The David Pakman Show - 2/7/25: Elon takes over Energy Department, Press Secretary confronted on higher prices

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

-- On the Show: -- Keith Edwards, host of "The Keith Edwards Show," fills in for David. Subscribe to his YouTube channel at youtube.com/@keithedwards -- Bizarre video surfaces of Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy -- Unvetted staffers for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency are granted access to systems for the Energy Department -- Italian politicians target Donald Trump Jr. for allegedly hunting a protected duck -- Trump's Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt doesn't answer when prices are supposed to come down -- Donald Trump has a number of key allies who have praised Naziism and other far-right movements -- Video resurfaces of now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticizing Trump as a "con man" -- Trump's cognitive decline is seemingly getting worse -- On the Bonus Show: Legacy media laughs while the country falls apart, and much more... 🖥️ UPLIFT Desk: Get up to 5 free accessories & special discount at https://upliftdesk.com/pakman ⚠️ Ground News: Get 50% OFF their unlimited access Vantage plan at https://ground.news/pakman 🛌 Helix Sleep: Get 27% OFF and 2 free pillows at https://helixsleep.com/pakman 🛡️ Incogni lets you control your personal data! Get 60% off their annual plan: http://incogni.com/pakman 🥦 Lumen lets you master your metabolism. GET 20% OFF at https://lumen.me/pakman 📈 Manifold: Get free Sweepcash when you sign up at https://manifold.markets/pakman 🩳 SHEATH Underwear: Code PAKMAN for 20% OFF at https://sheathunderwear.com/pakman -- Become a Member: https://davidpakman.com/membership -- Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/davidpakmanshow -- Get David's Books: https://davidpakman.com/echo -- TDPS Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow -- David on Bluesky: http://www.davidpakman.com/bluesky -- David on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow

Hello, David Pakman audience. It is me, Keith Edwards, for the final time. I history from Pete Buttigieg, had an embarrassing video leak. Just as our infrastructure is crumbling, Marco Rubio similarly has a very telling video that came out that completely humiliates him and makes him look like a hypocrite versus what he was saying just a few years ago versus today and what he believes with the now Trump administration. And Donald Trump's press secretary could not answer the simplest of questions. I've got all that and much more coming right up. And I am Keith Edwards from The Keith Edwards Show. Please do check me out if you like this reporting. But first off, here is a video that came out from Sean Duffy on Earth moments ago from the real world. This is who is leading us. And as this video came out, wouldn't you know it, our infrastructure has been crumbling. The transportation we rely on

has been failing us. And of course, I'm sure you know of the DC flight that tragically collided with a helicopter. But just moments ago, there was a train that caught fire. More on that right now. Developing news tonight, a SEPTA train suddenly erupts into flames during the busy evening rush in Delaware County. Hundreds of passengers forced to evacuate as emergency crews arrived on the scene near the Crumlin Station. The cause of the fire still under investigation tonight. Rick, SEPTA says it was a rush hour train, so it was fully packed, but thankfully there are no reported injuries at this time,

and you just missed it. Crews towed that damaged train out of here to evaluate it, and now SEPTA is trying to determine how the fire started. But they say people were alerted by the smell of smoke. Kind of smell like this like weird like kind of smoky like a sulfur-y kind of smell. And like you know I kind of just thought it was like the train normal stuff. Because it always kind of smells sulfur-y. But yeah it was getting really strong especially as we got to Crumlin.

I started to smell it too after a little while. i think we got about two stations down from here and then people were really starting to like notice that people looking out the windows getting a little you know starting to panic a little bit now as reported there were no fatalities thankfully not even any injuries so we are lucky for that but this is by far the only incident. Of course, you do know of the DC crash that happened, but there were similarly in Seattle, two planes collided with each other. As you can see here, the wing of a plane and the tail of a plane hitting each other while they're taxiing at the airport. And just last night, an Alaska plane went missing

with 10 on board. Alaska missing plane latest Bering Air jet with 10 on board vanished midair sparking search for survivors. And I'm not sure why these things are all happening. All I'm saying is it didn't happen under Biden or Pete Buttigieg. That is a fact. There were no plane crashes under Pete Buttigieg, no passenger plane crashes. So if they want to blame DEI for our failing government, they have to put up or shut up because right now, as one Twitter user said, it is DEI or die. It's time to choose. This never happened under DEI. But that's not stopping Sean Duffy from saying this. When you go back to the DEI policies and we didn't really the word woke was not a big part of the vernacular, even in Donald Trump's first term. But when they put in DEI policies that would allow the hiring

at the FAA of people with intellectual and psychiatric disabilities, and I read that that was shocking off to me. What was your reaction? Well, you know, I want to look at what was the focus of the department, right? The main focus back to the history was safety. The problem is they were focusing on, as you mentioned, the environment, EVs, changing language for social justice. They want to be politically correct. And when you don't focus on your systems and your safety, bad things happen. And so this is really funny to me that he is saying that we weren't focused on systems and safety, but we were never safer when it came to our transportation.

And if he is focused on systems and safety, I have to ask myself, why is he getting into Twitter wars with Secretary Clinton? He said, big news. Talk to the Doge team. They're going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system. Terrifying. Hillary Clinton said they have no relevant experience. Most of them aren't old enough to rent a car and you're going to let them mess with airline safety. That's already deteriorated on your watch. He said, Madam Secretary, with all due respect, experienced Washington bureaucrats are the reasons our nation's infrastructure is crumbling.

You need to sit this one out. Really respectful. And then Hillary Clinton, not one to let up, said U.S. airlines had gone 16 years without fatal crashes, 16 years. Then MAGA fired the FAA chief, gutted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and threatened air traffic controllers with layoffs. Now there have been two fatal crashes. Hope your unvetted 22-year-olds will fix things fast. Dang, I know for a fact, just so you know,

she writes her own tweets. That's why they're good. More politicians should write their tweets. And then Sean Duffy wrote a huge wall of text that I refuse to read because it's just propaganda. And while this is all happening, I have to wonder that this unearthed video might explain more about why we're in this situation than anything else. Because Sean Duffy, like our current president, is a former reality TV star. And this embarrassing video just resurfaced. It has millions of views. And I think it gives some insight into the personality and the stability of the person leading our transportation.

Here it is. Another juicy secret about the real world is Sean's not a lumberjack. He's a Chippendale dancer. I need more light, dog. Montana, give me some light. Reaction of the crowd. So yeah, I mean, imagine if Pete Buttigieg had a very similar video come out. The right would go nuts. The right would go nuts. And as this Twitter user said, he was holding it all together. I think it's one of those scenes where

you just don't realize what you have until it's gone. We have buffoons leading our government. They're not even leading it. They're trying to dismantle it before our very eyes. There's a lot wrong with our government. I will be the first to say that and criticize it. But it's also the only thing keeping us safe from corporations who want to do as little as possible to make as much money as possible. So it's important we have regulation. It's important we have smart, talented people working in the government. And whatever Sean Duffy is, a transportation secretary, he is not. In terrifying news, Doge is in the systems that oversee our nuclear codes. I'm going to say that again.

Doge is in our systems overseeing the nuclear codes. These 22-year-olds are in there with little oversight or guidance. These people probably couldn't have passed a background check. So before we get to that, let's just talk about who these people are. Because there's been amazing reporting that just came out yesterday about one of the doge teens who owns a website called tesla.sexyllc and worked at a startup that has hired convicted hackers a young technologist technologist known as online as big balls yeah who works for elon musk so-called department of government efficiency has access to sensitive u.s government systems but his professional online history is called

into question here tesla tesla.sexy llc controls dozens of web domains including at least two russian registered domains one of those domains which is still active, offers a service called Healthy, which is an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market. And while operating of a Russian market website would not violate U.S. sanctions with companies from doing business with Russia, it could potentially be a factor in a security clearance review. So we have hackers in our system who are associated with Russia, but that's not all. This person said there's little chance that he could have passed a background check for privileged access to government systems.

So Donald Trump and Elon Musk are completely subverting the systems we have in place to keep us all safe from folks like this from working in the government. And there's more. This to me is the most concerning. Potential concerns about Corostin extend beyond his work history. Archive telegram messages shared with Wired show that in november of 22 a person using the handle joey crafter posted to a telegram channel focused on so-called distributed denial of service attacks these are like hacking attacks the bombard victims sites with junk traffic to knock them offline in his messages joey crafter which records from discordgram, and the networking protocol BGP Indicate, was a handle used by Korostein where I said he's looking for a who could carry out a layer seven attack, a certain form of DDoS, a DDoS for hire service with the name DSTAT.CC was seized in a multinational

law enforcement operation last year. All right, if you're like me and you're like, what the hell does that all mean? I'm just going to put it as plainly as possible. This person was looking to hire someone to attack someone else using computer technology. That is the simplest way I can put it. It is a form of attack. It is like into hacking. It's not getting into something, but it is very much so cyber criminal activity. OK, so these are the people who Elon Musk has hired, who currently are going through the code of our government and as this reporting from CNN says, are now being allowed into the IT systems that oversee our nuclear codes. A representative from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency was granted access to the Energy Department system on Wednesday by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Two people with knowledge of the situation told CNN.

Wright granted access to Doge representative Luke Ferreter, a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern, even over objections from members of the department's general counsel and chief information offices, the people told CNN. The DOE chief information office is the Department I.T. and cybersecurity office. Members of the general counsel and chief information offices said this is, quote, a bad idea. Understatement of the century because Faraday hadn't had a standard background investigation needed to access the department system, one of the people told CNN. He's not cleared to be in DOE on our systems. None of these things have been done. Here's how Elise Jordan, former Republican, I think she's either former or current, regardless, compared it to Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying this is necessary. Is this the way to do it?

Absolutely. The execution here is terrible. I have been thinking that this reminds me a lot of the Biden administration's Afghanistan withdrawal. It needed to be done. It was done terribly and in a way that could have been much, much better. What we're seeing here is a long overdue correction, though. I worked on a USAID project in Afghanistan, so I admit I'm pretty biased. Afghanistan was one of the worst places for return on investment for USAID spending. There was more of an emphasis overall in places like Afghanistan and Iraq to spend the money rather than to actually have results. And that's how they measure accountability, essentially. So

something has to be done here. These are actually so different. I don't even know where to begin. It's infuriating to see the legacy media try to minimize what is happening right now? We have a rogue U.S. citizen in our systems with hackers who are unvetted. And more on that in a bit later in the show about how unvetted they are. And have histories hacking systems. And they have zero oversight. We don't know what they're doing, what they're changing. And by the way, it's unconstitutional on top of everything else. The executive branch is killing programs with a rogue billionaire that Congress has said need to be funded.

If they want to change it, they could pass some laws. But instead, the president of the United States is acting without authority to destroy programs and systems. So it is not like Afghanistan at all. At all. And Twitter users are more on the money about this than anything else. One person says Musk operatives are now potentially gaining access to info on U.S. nuclear systems.

Are there any courts that see an urgency? Well, at least Jordan doesn't see an urgency. And someone else said, how does accessing Department of Energy IT systems, which includes access to information about the US nuclear stockpile, fall within Doge's stated remit? Why does Doge need access? I don't know why any of this is happening. But I do wish the legacy media and our elected officials would take this as seriously as it is, because this is serious. This is very serious. It's constitutionally questionable at best. And it's dangerous. It's dangerous. And we have to figure out a way to stop it. If you work at a desk like I do, I often find myself sort of discouraged because I'm sitting for a long time, or at least I used to until I found uplift desk.

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the sport of killing something for fun. I don't get it. I understand having to kill for survival, for food. I understand that. But to do it for fun, I don't get it. But Donald Trump Jr. loves it. The Trump sons became targets themselves earlier this year after photographs of their big game kill surfaced online, just as hunting claimed the life of Africa's famous Cecil the Lion, a controversy the brothers dismiss. When you look at the amount of money generated by conservationists, about the amount of land

that's put aside to save these kind of habitat for those animals, all of that's driven by hunters. I mean, starting back in the days of Theodore Roosevelt, who was, you know, the original guy setting aside federal lands for that purpose. All of those guys were big hunters. That's a big hero of yours, Teddy Roosevelt. Huge, huge. You know, another brash New Yorker, right?

So, you know, perhaps we're the reboot of that uh you know but these are all things yeah he's the reboot of teddy roosevelt okay i mean it's just so upsetting seeing these beautiful creatures just killed senselessly for no reason other than because these unathletic, rich idiots decide they want to have some fun. And for some reason, killing these noble creatures, to them, is their idea of a good time. It's actually hard to look at. And it might have gotten Donald Trump Jr. in some criminal trouble because he took his murder roadshow to Italy

where he accidentally shot an animal that is protected by the country. Donald Trump accused of hunting protected duck in Italy. It's a crime. Donald Trump Jr., President Trump's adult son, and a group he was with have been accused of hunting a protected duck in Italy. Andrea Zanoni, an Italian politician, said in a post on Facebook this week that he observed a video from the Venetian Lagoon in which Trump Jr., as part of a recent hunt, pointed to a deceased duck among a pile of others. Quote, the videos show some people, including Donald Trump Jr., killing several ducks. Quote, only residents of one of the Italian regions can hunt in Italy because you need to have a hunting card, which is issued by law by the region of residence of the applicant. The bird in question is a ruddy shell duck, a very rare duck in all of Europe. It's not known if Trump himself or another person killed a protected duck.

In the video clip reviewed by New York Times, Trump, an avid game hunter, hid among tall grasses beside a pile of dead ducks. Quote, this is a rather uncommon duck in the area, he said in the video, pointing to the copper-colored dead bird next to him. Not even sure what it is in English. Wow, really, really great guy. The ruddy shell duck, or Tadarni fur, okay, I'm not saying that, is also known in India as the Brahmini duck, according to The Guardian, which reports the birds winters in southern Asia, but breeds in Europe. It is not considered endangered, but it protected by both European Union and Italy. It is morally despicable. This is the important part.

Another Italian lawmaker said, according to The Times, and it's a crime. In his post said the killing of or detention of the ruddy shell duck is criminally sanctioned and therefore, according to Italian law, it constitutes precise crime of the judiciary's competence. I don't know. Maybe Italy can do what we seem to be unable to do, which is give consequences to politicians and billionaires. We seem incapable of doing that in the United States, unless, of course, you're a Democrat, because Mayor Adams in New York City is still facing criminal charges and Senator Menendez in New Jersey, the gold barred senator, is going to go to prison for 12 years. Unless, of course, Donald Trump pardons him. I don't see that happening. So maybe Italy will actually hold someone accountable. I'm going to hold my breath on that. Let's just watch a little bit of this video.

An Italian lawmaker filed a legal complaint against Donald Trump Jr. and his hunting party for allegedly hunting without a license in Venice, Italy. They said this is actually a rather uncommon duck for the area. Not even sure what it is in English, but incredible shoe. Questions are also being raised about the shooting of a rare duck. A spokesperson for Trump Jr. said it's not clear if someone in Trump's group or another group shot the duck. This video was briefly published to the website of Field Ethos, a company co-founded by Trump Jr. that promotes outdoor activities, including hunting. The clip is no longer on the site. A spokesperson for Donald Trump Jr. said, quote, Don and his group had all

the proper permits and were hunting in a legally allowed area where there were countless other hunting groups present. The incident is expected to be investigated, according to a parliamentary spokesperson. Trump Jr. plans to cooperate with the probe, his spokesperson said. investigate it i doubt they had permits and i doubt that they were in an area where they could hunt because these are the trumps and so if they could do something illegal they would and if they're saying they didn't do something then they likely did. So, I don't know, maybe Italy will hold them accountable. They're investigating it, and I am at least, it's at least nice to know that investigations against Trumps can still happen. Donald Trump's press secretary could not answer a simple question.

One, that was really a theme of Donald Trump's presidency, which is lowering prices, lowering prices because prices are not getting lower. You may remember Donald Trump said he was going to lower prices on day one. Well, day one came and went and prices are higher than ever makes me wonder what Donald Trump is actually doing. And it's and I got to say the way that they're covering this versus the way that they covered it under Biden is totally different. I'm going to walk you through that, too. And I'm going to show you that moment from the press secretary kind of just going, so egg problems driving up prices at Waffle House and others could persist. So the prices of eggs are astronomical. I'm going to read you that bit in a bit. Let's just look at that chart. So here we are in 2023, 2024. Right

here, right here is where the Biden administration was getting slammed, was getting slammed by the press, okay? This is where egg prices are now, on average, $7.76 for a dozen. The average retail egg price increased 37% between December 2023 and December 2024, according to Consumer Price Index data. At the wholesale level, the price for a dozen Midwest large eggs recently hit $7.76, compared with about $1.50 in early January 2022, before the operate began, according to the food market research firm Expana. Prices for egg products such as liquid and blah, blah, blah have gone up. Okay, things have gone up. The cost of eggs is unlikely to drop before May, industry experts said. But I thought Donald Trump could fix it.

I thought it could fix everything. Because springtime could bring fresh exposure to the virus, which can spread through migratory birds moving in the fall and spring. It will take several months for there to be enough chickens to replace those that have died and for chicks to reach maturity and start producing eggs, experts say. So I also have this reporting here. This is when Biden was president, literally a month ago, or not a month ago, a year ago. Inflation has fallen. Why are groceries still so expensive? Okay. Let's just do a quick search. I'm going to do fine. I'm typing in Trump. And the only thing that mentions Trump is on the side

here, right? Okay. No mention of Trump. How is he going to lower prices? He ran on lower prices. Right. This inflation has fallen. Why are groceries still so expensive? Okay, let's do a quick Biden search. Oh, look at that. They mentioned Biden in the story. Biden, Biden, Biden.

It's incredible, isn't it? Biden. Why is Biden critiqued for egg prices a year ago and Donald Trump is not? When Donald Trump explicitly ran on egg prices and lowering them. Fox News, same thing here. How it started, how it's going. Prices of eggs, milkshake up since Biden took office. Okay. So this was written. It's the framing around Biden and egg prices.

As you see here, $5. That's a lot. Not as much as it is right now. Let's look here. All right. I am looking at the recent articles about the economy. No mention about Trump and prices. They did, to their credit, write about Waffle House. But let's click into that.

And we're going to do another quick search. Trump. No mention of Trump in this whole story. Isn't that so interesting? And then here is the Heritage Foundation, which is owned by the people who are creating Project 2025. They said Biden pretends rising food prices are not a problem. We could do the same. This could say Trump. Trump pretends rising food prices are not a problem because he is not even mentioning this crisis we are in with egg prices. Eggs make everything.

If we don't have eggs, we don't have anything. And if eggs are expensive, food gets more expensive. And this was really funny to me. Over the campaign, J.D. Vance inflated egg prices to criticize Harris on the economy. Here's what he said. Eggs when Kamala Harris took office were short of $1.50 a dozen. Now a dozen eggs will cost you around $4, thanks to Kamala Harris' inflationary policies. Need I remind you?

Egg prices are $7.76 now. So we could just rewrite this quote. And it's actually accurate. It's true. Because what he said here was not true. Because they were $3.20 at that time. Because the egg prices because of Donald Trump is now nearly $8 thanks to Donald Trump's inflationary policies. And his press secretary was asked multiple times, when is Donald Trump going to lower the prices? And here's what she had to say. How long will it take to cycle through and get some of the actual prices that Americans are paying to come down? The prices at the store and at the grocery pump, across the board, sure.

Well, the president is doing everything he can, obviously, to reduce the cost of living crisis in this country as quickly as possible. That's why he signed a litany of executive orders across the board in the first couple of weeks here. He declared a national energy emergency. He committed to cutting 10 regulations for every new one on the book. As you know, working for a Fox business-related outlet, deregulation and energy independence are huge drivers of reducing inflation in this country. And I think Americans can be assured by the results President Trump had in his first term when, again, inflation was 1.4% when he left office. But is it months or is it a year?

And will Americans have the patience to wait for it? I don't have a timeline, but the president is doing everything that he possibly can to reduce cost of living for Americans at home. Oh, Caroline, Caroline, Carolyn, you do have a timeline. You do have a timeline. In fact, Donald Trump set one for you. Here it is. So when I win, I will immediately bring prices down starting on day one

because people can't afford their groceries. And we're going to straighten it out. We're going to bring prices way down. It'll also bring your grocery bill way down. We'll get it done fast. And they're going to be affording their groceries very soon. Yeah. Day one. Day one.

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Does it? I think we all know what that really meant. a Doge staffer resigned because of very similar sentiments, saying, you could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity, the account wrote in September. Another saying, normalize Indian hate. And then, of course, the troubling, I just want a eugenic immigration policy. Is that too much to ask? Now, these are troubling statements. I'm surprised that someone within the Trump administration would resign over troubling comments. Isn't the whole point of Donald Trump that you're allowed to say whatever you want now? That cancel culture is gone? So what is going on with the Trump administration

that they're firing someone because of something they said? I thought freedom of speech was the most important value in our country. I guess not. I mean, I'm not saying this person shouldn't resign. I'm just saying it seems to go against the culture that Donald Trump wants to create. And Elon Musk seems to revel in it because just earlier today, after the kid resigned, Musk polled ex-users if staff who quit over racist tweets should be rehired. Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk on Friday launched a poll on his social media platform asking users if a staffer at his Doge team should be rehired after resigning from his Trump administration post over the exposure of tweets advocating for racism and eugenics. He asked, bring back Doge staffer who made inappropriate statements via now-deleted pseudonym the Tesla CEO Musk wrote in a tweet. The staffer resigned, as I told you.

Oh, he did say this. This is wild. Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool. And he also said, I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the earth. I mean, it's wild that someone who would do this would attract someone who believes stuff like this. Muck's poll, which is set to close before noon on Friday, which is at the time of recording about to happen, had more than 203,000 votes as of 10.15 a.m.

And again, this is an ongoing problem because now we have kanye west who is tweeting stuff like this kanye west donald trump supporter i am i'm not going to say that out loud i don't that. I don't want that video of me to exist, but you can see what this says. I don't want a video of me to be clipped out saying that. He also says, let's see if y'all give that money back. He says he loves Hitler. Now what, bitches? Great. As someone said, I guess Trump's America, he feels more emboldened. What's Kanye West's relationship with Elon Musk? And reminder, this is what Trump said, or this is what Kanye West said of Trump. We're going to discuss, I didn't mean to put you on blast like that, bro, but it's definitely- I'm open-minded. I'm here. I am open-minded. Mr. President,

would you like him to speak at one of your rallies? He can speak for me anytime he wants. He's been a great guy. He's a smart cookie. Smart. He gets it. We're going to discuss... So Donald Trump is surrounding himself with people who profess their love for Hitler, who say they're Nazi,

who give the Nazis salute, and are we supposed to just believe this is all just a coincidence? I suppose it could be. I think the thing Donald Trump has said he wants to fight for, that immigrants are polluting the blood of our country, which is Hitler rhetoric, is more than just a coincidence. This feels to me like a deeper theme within the Trump administration, a dark theme, a terrifying theme.

And when we are, not we, but the country, I suppose, are shipping immigrants to Guantanamo Bay without any oversight. And these are reportedly people who are potentially criminal. They don't they aren't getting any sort of due process. There's a lot of echoes of the past here and i'm just gonna say this is that i'm not saying elon musk and donald trump are nazis but i will say white supremacist nick fuentes certainly was very happy about and then the like straight up like that was a serious Roman. It wasn't even like a subtle, like a wave, like one of these, like a Laura Ingram. Remember when Laura Ingram did that? That was a straight up like, like loving.

Right. And I'm just going to end with this because I don't think they should ever live this down is to remember this Kanye Elon Trump. It might be the most honest thing the house judiciary GOP Twitter account has ever said and and ever will say, Kanye, Elon, Trump. Marco Rubio used to have a spine. Let me tell you something. I will never quit. I will never stop until we keep a con man from taking over the party of Reagan and the conservative movement. He's a con man. He's a con man. He portrays himself as the strongest guy on illegal immigration. That's fine. But Trump Tower was built by illegal

immigrants from Poland who he paid four dollars an hour, twelve dollars, twelve hours a day. OK, a judge found that he was involved in a conspiracy to defraud these workers of their pay. There's just one of many clips of Marco Rubio actually saying what we all have all known forever, which is Donald Trump is a con man and he says one thing and he does another. It's just so, it's just fascinating to me watching that old clap and knowing that uh Marco Rubio knows what we know and he has chosen instead to bend the knee and pretend like what he's seeing and hearing is not real and that what Donald Trump says is true it's it's insane to me. I cannot, I actually cannot ever imagine doing something that I know is not something I believe in. I'm not physically capable of it. Maybe it's a superpower they have that they can do that because Marco Rubio is Secretary of State and I'm not. But I'd much rather have my dignity. And again, maybe that's I don't know, maybe maybe maybe you can't have dignity and be powerful in America today. But that's besides the point. This video is going viral of Marco Rubio. who is saying one thing today, and as you saw in that previous clip,

was saying a much different thing just years ago. So, first off, here is what Marco Rubio is saying right now. What's happening at USAID? Well, look, I mean, my frustration with USAID goes back to my time in Congress. It's a completely unresponsive agency. It's supposed to respond to policy directives of the State Department, and it refuses to do so. So the functions of USAID, there are a lot of functions of USAID that are going to continue, that are going to be part of American foreign policy, but it has to be aligned with American foreign policy.

I said very clearly during my confirmation hearing that every dollar we spend and every program we fund, WITH AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY. I SAID VERY CLEARLY WHEN WE, DURING MY CONFIRMATION HEARING, THAT EVERY DOLLAR WE SPEND AND EVERY PROGRAM WE FUND, THAT WILL BE ALIGNED WITH THE NATIONAL INTEREST OF THE UNITED STATES. AND USAID HAS A HISTORY OF SORT OF IGNORING THAT AND DECIDING

THAT THERE'S SOMEHOW A GLOBAL CHARITY SEPARATE FROM THE NATIONAL INTEREST. THESE ARE TAXPAYER DOLLARS. AND SO I'M VERY TROUBLED BY THESE REPORTS THAT THEY'VE BEEN UNWILLING TO COOPERATE WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE ASKING SIMPLE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT DOES THIS PROGRAM DO, WHO GETS THE MONEY, And so I'm very troubled by these reports that they've been unwilling to cooperate with people who are asking simple questions about what does this program do, who gets the money, who are our contractors, who's funded. And that sort of level of insubordination makes it impossible to conduct the sort of mature and serious review that I think 4NA writ large should have.

We're spending taxpayer money here. These are not donor dollars. These are taxpayer dollars. And we owe the American people the assurances that every dollar we are spending abroad is being spent on something that furthers our national interests. And so far, a lot of the people that work at USAID have just simply refused to cooperate. Pretty strong words. Pretty strong words. Unfortunately for Marco Rubio, that's in sharp contrast to what he said just a few years ago. Watch this. We don't have to give foreign aid. We do so because it furthers our national interest. That's why we give foreign aid. Now, obviously, there's a component to foreign aid that's

humanitarian in scope, and that's important, too. I promise you it's going to be a lot harder to recruit someone to anti-Americanism, anti-American terrorism, if the United States of America was the reason why they're even alive today. Anybody who tells you that we can slash foreign aid and that will bring us to balance is lying to you. Foreign aid is less than 1% of our budget. It's just not true. It's just incredible to see how quickly someone can turn just for power, just for power. And Marco Rubio, Marco Rubio from a year ago is right that USAID is so important because we don't give it out of the goodness of our heart. We do it because it advanced our interests. It keeps us safer. It makes democracy look like the shining star in the sky that we needed to. We want

it to be something people aspire for, that it spreads goodness. Of course, we're doing it for our own self-interest, but it also does help people. And when you help people, they're more likely to like you. Just think about in your own life, you know, if someone opens the door for you, you think to yourself, oh, that's, I was nice to them. You know, they don't have to do it. They do it to be nice. You immediately feel goodness towards them. And that is why we want to be doing this, because we want countries and nations to think positively of the United States. And while we're not doing it, and Donald Trump has cut 10,000 USA aid employees, a global program to 300, less than 300.

So it is essentially stopping. who does do things like helps build roads and they actually provide surveillance technology to young countries, they're more likely to gain favor, which helps them grow. And imagine this scenario where China's like, hey, we're going to help you with your malaria outbreak. How about in exchange for that, you just let us build a small base over here. No harm, no foul, right? So it is incredibly important that we invest in goodness because it helps keep us safer. And here's what Marco Rubio was just writing less than two years ago. I urge you to use your fiscal year 2023 budget request for the Defense Department, Department of State, and U.S. Agency for International Development to send a clear message that the United States has a comprehensive strategy to counter the Chinese Communist Party's expanding global influence

and the increasing threat that it poses to U.S. security interests and those of our allies. Yeah. So Marco Rubio knows the score. And he also knows with this insane Gaza proposal Trump has put in place where he wants the U.S. to own it. Marco Rubio said Gaza must be free from Hamas. As POTUS shared today, the United States stands ready to lead and make Gaza beautiful again. Our pursuit is one of the lasting peace in the region for all people. OK. All right. And of course, this is are you getting the theme? There is a video of Marco Rubio actually attacking Donald Trump on this very issue. Here it is.

In all fairness, Marco is not a negotiator. I watched him melt down, and I'll tell you, it was one of the saddest things I've ever seen. He's not going down. He thinks the Palestinian is a real estate deal. These people may even be tougher than Chris Christie. The Palestinians are not a real estate deal, Donald. No, no, no. A deal is estate deal. And these people may even be tougher than Chris Christie, okay? The Palestinians are not a real estate deal, Donald. Okay, no, no, no. A deal is a deal.

They're not a real estate deal. Let me tell you, I've heard it a long time ago. A deal is not a deal when you're dealing with terrorists. Have you ever negotiated with terrorists? You are not a negotiator. You are not a negotiator. And with your thinking, you will never bring peace. You will never bring peace.

Donald might be able to bring both condos in the Palestinian areas, but this is not a real estate deal. Senator, he will never be able to do it. I think I may be able to do it, although I will say this. Probably the toughest deal of any kind is that particular deal. So, yeah, I don't know what's worse. I don't know what's worse. I don't know what's worse to believe in Donald Trump wholeheart wholeheartedly. Or to know what Donald Trump is saying and doing is wrong

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For this final story, can we all disagree that Donald Trump is not all there? I mean, we just saw a clip of Donald Trump from just 2015, 2016. Totally different person in terms of speaking style, cadence, the way he moves. I mean, it is a fact that as you get older, things slow down and there's nothing wrong with that. But I think what we're seeing with Trump is different than just normal decline as you age. As we know, Nancy Pelosi, though might look older, she's still 100% there. And though I hate Chuck Grassley,

don't like Chuck Grassley, that man is sharp, okay? So getting old does not necessarily mean losing your wits. But I think there's something different going on with Donald Trump. And I think the media is doing a good job covering up. Sometimes it comes out a little bit and we see reality for what it is. And Megyn Kelly, of all people, has even mentioned this.

So before we get to that clip, let's just see what Megyn Kelly has to say about Donald Trump's mental decline. But there's no question Trump has lost a step or multiple steps. He is confusing Joe Biden for Obama. I know he's now saying he intentionally did that. Go back and look at the clips. It wasn't intentional. It was very look, any of us could have a slip of the tongue, but it's happening to him repeatedly. The reference about how somebody's going to get us into World War II, confusing

countries, confusing cities, it's happening more and more. With all due respect to Trump, this is what happens when you're 77 years old. Trump seems inhuman, but he's not inhuman. He's a human. He's a man. DeSantis' line about father time spares no one was a good one.

But there's no question Trump. Yeah. So there is no question Trump is losing it. And the most powerful person in the world, we don't know what his fitness is. I will not trust the doctors who evaluate Trump, whatever that means. Donald Trump was just not there during the prayer breakfast. water supplies from North Carolina played no part in the ability of firefighters to combat the flames in Los Angeles County. If the purpose was to help with fires in Southern California, we do not believe that it will because that's not where the water goes. Okay. So he's talking about water. He's talking about flowing it. Let's just get into it. But what he's saying here is not true. And because the environmentalists didn't want water. They still don't want it.

If they had their choice, they don't want it. I said, are you crazy? And I hope you I'm sure you've seen it. The water comes down from the northwest parts of Canada, I guess. And but the Pacific Northwest. And it comes down by millions and millions of barrels a day. And I opened it up. Wasn't that easy to do? comes down by millions and millions of barrels a day. And I opened it up.

It wasn't that easy to do, but I opened it up, and it's pouring down, and it's a beautiful thing. And it should have happened. I told them to do it in my last term. They didn't do it, but now we just did it. They didn't want to do it, but we did it. And because the environment and... Yeah, did any of you get that? So Donald Trump thinks water takes down from Canada.

What the heck is he talking about? Does he literally think that because Canada is above the U.S. on a map, water must automatically flow south? Oh, my God. He actually believes that. Measuring river in barrels, a standard unit of measurement for oil is so perfectly Trump. Times editorial board would not have enough room on its opinion page for the Biden must resign pieces if he said any of this. Yes, absolutely. This is 100% nonsense. It's pouring into the Pacific Ocean. Every pro water pro in California is shaking their head and rolling their eyes. Trump has no understanding of complicated water issues. None. He is wasting water, which is a precious supply in California, which doesn't get enough rain. Not one word of this is true. Not one. Even the articles and prepositions are lies because of their association with nouns and verbs. That's very, very funny. Here is Congressman Liu explaining what this water is really there for.

I just want to explain. When you solve for the wrong problem, not only do you not get the solution you can cause harm so Donald Trump has it in his mind that somehow there's a speaker in Northern California and he's an open a valve and dump water to Southern California here are the facts Southern California's reservoirs or a near record levels when this fire happened did it matter because Donald Trump then ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to release over two billion gallons of water that almost flooded farmland, if not for the local water districts that pushed back. But guess what? This water was saved for the farmers for the summer season when they needed the water. And so the president wasted all this water

that isn't even reaching Southern California. It's going to evaporate for a PR stunt. So this is a harmful, ludicrous action to solve for the wrong problem. Yeah, so that is the problem with having a president who is a narcissist and who is also losing his mind because he does stuff like this. And he thinks because he survived an assassination attempt, because he's been the president twice, and because he is a sociopathic narcissist, he thinks that anything he thinks of must be the right answer. And it wasn't.

And this, what I love that Congressman Lew did there was that he didn't make it about the process. And I think that's something that we as Democrats get stuck on a lot, is we want to talk about the facts and the figures. And we want to talk about how you didn't sign this form, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But humans are storytellers. Before we could read or write, we were telling stories. And the most persuasive thing we can do with our messaging is tell the stories of how Donald

Trump's insanity is hurting us, is hurting others. So Congressman Lew there saying that this water was intended for farmers and that it could flood the farmers because too much was released is a great start because everything he's doing, from the eggs to Doge to USAID, these all have human impacts. So my hope is that Democrats will take the very real stories from people who are going to be negatively impacted by these decisions that are being made on a whim, whether they be through Doge, USAID, or any sort of stupid decision Donald Trump makes.

And we either find them and we share their stories, or the people who share their stories online, there's lots of content on TikTok. We just amplify it because we need to have our own Lakin-Riley Act. There needs to be something like that that we can fight for that represents the totality of all of the danger Donald Trump is putting us in, whether it be the planes falling down or the water flowing when it shouldn't. So Democrats, please keep telling stories about human beings, not about agencies, not about government employees, about Americans getting damaged by Trump's own decisions. Okay, well, that's all I got. Thank you so much. This is my final day. I really do appreciate you all just like welcoming me. The comments have been so nice and joyful. And it's been a, it's just been a real treat to be able to be here on the David Pakman show.

David doesn't know this, but I used to watch the show a lot before I got into YouTube. And I actually yeah, he was very inspiring to me. So it has been kind of like a really beautiful 360 moment to be here on the show when it was something that I used to watch and aspire to. So thank you all so much for watching. I am Keith Edwards. I do host the Keith Edwards show here on YouTube. If you'd like this reporting, please come check me out. We've got a great community over there and I will see you next time. Bye.