WEBVTT - Let's Create a Signal Thread...What Could Go Wrong? plus Dems in Crisis, Embracing Rage & Violence 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:04.480 Welcome its verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you. 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:06.920 It's nice to have you with us on this Wednesday morning. 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:10.399 And there's a big controversy and a big story that 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.520 the media has just I mean, they've gone all in 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:17.360 on that deals with conversations that were had center on 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:20.319 the Signal app. A lot of people in government use it. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.400 I use this app. It's encrypted, that's why they use it. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.880 And a journalist it was inadvertently put on apparently one 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:28.560 of those text message threads. 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.640 Well, the media are a flutter with what they're calling 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:38.400 Signal Gate, which is this text thread on the app 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.960 Signal and it was about the military strikes against the 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:48.839 Huthis who have been attacking shipping shipping in the Suez Canal, 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:56.800 and inadvertently the National Security Advisor added this journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:58.720 who then wrote an article and I got to say, 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.720 it's an astonishing article. The media are going crazy and 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.679 they're using it as an excuse to attack President Trump, 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.400 to attack his national security team. Now we're going to 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:11.880 break down what exactly was going on there, What did 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:15.160 they do anything wrong? Were they talking about? What happened? 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:17.560 Why does it matter. We're going to break it all down. 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.000 We're also going to talk about what has happened to 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:25.120 the Democrat Party. They're getting angrier and angrier and angrier, 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.680 and they are embracing violence every day, they're calling for violence. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.840 They are the Party of Rage. And finally, we're going 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.520 to talk about the media coverage about how the Democrats 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:42.319 are in a quote deep dark hole. That's not me, 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:48.080 that's Axios, one of the most mainstream corporate media outlets 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:52.040 there is, that says the Democrats are in the deepest 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.400 hole in fifty years. We're going to break that down. 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.639 How when a party decides it doesn't stand for anything, 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.840 When a party gets so radical that it abandons the voters, 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.520 When a party is formed only around one idea, which 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:09.080 is hatred for Donald J. Trump, that turns out not 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.840 to be a successful electoral strategy. We're going to talk 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:12.640 about that as well. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.200 Yeah, the gig seems to be up certainly the American 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.360 voters on that. 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And now 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:16.880 I'm going to tell you what I saw. 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:23.680 Well, look what happened is there was a text thread 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.600 and it was using the app called Signal. Now, Signal 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:30.039 is an encrypted app. A lot of people in government 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:31.920 use it. You use it, I use it, a lot 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.840 of journalists use it. It's a way to communicate an 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.960 encrypted way that it is less likely to be intercepted. 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.839 And that there was a group chat that was created 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:47.680 by President Trump's national security advisor, Michael Waltz about the 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:54.920 upcoming strikes against the Houthis and Yemen, and bizarrely included 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.440 in the group was a journalist named Jeffrey Goldberg who 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:00.760 was at The Atlantic magazine. And jeff Beffrey Goldberg is 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:05.000 a liberal. He's a well known journalist, and it I 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:09.560 have no good explanation for why Jeffrey Goldberg was added. 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.800 He's the editor in chief of The Atlantic, and it 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.680 was a screw up, and and and let's start with that. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.640 It was clearly a screw up. It was embarrassing. It 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:23.240 it's sort of comparable to a butt dial. You know, Look, 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.840 I've inadvertently sent texts to the wrong person. I'm sure 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:31.400 you have. In this instance, it was clear it was 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.320 a mistake. He was not meant to be added to 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:37.520 this group, and suddenly, bizarrely he is getting text about 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.560 an upcoming military strike. So that was bad. At the 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.320 end of the day. Though, what is striking, although although 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:48.000 you're seeing the sharks circle and trying to attack the 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.840 president of the National Security Team, is the underlying substance 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.960 of what's being discussed is actually quite good. So the 0:05:56.000 --> 0:06:01.120 substance of what's being discussed. The Huthies are radical Islamic terrorists. 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.720 They're based in Yemen, and they are funded by Iran. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:09.320 They are Iran proxies, and they have been for months, 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:15.279 for years attacking shipping in and around the Suez Canal, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.560 and they've been shutting down a massive amount of shipping 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:23.360 at the Suez Canal and that has had a real 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.800 consequence to Americans. So listen, when you go to the 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.720 grocery store, when you go to the department store, you 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:34.440 are paying significantly higher prices because the Huthis have been 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:39.080 shutting down shipping through the Suez Canal, which makes shipping 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:43.640 and transportation cost much much higher. And I got to say, 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.080 for four years, Joe Biden, the Democrats, they didn't do 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:51.760 a damn thing. They let radical Islamic terrorists engage in 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.560 acts of terrorism and shut down shipping, slow down shipping. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.840 And what has happened in the first two months of 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.680 the Trump administration is President Trump gave an instruction to 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:07.080 his team. He said, open up the shipping lanes. Let's 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.760 go after the Houthies. And by the way, we carried 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.760 out a military strike hit the Houthis and did real damage. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:19.440 And so this entire text chain is the national security 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:23.440 leadership of the Trump administration talking about this upcoming strike, 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:28.600 and the strike was a massive success. So on substance, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.600 we got to be thrilled. We actually have a commander 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.680 in chief who's standing up for America, who's defending American shipping, 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.920 is defending American interests, who's fighting terrorists who hate America. 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.360 All of that is a massive contrast from what happened 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.120 under Joe Biden. What was the mistake? The mistake was 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:51.320 inadvertently they added this journalist who then wrote this sort 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.040 of breathless bombshell story about I was on this text 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.920 about the war plans, and again it was a screw up. 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:02.080 It was embarrassing, but the under lying substance every one 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:03.520 of us ought to be really happy about. 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.800 You mentioned that this was one of those moments that, look, 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.800 the press wanted to go ballistic on. There was also 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.080 really I think a smart move by the White House 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:18.440 to have no problem having a conversation about this. The 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.640 President didn't run away from it. There was no no comment, 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.280 there was much. There was a lot of like openness 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.480 and conversation, like, hey, we're more than happy to talk 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.920 about this. I actually think the American people appreciate that, 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:36.439 because usually when they're screw ups, Amen, everybody just disappears 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.240 from you know, accountability or even answering questions or saying 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:40.959 we can't talk about this time or it deals with 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.080 classified there's always a million excuses. The president didn't use 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.800 any of those, like let's talk about it and he 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.720 did it in front of the journalists, in front of 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.160 this entire cabinet as well. 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.679 Yeah, so let me make a couple comments on this. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:58.520 Number One, During four years of Biden's presidency, he hit 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.360 hid from the press, he didn't press conferences, he didn't 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:05.840 take questions, and it's not complicated why his mental condition 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:10.160 was so deteriorated that nobody trust him to take questions. 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.240 Donald Trump is taking questions. It seems like every day 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.839 he's answering hard questions. And so today at the White 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:20.200 House he was asked about reporters about what happened here, 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.040 and we're going to play a segment, and this is 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:27.760 a lengthy segment, but it's worth listening to because the 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.480 president explains what's going on. I think his answers here 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:35.280 are terrific and it's worth really listening to what he says. 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.680 So give a listen, mister president, are you going to 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.120 change in you to practices that your national security officials used? 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.960 Acker reporter was inaffortently added to a group chat about 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:46.079 attacks on Evan. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.600 Well, I think it's a question I've been asked now 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.439 and I've given it a few answers, and they've all 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.760 been the same. We have an amazing group or national 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.959 security now is stronger than it's ever been. We have 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:04.640 I've had a very very successful numerous attacks. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:04.680 In that area. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.360 These are people that shoot down ships. Not only are 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.839 ships ships all over the world. They're shooting down right 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.280 out of the water and damaging them badly or they're 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.840 going down. They're also shooting anything that happens to be 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:16.760 flying in the area. 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:18.680 We hit them very, very hard. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.880 There was no classified information as I understand it. 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:24.360 They used a. 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.040 App, if you want to call it an app that 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:30.760 a lot of people use, a lot of people in 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.000 government use, a lot of people in the big aus. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.079 And I think I'll ask Mike, Mike is here. Do 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:37.800 you want to respond to theness? 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.520 Yes, mister President, you asked about lessons. I think there's 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.960 a lot of the lessons. There's a lot of journalists 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.559 in this city who have made big names for themselves 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:50.280 making up lies about this president, whether it's the Russia 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.440 hoax or making up lies about gold Star families. And 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.560 this one in particular, i've never met. 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.680 Don't know, never communicated with, And we are and we 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.319 are looking into and reviewing how the heck he got 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.320 into this room but I'll tell you what the world 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.400 owes President Trump of favor. 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:08.559 Under Biden, global. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:12.040 Shipping was shut down, penprick attacks months between them, are 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:16.880 destroyers being fired upon dozens of times. President Trump took 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:21.440 decisive active action with his national security team, took out 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.440 the head missileer, knocked out missiles, knocked out headquarters, knocked 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:29.920 out communication sites, and for once, as we hear, as 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.880 you all hear from every one of our allies, thank 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.960 god for American leadership again, thank God for American strength, 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:44.480 your health. And we had a national security team that 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:50.280 was coordinating these efforts. As Director Ratcliffe testified today, his 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.400 first day on the job, he was introduced to this 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.920 app on his government systems at the CIA and at 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:01.280 the State Department and otherwise. So look this journalist, mister President. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.480 Once the world talking about more hoaxes in this kind 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:09.200 of nonsense, rather than the freedom that you're enabling. And 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.880 a key part of our sovereignty is open sea lanes 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.000 and knocking the crop out of terrorists, which is exactly 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.560 what your team. And Pete Hexat, a good friend and 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.760 fellow veteran, is leading the charge on. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.560 And it's an honor orful excuse me. We had a 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:28.800 very very successful evening, and we've had numerous successful evenings 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.480 and days in that area. The Hoodies are absolutely on 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.520 the run. The worst of them had been killed. This 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.959 should have been done a long time ago by Biden. 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.880 But Biden was an incompetent president. He couldn't do anything. 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.679 He get in nowhere where it was going. He had 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.640 no clue. This guy had no clue. This should have 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.800 been done a long time ago. As they shoot missiles 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.840 at chips, randomly shoot missiles at chips, and they make 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.160 their own missiles. You know, this is not an incompetent 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.880 group of people. They make their own missiles. They get 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.640 the missiles also from Iran. It's an offshoot of Iran, 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.000 another offshoot. You have Hamas, you have Hesbula, you have 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:07.960 the Hoodies. You got a lot of stuff going on 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.319 with Iran, and we set a letter to Iran. You're 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.760 gonna have to be speaking to us one way or 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.520 the other pretty soon because we can't let this happen. 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.240 But that's an app that a lot of people use. 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.040 And somebody got on, I mean happened to know the 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:23.400 guy's in total sleevesberg. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:24.400 The Atlantic. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.360 The Atlantic is a failed magazine does very very poorly. 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.240 Nobody gives a damn about it. This gives it a 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.480 little bit of a shot. And I will tell you 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:39.320 this that they've made up more stories and they're just 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:40.320 a failing magazine. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.800 The public understands that he's a very good man. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:44.680 That man is a very good man right there that 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:49.959 you criticize so strong, he's a very good man and 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:55.240 he will continue to do good job. In addition to him, 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.400 we had very good people in that meeting, and those 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.880 people have done a very very effective job. 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:03.439 And you're can see it, and it goes on. By 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:04.480 the way, it's going to go. 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:09.520 On, and I think the hoodies wish that it didn't happen, 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.200 But that's what it's all about. We have to create 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.880 a safe country, a safe world, and that's what we're doing. 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:17.600 Security put it for. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:21.200 A spand rem president of senior officials using signal or 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:26.080 the use of signal to communicate from senior officials. 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:27.320 I don't know anything about signal. 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.680 I wasn't involved in this, but I just turn about 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.040 it and I hear it's used by a lot of groups. 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.080 It's used by the media a lot. 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.880 It's used by a lot of the military, and I 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.200 think successfully, but sometimes somebody can get onto those things. 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.600 That's one of the prices you pay when you're not 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:48.800 sitting in the situation room with no phones on, which 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:52.040 is always the best, frankly, but you know, you you 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.280 the best is to be there. In fact, oftentimes I've 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.720 been in the infectious Last week, I was in the 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.680 situation room with something very important and we had a 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.880 couple of people hooked up by line, and I said, 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.080 cancel the line, sorry, fellas. What you do is we'll 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.640 tell you all about the meeting, because I know people 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.360 do get on those lines, whether it's signal or anything else. 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.640 Yeah, are you going to change any procedures as a 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:14.520 result of this. 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.040 Well, I mean, look, we look at everything, and you know, 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.000 they've made a big deal out of this because we've 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:21.160 had two perfect months. 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.920 We're bringing we are bringing in business. 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.240 We have another one announced tomorrow, a big one, very big, 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:29.320 like in the history of our country. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:30.880 Nobody's ever seen anything like it. 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.320 And I think probably a lot of people are saying 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.160 it's They started by saying it was the greatest first 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.160 month that a president has ever had, and I think 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.360 that's true. And now they say it's the best second month, 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.600 and they had to find something and this certainly we'll 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:49.440 look at this, But the main thing was nothing happened. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.880 The attack was totally successful. It was I guess from 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:58.640 what I understand, took place during and it wasn't classified information. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.680 So this was not class of now butch classified information. 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.840 It's probably a little bit different. But I always say 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.280 you have to learn from every experience. I think it 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:12.160 was very unfair the way they attacked Michael. He's a 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.320 good person. The person that was on just happens to 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.560 be a Slees bag. So maybe that's just coincidence. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:18.800 I don't know. I love it. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.040 Maybe he's just you know, it's leeves bag. You can't 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:21.640 make it up. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.840 Well, look, I got to say I love President Trump's 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.600 answer to this because he's very candid, he's very real. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:30.480 He admits it was a screw up. It was a 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.200 mess up to add the journalist. But one of the 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.760 things that's most important is he strongly defends Mike Waltz. 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.400 Mike Waltz is Donald Trump's national security advisor. Mike is 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.960 a friend to mine. He's a very good man. Mike 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.120 is a veteran. He was in Special Forces he received 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:53.040 four Bronze Stars while serving combat tours in Afghanistan and 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.800 the Middle East and Africa. And he's smart, he's serious. 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:00.000 And I got to say, there are people who hate 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.520 President Trump that are trying to use this mess up 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.560 to attack Mike Waltz. And I was really glad the 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.000 President stood strongly with Mike Waltz. He's doing a very 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.920 good job. I had dinner with Mike just a few 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:18.080 weeks ago. He is a smart, serious leader focused on 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.679 defending this nation from our enemies. I also like that 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:27.200 the President focused on the underlying substance. Look, what we 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.080 did was a great victory for America. Joe Biden had 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.199 let four years go by of the who he's attacking, 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:39.000 American shipping companies, hurting American interests. And President Trump he's 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.760 been in office just over two months and he's already 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.960 standing up, taking out terrorists, fighting for American interests. That 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.840 is a huge, substant victory. I want to make another point. 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.000 There are some observers that are looking at the Trump 0:17:54.040 --> 0:18:00.719 administration and her writing story saying the Trump administration is isaists. 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:04.840 They're not willing to engage and defend American interests. That 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:10.120 is wrong. Donald Trump is not an isolationist. America first 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:14.199 is not an isolationist philosophy. If you look at the 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:19.480 first term of President Trump, he took out General Solomoni 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:24.000 from Iran. That was incredibly important. General Solomoni had murdered 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:28.400 over six hundred American servicemen and women. He fought and 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.320 was vigorous taking out enemies of America. And it's worth 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.440 noting in the first few months of Trump's first term 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.720 he took out ISIS. ISIS had a caliphate larger than 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:44.680 the state of Indiana, and he utterly decimated and destroyed ISIS. 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.320 So Donald Trump his record, he is not an isolationist. 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.160 And this is a good illustration of this. The Huthies 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:55.720 are a proxy of Iran. They were attacking America. Joe 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.679 Biden was too weak to fight back, and Donald Trump, 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.679 in his first two months is already fighting back. And 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:05.440 the media wants to change the subject from the substance 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:11.160 of protecting America to attacks on the administration. I'm very glad. 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.160 I'm really happy with the President's defense of Mike Waltz 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:18.720 and the president's substance of defense of his policy defending America. 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.400 You mentioned attacks. I want to move to this other subject, 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.440 and it deals unfortunately with the issue of actual attacks 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:30.640 and violence coming from the Democratic Party and the crazies 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:36.760 within it, threatening violence not only against you, but many others, 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:40.960 and even mocking Texas Governor Greg Abbott. And I want 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:42.719 to get your reaction to that. But first I want 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.600 to tell you about Patriot Mobile. 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We've 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:43.760 witnessed this. It's been directed towards Elon Musk. Threats against 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:47.480 Elon Musk threats now are expanding to Tesla dealerships. We're 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:52.280 finding in sinerary devices, bombs and dealership for example in Austin, Texas. 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:55.640 And then there's people now they're threatening you. This seems 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:58.800 to be the Democratic Party's playbook. Now, if there's someone 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:00.800 we don't like, we go out after them, We go 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:03.399 after their businesses. We tried to destroy what they built, 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:05.600 We try to financially ruin him. All of this, what 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:08.879 they did to Donald Trump, and we saw that the 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:13.399 rhetoric literally almost cost Donald Trump's life in that first 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:17.360 assassination attempt that actually got him. And now they don't 0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:18.920 seem to be backing down at all. 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:22.720 Well, the Democrats today are the party of rage, the 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:25.520 party of anger. And I will say there's a house 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:29.639 member in Texas, Jasmine Crockett, who this week has been 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:34.160 a rough week for she has been unhinged. She has 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:39.159 called for violence against me. She has denigrated and mocked 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:41.919 Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, because he is in 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:45.879 a wheel wheelchair, because he has a disability. And it 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.320 really does show who today's Democrats are. And I want 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.679 you to listen to what she said first about me 0:22:52.800 --> 0:23:01.560 and then about Greg Abbott. Give a listen, just in case. 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:05.280 The slow people listening decide to click this up later. 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:07.960