Speaker 1: This is the US Report with James Morrow.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the program coming up tonight.
Speaker 2: Where to now for the Donald and Elon? And will
Speaker 2: America ever get its finances back on track? Plus China's
Speaker 2: new bio warfare threat? Was there a secret plot by
Speaker 2: Beijing to smuggle crop killing diseases into the USA? And oh,
Speaker 2: apparently it's not nice to deport the families of alleged terrorists,
Speaker 2: even if they've overstayed their visas themselves. The latest idiocy
Speaker 2: from the tolerant left. But first, breaking news from the
Speaker 2: intersection of politics and technology. Former best buddies Donald Trump
Speaker 2: and Elon Musk are now engaged in a throwdown for
Speaker 2: the ages best buddies know more. They are now anything
Speaker 2: but friends and may in fact be now the best
Speaker 2: of enemies. Let's get stuck into what has been going
Speaker 2: on over the past few hours. The heart of the issue,
Speaker 2: the trigger for the fight between these two men, would
Speaker 2: seem to be Donald Trump's big, beautiful spending and tax
Speaker 2: cut bill, which has passed the House but still has
Speaker 2: to get through the Senate. Now, despite what has been called,
Speaker 2: there's been a growing concern which I brought to you
Speaker 2: last week that this bill was not going to go
Speaker 2: far enough to cut spending and save America from going
Speaker 2: off a debt cliff. Elon Musk also called it out,
Speaker 2: and I agreed with him when he left DOGE as
Speaker 2: his one hundred and thirty day term especial government advisor
Speaker 2: clocked out because the thing is, Musk had a point.
Speaker 2: The US debt is growing by something like a trillion
Speaker 2: dollars every one hundred and eighty days. That's not a joke,
Speaker 2: as Joe Biden would say. And the big beautiful bill
Speaker 2: of Donald Trump doesn't go anywhere near far enough to
Speaker 2: fix the overall problem. Well, okay, that's the policy dispute,
Speaker 2: but who boy, Now it is personal and there is
Speaker 2: clearly so much more happening behind the scenes driving this
Speaker 2: fight that is burst out into the headlines today. Because
Speaker 2: if you thought social media cat fights were nasty in
Speaker 2: high school, well check out what happens when the world's
Speaker 2: richest man and the world's most powerful man throw down online. Earlier,
Speaker 2: on his true social account, Trump posted this, and this
Speaker 2: was in response to a number of tweets by Elon
Speaker 2: Musk attacking the budget bill. Trump said Elon was wearing
Speaker 2: thin I asked him to leave. I took away his
Speaker 2: EV mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars that
Speaker 2: nobody else wanted, that he knew for months I was
Speaker 2: going to do, and he just went crazy, Trump said.
Speaker 2: Trump followed that up with this post. He said, the
Speaker 2: easiest way to save money in our budget, billions of dollars,
Speaker 2: is to terminate elon governmental subsidasent contracts. I was always
Speaker 2: surprised that Biden didn't do what he said, and Trump
Speaker 2: had this to say in the Oval Office just a
Speaker 2: little while ago.
Speaker 3: I'm very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this.
Speaker 4: Bill better than almost anybody sitting.
Speaker 3: Here, better than you people.
Speaker 4: He knew everything about it. He had no problem with it.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden he.
Speaker 3: Had a problem. And he only developed the problem when
Speaker 3: you found out that we're going to have to cut
Speaker 3: the EV manto. He knew every aspect of this bill,
Speaker 3: he knew it better than almost anybody, and he never
Speaker 3: had a problem until right after he left. And if
Speaker 3: you saw these sagments he made about me, which I'm
Speaker 3: sure you can get for age, it's very fresh on tape.
Speaker 3: He said the most beautiful things about me, and he
Speaker 3: hasn't said bad about me personally, but I'm sure that'll
Speaker 3: be next.
Speaker 2: Ah, yes, but I'm sure that'll be next. The President said, well,
Speaker 2: hold that thought, because indeed that is what came next.
Speaker 2: Elon hit back, and the word hit by the way
Speaker 2: also comes into this a bit later. Just trust me
Speaker 2: on this. Elon called Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson
Speaker 2: out on their previous commitments to cutting spending when they
Speaker 2: say the Big Beautiful Bill barely touches aside. Musk also
Speaker 2: noted that he's always been against EV subsidies, despite what
Speaker 2: the President says, reposting this from twenty twenty one.
Speaker 5: We don't need this seventy five hundred dollar TAXTS credit.
Speaker 6: I would say, honestly, I would just candae hold bill,
Speaker 6: don't pass it.
Speaker 7: That's my recommendation.
Speaker 8: About what about the support though for the charging it
Speaker 8: or I mean, there are parts of this billing.
Speaker 2: Musk has also gone through Trump's old tweets when Trump
Speaker 2: said that no member of Congress should be re elected
Speaker 2: if the budget is not balanced, something the Big Beautiful
Speaker 2: Bill fails to do. But as foreshadowed, Elon also got personal,
Speaker 2: I mean really personal, writing just hours ago quote time
Speaker 2: to drop the really big bomb. Donald Trump is in
Speaker 2: the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have
Speaker 2: not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't really know where to go with this though. Really,
Speaker 2: Donald Trump has no choice now but to finally release
Speaker 2: the full Epstein files, and not just those binders full
Speaker 2: of nonsense he handed out back in February. It's the
Speaker 2: bright wig influencers. But this all gets even more reality
Speaker 2: show because if you look at this little shiner Elon
Speaker 2: Musk seems to be sporting in this White House press conference. Well,
Speaker 2: Trump also made reference to this when he spoke in
Speaker 2: the Oval office earlier.
Speaker 3: You saw a man who was very happy when he
Speaker 3: stood behind the Oval desk, and even.
Speaker 9: With the black guy.
Speaker 4: I said, do you want a little makeup?
Speaker 3: We'll get you to the Mecca, but he said no,
Speaker 3: I don't think so, which is interesting.
Speaker 8: And very nice.
Speaker 3: He wants to be who he is, so you could
Speaker 3: make that stuff in two I guess.
Speaker 2: That's pretty interesting. Why would he even bother mentioning this?
Speaker 2: What is this all about? Well, as I told you earlier,
Speaker 2: the word hit would come into play here and the
Speaker 2: rumor that is going around and I stress it. It's
Speaker 2: just a rumor, but it's being pushed by Trump pop proxies.
Speaker 2: Is that Elon received that black guy courtesy of White
Speaker 2: House advisor and deportation savant Stephen Miller. Because and again
Speaker 2: I stress as a rumor, there's probably nothing to it,
Speaker 2: I'm sure, but the accusation is that Elon made a
Speaker 2: play for Miller's wife. Ed Miller responded in kind Wow. Anyway,
Speaker 2: it's just scirless gossip going around, but it shows just
Speaker 2: how far things have descended between the two men and
Speaker 2: their warring camps. Now, this is so wild that it's
Speaker 2: hard not to have a little fun with it. I mean,
Speaker 2: Internet philosopher Jarvis, a very funny guy on X, posted
Speaker 2: this and said it was time for the pair to
Speaker 2: be forced to wear their get along shirt, and others
Speaker 2: have wondered if the search term how do I get
Speaker 2: the add to Elon sticker off by Tesla without wrecking
Speaker 2: the paint has started trending across the country. But there
Speaker 2: is more to this too, and more serious stuff. Billions
Speaker 2: of dollars is at stake. Trump is pulling Musk's SpaceX
Speaker 2: government contracts, and Musk has shut down his Dragon space program.
Speaker 2: Is there some four D chess going on here? You
Speaker 2: have to wonder, I mean, why are these two going
Speaker 2: at it like this? Is this cover for Trump to
Speaker 2: kill a bad bill? Is this some other political strategy
Speaker 2: at work? I don't know, but maybe. But this is still, though,
Speaker 2: the predictable result of what happens when you have two
Speaker 2: giant egos and two giant bank accounts and two men
Speaker 2: who think they're the one in charge in the same place.
Speaker 2: Because politics are no this is serious business. And frankly,
Speaker 2: while I think that Elon Musk has a real point,
Speaker 2: because the US debt is growing, as I said, at
Speaker 2: an unsustainable rate a trillion dollars every six months, this
Speaker 2: online tantrum is really destructive because in politics, you know,
Speaker 2: the perfect has very often made the enemy of the good.
Speaker 2: The big beautiful bill does, according to the White House,
Speaker 2: contain one point six trillion dollars in spending cuts and
Speaker 2: keeps tax cuts in place. And now, with both sides
Speaker 2: getting absolutely into the mud, the vital business of getting
Speaker 2: America back on fiscal track has been pushed to the
Speaker 2: back burner. As Donald Trump himself might say, sad, hey,
Speaker 2: before I bring in my first guest, While the White
Speaker 2: House may be melting down. I thought it was only
Speaker 2: fair to show you also just how adrift the Democrats
Speaker 2: are at this moment. Yesterday I turned into the debate
Speaker 2: between Democrats from mayor in my old hometown of New York,
Speaker 2: and I couldn't believe what they were saying. Look at this.
Speaker 2: Here's one candidate, Brad Lager, saying that he would warn
Speaker 2: illegal immigrants of ice raids and give them free health care.
Speaker 10: Absolutely warn people before they walk into ice. I've proposed
Speaker 10: creating an independent health authority to segment off city money
Speaker 10: from Medicaid money. And I want to expand NYC care
Speaker 10: so it's not just in health and hospitals, but in
Speaker 10: our federally qualified health centers as well.
Speaker 2: And here's Jessica Ramos saying she wants to get lawyers
Speaker 2: to help local illegal immigrants and get them into the workforce.
Speaker 11: I want to make sure that in a town with
Speaker 11: so many lawyers, our immigrants have lawyers, and our immigrants
Speaker 11: do what they came here to do work. It is
Speaker 11: our response. It will be my responsibility as mayor of
Speaker 11: the City of New York.
Speaker 2: Local workers having their wages pushed down will surely be
Speaker 2: grateful for her efforts. Meanwhile, Muslim socialist candidate Zorrod Mamdani,
Speaker 2: who is looking a good chance to get the domination,
Speaker 2: well he couldn't even support the idea of Israel as
Speaker 2: a Jewish state.
Speaker 12: Does guess or no?
Speaker 4: Do you believe in a Jewish state of Israel?
Speaker 9: I believe Israel has the rights to exist as a
Speaker 9: Jewish state, as.
Speaker 2: A state with equal rights. Yeah, equal rights. I think
Speaker 2: we all know what that means, and we saw it
Speaker 2: on October seventh. Look, it's clear to me that the Democrats,
Speaker 2: for as much as they complained about Trump and whip
Speaker 2: up every move he makes into something bigger than Watergate,
Speaker 2: well they haven't learned the lesson of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Americans reject comprehensively all that open border stuff that they
Speaker 2: were talking about. They reject anti Semitism, and they reject
Speaker 2: every other nutty proposition of the progressive left that was
Speaker 2: up on that debate stage there the other night. Americans
Speaker 2: gave it a hard no. Yet absent any adult leadership
Speaker 2: in the playbook, this is what the Democrats are running with.
Speaker 2: The fact is a smart party would be capitalizing on
Speaker 2: what's going on in Washtin right now. But the Democrats,
Speaker 2: well they are still stuck back in a Black Lives
Speaker 2: Matter riot. Well, joining me now to break this all
Speaker 2: down is Fox News contributor Joe Conca. Joe, thanks for
Speaker 2: joining me on this well, very slow news day that
Speaker 2: we're happy having in the United States. Tell me what
Speaker 2: the hell is going on with Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Speaker 13: I think no one can tell you what's going on
Speaker 13: with Elon Musk and Donald Trump. At this point. I
Speaker 13: was at mar A Lago New Year's Eve, and I
Speaker 13: saw these two men sitting next to each other at
Speaker 13: the President's table, and they were talking NonStop. They seemed
Speaker 13: to get along so well, not just in private, but
Speaker 13: in public as well. They seem to have the same
Speaker 13: mission in terms of cutting waste, fraud, and corruption from
Speaker 13: the US government. It exists in every government basically, especially here.
Speaker 13: And then this just kind of came out of nowhere.
Speaker 13: Quite frankly. Elon Musk, in terms of being a temporary
Speaker 13: employee of the government, leaves and suddenly started doing interviews
Speaker 13: where he was sort of kind of insulting or not insulting,
Speaker 13: at least criticizing the administration. And then suddenly on social
Speaker 13: media over the last two days just exploded completely, where
Speaker 13: at one point he's accusing Donald Trump and being in
Speaker 13: the Epstein file. So this is not something that I
Speaker 13: think could be repaired at this point. The question is
Speaker 13: can Donald Trump get his big beautiful bill over the
Speaker 13: finish line to his desk and Elon Musk, I guess
Speaker 13: I just don't know. I wish I could tell you
Speaker 13: what's going on, but no one knows what's going on
Speaker 13: at this point.
Speaker 2: Well, look, I know, and we're all just sort of
Speaker 2: speculating here. But two things I find really fascinating here.
Speaker 2: Number One, and we all know that Donald Trump sometimes
Speaker 2: has personality clashes with people, but very often he initiates those.
Speaker 2: This is a case though, where it seems like looking
Speaker 2: through the timeline, Elon Musk very much provoked this fight.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking that just when it comes to the
Speaker 2: nature of money versus power, you know, he may have
Speaker 2: the money, but Donald Trump has the power, and some
Speaker 2: of this stuff that he's been doing, I think, you know,
Speaker 2: he's maybe cut himself a bit loose, even though he's
Speaker 2: got a fair point about this fiscal state of the
Speaker 2: United States.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's the thing here. Usually you hit Donald Trump,
Speaker 13: it's an immediate CounterPunch. In this case, it took days
Speaker 13: before Trump responded. And really, I mean, Musk was just
Speaker 13: egging and egging as far as a bunch of stuff
Speaker 13: again on social media, which were very personal, very snarky,
Speaker 13: and you would think the men hated each other their
Speaker 13: whole lives. But Trump finally had to respond. But he
Speaker 13: almost looks like the adult here to this point compared
Speaker 13: to Musk as far as what exactly he's trying to
Speaker 13: communicate here. And I'm talking about Elon Musk, because yeah,
Speaker 13: everybody thinks that we get cut more in spending, but
Speaker 13: you can't pass a bill with the minorities that the
Speaker 13: majorities as you say, Republicans have in the House in
Speaker 13: the Senate, which are very very slim in order to
Speaker 13: pass this. What Elon Musk wants is not based in reality.
Speaker 13: You know, politics is the possibility of the possible, right.
Speaker 13: In other words, you have to be able to live
Speaker 13: in a pragmatic world in order to say, Okay, we
Speaker 13: want to cut all these things but also have tax cuts, Well,
Speaker 13: you can't have both. In this case, Donald Trump wants
Speaker 13: growth as far as like the deficit. That's something different altogether.
Speaker 13: But I think Elon Musk is definitely looking like he's
Speaker 13: in the wrong here, and the fact that he doesn't
Speaker 13: have a plan that he's offering up himself says a
Speaker 13: lot about what this argument's about.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, that's right, Joe. I mean, Elon Musk
Speaker 2: did spend all of that time, one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: days running DOGE, and you know, he found a lot
Speaker 2: of things. He cut a lot of things, but you know,
Speaker 2: ultimately it hasn't produced anywhere near the sort of savings
Speaker 2: that were promised to us all when he came in
Speaker 2: and he was given that commission.
Speaker 13: Yeah, he wanted one trillion in cuts. He found about
Speaker 13: one hundred and seventy five billion. Now, he found it,
Speaker 13: but he can't just cut it, right, I mean, the
Speaker 13: Congress has to do that. It's recommendations at this point.
Speaker 13: So here's the thing, and I don't want to go
Speaker 13: into the weeds too much for your audience, but basically,
Speaker 13: the big Beautiful bill is about mandatory spending cuts. What
Speaker 13: Elon Musk found in DOGE is discretionary. And that's a
Speaker 13: second bill that Trump says is coming and we'll start
Speaker 13: to cut based on Elon Musk recommendations, but in the
Speaker 13: big beautiful bill that that's not about what Elon Musk found.
Speaker 13: But he seems to be confused as far as what
Speaker 13: can be done in this bill and what can be
Speaker 13: done in a future bill. And I think that the
Speaker 13: President's team and the President himself has tried to tell
Speaker 13: must this, but he's just not listening at this point.
Speaker 13: The bottom line is that you can't run the government
Speaker 13: like you can a company like Twitter, for example, when
Speaker 13: he brought it where you just start cutting stuff, there's
Speaker 13: a lot of other things involved. There are Congresses and
Speaker 13: senates and majorities and minorities. It's just not the way
Speaker 13: that Elon Musk thinks it should go, because that's just
Speaker 13: not the way government works.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean, look, I just think that it's
Speaker 2: such a shame when I keep saying it that the
Speaker 2: US is headed for a fiscal cliff, and you take
Speaker 2: these personalities out of it, the same problem still exists,
Speaker 2: and this is going to have to be sorted out
Speaker 2: one way or the other. But you know, in the meantime,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of other things going on here. We
Speaker 2: had President Trump opposing a travel ban on citizens from
Speaker 2: twelve countries Afghanistan, yemen, I, ran a bunch of others,
Speaker 2: and a partial ban on some other ones. Now this
Speaker 2: is now the first time President Trump has evoked a ban.
Speaker 2: But this has got the left absolutely up in arms.
Speaker 2: Yet when you look at the executive order, it seems
Speaker 2: to me it's got some good reasons, including the fact
Speaker 2: that a lot of these countries, about twenty percent of
Speaker 2: the people who come in overstay their visas.
Speaker 13: Yes, exactly, and we saw that recently in Boulder, Colorado,
Speaker 13: or a man who overstayed his visa from Egypt, then
Speaker 13: got two work permits through the Biden administration, then declared asylum,
Speaker 13: which means you get to stay longer because the system's
Speaker 13: so overwhelmed you can't hear your case for years, and
Speaker 13: then carried out what looked like a reenactment of the Holocaust,
Speaker 13: where he literally tried to light elderly Jews on fire
Speaker 13: who were just gathering to call for the release of
Speaker 13: Israeli hostages from Gaza who had been there since October
Speaker 13: seventh of twenty twenty three. And this guy goes in
Speaker 13: and basically throws Molotov cocktails at them and tries to
Speaker 13: murder them. So that's Trump's point that we can't have
Speaker 13: people from countries that come in here on work visas
Speaker 13: or visit visas and then they overstay they're welcome. It's
Speaker 13: something like forty percent of people have visas, overstay their
Speaker 13: welcome end up staying in the country altogether. And many
Speaker 13: of those countries are hostile to the United States. So
Speaker 13: as far as the way the American people see this,
Speaker 13: they're in agreement with it. But of course the American
Speaker 13: media and Democrats are saying this is horrible, and this
Speaker 13: is xenophobia, and this is racism, all those things. But
Speaker 13: they're not on the right side of the argument when
Speaker 13: it comes to what the American people think. That's certainly
Speaker 13: for sure.
Speaker 2: Well, they're absolutely not cho because this is absolutely striking
Speaker 2: to me. You know, this guy who came in stayed
Speaker 2: his visa, allegedly committed the serific crime in Little Colorado.
Speaker 2: He brought his whole family, and the family overstayed their
Speaker 2: visas apparently too. Now quite obviously the government is trying
Speaker 2: to kick them out and deport them. And yet you
Speaker 2: now have lawyers who are now filing suits to let
Speaker 2: the family stay in. And you've got newspaper articles about, oh,
Speaker 2: how these people's dreams are going to be crushed of
Speaker 2: living in America. Well, they've already overstayed their visa. How
Speaker 2: is this going to help the Democrats at all? I
Speaker 2: would think the Democrats would have so much they could
Speaker 2: work with right now with what's going on, and yet
Speaker 2: they keep finding themselves on the wrong side of these
Speaker 2: really common sense issues.
Speaker 13: That's the thing, right, I mean, you have like kilmar
Speaker 13: Garcia abrego Garcia, excuse me, who is the Mariland man,
Speaker 13: the loving father who oh you ms gangbanger who happened
Speaker 13: to beat his wife, happened to engage in human trafficking allegedly,
Speaker 13: and you have Democratic lawmakers going down to El Salvador
Speaker 13: to have margaritas with these people. It's amazing how they
Speaker 13: are trying to protect the people that are here illegally
Speaker 13: in committing crimes over the people that they're supposed to protect,
Speaker 13: which are people are here legally and not committing crimes.
Speaker 13: So again, forget eighty twenty issue, this is like a
Speaker 13: ninety nine to one issue in terms of ninety nine
Speaker 13: percent of people think that violent criminals who are here
Speaker 13: in the US illegally should be gone, and the other
Speaker 13: one percent say no, and those one percent are probably drunk.
Speaker 2: Joe Kanco, I'm gonna have to leave it there. Thanks
Speaker 2: so much for joining me. I'll lets you go get
Speaker 2: one of those margarita's, but not with an MS thirteen member.
Speaker 13: Oh not tonight, but thank you. I appreciate that. I
Speaker 13: have a good night.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, there's so much news going on. We don't
Speaker 2: want to miss any of the other things that have
Speaker 2: been happening this week, and that's why we're joined now
Speaker 2: by Peter Schweitzer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and
Speaker 2: author of Red Handed, How American Elites got rich helping
Speaker 2: China win. Peter, thanks for joining me today. And there's
Speaker 2: a really disturbing story I heard about this week coming
Speaker 2: out of Michigan, where two Chinese students are being invested
Speaker 2: negated for bringing in a toxic fungus to the United States. Now,
Speaker 2: according to reports, the FBI said authorities also found, along
Speaker 2: with the fungus, a scientific article on one of the
Speaker 2: two's phones titled plant pathogen warfare under Changing Climate Conditions.
Speaker 2: The charge has been laid against two of these dudents
Speaker 2: for conspiracy, smuggling, false statements, and visa fraud. But this
Speaker 2: Peter is a really shocking story with some really terrifying implications.
Speaker 2: Tell us about it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it is. I mean, China operates under something called
Speaker 8: disintegration warfare, and it's basically, we are going to be
Speaker 8: at war with the West, Australia, the United States, and Europe.
Speaker 8: We're going to do it short of kinetic warfare because
Speaker 8: we don't want a shooting war, but we're going to
Speaker 8: use things like fentanol, for example, or plant pathogens to
Speaker 8: make life very difficult for these countries. And this seems
Speaker 8: to be another example of that type of warfare. And
Speaker 8: I think it speaks to the large problem this debate
Speaker 8: we're having in the United States about the role of
Speaker 8: Chinese students. I mean, look, I think we all would
Speaker 8: love to have students come from around the world learn
Speaker 8: help the United States learn more on scientific issues. The
Speaker 8: problem is when you look at so many of the
Speaker 8: issues taking place, it involves Chinese students. Look at the
Speaker 8: issue of fentanyl. I mean, the Drug Enforcement Agency has
Speaker 8: been saying it for years. The money laundering that takes
Speaker 8: place by the drug cartels in the United States oftentimes
Speaker 8: is done by Chinese students who are in the United
Speaker 8: States on student visas. They bring suitcases of cash to
Speaker 8: Chinese state owned banks in the United States to launder
Speaker 8: the money. You have this issue of pathogens, You certainly
Speaker 8: have the issue of technology being stolen. So it is
Speaker 8: a major problem. These are not students as we traditionally
Speaker 8: think about it in the context of the Western.
Speaker 2: World, and Peter, it's been revealed, just speaking about students,
Speaker 2: and particularly Harvard, which is of course ground zero for
Speaker 2: so much from the Trump administration's efforts to fight against
Speaker 2: this phenomenon. It's been revealed that Harvard's twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: commencement speaker, Luana Yorongjiang, apparently worked for a Chinese Communist
Speaker 2: party entity with extensive ties to Beijing's military and intelligence networks.
Speaker 2: Here's a little bit what she spoke about.
Speaker 1: I promise of a connected world, it's giving way to division, fear,
Speaker 1: and conflict. We're starting to believe those who think differently,
Speaker 1: vote differently, will pray differently. But are they across the
Speaker 1: ocean we're sitting right next to us. I'm not just
Speaker 1: wrom we mistakenly see them as evil.
Speaker 2: I mean, Peter, this struck me here listening to her that.
Speaker 2: Really what's fascinating is you got this person who has
Speaker 2: got ties to the Chinese Communist Party using woke speak
Speaker 2: to essentially basically push their agenda. Tell us about this.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a classic example of Chinese propaganda. I mean
Speaker 8: they talk about issues like human rights, they talk about diversity,
Speaker 8: they talk about racial intolerance. If you want to look
Speaker 8: at the major problem in all of those areas, it's
Speaker 8: in China under the CCP, And yet they come here
Speaker 8: and lecture us about problems that, yes, we do have
Speaker 8: sometimes in these areas. The thing to keep in mind
Speaker 8: is with her, but also with a lot of the
Speaker 8: students that are going to Harvard. These are not you know,
Speaker 8: nineteen twenty one year old kids that are coming to
Speaker 8: Harvard fresh out of college, sort of with wide eyes
Speaker 8: looking at the world. These are oftentimes middle ranking bureaucrats
Speaker 8: in their late twenties that are going to the Kennedy
Speaker 8: School at Harvard. They're going to get their MBA at Harvard,
Speaker 8: maybe they're coming to study the hard sciences. These are
Speaker 8: people that are already part of the CCP party and
Speaker 8: government apparatus. So we need to stop engaging in mirror imaging.
Speaker 8: That is thinking that when China is sending students is
Speaker 8: just as if Australia or the United States is sending students.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 8: It's part of a sophisticated effort that they have to
Speaker 8: undermine the United States to gather intelligence and to perpetuate
Speaker 8: the interests of the CCP. So when they talk about
Speaker 8: issues like racial justice, the question that needs to be
Speaker 8: asked of them is how is China doing, and not
Speaker 8: how are the wigers doing? How is Tibet doing, How
Speaker 8: are racial minorities in China doing? The answer is not
Speaker 8: good at all. So that's completely dis ingenuous when they
Speaker 8: talk about these things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, exactly right. And you know this also leads
Speaker 2: to other issues. It's not just the schools, of course,
Speaker 2: in the United States, there's also issuament land and assets,
Speaker 2: and you know, particularly land and farmland near American military
Speaker 2: ins installations. Big contract this week in Arizona, where the
Speaker 2: governor Katie Hobbs is she's under fire for VENO, a
Speaker 2: bill that would have banned the Chinese government from owning
Speaker 2: a stake of thirty percent or more of any property
Speaker 2: in the state.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Hobbes argued that the bill lacks implementation criteria and opens
Speaker 2: the door to arbitrary enforcement. But you know, when do
Speaker 2: you think about this in the context of the Chinese
Speaker 2: Communist Party's war to undermine the West, which is season
Speaker 2: arrival and has a long history of doing this sort
Speaker 2: of thing, it would seem that this would make strategic sense.
Speaker 2: Here in Australia, we have a fight to get our
Speaker 2: port of Darwin back, which is a critical port. It
Speaker 2: seems that this would be a no brainer.
Speaker 8: In the US, Yeah, it should be a no brainer.
Speaker 8: Certainly Arizona's that's the case. In California, Governor Gavin Newsom
Speaker 8: veto to bill. The bill in California, it was passed
Speaker 8: by Democrats and Republicans with strong majorities in the state legislature.
Speaker 8: That bill simply said that Chinese government cannot buy land,
Speaker 8: and Gavin Newsom didn't want to prevent that from happening either.
Speaker 8: All I would contend to people who say, oh, this
Speaker 8: has much ado about nothing is look at what just happened,
Speaker 8: what Ukraine just did with Russia, and I say, good job, rightfully.
Speaker 8: So they were able to smuggle in drones, launch those
Speaker 8: drones with military precision, and take out major aircraft at
Speaker 8: Russian military bases, if you own farmland, if you own
Speaker 8: vacant lots near military installations. There is no reason God
Speaker 8: forbid if there was a major conflict between China and
Speaker 8: the United States, that China could not execute the exact
Speaker 8: same type of operation. So this is not fantasizing, This
Speaker 8: is not conspiracy theory. This is looking at the realities
Speaker 8: of warfare today. Warfare is no longer about guys in
Speaker 8: the trenches shooting at each other. It's far more mobile
Speaker 8: than that, and drone technology and other advanced technologies would
Speaker 8: allow China to use these strategic locations near US military
Speaker 8: installations to launch military strikes. Ukraine did it. Certainly China
Speaker 8: could do it against the United States if they needed to.
Speaker 2: Peter, I'm so glad you mentioned Ukraine because that was
Speaker 2: exactly my thought when I heard those reports out of Russia,
Speaker 2: and I thought, it won't always be the good guys
Speaker 2: who are manning those drones. Peter Schweitzer, thank you so
Speaker 2: much for joining me on the US report. Now stick
Speaker 2: around because when we get back, Gerard Baker is going
Speaker 2: to tell us more about the fight over the budget
Speaker 2: and the future of Trump at the Bag of Movement.
Speaker 2: But before we go to the break. Check this out.
Speaker 2: German Chancellor Frederick Mertz was just in the White House
Speaker 2: meeting with Donald Trump, and while it went a lot
Speaker 2: better than some recent meetings with world leaders, there was
Speaker 2: an interesting little discussion of history. Check this out.
Speaker 7: May I remind you that we are having June sixth tomorrow.
Speaker 7: This is d Day anniversary when the Americans once ended
Speaker 7: the war in Europe. And I think this is in
Speaker 7: your hand in specific in ours.
Speaker 4: That is not a pleasant day, fean, No, that was.
Speaker 2: Love of pleasant not a pleasant day. That's right. But
Speaker 2: you know what else, if the Allies hadn't won, hey
Speaker 2: might should be speaking German right now. Oh wait, hang
Speaker 2: on anyway, Gerard Baker coming up after the break. Welcome
Speaker 2: back to the program. In a moment, Baker will take
Speaker 2: us through the rot at Harvard and why Trump is
Speaker 2: right to be cleaning up the sewer of wokeness in
Speaker 2: higher education. If only some of our local leaders had
Speaker 2: that sort of courage. But before we get to all that,
Speaker 2: another rat is jumping off the sinking ship of Joe
Speaker 2: Biden's legacy. This time it's Corene Jean Pierre. You remember her.
Speaker 2: She was the one who was always circling back and
Speaker 2: unable to do anything more than gaslight the press corps.
Speaker 2: That no, really, Joe Biden totally okay, Well guess what,
Speaker 2: Like so many other people who were in on the grift,
Speaker 2: she's cashing in and selling out. Curine Jean Pierre is
Speaker 2: putting out now her own book about her time in
Speaker 2: what she calls a broken White House. Oh great now,
Speaker 2: she tells us, and oh, by the way, she's also
Speaker 2: declaring that she's no longer a Democrat. Instead she's independent. Well, okay, fine,
Speaker 2: But the funny thing is that just as everyone saw
Speaker 2: through Karine Jean Pierre's routine when she was Press secretary,
Speaker 2: seeing through her stick now Politico dot com reports that
Speaker 2: her former colleagues have their knives out. One Democrat operative
Speaker 2: who worked with Jean Pierre prior to her White House
Speaker 2: tenure called the son and turn about quote the most
Speaker 2: grifty thing I've seen in a long time, and that
Speaker 2: is saying something in Washington unquote. Journalist Mark Halprin was
Speaker 2: just on Fox saying the whole thing is a mess.
Speaker 6: A reaction across the board is shock for the reasons
Speaker 6: you said, how did she write it so quickly? Who's
Speaker 6: gonna buy it?
Speaker 1: And what is.
Speaker 6: Someone who was identified as a defender of a Democratic
Speaker 6: president in a couple months suddenly decides she's an independent.
Speaker 2: And here's CNN House Conservative and the only reason to
Speaker 2: switch over to that FETI network. Scott Jennings, I.
Speaker 9: Have a different view.
Speaker 12: I'd like to congratulate Democrats for riding yourselves of this
Speaker 12: untalented mediocrity. I mean, this is the most self aggrandizing
Speaker 12: liar that has ever held this job. The White House
Speaker 12: Press secretary is a sacred position, and she stood up
Speaker 12: there for years and lied through her teeth to the
Speaker 12: American people.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I don't think the
Speaker 2: cree Jean Pierre book screams bestseller at me now. Instead,
Speaker 2: I reckon it's about six months away from being piled
Speaker 2: up in the bargain been a cost Co, where it'll
Speaker 2: find a home with the works of so many other
Speaker 2: Democratic luminaries. All right, Well, joining me now is editor
Speaker 2: at Large and the Wall Street Journal Gerard Baker, to
Speaker 2: talk about all the huge news of the last twelve hours. Gerard,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining me when I had
Speaker 2: originally invited. Do you want to want to talk about
Speaker 2: Harvard and all that sort of stuff, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: get to that in a moment, I promise, But first
Speaker 2: of all, I've got to get your thoughts on this
Speaker 2: huge blow up between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, because
Speaker 2: at the start of the week we had sort of
Speaker 2: a philosophical fight between the MAGA and libertarian wings of
Speaker 2: the Republicans over this budget bill, and now it's turned
Speaker 2: into a full on personal Donnie Brook, the whole thing's
Speaker 2: very hard to fathom, and I'd love to explore with
Speaker 2: you where, beyond the egos and the personalities, what this
Speaker 2: split is on the right in America between you know,
Speaker 2: the purists who want more cuts, the Trump camp, and
Speaker 2: I guess any of the old school conservatives who must
Speaker 2: be looking at this and throwing up their hands. What
Speaker 2: do you make of all of it?
Speaker 5: Jarn Well, James, as you say, this is just absolutely spectacular, meltdown,
Speaker 5: blow up, whatever term you want to used to describe
Speaker 5: this breakdown and the relationship between these two men, who
Speaker 5: you know, enormously powerful men who seem to be complementing
Speaker 5: each other, both complementing in both senses of the word.
Speaker 5: Musk obviously helping get Donald Trump elected, and Musk helping
Speaker 5: hoping to get things out of his relationship with Donald Trump. Look,
Speaker 5: your right to put it in the context obviously what's
Speaker 5: going on more broadly in the Republican Party with this
Speaker 5: dispute within the party over whether or not this budget
Speaker 5: bill that they're trying to push through Congress, Donald Trump's
Speaker 5: big beautiful bill, which would cut taxes or more correctly,
Speaker 5: extend the tax cuts that are already in place which
Speaker 5: are due to expire at the end of this year,
Speaker 5: would extend those tax cuts, cut a little bit of spending,
Speaker 5: but overall it would add dramatically to the fiscal deficit
Speaker 5: the US, as you know, James already has a huge
Speaker 5: fiscal deficit. This would add significantly to it. The deficit
Speaker 5: would go up to something like sixty trillion dollars over
Speaker 5: the next sorry, the total debt the US has will
Speaker 5: go up to sixty trillion dollars over the next ten years.
Speaker 5: And there are a lot of Republicans who are very
Speaker 5: nervous about this, and Elon Musk is articulating those concerns.
Speaker 5: I think where it comes in particularly and where it's
Speaker 5: personal with Elon Musk. His Musk you remember, was the
Speaker 5: man that Donald Trump appointed to head the DOZE operationally
Speaker 5: Department of Government Efficiency. And I think Musk, you know,
Speaker 5: whatever else one thinks about Musk, I think must genuinely
Speaker 5: believed he had a kind of mission there to reduce
Speaker 5: the sizes of government, and to do that in order
Speaker 5: to get government spending on a kind of sustainable level,
Speaker 5: so that he would help, you know, his legacy would
Speaker 5: be dealing with this massive deficit. As it turned out,
Speaker 5: there was no real prospect of him being able to
Speaker 5: do much with that DOGE operation. Many vested interests in
Speaker 5: the government, including in the Republican Party, stopped him from
Speaker 5: doing that. I think he feels angry about that that
Speaker 5: in the end, you know, the big cuts he hoped
Speaker 5: to get ended up being an absolute paltry amount. And
Speaker 5: I think he's angry that he's been sort of rather
Speaker 5: exposed and humiliated and even used by the process. And
Speaker 5: that's why he's pushing this case now that these the
Speaker 5: budget bill that Congress is passing is very, very reckless,
Speaker 5: and of course this has put him straight into conflict
Speaker 5: with President Trump, who himself, of course is the man
Speaker 5: ultimately behind these policies.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's an interesting thing that we talk
Speaker 2: about here because if you take these two huge personalities
Speaker 2: Musk and Trump out of the equation, as you say,
Speaker 2: there's still this huge fiscal crisis in the American budget,
Speaker 2: and frankly we have a similar one on a smaller
Speaker 2: scale playing out here in Australia. Is it possible now
Speaker 2: for democracies like the United States, like Australia that are
Speaker 2: facing huge fiscal imbalances, that have huge demands for social services,
Speaker 2: with all of the guardrails in place, with all the
Speaker 2: politics that are involved, is there a way out? Do
Speaker 2: you think four countries like the United States to ever
Speaker 2: get back on a fiscal path or is there some
Speaker 2: cliff that the US is heading for that no personality,
Speaker 2: no Musk, no Trump, and certainly no major party can
Speaker 2: cope with.
Speaker 5: Well, there has to be a way out, because, as
Speaker 5: you say that the cliff option, if you're if you're
Speaker 5: heading down from a high place, down from a mountain,
Speaker 5: you've got two choices. One the steep decline, traversing around
Speaker 5: the bends and twists and managing that carefully or going
Speaker 5: over the edge. Only one typically ends up with you
Speaker 5: surviving at the end of it, So, you know, they've
Speaker 5: got to find a way down this from this extraordinary
Speaker 5: debt mountain that they have. Yeah, there are ways to
Speaker 5: do it, James, but they're politically painful, right. They either
Speaker 5: have to raise taxes, which nobody ever wants to do,
Speaker 5: or they have to cut spending, which Republicans are supposed
Speaker 5: to want to do. But we're seeing increasingly, especially this
Speaker 5: new Republican Party, which is a party that is appealing
Speaker 5: more and more to working class voters, to voters who
Speaker 5: rely on things like social security and medicare, many many
Speaker 5: more of those voters are voting Republican now than used
Speaker 5: to vote than they did when they used to vote Democrat.
Speaker 5: So you've got a party that has got a vested
Speaker 5: interest in keeping taxes low and also increasingly got a
Speaker 5: vested interest in keeping spending high. That is a recipe
Speaker 5: obviously for massive fiscal chaos, and they've got to get
Speaker 5: to grips with that. So far they're not doing it.
Speaker 5: There are ways to do it, you could, you know,
Speaker 5: the USA is doing. To get into the details, but
Speaker 5: the US does have a very expensive pension system, social Security,
Speaker 5: which is generous, much more generous. Actually, people don't often
Speaker 5: know this much more generous than most Western countries have.
Speaker 5: Those changes could be made. Not everybody, you know, the
Speaker 5: gold and Sax investment banker doesn't need to receive the
Speaker 5: same amount of Social Security payments as the person who's
Speaker 5: been unemployed for the last ten years. So there are
Speaker 5: ways in which these can be addressed, same with Medicare
Speaker 5: or Medicaid spending. It will be painful, but it needs
Speaker 5: to be done, because this is a very important point.
Speaker 1: James.
Speaker 5: I just want to make a drive home, and I
Speaker 5: know it's the same in Australia too. The more the
Speaker 5: deficit goes up, the more the deficit continues, the debt
Speaker 5: goes up, the more the government is paying every year
Speaker 5: in debt interest cost in debt service costs, and those
Speaker 5: debt service costs alone will be eating up the bulk
Speaker 5: of the government's revenue. The United States is going a
Speaker 5: position in the next few years where the largest single
Speaker 5: entry in its books, in its spending book, will be
Speaker 5: debt interest. It won't defense spending, it won't be Social
Speaker 5: Security or Medicare or any of those things. It will
Speaker 5: be the amount it's paying in interest on the debt
Speaker 5: that is, on the money that's borrowed over the previous period,
Speaker 5: so that is not sustainable. That is where you get
Speaker 5: into what people talk about as a debt spiral, a
Speaker 5: kind of vicious circle where you have to borrowing more
Speaker 5: and more and more money just to pay the interest
Speaker 5: on the debt that you already have.
Speaker 2: Look, it's a huge crisis. We both know it. And
Speaker 2: you know, touch social Security in your peril. That's what
Speaker 2: I've been told for decades in the United States. But Jared,
Speaker 2: before I let you go, I want to ask too.
Speaker 2: There was an extraordinary piece in your newspaper, the Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal this week about Harvard, and it said that
Speaker 2: it had educated so many people from the Chinese Communist
Speaker 2: Party that they called it the party school, not in
Speaker 2: the sense of a party with a you know, party
Speaker 2: school with lots of beer and parties and all that,
Speaker 2: but the Communist party. And you have said, You've written
Speaker 2: a great piece where you say that, even though you're
Speaker 2: a big critic of Trump on a lot of things,
Speaker 2: when it comes to higher education and Harvard, bring it on.
Speaker 2: Bring on this fight with Harvard and clean up the
Speaker 2: mess that's going on there. Tell us a little bit
Speaker 2: more about what has been happening at Harvard, particularly if
Speaker 2: it's made it so corrupted by CCP influence and everything else.
Speaker 5: Well, a number of things, James, As you know, all
Speaker 5: universities in the West, I know it's true in Australia,
Speaker 5: it's true in the UK, it's certainly true in the
Speaker 5: United States. Of these elite universities have become captured in
Speaker 5: the last thirty years by this progressive left who control
Speaker 5: all of the major faculties, all of the institutions, crucially,
Speaker 5: who can control the administration. They practice an affirmative action policies,
Speaker 5: discriminating against people of certain races because they don't fit
Speaker 5: the ideological agenda of these people. They ban people from
Speaker 5: speaking at these universities. They teach only a monocultural left
Speaker 5: wing progressive ideology. They indoctrinate students with this stuff. It's
Speaker 5: got worse and worse and worse for thirty years, and
Speaker 5: it has major, major implications for the way in which
Speaker 5: the country develops, the way in which our culture develops.
Speaker 5: And I'm sorry to say. Look, I don't like any
Speaker 5: government interfering with education, with private education, with private institutionents.
Speaker 5: But in the end, terrible situation like we have in
Speaker 5: American education does require hard measures, and that's why, in
Speaker 5: the end, I think Trump is actually right on this.
Speaker 2: Ron Baker, We're going to have to live with there.
Speaker 2: I think you're absolutely right. Read his stuff. Everybody in
Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal, great columns there about America. Stick
Speaker 2: around because of a moment. I will be joined by
Speaker 2: Breonna Lyman. But before we go to the break, let's
Speaker 2: have some fun AI style thanks to this video of
Speaker 2: Donald Trump discussing a new way to secure the border
Speaker 2: via humorist Maverick Darby. Isn't a deep fake or is
Speaker 2: it real? You'd be the judge.
Speaker 4: My administration and I have been taking careful note of
Speaker 4: the work of Colossal Labs, the biotech company that resurrected
Speaker 4: the dire wolf. If they can bring back wolves, they
Speaker 4: can bring back dinosaurs. Terrible lizard. That's what dinosaur means
Speaker 4: if you break it down. But picture this, folks, velociraptor
Speaker 4: mounted border patrol agents. They'll rip your head clear off.
Speaker 4: Pterodactyls patrolling the skies, Velasi raptors on the ground to
Speaker 4: prevent the immigration apocalypse, who we may have to counter
Speaker 4: with a dino apocalypse, folks, that's true.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. A din apocalypse, folks in to make
Speaker 2: Tom Hogan look like a pussy cat stick around Brian
Speaker 2: Elvin in a tick. Welcome back to the program, and
Speaker 2: I'm thrilled now to be joined by the Federalist dot
Speaker 2: COM's elections correspondent, Brianna Live and Brianna, thanks for coming
Speaker 2: back on the US report. So much to talk about,
Speaker 2: but I want to talk about the media, and there's
Speaker 2: a lot of fake news going around in the US.
Speaker 2: The Washington Post had a phenomenal piece with a phenomenal
Speaker 2: headline that I'd love your reaction to this reading the
Speaker 2: mysterious drop in fentanyl seizures on the US Mexico border.
Speaker 2: I mean, Brianna, gosh, is somebody to tell them what
Speaker 2: happened here? Or are they just going to sort of just
Speaker 2: think that stuff happening on the southern border where that
Speaker 2: has nothing to do with who's in the White House.
Speaker 14: This would be the equivalent of turning off the faucet
Speaker 14: and saying, I wonder why the water is not running anymore.
Speaker 14: The fact that the Washington Post is so oblivious to
Speaker 14: the obvious, and the obvious being that when Donald Trump
Speaker 14: took office, the first thing he did was shut the
Speaker 14: southern border down. He declared these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
Speaker 14: He took every step he could in order to treat
Speaker 14: them the way they should have been treated under the
Speaker 14: Biden administration. So of course the flow of Fentanel will stop.
Speaker 14: And I think the real mystery here is how does
Speaker 14: anyone at the Washington Post still have a job after
Speaker 14: writing something so embarrassingly dumb?
Speaker 2: Well, you know it rives me. Brianna of a famous
Speaker 2: headliner of the New York Post about the New York Times,
Speaker 2: sorry about saying, well, you know, incarcerations keep rising, but
Speaker 2: somehow crime keeps falling. We don't know what's going on here.
Speaker 2: And you know it's a very typical sort of liberal
Speaker 2: newspaper sort of sort of behavior. But also want to
Speaker 2: move on to say, yell here that the Daily Caller
Speaker 2: revealed this week that tells us what's going on in
Speaker 2: America's classrooms. They found that the head Start program, very
Speaker 2: popular government education program, apparently has been holding webinars for
Speaker 2: teachers on anti bias and anti racism structure strategies, warrant
Speaker 2: teachers that babies could be racist, and even change the
Speaker 2: lyrics of old McDonald had a farm to Old McDonald
Speaker 2: had a farm, and on the farm he she they
Speaker 2: had a pig, Ei Eio Brianna. And we wonder why
Speaker 2: Donald Trump wants to cut the Department of Education.
Speaker 14: Yeah, there's so many things to say on this. First,
Speaker 14: on the Department of Education, that is exactly the reason. Right.
Speaker 14: First of all, our test scores, reading, math, all that
Speaker 14: that has declined since the creation of the Department of
Speaker 14: Education in the nineteen seventies. Right, So this is just
Speaker 14: another example of where is the money actually being put towards.
Speaker 14: The second thing is when people talk about Doge and
Speaker 14: all the savings stacheat, this is another example of wasteful
Speaker 14: federal spending. The last thing I'd say is that Democrats
Speaker 14: have yet to catch on for some reason that this
Speaker 14: divisive politics, right this, you know, race based rhetoric is
Speaker 14: not appealing to the average American, especially the American electorate
Speaker 14: that decides the president. So this is a type of
Speaker 14: policy decision that Democrats as a party should call us
Speaker 14: around and say, you know what, that's ridiculous. A baby
Speaker 14: can't be racist. Let's not you know, make up the
Speaker 14: most crazy things we can. Let's try to get back
Speaker 14: and ground ourselves.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Hey, you know, just sticking around this kind
Speaker 2: of intersection of media and culture which is so fascinating.
Speaker 2: Big win for the one and only Megan Kelly, who's
Speaker 2: been a long time critic of the Algerian boxer Emone Khalif,
Speaker 2: who she declared was a man even after winning gold
Speaker 2: in Paris. Well, now it's been revealed through a leak
Speaker 2: medical report that the chromosome analysis makes her a male.
Speaker 2: It seems to me, Brianna, that Megan Kelly is owed
Speaker 2: a massive apology from all of those people who really
Speaker 2: gave her a lot of noise over this one.
Speaker 8: Absolutely.
Speaker 14: You know, what Megan Kelly did is state the obvious.
Speaker 14: Megan Kelly used one of her five centses, she used
Speaker 14: her eyes, and she made a very obvious determination. And unfortunately,
Speaker 14: there is so much gaslighting coming from the left because
Speaker 14: they're into this gender bending ideology that they try to
Speaker 14: smear and malign her. And as it turns out, you know,
Speaker 14: like any good conspiracy theories, do you give it a
Speaker 14: few months, maybe a year, and it comes true, right,
Speaker 14: So Megan Kelly's kind of experiencing that end of the
Speaker 14: cycle right there. But I think it's to a larger point,
Speaker 14: Americans and people in general need to stop worrying about
Speaker 14: the public backlash for stating something that is true and obvious.
Speaker 14: Otherwise you create a society that is extremely weak and
Speaker 14: vulnerable to just someone with a big enough voice shutting
Speaker 14: them down, even if they're wrong.
Speaker 2: Absolutely right. And as we all know, the left moves
Speaker 2: on those sorts of consensus politics where they try and
Speaker 2: shut down anybody who dissents. But I also want to
Speaker 2: talk to now because I love going back to this guy.
Speaker 2: He still has entertainment even though he didn't win the election.
Speaker 2: Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz, who could have been Vice president,
Speaker 2: well this week finally seemed to understand why young American
Speaker 2: men voted for Donald Trump. Although it wasn't Wallsho came
Speaker 2: to the realization. Turned out it was his son. How A,
Speaker 2: look at this.
Speaker 15: They're doing it because there's a sense of excitement, a
Speaker 15: sense of thrill in this. It's entertainment or whatever. We
Speaker 15: all dismiss that Donald Trump's a clown. You know, Donald
Speaker 15: Trump's rallies are a clown. And I think Donald Trump
Speaker 15: understands belonging, understand groups. But I don't think we went
Speaker 15: out to get them. We didn't out to make them
Speaker 15: feel a part of this.
Speaker 2: The idea of a leader that is entertaining appeals to
Speaker 2: young men and makes him feel like they belong. Why
Speaker 2: is this rocket size to the left or do they
Speaker 2: just want to keep saying, oh, you were men, you
Speaker 2: were bad, You're toxic. You know.
Speaker 14: I actually think Tim Walls is still getting it wrong
Speaker 14: because when Donald Trump was going out and he's doing
Speaker 14: it like this McDonald stunt, these funny things, he was
Speaker 14: actively mocking the left. He wasn't just trying to entertain them.
Speaker 14: He was doing it to show how stupid the Democratic
Speaker 14: Party was, and people appreciated that type of authenticity and honesty.
Speaker 14: That's what Tim Wall's doesn't seem to grab. The other
Speaker 14: thing is Donald Trump isn't simply giving people red hats
Speaker 14: and you know, cool fun chance which he has given us.
Speaker 14: Don't get me wrong, but Donald Trump is giving a
Speaker 14: place in particular for young men to be because leading
Speaker 14: up to the election, a lot of first time voters
Speaker 14: are people who had never voted Republican were telling places
Speaker 14: like USA today, I want to put food on the table,
Speaker 14: I want to roof over my head, and I can't
Speaker 14: do that in this economy. Men were being emasculated by
Speaker 14: Democrat policy. So Donald Trump comes in and says, no,
Speaker 14: I'm going to create policies that allow you to lean
Speaker 14: into your masculinity. And until Democrats stop focusing on this
Speaker 14: hyper obnoxious girl boss regime mentality, they will continue to
Speaker 14: create policies that do push men away. So it's about policy,
Speaker 14: not as much as Donald Trump just happened to be entertaining.
Speaker 2: Briannalm, We're going to have leeve with there. I think
Speaker 2: you might have gotten in trouble with the hashtag sisterhood
Speaker 2: for that girl boss comment, but I love it. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much for your sharp analysis as always, and
Speaker 2: for joining me on the US Report. Now stick around
Speaker 2: because Only in America is coming up. But first, strange
Speaker 2: things are happening at of all places, anime conventions. They're
Speaker 2: going mega Yeah. I don't know what's going on there.
Speaker 2: Someone's going to have to explain that one to me sometime.
Speaker 2: But you stick around. Only in America is coming up.
Speaker 2: After the break, Welcome back to the program, And now
Speaker 2: it's time for that little segment that we like to
Speaker 2: call Lead America. Well, I wanted to bring you this
Speaker 2: a little bit because it hits so well on a
Speaker 2: topic that we talk a lot about here on the program,
Speaker 2: which is why does the left love violence so much?
Speaker 2: And why do they keep trying to explain it away
Speaker 2: while blaming the right. Here's CNN's House Conservatives got Jennings
Speaker 2: schooling a lefty podcaster on this very subject.
Speaker 16: I don't think it is only the left. I mean
Speaker 16: you have literally seen people on both sides committing violence.
Speaker 16: I think the problem is not the left. I think
Speaker 16: it is the extremes on both sides of the party.
Speaker 9: Why do late night comedians go on TV and encourage
Speaker 9: or coddle or give lip service to this, uh, this
Speaker 9: vandalism of what went on with Tesla dealerships and so on.
Speaker 9: Why are there so many prominent people people.
Speaker 2: Why I don't listen.
Speaker 16: I don't I'm not for vandalism, but like.
Speaker 9: It's more than that they fire bomb these things like
Speaker 9: it's it's it's dangerous.
Speaker 16: But it's happening on both sides.
Speaker 9: One person on the right is committing violence today.
Speaker 16: Oh my gosh. Well, first of all, when you're in power,
Speaker 16: you don't tend to be the ones that are doing that.
Speaker 2: That's right. She's got nothing, and you know what, I've
Speaker 2: got nothing left either. That's it for this week, See
Speaker 2: you next week. Bye bye,