1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael 2 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 2: At first, they thought this was a joke, that threat 4 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 2: coming from President Trump. 5 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: They had good. 6 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 2: Relations with President Trump in his first term. They then 7 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 2: were mystified. Then they got angry and defiant. Then you 8 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 2: started seeing, as we've seen here in just the last 9 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:39,480 Speaker 2: days that we've been here all this week, flags being 10 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 2: arrayed all across on the streets in Panama. It's not 11 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 2: a big cauday here. It's in defiance of the US 12 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 2: and of Marco Rubio's incoming business. 13 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 3: The biggest, most expensive project we ever built one hundred 14 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:03,319 Speaker 3: and ten years ago. If you bring it up to now, 15 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 3: it would have been the equivalent of two trillion dollars, 16 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 3: the most expensive we ever built. And we gave it 17 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 3: away for one dollar. Okay, if we gave it away 18 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:19,040 Speaker 3: essentially for it nothing, and we either wanted back or 19 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 3: we're going to get something very strong, We're going to 20 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 3: take it back and China. 21 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: Will be dealt with. 22 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 4: Talking about the Panama Canal, what they've done is terrible. 23 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 4: They violated the agreement. They're not allowed to violate the agreement. 24 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 4: China's running the Panama Canal. 25 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: I was not given to China. 26 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 4: That was given to Panama foolishly. But they violated the 27 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 4: agreement and we're going to take it back or something 28 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 4: very powerful is going to happen. 29 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 3: You assure the world that as you try to get 30 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 3: full of these areas, who are not going to use 31 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 3: military or economic coortion. 32 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 5: The Panama now pledging to end the key development deal 33 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 5: with China on the Panama Canal. The reversal coming following 34 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 5: Trump's tough talk. The name of the game here is 35 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 5: behavior modification. He wants Canada and Mexico to help stem 36 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 5: the flow of drugs and people across the border. 37 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: That's number one. He doesn't think they're doing enough. 38 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 6: He's using these tariffs as a tool to say, look. 39 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: I'm not fooling around. We mean business. 40 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 6: Until you help me, I'm going to inflict some pain 41 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 6: upon you. The American economy is bigger than yours. You 42 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 6: depend on us more than we depend on you. Therefore, 43 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 6: please modify your band larger macro issues. Here to me 44 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 6: is is Donald Trump on a mission to show dominance 45 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 6: in the hemisphere, dominance in the region, and to try 46 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,079 Speaker 6: to get other people to bend to our will Colombia 47 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 6: and Panama I believe have. If Mexico and Canada been 48 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 6: on helping us stop the flow of people in drugs, 49 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 6: that would be another victory. And John, Yes, if the 50 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 6: terrorists went away, everyone would be happy. We'd have less immigration, 51 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 6: less drugs, and lower prices, and I'd be a great dabor. 52 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: I'm told that three hundred Americans die per day from fentanyl. 53 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 7: My late brother was a narcotics officer or part of 54 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 7: his career, and he said something to me years ago 55 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 7: that is stuck with me is that I've never seen 56 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 7: a drug on the streets like fentanyl. I said, well, 57 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 7: explain that to me. Get granular, really talk to me 58 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 7: like I'm four years old. I want to grasp this. 59 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 7: And he said, Michael, because he called me Michael Ramon. 60 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 7: He said, Michael, if someone dies from alcohol poisoning, which happens, 61 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 7: you got to work at it because your body has 62 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 7: a natural shut off valve. If for those of you 63 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,359 Speaker 7: who hopefully you're not still but at some point you 64 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 7: were a binge drinker, high school, college, first job, whatever 65 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 7: that was, you you may have had that moment or 66 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 7: you passed out and your buddies, you know, drew on 67 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 7: your face or hopefully you weren't driving, you were to 68 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 7: maybe you were to party. But the passing out is 69 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 7: what people will talk about. That's the body's shut off valve. Hey, 70 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 7: you idiot, stop pouring alcohol down my throat. So his 71 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 7: point is was, if if somebody dies of alcohol poisoning, 72 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 7: it is almost a death wish, or it's a fraternity 73 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 7: where they get the powerful stuff down the throat too 74 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 7: fast before the body can react, and those are terrible deaths. Right, 75 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 7: No mother, no father ever wants that. But those are 76 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 7: relatively rare. Relatively Okay, you don't need a Michael my Son. 77 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 7: I get it, you're hurting, but they're relatively rare. Heroin, 78 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 7: you got to first start with I'm gonna put a 79 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 7: needle in my arm. 80 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: Okay, you're at a certain point. 81 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 7: Nobody is doing nothing and their entry level drug is heroin. 82 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 7: You're somewhere on the spectrum before. 83 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: You do that. 84 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:43,360 Speaker 7: My point is for you to die from some drug 85 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 7: is possible, but in every other case there had to 86 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 7: be steps before that. Fittanel is a drug that will 87 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 7: take someone's life the first time they take it in 88 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 7: such a amount that it can be in a little 89 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 7: piece of candy smaller than a sweet tart? 90 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: Was it? Sweet tart? Is that what those were called? 91 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,679 Speaker 1: What the little tart's called? Earn a nerd? 92 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 7: Yeah, for those of you who remember the pop of 93 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:19,039 Speaker 7: a nerd, I saw it on the end of a 94 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 7: pencil lit and he said, it's horrifying because you get 95 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 7: you get teenagers who will say, hey, my brother gave 96 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 7: me this and try it, and you go, well, they're dumb. 97 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,119 Speaker 7: You had to be dumb to do that. I don't 98 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 7: know about you, but I was dumb when I was young. 99 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 7: I didn't drink till I was twenty nine. I never 100 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 7: did drugs, but I was dumb. 101 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: I drove one. 102 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 7: Hundred miles an hour on the road on country roads 103 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 7: that had no lighting. 104 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: That was dumb. You're reckless, you're fearless. You don't know 105 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: any better. You're dumb. 106 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 7: You will grow up, you will learn, and you will 107 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 7: know people who will die, and with each of those deaths, 108 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 7: you grow a little wiser, you grow a little less reckless. 109 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 7: So let's just start with the three hundred per day 110 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 7: who die in America because of Chinese made fentanyl that 111 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 7: the cartails traffic into here, and the President is trying 112 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 7: to get Mexico, who can do the lion's share of this, 113 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 7: to keep it from happening, to be our partner, to 114 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 7: be our ally right. The President's trying to get them 115 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 7: to do their job. That's it. Just like he just 116 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 7: toured the New York subway and he's got Eric Adams 117 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 7: there and they got officers. 118 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: Say hey, put officers down here. 119 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 7: You got people getting burned to death, getting raped, getting pushing. 120 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 7: Put officers down here. That's their job. Restore the dignity 121 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 7: and security of the well. That's what he's asking the 122 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 7: Mexicans to do. That's what he's asking the Mexican. 123 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: Government to do. So it's not that hard to do, right. 124 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 7: Imagine that Democrats are saying, no, we don't want you 125 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 7: to stop the flow of ventanyl. We want people to die, 126 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 7: we want mothers to bury their babies. That's sickening. How 127 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 7: about the fact that Elon Musk has brought these young 128 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 7: nerds into DOSEE and they're able to use AI to 129 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 7: figure out where all the waste is coming from. 130 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:17,239 Speaker 1: The Democrats are going. 131 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 7: No, stop, stop identifying all the waste of our tax dollars. 132 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: Please stop. That's a bad look. Michael Berry's show. 133 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 7: I don't know if you're old enough to remember this, 134 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 7: we're wrong, but there was a time that if you 135 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 7: lost somebody's number, you may never talk to that person again, right, 136 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,679 Speaker 7: And there wasn't an easy place to put their number. 137 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 7: Like now, if you meet somebody and you go here, 138 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,559 Speaker 7: let me put your number into my phone, You've got 139 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 7: their number forever. And I mean now you can literally 140 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 7: you know, you lose that phone. At least I'm on 141 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 7: the Apple system. You didn't go and get it switched 142 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 7: over onto the new phone, so you can keep all 143 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 7: your numbers, although for some reason it doesn't work for me. 144 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 1: I've lost a lot of people's numbers. But whatever, But 145 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 1: it's just funny. 146 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 7: Kids today can't imagine what it was like back in 147 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 7: the day, especially when you were a teenager and you 148 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 7: meet a girl and she'd write her number down. 149 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: You had to get a pen and paper. I bet young. 150 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 7: People today they don't even they wouldn't know where a 151 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:27,680 Speaker 7: pen and paper was. 152 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: I lot such a nerd. 153 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 7: I carried a little notepad in my back pocket, a 154 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 7: little spiral notepad a little about two inches wide, about 155 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 7: maybe three inches long, and a little pin clip to it, 156 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 7: and I'd write notes. And I thought I was a 157 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 7: journalist in training because I wrote for the school newspaper, 158 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 7: and you know, I'd hear something or read something, and 159 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 7: I'd want. 160 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: To make notes on it. 161 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,680 Speaker 7: But when you would, when you would ask a girl 162 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 7: for her number, I'm fifty four, so we're talking, you know, 163 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 7: eighty four, eighty five, eighty. 164 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 1: Six, And you can I get sir? Can I borrow 165 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: a pen? Can I get a little paper? 166 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 7: And you tear off some paper from whatever, you just anything, 167 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 7: get that dang number, and you'd write it down, and man, 168 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 7: you would guard that. 169 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 1: And if you got home and forgot. 170 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 7: To take it out and it washed, now you had 171 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 7: the wadded up paper and her number was in there, 172 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 7: and that was going to be the end of the world. 173 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 7: Be honest with me and answer this wherever you are 174 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 7: out loud. Had you ever given more than five minutes 175 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 7: of thought to usaid before the last two weeks, had 176 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 7: you ever pondered how much of your money was being 177 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 7: spent and in how many places? Because all we're seeing 178 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 7: right now, you know, somebody said, I can't remember who 179 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 7: wrote it. Somebody said that the great story of today 180 00:10:54,400 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 7: is that Elon Musk has weaponized autism in pursuit of transparency. 181 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 7: And what that meant was he has brought these young, 182 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:13,439 Speaker 7: very nerdy, very socially awkward somewhere on the autism spectrum 183 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 7: geniuses in to doge the Department of Government efficiency. 184 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 1: And I mean they brought cots in. 185 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 7: If you read the book on Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, 186 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 7: you know that Elon likes to work round the clock. 187 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 8: Time is. 188 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: A concept to him. It's not reality. 189 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 7: If he's working and it's eleven o'clock at night, don't 190 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 7: tell him, you know, go to bed, You got to 191 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 7: get up. He just will continue to work. And the 192 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 7: way he led at Tesla was he would sleep under 193 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 7: his desk because he wanted everybody else to walk in 194 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 7: and see him asleep under his desk. Because if the 195 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 7: CEO leader billionaire is here all night trying to get 196 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,319 Speaker 7: this problem solved, what are you doing going home? That 197 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 7: is a servant leader. So they brought in Cots. Now, 198 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:14,239 Speaker 7: let's compare that to the fact that in North Carolina, 199 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 7: the Biden folks, the FEMA folks, took over a casino. 200 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 7: They took over a casino, a nice casino, and they 201 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 7: stayed there, and they ran out of money to help 202 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 7: the people there. Because they had no interest in helping 203 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 7: the people there. They took over a casino and they 204 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 7: didn't help the people there, whereas Elon's people, in a 205 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 7: matter of days have stayed twenty four hours a day. 206 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 7: I mean, they are working round the clock to uncover 207 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 7: using AI in a way that you never could have 208 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 7: You never could have done this with just the human eye. 209 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 7: They are using AI in the right search terms because 210 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 7: they're brilliant to figure out where all the waste is. Well, 211 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 7: we are going to talk about USAID. Let's talk about that. 212 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:20,079 Speaker 8: From them, President Trump said, and he's right that USAID 213 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 8: has been run by a bunch of radical lunatics. 214 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 4: Well, it's been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, 215 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:36,320 Speaker 4: and we're getting them out. Us AID run by radical lunatics, 216 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 4: and we're getting them out, and then we'll make a decision. 217 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: So let's just start here. 218 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 7: I want you to understand the kind of things they've 219 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 7: been spending money on. It's not just that it's wasteful. 220 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 7: Some of it is on organizations that terrorize you. Some 221 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 7: of it is on organizations that terrorize the people of 222 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 7: other countries and they're taking our need to do this 223 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 7: and acting like they're defending democracy. And what you're going 224 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 7: to find by the end of the show today, you're 225 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 7: going to find that a lot of the government swamp 226 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 7: creatures are in on this. They're personally getting enriched, their 227 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 7: families are personally getting enriched. 228 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 1: By the way. 229 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 7: Coming up in the next hour, Stuart Rhodes is the 230 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 7: founder of Oathkeepers. He was given an eighteen year sentence. 231 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 7: Of course when President Trump came in, it was commuted 232 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 7: and he was out the next day. 233 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: He'll be our guest for the next hour. 234 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 7: Here is the Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt. Just a few 235 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 7: examples of where USAID money was going. 236 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 9: Here's the reason why Elon Musk and others have been 237 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 9: taking a look, because if you look at the waste 238 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 9: and abuse that has run through USAID over the past 239 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 9: several years, these are some of the insane priorities that 240 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 9: that organization has been spending money on. One point five 241 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:55,280 Speaker 9: million dollars to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces, seventy thousand 242 00:14:55,360 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 9: for a production of a Dei musical in Ireland, for 243 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 9: a transgender opera in Colombia, thirty two thousand for a 244 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 9: transgender comic book in Peru. I don't know about you, 245 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 9: but as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars 246 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 9: going towards this crap. And I know the American people 247 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 9: don't either. And that's exactly what Elon Musk has been 248 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 9: tasked by President Trump to do to get the fraud, waste, 249 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 9: and abuse out of our federal government. 250 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: Line, We're going to. 251 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 7: Talk about some of the places your money has been spent, 252 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 7: and it is not pretty. Marco Rubio is now as 253 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 7: Secretary of State, the head of usaid it just did. 254 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 7: Trump said, forget that, you're in charge of it. So 255 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 7: we're going to talk about what they've been up to. 256 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 1: Folks. 257 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 7: It may have been worse than even we imagine the 258 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 7: Michael Berry show. These are your money, this is your money. 259 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 7: Six million dollars to fund quote unquote tourism in Egypt, 260 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 7: millions of dollars. We're getting a final number to the 261 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 7: EcoHealth Alliance, that's the Wuhan lab League. Twenty million dollars 262 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 7: on a sesame street show in Iraq. And those are 263 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 7: just a few. Donald Trump Junior released those. There are 264 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 7: plenty more. Let's talk about what kind of leaders, what 265 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 7: kind of people are involved in USAID. This is part 266 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 7: of the circular inside dealing these people do. David Bell 267 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 7: was the second administrator for USAID in nineteen sixty six. 268 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 7: He left the organization for the position of executive vice 269 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 7: president of the Ford Foundation. These people all move from 270 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 7: organization to organization. The sixteenth I think it's all CIA 271 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 7: and I think this is how. 272 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: This is how your. 273 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 7: Bush establishment, Cheney establishment, Romney establishment works. 274 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: They all were. There's billions of dollars flowing through all this. 275 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 7: The sixteenth administrator for USAID was Henriette four She was 276 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 7: the executive director of UNISEF, another un organization, from twenty 277 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 7: eighteen to twenty twenty two. She collaborated with GAVII. She 278 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 7: was a global She was a board member for the 279 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 7: Global Preparedness Monitoring Board convened by the World Bank. 280 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 1: I could go. 281 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,679 Speaker 7: Through her associations with people like Bill Gates, but I 282 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 7: think you get the point. Rajiv Shaw is the current 283 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 7: president of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is a former administrator 284 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 7: of the USAID. He served in numerous leadership roles with 285 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:49,919 Speaker 7: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gosh isn't it funny 286 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 7: how USAID that funds all these organizations and all these 287 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 7: evil causes, the same people are operating through the Clinton 288 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 7: Global Initiatives of Bill Gates's organization. 289 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: They're all in this together. 290 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 7: And I suppose when it all gets to be too 291 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 7: much because they're working so hard, well, we'll fly to 292 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 7: Epstein Island and have sex with little girls. Raji Shaw 293 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 7: was also responsible for developing the International Finance Facility for Immunization. 294 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 1: Ah. 295 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 7: Yes, it's always about the epidemics, isn't it. That's where 296 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 7: the money's to be made, That's where the power is 297 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 7: to be wielded. The seventeenth administrator of the USAID was 298 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 7: Gail Smith. She's worked with the World Bank as a consultant. 299 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 7: From two thousand and five to two thousand and seven, 300 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 7: she was the chairman of the Working Group on Global Poverty, 301 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:51,120 Speaker 7: or the Clinton Global Initiative. You see, you go from 302 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 7: the Clinton Global Initiative to USAID, which gives the Clinton 303 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:59,679 Speaker 7: Global Initiative money which they supposedly spend rebuilding Haiti, but 304 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 7: nothing gets rebuilt, and somehow the money goes missing. And 305 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 7: everyone's happy until Trump comes along and starts blowing the 306 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 7: whistle from nineteen. Let's talk about Barack Obama's mother, Stanley 307 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 7: Ann Dunham. She was a consultant on international development for 308 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 7: USAID from seventy nine to eighty From eighty eight to 309 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 7: ninety two, she was a research coordinator and consultant to 310 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 7: the Bank Rakyat Indonesia under three separate contracts funded. 311 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: By the World Bank and USAID. Isn't that funny? 312 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:44,719 Speaker 7: Is it funny that USAID was paying Barack Obama's bills. 313 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 7: By the way, one thousand EPA employees were notified today 314 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 7: that they have been terminated. The new director of the 315 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 7: EPA says that their numbers show that about five percent 316 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 7: of EPA employees show up on Monday Friday, ninety five percent. 317 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 7: Ninety five percent do not show up more than three 318 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 7: days a week. EPA chief Lee Zelden releasing that information today. 319 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 7: I mean, look, if you work from home and it 320 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 7: works for you because you're independent, because that's your job. 321 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 7: One of our producers, our creative director, Jim Mud works 322 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:23,879 Speaker 7: from home because he's an hour from our studio and 323 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 7: it doesn't make sense for him to drive. 324 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: In everything we do. 325 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 7: He creates audio, he produces audio, he polishes audio, He 326 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 7: does show research. I told him, there's no reason for 327 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 7: me to lose an hour of you coming in, an 328 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 7: hour of you going home to be here with us. 329 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 7: I know you're working. You got to be working because 330 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,160 Speaker 7: we're emailing back and forth every five minutes. Now, Chad 331 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,479 Speaker 7: Nakanishi needs to be here. Our executive producer Ramon's got 332 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 7: to be stuck here across the glassroom me. Now he's 333 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 7: taking an app half the time, but he shows his 334 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 7: fat ass up to work every day, and these government 335 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,439 Speaker 7: employees are not. You know, I had a friend and 336 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 7: a friend who has a place in San Destin on 337 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 7: the Florida coast, and he was telling me last night 338 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:09,880 Speaker 7: we're having cigars and drinking some bourbon, and these days 339 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 7: I'm drinking something called bear Fight Whiskey. You can get 340 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 7: it at bar fight Whiskey dot com. And it's a 341 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 7: Kentucky barrel with a Kentucky straight bourbon with a it's 342 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 7: aged in a reposaw the cask barrel, so it's got 343 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 7: kind of a tequila finished to it. You don't have 344 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 7: to love it. I mean, people love to tell you 345 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 7: what they don't like about me. So I'm normally a 346 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 7: blanton skuy but they asked me to try it, and 347 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 7: I said I would try it, and I'm enjoying it, 348 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 7: and they sent me some to try and I'm gonna 349 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 7: buy some more because you can actually buy it online now, 350 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 7: Remon't you know you can buy booze online now. 351 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 1: Bar fight whiskey dot com. Boom, there you go. 352 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:49,160 Speaker 7: So we were talking about the fact that my friend 353 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 7: and his wife have They live in a houseboat off 354 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 7: the Florida coast, and the people who the little bar, 355 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 7: they go to the drink every night. The people who 356 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 7: were there all work for the federal government, and during 357 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 7: COVID they sold their houses and bought houses in Florida. 358 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 7: And he said, I don't want to seem too interested 359 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 7: in freak them out, but I'm asking, don't y'all. 360 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:13,920 Speaker 6: Ever have to go to work? 361 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 7: And they'd go, no, no, we don't. We just work 362 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,120 Speaker 7: from home. We want to it's a government job. These 363 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 7: people haven't been to the office in five years now. 364 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 7: There are some positions where you don't need to go 365 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 7: to the office. Some of the work from home crowded. 366 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 7: Go well, I don't, but you don't understand. We've got 367 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 7: people who are doctors for the medical for medical facilities 368 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 7: in our government who haven't been to the offices to 369 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 7: see patients. We've got people who are getting paid by 370 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 7: federal government, a different state government, a different county government, 371 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 7: a different city government. 372 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: That's illegal, not to me. 373 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 7: How are you doing the job? And these aren't overachievers 374 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 7: that are working long hours anyway. The public health director 375 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 7: in Houston at the county Harris County was also the 376 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 7: assistant public health director at the same time from Maricopa County, 377 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 7: which is Phoenix in Arizona. So she was either here 378 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 7: or there, but never both places. And they didn't know 379 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:28,360 Speaker 7: because it's illegal that she had two jobs and big 380 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 7: jobs at the same time. And none of this would 381 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 7: have come to light except for the fact that some 382 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 7: email traffic was caught between her and a company that 383 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 7: she was negotiating to give a multimillion dollar contract in 384 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,199 Speaker 7: Harris County. They were going to pay her millions. They 385 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 7: basically told her, how much do you want to come 386 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 7: to work with us? She's going to give them a 387 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 7: contract on Wednesday, and on Thursday she's flying back out 388 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 7: to California, where she's from, to go to work for them. 389 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,040 Speaker 7: After she's handed them a no bid multimillion dollar contract. 390 00:23:58,320 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: This is what our. 391 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,640 Speaker 7: Government has become, and this is what Democrats don't want. 392 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 1: Elon and Trump starting to. 393 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 7: Make informed decisions, and you're giving them the inswer Michael Varry, 394 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,399 Speaker 7: because you're a public Paul Revere, how to ring in 395 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:16,119 Speaker 7: the warning. Good little Marco Marco Rubio, the Secretary of 396 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 7: State telling the press that he's now the acting director 397 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 7: of USAID at Trump's direction. 398 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 10: Well, look, I mean my frustration with USA goes back 399 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 10: to my time in conference. It's a completely unresponsive agency. 400 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:35,400 Speaker 10: It's supposed to respond to policy directors of the State Department, 401 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 10: and it refuses. 402 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: To do so. So the functions of the. 403 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 10: USAID, there are a lot of functions of the USAID 404 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 10: that are going to continue. They are going to be 405 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 10: part of American foreign policy. But it has to be 406 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 10: aligned with American foreign policy. I said very clearly when 407 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 10: we were during my confirmation hearing that every dollar we 408 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 10: spend in every program we fund, that vote will be 409 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 10: aligned with the national interest in the United States, and 410 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,919 Speaker 10: USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and 411 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 10: deciding that there's somehow a global charity separate from the 412 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 10: national interests. He's a taxpayer dollars, and so I'm very 413 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 10: troubled by these reports that they've been unwilling to cooperate 414 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,760 Speaker 10: with people who are asking simple questions about what does 415 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 10: this program do, who gets the money, who are our contractors, 416 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 10: who's funded, and that sort of level of it subordination 417 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 10: makes it impossible to conduct a sort of mature and 418 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 10: serious review that I think foreign at large should have. 419 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: We were spending taxpayer money here. These are not donor dollars. 420 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 1: These are taxpayer dollars. 421 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 10: And we owe the American people assured the assurances that 422 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,159 Speaker 10: every dollar we are spending abroad is being spent on 423 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:38,640 Speaker 10: something that. 424 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: Furthers our national interests. 425 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 10: And so far a lot of the people that work 426 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 10: at the USA IDEA have just simply refused to cooperate. 427 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 10: Are you currently in charge of the USAID. I'm the 428 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 10: acting director of USAID. I've delegated that authority to someone, 429 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 10: but I stay in touch with him. And again, our 430 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 10: goal was to go in and align our foreign aid to. 431 00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: The national interests. 432 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,159 Speaker 10: But if you go to mission after mission and an 433 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 10: embassy after embassy around the world, you will often find 434 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 10: that in many cases, USAADID is involved in programs that 435 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 10: run counter to what we're trying to do in our 436 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 10: national strategy. 437 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: With that country or without regent, that cannot continue. 438 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 10: USAID is not an independent, non governmental entency. It is 439 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 10: an entity that spends taxpayer dollars and a need suspended, 440 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 10: as the statute says, in alignment with the policy directives 441 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 10: that they get from the Secretary of State, the National 442 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 10: Security Council, and the President. And it's been twenty or 443 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 10: thirty years where people have tried to reform it. 444 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 7: Former Press Secretary to the Democrat President Jim Psaki, now 445 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 7: at MSNBC says, look, Elon is only targeting USAID because 446 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 7: they're fighting. 447 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 1: Corruption and we need to be bold. We can't let 448 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: him do that. 449 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:54,200 Speaker 11: An elected best friend Elon Musk. His latest target was 450 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 11: the United States Agency for International Development, and that agency 451 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,920 Speaker 11: is the one that not only leads on humanitarian assistance 452 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 11: around the world, but also works to combat corruption and 453 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:05,360 Speaker 11: foreign aid programs. 454 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: It's a big part of what they do. 455 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 11: I kind of see how that could make Elon Musk 456 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:10,400 Speaker 11: have been uncomfortable. 457 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,199 Speaker 1: So what do you think he did? You may already know. 458 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,199 Speaker 11: Well, he removed two of the top leaders of the 459 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,239 Speaker 11: organization who wouldn't do his bidding over the weekend, and 460 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,880 Speaker 11: then overnight last night, employees received an email ordering them 461 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 11: not to come into the office today. They weren't given 462 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 11: a reason or any sort of rationale. They're basically just 463 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 11: told not to show up. Many were even blocked from 464 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 11: the system and locked out of their email accounts. 465 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:37,120 Speaker 1: We're also seeing. 466 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,920 Speaker 11: Something similar happening in the Treasury Department. In the last 467 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 11: few days, Elon Musk and his doge pals have been 468 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,920 Speaker 11: granted access to the federal payment system that handles paychecks 469 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:50,440 Speaker 11: to federal workers, social Security checks, tax refunds, and basically 470 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 11: incredibly sensitive personal information about anyone who gets those payments. 471 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,880 Speaker 11: This takeover is also happening across the Office of Personnel Management, 472 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 11: where Musk has gained unprecedented access to federal human resources 473 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 11: databases that have sensitive personal information about millions of federal employees. 474 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 11: And I'm going to talk with the reporter who broke 475 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 11: that story today about what else he has learned later 476 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 11: in the show. 477 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: Now, I'm going to just be straight with you about 478 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:14,959 Speaker 1: all this. 479 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 11: I mean, in the face of all of this and 480 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 11: much more that's happened the last two weeks, there's not 481 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:24,640 Speaker 11: always been the type of clear, consistent and united response 482 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 11: from leading Democrats that I believe and you probably believe 483 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,479 Speaker 11: the moment requires. Yes, there have been some powerful voices 484 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 11: out there in the confirmation hearings especially, but overall, it's 485 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 11: taken far too long, in my view, for elected officials 486 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 11: to respond, to respond boldly, and when they do respond, 487 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 11: those responses aren't often specific enough or bold enough, and 488 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 11: just hasn't been super clear all the time to me 489 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 11: or to probably all of you what they are actually 490 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 11: doing to push back on this hostile takeover. 491 00:28:55,880 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: You see, she's very clear. Elon and Trump are going in. 492 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 7: And exposing all the corruption and all the fraud, and 493 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 7: we have to stop them. 494 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 1: Robert F. 495 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 7: Kennedy who passed out of the committee today. It will 496 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 7: now go to the full Senate. It passed fourteen thirteen 497 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 7: in Louisiana. Keep the heat on Bill Cassidy. There were 498 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 7: fourteen Republicans in thirteen Democrats, and he was threatening to 499 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 7: vote with the Democrats. He is a physician and a 500 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 7: senator and an American. He knows that we need to 501 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 7: reform America's health. He knows this, but he's also I 502 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 7: suspect scared the death of losing a big farm of money. 503 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 7: That's what he didn't want. He voted the right way. See, 504 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 7: these folks are torn between two lovers. 505 00:29:58,360 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 1: That's what this comes to. 506 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 7: Comes down to trying as the Oakridge boys, trying to love, 507 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 7: trying to please to lovers is lack a ball and chain. 508 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 7: They've got their big donors who pay their bills, but 509 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 7: they've got you back at home. As long as they 510 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 7: don't think that you will fire them, they'll come to 511 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 7: your event, they'll explain. But as long as you will 512 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 7: end up voting for them, then they'll they'll they'll their sponsors. 513 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 7: They're investors that you know, big forearm these folks. They're 514 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 7: always going to satisfy them. That's what they're going to 515 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 7: do because that's who's going to hire their family members, 516 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,960 Speaker 7: that's who's going to pay for their campaign. As long 517 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 7: as they think they can get over on you, John 518 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,959 Speaker 7: Corny's done for years. Because the only place you're going 519 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 7: to vote against them. They know this is in a primary. 520 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 7: So what they're hoping for is the establishment and the 521 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 7: party will keep anybody strong from running against them in 522 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 7: a primary. It's very hard, especially in a big state 523 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,800 Speaker 7: like Texas. Louisiana is a big state. It's hard to 524 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 7: campaign across a state as big as Louisiana. You're gonna 525 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 7: raise a lot of money. And so what they do 526 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 7: is all they have to do is win their primary, 527 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 7: because come November, all they have to do is tell you, hey, 528 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 7: I know I'm not perfect, but look at those Democrats. 529 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 7: At least I'm not a Democrat. And so they get 530 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 7: six more years. Six years a long time. But when 531 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 7: they since that you've had enough, that you're just angry enough, 532 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 7: that's when they'll vote with you. They don't want to 533 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 7: unless they're turned out, unless they're leaving. Mitch McConnell, he 534 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 7: don't give a damn about Kentucky right now. He's got 535 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 7: an axe to grind. He's been made a fool love. 536 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 7: He's a swamp creature. He's been made a fool love 537 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 7: by Trump, and he's out to destroy Trump. And that's 538 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 7: what this is all about. Tulsa Gabbard passed out a 539 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 7: committee today as well. I think both of those are 540 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 7: gonna pass. He'll be close, but make no mistake, Trump 541 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 7: is calling in every favor, threats, favors, cajoling, whatever it takes. 542 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 1: Once he gets those two in place. 543 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 7: Once we get this those two and Cash Ptel in place, man, 544 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 7: we're gonna have the right team. It's like we got 545 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,160 Speaker 7: the head coach, we got Saving, we got Belichick. Now 546 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 7: we got the whole coaching staff. It's gonna be good 547 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 7: at it. Stuart Rhodes, the founder of Oathkeepers, was given 548 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 7: an eighteen year sentence over January sixth. He was released 549 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 7: on January twenty first, due to the President the day 550 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 7: before commuting his sentence. 551 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: We'll talk to him about that whole process coming up.