Speaker 1: Now let's get to Washington and two headlines brewing out
Speaker 1: of DC. Actually I got three, but it's definitely two
Speaker 1: at this particular moment of time. We'll start with Tesla's
Speaker 1: CEO and form a head of DOGE Department of Government Efficiency.
Speaker 1: For those of you don't know mister Elon Musk, who
Speaker 1: now has an issue with President Donald Trump. According to
Speaker 1: ABC News, multiple people who have spoken to the President
Speaker 1: and Musk have described a widening rift on a range
Speaker 1: of recent moves by the administration in addition to Musk.
Speaker 1: In addition to that, I'm sorry, Musk went on the
Speaker 1: offensive yesterday, blasting the President over the legislative agenda. Here's
Speaker 1: what he posted on X last night. Quote I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but I just can't stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous
Speaker 1: port Field Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame
Speaker 1: on those who voted for it. You know you did wrong.
Speaker 1: End quote. In another post, he wrote, quote it will
Speaker 1: massively increase it's the already gigantic budget deficit to two
Speaker 1: point five trillion dollars and burning American citizens with crushingly
Speaker 1: unsustainable debt end quote. And finally, this morning he posted
Speaker 1: this quote here it is in November next year, we
Speaker 1: fire all politicians who betrayed the American people.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: The White House has yet to comment. This is not
Speaker 1: a good look. This is not a good look.
Speaker 2: But how surprised should we be?
Speaker 1: You see, when you talk about the two point five
Speaker 1: trillion dollar budget deficit, ladies and gentlemen, our national deficits
Speaker 1: already at thirty seven trillion. So you're talking about this
Speaker 1: deficit approaching forty trillion. You're talking about Trump and what
Speaker 1: he's proposing with his big, beautiful bill, reaching the likes
Speaker 1: of approximately forty three to forty four trillion dollars. We've
Speaker 1: already lost our credit rating, our stature, all right. The
Speaker 1: respect of the financial sector of the world has dissipated for.
Speaker 2: The United States of America.
Speaker 1: We've got people on Capitol Hill that are anxious.
Speaker 2: We're so anxious to get into power.
Speaker 1: And we talked about our national debt and how we
Speaker 1: have to curb spending.
Speaker 2: But what are we doing? What are we doing?
Speaker 1: We've got issues with Medicaid. We've got people who are
Speaker 1: scheduled to lose their health insurance. We're hearing about an
Speaker 1: economy that's getting better we're hearing about inflation having dipped.
Speaker 1: We're hearing that our borders are under control. We're supposed
Speaker 1: to be a thriving economy, and we're moving in a
Speaker 1: forward direction. But every time we turn around, we hear
Speaker 1: about something else. Now, I'm not about to sit here
Speaker 1: and engage in condemnation because I don't know the particulars.
Speaker 1: When I think about the Big Beautiful Bill, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about it along the lines of there are things to
Speaker 1: like about it, things to complain about it, and as
Speaker 1: we look at it, we have to dissect it with
Speaker 1: a fine tooth of fine tooth comb and recognize that,
Speaker 1: you know what, everybody's gonna have their feelings. When I
Speaker 1: think about it, from my notes that I took in
Speaker 1: terms of the Big Beautiful Bill Act, I just find
Speaker 1: myself saying, Hey, what's going on? If you're the GOP
Speaker 1: Extension of twenty seven to twenty seventeen tax cuts, new
Speaker 1: tax breaks, salt deduction increases.
Speaker 2: State in local taxes. That's what salt stands for.
Speaker 1: Deduction cap is raised from ten thousand to forty thousand
Speaker 1: for married couples earning up to five hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Addressing concerns from representatives and high tax states like New
Speaker 1: York and New Jersey. The GOP finds that to be
Speaker 1: a very good thing. Obviously, they claim this bill, the
Speaker 1: Big Beautiful Bill, is definitely something that supports small businesses.
Speaker 1: Provisions such as the reinstatement of immediate R and D
Speaker 1: expensing and increased pass through deductions aim to bolster small
Speaker 1: businesses and domestic manufacturing. To me, that's lip service. That
Speaker 1: part is lip service because I need to hear the numbers.
Speaker 1: I need to hear the numbers, and until I hear
Speaker 1: the numbers, I'm not gonna feel that way about it.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So that's something to think about right there, and we
Speaker 1: got to look at it from that standpoint. What do
Speaker 1: the Democrats say about the bill? They've been complaining about it.
Speaker 1: You know they have you know they have what does
Speaker 1: a House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffrey says, quote, we believe
Speaker 1: it's one big, ugly bill that's going to hurt the
Speaker 1: American people, hurt children, hurt families, hurt veterans, hurt seniors,
Speaker 1: cut healthcare, cut nutritional assistance.
Speaker 2: Explode the debt.
Speaker 1: That's what a Kim Jeffrey says, he's been a guest
Speaker 1: on his show and has always welcomed back then the
Speaker 1: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. He writes, quote, this is
Speaker 1: not one big, beautiful bill.
Speaker 2: It's ugly.
Speaker 1: There's nothing beautiful about stripping away people's healthcare, forcing kids
Speaker 1: to go hungry, the nine communities the resources they need,
Speaker 1: and increasing poverty.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: What are the Democrats' problems with this bill? They're talking
Speaker 1: about healthcare cuts. The bill imposers work requirements for Medicaid
Speaker 1: recipients and reduces federal Medicaid payments to states, potentially leading
Speaker 1: the millions losing coverage, according to the Democrats. Tax benefits
Speaker 1: for the wealthy. Democrats argue that the bill extends tax
Speaker 1: cuts primarily benefiting high income earners and corporations, while offering
Speaker 1: minimal relief to working in middle class Americans. What else
Speaker 1: do the Democrats say? It increases the deficit. The Congressional
Speaker 1: Budget Office itself estimates that the bill could add two
Speaker 1: point three trillion to the national deficit over the next decade.
Speaker 1: Social program reductions. The legislation includes significant cuts to SNAP,
Speaker 1: that is, Food Assistance Ladies and Gentlemen and other safety
Speaker 1: net programs, which Democrats believe will exacerbate poverty and hunger. Last,
Speaker 1: but not least, redrit restrictions on reproductive and LGBTQ plus healthcare.
Speaker 1: The bill prohibits Medicaid from covering gender affirming care and
Speaker 1: services provided by clinics that offer abortions, aligning with conservative
Speaker 1: social issues.
Speaker 2: That last part I won't challenge.
Speaker 1: Here is the reason why if you don't believe in abortion,
Speaker 1: if you are a pro lifer, why should your tax
Speaker 1: dollars be spending for something that you inherently don't believe in,
Speaker 1: whether it be for religious purposes or anything else. Now
Speaker 1: that's different if you were born a man or born
Speaker 1: a woman and you wanted to transition, I believe you
Speaker 1: should have the freedom to do whatever you want.
Speaker 2: But should tax payer dollars pay for it?
Speaker 1: See, that's where it gets tricky, and that's what we
Speaker 1: have to understand that for the most part, I'm very
Speaker 1: concerned with what the Democrats are saying healthcare cuts. I'm
Speaker 1: very concerned about that tax benefits for the wealthy, not
Speaker 1: as much concerned about that.
Speaker 2: You know, the top one.
Speaker 1: Percent of the population spends about sixty percent of the taxes.
Speaker 1: So if they find a way to exploit whatever loopholes
Speaker 1: so they can avoid being bled. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem with that as long as you getting
Speaker 1: that sixty percent from them. Okay, they shouldn't get away
Speaker 1: without paying taxes, but it's not like you should constantly
Speaker 1: be able to come to people and want more and
Speaker 1: more and more money, because the more you want money
Speaker 1: from other people, the less of an obligation you're absorbing
Speaker 1: of mining your finances. These politicians on Capitol Hill, I'm
Speaker 1: sicking tired of them coming to us every two years,
Speaker 1: every four years, asking for more taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 2: What are you doing to manage budgets? What are you
Speaker 2: doing to curb spending? We can't have everything. We can't.
Speaker 2: We can't.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking to Republicans and I'm not talking
Speaker 1: to Democrats.
Speaker 2: I'm talking to all of their asses.
Speaker 1: You got a budget, you got a deficit over thirty
Speaker 1: seven trillion out that's its schedule of explode and exceed
Speaker 1: over forty trillion dollars.
Speaker 2: Both sides of the isle played a pivotal role in
Speaker 2: that happening.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just Democrats in office and a House, the
Speaker 1: Senate and a White House all of these years, We've
Speaker 1: had members of both sides of the isle in all
Speaker 1: of those houses, all of these years. All of yous
Speaker 1: did this, all of yous, you all did this. So
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it. But I am concerned
Speaker 1: about the particulars. I am concerned about the specifics, and
Speaker 1: I think that that needs to be broached. I'll leave
Speaker 1: it at that for now, because this is the subject
Speaker 1: that's not going away. We got to get to this
Speaker 1: other story out of Washington, involving Secretary of Defense Pete
Speaker 1: Haigseth heg Sept has ordered the Secretary of the Navy
Speaker 1: to rename the oiler ship USNS Harvey Milk. The ship,
Speaker 1: which launched in twenty twenty one, was named after the
Speaker 1: gay rights active and Navy veteran who was forced to
Speaker 1: resign from the service because of his sexual orientation. A
Speaker 1: military official says the ship will be officially renamed later
Speaker 1: this month. No word on what the new ship's name
Speaker 1: will be. However, the timing is notable given that June
Speaker 1: is Pride month. In addition to that, the NS Harvey
Speaker 1: Milk is part of the John Lewis class of oiler
Speaker 1: ships that are named after civil rights leaders of the
Speaker 1: ships in this class include the USNS Earl Warren, NS,
Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy, us N S Lucy Stone, and us
Speaker 1: NS Sojourn the Truth. Ladies and gentlemen, Do I like
Speaker 1: this now? If I was president of I was the
Speaker 1: Secretary of Defense, would.
Speaker 2: I do it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I live and let live. LGBTQ community has my support.
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with recognizing great individuals from
Speaker 1: their communities or anywhere else. Doesn't FaZe me, doesn't bother me.
Speaker 1: They served our country with honor and distinction. I would
Speaker 1: not change it. But I also respect the right of
Speaker 1: Pete hag Seth to change it. He's the Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 1: He works under President Donald Trump, who was re elected
Speaker 1: as the forty seventh President of the United States, who
Speaker 1: campaigned on being against some of these things because of
Speaker 1: how excessive the left was in going overboard with its
Speaker 1: behavior to highlight and elevate prominently the causes of a
Speaker 1: fringe segment of our population. In this case, the word
Speaker 1: fringe doesn't apply because I understand there's a lot of
Speaker 1: members out there misions upon members of members of LGBTQ
Speaker 1: plus community, and I would not change it. I support
Speaker 1: their rights, their civil liberties. I don't think they should
Speaker 1: be arased. I don't think they should be bothered. I
Speaker 1: think they should be free to live their lives.
Speaker 2: But as a.
Speaker 1: Black man, ladies and gentlemen, we come out of the
Speaker 1: womb not being liked.
Speaker 2: We come out of the womb having.
Speaker 1: An uphill battle and an uphill climb because of resistance
Speaker 1: to acceptance of who we are. And that's just based
Speaker 1: off the color of our skin. Now who you are
Speaker 1: is who you are, And folks debate back and forth.
Speaker 1: Are you're born this way, You're not born. So I
Speaker 1: ain't getting into all of that. What I'm saying is,
Speaker 1: in a lot of situations, most people wouldn't know until
Speaker 1: you tell us or show us. Black folks don't have
Speaker 1: that luxury. We have to deal with those challenges every
Speaker 1: single day. So being liked and being embraced, While it
Speaker 1: would be ideal and beautiful and it would bring peace
Speaker 1: and dissipate stress in our life and our souls and
Speaker 1: our minds, the bottom line is we have to accept
Speaker 1: the fact that some people are gonna be racist, some
Speaker 1: people are gonna be prejudiced, some people just ain't gonna
Speaker 1: like us. Some people ain't gonna have any problem with us,
Speaker 1: but don't necessarily want to vibe with us. And then
Speaker 1: some people are gonna like us, and some people are
Speaker 1: gonna brace us more than others, and some people are
Speaker 1: gonna love us. It all comes with it. It all
Speaker 1: comes with it. The relevancy of that comment by me,
Speaker 1: that's soliloquy, that diet trip, whatever world you want to use,
Speaker 1: by me is simply pointing out that if an administration
Speaker 1: gets elected and they're against some of those things because
Speaker 1: they believe that the progressive left went overboard and trying
Speaker 1: to highlight and big up a certain community of this population,
Speaker 1: and they are against that.
Speaker 2: Once they're in position of power, they get to do
Speaker 2: what they choose.
Speaker 1: Just like the left, name the us NS Harvey Milk,
Speaker 1: if somebody else wants to rename it, it's their administration.
Speaker 1: That's what they could do. We might not like it,
Speaker 1: but it ain't a crime. That's not how they flow.
Speaker 2: You don't like it, make sure they don't get elected
Speaker 2: next time.
Speaker 1: Make sure your causes on the fringes don't usurp the
Speaker 1: vast majority of Americans' interests, so they'll vote the way.
Speaker 2: You want them to vote so you could get some
Speaker 2: of the things you want.
Speaker 1: That's how it works. That's how it works in a democracy.
Speaker 1: You don't like it, get over it. That's the way
Speaker 1: it is. That's the way it is. Now, before I
Speaker 1: get on out of here, there is a story that
Speaker 1: I couldn't wait to tackle because I'm not gonna lie
Speaker 1: to you. I was kind of disgusted when I saw it.
Speaker 1: Carne Jean Pierre switches her affiliation to Independent, releasing a
Speaker 1: new book about a broken Biden White House. She is
Speaker 1: the former White House Press secretary. If you will recall,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, she has consistently or she had consistently
Speaker 1: consistently decried the notion that President Biden was not up
Speaker 1: to the rigors of the job. Longtime Democratic Party operative
Speaker 1: suddenly is urging Americans to step outside harsh party lines,
Speaker 1: and her new book Independent a look inside a broken
Speaker 1: White House outside the party lines.
Speaker 2: According to the book's.
Speaker 1: Description, The description also says the former Biden Press secretary
Speaker 1: didn't come to the decision about leaving the party lightly
Speaker 1: quote until January twentieth. I was responsible for speaking on
Speaker 1: behalf of the President of the United States, she said
Speaker 1: in the statement, according to the Associated Press at noon
Speaker 1: on that day, I became a private citizen who, like
Speaker 1: all Americans and many of our allies around the world,
Speaker 1: had to contend with what was to come next for
Speaker 1: our country. I determined that the danger we face as
Speaker 1: a country requires freeing ourselves of boxes. We need to
Speaker 1: be willing to exercise the ability to think creatively and
Speaker 1: plan strategically.
Speaker 2: Hold On, hold on, not so fast. And I'm fully aware.
Speaker 1: That she was also a source for Jake Tapper in
Speaker 1: his book Original Sin with Alex Thompson. You remember I
Speaker 1: interviewed them last week. Hold on for second, Karne Jean Pierre,
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. Nothing that you said as the White
Speaker 1: House Press Secretary should be held against you, Just like
Speaker 1: I came on here and said, or I came on
Speaker 1: other shows like The Handities of the World and others,
Speaker 1: and I said, what the hell was Kamala Harris supposed
Speaker 1: to do when she was the VP dying Biden out?
Speaker 1: She wasn't gonna tell on her boss.
Speaker 2: Stop it.
Speaker 1: What the hell was she supposed to do? Just like
Speaker 1: I said that, I would say the same thing about
Speaker 1: Karine Jean Pierre. What was she suppose to do as
Speaker 1: the White House Press secretary, She's supposed to sit up
Speaker 1: there and come out and tell the American people.
Speaker 2: Yo, y'all, he don't have it.
Speaker 1: He can't go he he just don't have it.
Speaker 2: What was she supposed to do? That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: However, Carine Jean Pierre, you were not the White House
Speaker 1: Press Secretary when you showed up on ABC's The View
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago.
Speaker 2: You were talking major stuff. Then you were not the
Speaker 2: White House Press secretary.
Speaker 1: You were an American citizen who was not working in
Speaker 1: the White House.
Speaker 2: What the hell you going to show for? Then?
Speaker 1: Bouvier in about Joe Biden and how he was alert
Speaker 1: and he was pride, and he was a great commander
Speaker 1: in chief and he was shop and.
Speaker 2: All of this stuff. I don't have to clip in
Speaker 2: front of me because I just saw the story. You're
Speaker 2: lucky I don't.
Speaker 1: Have time to pull it up. But I'm fully aware
Speaker 1: of the fact that you were not the White House
Speaker 1: Press Secretary when you were on the View spewing the
Speaker 1: same stuff you had spewed when you were the White.
Speaker 2: House Press secretary. So all bets are off.
Speaker 1: You didn't have to do that, but you chose to
Speaker 1: live with your decisions, living your decisions. You didn't have
Speaker 1: to do that, but that's what you chose to do.
Speaker 1: You chose to go front center and still spew the
Speaker 1: same party line. So what the book's gonna tell us.
Speaker 1: The book's gonna tell us more about the Democrats, the butchers.
Speaker 1: The book is the book gonna be an extension of
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book Original Sin. You had
Speaker 1: another Democrat coming out and telling us about stuff that
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of stuff on the right was telling us,
Speaker 1: but y'all swore we shouldn't listen to while y'all were
Speaker 1: engaging in cancel culture, while y'all were engaging in excoriating
Speaker 1: anybody that caught the Democratic Party out for what the
Speaker 1: hell was going on.
Speaker 2: That's what we're supposed to do. Now, that's what we're
Speaker 2: supposed to do.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to listen to you, now, okay, I'll do that, corringe,
Speaker 1: Jean Pierre, you are more than welcome to come on
Speaker 1: to stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith Show and.
Speaker 1: Explain your book and what it's gonna say, but not
Speaker 1: only why we didn't hear it from you.
Speaker 2: While you were the White House Press Secretary, which.
Speaker 1: Is very understandable. But how come we didn't hear that
Speaker 1: from you afterwards? Why were we hearing the same stuff
Speaker 1: after you left the White House that you were saying
Speaker 1: while you were in the White House. Can't wait for
Speaker 1: an answer to that question. I got several others too.
Speaker 1: If you're so willing to come on, more than happy
Speaker 1: to have you. I'm a respectful man.
Speaker 2: Who was raised by five beautiful.
Speaker 1: Strong black women. You are obviously a beautiful, strong Black
Speaker 1: woman as well, But it doesn't mean I don't have questions.
Speaker 2: Just so you know,