WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:02.880 Colson Media. 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:13.040 Oh, welcome to Executive Dysfunction, a podcast. 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:13.680 If you. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.919 Ed, it's Electoral Disuction colectile. 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:24.959 Executive Disordered, our weekly newscast covering what's happening in the 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.520 White House, the crumbling world, and what it means for you. 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:32.640 Not about digstaff sponsored by HIMS, not yet, hopefully one day. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.360 I'm Garrison Davis today him joined by James Stout, Mio Wong, 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.159 and Robert Evans, who never knows the title of the 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:40.480 podcast that he's on. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.879 In my defense, I'm on a lot of podcasts, I. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.360 Was gonna say, just because Robert Evans lives in like 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:46.720 a constant podcast. 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.320 This episode, we are covering the week of February twelve 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:56.400 to February nineteen. Let's start with a brief Eric Adams update, 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:57.920 or as I call it, an. 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.680 Ew that's a Turkish for Eric Adams update. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:05.200 So, in response to the calls to drop the Turkish 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:09.560 corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, eight top 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.880 federal prosecutors have resigned in protest. Then we had four 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.880 deputy mayors leave office. The New York Governor is now 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.560 considering removing Adams from office, which somehow is something that 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:22.560 the governor of New York has power to do, by 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.640 the way, and also the city council speaker has called 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.800 on the mayor to resign. There's a judge doing a 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.920 hearing on Wednesday as we are recording this right now, 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.360 on whether to appoint a special prosecutor to continue prosecuting 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.520 the charges despite you know, Trump's effort to have these 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.479 charges drops to help to help Adams make sure that 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.480 ice raids can continue in this city in a very 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:48.280 very clear quid pro quo. So this is a developing story. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.040 We will continue on the Eric Adams front as this changes. 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.160 By the way, people could miss it the first time, 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.400 like a few months ago, we did record an entire 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.920 episode about the things that he actually did, which are 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.840 unbelievably funny. So go listen to that. We're not going 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.040 to talk about them here, but it very very funny corruption. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.520 Yeah, if you didn't get the Turkey joke, we explain 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:09.520 it in detail there. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.600 I'm sure people are familiar with the Turkey situation in general. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:14.520 All right. 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.120 Next, on a related note, on Tuesday, President Trump instructed 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.200 the DOJ to fire all Biden appointed US attorneys. Now, 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:25.600 usually these types of appointments do resign at the end 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:29.400 of their president's term. But Trump just immediately going out 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.320 to fire all of them is a new, unique, and 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.560 noteworthy and Trump has done some other noteworthy things to 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.160 expand executive power, and for more on that, I will 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:40.120 turn to Mia Wong. 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.240 Oh Boy. So yesterday, on Tuesday the eighteenth, Trump signed 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:49.840 an executive order that effectively is just him saying the 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.639 words I am the law over and over again. The 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.600 actual sort of content of the executive order is convoluted, 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.960 but basically what he's saying is that, like the presidency 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.880 and like him specifically, is in control of all government agencies. 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.799 And this is an end to a very very long 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.400 standing practice of well, okay, attempt to end the long 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.760 standing practice of there being like independent regulatory agencies which 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.640 were set up by Congress. And what what Trump was 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.760 doing here is claiming that, you know, this is the 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.600 thing called the unitary executive theory. There's a whole history 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:27.120 of this Republican Party. This is the most unhinged unitary 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.400 executive theory thing we've ever seen, where he is just 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.720 straight up claiming that he should be able to run 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.040 all these things that none of these independent regulatory agencies 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.440 and this includes stuff like the FCC, the Securities and 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:42.040 Exchange Commission, stuff like that actually all just directly answered 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.920 to him and not to you know, Congress or or 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.160 as you know, function as independent bodies like they were 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:51.280 set up to be by Acts of Congress. It states 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.560 that everyone's legal opinions that come out of these things 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.760 like have to agree with legal opinions of the Presidency. 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.040 And it basically sets up reporting thing where all of 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.760 these things have to like report any major policy decisions 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.560 that they're going to make to Russell Vott, who's like 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.440 one of the co authors of Project twenty twenty five. Yeah. Yeah, 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.280 so in some sense, it's a codification of the stuff 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.120 he's already been trying to do. Yeah. 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.400 Ever since basically he got inaugurated again, they've been trying 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:23.479 to push for this complete unitary executive power as like 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.320 running the entire not just running the entirely executive branch, 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.120 but all of these agencies that they want to rope 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.279 under the authority of the executive branch. 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:31.279 Yeah. 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.839 And there's a number of sort of alarming things about 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.640 this one. This is a like even by the standards 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.440 of like peak War on Terror, Bush Administration Ship where 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.839 they're just like grabbing people off the streets like this 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.919 is a unprecedented sort of seizure of executive power. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:48.719 Two. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.000 And I think this is also worth noting in the 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.400 context of a bunch of the shit he's been saying 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.800 over the past week. Like last week he had the 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.200 the he who says his country does not violate any law, 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.440 which is like, I think, think a fake Napoleon quote. 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.040 It's a fake Napoleon quote from a movie made in 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.839 the nineteen seventies in the Soviet Union. I believe the 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.960 name of the movie was Wateroo That rules. It's famous 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.920 because they'd made they had some massive thousands and thousands 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.240 of actual like soldiers, like set piece battles. But yeah, 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.520 that's where the quote. I think the quote may have 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.800 another origin, but that's the famous origin. It probably was 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.240 never said by Napoleon. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.640 Well, and earlier today, the official White House account tweeted 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.640 about abolishing the New York City congestion pricing with basically 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.960 like a magazine cover style image of Trump wearing a 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.840 crown with texts that reads, long Live the King. 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.640 And again that was the That was the official Twitter 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:43.840 account of the White. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.200 House, which has also been doing something like unhinged posting, 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:53.040 including like ASMR deportation videos. It's like really dark stuff, 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:54.800 like like viscerally upsetting. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.320 Yeah, it is like the opening credit Somebody's Austin movie. 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.560 The White House twitter feed right now. 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.080 Yeah, it's the stuff like you used to not be 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:06.520 able to talk about being a king an American polity. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:07.520 Yeah, pretty recently. 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.560 That's kind of the whole point of this country. 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.560 There's a state where the whole motto is six simper tyrannus. 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.960 Yeah, and the unit of the the United States military. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.720 Yes, yeah, And okay, so I want to come back 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.480 on to the thing for a second talk about one 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.920 of the things that probably will be the crucial legal fight, 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.240 which is that like he's claiming the ability to be 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:31.080 the person who interprets the law, and you know, there's 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.479 a whole bunch of sort of legal fuzziness about that 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:36.960 and about to what extent these things are supposed to 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.440 be independent, but probably isn't the culmination of his attempt 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.400 to literally like rule the entire country by executive fiat. 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:45.680 But this is such a big step. Yeah, this is 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:47.960 this is a massive step towards that. And I think, 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:49.520 you know, and we like Okay, this is one of 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.240 these things where we literally have no idea what the 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.440 consequences of this will be, because, like we are, we 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:58.000 are so far into the great beyond that shit is 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.200 happening that a year ago, if you proposed it, everyone 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.279 would have thought you were completely out of your mind. 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:04.200 Yeah. 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.200 Well, and this is stuff that that like Robert has 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.240 been talking about for a long time. There's been a 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.560 lot of people talking about the Heritage Foundations push for 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:15.000 the unitary executive theory, stuff that Curtis Harrabin's been talking about. 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.800 Like my article last week on Shattersone kind of underlines 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.920 where they are going with with this. And and yeah, 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.880 like the consequences are so vast and unknowable because we've 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.080 we've never had an executive that is kind of this 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:33.920 successfully or like this focused in his attempts to seize 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.960 like total executive control over the entirety of the federal government. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.920 Yeah, and I want to end with like one of 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:42.720 the other really chilling parts of this, which is that 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.280 if you read the executive Order, the underlying logic of 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:46.960 it is that like the president is like the physical 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:48.960 manifestation of the will of the people. 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:50.640 Yeah, it's just the fear of prince. 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.640 Yeah, yeah, yeah, never been done before like that. 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.360 And also specifically then Napoleon quote about like he U 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.080 say the country's not violin me low, Like that is 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.960 literally the legal principle that Carl Schmidt developed, like specifically 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.640 to put Hitler in power as the fewer Ye, So this. 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.040 Is great, I mean, and Musk and Trump have been 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.679 saying stuff akin to that in interviews, like being asked 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.120 like how is Doge allowed to do this sort of stuff? 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.080 Musk and Trump have been saying, well, the people voted 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.720 for this, like we we are. We are enabling the 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.400 will of the people, even if that like you know, 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:25.400 goes past like our technical authority, it's what the people wanted. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.160 So we're gonna remove all of these bureaucrats that ordinarily 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.720 would try to stop us, because we have like the 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:31.480 consent of the. 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.280 Governed, the mandate of Heaven. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.240 Even if that just completely bypasses Congress, even if that 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.199 denies the courts, which we'll talk about more later, they 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.920 are willing to go as far as as they can't. 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.640 Yeah, and no one stopped them yet, right, Like, I. 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.480 Mean, some of the courts are trying, but trying isn't 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:49.040 good enough. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.560 They seem to be an open violation of that. Yeah, 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.960 like they would call to keep paying USAID stuff and 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:55.000 they just said they won't. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:56.040 More on that later. 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.840 Let's touch on immigration with James and then and then 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.199 we will have a quick break. 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.200 Yeah. Perfect, Okay, So what I want to talk about 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.800 is this. It was first reported by the New York Times. 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.480 I've since confirmed it with sources on the ground in Panama. 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.480 The Trump administration is detaining migrants that it can't deport 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:17.240 to their home countries in Panama currently. So currently, these 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.480 are places where the US doesn't have good relations with 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:23.319 their government. Right, they'll be Afghans, they'll be Iranians, people 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.079 like that. The US seems to have found a way 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:29.199 to deport Venezuelan's using an airline that was sanctioned until 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:31.840 the day had apparently landed in a US military base 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.600 to take Venezuelan people back to Venezuela. If you want 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.600 to hear about like people leaving Iran and why they're 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.719 leaving Iran, you can listen to my episodes I did 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.360 in the Dadian Gap. They came out late October November 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:45.679 of last year. But right now they're being kind of 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.880 corraled in a hotel in Panama City from what I've heard, 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:54.480 and just this morning the transport to Sanvicente began. So 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.440 the New York Times kind of mischaracterizes the detention center 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.719 at Sanvicente. I'm guessing this is because they haven't been 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.840 there and I have. They called it like a detention 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.200 center that's being built, quote close to the jungle. It 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.319 looks close to the jungle if you're looking on Google Maps, 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.640 I suppose it's off it's off the Pan American Highway. Actually, 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.559 you literally take a dirt road off the Pan American 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.960 Highway and you come across this huge prison facility. It's 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.599 all big, modern white buildings. The old facility that was 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:25.520 there burned down and it's been rebuilt largely I'm getting 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.679 with money from when the Biden administration was funding deportations 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:33.000 for Panama in twenty twenty four. It's a vast attention facility. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.160 At the time when I went there, my fixered Daddy 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.520 and Ella and I weren't allowed to access the facility, 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.439 but it was very clearly like too big for what 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.720 its stated purpose was. It stated purpose was people who 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.320 had warrants for their arrest and had been found to 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.800 have warrant for their arrest when they entered Panama and 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.280 were being deported back to the countries where they had warrants. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.480 I've spoken to half anoutand twenty dozen people who were 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.480 detained there, and I just got one quote surely to 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.559 read and then we can talk about this. They treated 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.760 us very badly verbally and psychologically. We all had to 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.439 do our business in the same cell. They threw food 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.400 on the floor for us to eat, and we were 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.720 all in handcuffs. Jesus Christ. 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:18.480 So is this a result of like Rubio's negotiations with Panama? Like, 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.079 how is this like logistically operating in terms of like 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.480 the US dropping people into a totally different country that 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.320 like they also just don't have citizenship too. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.240 Yeah, So legality of taking somewhere to a third country, 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.040 it's a little unclear, right, of course, the United States 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.840 has done this well. Guantanamo Bay is technically American soil, 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.319 I guess, But they've also they've done it in other 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:40.880 places around the world that are not Guantanamo Bay throughout 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.160 the War on Terror. This is not the same as 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.440 the El Salvador Plan. The United States Department of Homeland 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.800 Security Secretary for Homeland Security attended the inauguration of the 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.800 new Panamanian president. DHS and the Panamanian executive have a 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:59.040 very close relationship. Got it the US was funding deportations 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.520 for Panama under Biden. They claimed that these were only 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.440 people who had warrant for their arrest in the countries 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.160 they were being deported back to. When I spoke to 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.559 those people, like I was there when they literally took 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.760 the families apart, right, put the people in a truck, 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.360 sent them off to San Vicente and deported them. And 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.360 these guys, if they had warrant for their arrest, it 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.880 seems very odd because when they arrived back in Columbia, 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.319 they were not detained or arrested. And like, if you 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.520 have a warrant for someone and they get handed to you, 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.280 that's when you're going to detain them, right, And none 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.040 of them were detained. They've just released back to their 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.599 day to day life in Columbia. So like, there was 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.079 definitely precedent for this set by the Biden administration, But 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.559 what's happening now is is a degree worse right, taking people. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.360 I don't know what the long term plan for these 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.280 Afghan and Aralian people is right where they going to 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:45.360 live in San Vicente? 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.040 Like, who's custody are they in? 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.360 Yeah? Like is this like a DHS black site, Like 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:52.800 is it a yeah? No, absolutely are they? Are they 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.079 on US soil in Sandy Sente? Certainly when I was there, 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:01.360 it was secured exclusively by Panamanian authorities, not by US authorities. 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.440 So like the legal process, I'm guessing, like I don't 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.559 know if there is one beyond, Like we can't deport 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:10.839 these people back to their countries. We want to number 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.000 needs to go up, right. There's been reporting that Donald 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.599 Trump is upset that his deportation numbers haven't hit the 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.880 numbers that Biden did. Yeah, And so they're doing things 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.080 like this, which appears to be move fast and break things. 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.760 I guess, like, I don't really know how to describe it. 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.920 I mean, it's the entire motto of the new Trump 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.720 term in general. And things are being broken. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.679 Yes they are, yeah, including lots of human rights conventions. 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.800 As we're recording this on Wednesday afternoon, I just heard 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.960 from a friend in Panama that three hundred people were 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.400 transferred to San Vicente, and it looks like one hundred 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.800 and seventy nine of them have no sort of clear 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.439 path to be deported back to their home countries, no 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.920 accepted place to send them. So those are the people 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.480 who seem to be in legal limbo right now in 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.520 Panama and sem Vicente for a matter of time that 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.760 we don't know, in a status that we don't yet. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.920 No isn't clear. But yeah, this is pretty bad. Like 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.679 I say, I've been on the ground. I don't many 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.760 other reporters who have been on the ground is sam Vicente. 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.360 We're very well sourced in Panama and among the migrant communities, 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.040 so we're going to continue reporting on this. I've already 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.600 sent some requests for comment out, so I would expect 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.080 us to have something out on this in the next 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:20.000 couple of weeks, hopefully. 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.520 All right, let's go on a quick ad break and 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.480 come back to talk about RFK Junior. 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.040 Okay, we are back. 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:41.600 I need to take off my plate carrier. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.120 It's crushing me with as James takes off his plate 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:45.760 carrier that he's wearing for some reason. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.240 It's company policy that we all wear body arm or 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.440 well recording because of an accident that occurred several weeks ago. 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.960 We don't need to get into it. Garrison, Please continue, Garrison, 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:54.760 say something. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.720 Rude or offensive when I had to take my headmans 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.120 off to take off my play carrier. Yes. 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:03.400 So last week, last week RFK Junior was confirmed as 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.720 Secretary of Health and Human Services. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.400 This is one I thought there might be a slightly 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:13.320 more pushback on. But oh, oh, how naive I was, Oh, yeah, No, 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.440 they are beaten into a corner. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:16.640 I didn't a fight. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.920 On February thirteenth, Trump signed in executive order establishing a 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:25.560 Commission to make America Healthy Again. In the third paragraph, 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.400 the order states quote unquote, concern over the quote unquote 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:34.280 staggering increase of autism, and the next paragraph takes aim 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:41.320 at ADHD medication not great, not ideal, and the order 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:45.520 continues to be pretty bad. I will do a direct 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.240 quote here quote. This postes a dire threat to the 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.560 American people and our way of life. To fully address 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:52.840 the growing health crisis in America, we must redirect our 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.280 national focus in the public and private sectors towards understanding 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:00.720 and drastically lowering chronic disease rates and ending childhood chronic disease. 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:06.520 This includes fresh thinking on nutrition, physical activity, healthy lifestyles 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.480 over reliance on medication and treatments and effects of new 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:14.840 technological habits, environmental impacts, and food and drug quality and 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.760 safety unquote fresh thinking. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:18.800 Yeah. 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.560 Like, one of the like types of guys who I've 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.640 run into when I'm out in the mountains is people 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.760 who like have very reasonably assessed that people in the 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.320 United States don't have access to the healthiest food, especially 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:30.480 they don't have a lot of money, and that that 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.440 is impacting their health. Right, that's a fair enough assessment, 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.520 sure to go from that to like, and I just 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.200 want someone who will do something about it. So I 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.040 guess this RFK guy is okay. 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:44.360 No, No, everything in this order has the most like 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:48.880 dog whistly language. Oh yeah, that not only like directly 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.880 targets life saving medication, but it can also be used 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.840 to target like vaccines, and like it's it's really worrying. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.320 And there's a measles outbreak right now right in Laredo, 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.000 like in Texas, three. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.480 Hundred people last I checked in Laredo around Laredo. 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.000 Yeah, there's been an increasing number of measles outbreaks the 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:07.679 past like five years in this country. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.680 Yeah, if you're not aware of how devastating measles outbreaks 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.359 can be. I'd really encourage you to look into the 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:17.320 outbreak in Samoa and the absolutely heartbreaking consequences of that. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.520 Yeah, which RFK Junior helped cause by pushing a shitload 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.720 of anti vaccine propaganda. Here, something like eighty people died, 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:25.520 most of them children. 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:27.639 Jesus. Yeah, they ran out of child sized coffins and 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.040 had to us for people to send more. 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.240 Well, which leads to a separate problem. But you know, 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.680 if you go to Childcoffins dot com and put in 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.600 the promo code, it could happen here anyway. Ten percent off. 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.520 Yeah, RFK gets you twenty percent off the Yeah, it's 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:43.040 a good business to be in. 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.480 Speaking of Section two of the order calls to quote 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:51.280 unquote aggressively combat critical health challenges such as quote the 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:57.080 rising rates of mental health disorders and diabetes. So RFK 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.680 has been a number of statements that are worrying, which 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:01.879 is just a blanket statement that I can make, but 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.639 specifically talking about how to treat diabetes with like, you know, 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.760 lifestyle changes and like in changing your diet habits and 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.840 like a whole bunch of extremely worrying stuff. Section five 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.480 of the order states that with one hundred days This 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.080 new commission, made up of the heads of thirteen various 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.399 agencies and chaired by RFK Junior, is supposed to submit 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:27.040 their findings that quote assess the threat that potential over 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:31.960 utilization of medication, certain food ingredients, certain chemicals, and certain 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.520 other exposures posed to children. And assess the prevalence of 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:42.639 and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:47.399 mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight loss drugs unquote the idea 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.400 that we're going to be trying to take away people's 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.560 antipsychotics while also making handguns more available across the country. 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.480 Yes, more children with handguns, less children on antipsychotics. 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.320 Like, but like this is this is targ getting like 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:07.320 depression medication, mood stabilizers, meds for ADHD, you know, like antipsychotics. 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.919 And then also you know, lines about certain chemicals absolutely 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.359 being like an anti vaccine dog whistle. 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:17.840 Also also we have to mention to the diabetes part 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:24.960 of this. Yeah, where that is uh an unbelievably alarming 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:29.680 thing for for him to be say, Yeah, it's pretty 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:31.960 bad because like the thing about diabetes is you don't 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.800 have to feel like your body can't, like literally can't 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:39.240 physically fucking process shit. You can't actually solve that with exercise. 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:42.160 Like yeah, and like I'll just say, like I've worked 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.719 in diabetes education in the past, right, and in various 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:48.159 nonprofit capacities. Not that kind of doctor, but I have 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:50.359 seen the people who have died because they have been 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.879 subjected to this kind of bullshit. Like I know the 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:55.560 people who have lost children and loved ones because of this. 0:19:55.760 --> 0:20:00.480 And it is heartbreaking to think that somebody, no, somebody 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.000 trying to make money would like to someone about their health. 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.399 And the people who are most vulnerable to this are 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.240 the people who are also already struggling to access healthcare 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:12.520 and access medications, and it is disgusting to see the 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:13.480 government pushing this. 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:17.399 On Tuesday, r K Junior made his first official statement 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:21.399 since being confirmed, promising that quote nothing is going to 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:24.800 be off limits unquote in his quest to make America 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:28.520 healthy again, telling Health and Human Services staffers quote, some 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:32.120