth social message. Are you seeing this too?

Yeah, isn't this good? This is precisely what I want. This is precisely what I want. This is precisely what I want. And that brings us to the breaking news this morning. I mentioned that overnight China wants to negotiate. They'd like a conversation, please. And now they've moved beyond merely wanting a conversation. Now they have quietly gotten rid of 25% of all of their tariffs on American imports. This is Bloomberg this morning. China's stealth exemptions may amount to a quarter of all US

imports. China as of today, Friday, has quietly started to exempt some US goods from tariffs that likely cover around $40 billion worth of imports in what looks like an effort to soften the blow of the trade war on its own economy. A list of exempted US products covering 131 items like pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals, has been circulating among traders and businesses over the past week. Some of these products had been previously reported by Bloomberg. It's unclear where the list came from, and it hasn't been officially confirmed, but at least half a dozen companies in China have been able to bring in goods from the list without paying tariffs. According to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified discussing confidential information.

So we're already looking, I mean, that's a massive number. 25% of the tariffs of their imports from the United States. Amazing, something fascinating is happening right now. And the president of the United States has forced China to come to the table. Chinese factories are slowing to a halt. Chinese workers are taking to the streets. The Christmas season here in the United States, absolutely pivotal.

And the president's saying it's time to stop buying Iranian oil and of course start buying American energy. Something really big is happening. And I'm very excited for it. I can't wait to see, I literally, I can't wait to see what the next few hours hold. That's how quickly all of this is moving. Okay, in a moment, I've got a lot to get to.

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Yes, indeed. Thanks again to fatty15. Here's a, so let me just once again, ask you, you happy with this? I'm pumped about this China thing. I love how this is going. I saw that report from CNBC earlier this week and I go, Ooh, something interesting is happening here.

All these factories are slowing up to nothing. Something really, really big is happening here. And the second Trump posted that truth social item on blocking any country that continues to buy oil from Iran. I said it on the radio show yesterday. We were live when that came out. That true social post came out yesterday. 12 to 3 Eastern time, by the way nationwide.

You can get that on rumble.com slash Vince as well. We do the show with the video camera on. I'm still here. I'm still doing the shows. We're live on rumble.com slash Vince as well. We do the show with the video camera on. I'm still here. I'm still doing the shows. We're live on it yesterday. The second I saw that, I said, that's China. He's talking about China.

90% of all of Iran's oil exports go right to China. It's a really big deal. So we'll see. I don't think China, China doesn't want any more heat. They've had enough. They're crying uncle right now. They're throwing in the towel, please. No mass. They said they've got a lot more to lose than we do. A lot more to lose than we do. Kind of cool. Kind of cool what's going on here. So yeah, the chat

wants more, more, more. I don't blame it at all. I really want more as well. I'm looking forward to it. I really do think we're talking minute by minute developments here. China is asshole. Thank you, Zoidborg. One of the great, one of the great posts. Let me see if I can find that. I love that clip so much. Let's see.

Let's see. This clip has to exist somewhere. I know if I can. Well, whatever, I'll find it. I'll find it. Fellas, if you find it, text it to me. I'll pull it up on the screen.

OK, let me go to what's going on with Tom Holman right now, because that story has me just absolutely riveted at the moment. Listen to this. So you've got Tom Holman standing outside of the White House this week. Yesterday. The borders are. And he was asked a really fun question.

I'm glad somebody in the media asked this. I don't know. I don't even know who asked this question. They asked why not just arrest all of the leaders who are harboring illegal aliens and shielding them from deportation, these sanctuary cities? Please watch Tom Holman's face as he gives this answer. Take a look. Here's Tom Holman.

So the president signed an executive order just this week threatening to defund sanctuary cities for their policies. Why not just arrest leaders who are harboring and shielding illegal aliens, actually terrorists from deportation? Wait until you see what's coming is the answer. Let me, I'm just gonna look, look at this. Look at this.

First of all, there's Tom Homan, the bulldog. And all of a sudden the question starts coming. Why not just arrest the leaders who are harboring and shielding illegal aliens from deportation? Watch his little smile. Look at that. You see the mouth? It's subtle. It's a very subtle. Look at that. Look at the smile. This Holman, it's hard to get Holman to smile. Look at this fella.

All of a sudden, boop, little smile, little smile. He's got something on his mind. He knows something that he's not sharing. Here we go. To defund sanctuary city, it's good policies. Why not just arrest leaders who are harboring and shielding illegal aliens, actually terrorists from deportation.

What's the scene see what's coming. Wait until you see what's coming. Holy cow. Yeah, somebody said his eyes are smiling as well. Yeah, his whole demeanor. That's the happiest I've ever seen Tom Omen. At one time, he was overjoyed with the secret that he can't share. Boy, oh boy.

Now in case you're wondering, they wouldn't arrest people, would they? Well, hell yeah, they would. They've already been doing it. They've already been arresting these judges who have been out of control, who've been harboring illegal aliens, they've been all over this already. So I don't know what comes next, but this is one of the few times,

you've heard from a lot of government officials, members of Congress do this a lot where congressional hearings, consequences are coming, and then you're like, yeah, yeah, whatever. You say that all the time. Tom Omen's one of the few people, when he does something like that, he smiles and he says, wait until you see what's coming.

Forget waiting four to five months for Chinese deliveries for Christmas. Christmas is coming now. This is Christmas. Christmas is arriving early. Tom Homan, we got Homan Claus. He's got the bag slung over his back, bringing arrests for us. I cannot wait for this. Tom Holman, baby, the smile that spoke a thousand words. Can't wait. So we'll keep, we'll keep track of that one too. That one's going to be

a lot of fun. And, and I've got, if I can even get to it today, I've got a million updates. Some of this will have to be on the radio show, but I've got updates on, uh, Kilmar, Abrego Garcia, NS 13, these lunatic Democrats efforts to impeach Trump. I mean, tell you what the Christmas did come early. My cup runneth over. I've got too much to get to today. But up next, I'm going to bring in a great guest. We got to talk about what's going on with NPR and PBS.

But up next, I'm going to bring in a great guest. We got to talk about what's going on with NPR and PBS. President Trump is defunding by executive order, NPR and PBS. Massive, massive news and long sought by like human beings with a pulse who don't think it's a good idea. Look here, who don't think it's a good idea for the government to continue to fund all of this craziness, this propaganda, breaking overnight from the White House. POTUS just signed an executive order ending the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and PBS,

which have received millions from taxpayers to spread radical woke propaganda disguised as news. to spread radical woke propaganda disguised as news. Wonderful update. Wonderful update. Yes, somebody in the chat said PBR. I keep calling it PBR, which makes me chuckle every time I accidentally say it because it's not actually Pabst Blue Ribbon. It's NPR and PBS,

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Popping corks today, Vince, popping corks. You've been working on this for a really long time, Dan. You've been saying this and tracking this for a long time. Tell us, what does this mean? Oh, look, Brett Bozell founded this place 38 years ago, and for 36 years, the Media Research Center has been fighting against these propaganda outlets, specifically trying to end the forced taxpayer subsidies for these outlets. And with a guy like Donald Trump in office, we are getting real victories for the first time in 36 years.

This is the first victory. There are many more battles and victories to come, hopefully, but this is a monumental fight that we are now starting to win. The tables have turned. Let's talk about the funding structure. My great friend Chris Plant calls NPR National Panhandlerler radio and rightfully

so. Yeah, it's propaganda. That's right. But they're also panhandlers. They're constantly like, give us more, give us more. And so the federal taxpayer has been given NPR a lot of money, but they play a shell game with this money. So they'll claim, they kind of claim two different things. One, federal funding is essential for our operations. We can't lose it. And then the other thing they claim is, oh, it's a very small portion of our of our operations. So I don't even know why you're getting all worked up about it. Yeah. Yeah. So what's going on there? Okay, so Congress

created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CPB. It's a congressionally chartered corporation that does one thing only. It takes in our federal tax dollars that are appropriated to it and distributes them to the NPR and PBS affiliates nationwide. And so then the NPR CEO will say, well, we only get 1% directly from taxpayers. And what she means by that is that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting only gives like $10 million to this NPR headquarters.

But here's the thing, there's an automatic kickback from all of these 1,000 plus affiliates nationwide that goes straight back to the corporation, to NPR and PBS CEOs. They get huge portions of their budget directly from taxpayers and they lie about it. That's the irony that these broadcasters that claim to be news outlets, that they're actually lying to the people about where their money comes from. At the same time, they're trying to say that they're honest about news. Of course, they're just propagandists. It's a show game. It's a show game.

So they're like, we only take 1% of this from taxpayers. When it turns out they're taking a crap ton from taxpayers. And it's not just from the federal government, it's also from state and local governments that these NPR affiliates take all of this cash and it's all laundered right up to NPR. The president's saying that system is over. We're not doing that anymore. And so when the president's cutting off NPR on this executive order, Dan, he's not merely cutting off the 1%

that's sent directly to NPR. He's also cutting off the shell game, right? The kickbacks, yeah. This kickback scheme is literally criminal if anybody else were to do it. But for NPR and PBS, it's codified in law that they get these kickbacks. And the president, there's a couple in law that they get these kickbacks.

And the president, there's a couple things that are really important about this executive order. First, he's ordering Corporation for Public Broadcasting. His board members are all appointed by the president, confirmed by the Senate. He's ordering them to stop funding NPR and PBS because these media outlets are in violation of the law. By law, NPR and PBS are required, mandated,

to be nonpartisan and to be neutral in their coverage. And of course, they've been nothing but. But the second thing this executive order does is it orders the federal agency heads, like the National Science Foundation, Department of Education, the NEA, the NEH, all these agencies that give discretionary grant awards to NPR PBS. He's ordering those agencies to stop those grants.

That's almost a bigger victory than anything else in this executive order. That's huge. That's huge. Okay, let's talk about the content. I do have to give credit to my boss and to the media research center. We're the ones who've been pushing for this. We've been pushing to have these executive branch agencies to cease this funding. We've been pushing the president to rescind the funding from the Biden era.

And so look, this is a fight that we've been battling for a long, long time. And that's why we're popping corks here. We've been working hard at this for a long time. You should, there's a lot of like like do nothing operations in Washington. The Media Research Center is a do something operation. You guys are always working which I love and I love everything. I love everything you guys produce. It's just a great operation and you're right you've been on the campaign for a very long time. All credit to you Brent Boazel. Amazing. You know I'm

looking at some of the content now. I want to talk about that element of it because you mentioned that they're trying to we're trying to stop the propaganda here. And the White House, they put out a list, which is amazing. I love this list. And I know the MRC has a list to newsbusters. But among the things NPR is focused on, NPR ran a story titled Cannibalism, It's Perfectly Natural. This was a book about people eating placentas. This is crazy. In 2021, NPR declared the Declaration of Independence to be a document with flaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies. In 2022, NPR got rid of the custom of reading the Declaration of Independence

on Independence Day. Apparently, it's one of the only good things NPR was doing on a yearly basis. They stopped doing it in 2022, so they can instead discuss, quote, equality and what it means. They said no more reading the declaration. They issued an editor's note warning that the Declaration of Independence, Independence quote is a document that contains offensive language They apologize for calling illegal aliens illegal They sounded the alarm in 2024 about young men who abstain from Masturbating to pornography. This is these are NPR pieces. This is what taxpayers are funding They featured

one more for you because the list is literally endless. I'll just stop with this one. NPR featured a Valentine's Day story around queer animals in which it suggested that the make believe clownfish in Finding Nemo would have been better off as a female and that banana slugs are hermaphrodites and that some deer are non-binary. So I don't know about you, Dan. I don't think we should be funding this crap anymore. Yeah, well, look, my hat off to Brent Boazal and to Tim Graham here at the Media Research Center and News Busters. You know, those links are linking to articles and studies

that MRC has performed and the president has recognized, you know, the good work that the team here has done. It is insane that taxpayers are forced to pay for this. Vince, let's never forget, you know, if some lefty theater company wants to talk about this, or if some lefty media wants to do this, they're free to do it in this country. We have a First Amendment. They can do it. But why should taxpayers be forced to pay for it? No, this is this is this is where Donald Trump has come in and said no more. No more should taxpayers be forced to pay for this swill. Well, they've also been involved in election rigging as well, because NPR, as the MRC knows

very well, you guys conducted a survey on the subject, knows that their manipulation of the election in 2020 led in part to the outcome that we saw. Joe Biden takes office. And the reason for that is because NPR and other lefty news outlets like it, but not government subsidized like NPR, they went out of their way to suppress the Hunter Biden story. And they said it was a story

that had no value and that they weren't going to bother their readers with any of this. They don't want to talk about it at all. And you guys distraction. Yeah, you guys did a survey on the subject. Yeah. Yeah, we're we we did the survey that many have cited that 9.3% of Joe Biden voters would not have voted for him if they had only heard of the Hunter Biden laptop story. But because of NPR and PBS and legacy media, over about 50% of Biden voters never even heard of the Hunter Biden laptop story because NPR said

it's a distraction, we're not going to cover it. That changed the election. That right there, the media swung the election for Joe Biden. 9.3% of his voters would not have voted for him had they heard of the 100 by laptop story. Okay, so Dan, what does it being such an excellent student of the media, what do they do next here in this fight? So President Trump announces this executive order, we're going to stop, we're're gonna defund PBS and NPR. I've already seen some of the beginnings. Oh, you wanna kill Elmo? Is that what you wanna do?

What's gonna happen in the days ahead? Yeah, well, I expect in about three more seconds that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR and PBS will issue statements that tell the president to go fly a kite and that CPB will continue take our tax dollars and fund NPR and PBS. Of course, the president's agency heads will do the right thing and stop funding them with the discretionary grants. But this is why it's so important for the president to send up what's called a rescission package. A rescission package

looks backwards and it says, look, Joe Biden asked for this money, Congress appropriated money to it. I want Congress to rescind that funding. Yeah. And I'm also expecting the president to send up a budget proposal, which is forward looking. It's, you know, where he's going to ask Congress, do not appropriate any more money for NPR and PBS.

Both of those things are critical. We need to see those things get signed into law. Amen. Yeah, that's a big deal. And the rescission package can be passed with 51 votes in the Senate. 51. Right, the rescission package avoids that 60 vote threshold in the Senate.

Yeah. It is amendable, but Congress has 45 days to vote it up, vote it down. Yeah, it's a real deal thing. And by the way, Sesame Street is going to be fine. Sesame Street as an intellectual property, it actually can generate a profit on its own. It doesn't need to be a part of PBS. In fact, HBO already has a deal with them. It's like so crazy that this is even happening.

HBO bought the rights to Sesame Street, and PBS could only rebroadcast Sesame Street six months after the original content was created. VINCENT CABELLO-ROSALEIRA Yeah, we've already. VINCENT CABELLO-ROSALEIRA Oh, by the way, Vince, all the longitudinal studies show that PBS children's programming has no positive impact on kids. PBS will talk about how well kids can read and count

because of PBS. Guess what? Kids who don't watch Sesame Street learn how to read and count just as fast as kids who do. That's funny. Have you noticed that the nation's report card came out earlier this year and reading and arithmetic skills are dropping to their lowest levels on record? PBS is not exactly helping in the data show that. Dan, thank you very much from the Media Research Center. Good to talk to you, sir. Thanks, Dan. Dan's all over this. Great operation in the Media Research Center. And yeah, this is, this is crazy, you know, what's going on. So the president announcing that they're going

to get rid of all of this craziness. And like I said, the list here is endless. I'm telling you, I'm looking at this White House list that they put out. It both cracks me up and saddens me that I've been spending money on this. PBS devoted a panel to what it means to be woke and white privilege. That was in 2017. NPR routinely promotes chemical and surgical mutilations of children as so-called gender affirming care without mentioning any of the irreversible damage caused by these procedures. In 2021, a PBS station aired a children's program that featured a drag queen named Little Miss Hot Mess. Look at that dude, wearing a wig, dancing around for PBS. Learn a wig, dance around for PBS. The hips on the drag queen goes swish, swish, swish,

they said. NPR educated the nation on the whole community of gender, queer, dinosaur enthusiasts and transceratops. Transceratops. PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor characterized Trump's patriotic 2020 Mount Rushmore speech as a love letter to white resentment that promoted the myth of America. This I'm nowhere near done with this thing.

They said that healthism is a cousin of diet culture. Healthism which is the idea that we have to be healthy. NPR reported on that as if it was a bad thing to be healthy. There's a stigma, they said, that people get if they're told they have to be healthy. These people are crazy. They're really nuts. Let's stop funding their lunacy. How about that? So the president moving on that today. A big change of pace, long overdue, expect a ludicrous fight from the left as they insist that, oh, we need to keep all of this garbage.

Okay. All right. Hey, we've got some updates on Kirmar Abrego Garcia, who is an MS-13 gangster. He's in El Salvador right now, which is where he's supposed to be. He's in an El Salvador prison USA Today has obtained a video From his wife. It's an audio recording from an August 2020 court hearing Jennifer Vasquez

Surah is the wife remember she's the one who keeps trying to cover up that her husband's MS-13 She's censoring all of his gang tattoos and all of her social media posts. Back in 2020 in a court hearing, she said, yeah, he was beaten the hell out of me. Listen to this. Here she is in the court proceeding, speaking about what her husband, the gangster, has been doing.

I came to fill out a protective order, I think it was in December, but I didn't show up to the court because his family like washed my brain telling me that his dad was sick and not to do it. So I didn't do anything. But after that, it was like, I would call the police. I have a lot of police reports. And I kept trying to get to the door basement to try to open the door and then like he pushed me. So then when I was able to go outside to get a phone, I call 911 from a disconnected phone. Now they took a long time to get to the house. It was probably like 20, 30 minutes. So I saw a neighbor walking his dog and I opened the door and

I was like, help. And then when he heard me, like he grabbed me from my hair and then he slapped me and when he heard me, he grabbed me by my hair and he slapped me in front of the neighbor who she just yelled help to and the neighbor like he didn't know what to do. He didn't know what to react. I have pictures of the evidence like all the bruises because even on Wednesday, he hit me like around like three in the morning, he would just wake up and like hit me.

And then last Saturday for my daughter's birthday party, before I went to my daughter's birthday party, he slapped me three times. And then last week I did call the police, my sister called the police. He slapped me three times. So what she's describing is, and this is only one of many reports she made

that were like this. This is the first time we hear audio of her voice on the subject, that this guy was a constant abuser of her. He was constantly beating her, bruising her, bloodying her up. And this is who Chris Van Hollen is desperate to get back into the United States of America. This is who these Democrats are fighting for. Not for you, not for Lakin Riley Riley not for Jocelyn Nungare

None of them not for Rachel Moran No, they're fighting for the MS 13 gangster to come back and I've told you before I'm gonna keep doing this because I think That we need this to be rubbed in their faces every day all the way up to the midterms Every single day another rake hits Chris Van Hollen squarely in the forehead for what he is doing to our country. He decided he'd go all in on this MS-13 gangster. And every day we get more new evidence that that was a stupid decision, that this guy's a scumbag, that it's good that he's out of the country. And that in addition to just being a gangster, being an illegal, he's a wife beater too. We've got that.

We've got that information. And then we got new footage. Multiple rakes hitting this guy in the head. My apologies for that audio. Multiple rakes hitting Chris Van Hollen in the head just in the last 24 hours. New video obtained by Fox News showing that 2022 Tennessee Highway Patrol stop where Kilmar Abrego Garcia is stopped by police officers suspected of

human trafficking. Take a look here. Again, this should follow Democrats all the way until the midterms. Here we go. This is the video obtained by Fox News body camera footage here of what's going on in Tennessee. Here it is. Hello, sir. How are you? All right. You've got a bunch of people here, don't you? It's one for fit. Yes. Go back to work. Gotcha. Where are you working at? Go back to work. Gotcha. Where are you working at? Where? Where?

San Luis, Missouri. Missouri? Yes, sir. Gotcha. Okay. But I'm from Maryland. Where do you all live at? I live in Maryland.

Maryland? Yeah, also me. Whose vehicle is it? What, the human? Whose car is it? It's my boss. The boss. His boss.

Yeah. Reminder, his boss was already convicted of human trafficking. Where's he live? What? Whose car is it? It's my boss. Boss. Reminder, his boss was already convicted of human trafficking. What's he doing? Where's your boss? My boss right now, he's staying in Maryland, but we leave him on take-off. We use them. After talking to Kilmar, the officers had no doubt he was trafficking. You know what you got here? Uh, it's uh, he's hauling these people for money.

You got an ass hauler is what he's doing. But sometimes I kill mingle doping. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, There's eight people in the car. So he's getting paid probably to Maryland, I would say. He said they all work for him. He's the only one that knows. So let me ask you this. They don't have any luggage in there, right? And if you get them out, they're going to have a toothpaste and they're going to have toothbrushes in their pockets.

I guarantee it. He's got $1400 cash. That's a smart. This is a guy who knows what he's doing. You pick them up, they're going to have toothpaste and toothbrushes in their pocket. There's no luggage in that car. That's all they've got. Toothbrushes.

This guy's seen this before. It's pocket and envelope. So in the video, you can see one of the cops making a phone call. The body cam audio cuts out for 10 minutes. Sources told us that on that call, Joe Biden's FBI, which advised police not to detain Kilmar at the time. That source also tells us highway patrol called Biden's ICE, and they never showed up. Biden's guys said, so this is these are frontline cops. They know exactly what they're seeing.

They've seen it before all the way down to toothbrushes and pockets eight people in a car. No luggage. One guy who's supposedly is the only guy who speaks English has come our regular Garcia. Everybody's headed to Maryland. That's it. They call they begin doing the right thing. They call the relevant agencies. They talked to the FBI That's it. They call, they begin doing the right thing. They call the relevant

agencies. They talk to the FBI, Biden's FBI controlled by Christopher Ray says, don't bust this guy. Let them go. That's November of 2022. Just look at the date. That's, that's Joe Biden in office. That's the Biden FBI. Don't bust this guy. Let him go. Let him go. This goes right with that story I told you yesterday. We were talking about the HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., laying out that 300,000 Americans, 300,000, excuse me, 300,000 children, foreign nationals, illegals, have been trafficked into the United States of America for the purposes of slavery and sex and all sorts of horrific things.

300,000 of these kids have been lost by the Biden administration who actively trafficked them in. Javier Becerra urging HHS officials to move more quickly, to turn it into a Henry Ford style assembly line to bring these children into the United States. And these cops are saying that we talked to the FBI and they said, don't bust them. Let them go. Let them go.

They tried to get ICE to get involved. ICE never shows up. ICE restrained from showing up. And that's Kelmar Abrego Garcia trafficking human beings into our country. An MS-13 gangster, suspected human smuggler and wife- Garcia trafficking human beings into our country. An MS-13 gangster suspected human smuggler and wife beater released into the country. God knows what he did and was never caught for before Trump deported him. Yeah. And so there he goes.

We know quite a bit though he's committed acts of violence on his wife over and over. So much so that her baby daddy, her old baby daddy, filed an emergency petition with Prince George's County saying, I need to get my kids out of that environment. That guy's a gangster. She's living with a gang member. And that's who the left is defending. They continue to mount this ludicrous defense. And it's so ludicrous that that Democrat members of Congress are not even really trying

to defend it. They're just cursing at reporters who ask about it. Viewers of this program, if you've been with me all along, you will recognize Miles Morrell. Miles Morrell is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation. I had him here on the show and we talked about some of his excellent reporting

on Capitol Hill. He just chases members of Congress around, puts a microphone in their face, and then just asks them basic questions. Would you answer this for me, please? And that's what he did yesterday when he ran into Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Ilhan Omar, who represents Minnesota's fifth district

in the People's House. And he asked her a really simple question. He just asked her, hey, do you think Democrats should continue to go visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador? Listen to her emotionally incontinent response. Congresswoman Omar, I'm Miles Morrell with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Do you think more of your Democratic colleagues should be traveling to El Salvador to advocate on behalf of Abrego Garcia? I'm sorry. What time is on? Fuck off. Who should you? Why me? I think you get any questions right now, but here you go. I think you should f off, she declares over and over and over again.

Now, this is just note the sequence of events here. This reporter, Miles Morrell, was exceedingly polite to her. He was probably way nicer than you would have been as you approach Ilhan Omar. He just asked her a really basic question, treated her like a human being, an adult, a member of Congress even, saying, hey, you think this is a good idea that these Democrats keep going to visit Kilmar? You think this is a good idea? Maybe they should stop. And she says, I think you should have F off. I think you should have

F off. I think you should have F off like a child. You should have F off. Let me say something about this lady. She is, has been rescued by this country. She was granted a privilege to be in this country and she is the single most ungrateful representation of somebody in her situation, I can even imagine. No gratitude whatsoever. And so the cowardice that she demonstrates in that moment is in the service of illegal foreign nationals who would do more harm and destruction to this country. And she's made a mockery of our system anyway. She married her brother in order to fraudulently get him into the United States. So when you see a video like this, when you watch Miles Morrell ask very politely, you know, do you think this is a good idea that these Democrats can keep coming into the country,

keep going into El Salvador, keep trying to rescue kilmar, a brego Garcia and keep fighting for an illegal foreign national is an MS 13 gang member. And then she responds this way to El Salvador to advocate on behalf of a pedagogal Garcia. I think you should f off. I think the only fitting response is you kiss your brother with that mouth? An amazing week in America. I've got so much more to get to.

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the plan is, unless something goes haywire, I'm gonna be inside of my new DC studio starting Monday. So we all have that to look forward to. It's gonna be great. As always, great to have you with us. And boy, I can't wait to see what happens next. It's again, great show, great to be with you today. Thanks as always for joining me.